As we approach the centenary of the Armistice that finally ended World War I, real-life stories of the sacrifices of local people continue to emerge.
This year’s Remembrance Sunday is on November 11.
The memorial in St John’s churchyard in Coulsdon to the three Coldwell sons killed in World War I
The latest edition of the Old Coulsdon Residents’ Association’s magazine tells the story of one family grave where three sons from one family have a memorial after they each died on the Western Front.
The memorial stone in the churchyard of St John’s the Evangelist tells the story of what might almost claim to be Coulsdon’s version of Saving Private Ryan, the Stephen Spielberg epic in which an American officer is despatched in the later stages of World War II to locate and bring home safely the fourth son of a family which had already sacrificed three brothers.
Might there have been an earlier version? A Saving Private Coldwells? Probably not: this was total war, not Hollywood.
In the account for OCRA by resident Brian Hudson, the Coldwells family from Croydon had four sons fighting for King and country during World War I.
Three of them were killed in action. Continue reading
Registered Inside Croydon supporters can get £5 off each ticket booked for the Croydon Bach Choir’s Baroque Masterpieces concert being staged at St Matthew’s Church, Chichester Road, on December 1.
In a remarkable admission made to Inside Sutton just before the polls closed on Thursday, Patrick McManus, the Conservative councillor who resigned his seat in Belmont ward, claimed that he had not wanted to quit at all.
That’s the latest, startling revelation arising from enquiries prompted by the cash machine charges being imposed in the past week at East Croydon, South Croydon and other stations on the Govia Thameslink network, which includes Southern trains.
CARL SHILTON, our Sutton reporter, on the outcome of a council by-election which was entirely unnecessary
As Inside Croydon revealed earlier this week, 
Residents and councillors in Belmont are increasingly worried after a new Harris Academy secondary school has opened in their neighbourhood without the required road safety measures being put in place.
“Universal Credit is a mess,” says Butler.
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Beware hidden banking charges, writes SHEILA ANDREWS, pictured right, as Croydon has more fee-charging cash machines than any other London borough, and has just got itself three more 
The meeting, on Thursday, November 8 at 7.30pm, will be held at Ruskin House when the speaker will be author Simon Hannah.
