Coulsdon photo store’s inspired presents for Mothering Sunday

Posted on March 18, 2025 by insidecroydon

A Coulsdon photo business owner has come up with a set of alternative, and inspired, ideas for presents for your mums this Mothering Sunday.

In the frame: prints of favourite photo moments can provide a more original Mother’s Day present than flowers or chocolates

Flowers and chocolates are safe options, but neither has the enduring impact of a personalised gift that mums can cherish for years to come.

Oscar Palmieri, the owner of The Photo Shop at 32 Chipstead Valley Road, said: “Mother’s Day is the perfect time to treat your mum – or mother figure – to something that she can treasure forever.”

Palmieri’s in-house photo printing service offers a wide range of personalised gifts, from small prints to giant posters. “Nothing beats the charm of receiving a printed photo – especially when it features a loving memory,” he said. Continue reading →

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It’s a Sheikh down: Freedman confirmed as leaving Palace

Posted on March 18, 2025 by insidecroydon

Crystal Palace fans were today coming to terms with the news that Dougie Freedman is leaving the club.

Time to say goodbye: Dougie Freedman is the latest football figure lured to Saudi Arabia

Palace chairman Steve Parish said Freedman, as sporting director, had been “instrumental in everything we have done over the past eight years”, and that losing him is a blow for the Eagles.

Freedman, who scored 95 goals in two spells at the club as a player in an association with Selhurst Park that stretches back to 1995, is reported to be lined up for a role in Saudi Arabia.

In his sporting director role, Freedman has been behind some of the impressive signings made by the club that have helped cement Palace’s place in the Premier League, including Michael Olise (sold last summer to Bayern Munich for £50million), Eberechi Eze, Marc Guehi, Adam Wharton and Dean Henderson. Continue reading →

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Purley care home holds party for couple’s 70th anniversary

Posted on March 18, 2025 by insidecroydon

“We never imagined we’d reach this milestone, but here we are, still holding hands and making memories,” say Roger and Audrey Adcock after celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary at Purley Gardens Care Home, on Russell Hill Road.

Platinum anniversary: cake, champagne and a card from the King and Queen marked Audrey and Roger Adcock’s 70th anniversary

For the Adcocks, who are both now 98 years old and were wed in 1955, they say that their marriage has been filled with laughter, love, and cherished memories.

“Seventy years, and we still laugh every day,” Roger said on his platinum wedding anniversary.

Roger and Audrey were married on February 19, 1955, and 70 years later, Purley Gardens Care Home rolled out the red carpet to their residents’ family to honour Roger and Audrey’s incredible 70 years of marriage.

The special day was marked with cake, champagne and a congratulations card from King Charles III and Queen Camila, a family lunch and an celebration afternoon tea shared with fellow residents.

“Our journey together has been filled with love, laughter, and countless unforgettable moments,” said Roger. Continue reading →

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Council invests £16m in companies ‘complicit in war crimes’

Posted on March 17, 2025 by insidecroydon

A community group is planning a protest outside the Town Hall tomorrow morning, to bring further attention to how Croydon Labour is backing the Tories over holding investments in companies that have been arming the Israeli military during its genocidal attacks on Gaza over the past 18 months.

Croydon Divest is a group of residents who want their council to divest its pension fund from the arms trade and other companies complicit in war crimes.

The group presented a petition to the council last December, asking the council to opt out of all such investments. Their arguments were rejected by the chair of the council’s pensions committee, Labour’s deputy leader Callton Young.

Croydon Divest has stepped up its campaign, including tomorrow’s demo ahead of the pensions committee.

David White, vice-president of the Croydon Trades Union Council and a member of the group, said, “Croydon Council invests nearly £16million in companies which we believe are complicit in war crimes. These crimes include Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Continue reading →

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Council evicts 20 homeless people from squat in Reedham

Posted on March 17, 2025 by insidecroydon

With the overnight temperatures dropping below zero in the past week, Croydon Council has thrown 22 people out on to the streets, with no alternative accommodation, after serving an eviction notice on people squatting in a council-owned building that had stood empty for 12 years

Reclaim Croydon is now asking for support outside Croydon County Court in Altyre Road this Wednesday, March 19, from 9.30am.

Reclaim Croydon is the same group of anarchist squatters who took over the vacant offices of Brick by Brick on George Street in 2023, until bailiffs smashed in the doors and the group were forced to leave.

Their Autonomous Winter Shelter in Reedham, between Purley and Coulsdon, was opened in November, providing support to rough sleepers in Croydon, “Something which Croydon Council has repeatedly failed to provide”, according to one group member. Continue reading →

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Wandle Forum in legal challenge to council over nature reserve

Posted on March 17, 2025 by insidecroydon

Unfinished business: Viridor promised to conduct restoration work at Beddington Farmlands from 2005. Successors Valencia are trying to get out of all their obligations

INSIDE SUTTON: If the council won’t take action against big business for failing to honour its planning commitments, then a coalition of around 150 community groups – backed up by a major legal firm – will. By ROSE HILL

The Wandle Valley Forum has served notice on Sutton Council for its failure to enforce legally-binding planning conditions to create the Beddington Farmlands Nature Reserve.

Inside Sutton has reported at length on the refusal of multi-national corporations, over many years, to fulfil their obligations, describing it last November as “a modern ecological tragedy”.

On Friday, the Wandle Valley Forum finally took steps to try to retrieve the sorry situation. Continue reading →

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Crystal Palace Subway shortlisted for restoration project award

Posted on March 17, 2025 by insidecroydon

The Crystal Palace Subway has been shortlisted for “Restoration or Conservation Project of the Year” at the National Museums and Heritage Awards.

How’s it going: the recently restored and reopened Crystal Palace Subway

Of course, the Subway is in fact a restoration project 15 years in the making, finally opening to the public last September after more than a decade of dedicated work by volunteers and enthusiasts at the Friends of Crystal Palace Subway, helped more recently by the newly formed Crystal Palace Park Trust.

The £3.5million restoration project to the Grade II*-listed Crystal Palace Subway sees it now a major visitor attraction, just in time for its 160th anniversary in 2025.

Recognition at the prestigious awards, regarded as “The Oscars of the museum world”, is a further accolade, with the Subway shortlisted in the category highlighting the quality of work undertaken on restoration, repair and conservation projects. Continue reading →

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Council bosses need to answer for Cheesbrough’s toxic legacy

Posted on March 16, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The announcement of the departure from the council of its long-standing planning director has been widely welcomed by many residents. But as WAYNE MULLEN explains, after his four-year battle with the council over planners’ misconduct, some of those responsible remain in office – including the chief exec and Mayor Perry

Going but not forgotten: planning director Heather Cheesbrough came to symbolise the distrust between the council elite and the residents who pay their salaries

No homeowner should be forced to spend thousands, as I did, to protect their home from a development that would use part of their own property, remove their privacy and compromise their safety.

Yet Heather Cheesbrough spent thousands of pounds of tax-payers’ money on legal fees for a development that her own planning team’s emails showed they knew to be harmful and that was in breach of the council’s own policies. Continue reading →

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Victorian opera star whose family enjoyed burgeoning success

Posted on March 16, 2025 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: From a simple entry in the registers of Croydon Minster, DAVID MORGAN uncovers the story of a family of performers, including the leader of the regular concert party at the Crystal Palace

Opera star: born in Croydon, William Burgon became a leading singer of the Victorian age

The baptismal registers at Croydon Minster contain the names of thousands of babies. For many of these children growing up, their careers would see them follow in their family footsteps, carrying on the business or learning the same craft or trade.

Sometimes, however, the child went in a completely different direction. This is one of those stories.

William Henry Burgon was born on January 3, 1858 and christened in what was then known as Croydon Parish Church on Wednesday, August 25, of the same year. His parents were named in the register as William Burgon and Anne Rabbeth (née Gill). His father was a solicitor. They had been married in St Mary’s, Kennington Park Road.
Evidence from the 1861 Census shows young William’s family living in comfort in Croydon. William and his wife Anne had five children, with four servants. Anne’s mother was also living with them.

The 1871 Census, though, showed that life had dramatically changed for the family. Continue reading →

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RSPCA in public appeal to gardeners to help nurture nature

Posted on March 16, 2025 by insidecroydon

Experts offer 10 top tips to help turn gardens and open spaces into wildlife havens, after admissions of injured and distressed animals soared in 2024

Animal welfare charity the RSPCA is calling on all Londoners to try to help wildlife by creating safe havens in their gardens and local green spaces.

Give nature a chance: we a few modest adaptations, our parks, open spaces, gardens, even window boxes can help to nurture nature this spring

Last year, 10,209 wild animals were admitted to the charity’s wildlife centres across England – up by 35% on the previous year.

Across the country, of the animals commonly found in domestic gardens, hedgehog admissions last year were by far the highest of any wild animal at 2,275, followed by wood pigeons (1,113) and blackbirds (288).

The RSPCA’s wildlife centres care for thousands of animals every year, including many which have been found in people’s gardens – including those left sick, orphaned, or injured by everyday hazards such as netting entanglement or strimmers. Continue reading →

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The Andrew Fisher Interview: cuts are ‘a life or death issue’

Posted on March 15, 2025 by insidecroydon

With an estimated one million people facing having their ­benefits reduced by Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves in an announcement expected next week, our latest Andrew Fisher Interview meets disability rights campaigner Ellen Clifford to talk about what she calls ‘a life or death issue’.

Cost-cutting reforms due to be ­announced are set to deny payments to many people with mental health conditions and those who ­struggle with washing, dressing themselves and ­eating.

Clifford, a member of the campaign group Disabled People Against Cuts, last year won a High Court case brought against the government over a misleading public consultation, because it failed to explain that planned reforms would lead to 424,000 disabled people receiving lower benefit rates and that many would be worse off by at least £416.19 per month.

Continue reading →

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Egg-stra offer for dog owners at Woodcote Green garden centre

Posted on March 15, 2025 by insidecroydon

The Dobbies garden centre at Woodcote Green is staging a Hopping Hounds event, where customers’ dogs get to sniff out an Easter egg trail around the store before receiving a toy and money-off vouchers for the store and its restaurant.

Pooch patrol: Dobbies has a special egg trail for dogs through until Easter

Customers will be able to add a donation while booking the event, helping with Dogs Trust’s mission of caring for, rehabilitating, and rehoming thousands of dogs every year. The event is priced at £12.50 per dog.

Well-behaved dogs on a lead are warmly welcomed in the Woodcote Green store and in a dedicated area of the restaurant.

There will also be photograph opportunities with the Easter Bunny to have a keepsake of the experience. Continue reading →

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Pub under the Flyover gets a shock as manager opts to move

Posted on March 14, 2025 by insidecroydon

Locals at the back-street, town centre pub, the Royal Standard, have been sent reeling, and not by an especially strong barrel of Harvey’s, but by the news that the landlord and her team are leaving the pub under the Croydon Flyover next month.

New Standard: there’s sadness and uncertainty over the departure of the Sheldon Street pub’s team

The silver lining, at least for the local branch of CAMRA and residents in Selhurst, is that the much-admired Standard team will be working to re-open the Two Brewers on Gloucester Road.

This is an unexpected, and unexpectedly quick, reprieve for the Two Brewers, which closed in January after its owners, Kent brewers Shepherd Neame, sold the property. Locals feared the worst.

Now, the Brewers, not too far from Selhurst Park and a favourite with Eagles fans on their way to matches, or wanting to drown their sorrows after games, is to have the benefit of one of the most-admired pub management teams in the borough. As well as Winston the pub cat. Continue reading →

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Doctor Who and Dr Strangelove lined up for David Lean Cinema

Posted on March 14, 2025 by insidecroydon

The David Lean Cinema has partnered with National Theatre Live to bring their star-studded stage productions to the big screen, and the programming begins with stage shows featuring two very different “doctors”.

The stage-to-screen collaboration begins next week, on Wednesday March 19, with a screening of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Doctor Who’s Ncuti Gatwa and three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke.

Then, next month, the David Lean Cinema will be screening Armando Iannucci’s adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove, starring Steve Coogan.

The decision to bring live theatre to the 68-seater independent cinema, nestled in the Croydon Clocktower, seems a natural progression for the cinema which has always been a fierce champion of the arts, promoting independent movies, art-house cinema and international films. Continue reading →

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Council planning chief Cheesbrough set to take ‘career break’

Posted on March 14, 2025 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: After nearly a decade in charge of Croydon’s planning department, one of Jo Negrini’s closest colleagues is to leave Fisher’s Folly.
By our Town Hall correspondent, KEN LEE

Heather Cheesbrough, Croydon Council’s “director of planning and sustainable regeneration” (try not to laugh), is to leave her £130,000-plus job.

Patronising: council director Heather Cheesbrough, leaving after almost 10 years overseeing planning in Croydon

Katharine Street sources say that staff were informed of this important development (no pun, etc) on the council’s intranet system yesterday. There has been no public announcement or confirmation from the council.

“She’s supposedly taking a career break,” one source said. “But it all seems somewhat sudden.”

Cheesbrough’s departure comes as the government prepares to introduce a new, anything-goes planning system (with more powers delegated to council officials, like Cheesbrough, and less power for the public), while the London Plan, with its overview of development and housing delivery across the capital, is in a state of flux. Continue reading →

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500 flats in £250m scheme proposed opposite Sutton Station

Posted on March 14, 2025 by insidecroydon

Developers have submitted a £250million proposal to build 507 flats on a site opposite Sutton railway centre, the latest tower block for the town centre.

Press ganged: developers are proposing more than 500 homes opposite Sutton Station

The scheme, which has been dubbed “Press Works”, will retain and repurpose a 19-storey office block on the site. The developers say that they want to retain more than half of the existing structure, in an effort to make the project more sustainable.

The proposals, from Amro Partners, will deliver 312 build-to-rent homes and 195 co-living apartments. They say that they intend to make 35% of the build-to-rent flats “affordable”. The tower block will also include coworking space, gyms and children’s play areas, while the ground floor will provide a dedicated community hub for use by locals, charities and community groups at a subsidised rate. Continue reading →

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Hassan Sentamu given life sentence for Elianne Andam murder

Posted on March 13, 2025 by insidecroydon

Grieving parents decry their daughter’s murderer for his ‘senseless, monstrous and evil’ actions 

Murderer: Hassan Sentamu, 18, will serve a minimum of 23 years in jail

The Old Bailey judge in the murder case of Elianne Andam told the court at today’s sentencing hearing that the mural painted on Wellesley Road in memory of the Croydon schoolgirl sent a message from the community: “Put the knives down.”

Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb sentenced 18-year-old Hassan Sentamu to life in prison with a minimum term of 23 years, as he had taken a knife to the scene.

Sentamu, from New Addington, was 17 when he killed 15-year-old Andam by stabbing her in the neck outside the Whitgift Centre on the morning of September 27, 2023. Sentamu’s “frenzied” attack was caught on CCTV and seen by dozens of horrified passers-by and bus passengers.

Andam was stabbed 10 times, including fatally through the neck. Continue reading →

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83-year-old Palace fan shaken by Selhurst security shakedown

Posted on March 13, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Season ticket-holder PETER GILLMAN had been looking forward to the Ipswich match all week, but in the queue at the gate something happened which left him questioning his club’s approach

No place like Holmesdale: but Peter Gillman was shaken by his shakedown

At the age of 83, a milestone I somehow passed last week, I was not expecting to be pulled out of the queue at Crystal Palace and given a shakedown for drugs.

But that is what happened to me last Saturday.

I attended my first match at Selhurst Park in 1957 and have followed my beloved team, through thick and thin, ever since. I was looking forward to Palace’s home match with Ipswich, hoping that we could sustain our stunning run of form, with nine wins in the last 12 games. My son and I joined the queue for the Upper Holmesdale, where we have season ticket seats. There was a jovial mood around us in anticipation of yet another win.

I became aware of a dog sniffing around my legs. It was on a leash held by a young man wearing a woven black tie. There was nothing on him or the dog’s harness to indicate who they were. The dog continued to sniff and I asked the man: “Who are you?” Continue reading →

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City Commons staging ‘Meet the Calves’ open day, Sun Mar 23

Posted on March 13, 2025 by insidecroydon

The City Commons rangers are opening up their yard on Coulsdon Common on Sunday March 23 to “Meet the Calves”, this year’s additions to the herd of Sussex cattle that grazes Farthing Downs and the local commons.

Here is the moos: families can meet the Sussex cattle calves at the City Commons open day on March 23

“This is the first chance to see our new calves before they join the conservation grazing herd in spring,” the rangers say.

The open day – from 11am to 2pm – is an opportunity to find out more about the role that the Sussex cattle, Jacob sheep and goats play in supporting biodiversity across London’s second-largest National Nature Reserve, and to discover more about the work of the rangers and volunteers and what they do to look after the local commons.

There’s also a chance to make a clay medallion to take home and find out about ranger apprenticeship opportunities. Continue reading →

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Addiscombe firm helps young footballers in their title bid

Posted on March 13, 2025 by insidecroydon

A builders merchant based in Addiscombe is sponsoring a grassroots football team as part of its commitment to supporting the local community.

Kitted out: Warlingham’s under-13s side has played well in their new, sponsored kits

Harris and Bailey, based in Hastings Road, has teamed up with Warlingham Football Club to provide its U13s boys team with their matchday kit for the season.

The team is third in their division of the Epsom and Ewell Youth Football League.

“It’s a pleasure to help these young footballers to do something they love,” said Neville Horsfield, Harris and Bailey’s managing director.

“We are always looking for ways to give back to our local community, and supporting sport at a grassroots level is a great way of doing this. Continue reading →

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Kevin Montgomery in concert at Croydon Athletic, Mar 14

Posted on March 13, 2025 by insidecroydon

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Kerswell issues warning to staff over ‘verbal abuse’ at council

Posted on March 12, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Flashpoints between security guards and council staff after just two days of the new appointments-only system at Fisher’s Folly have seen workers told ‘we will not tolerate abuse of any form’.
EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES

Remote: the council’s £204,000 pa CEO Katherine Kerswell presides over an increasingly ‘self-service, virtual council, where you get to talk to a half-baked AI’

Within two days of switching the council’s Access Croydon public area to No Access Croydon, and Katherine Kerswell, the authority’s £204,000 per year chief executive, has had to issue a warning letter after complaints of “verbal abuse” directed at Fisher’s Folly security staff.

Thing is, the verbal abuse has not been from (justifiably) angry members of the public but, according to Kerswell, from other council staff colleagues.

Kerswell announced the switch of access at the council’s HQ building only last Friday, one working day before the changeover. Elected councillors were given the news of Kerswell’s latest fait accompli last Thursday. Council staff were unaware of the changes until they received Kerswell’s email on Friday morning. Continue reading →

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Opportunity knocks as Negrini does a MIPIM turn for London

Posted on March 12, 2025 by insidecroydon

Panel of experts: no, not that latest line up for I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, but the return to MIPIM of former Croydon CEO Jo Negrini (second from right)

Watch out London. The capital city’s Mayor, Sir Sadiq Khan, has made his first visit to MIPIM, the global property developers conference staged each spring in Cannes, with a notorious reputation in the past as a “booze and hookers fest”. Nothing quite so sordid these days, we’re almost certain.

London for sale: Sir Sadiq Khan flogging the capital to oil-rich Middle East investors, the Chinese and US property magnates at MIPIM yesterday

And there on the London roster of panellists to lecture the world on how to make a quick buck at the expense of public bodies is none other than Jo Negrini, the woman who played a key part in bankrupting a borough.

Mayor Sir Sadiq was peddling something called Opportunity London, an “investment prospectus” seeking “partners” offering around £22billion towards 20 projects that have not quite managed to get off the drawing board.

There is no sign of any Croydon schemes there, but as one example of quite how flaky some of the projects might be, one of them is for 450 homes on six development sites across the borough of Lambeth. That’s the same Lambeth that last month landed a £40million government bail-out specifically for its housing budget, in part because of the collapse of its Homes for Lambeth development scheme. Continue reading →

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By Royal appointment: Duchess pays a visit to Croydon High

Posted on March 12, 2025 by insidecroydon

Royal visit: the Duchess of Gloucester encounters some of Croydon High’s 2025 pupils as part of the school’s 150-year anniversary

The Duchess of Gloucester has marked the 150th anniversary of Croydon High School with a royal visit to the girls’ fee-paying school in Selsdon, marking “a poignant moment in the school’s rich legacy of empowering girls through education since its founding”.

Established by the pioneering Girls’ Public Day School Company (now the Girls’ Day Schools Trust), Croydon High was one of the earliest schools established with the radical vision of providing academic excellence for girls at a time when such opportunities were rare.

The school’s first headteacher, Dorinda Neligan, was a formidable leader and staunch suffragette, known for her activism in advancing women’s rights. “Under her leadership, Croydon High became a trailblazer in girls’ education, challenging societal norms and laying the foundation for generations of confident, capable young women,” the school says.

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45 houses on Farleigh Meadows is latest battle for Green Belt

Posted on March 12, 2025 by insidecroydon

Farleigh Meadows: this site, an ‘Area of Great Landscape Value’ according to Surrey County Council, with the path through to a primary school, could soon seen 45 houses being built

Residents in Warlingham are fighting a rearguard action to save the Green Belt, with a succession of applications to build housing, often on sites which were formerly sports grounds or used for recreational purposes.

Farleigh Meadows, previously a stables and paddock, is subject of a planning application for 45 houses on Green Belt, despite the site having been determined to be an “Area of Great Landscape Value”. Continue reading →

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