Tag Archives: Admiral Nelson

For those in peril on the sea: HMS Racehorse’s Manx legacy

Posted on January 19, 2025 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A surgeon from Croydon who served in the Royal Navy of Nelson’s era, survived a traumatic shipwreck that prompted the formation of a fine institution, as DAVID MORGAN discovered with the help of fellow archivists from the Isle … Continue reading →

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The long lost work of a master craftsman with the Nelson touch

Posted on June 19, 2022 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Fine stone memorials, of the calibre of those that take pride of place in St Paul’s, were among the losses of Croydon Minster’s great fire. DAVID MORGAN has tracked down the history of one such destroyed monument The … Continue reading →

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