Tag Archives: Brighton Road

Your chance to meet Chris Philp for a chat and a cuppa

Posted on December 1, 2013 by

Chris Philp, the Conservative party donor who has been parachuted in as their next candidate in the ultra-safe parliamentary seat of Croydon South, is inviting you round for a chat and a cuppa next Saturday. Philp has written an email … Continue reading →

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Roll out the barrels for a festival of LocAles: Oct 10-12

Posted on October 4, 2013 by

ROBERT CANNING previews Croydon’s answer to Oktoberfest next week Croydon’s beer drinkers will soon be raising their glasses at the 20th annual local Real Ale Festival, being staged at Wallington Hall, Stafford Road, from next Thursday. Around 60 real ales … Continue reading →

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Hot dogs help keep Haling Park friends in the shade

Posted on July 15, 2013 by

This year’s Friends of Haling Grove Dog Show saw pets from across South Croydon dragging their owners to the annual contest in the park on Saturday, the hottest day of the year so far. The Friends of Haling Grove come … Continue reading →

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Purley’s £11m hospital scheme sweeps value under the carpet

Posted on June 17, 2013 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The much-needed redevelopment work at Purley Hospital may not be money well-spent. And DAVID CALLAM is not surprised Work continues on the £11 million refurbishment of Purley Hospital. The new-look NHS facility will re-open later this year in … Continue reading →

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GPs ditch anti-smoking service due to “unachievable” targets

Posted on June 13, 2013 by

Cuts in health spending have prompted one South Croydon NHS doctors’ surgery to withdraw two key services, issuing an angrily worded leaflet decrying “unachievable” targets and saying that the government-imposed changes could be “detrimental to patient care”. The Parkside Group … Continue reading →

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Coulsdon residents call for more school places and new library

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

A Coulsdon residents’ group has called on the council to ensure that a new primary school is provided to cope with the anticipated increase in roll numbers as a result of developing nearly 700 family homes on the site of … Continue reading →

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Earl of Eldon stages music festival: May 26

Posted on May 10, 2013 by

For a second year, South Croydon’s Earl of Eldon pub is staging a music festival, on Sunday May 26. Promising 12 bands in 12 hours, the South Croydon Music Festival will run from noon in the pub grounds on the … Continue reading →

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The Sugarloaf, the school and the lost Lawrence connection

Posted on May 5, 2013 by

What hope for Croydon’s future when so little interest is shown in its past? Local author BRIAN MELICAN on how the area’s links with one of the outstanding novelists of the 20th Century have been ignored, forgotten and … re-developed … Continue reading →

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Red Deer locals look north for help to rebuff Morrisons

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

Another landmark Croydon pub is under threat of takeover from a supermarket chain. And our local councillors’ response – where they have bothered to respond – is effectively to shrug their shoulders and say there’s nothing that they can, or … Continue reading →

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Coulsdon cues up to get behind Fu’s snooker challenge

Posted on April 22, 2013 by

Coulsdon might be a strange place to find a source of support for a player from Hong Kong hoping to make a big impact in snooker’s world championships in Sheffield, writes Ian Lamont. But when Marco Fu steps out into … Continue reading →

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Purley residents suspicious as campaign posters disappear

Posted on April 8, 2013 by

A group of residents in Purley are back on a “war footing”, after what they claim has been heavy-handed treatment from Croydon Council over their on-going campaign against a planning application to build a large hospital on the site of … Continue reading →

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Ooo errr, missus: Music Hall jokes return to Streatham

Posted on April 5, 2013 by

Up the A23 in Streatham, the bill-writer for the South London Press must have been on a Frankie Howerd fan club weekend.

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PR agents sign up Tesco as cut-price festival sponsors

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

Tesco, the unwitting purveyors of horse meat with a long-time reputation for doing things on the cheap, and now the proud owners of an “express” store in a South Croydon landmark pub despite local opposition have “generously” agreed to sponsor … Continue reading →

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Truly, madly… Croydon film club shows art-house demand

Posted on September 25, 2012 by

If our council was doing its job right, it would have measured the demand among art-house movie goers in Croydon before closing the David Lean Cinema in the Clocktower arts complex 18 months ago. For now the Save the David … Continue reading →

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Wallander’s not so miserable after seeing Sarah Lund’s jumper

Posted on July 23, 2012 by

With arts correspondent Bella Bartock entertaining her Wagnerian fantasies at Bayreuth (don’t ask), ANDREW PELLING, Inside Croydon’s contributing editor was sent off to a pre-Edinburgh Festival review at the Scream Lounge What a delight is the Scream Lounge, on Brighton … Continue reading →

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Meeting urges locals to boycott Swan & Sugarloaf Tesco

Posted on June 12, 2012 by

A new residents’ association drew the attention and attendance of four Croydon councillors and an MP. It was a learning experience for them, as DIAMOND GEEZER reports How things change: after a first meeting to which none of the nine … Continue reading →

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Purley’s Got Talent this week highlights Festival build-up

Posted on June 10, 2012 by

The build-up to the Purley Festival gathers pace this week. After last night’s successful Barn Dance, the first heats of Purley’s Got Talent – you know how that will work – are being staged on Tuesday, June 12. At Christchurch, … Continue reading →

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Tesco Town: South End community to meet this Friday

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

The first meeting of the South End Community Forum takes place this Friday, May 25, when sure to be close to the top of the agenda is the dire threat to local businesses of the decision of the Whitgift Foundation, … Continue reading →

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Councillor Hilley backs Inside Croydon crossing campaign

Posted on January 29, 2012 by

Croydon Conservatives back Inside Croydon‘s campaigns on rubbish and pedestrian crossings – with TfL now trying to remove two crossings in Coulsdon Some of Croydon’s leading political figures have this week endorsed Inside Croydon‘s stance on a couple of important … Continue reading →

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Work begins to give Swan & Sugarloaf a new lease of life

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

Scaffolding went up around the Swan & Sugarloaf pub in South Croydon last week, the first signs that the local landmark is going to be given an overdue fresh lease of life. How a re-opened Swan & Sugarloaf might operate … Continue reading →

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Films, fiction and a finale fair feature in 2011 Purley Festival

Posted on June 22, 2011 by

The first Purley Festival gets under way with an opening ceremony at Riddlesdown School (Honister Heights, Purley, Surrey, CR8 1EX) next Monday, June 27, from 11am, when there will be an art exhibition and music from a jazz band, a … Continue reading →

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Croydon cricket fans face 40% price hike for T20 match

Posted on May 30, 2011 by

Cricket fans in Croydon are outraged at being charged up to 40 per cent more than standard prices for Surrey’s Twenty20 fixture to be staged at Whitgift School next month. The match between Surrey and Sussex on the evening of … Continue reading →

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