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Tag Archives: Carshalton
Colburn’s emotional speech to Commons: ‘Help is out there’
Carshalton and Wallington MP Elliot Colburn received thanks from his own party leader and a handshake from Labour’s Keir Starmer in the House of Commons yesterday, as he bravely fought back the tears and gave a moving speech to a … Continue reading
Amazing Mr Dickens history talk, Honeywood Museum, Mar 28
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Tagged Carshalton, Charles Dickens, Dickens, Friends of Honeywood Museum, Honeywood Museum
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Birds of Prey illustrated talk, Honeywood Museum, Feb 22
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Tagged Carshalton, Croydon RSPB, Friends of Honeywood Museum, Honeywood Museum, John Birkett, RSPB
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Sutton Olympic sprinter gets big chance in BBC’s Gladiators
Carshalton Olympic sprinter Harry Aikines-Aryeetey will be bursting on to your television screens tomorrow night, part of the toughest relay squad he has ever been a member of – the Gladiators in the BBC’s Saturday night retread of the once … Continue reading
40 firefighters tackle Woodmansterne Road house blaze
Six fire engines and around 40 firefighters tackled a fire on Woodmansterne Road in Carshalton on Friday. Most of the first floor of a two-storey detached house was damaged by fire. There were no reports of any injuries.
Posted in London Fire Brigade, Sutton Council
Tagged Carshalton, LFB, London Fire Brigade
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The Hope named best pub in London for sixth time in 12 years
The Hope in Carshalton, the community-run pub with a village-feel, is not just the best pub in Croydon and Sutton, it’s the best pub in the whole of London. And that’s official. Again. CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, has … Continue reading
Talk: Henry VIII by author Alison Weir, Cryer Theatre, Nov23
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Tagged Alison Weir, Carshalton, Cryer Theatre, Henry VIII, Honeywood Museum
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Talk: Life and work of Inigo Jones, Honeywood Museum, Jul 27
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Tagged Carshalton, Honeywood Museum, Inigo Jones
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Talk: Benefits of lavender oil, Honeywood Museum, Sep 28
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Tagged Carshalton, Honeywood Museum, lavender
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Charity offers youngsters chance to be Junior River Rangers
An environmental charity is giving primary school-aged children the chance to become Junior River Rangers in Carshalton and along the Wandle during London Rivers Week. The South East Rivers Trust is staging nature scavenger hunts, craft activities and river dipping … Continue reading
The History of My House illustrated talk, Carshalton, Oct 26
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Life and works of Inigo Jones, Honeywood Museum, Jul 27
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How real-life Indiana Jones put together the Scrolls of antiquity
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The archives at Croydon Minster contain many varied treasures, some of them with links going back to the dawn of civilisation, as DAVID MORGAN discovered Among the many and varied artefacts in the archives at Croydon Minster are … Continue reading
After decades of clean-ups, we’re still polluting precious rivers
CROYDON COMMENTARY: After a week-long heatwave and record temperatures, LEWIS WHITE makes a case for us to cherish local rivers, such as the Wandle, bringing the water companies back into public ownership, and for an end to the concreting over … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon parks, Environment, Nature Notes, Planning, Wandle Park, Wildlife
Tagged Carshalton, Carshalton Ponds, Lewis White, River Wandle, Wandle Park
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London Pride rugby 7s, Mitcham & Carshalton RFC, July 23
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Tagged Carshalton, London Pride 7s, Mitcham, Mitcham and Carshalton RFC
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Tears among the hairspray as CODA takes on Steel Magnolias
Anyone who is anyone in Chiquapin, Louisiana – from the local curmudgeon to the prettiest girl in town – has a standing appointment at Truvy Jones’s beauty salon. It’s the only place to be for the gossip. But when the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, CODA, Theatre
Tagged Carshalton, CODA, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, Cryer Arts Centre, Steel Magnolias
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The Danish queen’s favours could not save this family at war
MARVELS OF THE MINSTER: Croydon’s connections with the monarchy go long and deep, and as DAVID MORGAN outlines here, not always well Two short entries in the burial register of Croydon Parish Church from the middle of the 17th century … Continue reading
Verity gets council to face up to the truth on air pollution
Air pollution that is suffered by pedestrians across south London, including Croydon and Sutton, has been well above legal levels for several years. But now one environmental activist in Wallington is doing something about it, at least to draw the … Continue reading
Caught Short: ‘incompetent’ licensing chair told to resign
After receiving a threat of legal action, three Sutton FibDems have admitted that the content of their newsletter about the local non-league football club was a pack of lies. BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK reports There have been calls for the resignation of … Continue reading
Football club threatens libel action against three councillors
Our Sutton reporter, BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK, on how the LibDems have been accused of having a ‘vendetta’ against Carshalton Athletic “At best incompetent, at worse downright dishonest, and in either case incredibly negligent.” That is how three Liberal Democrat councillors have … Continue reading
School Streets work – so why have Sutton removed them?
In Carshalton, the local council has removed a traffic-calming scheme outside a primary school, so that they can hold a consultation about… re-introducing it. Local parent VERITY THOMSON takes up the story Parents, residents and volunteers working on the School … Continue reading
Posted in Schools, Sutton Council, TfL, Transport
Tagged Carshalton, school streets, Sutton Council
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