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Tag Archives: Charles Dickens
10 shillings to join the Goose Club and lay on a Christmas feast
CROYDON CHRONICLE: Christmas is coming, as the old saying goes, and the goose is getting fat… DAVID MORGAN looks back to the Dickensian era, when financial planning for the end-of-year revels was serious business for the likes of Surrey Street … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History, Surrey Street
Tagged Charles Dickens, Christmas, Crown Hill, David Morgan, Goose Club, Marmaduke Willis, Phiz, Surrey Street, West Croydon
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From a GP’s on the High Street to hosting dinner for the King
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: An eminent and pioneering surgeon of the Victorian age, who performed operations on European monarchs and could command fees equivalent to £10m in modern-day values, began his medical career as a GP in Croydon. DAVID MORGAN traces the … Continue reading
Minster carvings recall ancient traditions of The Green Man
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Has there been an outbreak of paganism in the pews of Croydon’s oldest church? Spring’s in the air as DAVID MORGAN investigates Visitors to Croydon Minster are often amazed at the detail in the wooden carvings on the … Continue reading
The 550-year rise and fall of Croydon’s annual Walnut Fair
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The account of life in Croydon written by the son of Charles Dickens’ illustrator offers fascinating details into a long-forgotten annual festival on the ‘Fair Field’, as DAVID MORGAN explains “Try your hand at the Lucky Bag!” “Walk … Continue reading
Posted in David Morgan, History
Tagged Charles Dickens, Croydon, Crystal Palace, David Morgan, Edgar Browne, Fair Field, Phiz, Queen Victoria, Walnut Fair
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A Dickensian tale which adds extra Phiz to its Croydon twist
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A careful search of the registers at Croydon Minster by DAVID MORGAN has uncovered a new and exciting link between the church and Charles Dickens It has been known for almost 200 years that Charles Dickens, the great … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Broad Green, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History, Thornton Heath
Tagged A Tale of Two Cities, Anthony Trollope, Boz, Charles Dickens, Croydon, Croydon Minster, David Copperfield, David Morgan, Hablot Browne, Hablot Knight Browne, Nicholas Nickleby, Phiz, Sketches by Boz, Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackery
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Amazing Mr Dickens history talk, Honeywood Museum, Mar 28
Posted in Activities, Honeywood Museum
Tagged Carshalton, Charles Dickens, Dickens, Friends of Honeywood Museum, Honeywood Museum
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Coulsdon show generated festive spirit with food donations
This year’s Christmas show at the Coulsdon Community Centre might have been about tight-wad Scrooge, but it prompted a massive outpouring of generosity and goodwill from locals, who provided a van-load of donations for the Purley Food Hub. Theatre Workshop … Continue reading
Bah! Humbug! Scrooge-like poverty haunts modern Croydon
As the country slides into the kind of social division not seen since Victorian times, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon has a new production of a Dickens classic that shows we really ought to do better. KEN TOWL went along to see … Continue reading
Coulsdon theatre group donates to food hub at Christmas
Christmas Eve… A time for joyful anticipation, celebration and goodwill to all! Perhaps not all. To the poor and the hungry in Victorian London, Christmas Day was just another day to struggle through. And for Ebeneezer Scrooge it’s a day … Continue reading
The Miller’s tale of Mendelssohn’s visit and a lifetime of music
Croydon’s Parish Church in the early 19th century attracted some of the finest musical talents of the time, thanks to the role played by one influential parishioner, writes DAVID MORGAN On June 17, 1832, Felix Mendelssohn wrote in his diary: … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History, Music
Tagged Charles Dickens, Croydon, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, Felix Mendelssohn
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History talks that explore Norwood’s Dickensian past
The Norwood Society has announced its programme of talks and events for the rest of 2015, beginning this week, on March 19, with a talk about Charles Dickens’s Norwood connections, to be given by Paul Graham of the Dickens Fellowship. … Continue reading
Scrooge is coming to Croydon (in movie form): Dec 21
We are assured that florid-faced Mike Fisher, the leader of a Croydon Council which has stopped paying for lollipop ladies outside primary schools, which now wants to move on an inconvenient soup kitchen for the poor from near his £140 … Continue reading
Hard Times: lessons from Dickens for 21st century London
Charles Dickens was born 200 years ago. His books and articles were often firmly based in south London (as David Perdue’s excellent Dickens blog demonstrates) and ANDY FORD says that Dickens, “the champion of the oppressed”, also exposed the rotten … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Charity, Cinema, Education, History, London-wide issues, Outside Croydon, Schools, Theatre
Tagged Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol, Dickens, Dombey And Son, London, Martin Chuzzlewit, Oliver Twist, Scrooge
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