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Biggles and the curious case of the curate from Croydon
CROYDON CHRONICLES: One of the most-read fictional action heroes of the 20th Century was based at Croydon Airport. DAVID MORGAN pulls on his sheepskin helmet and goggles and goes in search of adventure Biggles, the character James Bigglesworth, appeared in … Continue reading
Remembrance and History: a special Croydon Insider episode
Can you help in our appeal, with the Deputy Lieutenant of Croydon, in providing details of personnel from Croydon who have been killed on active duty in the years since the end of World War II? On Remembrance Sunday, our … Continue reading
Posted in Bourne Society, Croydon Airport, Croydon Insider, Croydon Minster, Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society, David Morgan, History, Inside Croydon, Johnny Dobbyn, Under The Flyover
Tagged Battle of the Somme, Caterham, Croydon, Croydon Airport, David Morgan, Deputy Lieutenant of Croydon, Fiona Satiro, First World War, Johnny Dobbyn, London, Menin Gate, Phil Swallow, Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday, Royal West Surrey Regiment, Second World War, Warlingham, World War I, World War II, World War One, World War Two, Ypres
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CronxWatch delivers up some ghostly tales for Halloween
CronxWatch, the off-beat local YouTube video channel, has served up a ghoulish collection of stories of murderers and hauntings just in time for Halloween. Though it delivered up one small mystery of its own: what happened to the tale of … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged CronxWatch, Croydon, Croydon Airport, Croydon High Street, David Weir, YouTube
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10% off Croydon book that Captain Sensible says is ‘stonking’
The paperback edition of Croydonopolis has just been released, and Inside Croydon subscribers can purchase it with a special discount code “A Journey to the Greatest City That Never Was” proclaims the cover of Will Noble’s Croydonopolis, which traces the … Continue reading
Airport ready for take-off for anniversary of Johnson’s flight
Croydon Airport and the Aerodrome Hotel have teamed up to host a series of events over the May Bank Holiday to mark the 95th anniversary of one of the most significant flights in aviation history. In 1930, Amy Johnson became … Continue reading
Here’s the news in 1925: policing, airport expansion and sport
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: For all the modernisation of our lives in the 21st Century, a flick through the pages of a local newspaper from 100 years ago shows that there were key similarities, as DAVID MORGAN explains In 1925, The Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in David Morgan, History
Tagged 1925, Croydon, Croydon Aerodrome, Croydon Airport, Crystal Palace FC, David Morgan, The Croydon Times
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Christmas Eve marks cententary of the Croydon air disaster
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Christmas Eve marks the centenary of what in 1924 was the worst air disaster in British history, when an aircraft crashed shortly after taking off from Croydon Airport, killing everyone on board. DAVID MORGAN has scoured the archives … Continue reading
British spy who flew from Croydon to start Spanish Civil War
The prelude to World War II in Europe was a nasty and brutal civil war in Spain, used as a proving ground for Hitler’s troops. And Croydon played a role in its start and its end, writes JIM JUMP Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Airport, History
Tagged Adolf Hitler, Bill Harrington, Croydon, Croydon Airport, Cyril Sexton, General Francisco Franco, George Wheeler, Guernica, Harry Evans, International Brigades, International Brigades Memorial Trust, Jim Jump, John Peet, Major Hugh Pollard, Miles Tomalin, Spanish Civil War, World War II
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Don’t look back in anger – book shows what might have been
Croydon gets a bad rap. Yeah, we know that, with much of it recent and wholly deserved. Croydon has some fascinating history. Yeah, we know that, too. But as DAVID MORGAN found out from a book to be published next … Continue reading
Carnage in Carshalton on the day the balloon went up
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Croydon’s association with pioneering aviation is focused on the former airport. But DAVID MORGAN has found evidence of an historic flight over the town that took place almost 100 years before Britain’s first international airport was opened The … Continue reading
Posted in David Morgan, History
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Airport, David Morgan, Montgolfier brothers, Thomas Harris
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Hotel’s £4.7m refurb celebrates Croydon Airport centenary
Croydon’s Hilton Hotel, off the Purley Way, has just placed the finishing touches on a £4.7million transformation project which includes the redesign and comprehensive refurbishment of 168 guest rooms, including bathrooms, fixtures and fittings, bar and lobby area. The Hilton … Continue reading
Video: See how Croydon led the world in developing air travel
This week marks the centenary of the first air traffic control system, which was developed at Croydon Airport. Volunteers from the Historic Croydon Airport Trust offers guided tours around the remaining buildings – and the world’s first air traffic control … Continue reading
Croydon Airport celebrates centenary of pioneer control tower
February 25, 1920: The world’s first air traffic control tower was commissioned by the government 100 years ago today, in a move that helped usher in the age of mass air travel. The tower was built at Croydon Airport, then … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Airport, Croydon Airport Society, History
Tagged Croydon Airport, Historic Croydon Airport Trust
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Brick by Brick to open its doors for Open House weekend
Croydon’s Council Tax-payers will get the chance to see how loss-making Brick by Brick has managed to piss away at least £1million on new office furniture and a real estate sales showroom this weekend. The Brick by Brick shop and … Continue reading
Croydon Airport open days, first Sunday of every month
Posted in Activities, Croydon Airport, Croydon Airport Society, History
Tagged Croydon Airport, Croydon Airport Society, Waddon
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Unexploded WWII bomb disrupts Croydon business awards
The annual festival of back-slapping, the Croydon Business Awards, came close to being cancelled last night. With the awards due to be held in the Grand Sapphire Hotel, off the Purley Way, organisers and guests were evacuated just two hours … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon BID, History, Purley Way
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Aerodrome, Croydon Airport, Croydon Council, Grand Sapphire Hotel, Purley Way
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Reader with windmills on his mind wins our tourist prize
Inside Croydon loyal reader Tony Skrzypczyk will be able to lead his guided tours around Shirley Windmill through the rest of this summer proudly wearing a South Norwood Tourist Board T-shirt, as the winner of our latest competition. There were … Continue reading
Step back in time with an historic Zeppelin walk, Mar 28
Retrace some of the route of the terrifying bombing raid of October 13-14 1915 with Ian Walker, the chair of the Historic Croydon Airport Trust, with a guided Attack of the Zeppelins walk this Wednesday, March 28. Find out about … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Airport, Croydon Airport Society, History
Tagged Croydon Airport, Historic Croydon Airport Trust, Zeppelin
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Kempster’s historic airport mural flies in to Croydon
An important piece of historic artwork is going on public display at the Historic Croydon Airport Open Days in 2018. The artwork, called “The History of Aviation”, is a giant mural, 26 feet long, painted by one of the major … Continue reading
Croydon Airport to stage wreath-laying at Purley crash site
The Historic Croydon Airport Trust will be staging a solemn commemoration in Purley on Christmas Eve, marking the 93rd anniversary of Britain’s first air disaster. The accident happened on December 24, 1924, when an Imperial Airways de Havilland DH.34, operating … Continue reading
Croydon Airport wins on the Lottery for Zeppelin war project
The Historic Croydon Airport Trust has announced that it has received a National Lottery grant of £9,200 for its “Fighting for Air: The First World War Origins of Croydon Airport” project. With the money from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the … Continue reading
