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Tag Archives: Croydon Minster
How Mary Care and Operation Crocus changed lives in Croydon
CROYDON CHRONICLES: Much has changed around the town centre over the last 50 years, not least in the area of accessibility to public buildings and spaces. Some of the pioneering work was catalogued by a woman with cerebral palsy, whose … Continue reading
Posted in Arnhem Gallery, Charity, Community associations, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, Fairfield Halls
Tagged Accessibility, Arnhem Gallery, BBC Home Service, Croydon Minster, Croydon Parish Church, David Morgan, Diabled access, Fairfield Halls, Mary Care, Operation Crocus, Peter Bowness, The Silver Lining, Townswomens Guild, Wheelchair users
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Minster appeal for donations to Harvest Festival this Sunday
Croydon Minster is holding its Harvest Festival service this Sunday, and is appealing for people to come forward with donations for two very hard-working local-based charities. “Please bring your donations to the 10am Sunday service, where they will be blessed … Continue reading
18th Century property pages that show growth of Croydon
CROYDON CHRONICLES: Property auctions are nothing new. There have been businesses wheeling and dealing over house sales and land disposals for hundreds of years. DAVID MORGAN pores over the property ads placed by auctioneer John Blake to discover more about … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History
Tagged Auctioneer, Croydon Minster, Croydon Parish Church, David Morgan, John Blake
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Friday lunchtime recitals at Croydon Minster, from Sep to Dec
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Friday lunchtime recitals at Croydon Minster, from Sep to Dec
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Nightwatch’s volunteers remember Jamie Keating every night
CROYDON CHRONICLES: This week, Minster archivist DAVID MORGAN has gone back just 50 years, for a heart-rending story of volunteers and sacrifice that began with a local newspaper reporter and the Parish Church’s curate going out on to the streets … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Church and religions, Croydon Minster, Croydon Nightwatch, David Morgan, History, Jad Adams
Tagged austerity, Canon Colin Boswell, Cllr Mohammed Islam, Conservative, Covid-19, Croydon Council, Croydon Minster, Croydon Nightwatch, Croydon Parish Church, David Morgan, David Randall, Jad Adams, Margaret Thatcher, Nightwatch, Nightwatch 50th anniversary, Queen's Award for Voluntary Service, Queens Gardens, Rev Martin Wharton, Right-to-buy, Thatcher government, Tory
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Family counts cost of burglary during Croydon’s Walnut Fair
CROYDON CHRONICLES: Archive newspaper reports of a burglary on Church Street in 1861 provide a useful insight into the possessions of a Victorian household, as DAVID MORGAN explains Burglaries are not new crimes. A trawl through the local newspaper archives … Continue reading
The Whybrew family trade that really put a feather in your cap
CROYDON CHRONICLES: Trades and professions come and go with the passing years, as fashions ebb and flow. Using the Minster’s archive records, DAVID MORGAN discovers another skill, common in Victorian times and used by a local family firm, but which … Continue reading
After eight years, Bishop prepares for his final Minster service
CROYDON CHRONICLES: History is happening every day, all around us. And today marks the latest important date in the 700-year history of the Vicar of Croydon. By DAVID MORGAN Father Andrew Bishop was in a reflective mood when I caught … Continue reading
The weather warnings from history: thunderbolts and lightning
CROYDON CHRONICLES: A timely trawl through the Minster archive has discovered reports of extreme weather episodes going back more than 400 years. By DAVID MORGAN “Rycharde Esteinge, a young man, being killed suddenlye with a stroke of thunder and lightning … Continue reading
Roll up! Roll up! Enjoy Croydon’s summer fayre, 1920s style
CROYDON CHRONICLES: With summer fairs being planned and organised across the borough, this week DAVID MORGAN looks back more than 100 years at the stalls and events staged for the church fête of 1921 The bunting’s up. The marquee is … Continue reading
Help at the Minster on Sunday with sleep packs for refugees
In this Volunteers’ Week, Croydon Minster is asking for people to come along this Saturday to help assemble sleep packs for young refugees. The Minster is partnering again with The Separated Child Foundation, and is seeking help this Sunday, June … Continue reading
Grave error in the failure to reconstruct great Grindal’s tomb
CROYDON CHRONICLES: The Minster’s archive is a rich source of documents, registers, publications and correspondence that have yielded vast quantities of detail and information about the history of Croydon for DAVID MORGAN. But here is a letter that the archivist … Continue reading
Here’s Croydon’s election results – from Coronation year 1953
In a special edition of the Croydon Chronicles as the borough goes to the polls, DAVID MORGAN has trawled through the Minster archive to take a look at how local elections were run more than 70 years ago Allegations of … Continue reading
Posted in David Morgan, History
Tagged 1953, Conservative, Coronation year, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, Labour, Liberal Party, London, London Borough of Croydon, Tory, Winston Churchill
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Croydon Minster choir on the road to Windsor and the Abbey
Today marks the centenary of the birth of Elizabeth Windsor, who as Queen Elizabeth II set records as the United Kingdom’s longest reigning monarch – 70 years and 214 days – until her death in September 2022, aged 96. So … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Church and religions, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, Music, Whitgift School
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Minster, Croydon Minster choir, David Morgan, HM Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth II, St George's Chapel, Westminster Cathedral, Whitgift School, Whitgift School Choir
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Friday lunchtime music recitals, Croydon Minster, April-July
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Duke survived death after he hunted with Croydon’s hounds
CROYDON CHRONICLES: Two hundred years ago, the Derby Arms off Handcroft Road ran a well-regarded livery stables and was a centre for local hunts that were attended by princes and dukes, butchers and shop-keepers. From a single gravestone in the … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History
Tagged Alfred Bignell, Croydon Hunt, Croydon Minster, Croydon Parish Church, David Morgan, Duke of Cumberland, Fox-hunting, Joshua Bignell, King George II, Old Surrey Hunt, Parsons Mead, Pitlake, Rabies, The Derby Arms, The Old Surrey and Burstow Hunt:, West Croydon
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Friday lunchtime music recitals, Croydon Minster, April-July
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The day Dr Bookless took the wicket of the great WG Grace
CROYDON CHRONICLES: A long career in medicine based at Croydon General Hospital and on Harley Street followed for a sporting young man who, when a student at Guy’s Hospital, once enjoyed a cricket moment of a lifetime. DAVID MORGAN explains … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, Cricket, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, Health, History, Mayday Hospital, Purley Hospital
Tagged British Medical Journal, cricket, Croydon, Croydon General Hospital, Croydon Minster, Croydon Parish Church, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace Park, David Morgan, Dr John Bookless, Guy's Hospital, London, London County Cricket Club, Mayday Hospital, Purley Hospital, WG Grace
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From flames to fame, Waddon’s Knox family made their mark
CROYDON CHRONICLES: From the night of the Great Fire of Croydon, DAVID MORGAN tells the story of a family of vicars and bishops, of writers and editors, and Enigma codebreakers The fire which destroyed Croydon Parish Church in 1867 had … Continue reading
Vicar of Croydon announces move to Walsingham this summer
Canon Andrew Bishop is standing down as the Vicar of Croydon, to take up a position in the Diocese of Norwich. The Vicar of Croydon is an ancient church position that dates back to Saxon times, closely associated with Croydon … Continue reading
Police seek Fiat driver after Old Town suspected hit and run
A stretch of Church Road in Croydon’s Old Town remained closed to traffic this morning, more than 24 hours after what the police are treating as a “serious” hit and run which has left a 51-year-old man in a critical … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Surrey Street
Tagged BT, Charles Street, Church Road, Croydon Minster, hit-and-run, Met Police, Metropolitan Police, Q Car Park, Ryland House, Surrey Street
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Colourful sunset over Church Street caused by African sands
Croydon and the rest of London were treated to a special golden light show at sunset yesterday, caused by an unusual combination of meteorological factors, including sand particles blown thousands of miles from the Sahara Desert. The spectacular sight included … Continue reading
