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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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Coulsdon ‘shafted’ by Tories as NHS centre site put up for sale
CROYDON IN CRISIS: After an eight-year wait for a new health centre, residents have been shocked to discover the council flogging off the promised site. And now Mayor Perry claims there’s nothing he can do to prevent the sale. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Community associations, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Medical Centre, Coulsdon Town, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, Croydon NHS Trust, Croydon South, Health, Mario Creatura, Matthew Kershaw
Tagged Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Coulsdon CALAT, Coulsdon Community Centre, Coulsdon Medical Centre, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon NHS, CWRA, London Borough of Croydon, Mario Creatura, Matthew Kershaw, Tory
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‘Thorton’ Heath: council spelling error is latest embarrassment
Croydon’s cash-strapped council’s capacity for ballsing up even the simplest of tasks has been exposed yet again, after the authority ordered and installed dozens of signs to warn of its latest PSPO – Public Space Protection Order – and managed … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Thornton Heath, Thornton Heath Community Action Team, West Thornton
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Katherine Kerswell, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, PSPO, Public Spaces Protection Order, Thornton Heath, Thorton Heath, Tory
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‘People power’ sees McDonald’s abandon their Triangle plans
Fast food global chain McDonald’s has decided to cash in its chips, or “fries”, and abandoned its latest step towards world domination with a branch on the Crystal Palace Triangle. For now, at least. “Commercial reasons” has been given by … Continue reading
It’s the same in Croydon and Birmingham: Pay More, Get Less
In this week’s column, ANDREW FISHER, pictured right, looks at the criminalisation of journalism through the treatment of Julian Assange, and he charts the latest undermining of local councils by central Government It could be worse. You could live in … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Fisher, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Improvement Board, Tony McArdle
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, Alexei Navalny, Andrew Fisher, Birmingham City Council, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Department of Levelling Up, DLUHC, Improvement and Assurance Panel, Jeremy Corbyn, Julian Assange, Michael Gove, Nottingham City Council, S114, S114 notice, Section 114, Section 114 Notice, Tony McArdle, Tory, Vladimir Putin
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Are you living next to a snake? Shocking figures on UK’s ‘pets’
There’s more chance of living next door to a snake in Croydon than in any other part of the country. Yep: not just your common or garden poisonous neighbour, but a full-on, potentially deadly, venomous snake could be living on … Continue reading
How TfL’s changes to 10 Croydon bus routes will affect you
There’s major changes coming to 10 bus routes serving the south of Croydon, including Purley, Coulsdon, Kenley and South Croydon, as well as Sutton and Wallington, coming into effect on Saturday March 2. Here’s TfL’s blow-by-blow breakdown of their bus … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Croydon Council, Environment, KENDRA, Kenley, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Neil Garratt, Purley, Purley Way, Schools, South Croydon, Sutton Council, TfL, Transport, Waddon
Tagged Charles King, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Surrey Transport Committee, Kenley, Kenley Residents Association, London, London Buses, Neil Garratt, Old Coulsdon, Purley, Purley Hospital, Purley Way, Route 455, South Croydon, St Helier, Sutton, Sutton Council, TfL, Transport for London, Wallington
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Goodbye Route 455… it’s been a long, long journey. Too long
EXCLUSIVE: There’s more than a touch of an old Morecambe and Wise gag about the extensive changes to 10 bus routes in Croydon and Sutton: ‘TfL has chosen all the right routes, just not the right roads’. By JEREMY CLACKSON, … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Croydon Council, Environment, KENDRA, Kenley, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Neil Garratt, Purley, Purley Way, Schools, South Croydon, Sutton Council, TfL, Transport, Waddon
Tagged Charles King, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Surrey Transport Committee, Kenley, Kenley Residents Association, London, London Buses, Neil Garratt, Old Coulsdon, Purley, Purley Hospital, Purley Way, Route 455, South Croydon, St Helier, Sutton, Sutton Council, TfL, Transport for London, Wallington
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Help police with their enquiries: do the stop and search survey
The Metropolitan Police is seeking the views of Londoners on stop and search through a new survey. The survey asks Londoners what they think about stop and search practises to help inform a charter between local communities and the Met. … Continue reading
BINMAGEDDON: Mayor’s secret plan to charge £5 per new bin
CROYDON IN CRISIS: New impacts of living in a bankrupt borough are emerging with every passing day. The latest is the ‘rationing’ of new wheelie bins for residents. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Jason Perry, Croydon’s rubbish Mayor, plans to compound … Continue reading
Hodgson ‘steps aside’ in a Palace farewell tinged with regrets
Crystal Palace go into tonight’s “relegation six-pointer” at Everton with Roy Hodgson no longer the manager of his boyhood club. The Eagles issued a statement this afternoon to confirm that 76-year-old Hodgson, now out of hospital following his collapse at … Continue reading
Disruption for six months as Sydenham Road bridge is closed
From the nice people in charge of Britain’s national rail network who once gave us “the wrong kind of snow”, Sydenham Road in central Croydon has become an unannounced and unexpected Low Traffic Neighbourhood, with the abrupt closure of the … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Cycling, East Croydon, Norwood Junction, Selhurst, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Addiscombe, Croydon, East Croydon, Network Rail, Selhurst, Sydenham Road
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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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Even Torygraph has turned on Croydon’s U-turning Tory Mayor
Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, reports on how national publications are wising up to part-time Perry’s hypocrisy and lies Tory Jason Perry, Croydon’s £82,000 per year part-time Mayor, has today come under attack from the unlikeliest of sources: the Sunday … Continue reading
Cash-strapped council misses out on millions in travel grants
Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, on how Mayor Perry’s pro-pollution, pro-car agenda has left Croydon pot-less, again Croydon, under pro-pollution Perry, its elected Mayor, is the only borough in the whole of London that has failed to apply for new … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Commuting, Croydon Area Remodelling Scheme, Croydon Council, Croydon Cycling Campaign, Cycling, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Sian Berry, TfL, Transport
Tagged Austen Cooper, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Cycling Campaign, Cycleways, Cycling, Green Party, London, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor Sadiq Khan, Sian Berry, TfL, Tory, Transport for London
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£68m: final cost of Brick by Brick, as agreed by Mayor Perry
£68m This is what a “solvent liquidation” looks like, according to Croydon’s elected Mayor Jason Perry. That’s the latest final estimate of the exit costs of winding down and closing Brick by Brick, the failed housing company set up by … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Housing, Improvement Board, Jo Negrini, Mayor Jason Perry, Paul Scott, Planning, Simon Hall, Tony McArdle, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Conservative, Coulsdon, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Paul Scott, Tony Newman, Tory
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‘Filled with dread’: private renters’ growing mental health crisis
The pressure of paying sky-high rents for often inadequate homes, some of which are blighted by mould, damp and vermin, is causing a mental health crisis affecting millions of people. That’s according to a shocking new survey published today by … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Housing, London-wide issues
Tagged Croydon, London, London Renters' Union, Mental Health, private rental sector
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Whitgift’s The Body Shop in peril as administrators called in
Staff in Croydon store wait to hear their fate, while Foot Locker announces it is moving to bigger premises The future of another shop in the Whitgift Centre is under threat, following the collapse into administration this week of The … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Administration, Croydon, Foot Locker, North End, Retailing, The Body Shop, Whitgift Centre
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Council finally cancels dodgy tickets issued during PCN Fiasco
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Mayor Perry’s finance adviser admits ‘we can’t afford to lose’ the £150,000-plus costs caused by the latest IT catastrophe to hit the council Croydon’s cash-strapped council stands to lose at least £150,000 over its “PCN Fiasco”, as … Continue reading
Croydon escapes worst effects of Gove’s ‘Developers’ Charter’
Tory minister takes a swipe at London Mayor as he moves to reduce planning restrictions and allow ‘some incredibly poor quality homes which should not have been built’ Croydon and Sutton might just escape the worst excesses of Michael Gove’s … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2024 London elections, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Property, Sadiq Khan, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Department for Levelling Up, George Clarke, Housing, Labour, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Michael Gove, Paul Scott, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Husband pleads guilty to murder of wife at Ash Tree Way
The man who killed his teenaged wife at their Monks Orchard home last October has been convicted of her murder. Sahil Sharma, 24, of Ash Tree Way, appeared in custody at Kingston Crown Court last Thursday where he pleaded guilty … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Shirley North
Tagged Ash Tree Way, Ash Tree Way murder, Croydon, Mehak Sharma, Metropolitan Police, Monks Orchard, murder, Sahil Sharma
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Brick by Brick posts £7.6m loss in latest annual trading report
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Yet more bad news finally emerging into the public record. By BARRATT HOLMES, our house building correspondent Even when it is no longer paying above the odds to build new homes, Brick by Brick continues to lose … Continue reading
Addiscombe and Old Town roads to close during tram works
The planned two-week closure of a large section of the tram network around Croydon town centre for “essential maintenance works” (they are always essential) also comes with a series of road closures and changes to parking provision in Old Town … Continue reading
