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Tag Archives: Crystal Palace
Works begin on park’s dinosaur-themed adventure playground
Amid all the regeneration works taking place within the Grade II*-listed Crystal Palace Park, there’s also a busy schedule of events coming up, including Christmas wreath-making, a charity fun run and an arts and crafts fair in the award-winning Subway … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Arts and Crafts Market, Charity, Croydon parks, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, History
Tagged Adventure playground, Arts and Crafts Fair, Christmas, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace dinosaurs, Crystal Palace Park, Crystal Palace Park Trust, Crystal Palace Subway, Dinosaurs, Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, Joseph Paxton
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Palace fan to make his England football debut at age of 59
Seth Gillman, whose selection for the England Parkinson’s Walking Football team was reported in Inside Croydon last year, is off on his first overseas tour with the national team. Gillman is part of the 10-strong England squad which flies to … Continue reading
Posted in Football, Health, Sport
Tagged Bromley FC, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Football, Hayes Lane, Seth Gillman, walking football
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Christmas Craft Market, Crystal Palace, Dec 13-14 and 20-21
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Santa’s Reindeer at Christmas Village Mayow Park, Dec 12-14
A D V E R T I S E M E N T For more information and bookings, click here. Tickets on sale Nov 1
‘We live in a danger zone’: locals call for action on speeding
Residents in Upper Norwood staged a protest this week to demand urgent action from Mayor Jason Perry and Croydon Council to tackle dangerous speeding on their road, where police have confirmed some cars are driven at almost three times the … Continue reading
‘We have history, we embrace the present, we fly to the future’
During their latest, remarkable victory, this time over champions Liverpool at Selhurst Park on Saturday, Crystal Palace revealed their club poem, put together by local poet Dan Simpson after a year’s work with fans, as part of “A Poem For … Continue reading
Family Haunted House, Brown and Green Café, Oct 17-18
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Christmas Craft Market, Crystal Palace, Dec 13-14 and 20-21
A D V E R T I S E M E N T For more information, details of stalls and events, click here
Santa’s Reindeer at Christmas Village Mayow Park, Dec 12-14
A D V E R T I S E M E N T For more information and bookings, click here. Tickets on sale Nov 1
Haunted House Extreme! Brown and Green Café, Oct 18
A D V E R T I S E M E N T For more information and bookings, click here
Family Haunted House, Brown and Green Café, Oct 17-18
A D V E R T I S E M E N T For more information and bookings, click here
Haunted House Extreme! Brown and Green Café, Oct 18
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The prodigy with a tin whistle who took music around the world
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The Shakespeare family in Croydon had multiple musical talents. From a portrait of a Victorian soprano, DAVID MORGAN traces the local connections to a small boy playing the organ at St Andrew’s and beyond in a career lasting … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History, Music
Tagged Adelina Patti, Arthur Rubinstein, Croydon, Croydon Minster, Croydon Parish Church, Crystal Palace, Franz Liszt, James Sant, JB Shakespeare, Jenny Lind, Johannes Brahms, Queen Victoria, Royal Academy of Music, St Andrew's Church, St Andrews, William Shakespeare
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‘Bookseller Crow’ Jonathan Main has died after brief illness
Jonathan Main, for more than a quarter of a century a force behind one of Crystal Palace’s favourite shops, Bookseller Crow on Westow Street, died yesterday morning after a brief illness. Bookseller Crow was voted “Bookshop Heroes” in 2020 in … Continue reading
It’s a red-letter day for our ‘covid generation’ of school pupils
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Secondary school teacher KEN TOWL on the sense of anticipation gripping the nation’s teens, and their parents and tutors, ahead of tomorrow’s big A-levels results reveal All over the country, 17- and 18-year-olds are getting nervous. Their parents … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Ken Towl, Schools
Tagged A level results, A-Levels, coronavirus, Coulsdon, covid, covid lockdown, Covid-19, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Education, Ken Towl, London, New Addington, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, University degrees
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‘It seems that certain clubs have unique privilege and power’
Denied their rightful place in the Europa League, Crystal Palace have hit out at the governing body: ‘This growing and unhealthy influence… does not bode well… when rules and sanctions are unevenly applied in the most flagrant way’ After giving … Continue reading
Palace swizzled as Swiss sports court upholds UEFA decision
You win some. You lose some. Less than 24 hours after Crystal Palace captain Marc Guehi lifted the Charity Shield as his side beat Liverpool on penalties at Wembley, his club was handed the verdict of a panel of specialist … Continue reading
FA moves to subdue Palace’s Fanatics at Wembley showpiece
The wall of sound and colour from the Palace end at Wembley at the FA Cup final in May, which wowed the world of football, will be missing, or at least much subdued, on Sunday when the cup-winners take on … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Holmesdale Fanatics, Steve Parish
Tagged 2025 FA Cup final, CAS, Charity Shield, Court for Arbitration in Sport, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace FC, Europa League, FA, Football Association, Holmesdale Fanatics, Lausanne, Liverpool, Manchester City, Nottingham Forest, South London and Proud, Steve Parish, UEFA, UEFA Conference League, Wembley, Wembley Stadium
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Park Trust announces events for Crystal Palace Summer of Play
There’s a Summer of Play being organised at Crystal Palace Park, with a host of free activities for children and young people. The programme has been curated to support children and young people to gain new skills, be active, harness … Continue reading
Podcast: Kevin Day talks UEFA, Simon Jordan and Uncle Reg
Comedian, scriptwriter, author and all-round good bloke Kevin Day, pictured left, returns to our Under The Flyover podcast to explain and discuss the clear miscarriage that his club, Crystal Palace, has suffered at the hands of UEFA, and what they … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Inside Croydon, John Textor, Sport, Steve Parish, Under The Flyover, Woody Johnson
Tagged Croydon, Crystal Palace, Europa League, Kevin Day, Podcast, Simon Jordan, Spike Milligan, Steve Parish, UEFA, UEFA Conference League, UEFA Europa League, Under The Flyover
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Palace fans urged to get writing to UEFA HQ over Europa ban
One of Crystal Palace’s biggest fanzines is calling upon Eagles fans, and supporters of other clubs with a sense of fair play, to lobby UEFA with emails sent to the football bureaucrats in Switzerland who decided to demote the FA … Continue reading
Palace fury as Forest set to benefit from their UEFA demotion
Club chairman describes football rule-makers’ decision as ‘probably one of the greatest injustices that has ever happened in European football’ Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish was heading for New York for an emergency board meeting to decide whether he would … Continue reading
