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Tag Archives: Duppas Hill
Polanski is running for election, right through Croydon’s streets
The Green Party’s latest Party Political Broadcast, shown across the country on the BBC and ITV, offered a message of hope straight from the streets of Croydon. The Jubilee Bridge underpass, side streets off Church Road and Edridge Road, with … Continue reading
When God Save The King! caused a dust-up on Duppas Hill
Two hundred years ago, when an ageing monarch was about to be crowned and there was dispute over which members of his immediate family he would allow to attend the ceremony at the Abbey, it was not all sweetness and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon parks, Duppas Hill Park, History, Museum of Croydon, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Coronation, Coronation parties, Duppas Hill, KIng Charles III, KIng Charles III Coronation, King George III, KIng George IV, Marks and Spencer, Meghan Markle, Prince William, Princess Diana, Queen Caroline
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Hot dogs help keep Haling Park friends in the shade
This year’s Friends of Haling Grove Dog Show saw pets from across South Croydon dragging their owners to the annual contest in the park on Saturday, the hottest day of the year so far. The Friends of Haling Grove come … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Community associations, Friends of Haling Grove
Tagged Brighton Road, Croydon, Dog, Duppas Hill, South Croydon, Whitgift School
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The Sugarloaf, the school and the lost Lawrence connection
What hope for Croydon’s future when so little interest is shown in its past? Local author BRIAN MELICAN on how the area’s links with one of the outstanding novelists of the 20th Century have been ignored, forgotten and … re-developed … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Education, History, Schools
Tagged BRIAN MELICAN, Brighton Road, Croydon, DH Lawrence, Duppas Hill, Francis Bond Head, John Worthen, London
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Centenary celebrations promise cake, picnics and song
There are two key events coming up in the next couple of weeks in the centenary celebrations for Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the world-renowned composer who lived in Croydon. On Wednesday, August 15 – 137 years since Coleridge-Taylor’s birth – there’s to … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Addiscombe West, Art, Church and religions, Music, Walks
Tagged Aldwick, Coleridge-Taylor, Croydon, Duppas Hill, London, Mary Magdalene, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
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Make it so! Waddon gets a flicker of the Olympic Flame
They say that the Olympics is a power for good, bringing people of the world together. And so it was in Waddon this lunchtime, as two cultural icons met for the first time: Sir Patrick Stewart, Captain Jean-Luc Pickard from … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Activities, Waddon
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Flyover, Duppas Hill, Olympic, Olympic Games, Patrick Stewart, Star Trek, Waddon
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