Tag Archives: Frederick Edridge
Croydon’s Lifeboat parades that answered a Mayday appeal
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Newspaper archive reports going back more than a century reveal a regular Croydon town centre fund-raiser: the Lifeboat Day procession, as DAVID MORGAN takes us back in time… The RNLI, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, celebrates its 200th … Continue reading
Posted in David Morgan, History
Tagged Croydon, David Morgan, Frederick Edridge, Queen Victoria, RNLI, Royal National Lifeboat Institution
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Londonist website accuses Croydon of being boring… in 1896
Londonist.com, which often takes a sideways glance at matters in and around the capital, has clearly enjoyed the produce of Surrey Street Market, or its ancient public house, the Dog and Bull, a little too much… Someone at the website … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fairfield, History
Tagged Croydon High Street, Frederick Edridge, Londonist, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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