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Halloween tales: discovering Croydon’s most haunted places

From ‘The Green Lady’ of Old Palace, to highwayman Dick Turpin’s connection to a (now closed) Thornton Heath pub, to the nun and pilot who haunt the streets around the old aerodrome, there’s plenty of ghost stories to send a … Continue reading

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Prepare to be scared as MR James’s ghost stories come to life

For more than a century, the ghost stories of MR James have chilled the spines of readers across the world. Next week, the Spread Eagle Theatre in central Croydon is promising that author’s tales of horror will return to terrify a … Continue reading

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