Tag Archives: Horatio Nelson

Croydon Commander with friends in high Admiralty places

Posted on September 28, 2025 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Trawling through documents that are more than 200 years old provides DAVID MORGAN with precious insights into people’s lives and times Historic wills are fascinating documents. And there’s plenty of them in the Croydon Minster archive… A will … Continue reading →

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Hallowell’s voyage from Boston to Beddington, via Brickwood

Posted on April 14, 2024 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The naval career of an American-born admiral who provided the hero of Trafalgar with his coffin, traced all the way to Croydon and then to Carew Manor by DAVID MORGAN What is the most unusual gift that you … Continue reading →

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The long lost work of a master craftsman with the Nelson touch

Posted on June 19, 2022 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Fine stone memorials, of the calibre of those that take pride of place in St Paul’s, were among the losses of Croydon Minster’s great fire. DAVID MORGAN has tracked down the history of one such destroyed monument The … Continue reading →

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Restoration royal connections of Minster’s marble mausoleum

Posted on April 24, 2022 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A reigning monarch, a National Trust property, Horatio Nelson, a Westminster Abbey wedding and an Archbishop of Canterbury all get a mention in DAVID MORGAN’s latest dispatch from the archives of Croydon Minster When Croydon Parish Church was … Continue reading →

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