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National Gallery artworks exhibit comes to Croydon’s doorstep
You would probably be blissfully unaware if you relied on information from the propaganda bunker at part-time Mayor Jason Perry’s dysfunctional council, but parts of Croydon are today arrayed with a selection of some of the world’s greatest artistic masterpieces. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Coulsdon Sixth Form College, Croydon Council, Croydon Minster, Croydon parks, Education, National Gallery Art On Your Doorstep, Park Hill Recreation Ground, Queens Gardens
Tagged Art On Your Doorstep, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, JMW Turner, Minster Green, Monet, National Gallery, Pablo Picasso, Park Hill Park, Purley, Queens Gardens, Renoir, Stubbs, Thornton Heath, Upper Norwood, Van Eyck, Vincent van Gogh, Whitgift Centre
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Addiscombe military college’s professor who was all at sea
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A friend and colleague of Sir Walter Scott and JMW Turner, a painter to Queen Victoria and her family, John Schetky was fondly remembered as a professor at Addiscombe military college. Using the Minster archive, DAVID MORGAN traces … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe East, Art, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History, Waddon
Tagged Addiscombe, Battle of Trafalgar, Croydon, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, East India Company, East India Company College, JMW Turner, Queen Victoria, Schetky, Sir Walter Scott, The Loss of Royal George, Waddon, Waddon Lodge
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