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10 shillings to join the Goose Club and lay on a Christmas feast
CROYDON CHRONICLE: Christmas is coming, as the old saying goes, and the goose is getting fat… DAVID MORGAN looks back to the Dickensian era, when financial planning for the end-of-year revels was serious business for the likes of Surrey Street … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History, Surrey Street
Tagged Charles Dickens, Christmas, Crown Hill, David Morgan, Goose Club, Marmaduke Willis, Phiz, Surrey Street, West Croydon
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The 550-year rise and fall of Croydon’s annual Walnut Fair
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The account of life in Croydon written by the son of Charles Dickens’ illustrator offers fascinating details into a long-forgotten annual festival on the ‘Fair Field’, as DAVID MORGAN explains “Try your hand at the Lucky Bag!” “Walk … Continue reading
Posted in David Morgan, History
Tagged Charles Dickens, Croydon, Crystal Palace, David Morgan, Edgar Browne, Fair Field, Phiz, Queen Victoria, Walnut Fair
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A Dickensian tale which adds extra Phiz to its Croydon twist
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A careful search of the registers at Croydon Minster by DAVID MORGAN has uncovered a new and exciting link between the church and Charles Dickens It has been known for almost 200 years that Charles Dickens, the great … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Broad Green, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History, Thornton Heath
Tagged A Tale of Two Cities, Anthony Trollope, Boz, Charles Dickens, Croydon, Croydon Minster, David Copperfield, David Morgan, Hablot Browne, Hablot Knight Browne, Nicholas Nickleby, Phiz, Sketches by Boz, Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackery
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