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The casualties of war are not always killed on the battlefield
THE CROYDON CHRONICLES: There is history all around the Minster, not only in the archive, as shown this week as DAVID MORGAN provides the story behind one of the church’s plaques, which dates from more than 120 years ago, and … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History
Tagged 12th Royal Lancers, Arthur Conan-Doyle, Battle of Modder River, Boer War, Croydon, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, General Kitchener, James Laver, Kimberley, Lord Roberts, Natal, Queen Victoria, Second Boer War
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The prodigy with a tin whistle who took music around the world
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The Shakespeare family in Croydon had multiple musical talents. From a portrait of a Victorian soprano, DAVID MORGAN traces the local connections to a small boy playing the organ at St Andrew’s and beyond in a career lasting … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History, Music
Tagged Adelina Patti, Arthur Rubinstein, Croydon, Croydon Minster, Croydon Parish Church, Crystal Palace, Franz Liszt, James Sant, JB Shakespeare, Jenny Lind, Johannes Brahms, Queen Victoria, Royal Academy of Music, St Andrew's Church, St Andrews, William Shakespeare
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Admiral Aldrich and lasting mystery of the Arctic’s lost ships
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: In 1849, the Admiralty sent out two ships, the Erebus and Terror, on a mission to find the North West Passage. The mystery of what happened to the ships of the Franklin Expedition has never been entirely solved. … Continue reading
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Tagged Admiral Robert Dawes Aldrich, Bathurst Island, Canada, David Morgan, HMS Erebus, HMS Resolute, HMS Terror, President Donald Trump, President Rutherford B Hayes, Qausuittuq National Park, Queen Victoria, Sir John Franklin, The North West Passage, The Resolute Desk, The White House, Washington DC
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Music hall star Minnie Cunningham does a turn for North End
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The Croydon public had a wide choice of theatres to choose from in Victorian times, where they could see the top acts of the day and witness the latest technological wonder: moving pictures from the Theatrograph, as DAVID … Continue reading
Flash, bang, wallop, what a picture! And all by Royal command
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A chance letter to Croydon Minster has sparked an investigation by DAVID MORGAN into a briefly thriving Victorian era photography studio on North End. But who is the mystery priest? Almost everyone today can take a good photo, … Continue reading
From a GP’s on the High Street to hosting dinner for the King
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: An eminent and pioneering surgeon of the Victorian age, who performed operations on European monarchs and could command fees equivalent to £10m in modern-day values, began his medical career as a GP in Croydon. DAVID MORGAN traces the … Continue reading
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
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Tagged Croydon, David Morgan, Frederick Edridge, Queen Victoria, RNLI, Royal National Lifeboat Institution
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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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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
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Tagged Charles Dickens, Croydon, Crystal Palace, David Morgan, Edgar Browne, Fair Field, Phiz, Queen Victoria, Walnut Fair
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Victorian schools where Scripture had priority over science
In a previous article, JERRY FITZPATRICK, pictured right, looked at the history of Croydon’s first state school as it marks its 150th anniversary. Here, he sets out what school life was like in the final years of the 19th Century, … Continue reading
The chimney sweep to Queen Victoria and ancestor to a star
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: No need to go all Dick Van Dyke, when Croydon had its very own chimney sweep to the Queen, no less, as DAVID MORGAN has discovered in his latest delve into the Croydon Minster archive “Good luck will … Continue reading
Croydon painter Sant, a portrait artist by Royal Appointment
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: One hundred and fifty years ago, Queen Victoria chose a Croydon-born artist to be her ‘Principal Painter in Ordinary to Her Majesty’, but as DAVID MORGAN discovered, she never liked his work As Croydon celebrates being the London … Continue reading
Artist’s sister helped him become poster boy of Victorian age
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: With the discovery in the Minster archive of a century-old clipping from a magazine, DAVID MORGAN traces the Croydon woman who was the muse for the world-famous Woman In White Opening up a folder in the Croydon Minster … Continue reading
