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Remembrance and History: a special Croydon Insider episode
Can you help in our appeal, with the Deputy Lieutenant of Croydon, in providing details of personnel from Croydon who have been killed on active duty in the years since the end of World War II? On Remembrance Sunday, our … Continue reading
Posted in Bourne Society, Croydon Airport, Croydon Insider, Croydon Minster, Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society, David Morgan, History, Inside Croydon, Johnny Dobbyn, Under The Flyover
Tagged Battle of the Somme, Caterham, Croydon, Croydon Airport, David Morgan, Deputy Lieutenant of Croydon, Fiona Satiro, First World War, Johnny Dobbyn, London, Menin Gate, Phil Swallow, Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday, Royal West Surrey Regiment, Second World War, Warlingham, World War I, World War II, World War One, World War Two, Ypres
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Solemn Sunday of memorials at New Addington and Town Hall
This year’s anniversary of the Sandilands tram crash coincides with national commemorations for Remembrance Sunday Croydon will remember those who lost their lives in the Sandilands tram derailment at a civic ceremony this Sunday, November 9, in New Addington. This … Continue reading
Posted in History, New Addington, New Addington North, Sandilands derailment, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Croydon Council, Croydon Town Hall, Croydon tram crash, Katharine Street, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday, Sandilands, Sandilands derailment
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Armistice Day: when Croydon was ‘beflagged’ with good cause
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Croydon’s joyful response to the news that war had ended in 1918 was widely covered in the local newspapers 107 years ago. DAVID MORGAN sifts through the cuttings in the Minster archives By this time next Sunday, most … Continue reading
Our archive of Inside Croydon’s Remembrance Day articles
Each year, around the time of the ceremonies for Remembrance Day, the Croydon Minister archivist, DAVID MORGAN, has produced a series of often moving articles about the sacrifices made by the men and women of the parish in the 20th … Continue reading
11/11: We will remember them
Edward Thomas was south London’s war poet. Born in Lambeth, he went to Battersea Grammar School, and became a newspaper literary critic after university. He only began writing his own poetry in 1914, and he signed up for the army … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Education, History
Tagged Armistice Day, Croydon, Edward Thomas, Remembrance Day
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Council forgets to clean up Croydon’s listed war memorial
For all the platitudes proffered about honouring the dead from two world wars and other conflicts, Croydon’s civic leaders have done very little… well, nothing, to maintain and clean the war memorial outside the Town Hall. The Croydon war memorial, … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, History, Mayor Jason Perry
Tagged Armistice Day, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon War Memorial, Elianne Andam, Elianne Andam funeral, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday, Tony Pearson, War Memorial, war memorials, Zeppelin raid
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Purley schoolboy who reached for the sky in Battle of Britain
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The Minster archives are full of accounts of those who gave their lives in the world wars. DAVID MORGAN recounts the story of one, a fighter pilot who just might have been memorialised in a famous movie While … Continue reading
£27,591 per year civic mayor won’t attend Armistice ceremony
The council has released details of the ceremonial arrangements and road closures for Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday next weekend. In doing so, the busy workers in the propaganda bunker of Fisher’s Folly have revealed that despite his being paid … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, Croydon Council, Croydon Minster, Mayor Jason Perry, Tony Pearson
Tagged Armistice Day, Conservative, Croydon, Democrats and Veterans Party, DVP, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Part-time Perry, Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday, Tony Pearson, Tory, War Memorial
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Warlingham youngsters prepare the ground for Remembrance
Preparations for the solemn ceremonials on Remembrance Sunday at Warlingham Green War Memorial were much helped last weekend by a work party from the local rugby club. Warlingham RFC, which is itself in its centenary year, put out a call … Continue reading
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Tagged Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday, Warlingham, Warlingham Green, Warlingham RFC
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Family keepsakes providing last link to another of war’s victims
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Life at the front in World War I was often brief, bloody and brutal. DAVID MORGAN uncovers some of the last pieces of correspondence from one of the soldiers inscribed on Croydon Minster’s Roll of Honour A few … Continue reading
Coulsdon war memorial adds 16 names after 104-year wait
There was a poignant ceremony conducted at a war memorial in Coulsdon last week, in conjunction with the other solemn Remembrance services. At the Marlpit Lane War Memorial, 104 years after the end of the First World War, the names … Continue reading
Croydon postman lost forever on the battlefields of France
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM: Ahead of Remembrance Sunday next week, DAVID MORGAN delves into the archives of Croydon Minster for the latest story of a casualty of World War I Percy Kent grew up in Croydon, went to a local … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon Minster, David Morgan, Percy Kent, Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday
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We will remember them: civic ceremonies for Nov 11 and 13
Croydon Council has announced the details of the borough’s civic events for Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday next week. At 11am on Remembrance Day, Friday November 11, there will be a two-minute silence at the war memorial outside the Town … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Minster, Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday
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Officer’s distinguished service on Western and Home fronts
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM: The physical and psychological sacrifices made by all those who served, including those who survived the horrors of trench warfare, are important to recall, writes DAVID MORGAN As we outlined in last week’s column about how … Continue reading
Town Hall announces service details for Remembrance Day
As the civic authorities have done for more than 100 years, Croydon will tomorrow remember and honour those killed in service for the country in armed conflicts, at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Conventions … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon Minster, Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday
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The double tragedy in war suffered by a wife and mother
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM: Remembrance Sunday is given over for the public to reflect on the sacrifices made by others. Here, from the roll of honour at the Minster, DAVID MORGAN recalls the lives, and deaths, of two generations of … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History
Tagged Croydon Minster, David Morgan, Henry Dunham, Remembrance Day
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‘For gallantry’: Croydon hero who died at Passchendaele
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM: On November 11, it will be the centenary of the burial of The Unknown Soldier at Westminster Abbey, an event full of symbolism about the loss of so many during the Great War. At Croydon Minster, … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History
Tagged Croydon Minster, David Morgan, Remembrance Day, Samuel Wayte
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Minster memorials that tell the terrible toll of World Wars
Croydon Parish Church, as it was once known, contains memorials to service personnel who died serving their country. DAVID MORGAN guides you on a short tour of some of them As you walk into the Minster, you do so through … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History
Tagged Croydon Minster, David Morgan, Remembrance Day, World War I, World War II
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We will remember them: Croydon’s Remembrance Day services
Remembrance Day, paying tribute to the sacrifices of military and service personnel in conflicts past and present, will be observed in Croydon on Sunday, at the war memorial outside the Town Hall and at Croydon Minster. Conducted by the Rt … Continue reading
Why the poppy is a symbol that should unite, not divide, us
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Ahead of this weekend’s Remembrance services, the Rev WEALANDS BELL has a confession to make – he once wore a white poppy, and now wishes he had never done so I was quite surprised to see a conversation … Continue reading
Bah humbug! Tory councillor complains at ‘too early’ Christmas
One of Croydon’s Conservative councillors wants to stop the town’s retailers from starting their Christmas sales campaigns too early. Ashburton councillor Adam Kellett put forward his own forthright views in a question to the council leader Mike Fisher at the … Continue reading
Posted in Adam Kellett, Allders, Avril Slipper, Business, Centrale, Mike Fisher, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Christmas, Croydon, Ebenezer Scrooge, London Borough of Croydon, Remembrance Day, Tory
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Jubilee choral festival at Fairfield Halls nears sell-out
This Saturday’s Diamond Jubilee Concert, with a 400-strong massed male voice choir, at the Fairfield Halls is nearly sold out. Only a few tickets in the gallery – at £10 each – remain for what promises to be a tub-thumping … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Addiscombe West, Fairfield Halls, Music
Tagged Choir, Croydon, Fairfield Halls, London, Remembrance Day, Royal Albert Hall
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