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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
Jo Brand’s on message for TfL as it stages £1m poppy appeal
Transport for London has joined up with the Royal British Legion and Jo Brand, the south London comedian, presenter and writer, to encourage London Poppy Day donations across the capital’s transport network today, October 30. Around 2,000 TfL workers, veterans … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Church and religions, History, TfL
Tagged Jo Brand, Poppy Appeal, Remembrance Sunday, Royal British Legion, TfL, Transport for London
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The Town Hall hero of the Great War who ran Croydon’s baths
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A special ceremony held at Croydon Town Hall in November 1918 saw a council worker awarded the Military Medal and the Croix de Guerre. DAVID MORGAN tells the story of Ernest Saunders’ bravery in battle We are at … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History
Tagged Croix de Guerre, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Minster, Croydon Parish Church, Croydon Town Hall, David Morgan, Ernest Saunders, First World War, Military Medal, Remembrance Sunday, The Great War, World War I, World War One
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Croydon’s 2024 Remembrance Services, Nov 10 and 11
The council has announced the details of Croydon’s civic services and commemorations for this year’s Remembrance Day. They begin on Sunday November 10, when the civic Service of Remembrance will take place at Croydon Minster. This is open to all … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, Croydon Council, Croydon Minster
Tagged Armistice Day, Croydon, Kola Agboola, Remembrance Sunday
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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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‘Donkey jackets’, nod-sense and the wisdom of old Harry Patch
As tensions are cranked up and rhetoric becomes ever more belligerent, ANDREW FISHER says that using Remembrance Day as a political weapon is perverse It’s in pretty poor taste to use the memory of the dead to score political points. … 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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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
Posted in Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History
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
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon Minster, History
Tagged Croydon Minster, Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday
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Locked down borough takes Remembrance services online
An online church service and a scaled-down civic ceremony will be held on Sunday as Croydon remembers those who fought and died in two world wars and conflicts since. Although the country has entered a new coronavirus lockdown, the government … Continue reading
Council remembers to publicise civic Remembrance service
Croydon Council’s press office, having forgotten to include any reference to this weekend’s Remembrance Sunday ceremonies in its autumn edition of the quarterly, Council Tax-payer-funded Your Croydon magazine, managed to put out a press release detailing the civic arrangements for … Continue reading
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
World War I Centenary Concert, Ruskin House, Nov 2
Posted in Activities, Music
Tagged Armistice Day, Croydon, First World War, Remembrance Sunday, World War I
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Shake the crowd from their uproarious calm
As we have done in the past, on this Remembrance Sunday, our single posting is a war poem. This year, we have chosen Verity, by Drummond Allison. Allison was born in Caterham and he lived in Kenley when he was commissioned … Continue reading
Posted in Art, History
Tagged Drummond Allison, England, Hedley Verity, Kenley, Oval, Prisoner of war, Remembrance Sunday
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