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Have a proper Beano at Upper Norwood Library this summer
At Upper Norwood Library, there is a wide range of often Beano-themed activities being staged over the summer, beginning from July 14 and running until September 15, as part of the Summer Reading Challenge. All activities are free for all … Continue reading
Delay over Upper Norwood Library transfer raises worries
The future of a library which has served thousands of Croydon residents for more than a century has been thrown into renewed uncertainty, with doubts over the funding for Upper Norwood Library after next year, and with the proposed transfer … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Education, Lambeth Council, Libraries, Local media, Norwood Society, Upper Norwood Library Trust
Tagged Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Labour, Lambeth council, London Borough of Croydon, Save Upper Norwood Library Campaign, Steve Reed OBE, Upper Norwood Joint Library, Upper Norwood Library Trust
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Free courses on offer at Upper Norwood Library
Upper Norwood Library is to stage a number of courses and talks through March and April. All are free to attend, though you may need to book your place. Project Development and Planning March 21, 10.30am to 1.30pm Facilitator: Elaine … Continue reading
Upper Norwood Library family activity session, Nov 27
Upper Norwood Library hosts the Incredible Edible Gipsy Hill’s Winter Session Free Family activity session this Sunday November 27 The Upper Norwood Library is delighted to welcome Incredible Edible Gipsy Hill back for a second time this coming Sunday, November … Continue reading
#FindRobbie: Garden uses benchmark to bring home Gibson
The South Norwood Tourist Board is to mark the anniversary of the opening of the Sensible Garden – the small pocket of previous wasteland between the Goat House bridge and the Ship pub which has been transformed by volunteers in … Continue reading
Missing: BBC’s One Show takes up the cause of #FindRobbie
Six weeks after Robbie Gibson went missing from his south London home, the appeal to find him continues with national television coverage on Monday. Upper Norwood Library, which Gibson has campaigned tirelessly for years to keep open, is the setting … Continue reading
Borough archives come under threat from library closures
Part of Croydon’s borough archive has come under threat as a consequence of neighbouring Lambeth’s policy of forcibly turning some of its public libraries into bookish gyms. The Carnegie Library in Herne Hill was in the headlines last week over … Continue reading
Protestors occupy under-threat library to halt council’s closure
The people are taking over. It is a gathering story from deepest south London of a popular uprising, of the sort that you might expect from oppressed locals against a tyrannical Conservative local authority. But the occupation of the Carnegie … Continue reading
Job losses and volunteer libraries leaves us feeling let down
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Public library provision is a statutory requirement for local authorities such as Croydon. But they also represent a soft target when councils want to make cuts. ROBERT GIBSON says that the funding announcement for Crystal Palace’s library is … Continue reading
Posted in Alisa Flemming, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Greenwich Leisure, John Wentworth, Lambeth Council, Libraries, Pat Ryan, Steve Reed MP, Timothy Godfrey, Upper Norwood Library Trust
Tagged Conservative, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Labour, Robert Gibson, Save Upper Norwood Library Campaign, Steve Reed OBE, Timothy Godfrey, Tory, Upper Norwood Library Trust
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Council accused of ‘shoddy’ deal on Crystal Palace library
Our libraries and bookish gyms correspondent, GENE BRODIE, reports that there’s a sense of “glass half-empty” over Croydon’s grant for Upper Norwood Library A row has broken out between trustees and library campaigners over Croydon Council’s £85,000 per year, two-year … Continue reading
Scudamore rides to library rescue with extra £50,000 grant
Bryher Scudamore, one of the trustees, has told Inside Croydon that she is “delighted” that the Upper Norwood Library Trust has squeezed an additional £50,000 over two years from Lambeth Council for the running of the facility. Upper Norwood Library, … Continue reading
Library campaigners take Lambeth to court over bookish gyms
Lambeth Council, which last month lost a case in the High Court over its handling of a public con-consultation on housing, is to face another Judicial Review, this time over its “omnishambles” handling of its libraries con-consultation which has threatened … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Education, Greenwich Leisure, Lambeth Council, Libraries, Upper Norwood Library Trust
Tagged Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Labour, Save Upper Norwood Library Campaign, Upper Norwood Joint Library, Upper Norwood Library Trust
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Librarians prove to be game for a laugh on Gaming Day
Despite not being able to provide any tables for hexagonal chess, which was invented by Wladislaw Glinski, a long-time resident of nearby Streatham, nor for Risk, which is believed to be the favourite game, if played with public money, of … Continue reading
Library staff in walk-out as shelves are stripped of books
Council staff in Lambeth libraries walked out today in protest at plans to close five of that borough’s 10 public libraries, turning some of them into “bookish gyms”, and threatening the future of Upper Norwood Library, which has been run … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Libraries, South Norwood, Steve Reed MP, Upper Norwood Library Trust
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Labour, Save Upper Norwood Library Campaign, South Norwood, Steve Reed OBE, Upper Norwood Library Trust
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