Tag Archives: Scrooge

Backlash against Westfield over forced closure of Bishops bar

Posted on January 6, 2026 by insidecroydon

There has been an outpouring of anger at the news, first reported by this website, that ‘the Scrooges of Westfield’ have ordered Bishops Wine Bar to move out of their home of more than 40 years The latest closure of … Continue reading →

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Whitgift Centre’s wine bar given six months’ notice to quit

Posted on January 2, 2026 by insidecroydon

‘Shuttering the doors deprives Croydon… of a piece of its community’s heart’ says the businesswoman who runs Bishops, after being handed an ‘arbitrary and unjust’ notice to close by the Scrooges of Westfield The management of the Whitgift Centre waited … Continue reading →

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Coulsdon show generated festive spirit with food donations

Posted on December 23, 2023 by insidecroydon

This year’s Christmas show at the Coulsdon Community Centre might have been about tight-wad Scrooge, but it prompted a massive outpouring of generosity and goodwill from locals, who provided a van-load of donations for the Purley Food Hub. Theatre Workshop … Continue reading →

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Council’s temps forced to take 6 days’ unpaid Christmas leave

Posted on December 18, 2023 by insidecroydon

Agency workers claim they have been ‘cheated’ out of pay rises, despite often carrying out exactly the same jobs as their permanent staff colleagues. By our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE Scrooge-like Croydon Council is taking the Ho, Ho, Ho … Continue reading →

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Bah! Humbug! Scrooge-like poverty haunts modern Croydon

Posted on December 11, 2023 by insidecroydon

As the country slides into the kind of social division not seen since Victorian times, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon has a new production of a Dickens classic that shows we really ought to do better. KEN TOWL went along to see … Continue reading →

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Coulsdon theatre group donates to food hub at Christmas

Posted on October 6, 2023 by insidecroydon

Christmas Eve… A time for joyful anticipation, celebration and goodwill to all! Perhaps not all. To the poor and the hungry in Victorian London, Christmas Day was just another day to struggle through. And for Ebeneezer Scrooge it’s a day … Continue reading →

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Cinema Ruskin looks to startle in its latest movie season

Posted on November 10, 2014 by insidecroydon

Dr Crippen, Mr Scrooge, Jekyll and Hyde: the Cinema Ruskin film club is back with more black and white movie classics Bella Bartock, our tireless arts correspondent, now in her ninth decade but still dipping her nib in vitriol, was … Continue reading →

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Hard Times: lessons from Dickens for 21st century London

Posted on July 15, 2012 by insidecroydon

Charles Dickens was born 200 years ago. His books and articles were often firmly based in south London (as David Perdue’s excellent Dickens blog demonstrates) and ANDY FORD says that Dickens, “the champion of the oppressed”, also exposed the rotten … Continue reading →

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