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Tag Archives: Selsdon
Suburban spy drama is coming to Selsdon Hall this week
In 1960s suburbia, Barbara and Bob Jackson are living an idyllic life with their daughter Julie. But when they are visited by the security services, they are informed that their best friends and neighbours, the Canadian Krogers, may not be … Continue reading
Croydon High to go even higher with space satellite project
Croydon High is about to go even higher! The girls’ independent school in Selsdon who last year ran a special astronomy club project that sent a pair of weather balloons into space has confirmed that it is now working to … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Croydon High, Education, Schools
Tagged Arabi Karteepan, AstroGazers Club, Croydon High, Croydon High School, Science, Selsdon, STEAM, University of Bath
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‘Strong interest’ expected as Selsdon hotel goes on the market
The former Selsdon Park Hotel and its 198-acre estate has been put up for sale through estate agents Savills less than two months since it went out of business as boutique hipster resort Birch Selsdon. The sale, on behalf of … Continue reading
Labour members ignored and disrespected over vote scandal
It is five months since the Labour Party established a local organisation to run its affairs in the new parliamentary constituency of Croydon East. There has never been a democratic general meeting of members of the Croydon East CLP to … Continue reading
100 to lose jobs as Selsdon Birch hotel closes its doors tonight
By STEVEN DOWNES Birch Selsdon, the former Selsdon Park Hotel which reopened earlier this year after an 18-month, multi-million makeover that transformed it into a “shabby chic” lifestyle venue with top-end, and expensive, restaurants, is to close its doors for … Continue reading
Posted in Birch (Selsdon), Business, Selsdon Park Hotel
Tagged Birch, Birch (Selsdon), Cheshunt, Croydon, Hertfordshire, Lee Westcott, Selsdon, Selsdon Park Hotel
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Wetherspoon’s Purley pub set to cease trading next month
The Foxley Hatch in Purley, one of the last remaining Wetherspoon pubs in Croydon, will have its last day of trading on Sunday, December 3, the company has confirmed to Inside Croydon. The Foxley Hatch was put up for sale … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Property, Pubs, Purley
Tagged Foxley Hatch, JD Wetherspoons, Norbury, Purley, Selsdon, Sir Julian Huxley, The George, The Moon Under Water, The Skylark, Tim Martin
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Administrators move in to run Selsdon’s ‘shabby chic’ hotel
Our business correspondent, ROBERT PESTER, reports on how Croydon’s poshest, hippest hotel with ‘a snag list as long as a novel’ has crashed and burned within six months of reopening Ambitious plans for a pricy members’ club, Michelin-style restaurants and … Continue reading
Posted in Birch (Selsdon), Business, Selsdon Park Hotel
Tagged Birch, Birch (Selsdon), Cheshunt, Chris King, Croydon, Hertfordshire, Lee Westcott, Selsdon, Selsdon Park Hotel
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All bunged up: Thames Water’s concrete scheme for the sewers
Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, on the major road works in Selsdon that have sent buses on lengthy diversions The withdrawal of almost all bus routes in some parts of the south of the borough may be down to a … Continue reading
Posted in New Addington, Selsdon & Ballards, Selsdon and Addington Village, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Ballards Estate, buses, Coombe Road, Croham Road, Croham Valley, Croham Valley Road, Croydon, Farley Road, Selsdon, South Croydon, South Park Hill Road, TfL, Thames Water, Transport for London
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The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Selsdon Hall, Nov 9-12
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The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Selsdon Hall, Nov 9-12
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Open+’s CCTV gives Norbury Library few extra opening hours
Croydon, London’s Borough of Culture 2023, can afford to buy CCTV cameras and pay security guards, but it cannot afford the wages for trained librarians to open its public libraries for more than three days a week. The council has … Continue reading
Mayor Perry spends £140,000 on gym equipment for Monks Hill
Politics, they say, is all about priorities. So while Croydon Mayor Jason Perry takes away the £13,000 per year grant to the Selsdon Centre for the Retired and increases their rent, after hiking everyone’s Council Tax by 15%, up the … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Quest Academy, Schools, Selsdon and Addington Village, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Kirsty MacColl, Mayor Jason Perry, Monks Hill, Monks Hill Comprehensive, Monks Hill Sports Centre, Quest Academy, Selsdon, Selsdon High School, There's a Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvish, Wilfried Zaha
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Supporters campaign to save under-threat Selsdon Centre
The trustees of an old people’s charity in Selsdon that is under threat of closure after Mayor Jason Perry axed their annual council grant have launched a petition appealing for public support. As Inside Croydon revealed last week, the Selsdon … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Stranack, Charity, Fatima Zaman, Joseph Lee, Mayor Jason Perry, Robert Ward, Selsdon and Addington Village, Selsdon Centre for the Retired, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, Mayor Jason Perry, Selsdon, Selsdon and Addington Village, Selsdon Centre for the Retired, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale
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Police investigating 300+ cases of ULEZ camera vandalism
Criminal damage to public property in Greater London could cost taxpayers tens of millions. The Metropolitan Police is investigating more than 300 cases of vandalism and theft of CCTV cameras, which have been installed as part of the expansion of … Continue reading
Posted in Bromley Council, Crime, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Policing, Sadiq Khan, Selsdon and Addington Village, TfL, Transport, ULEZ
Tagged Bromley, Conservative, Croydon, GLA, Greater London Authority, London, M25, Mayor Sadiq Khan, Metropolitan Police, Orpington, Selsdon, TfL, The Bladerunners, Tory, Transport for London, ULEZ, Ultra Low Emission Zone
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Crisis for Selsdon charity hard hit by council’s double-whammy
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Mayor Perry’s cuts are beginning to bite in his Tory heartlands, with the long-established Selsdon Centre for the Retired facing the prospect of closure next year. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES A respected and admired charity that supports … Continue reading
Posted in Age UK Croydon, Andrew Stranack, Charity, Chris Philp MP, Community associations, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Croydon South, CVA, Fatima Zaman, Joseph Lee, Mayor Jason Perry, Peter Underwood, Robert Ward, Selsdon and Addington Village, Selsdon Centre for the Retired, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, Andy Stranack, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fatima Zaman, Joseph Lee, Mayor Jason Perry, Peter Underwood, Robert Ward, Selsdon, Selsdon and Addington Village, Selsdon Centre for the Retired, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale, Tory
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Genius at work: Ayckbourn committee comedy hits the Marx
BELLA BARTOCK’s visit to the CODA production in Selsdon of Ten Times Table brings back many happy memories I don’t know about the Massacre of the Pendon Twelve. By the time we got to an hour before curtain-up of CODA’s … Continue reading
Posted in Art, CODA, Theatre
Tagged Alan Ayckbourn, Ayckbourn, CODA, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, Michael Hall, Selsdon, Selsdon Hall, Ten Times Table
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CODA table an amendment to Ayckbourn’s council satire
So you’ve just received your Council Tax bill and you want to get an idea of what all that money is paying for? You really want to know how local councils work..? Then you’d best get along to Selsdon Hall … Continue reading
Get orf moy laaand! Posh hotel declares parkland a no-go zone
Michelin-starred chef to use foraged ingredients in Birch Selsdon’s two restaurants, as fences go up to keep local residents from walking their pooches across the former golf course The new owners of the luxury hotel that used to be known … Continue reading
Sampling some good Vybz from Selsdon’s Jamaican restaurant
A start-up business was recommended by their local councillor to seek some promotional publicity from Inside Croydon. KEN TOWL tried the food at Yaad Vybz and got a 5% off offer for this website’s readers Councillor Joseph Lee may have … Continue reading
Posted in Joseph Lee, Ken Towl, Restaurants, Selsdon and Addington Village
Tagged Ken Towl, Selsdon, Yaad Vybz
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Parents facing ‘hollowed-out’ half-term of council activities
When Jason “It’s going to get worse before it gets better” Perry referred to the “hollowed-out council” that he took charge of last May, the Tory Mayor must have had in mind the borough’s library service, which has been run … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Children's Services, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, GLL - Better, Leisure services, Libraries, Mayor Jason Perry, New Addington, Schools, South Norwood
Tagged Better, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Libraries, Mayor Jason Perry, New Addington, Selsdon, South Norwood, Tory
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New owners plan re-opening of Selsdon hotel for late March
What used to be known as the Selsdon Park Hotel, with its 200-acre golf course, is expected to open its doors to guests for the first time in more than a year at the end of March, with cattle and … Continue reading
Selsdon Guild makes Contact with £1,000 charity donation
Selsdon Afternoon Townswomen’s Guild has made a donation of £1,000 to the local Contact charity. The presentation was made after Guild members last year chose to support the charity in recognition of the help they had provided to locals during … Continue reading
19th century abolitionist Starbuck’s archive up for auction
An important historical archive of early 19th-century correspondence compiled by prominent abolitionist Samuel Starbuck could sell for at least £6,000 when it goes under the hammer at Catherine Southon’s latest auction at Farleigh Golf Club, Selsdon, on Wednesday, February 8. … Continue reading
