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TfL’s £7.6m grant for 20mph zones and road ‘improvements’
Croydon’s councillors will have an opportunity next Monday to demonstrate that they have grasped Einstein’s definition of insanity, and that they won’t be doing the same thing and expecting different results over the spending of millions of pounds on often … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Connected Croydon, Croydon Council, Cycling, Environment, Fairfield, Parking, Purley Way, South Norwood, Stuart King, TfL, Transport
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, East Croydon station, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Phil Thomas, Purley Way, South Norwood, STUART KING, Westfield
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Landscape With Weapon, at Stanley Halls, Sep 27 – Oct 1
Posted in Art, South London Theatre, South Norwood, Stanley Halls, Theatre
Tagged South London Theatre, South Norwood, Stanley Halls
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Stanley Halls launches weekly movies with membership offer
Stanley’s Film Club, the cinema arm of the arts offering at Stanley Halls in South Norwood, has launched a membership scheme this month to coincide with the start of regular weekly screenings. The organisers say, “For a limited time we … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, South Norwood, Stanley Halls, Theatre
Tagged South Norwood, Stanley Halls, Stanley's Film Club
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Bette and Joan, at Stanley Halls, Sep 13-17
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Summer reads to get an airing as book club returns
Page Turners, the South Norwood book club, returns next month after a brief summer break. GUY CLAPPERTON provides the details So what’s everybody read so far this summer? I’ve read Disclaimer and am now in the middle of the new … Continue reading
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Tagged Page Turners, South Norwood, Yeha Noha
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Lorry-load of rubbish cleared from South Norwood park
The Conservation Volunteers have been hard at work this week, clearing up Brickfields Meadow in South Norwood. Brickfields Meadow is one of Croydon’s green oases. It is very popular with fishermen around the lake and young families using the playground. … Continue reading
Spoon-carving workshop, Beaulieu Heights, Sep 10
Posted in Activities, Art, Education, Environment, Upper Norwood
Tagged Great North Wood, South Norwood, Upper Norwood
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Walks and talks in Norwood take a look at ‘dangerous women’
The Norwood Society stages its third summer walk of the year tomorrow, August 18. Starting at 7pm outside All Saints Church, Beulah Hill SE19, Richard Lines will lead along Church Road and the Triangle. The Norwood Society’s next evening talk … Continue reading
Stanley Halls to host local CAMRA’s beer festival, Oct 27-29
Croydon and Sutton’s CAMRA’s annual beer festival will be staged at a new venue in 2016: Stanley Halls, in South Norwood, from October 27 to 29. This will be the 22nd staging of the festival by the local branch of … 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 year to keep open, is the setting … Continue reading
Make a splash with council’s free swimming offer for under-16s
Free summer swimming for under-16s is available at all of Croydon Council’s leisure centres for the six weeks of the schools’ summer holidays. As well as free swimming there will be crash courses for those new to the water, and … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Croydon Council, Education, Health, Leisure services, New Addington, Purley, Purley Pool, Schools, South Norwood, Swimming, Thornton Heath, Waddon
Tagged Croydon Council, Labour, New Addington, Purley, South Norwood, swimming, Thornton Heath, Timothy Godfrey, Waddon
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Pirates of the Mediterranean. Selhurst Church, Aug 2-5
Posted in Church and religions, Education, Selhurst, South Norwood
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Cuban summer fiesta is coming to Stanley Halls, Jul 30
Stanley’s Film Club brings a flavour of sun-drenched Havana to South Norwood this summer with a screening of Wim Wender’s much-loved documentary, Buena Vista Social Club on Saturday, July 30. Cinema-goers can make an evening of it, with Cuban-themed food and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, Dance, Music, South Norwood, Stanley Halls
Tagged South Norwood, Stanley Hallls, Stanley Halls Film Club
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Labour members investigate how to oust Blairite MP Reed
More details have emerged from the Croydon North Labour annual meeting a fortnight ago which demonstrate that the power struggle in the party nationally between Blairites and supporters of Jeremy Corbyn is also being played out fiercely at local level. … Continue reading
Views of Croydon on display in Addiscombe art exhibition
Cafe Adagio, the music and arts-themed cafe in Addiscombe, is hosting an exhibition of the work of Matt Bannister, who has put together a series of eye-catching images of Croydon life in his distinctive style.
Posted in Art, Restaurants, South Norwood
Tagged Matt Bannister, South Norwood, Yeha Noha
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Paths of Separations author to meet Page Turners club
GUY CLAPPERTON on the next meeting of the South Norwood book club, Page Turners, when the book’s author will be at the event … and that was another fine meeting with numbers up a bit from last time. The consensus … Continue reading
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Tagged Page Turners, South Norwood, Yeha Noha
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Drawing Grangewood Park, South Norwood, Jul 10
Posted in Art, Croydon parks, South Norwood
Tagged Friends of Grangewood Park, Grangewood Park, South Norwood
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Waddon school pupils get chance to eat as they learn
Croydon’s new Mayor tended to his roots in more ways than one when he came to open St Giles’s School’s edible garden today. Councillor Wayne Trakas-Lawlor got in some good spade work to bed down a tree planted to mark … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Education, Environment, Gardening, Schools, South Norwood, St Giles' School, Waddon, Wayne Lawlor
Tagged South Norwood, Waddon, Wayne Trakas-Lawlor
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