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Tag Archives: Upper Norwood Library
Upper Norwood Library’s activities programme gathers pace
Thanks to the dedication of its librarians and the volunteers who run its trust, the Upper Norwood Library continues to operate, despite Croydon Council slashing its share of funding and thus ending a century’s worth of tradition and co-operation with neighbouring … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Community associations, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Education, History, Libraries, Norwood Society, Upper Norwood Library Trust
Tagged Croydon, Croydon North, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, London Borough of Croydon, Upper Norwood Library
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Upper Norwood Library recruiting after £15,000 IT grant
The Upper Norwood Library Trust has been awarded £15,000 from the People’s Health Trust to provide IT training and free access to computers at the library for disadvantaged local residents as a way to engage them in learning and reduce … Continue reading
Nightwatch volunteer is ready to rough it for charity
Jeff Gridley, an Old Town resident, is giving up the dry and warmth of his home over the next week and will be living rough to try to highlight the plight of Croydon’s homeless. Gridley, who drives one of the council … Continue reading
Social services handed out food donations over Christmas
Food donations made by Croydon Council staff for the poor and vulnerable over Christmas were distributed directly by local social services ahead of the holiday break, sources have confirmed to Inside Croydon. Croydon Council’s annual charity food collection was previously highlighted … Continue reading
Council’s tidy app that offers a ready reporting solution
An ‘Appy New Year for Croydon? JONNY ROSE, pictured right, downloaded the council’s latest interactive device and was surprised to find … it works Following in the footsteps of other councils (perhaps, a little too closely as My Croydon App is essentially … Continue reading
New Waddon leisure centre is forced to close swimming pool
Waddon Leisure Centre, one of Croydon’s Tory council’s prestige projects, has had to close its main pool “until further notice” – because it’s getting a supply of extra water coming in from outside. The leisure centre management made the decision … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Sport, URV, Waddon
Tagged Christmas, Croydon, Croydon Council, Leisure centre, London, London Borough of Croydon, New Year, Upper Norwood Library
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Wolf Children adds some bite to cinema programme
The Save the David Lean Cinema Campaign’s festive season at the Spread Eagle continues on Monday, December 30, if you’ve had enough cold turkey (no, not that sort) and mince pies. But the organisers have now also released details of … Continue reading
Imam Qasim continues Syrian charity work despite illness
A Croydon charity worker is recovering after being taken ill while taking winter aid to Syrian refugees caught in the snows on the Turkish-Syrian border. Imam Qasim of Croydon’s Al-Khair Foundation fell seriously ill during a flight to Turkey and … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Charity
Tagged Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, Horn of Africa, Imam, Istanbul, London, Philippines, Upper Norwood Library
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Ho ho ho… Season’s greetings to Inside Croydon’s loyal reader
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Tagged Boxing Day, Croydon, London, Matthew Bennett, Steve Reed, Thornton Heath, Upper Norwood Library
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Norwood Society announces its 2014 talks schedule
The Norwood Society has announced its first three local history talks for 2014, which are to be held at a new regular venue, the Upper Norwood Library. The first will be staged on Thursday January 16, from 7.30pm on the … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Community associations, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Education, History, Libraries, Norwood Society, Upper Norwood Library Trust
Tagged Croydon, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, Henrietta Rae, London, Norwood, Upper Norwood Library
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Library looks to regenerate with help from Dr Who
There are some who believe that the Upper Norwood Joint Library is a bit like the Tardis: it transports people back to a time when libraries were cherished hubs of a community, expertly run by people who cared about books … Continue reading
Upper Norwood Library seeks volunteers for new trust
Trustees are wanted for a new social enterprise in Upper Norwood due to take over the running of the Upper Norwood Library. The Upper Norwood Library Trust (UNLT) has been formed by local residents with the objective of taking over … Continue reading
It gets worse: three-day week plus five jobs lost at UNJL
It was under Ted Heath’s Conservative government in the 1970s that Britain was reduced to a three-day week. Until, that is, Croydon’s 2013 Tories came along, because they have managed to reduce the operation at Upper Norwood Joint Library to … Continue reading
Foodstock music fest rounds off Fairtrade celebrations
Crystal Palace Transition Town is staging a day’s activities on Saturday, March 2, as the centrepiece of its Fairtrade Fortnight activities. Many of the activities are free, but any money raised will be used to help fund the local food … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Business, Charity, Community associations, Croydon Greens, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Community Association, Education, Environment, Gardening, Music, Transition Town
Tagged Croydon, Fairtrade, Fairtrade certification, Fairtrade Foundation, Food bank, Sainsbury, Upper Norwood Library, World Development Movement
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National Libraries Day: a pledge for Croydon
TIMOTHY GODFREY restates a commitment to hand the running of the borough’s libraries back to the communities Today is National Libraries Day. Croydon should be celebrating a renaissance in our libraries. Two years ago, the communities of Croydon defeated the … Continue reading
Businesses to the rescue as lights go on in Crystal Palace
Christmas lights are twinkling in Crystal Palace and the Upper Norwood Joint Library is hosting a pantomime, all thanks to the generosity of local businesses. The businesses responded magnificently after the council decided not to help the area celebrate the … Continue reading
“Never knowingly understood”? Realities of a co-op council
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Last Wednesday, while Croydon Council was handing over its libraries to Laings, up the A23 at Brixton Town Hall, Lambeth Council was making an equally significant decision. SEAN CREIGHTON looks at the work done over the borough boundary … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 by-election, Boris Johnson, Charity, Church and religions, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Greenwich Leisure, Housing, John Laing Integrated Services, Lambeth Council, Libraries, London-wide issues, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Croydon, Croydon North, Labour, Lambeth, Lambeth London Borough Council, Malcolm Wicks, Steve Reed MP, Upper Norwood Library
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Election questions: Marisha Ray, Liberal Democrats
The Croydon North by-election is on November 29, and Inside Croydon has put to candidates a set of questions. We will be putting the responses on the record, published without the artifice, interruptions and grandstanding of the usual hustings. We … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 by-election, Boris Johnson, Croydon North, CSEP, Education, Health, Housing, Libraries, London Road Traders Association, Marisha Ray, Mayor of London, Paul Burstow MP, St Helier Hospital, Tom Brake MP, Transport
Tagged Caroline Pidgeon, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon North, Labour, Liberal Democrat, London, Upper Norwood Library
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Hollands’ contempt for public is Croydon’s “pleb” moment
Our man in the public gallery, WALTER CONXITE, found little evidence of Croydon’s “Proud to Serve” slogan being put into practice at a Town Hall meeting last week The truly depressing thing about the way in which our council is … Continue reading
Upper Norwood Library funding cuts called in for scrutiny
A council decision that threatens the future of the century-old Upper Norwood Library by withdrawing the majority of the library’s funding will hit a road block this week, after Croydon’s Labour councillors called for a special Town Hall meeting to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Education, Lambeth Council, Libraries, Theatre, Timothy Godfrey, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon North, David Lean Cinema, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tory, Upper Norwood Library
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Norwood councillor calls on Pollard to hold talks on library
A South Norwood councillor has described Croydon’s decision to abandon its legal agreement with Lambeth over the Upper Norwood Joint Library as “consistently wrong”, accusing Tim Pollard, the Conservatives’ deputy leader on the council, of not acting “in the interests … Continue reading
Shrink-wrapped: council’s costly errors on consultations
One of the problems that Croydon Council has is managing to get the basics right. You know, things like posting the correct date of a London-wide election on its website; not missing out Kate Moss from its short-list of the … Continue reading
Council cock-up stops comments on library consultation
Local library campaigners are demanding that Croydon Council explains yet another cock-up with its website, one which has undermined the already shoddily organised consultation on the future of Upper Norwood Joint Library. Croydon Council’s website was offline yesterday, “for maintenance”, … Continue reading
Rouse tells Lambeth to plan closure of library in secret
Croydon has been carrying out secret valuation work of the building and books of Upper Norwood Library, after determining to withdraw unilaterally from its operation “with a real prospect that the library will close” by the end of March, according … Continue reading
