Tag Archives: V&A

£1m project to restore David Bowie’s Bromley childhood home

Posted on January 9, 2026 by insidecroydon

No4 Plaistow Grove in Bromley is, in most respects, an unremarkable suburban terraced house, similar to tens of thousands of 20th Century homes, but for the fact that it was where, between the ages of eight to 20, David Jones … Continue reading →

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Artist Henry Wallis and affair that caused a Victorian scandal

Posted on June 2, 2024 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A prominent artist, who scandalised Victorian society when having an affair with a married woman, and later worked as an Egyptologist and early collector of ceramics for the V&A, has been long overlooked in Croydon, where he lived … Continue reading →

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Artists in glass who gave the Minster its windows on the world

Posted on March 31, 2024 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: As the congregation at Croydon Minster celebrates the holiest day in the Christian calendar, DAVID MORGAN peers through the church’s windows at the history behind their exquisite artistry Walking through Endell Street in Covent Garden recently, I noticed … Continue reading →

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Brick by Brick gets V&A Museum to artwash housing schemes

Posted on August 9, 2018 by insidecroydon

Brick by Brick has won more vacuous awards in its three-year existence than it has built houses (current total: 0). Now, it is turning Croydon into a museum artefact, for tourists to gawp at, as BARRATT HOLMES reports Brick by … Continue reading →

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