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Here’s Croydon’s election results – from Coronation year 1953
In a special edition of the Croydon Chronicles as the borough goes to the polls, DAVID MORGAN has trawled through the Minster archive to take a look at how local elections were run more than 70 years ago Allegations of … Continue reading
Posted in David Morgan, History
Tagged 1953, Conservative, Coronation year, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, Labour, Liberal Party, London, London Borough of Croydon, Tory, Winston Churchill
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Whitgift boy who got top Marks as a silversmith to high society
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Works by a self-taught craftsman from Croydon, who was influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement popularised by William Morris, now sell for thousands of pounds at auction. DAVID MORGAN explores the story of Gilbert Marks Croydon has … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Croydon Council, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History, Schools, Trinity School, Whitgift School
Tagged Antiques Roadshow, Archbishop John Whitgift, Arts and Crafts, Boer War, City of London, Cowes Regatta, Croydon, Croydon mace, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, Gilbert Marks, Johnson, King Edward VII, Prince of Wales, Sir Frederick Eldridge, Walker and Tolhurst, Whitgift Grammar School, Whitgift School, William Morris, Winston Churchill
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Philp gets a Tory top job to provide a never-ending punchline
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on a Parliamentary appointment that has had Westminster watchers rolling around in laughter Chris Philp, the Croydon South Conservative MP notorious as “the nose in search of a bum”, has finally landed a prize for … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Croydon South
Tagged BadEnoch, Chris Philp MP, Congo, Congo Chris, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon South, Duke of Wellington, Guardian, Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes, Hampstead, James Cleverly, John Crace, Kemi Badenoch, Ken Clarke, Priti Patel, Robert Peel, Roy Jenkins, shadow home secretary, The Guardian, Tory, Winston Churchill, Yosser Hughes
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20% off Wolmar’s D-Day history book – signed and delivered
For our latest Under The Flyover podcast, our guest is author and transport expert Christian Wolmar. And not only do our listeners and readers get this premium content, but if they listen all the way to the end, they also … Continue reading
Purley schoolboy who reached for the sky in Battle of Britain
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The Minster archives are full of accounts of those who gave their lives in the world wars. DAVID MORGAN recounts the story of one, a fighter pilot who just might have been memorialised in a famous movie While … Continue reading
How a search for a new life ended in wartime death in the Sinai
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM: One hundred and three years on from the first Remembrance Day, DAVID MORGAN has been researching the archives at Croydon Minster for more records of those lost in what was supposed to be ‘the war to … Continue reading
It is time for some difficult conversations, not virtue signalling
KEN TOWL on a tale of two (or is it three? Or four?) online petitions “What, another one?” is my default reaction these days to online petitions. There seem to be more of them than ever, perhaps a symptom of … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Clark, Fairfield, Ken Towl, Niro Sirisena
Tagged #BLM, Black Lives Matter, Chris Clark, Churchill mural, Ken Towl, Niro Sirisena, Winston Churchill
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Churchill statue model expected to fetch £10,000 at auction
The artist’s trial model of the sculpture of Sir Winston Churchill which sits on the village green at Westerham is to be offered at auction in Selsdon next month. Television antiques expert Catherine Southon will be staging her latest auction … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Southon, Chartwell, Winston Churchill
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Churchill’s spectacles for sale at Farleigh Christmas auction
A pair of spectacles belonging to Churchill – the wartime Prime Minister, not the insurance company’s nodding dog – are the highlight lot in the latest auction to be staged at Farleigh Golf Club next month, on December 6 (with … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Selsdon & Ballards
Tagged Catherine Southon, Farleigh Golf Club, Winston Churchill
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Rejoice! Croydon North’s Labour MP is awarded the OBN
Many sincere congratulations to June Rixson, the Croydon lollipop lady whose public service was recognised yesterday when she was awarded the British Empire Medal in the Queen’s birthday honours. Let’s just hope that Rixson and her school crossing patrol colleagues … Continue reading
Weekend rambles: Chartwell, Churchill and two more hills
After a couple of easier walks to get you ready, this week WALKER DUNELM’s ramblings along the Greensand Way takes you beyond Limpsfield and the M25 to hills around Chartwell, the wartime home of Sir Winston Churchill This is a … Continue reading
Posted in Outside Croydon, Walker Dunelm
Tagged Chartwell, Crockham Hill, Greensand Way, Limpsfield, Royal Oak, Toys Hill, Weald, Winston Churchill
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