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Culture & Heritage

How Croydon played a part in the peace process – back in the 1800s

Bigger in year 2: the Croydon Literary Festival 2018

The Mussons of Bermuda, Barbados and Croydon

Peace Day: how carers are bringing peace to Croydon

Croydon's peace ballot and the Italian invasion of Abyssinia

"Bowie was wrong, Croydon's always been cool": Gavin Kinch's new art exhibition at Boxpark

Croydon Rocks – again!

#dadlife: time for baby music

The original Croydon Peace Festival: the town's 'peace weeks' in 1930 and 1934

Croydon's Vignalë brothers and the First World War

Peace and anti-war campaigning in Croydon from 1816

Lenses of Croydon: where local photographers are doing it for themselves

The opening of Croydon Community Clothes Exchange, Saturday 11th August

Review: Croydon's Street Art Tour and bottomless lunch

Restaurant review: MEATliquor, Boxpark Croydon

Why must I be a teenager in love? CODA Croydon presents <em>Romeo and Juliet</em> in Wandle Park

Croydon in the 'roaring '20s' remembered

Croydon to host RISEfestival, London's largest urban art festival

Review: <em>The Wind In The Willows</em>, presented by Theatre Workshop Coulsdon, Wednesday 25th July–Saturday 4th August

The Croydon-Kaliningrad connection

The <em>Croydon Citizen</em> is going on holiday!

The Museum of Croydon's centenary commemorations: First World War hospitals and Wallacefield

Croydon's Peace Festival: a review

Croydon Writers' Group helps us share the joy of writing

Fun in the sun at Croydon Food and Music Festival 2018

Croydon's architecture: the beautiful and the damned

Something for everyone: the Trinity Proms 2018

Review: Croydon Peace Festival 2018 – <em>Who Keeps The Peace?</em>

Review: The Royal Tandoori restaurant, Selsdon

Tempting Failure festival becomes a Croydon exclusive

Event review: Flossie Malavialle, Croydon Folk Club, Ruskin House, 4th June

Peace Festival 2018: writing Croydon's 'Anthem for Peace'

Croydon Peace Festival preview: why I'm running Croydon's first ever-open-air yogathon

Making change through art at TCFT Croydon

Review: Viet2Go restaurant, Surrey Street

Beats and Eats kicks off live summer street-music events

Progressive, not rebellious: the student occupation of Croydon College of Art

Tell us about your memories of Croydon

The amazing wildlife of Wandle Park pond

From childhood to adulthood in Croydon

Insert Title Here: How Croydon's SLiDE company invites you to view, reflect and dance

A newcomer's first impressions of Croydon

Review: GIANT at St Andrew's Church

#mumlife: things to do with Croydon's youngest citizens this summer

Review: Art & Craft CR0 bar, Surrey Street

Made in Croydon market takes over Boxpark on Sunday 27th May

#dadlife: a Croydon dad gets back to work

My on-off-on-again love affair with Croydon

Croydonites Festival 2018 review: Anusha Subramanyam's <em>From The Heart</em> and SLiDE Dance's <em>Insert Title Here</em> at the Braithwaite Hall

Croydonites Festival 2018 review: Scottee's <em>Bravado</em>

The biggest reason of all why you should write for the <em>Croydon Citizen</em>

Croydonites Festival 2018 review: Natasha Marshall's <em>Half Breed</em>

From fragile beginnings: The Butterfly Effect Festival comes to Croydon

Croydonites Festival 2018 review: Pop-Up Opera at St Andrew's church

Croydonites Festival 2018 review: Richard DeDomenici's <em>American Assassin Redux</em>

Croydonites Festival 2018 review: Vinicius Salles' <em>Glitch</em>

Six of the best beer gardens in Croydon

Croydonites Festival 2018 review: Mozart double bill by Pop-Up Opera

Croydonites Festival 2018 review: Parabolic Theatre's Land of Nod

Croydonites Festival 2018 review: Anita Wadsworth's Show and Tell

Croydonites Festival 2018 review: <em>Radio Apocalypse</em>

Croydon and chemical warfare in the First World War

Croydonites Festival 2018 review: <em>Disco Disco</em>

Review: Leave 'Em Laughing at Stanley Halls, 6th May 2018

Croydonites Festival 2018 review: <em>My Feminist Boner</em>

Café review: Coffee Shotter, High Street, Croydon town centre

#mumlife: finding your Croydon mum tribe

Review: Croydon's first official street-art walking tour

Ringing the bells of Croydon Minster

Why you should write for the <em>Croydon Citizen</em>

Review: The Village, Maternal Mental Health Week at Matthews Yard, Wednesday 2nd May

How Croydon filmmaker Sheila Marshall achieved international success

Are you a star-cross'd lover? Hunting for Croydon's <em>Romeo and Juliet</em>

Make yourself heard at this sociable foreign-language club

Croydonites Festival 2018 review: Gill Manly's Radio Apocalypse

Croydon's Cycle Theatre marks Maternal Mental Health Week by Screaming With Laughter

A plan to regenerate Woodside ticket office

The Croydon Conversations: who wants to help to make Croydon a home for thinkers and intellectuals?

Croydon's creative makers and shakers take over Boxpark in May

Saying my goodbyes to the <em>Croydon Citizen</em>

In the hills of Palestine: echoes from the First World War

Book review: <em>Secret Operations</em>

Going bats in Wandle Park

Requiem and reality check – the end of Croydon Saffron Central

MyPTCycle: the new centre of power for Croydon's movers, shakers and spinners

Croydonites Festival 2018: a broad and confident church

Restaurant review: Yeha Noha Café & Bar, South Norwood

Review: Limitless VR

Croydon makes shortlist for London Creative Enterprise Zone

Event review: Croydon's Joe Head releases a solo album and plays live at Project B

Moving forward: Croydon’s Cultural Vision 2018 reflects on Borough of Culture loss

Album review: Junkyard Choir's <em>Trouble In Mind</em>

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and the civil rights movement

A day in the life of one of Croydon's best kept secrets

Review: A Journey through Brutalism – the guided walk

Pedal for Progress

Event review: The Emerge exhibition at the BRIT school

Event review: the launch of the Journey Through Brutalism exhibition at RISE Gallery

London Borough of Culture 2019: why Croydon didn't win

Two nights in Croydon

Croydon and the battle to be London Borough of Culture

Digging into the past: a vintage poster with local roots

Event review: Up The Women! by the Croydon Bicycle Theatre

My vegan Valentine at Bagatti's

Restaurant review: The Sun, Carshalton

Review: Art workshop for young people at the Samuel Coleridge Taylor Centre

Did Mendelssohn play the organ at Croydon Minster?

The rainbow civic launch of Croydon's LGBT month

Event review: The London Mozart Players' Mozart To Malabar at Ashburton Hall

Review: Frivolous Convulsions at TURF Gallery, Whitgift Centre

How we Spread The Word about poetry in Addiscombe

Event review: Thornton Heath Festival of Light and CR7 market, Saturday 27th January 2018

Croydon Bicycle Theatre celebrates women's suffrage centenary

Historical heroines: meeting Croydon's suffragettes and suffragists

Croydon’s Best Independent Café 2018: The winners are...

#GirlsDayOut2: how to be beautiful in Croydon

How Neil Chandler aims to put Fairfield Halls on the map

The big questions at Croydon's Congress on Culture

Restaurant review: Zizzi's, South Croydon

Croydon's wartime Canadian links: the Halifax explosion, December 1917

Event review: Cinderella And The Beanstalk at Stanley Halls

Event review: Graffiti art workshop at RISE Gallery

#GirlsDayOut: what happened when a bunch of ex-Croydonians came home and hit town?

How people power brought a wonderful community enterprise to Thornton Heath

Event review: X-mas In The Cronx exhibition at RISEgallery

Event review: Keep Calm And Carry On, by Parabolic Theatre

Croydon's Best Independent Café 2018: Voting has opened

Event review: Croydon Rocks 2017

What the season of Advent can offer Croydon

Croydon and WWI's Sinai & Palestine Campaign

Why I'm backing Croydon's bid to be London's first Borough of Culture

How Croydon's baby cafés help mothers and babies to get out and about

How traditional apple-pressing led to a new piece of street art for West Croydon

Interview with Richie Hudson, organiser of Croydon Rocks

Calling all of Croydon’s literary lovers!

Event review: Will Pound and Eddy Jay at The Oval Tavern, Tuesday 2nd November

Café review: Ludoquist! the board game café

Event review: Croydon Composers' showcase at the Scream Lounge, Friday 27th October

The search for Croydon's best independent café 2018 is underway

Review: The Cronx Bar

Croydon Arts Store: Croydon's culture is in safe hands

Event review: Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association presents Into The Woods at Stanley Halls, 25th-28th October

What the closure of Albert's Table says about Croydon

Croydon Dance Festival review: how Dance Umbrella opened in the town centre

Let's hear it for events at Boxpark

Event review: Peaks & Troughs at TURF Projects

Black History event lights up Central Croydon

How Croydon raised £250,000 to restore the minster's historic organ

Event review: Secrets of the 1817 Slave Registers Uncovered – a talk by Paul Crooks

Halfway there, or just living on a prayer? The Fairfield Halls building site tour

Wandle Fortnight: a visit to the Wandle Industrial Museum

Warhol Month event review: Drips, Beats and Pop – Warhol in the context of his time, by Joanna Straczowski

The search for Croydon's Best Independent Café is back!

Event celebrating black culture coming to Croydon

Restaurant review: Five Guys, High Street, Croydon town centre

Becoming Bette Davis: Gill Manly on her forthcoming role at Stanley Halls

Warhol Month event review: Andy Warhol Changed The World at the Spread Eagle pub theatre

Warhol Month event review: Warhol After Dark, the guided walk

Heritage Lottery Fund grant unveils secrets of Croydon's wartime history

Event review: Mrs Oscar Wilde at the Spread Eagle pub theatre

Event review: Keeping Calm in Croydon at the Croydon Literary Festival

Event review: Psychedelic Art Workshop at Elizabeth James Gallery

Warhol Month event review: the guided art walk

From Croydon to Columbia

Art, inclusivity and the awesomeness of Croydon: the <em>Citizen</em> meets the man behind Warhol Month

Event review: Shadow Play at Theatre Utopia, Saturday 19th August

This Saturday, Croydon Literary Festival takes place at David Lean Cinema – will you be there?

Event review: the Riddlesdown wildflower walk, Saturday 29th July

This is Croydon

Event review: Zara, Junkyard Choir and the Asif Outlaws play the Scream Lounge

What do children want from parks?

Event review: Tenyson and Asif Outlaws play The Odd Shoe

Event review: Theatre Workshop Coulsdon presents Dick Barton and the Slaves of the Sultan

Bar review: Memory Box, High Street Croydon

Croydon's SLiDE Dance at the U.Dance national festival 2017

Read all about it: Croydon’s first literary festival is here

Wesley Baker brings music and street art together

Introducing <em>Theatre on the Market</em>

Event review: CODA presents The Pirates of Penzance

"I met a young girl; she gave me a rainbow": my experience of Croydon PrideFest 2017

Remembering Beulah Hill spa

Book review: <em>Outskirts</em> by Croydon's John Grindrod

Could Croydon be a capital of culture?

Event Review: Shift K3Y + London Mozart Players at Boxpark, Wednesday 19th July

Twelve things that you might not know about the history of Croydon

Restaurant review: Vinoteca Italiana

Croydon's street art community prospers

Event review: Croydon's evolution

Event review: Croydon Bach Choir presents <em>Homo Sum</em> at its summer concert

Event review: Purley Festival 2017

Event review: Never Mind the Boxpark

Event review: Croydon's Summer of Love Festival

The Fairfield Collection reminisces on Croydon's entertainment history

Festival review: Croydon Minster Flower Festival, Saturday 17th June

Use it or lose it, Croydon

Artists from the deaf community celebrated with a fashion show

Welcome to Croydon's festival season 2017

Breaking of fast brings diverse cultures together

Restaurant review: The Brook, Wallington

Vegan food takes Croydon by the taste buds

Event review: Little Red Riding Hood with the London Mozart Players, Tuesday 30th May

Event review: Nell Gwynn’s History Laid Bare at Croydon Cabaret Festival

Exhibition review: Urban Landscapes at the Elizabeth James Gallery, South Norwood

Historic England awards Croydon airport Grade II* listed heritage status

Event review: Shirley Players presents <em>Curtain Up On Murder</em>

Event review: Lost Format Society presents Charlie Chaplin's <em>The Gold Rush</em> with the London Mozart Players

Croydon Cabaret Festival review: Ada Campe at the Spread Eagle pub theatre, Saturday 13th May

Event review: the London Mozart Players in Fiona Brice's 'Relationships' at Matthews Yard, Friday 19th May

The third annual Brothers of Mothershovel charity barbecue

Event review: Bob Fox at the Oval Tavern, Tuesday 9th May

Event review: ‘With Each Passing Moment’ at RISEgallery

An invitation to <em>CDNzine</em>'s Croydon street art jam, Sunday 23rd July

Purley Festival is back!

Event review: Croydon Bach Choir's Spring Concert

Does 'Devoted and Disgruntled' sum up the feelings of Croydon's artistic community?

Restaurant review: Grand Tamil New Year and Vishu feast at Kalpa West Croydon, Friday 14th April

Event Review: Death to the Pixies and Kenickers at the Scream Showcase Lounge, Friday 7th April

Event review: Lent lunchtime concert at Croydon minster, Friday 7th April

Event review: 'Bleed To This' at the Scream Lounge

Croydonites Festival 2017 review: Confessions Of A Cockney Temple Dancer

Event review: Reverb poetry evening at Boxpark, Tuesday 4th April

A tribute to Darcus Howe

Event review: 'Radio Days Transmission Two: The War Years' by Theatre Workshop Coulsdon

Croydonites Festival 2017 review: How To Be A Girl

Why Reverb is a Croydon poetry night with a difference

Café review: Café Tresor, South Croydon

Croydonites Festival of New Theatre 2017 review: Adventures in Noggle Noggle Land

Event review: Rosie Wilby's Conscious Uncoupling at the Spread Eagle pub theatre, Saturday 18th March

Croydonites Festival 2017 review: Amy Johnson, Last Flight Out

Farewell to Waddon

Farewell to Croydon Radio

East Croydon Cool provides a warm welcome to the cool kids

Event review: <em>Eugene Onegin</em> performed at Whitgift School, south Croydon

South Croydon Community Association debates the future of the arts in Croydon

Event review: Steve Knightley plays Stanley Halls, South Norwood, Friday 17th March

What the heck was Poodle Chaos?

Croydonites Festival 2017 review: Letters to Windsor House, by Sh!t Theatre

Turf Projects is drawing an alternative map of Croydon

Event review: Morningstar, at the Croydonites Festival of New Theatre 2017

Hoo-har at Hoodoo's, down at Matthews Yard

Event report: Croydon Geek Con 2017

Review: The Gospel Of Matthew By Candlelight at St Matthew's church, Monday 5th March

Restaurant review: Welcome Friends, Addiscombe

Event review: <em>The Bacon Killer</em> at Theatre Utopia

The Elizabeth James Art Gallery and the creative arts in Upper Norwood

Restaurant review: Mingo Argentine Steakhouse, Purley

Exhibition review: 'The Light Within' at RISE Gallery

Restaurant review: Tram Stop café, Addiscombe

The talented Pethericks and their family album

Croydon's cultural innovators

2017: Croydon's Summer of Love

Event review: Sieben and the Silver Darlings at the Oval, Saturday 4th February

#Iloveyoumum: the national launch of the Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation play, Thursday 9th February

Event review: <em>Rope</em>, by the Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, performed at the Royal Russell School Theatre

Musical notes from Croydon Minster

Exhibition review: Silence Is So Accurate at Turf Gallery

Restaurant review: Kalpa, West Croydon

Croydonites Festival of New Theatre reloaded, by its director

Warhol month is coming to Croydon

Amy Johnson, Croydon and me

Following Fairfield Path

Beauty review: gelish manicure at Queen B Luxury Nail Lounge, Brighton Road

Croydon’s Best Independent Café 2016: The award goes to...

Looking back on wartime Croydon in 1917

Donald Trump and the Kingdom of Dirt: a music review

#CroydonLitFest: Who wants to help put on Croydon’s first literary festival?

What Croydon stands to gain from Greater London becoming a National Park City

Boxpark's a quickie when Croydon needs something more meaningful

Event review: commemorative concert at Croydon Minster on the 150th anniversary of its devastation by fire

Shortlist announced for Croydon’s Best Independent Café – vote now

Restaurant review: Meat Liquor, Boxpark

Short story: Fire! Fire! The night that Croydon Minster burned down

I'm on the side of change

Fire! Commemorating 150 years since Croydon church burnt down

Surrey Street treats: healthy January salad

A new year for Croydon, a new year for you

Health and beauty review: the spa at Selsdon Park Hotel

Event review: 'Mr Mineshaft' at Theatre Utopia, Thursday 15th – Saturday 18th December 2016

Surrey Street Christmas: It's all about the trimmings

Event review: Croydon Community Choir's Midwinter Music

A beginner's guide to Croydon's street art

Event review: Wife after Death by the Shirley Players, Friday 25th November

Event Review: Faustus at the Oval Tavern, Tuesday 18th October 2016

Event review: Theatre Workshop Coulsdon's Christmas panto: Dick Turpin

Event review: the Whitgift School's production of <em>Hamlet</em>, Sunday 4th-Saturday 10th December 2016

Event review: Firewalking in Wandle Park

Restaurant review: The Breakfast Club at Boxpark Croydon

Culinary discovery in the early days of Boxpark

Event review: Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 at Croydon Minster

How Croydon lads confronted the Auld Enemy

Event report: Croydon's ghostly cycle ride, Sunday 20th November

Theatre review: 'Scarborough', Stanley Halls

Event review: Townies at Theatre Utopia, Saturday 12th November

Event review: Croydon International Film Festival 2016

We were the first band to vomit in the bar

No Boxpark for old men

Event review: Dan Cimmermann's 'Marching On' at RISE Gallery

Croydon joins the City of London Livery Education Link

Event review: Miss Hope Springs plays Hoodoo's, Saturday 22nd October

An obituary for Bart Wolffe, Zimbabwean playwright and Croydonian poet

“The greatest event that has ever been held in Croydon”: A review of Eskimo Dance, Boxpark Croydon

Come out of the closet, Croydon!

“Theatre Utopia has finally produced a play that I like”: a review of <em>Method in Madness</em>

How Croydon Minster revived an ancient tradition: beating the bounds

South of the flyover

Surrey Street Treats: Honey mangorita

Croydon Saffron Central one year on

Interview: Ty Jeffries

Restaurant review: Bianco 43

The rich stories of Fairfield Halls

I bought my Croydon flat on Instagram

“Bondage has never been so banal”: A review of Theatre Utopia’s Black Beauty in Irons

Surrey Street Treats: cinnamon and apple crumble

Surrey Street treats: cucumber and mint martini

Croydon's Ahmadiyya Muslims celebrate Eid

Announcing Croydon’s Best Independent Café Awards 2016

Event review: Hoodoo’s music venue celebrates its first birthday, Saturday 27th August

Telling the many tales of Croydon minster

How Hollywood brought Istanbul to Croydon town centre

The Edwardian library legacy of an Anglo-Pole

How we helped Croydon's children to celebrate bees

How a meeting on a tree stump near Croydon led to the abolition of slavery in Britain

Restaurant review: Zabardast wraps, East Croydon

Event review: live jazz from Infusion, weekly at Smoothbean! coffee shop

Surrey Street treats: breakfast berry bircher

Event review: Scream Lounge hosts Screamfest 2016

Summer reading: <em>Christ came from Croydon</em>, by John Redstone and Ulrich Thumult

Eskimo Dance is coming to Croydon – we are now London’s coolest borough

Event review: Croydon's Night of Dance,Tuesday 16th August

Summer reading: 'Terrible Lie', the world's first Cronx noir thriller, by Gareth Endean

Love Croydon, hate gluten? Here's where to eat

How Pokémon Go is changing the culture of Croydon

Summer reading: The Day Jesus Rode Into Croydon, by Kirk St Moritz

Event review: Much Ado About Nothing by Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, performed in Wandle Park, July 2016

Behind the scenes with Croydon's disability DJs

Will Croydon Council sell off more of its historic assets?

Five of the best... places in Croydon for (very) late summer fun

Event review: A Midsummer Night's Dream by Theatre Workshop Coulsdon, Wednesday 27th July to Saturday 6th August

Event review: Suburbaret at Theatre Utopia, Matthews Yard, Sunday 17th July

Review: National Trust 'Edge City: Croydon' tour

Event review: Radfest at the Oval Tavern, Saturday 16th July

Croydon minster revives the ancient tradition of blessing the beer

Event review: 'Party', by the Breakfast Cat Theatre Company, performed at the Oval Tavern

Some poets went walking round the borough. Here's a report: it's pretty thorough

Event review: the Pregnancy and Birth Exhibition, Croydon University Hospital

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and the Croydon music scene

Event review: Croydon Bach Choir's Transatlantic Journey, Saturday 25th June

Virtual Reality Croydon

Five of the best... places in Croydon to bag a bargain

Surrey Street Treats: griddled courgettes

Croydon's musical marathon to save the minster organ

As we say au revoir to Fairfield Halls, theatre and dance will live on in Croydon

Croydon’s slave-trading history: the evidence grows

Five of the best... places in Croydon to meet your soulmate

Friends of Marlpit Lane bowling green reopen site, but help still needed

Event review: an evening with former organists of Croydon Minster

Why Croydon is the new Marseille

How jazz diva Gill Manly brings South London Jazz and Blues Club to Matthews Yard

Restaurant review: Chef's restaurant at Croydon College

How I became a Croydon dancer and how you can be one too

Event report: the Croydon interfaith gathering, Sunday 22nd May at the Ahmadiyya mosque, St James Road

Remembering Desmond Dekker, Croydon's should-be famous reggae star

Event review: Jamie Reid's Short Sharp Shock at RISE Gallery

Restaurant review: Cote d’Azur

I was saved by Fairfield

The 50th anniversary of Croydon's first eleven

Chainsaw Ian, Croydon street art, and wooden wildlife

Event preview: Family Fest 2016 and the Big Dance, Saturday 4th June 2016

Celebrity interview: X-Factor's Ben Haenow's coming home

Restaurant review: Las Fuentes tapas bar, Selsdon

Event review: 'The Ladykillers' by Theatre Workshop Coulsdon

Beauty review: Shellac nails at Hellogorgeous Studios, Church Street

Event review: Beethoven in Stalingrad at the Spread Eagle pub theatre, Friday 1st April

Surrey Street Treats: raspberry cream for puddings

“A brilliant example of art for art’s sake”: the James Oliver exhibition launch at Descartes Gallery, Matthews Yard

Remembering 1916, and grandad: life on the western front

In life and death, was Samuel Coleridge-Taylor just a victim of racism?

Restaurant review: Lazzari's, Morland Road

Event review: the Norbury Manor Celeste choir sings with Lianne La Havas at the Royal Albert Hall

If you've not heard of Croydon artist Evacustus Phipson, you've missed out

Event review: The Croydon Craft Beer Festival II, 17th – 19th March 2016

Event review: Croydon Bach Choir sings Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Saturday 19th March

Five of the best... breakfasts in Croydon

Event review: Liz Simcock plays the Croydon Folk Club, Monday 29th February

Event review: the James Oliver art exhibition at Matthews Yard

Event review: Phil Beer at the Stanley Halls, South Norwood, Thursday 25th February

Surrey Street Treats: The Pink Paloma

Exhibition review: 'Get Fit' at the TURF Gallery

It's time to bring back Croydon University Hospital radio

Restaurant review: Yaalu Yalu, South Croydon

Five of the best... places in Croydon to chill

Event review: Benji Kirkpatrick plays Hendrix at the Oval Tavern, Monday 22nd February

Surrey Street treats: weeknight pudding pears

Event review: Tina Crawford's 'Unnatural Histories' at RISE Gallery

Five of the best... Croydon parks to walk your dog

Café review: Buttercream Dreams

Event review: 'Is Monogamy Dead?' by Rosie Wilby at the Spread Eagle pub theatre, Friday 12th February

Restaurant review: the Oval Tavern

Ruskin Square Croydon, public art and a Festival of Toil

Young Citizens: The minster chorister's tale

Croydon comes a-wassailing

Event review: Soda Beat returns to Matthews Yard, Friday 21st December 2015

Croydon looks east for its next big party

What can China teach our children for Chinese New Year?

Surrey Street Treats: Pomelo mocktail

Tenyson, a three-piece band that's far from 'Ordinary'

Surrey Street Treats: speedy spicy soup

Croydon’s Best Independent Café 2015: the results

The view from Croydon: A tribute to David Bowie

Restaurant review: Oscar's Brasserie, Croydon Park Hotel

David Bowie's journey from Croydon to the stars

Tiger Tiger's final roar

Catching a glimpse of Croydon's black Georgians

So what if Fairfield Halls closes for two years – I’m glad

Farewell to the Croydon facelift: how one mum got her hair sorted

Surrey Street treats: Christmas canapés

Surrey Street Treats: Christmas clementine cocktails

Parenting geek at Christmas: 25th December is just another day

Star Wars: Croydon Awakens

The fall of Fairfield

Event review: 'Rum & Reggae' at Matthews Yard, Friday 13th November

How Fairfield can face the future and thrive

Event review: the Picasso Bestiary exhibition at the TURF Gallery

What is the Fairfield for?

Event review: Croydon Bach Choir sings Haydn's Harmonie Mass and other works, Saturday 21st November 2015

Event review: Fairfield Halls panto 2015: Cinderella, you shall go to the ball

Restaurant review: Chom Chom, Beckenham

Voting in Croydon's Best Indie Café Awards 2015 closes at midnight on Friday 11th December

How young musician William Campbell makes Croydon proud

CroydoNites Festival event review: Kate O'Donnell's Big's Girl's Blouse, Friday 20th November

Event review: 'The Flood' by the Badac Theatre Company at Matthews Yard, Thursday 19th November

Croydon's charity fashion gem

Event review: Juliette Clovis's Invasion Metamorphosis at RISE Gallery

Croydonites Festival review: 'The Letter: To Be Or... MBE?'

Croydonites Festival review: Figs In Wigs, 'Show Off', Saturday 14th November at Matthew's Yard

Genius loci

The Fairfield that I remember

From Agincourt to Croydon?

Event review: From Shame To Strength, Friday 30th October

Surrey Street Treats: simply persimmon cocktails

Croydon beekeepers create a buzz at National Honey Show

CroydoNites Festival event review: STAN is “more ‘Keith and Orville’ than ‘Derek and Clive’”

How can we revitalise Croydon's music scene?

Surrey Street Treats: Mushroom risotto

It's your chance to vote for Croydon's Best Independent Café 2015

Event review: Coope, Boyes and Simpson at Croydon Folk Club, Monday 16th October

Restaurant Review: El Sombrero Mexican restaurant

How Croydon's grass roots art scene bloomed

I'm not even involved with Saffron Central but it's already my favourite thing in Croydon. Here's why.

Event review: O'Hooley and Tidow play the Oval Tavern, Thursday 8th October

Event review: The Croydon Craft Beer Festival, 16th-17th October 2015

Event review: the Croydon Youth Theatre's 'Dear Tim: Echoes of Death Row', Saturday 17th October

Surrey Street treats: a passion for pomegranates

Croydonian Pie

Restaurant review: Caribsoul, George Street

Festival preview: CroydoNites Festival of New Theatre, 12th-20th November

Surrey Street treats: potato and sausage traybake

Event preview: South Norwood and Thornton Heath Free Film Festival 2015

A Croydonian on the Western Front

Event review: the spirit of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at Project B

Holy, horny and headed for Croydon: interview with actor and playwright Tonya Joy Bolton

South Norwood Arts Festival comes in from the cold

Should Croydon be more chic?

The Addiscombe Fan Dance

Surrey Street treats: cocktails, fresh from the market!

Event review: Airballoon Garden Party Festival, 29th-30th August 2015

How to get ripped in Croydon (without getting ripped off)

Lights, camera, traction: Croydon's blossoming relationship with Hollywood

Restaurant review: a tale of two Purley burgers

Tate Croydon: On the importance of Croydon's new art galleries

Surrey Street treats: sweet potato chips

A party without a heart?

My first Croydon summer

Exhibition review: stories by autistic artists at the Click Clock Gallery

Restaurant review: McDermott's fish and chip shop, New Addington

Event review: Lost Format Society's pop-up cinema, July-August 2015

Comedy festival review: Richard Herring and Matt Green at the Oval Tavern, Thursday 12th August

Discovering Selhurst's history – musical notes

Restaurant review: Tigris, Fiveways Junction, Waddon

Discovering Selhurst's history: a minor appendage?

Ambition Festival review: A night of Asian-British fusion at the Fairfield Halls, Saturday 25th July

Event review: Bourbon and Blues welcomes Debbie Bond and the Tru Dats

Restaurant review: two eats, one place – it's Pizzeria di Prato, London Road

Ambition Festival event review: a blunder on Bob's Blundabus

Event review: It Began On The Walls: the Banksy retrospective at Rise Gallery

Ambition Festival event review: Tinariwen plays at the Fairfield Halls, Thursday 23rd July

Event review: Croydon Popchoir sings at Methodist Central Hall, July 11th 2015

How Croydon charmed me

What are the challenges facing Croydon's communities?

Event review: Thornton Heath Arts Week's photography walkabout

Event review: the Alternative Dubstep Orchestra plays Croydon Minster, Thursday 23rd July

Event review: 'Much Ado About Nothing' by Theatre Workshop Coulsdon, 29th July - 8th August

Event review: partying on Cron-di beach

'Not just cool hipster food' – Boxpark Croydon sets out its stall

Restaurant review: Timber Garden, London Road

Good vibrations in the Cronx

Sponsored: The festival that's ambitious for Croydon

What's brutal about Croydon?

Event review: CODA Croydon performs 'The Importance Of Being Earnest' in Wandle Park bandstand, 15th-18th July 2015

Event review: 'Under the shadow of your wings', the Cicely Mary Barker play

Seventeen fun things for kids to do this summer (that you might not have thought of)

Who should be in Croydon's Hall of Fame?

Event review: the Croydon Bach Choir summer concert, Saturday 27th June

Celebrity interview: Private Eye cartoonist Barry Fantoni returns to Croydon, Saturday 27th June

Surrey Street treats: halloumi peppers

Restaurant review: Abshar Persian restaurant

How I learned to speak up with Croydon Toastmasters

Event review: Bob Dylan tribute night at the Oval Tavern, Saturday 20th June 2015

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes: if David Bowie saw Croydon now

Event review: Pappy's at the Oval Tavern, Thursday 18th June

Has St George's Walk become the epicentre of Croydon's independent arts revival?

The time-travelling tram comes to Croydon Town Centre

Event review: Street Cocktails launch at Matthews Yard, Friday 5th June

Event review: What is Tru Luv? The first show in Croydon's new TURF Space

Event review: Giles Hedley and the Aviators play at Bourbon and Blues, Matthews Yard, Saturday 30th May

Event review: Clive Gregson at the Croydon Folk Club, Monday 25th May

Have you heard what they're saying about Croydon?

Surrey Street Treats: pink mess

Croydon's summer of festivals 2015

Event review: it's culture, innit? Nigel Kennedy and the Fairfield Halls, Friday 22nd May

Celebrating Cicely Mary Barker, flower fairies artist

Event review: Croydon Till I Die, at Bookseller Crow, Crystal Palace, Thursday May 21st

Event review: Harry Bird and the Rubber Wellies at the Oval Tavern, Thursday 14th May

Which is Croydon's best independent coffee shop? The hunt is on

Reflections on an election

Before sunrise: a new dawn for Croydon's night-time economy?

Restaurant review: Bromley Court Hotel

The road to Selhurst Park

Restaurant review: Navaratna Indian restaurant, South Croydon

IDAHOBIT Day Croydon 2015: you've come a long way, baby

Surrey Street Treats: aubergine and red pepper couscous

The many joys of rambling in Croydon

They were prepared – the heroism of Croydon's Scouts in World War Two

Poem: Observations from a bench in Wandle Park

Theatre review: The Wonderful World of Disoccia, by the Royal Russell Players

Sponsored: Dalila's Kaftans

Croydon carers' choir: singing with those who care

Review: BRGR & BEER at Matthew's Yard

The road from Woking

Croydon Heritage Festival 2015 – it's time to follow in famous footsteps

20 reasons why Croydon isn’t boring

Event review: Art as young experience – the BBC Ten Pieces project at the Fairfield Halls

Event review: Geoff Berner at the Oval Tavern, 21st March

Forward, guerrilla gardeners of Croydon!

Surrey Street Treat: whatever-the-weather pesto

How not to be boring: A Croydon Manifesto

Croydon celebrates International Women's Day

Event Review: 'Radio Days – The Golden Age of Wireless' by Theatre Workshop Coulsdon

Event review: Good ghost hunting – the Wandle Ghost Walk, Saturday 21st March

Come fly with Croydon Airport as it celebrates £10,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant

Minimal graffiti

Event review: 'The Reluctant Dragon', a play for children at Matthew's Yard

Restaurant Review: Bagatti's

David Lean cinema showcases the struggle for black civil rights

Surrey Street Treats: Crunchy courgette fritters

Inclusive art for all: Art Halo project launches at RISE gallery

Event review: The Sopranos – a workshop with Croydon Bach Choir

Tech City: the educators

Event review: Rosie Wilby, Nineties Woman, at the Spread Eagle Theatre

The meaning of Mexway

Crocus Watch Needs You! Let's help celebrate the origins of Croydon

Through the door of Croydon Buddhist Centre

Happy Chinese New Year, Croydon! Love from Hale Man, artist-in-residence

Interview: comedian Rosie Wilby on gays, gentrification and getting over unrequited love

How Croydon's Fairtraders take action for a fairer world

Event review: Femme Fierce freak-out, Sunday 15th February

Event review: Benji Kirkpatrick at the Oval Tavern, Thursday 12th February

Event review: 'Tales of Love Lost and Found' at the Spread Eagle theatre, 7th February 2015

Restaurant review: Brasserie Vacherin

Surrey Street Treats for Valentine's Day: strawberry, lime and rum granita

Lives ordinary and extraordinary: the launch of Croydon Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender month, 4th February 2015

Film, drama, music and more: a celebration of Croydon's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Month

Event review: TURF v TechCity! Can art and science work together for Croydon?

Young and gay in 1980s Croydon

We live in a vibrant world

Can CAN do it for the arts in Croydon?

Event review: opening of the Hypnos exhibition by Lee Hadwin at RISE gallery, Thursday 15th January

Restaurant review: Buenos Aires restaurant, Purley

Restaurant review: JRC Global Buffet, Valley Leisure Park, Purley Way

Artist Hale Man in the Whitgift Centre: where creativity and commerce meet

Surrey Street treats: Healthy new year

Review: Bang bang – Johann Strauss Gala's 40th anniversary performance at the Fairfield Halls

Dear Santa: a Christmas poem, by Esoteric

The season to be jolly? How to deal with family conflict at Christmas

Restaurant review: Christmas dinner at Toby Carvery, South Croydon

Event review: 'The Producers' by Theatre Workshop Coulsdon

Surrey Street Treats: a Christmas less ordinary

Event review: Belshazzar's Feast at the Oval Tavern, Sunday 7th December

Review: the 2014 Fairfield Halls pantomime – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Restaurant review: Yumn brasserie, South Croydon

Event review: Sine Nomine Singers perform 'Symbols of Mystery', Saturday 29th November

Art in Matthews Yard: past, present, future

Always the prince: Gareth Gates comes to Croydon

Interview with Rainer Hersch: taking the mickey out of the classics?

TURF Projects: art innovation in the community

Restaurant review: the Beefeater at Coombe Lodge, Selsdon

Event review: 'Choose Your Own Documentary' at the Spread Eagle theatre

RISEgallery and Kevin Zuchowski-Morrison: art, inspiration and surprised faces

Event review: The London premiere of Jonathan Dove's 'For An Unknown Soldier', Fairfield Halls

Event review: Terriers at Fairfield Halls

Event review: Well Versed - an evening of poetry

Event preview: African History+@Croydon, Saturday 22nd November at Matthews Yard

Restaurant review: Galicia tapas bar and restaurant

Event review: Croydon International Film Festival 2014

My family and other vegans

Event review: The Wind in the Willows, Charles Cryer Theatre, Carshalton

Beauty treatment review: what a palace for a pedicure!

Event review: opening night at the South Norwood and Thornton Heath Free Film Festival

How to live a happier life, by the Croydon and Bromley School of Practical Philosophy

Croydon's new RISEgallery: exclusively for everyone

Surrey Street treats : autumnal plum crumble

Industrial heritage on the banks of the Wandle

How the Save David Lean team runs a cinema

Surrey Street treats: glorious baba ghanoush

Review: Comedy at the Cronx Brewery

Event review: Live @ Croydon Pop-Up Emporium

Croydon International Film Festival

Afternoon tea in Croydon gives Knightsbridge a run for its money

Why does the Whitgift Centre have an artist-in-residence?

Restaurant review: Karnavar, South Croydon

Beats & Eats celebrates its first year with great food, cool music and an electric vibe

Simon Shaw and the digital art of Croydon

Inspired by John Rocha: how an ambitious Croydon fashion student is aiming for the top

Event preview: Croydon Fun Palace, Saturday 4th – Sunday 5th October 2014

Croydon carers singing for support

What was Croydon like in 1914?

Review: 'Tell Me About Your Ex' at the Spread Eagle theatre, Katharine Street Croydon

Restaurant review: Tre Fratelli Italian restaurant

An afternoon at the bichon frise dog re-homing party

Restaurant review: the Dosa and Chutny curry house, West Croydon

Cronx Kitchen: healthy packed lunches for school

Council admits that Croydon’s heritage has been significantly compromised

Croydon kids get creative with Hale Man, Whitgift Centre artist-in-residence

A workshop with Hale Man,Whitgift's artist-in-residence

Report on the 2014 World Puzzle Championships in Croydon

Restaurant review: Mae Ping Thai restaurant

Arts for craft's sake, crafts for art's sake

Art, fun and public space in Croydon: the adventure continues at Putt Putt #2

It's cool in the Cronx: review of the Cronx Brewery Open Day

Croydonian in the spotlight: Adam Pearson

WordFest – a new celebration of the arts for Croydon youth

'Their soul is in their work': images of a Croydon community and the businesses that sustain it

Review: A Midsummer Night's Dream in Wandle Park

The Croydon student who founded her own fashion label

From vision to reality: the Purley Festival story

Review: The Whispering Wood, by Theatre Workshop Coulsdon

Review of LeeFest 2014: the little music festival that could

Restaurant review: Khyber Indian Restaurant

Review of 'The Adventures of Andy Kershaw', Matthew's Yard, Thursday 17th July

Attention Croydonians – there's champagne on our doorstep

Surrey Street treats: easy chunky guacamole

Exercise classes – bootcamp-style – have come to Croydon

Croydon Heritage Festival review: a talk on Croydon’s slavery connections

Restaurant review: South Croydon's little secret, Little Bay

No wellies required

Croydon Perspectives – Glenn Foster Photography Exhibition at Matthews Yard

How Chromolocomotion was made in Croydon, and what public art might do for our borough

Croydon Heritage Festival review: the classic car show, Purley

I wanted Croydon to have its own publishing house – so I founded it

How to write a crime thriller in 5 days – by the A level English students of Croydon College

Andy Kershaw comes to Croydon

A Croydon artist of small things: meet Parnita Senjit

Pick of the Croydon Heritage Festival 2014: our Culture and Heritage Editor's 'not to be missed' list

The Croydon Bach Choir performs Elgar's 'Spirit of England' and some livelier tunes

How Apsara Arts brings community, fitness and well-being to Croydon – Bollywood-style

Why Croydon should be inordinately fond of its stag beetles

Why UNESCO should declare Croydon Airport a World Heritage Site

Restaurant Review: Aqua Brasserie

Political Croydon: The Seventies

How Creativity and Wellbeing Week 2014 can make Croydon a healthier place

How Club Soda Croydon brings sparkle to disability arts culture

To hear our hearts speak: Croydon's later life dancers

Surrey Street treats: little lemon drizzle cakes

Restaurant review: The Windmill

Croydon, of all places: celebrating the culture of CR0

How far have we come? Slavery, civil rights and contemporary racism

Mindfulness comes to Croydon: what can the UK's hippest relaxation technique do for CR0?

Croydon's concrete – it's in the mix: The Hauntology of Croydon exhibition at the Parfitt Gallery

Restaurant review: Rodizio Preto

Alison! Priests, bad boys and rock opera with an edge at the Spread Eagle theatre

"I cancelled the Sex Pistols." Howard Bossick, former guvnor at the Greyhound, talks punk, smashed pianos and the music scene in 70s Croydon

Surrey Street treats: butternut squash soup

Review: Beats & Eats at Matthew's Yard

Croydon Bass Lift: Black Sheep's little lamb?

Restaurant Review: Apatura

Can young Croydon change the world?

Molten gold in the minster: review of 'A Celebration of Victorian Church Music'

Review: Mi Cocina Es Tuya, Café Latino Crystal Palace

Felines in formation: the first open meeting of the Croydon Arts Network

Answering the call of the wild: Croydon Forest School

A year on the land, a day on the Turf: fundraising for the arts in Croydon

Review: Bourbon and Blues at Matthews Yard

Restaurant review: Las Fuentes

Climate change comes to Croydon: flooding and my fears for the future

Lean dreams in the dark

Restaurant review: Sangri

Review: This War! (Oakwood School)

Keen as mustard: South Croydon’s heritage, part 3

Review: Speroni's Restaurant

Keen as mustard: South Croydon’s heritage, part 2

Restaurant review: Ponte Nuovo, Croydon

Taras Shevchenko: The poet of Ukrainian freedom

Keen as mustard: South Croydon’s heritage, part 1

A piece of aviation history

Restaurant review: Brasserie Vacherin, Croydon

A tale of two developments: Cane Hill and Caterham Barracks

Political Croydon: The Sixties

Restaurant review: Thanh's Bistro

Keep on singing along to Pete Seeger

Reach for the sky, Mr Gove

12 Years A Slave - the context

How can we protect the heritage of Croydon's pubs?

Counterfactual Croydon: #OccupyCroydon

A Bridge Too Far

Why you should care about the Croydon Communities Consortium

Sea of Tranquility

What will Labour offer on boosting culture in Croydon?

31 London Road: Euro Fruiterers

Why Croydon should protect spending on schools' music

The elephant that glows in the dark

30 London Road: Pizza Hut

29 London Road: Snow Nails & Beauty

Behind the scenes at the World Memory Championships 2013

Electric Bikes – Croydon's next transport revolution?

Review: The Twelve Dates of Christmas (The Spread Eagle theatre)

28 London Road: First Choice Bakers

TEDxYouthCroydon roundup

How Croydon will host the World Memory Championships 2013

TEDxYouthCroydon event: Saturday November 16th 2013 @ The Brit School

Review: Dr Frankenstein's Travelling Freak Show (The Spread Eagle Theatre)

27 London Road: Zaika

Croydon: a historic musical mecca

The Inimitable Wodehouse

Review of Silver Sunday at Croydon Minster

Does Croydon need its own Martin Luther King?

Remembering Paul Robeson's musical activism

25 London Road: West Croydon Post Office/Posh Afro Cosmetics

Changing Croydon: Health Services

Are Croydon's nightclubs offering enough variety? An open letter to investors

24–26 London Road: Early Till Late

What is this thing called 'gentrification'? How history may shape personal opinions

Restaurant Review: The Alchemist

Review: Riot or Wrong?

Reflections on Croydon's Black History

23 London Road: Prestige Barber

Stanley Halls Lives

Croydon HeartWorks and Mindfulness

22 London Road: Prestige Hair & Beauty

Tramways and Fine Arts

Vegan Curious? Follow me!

12A is the new PG

Review: Chimerica (Harold Pinter Theatre)

Changing Croydon: Music Venues

New Addington People’s Day Carnival

Old town, new ideas: The master plan, part 1

A Metropolitan Heart

The right to public assembly is the Chartists' legacy in Croydon

21 London Road, part 2: Brixton

IT’S NOT ABOUT THE CHICKEN

London Road's fight for compensation is déjà vu for political historians

So, what was all that about? Report on the Croydon Heritage Festival 2013

21 London Road, part 1: In the beginning

Croydon’s forgotten art collection

Croydon Council might not have legal power to sell Riesco porcelain

Review: Stitch (Matthews Yard)

Save the David Lean Cinema Campaign: July film schedule

‘“The postmodern equivalent of a Nigger act”: A Review of David Mamet’s Race’

Review: The Croydonians (Matthews Yard)

Kudos to the community: the Purley Festival is here!

20 London Road: A-Z Pharmacy

Changing Croydon: Theatres and Cinemas

Commemorating the Great War in Croydon

Rebellion of the flesh: the Croydon Tattoo Convention

19 London Road: Plan Personnel

Croydon, the unique city?

Counterfactual Croydon: Croydon's Atmospheric Railway

Supper Club Review: Yummy Choo Eats

18 London Road: Golden Chef’s Grill

Review: Mark Thomas: 100 Acts Of Minor Dissent (Matthews Yard)

In Limbo

Theatre Review: Miss Julie (Fairfield Halls)

'Croydon gets a bum deal': Interview with Mark Thomas

'Croydon is a place where worlds collide': Interview with the cast of Miss Julie

17 London Road: Croydon Kebab Centre

Changing Croydon: Restaurants

The Urban Gallery

The Great Croydon Bake Off 2013

Films for May from the Save The David Lean Cinema Campaign

Croydon's ambitious spire

16 London Road: The Money Shop

Broad Green and all that jazz

Counterfactual Croydon: The Battle of Croydon, 1940

Waddon-upon-Wandle

John Reeve and the CLICK CLOCK gallery: an unlikely hero for the arts in Croydon

13–15 London Road: Cash Converters

Fortune Favours the Archives

Theatre Review: 1984

Old town, new ideas

From air-raids to riots - does Croydon still have what it takes to survive?

12–14 London Road: H & T Pawnbrokers and Ladbrokes

Changing Croydon: Transport

Special Feature: Interview with the Bishop of Croydon

10a London Road: Davis of Croydon and N Tapper Shoe Repairs

Bygone Croydon and the dark side of nostalgia

From third city to third place via critical mass

Creative Croydon: a nesting ground for Oscar winners and African champions

The neurological magic of Bygone Croydon

A Song For Croydon

David Lean spirit at Croydon's 'art house' cinema pub

10 London Road: Greggs

Bygone Croydon

The Great Croydon Bake Off 2013 (Winter Edition)

9–11 London Road: The Ship of Fools

Theatre Review: Money: The Game Show

Theatre Review: Port

How Hammerfield Can Make A Sustainable Croydon

2-8 London Road, part 4: West Croydon Station today

Memories of an occasion at Fairfield Halls

Changing Croydon: Shopping

Croydon Tech City - Long-term Croydon resident Terry Coleman shares his thoughts

7 London Road: KFC

Dig For Croydon

The Surrey Street-food Revolution (part three)

Songs to take you on an emotional journey

The Co-op, London Road, Croydon

The Local Studies Library Project: save Croydon's local history

Those magnificent men in their flying machines

The Battle For Croydon's Stomach

The Surrey Street-food Revolution (part two)

2-8 London Road, part 3: West Croydon Station in the 1900s

The Surrey Street-food Revolution (part one)

5 London Road: Albemarle Bond

A festival not quite on my doorstep (part four)

2-8 London Road, part 2: West Croydon Station in the 1800s

Croydon's Secret Tourists

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Remembered

A festival not quite on my doorstep (part three)

Theatre Review: People

The Strange Absence of Liberal Croydon

A festival not quite on my doorstep (part two)

Restaurant Review: Göz

A festival not quite on my doorstep (part one)

1 London Road: The Old Fox & Hounds

Why I wrote The Croydon Zombie Saga

Theatre Review: The Trojan Women

Matthews Yard, The Last Craftsman

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