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Popularity of festival leads to call for volunteers

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April 16, 2013
crystal palace festival

The 7th Crystal Palace Overground Festival is recruiting for volunteers to help out at this year’s must-go-to event (Thursday 27 – Sunday 30 June).  Volunteer roles include stewarding around the main outdoor stage, supervising the kids’ zone and meeting and greeting visitors.  “We’re looking for passionate, fun-loving volunteers, aged 18 and over to ensure this...
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BURNS NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY

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January 21, 2013
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  A BURNS NIGHT is being held in Upper Norwood joint library on Saturday (26th). The haggis will be ‘piped in’ as Robert Burns’ famous poem To a Haggis (1786) is read out from 7.30pm. After this there will be an opportunity for adults to recite/read/perform poetry with a Scottish link they have written or...
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PROJECT MAKES BID FOR ANERLEY SHOPPING PARADE FUNDS

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January 21, 2013
Anerley Road

 A MAJOR move for funding to help improve the Anerley Road shopping area is being made by a newly-formed group of residents and traders.   Anerley Regeneration Project was formed last summer specifically to make a bid application for Bromley council’s shopping parades improvement initiative (inspired by the Portas pilot) – a fund of...
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RESIDENTS GROUP SLAMS MUGGING LEVELS

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January 7, 2013
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THE HUGE increase in levels of muggings in the Church Road area has led to a residents association calling for a cross-borough team to tackle the problem. Gipsy Hill Residents Association say such a strategy is long overdue and needs to be prioritised as the current system “is failing to keep our streets and...
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The Great Crystal Palace Fire of 1936

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To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the destruction of the Crystal Palace by fire on the 30th November 1936,...
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The Crystal Palace fire

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The Crystal Palace Fire: The End of an Era The Crystal Palace fire occurred on 30 Nov 1936. The “people’s...
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IN REMEMBRANCE

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November 11, 2010

On April 29th 1922 three young children – the eldest not more than seven years old – moved through...
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The Silver screens of Crystal Palace

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The area's first cinema was the Photodrome, which opened around 1909. Situated off Ranger Road - now Jasper Road...
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September 16, 2010

In October 1914 the Crystal Palace was taken over by His Majesty’s Admiralty as a training depot. Its official...
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