Crystal Palace on Location, Location, Location
James Allen Community Orchestra supports Dulwich Helpline
Friends of Westow Park Playday Wed 25th Aug
World’s first fatal motor accident: Crystal Palace
Noni and George love Crystal Palace and wanted to stay in the area now...
On Sunday 26th September at 6 p.m. in the Holst Hall, James Allen’s Girls’...
Following the great success of last summer’s playday in Westow Park they will once...
114 years ago Crystal Palace was put on the map……writes Andrew McFarlane of BBC...
DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY invites you to enter the PAUL NASH ONLINE ART COMPETITION Create your own surreal landscape inspired by the beautifully strange landscapes in Paul Nash: The Elements a Dulwich Picture Gallery. Nash selected elementary objects and put them in relationships of conflict or harmony. Use the Gallery and grounds as the basis...
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An exhibition of the latest design for the new Forest Hill Pools will be on display until Saturday 27 March. Lewisham Council hopes as many people as possible will visit the exhibition and give their comments. On the last day of the exhibition there will be an opportunity to meet the architects and ask...
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‘The Pleasure Garden’, made in 1953 by the American poet James Broughton (1913 – 1999) is a lovely, surreal and poetic film set in the terraces of Crystal Palace park. The film won the Prix de Fantasie Poetique at Cannes in 1954. Filmed among the ruins of The Crystal Palace Terraces, ‘The Pleasure Garden’...
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Title: Life and Time of Henry James Location: Phoenix Centre, Westow Street Link out: Click here Description: THE LIFE AND TIMES of Henry Tate is the subject of Norwood Society local history group’s next meeting on Thursday (March 18th). Brian Bloice of Streatham Society will be giving the talk on the philanthropist at the...
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The Chemical Brothers are set to play their first gigs in nearly eighteen months with the announcement of two headline shows at London’s Roundhouse (May 20th and 21st) and a Saturday night headline gig at Sonar in Barcelona (June 19th). It’s good to see that Crystal Palace Park was one of the setting for...
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114 years ago Crystal Palace was put on the map……writes Andrew McFarlane of BBC News Magazine when Bridget Driscoll...
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by Jerry Green A mutiny which occurred at Upper Norwood library was among the historical gems revealed to members...
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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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The Crystal Palace Fire The Crystal Palace at Sydenham was destroyed by fire on 30 Nov 1936, The...
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By Jerry Green Palace Mag Dec 2007 Photograph looking up Anerley Hill showing areas cleared after bomb damage to...
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By Jerry Green Palace Mag Jan 08 In his book ‘The Great North Wood’ J Corbet Anderson says that...
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Aviva London Grand Prix Tickets for Saturday 14th August are now SOLD OUT. With the event line-up on Friday 13th looking more exciting by the second and less 1000 tickets remaining, fans are urged to buy their tickets now, before it’s too late! European 10,000m and 5,000m champion Mo Farah will be taking to...
Frankie and Lola opened to great success
A new addition coming soon to Westow Street is Frankie and Lola. It’s an...
