Member Login

Lost your password?

Not a member yet? Sign Up!

PAUL NASH ONLINE ART COMPETITION

March 18, 2010
PAUL NASH ONLINE ART COMPETITION

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...
Read More »

Forest Hill Pool design goes on display

March 16, 2010
Forest Hill Pool design goes on display

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...
Read More »

BFI release The Pleasure Garden

March 16, 2010
BFI release The Pleasure Garden

‘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’...
Read More »

Life and Times of Henry Tate

March 15, 2010
Life and Times of Henry Tate

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...
Read More »

Another Crystal Palace film find!

March 11, 2010
Another Crystal Palace film find!

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...
Read More »

World’s first fatal motor accident: Crystal Palace

August 18, 2010

114 years ago Crystal Palace was put on the map……writes Andrew McFarlane of BBC News Magazine when Bridget Driscoll...
Read More »

Mutiny at Library!

December 14, 2009

by Jerry Green A mutiny which occurred at Upper Norwood library was among the historical gems revealed to members...
Read More »

The Silver screens of Crystal Palace

November 1, 2009

The area's first cinema was the Photodrome, which opened around 1909. Situated off Ranger Road - now Jasper Road...
Read More »

The Crystal Palace on Fire

October 1, 2009

  The Crystal Palace Fire The Crystal Palace at Sydenham was destroyed by fire on 30 Nov 1936,  The...
Read More »

V1's Hit Upper Norwood

July 1, 2009

By Jerry Green Palace Mag Dec 2007 Photograph looking up Anerley Hill showing areas cleared after bomb damage to...
Read More »

Mrs Dee's Magical Mystery Tour Part 1

March 10, 2008

By Jerry Green Palace Mag Jan 08 In his book ‘The Great North Wood’ J Corbet Anderson says that...
Read More »


Crystal Palace National Sports Centre

Mo Farah

London Grand Prix Saturday Sell-Out!

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...

Shops

Frankie and Lola, 16 Westow Street

Frankie and Lola opened to great success

All dressed up for Crystal Palace

A new addition coming soon to Westow Street is Frankie and Lola. It’s an...


News