Honouring the sacrifices of the Windrush generation
A CHARITY marked the contributions of the Windrush generation with a celebratory window display...
Read Moreby Andrea Perry | Aug 3, 2021 | History | 0 |
A CHARITY marked the contributions of the Windrush generation with a celebratory window display...
Read Moreby Andrea Perry | Apr 25, 2021 | History | 0 |
Bubla Basu was born in India and aged four came to England to have harelip and cleft palate...
Read Moreby Andrea Perry | Dec 20, 2020 | History | 0 |
A bodyguard who saved Winston Churchill’s life numerous times retired to run a grocery store on...
Read Moreby Andrea Perry | Oct 27, 2020 | History | 0 |
There are more ghostly tales of poltergeists haunting houses in Thornton Heath but are they true?...
Read Moreby Andrea Perry | Oct 27, 2020 | History | 0 |
A new book has revealed the unexplained case of the haunting of a Thornton Heath housewife who was...
Read Moreby Andrea Perry | Aug 10, 2020 | History | 0 |
The amazing wartime story of a distinguished Spitfire pilot has emerged as organisers...
Read Moreby Andrea Perry | May 14, 2020 | History | 0 |
Parchmore Road The Pond The Clocktower Former cinema A social media group has incapsulated the...
Read Moreby Andrea Perry | Oct 31, 2019 | History, What's on | 0 |
A photographic exhibition documenting the Windrush generation has opened at Fairfield Halls to...
Read Moreby Andrea Perry | Sep 6, 2019 | History | 0 |
Charles Dickens created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters but a little known fact is that Thornton Heath played such an integral part in his fortunes and misfortunes!Hablot Knight Browne, nicknamed Phiz, who...
Read Moreby Andrea Perry | Mar 27, 2019 | History | 0 |
A world renowned architect has revealed the secrets of the highway men and prehistoric animals...
Read Moreby Andrea Perry | Dec 17, 2018 | History | 0 |
These images of The Grange pub show it when it was in its heyday. Posted by the original pub...
Read Moreby Andrea Perry | Nov 14, 2018 | History | 0 |
My parents and I immigrated from Jamaica to England in the mid 1950s, writes Thornton Heath resident Beulah Coombs. Every year, on Remembrance Sunday, my mother would watch the TV broadcast of the Cenotaph commemoration...
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