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Spring 2017 Issue 106 2017 Issue Spring WWW.CROYDON.GOV.UK Croham Hurst Good Neighbours Spring Party
On Monday 25th April more than 60 people enjoyed a very successful tea party organised by Croham Hurst Good Neighbours. Guests arrived on foot, by car, by wheelchair or by minibus. Over tea we had a quiz based on Croydon. Many of the participants had knowledge of Croydon going back over half a century or more, but still the questions proved challenging. After tea we were treated to screened presentation of popular songs featuring some of the best known songs of the last hundred years. So we were all able to join in some of them! We are grateful to Jackie Tanner for providing the entertainments and to the trustees for preparing tea also to Croham Road Baptist Church for lending us their hall and above all to our organiser Roberta Gilkinson for masterminding the whole event. We look forward to many more. WHO WE ARE: - WE CAN HELP:-
Croham Hurst Good Neighbours is a local regis- BY SUPPLYING ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: - tered charity (No.1052007). CHGN is one of Organising and running a door to door. shopping bus to Sains- approximately 30 member groups of the Croy- bury’s, Purley Way every Tuesday. don Neighbourhood Care Association. Organising emergency shopping for those who are house bound. Address is:- 52 Croham Road (Side entrance), South Croydon, CR2 7BA. Occasional light DIY type jobs.
Email:- [email protected] Occasional health related transport.
Website - www.chgn.org.uk Organising occasional help with gardening.
Our Office Hours :- 10.00am to 12.30pm week- Befriending. days except Fridays. Please let us know when you are coming.
Telephone No. 020 8649 9678
1 From Chris Philp (MP Croydon South)
Purley Hospital — Expanded Minor Injury Opening Hours from 1st April After a long campaign that I led together with 8 local residents associations (Old Coulsdon, East Coulsdon, Coulsdon West, Hartley and District, Purley and Woodcote, Kenley, Riddlesdown and Sanderstead Residents Associations) Croydon's Clinical Commissioning Group agreed to restore the morning opening hours at Purley Hospital's Minor Injuries Unit. I am absolutely delighted by this. From 1st April, the unit will open at 8am in the morning (not 2pm as currently) and will stay open to 8pm. This will be 7 days a week, 365 days a year. There will be doctors and nurses available, they will be able to see babies, and be able to treat all kinds of minor injuries and illnesses except for broken bones (broken bones still need to be seen at Mayday/Croydon University Hospital; I am still working on getting this into Purley too). There will be the ability to be referred immediately into the X-Ray facility at Purley Hospital while it is open, which is during normal office hours. They are calling this facility a "GP Hub" but it is essentially an expanded Minor Injuries Unit. I will email with fuller details of the new service in the next few weeks, but it is important that everyone knows about the extended opening hours and expanded service to be available from 1st April. Please pass on these details to your friends and neighbours to make sure that every one knows.
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Local events
2 miles from East Croydon, guided tours of Shirley Windmill are free, though the or- ganisers do seek donations towards maintenance. The mill is open from 1pm to 5pm (except where stated) on May 14 National Mills Day (12 – 5pm); June 4th ; July 2nd. Website: www.shirleywindmill.org.uk
2 hour gentle walks in Selsdon Woods. Meet at the Wood’s car park on Old Farleigh Road on 6 May @ 2pm for “Bluebells & birds”; 18 June @ 11am for “Summer flowers”; 15 July @ 11a, for “Butterflies” and 20July @ 9pm for “Bats and moths”. Website: www.friendsofselsdonwood.co.uk
Entry to the Croydon Airport Visitor Centre is free and it is open on the first Sunday of the month throughout the year. Doors open at 11am, last entry at 3.30pm. Features include exhibits, interactive displays and flight simulator. The address is Airport House, Purley Way, Croydon, CR0 0XZ. Free parking is available on site. The 119 and 289 bus route is right outside. Website: www.croydonairportsociety.org.uk
Sunday 14 May Spring Flowers on the Sanderstead to Whyteleafe Countryside Ar- ea - guided walk through Ainsley Berry Shaw, a small piece of Ancient woodland, mar- velling at the great display of Bluebells, Yellow Archangel and enjoy the Cherry Trees in bloom. Meet the Countryside Warden at Dunmail Drive at 10.30am for this 2 hour walk.
On Sunday 11 June, visit the environmental Fair in Wandle Park - a day of music, activities and lots of information for all the family on how to live a more sustainable life. 11am till 6pm, free entry, bring a picnic.
For information on other activities and events, look at www.museumofcroydon.com;www.croydon.gov.uk/leisure/parksandopenspaces/walks; www.cnhss.co.uk (Croydon Natural History Society) and Friends of Haling Grove via their Facebook page.
3 VOLUNTEERS WANTED Useful umbers: BY CROHAM HURST GOOD Age UK, Croydon:- NEIGHBOURS 020 8680 5450. To assist in providing those services listed on Citizen Advice Croydon: page 1, we particularly need helpers on Tuesday mornings at Sainsbury’s to meet our shopping bus, to 020 684 2236 assist the wheelchair users to do their shopping. We operate a rota of helpers, so if you are able to help every so often, it would be appreciated. Croham Safer We also need help in delivering this our biannual ‘Newsletter’ issued in April & Neighbourhood Team:- November, to every home in our area. 020 8721 2471. Croydon Council: - Out and about with Paul Sowan 020 8726 6000. The Drovers' Road puzzle & ask for the department . Croydon University An acquaintance has raised an interesting question concerning the very large Hospital :- circular granite cattle trough that some of us will remember stood at the Selsdon Road end of Drovers' Road in the 1940s and 1950s. It was later re- 020 8401 3000 moved to Norbury Park by the Council, where irnow stands, and is Listed Edridge Rd. Community Grade II as a building of historic interest. Lettering carved into the stone states Health Centre:- the trough to have been the gift of H. Prater MD in 1885. Doctor Prater has not 020 3040 0800 yet been positively identified, but appears not to have been a Croydon man. Why he should have donated the trough is the first of two puzzles. A search in Emergency Gas: - the local newspapers of 1885 may provide some answers. 0800 111999.
An article in the January 2001 issue of Croydon Council's magazine Croydon Crime Stoppers:- Reports states that this trough was 'an original feature of the cattle market' 0800 555 111 opened at what became Drovers Road. However, this seems unlikely. The Victim Support:- official opening of the market on 10 July 1851 was described in the Illustrated 0845 450 3936 London News of 26 July, with an accompanying illustration. There were pens for 1,400 sheep, sheds for 200 calves, and standing for 200 head of cattle. As Minor Injuries Unit: - Cliffe Road and Upland Road, either side of the market, had not yet been built, New Addington there were few neighbours to complain about the noise these animals made! 020 8251 7225. At the centre of the market was a well, a water pump, and a 'tank'. The illustra- NHS 111 tion shows the pump and, beside it, the 'tank' which was about the size and (For less urgent cases) shape of the trough now in Norbury Park, although made of what material isn't clear. The second puzzle is, therefore, what became of the first 'trough' of Police Non-Emergency 1851, which was presumably replaced by a new one 34 years later. Number:- 101 The site of the market, which was enclosed by walls, is now occupied by the London Councils three blocks of flats built in or about 1935 after it had closed. A north boundary Taxicard Information:- has a block of stone built into it stating it to be the property of E. Hales Esq 020 793 49791 and dated 1870. Edward Hales, of Chelsham, had bought land in South Croy- don in 1853, and sold some of this in Chelsham Road to Alfred Bullock, a local Croham Hurst Good builder, in 1882. His best-known local building was the Swan & Sugar Loaf Neighbours does not which replaced an earlier public house on the same site in 1896, although imply recommendation mostly he built many of the houses in South Croydon. by publishing an article or advertisement and can take no responsibility for Printed by Cherrill Print, 297 Brighton Road , South Croydon CR2 the accuracy of data supplied by others. 4