Category: History

Beulah Road Shopkeeper was Winston Churchill’s Bodyguard

by Andrea Perry | Dec 20, 2020 | History | 0 |

A bodyguard who saved Winston Churchill’s life numerous times retired to run a grocery store on...

GHOST OF 18TH CENTURY FARMER HAUNTS FAMILY TV SET

by SL | Oct 27, 2020 | History | 0 |

There are more ghostly tales of poltergeists haunting houses in Thornton Heath but are they true?...

THORNTON HEATH HOUSEWIFE POSSESSED BY POLTERGEIST

by SL | Oct 27, 2020 | History | 0 |

A new book has revealed the unexplained case of the haunting of a Thornton Heath housewife who was...

Appeal to find relatives of Spitfire pilot

by Andrea Perry | Aug 10, 2020 | History | 0 |

The amazing wartime story of a distinguished Spitfire pilot has emerged as organisers...

Reconnecting Thornton Heath through memories not moans

by Andrea Perry | May 14, 2020 | History | 0 |

Parchmore Road The Pond The Clocktower Former cinema A social media group has incapsulated the...

Photo exhibition documents the Windrush generation

by Andrea Perry | Oct 31, 2019 | History, What's on | 0 |

A photographic exhibition documenting the Windrush generation has opened at Fairfield Halls to...

Thornton Heath’s Historic Twist on a Dickens Classic

by 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...

The buried secrets of The Heath

by Andrea Perry | Mar 27, 2019 | History | 0 |

A world renowned architect has revealed the secrets of the highway men and prehistoric animals...

THE DAYS WHEN THE GRANGE WAS GREAT

by 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...

THE AMAZING STORY OF THE JAMAICAN SOLDIER FOUND AFTER 91 YEARS

by 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...

LEST WE FORGET THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM

by Andrea Perry | Nov 14, 2018 | History | 0 |

In a moving service at St Paul’s Church the names not just of those who lost their lives in the First World War but World War Two were read out including the civilians – among them six children – during bombing raids...