One Woman’s Journey from Mumbai to find her Lost Childhood in Thornton Heath
Bubla Basu was born in India and aged four came to England to have harelip and cleft palate...
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Category: History
Beulah Road Shopkeeper was Winston Churchill’s Bodyguard
A bodyguard who saved Winston Churchill’s life numerous times retired to run a grocery store on...
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GHOST OF 18TH CENTURY FARMER HAUNTS FAMILY TV SET
There are more ghostly tales of poltergeists haunting houses in Thornton Heath but are they true?...
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THORNTON HEATH HOUSEWIFE POSSESSED BY POLTERGEIST
A new book has revealed the unexplained case of the haunting of a Thornton Heath housewife who was...
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Appeal to find relatives of Spitfire pilot
The amazing wartime story of a distinguished Spitfire pilot has emerged as organisers...
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Reconnecting Thornton Heath through memories not moans
Parchmore Road The Pond The Clocktower Former cinema A social media group has incapsulated the...
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Photo exhibition documents the Windrush generation
A photographic exhibition documenting the Windrush generation has opened at Fairfield Halls to...
Read MoreThornton Heath’s Historic Twist on a Dickens Classic
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...
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The buried secrets of The Heath
A world renowned architect has revealed the secrets of the highway men and prehistoric animals...
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THE DAYS WHEN THE GRANGE WAS GREAT
These images of The Grange pub show it when it was in its heyday. Posted by the original pub...
Read MoreTHE AMAZING STORY OF THE JAMAICAN SOLDIER FOUND AFTER 91 YEARS
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...
Read MoreLEST WE FORGET THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM
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...
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