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...
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 MoreThere are more ghostly tales of poltergeists haunting houses in Thornton Heath but are they true?...
Read MoreA 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby Andrea Perry | Oct 22, 2018 | History | 0 |
This fascinating postcard titled Cucumber House, Thornton Heath, 1899 really gives an insight in...
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