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The Norwood Review - Spring 2023Edition 240: Editor’s notes; Joseph Cheek, the Man Who Tended the Crystal Palace Statuary; The Norwood Squirrells and an Ecclesiastical Mystery; The Rosendale Pub and the Wrestlers Who Socialised There; A Tale of Two Kinematographs, South Norwood; Norwood Through the Lens of Jack Reddall’s Camera; Childhood Wartime in Norwood; West Norwood Cemetery; Paxton, Bananas and the Crystal Palace; Planning News; Books For Sale. (PDF Download 13.0MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Winter 2022Edition 239: Editor’s notes; Society History; A Norwood Artist; A 1940 Paper Round; The Lads Rest; Book Reviews; Growing up Near Croydon, part 3; Planning News; Street Furniture. (PDF Download 11.3MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Autumn 2022Edition 238: Editor’s notes; Herbert Flowerdew, Norwood Writer; Memories of Upper Norwood; Alfred Tom Sidney Carter, Encaustic tile manufacturer; Oakhurst, Sylvanhurst & Sylvan Lodge; The Geology of Norwood; Market Gardens of Norwood; The Bricks Which Built Norwood; Growing Up in Croydon, part 2; The Croydon Canal and South Norwood Lake; Planning News. (PDF Download 11.2MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Summer 2022Edition 237: Editor’s notes; The New Gaiety Cinematograph; Grange Hill House - Grange Hill Lodge; The Sad Tale of a Norwood New Town Girl; Sylvan Hill: The Cook Her Lover and a Rice Pudding; The Brotherhood Hall, Knights Hill; Rocklands; Book Review: My London Life; Norwood Memories; Planning Notes. (PDF Download 9MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Spring 2022Edition 236: Editor’s notes; Eric Kings, Obituary; West Norwood Fire Station; The Rise and Fall of Robert Green; Norwood’s Little Giant; Bloomhall Estate; Howes That! a Spooky Coincidence; Harry Holdway, Local Artist; Golf and Tennis in Norwood; Planning notes; Notes from the Norwoods; Book Reviews. (PDF Download 8.5MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Winter 2021Edition 235: Editor’s notes; My House My Street; Owen Luder, Obituary; Major Rea; Harold Tennis Club; Tritton’s Fields; Cycle Cars of Norwood; Memories of Growing up in Norwood; The Secret Code Breaker of Farquhar Road; Harry Cooper & Co; Planning notes. (PDF Download 9.4MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Autumn 2021Edition 234: Editor’s notes; Memories of Norwood Park; The Rise and Fall of the Franks Family of Norwood; Norwood’s Tragic Road Fatality; The 645 Trolley Bus in Norwood; The Lost Mansions of Farquhar Road; Spiers & Pond - Refreshments at the High Level Station; Planning notes; Book Reviews; Books for sale. (PDF Download 9.7MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Summer 2021Edition 233: Editor’s notes; Thomas Wallis; AC Cars; Mr Weller and Mr Portwine; Ernest Avenue; Webber Sports; Norwood Brewery Tap; Elizabeth Fold; Vaccination memories; Planning Notes; Obituaries; Book review. (PDF Download 9MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Spring 2021Edition 232: Editor’s notes; Agnes Bonham - a noteworthy Victorian Sculptor; Chevening Road memories; Crouch Butchers - West Norwood; Upper Grove, South Norwood - a Resident’s Research; A Park keeper’s boxing grandson; Alms’ Houses, Upper Norwood; Doodlebug memories; Planning Notes; Edward John Tarrant - Norwood war Hero; Vacuum Trains; Hammond’s Timber Yard. (PDF Download 9.3MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Winter 2020Edition 231: Notes from the Editor; The Priory, a mystery solved; The Bricklayers Arms, Chapel Road; Elm Cottage, Knights Hill; Memories of West Norwood Cemetery; Three lost villas of Beulah Hill; Alfred Charles Lack Candy; The Russian Flu of 1889, a Covid virus?; End of Year message from the Chairman; Planning Notes; Norwood Street Histories; Anderson Shelter memories; Books for sale. (PDF Download 8.7MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Autumn 2020Edition 230: Notes from the Editor; The Marquardt and Böncker families Crystal Terrace Memories; The Dell, Church Road; William Turquand; Herbert Casson; Memories of Rockmount School; Air Raid Shelters; Planning News; The Alma ‘Giant’. (PDF Download 4.7MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Summer 2020Edition 229: Notes form the Editor; The Cornwall Family; Frederic Hetley & Sir James Paget; James Hollis of West Norwood; Martin Farquhar Tupper; David Bentliff, obituary; The Oxford Arms, Norwood Newtown; For the benefit of Mr Kite;One Night in Upper Norwood, Memories of WW2; William Pawson, Local Land owner; Oysters for sale in South Norwood; A Postcard from WG Grace to a Harold Road Resident; Norwood Street Histories - MHMS; Planning Issues; Norwood under Lockdown. (PDF Download 4.5MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Spring 2020Edition 228: Back to the Sixties; Helen Margaret Hamilton Flint; Sound Familiar?; The Changing Face of Norwood Bentham Fabian; Westow Villa to Rosetta Court; St Margaret’s – Some Further Thoughts Alan Warwick: A Tribute; The Pauper Memorial Plaque; John James Smith and ‘SNAPS’; Notes from the Norwoods; Local History; Planning; Robert Pate. (PDF Download 5.3MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Winter 2019Edition 227: St Margaret’s Church; Memories of Rockmount Road; Alfred Nixon; Lion Van Raalte & William Drew; Memories of South Vale; Norwood Bowling Club; Mr Bennett the ‘Balloon Man’; Notes from the Norwood Executive Committee; Planning Report; MHMS Report; John Wilson-Haffenden; Talks & Walks Programme 2020. (PDF Download 4.0MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Autumn 2019Edition 226: Bertha Wilkinson’s Sampler – A Mystery; ODESSA – tales of explosions, deceit, irregular relationships; and broken records.; Mike Conrad Writes; Frederick George Aubin and the Pauper Children St Aubyns Road & Congregational Church; Mollie Davies Court – Cathy Come Home; A Bowling Green; War Heroes of Norwood – part 2; The Paxton Arms; Letters to the Editor; Local History Report; MyHouseMyStreet; The Norwood Society Celebrates 60 Years; Talks & Walks Programme 2019/20. (PDF Download 4.8MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Summer 2019Edition 225: The Fresh Air Suburb; The Royal Crystal palace Hotel; William Wood and the First London to Brighton Run; Norwood’s trees; The Dick’s Family, when is a Mystery not a Mystery?; The Spagues and Dawsons, two printing families of Upper Norwood Crystal Palace Subway News; Aerial Navigation by Revolving Balloon; Local History News; Notes from the Norwoods; A Footnote Concerning 46 Belvedere Road; Editor’s Notes; My House My Street; Planning report; Crystal Palace Connections – Book Review; Talks & Walks Programme 2019. (PDF Download 5.1MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Spring 2019Edition 224: Vice-Admiral FitzRoy, weather forecaster; The Great Storm of 1728; Child Chimney Sweep Dies in Snow 1803; Great Gale sweeps Norwood 1850; Frightening Thunderstorms 1852; Aurora Borealis Seen over Norwood 1859; Skating on Thin Ice a Disaster 1875; The Blizzard in ‘The Norwood Alps’ 1881; West Norwood Floods Overwhelm Sewers 1890; Norwood Newtown Damaged by Torrential Rain 1897; The Great ‘Heat Wave’ of 1898; The Great Rainstorm of 1902; Norwood men Died of Asphyxia in Gale 1938; The Winter of 1962/3; Weather and Advertisements; Watch your Diet in the Hot Weather; John Baldock Chemist & Amateur Meteorologist; Sir Charles Tritton, Norwood’s Philanthropic MP; Memories of Sylvan Estate. (PDF Download 6.1MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Winter 2018Edition 223: Unveiling of the Upper Norwood War Memorial; Our Glorious Dead; Social life in Upper Norwood in World War One; Mary Rodwell, the heroine that time forgot; Victoria Cross holders of Norwood; War Heroes of Norwood; Ambulances funded by Christ church Gipsy Hill; Awdry Morris Vaucour – flying ace; The alter used in ‘HMS Crystal Palace; Captain Hans Robert Sparenborg. (PDF Download 5.1MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Autumn 2018Edition 222: Alfred Holins; MyHouseMyStreet; Memories of Rockmount Road; Memories of Norwood; Christina Bloom; The amazing photographs of Cecil Shadbolt; James Green; Vicar’s Oak path (PDF Download 4.3MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Summer 2018Edition 221: Women Act!; The Tragedian’s Daughters; Flora Clickmann; Two Tennis Stars; Dangerous Women – Mad Or Bad?; Mrs Maurice Lubbock; Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes; Annie Besant; Two Women Artists (PDF Download 2.9MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Spring 2018Edition 220: MyHouseMyStreet – Our New Project; Cinema Returns To Crystal Palace; Cinemas of The Crystal Palace; An Alternative View of The Crystal Palace; The Post Office in Crystal Palace; Francis Gaydon - Henry Dresser; Impressionists in London; 100 Years of Harold Road (PDF Download 5MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Winter 2017Edition 219: Frederick Henry Amphlett Micklewright; The Redgrave Family Connections; Crystal Palace, A Famous Sporting Venue; Memories of The Horniman Museum and Crystal Palace; The Lofty Family; Bemerton Lodge Nursing Home; Put That Light Out!; Loti Irwin and The Crystal Palace Subway (PDF Download 2.6MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Autumn 2017Edition 218: Polo, Winston Churchill and the Crystal Palace; R H Fry – Leviathan of the Turf; The Grocer and His Illegitimate Pauper Child; Graffiti (PDF Download 3.3MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Summer 2017Edition 217: Notes from the Chairman; Richard Lines - An Obituary; The Triangle Shops Project; Missing Plaques; Current Shops; Memories of The Triangle; The Dairies of Upper Norwood; The London Mozart Players; News From The Norwoods; Local History Report; Notes From The Editor; Books For Sale (PDF Download 2.8MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Spring 2017Edition 216: Planning Notes; St John’s Upper Norwood - The Early Years Local History Report; The Disappearance of Emile Zola; What the Papers Said; The Boundaries Project; Growing Up in Parry Road (Final Part) (PDF Download 1.7MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Winter 2016Edition 215: Planning Notes; The Norwood Cottage Hospital Local History Report; River Effra (book review); Izod at the Palace; What the Papers Said; A Glimpse of Ancient Egypt Growing Up in Parry Road (Part 2) (PDF Download 1.8MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Autumn 2016Edition 214: From the Secretary; Notes from the Norwoods; Local History News; Britain’s first Piped Music; The two Phillipses at the Norwood Cottage Hospital; What the Papers Said: Life on S Norwood Hill; Memories of a South Norwood Childhood (PDF Download 2.7MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Summer 2016Edition 213: Life on Norwood Hill; Lambeth Architecture 1965-99; Memories of Upper Norwood; Woodbury Cottage (PDF Download 1.2MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Spring 2016Edition 212: From the Chairman; From the Secretary; Planning Notes; Local History Report; Boundaries; What the Papers Said; Bi-Centenary Sir William Sterndale-Bennett; Book Review: Winifred Gérin – The Remarkable Life of a Writer from Norwood; Paupers’ Funerals; The Business of Stonemasons & Undertakers (PDF Download 0.8MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Winter 2015Edition 211: From the Secretary; Local History Report; Christmas at Norwood Children’s Home; Researching Family History; What the Papers Said; Balloons & Aeroplanes at the Crystal Palace; Obituary Rosemary Comber (PDF Download 1.8MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Autumn 2015Edition 210: From the Secretary; Local History Report; Planning Notes; Crystal Palace Subway; Balloons & Aeroplanes at the Crystal Palace (PDF Download 1MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Summer 2015Edition 209: Annual Report; Planning Notes; Crystal Palace Park & Sports Forum Meeting; Local History News; Notes from the Norwoods; Balloons & Aeroplanes at the Crystal Palace; Elder Ice (Book Review) (PDF Download 1.3MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Spring 2015Edition 208: Chairman’s Report; Planning Report; Local History Report; A Brave New World 1945-65; Lionel Atwill - Book Review; Dougie Roderick; Norwood Lake; Scott the Bootmaker; Prefabs in West Norwood; The Pleasure Garden (PDF Download 1.7MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Winter 2014Edition 207: From the Secretary; Local History Report; El Palacio de Cristal; A Blue Plaque for Raymond Chandler Naked in Norwood; Postal Service; Norwood’s own Ship; Prefabs in West Norwood (PDF Download 0.9MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Autumn 2014Edition 206: Planning Notes; Local History Report; In the Catacombs - Book Review; Crystal Palace Brewery; Henry Wallis; Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell; Alan Octavian Hume; William Joyce (PDF Download 0.9MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Summer 2014Edition 205: Annual Report; Obituary David Khan; Mystery Houses & Other Places; Local History News; Gordon Jacob; Clockworks; Lavengro Road (PDF Download 1MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Spring 2014Edition 204: Editorial; Chairman’s Report; From the Secretary; Local History News; Mystery Houses; Planning Notes; We need to talk about South Norwood; Postscript to “Postal Services in Norwood”; Book Review “Strange Air”; Ira Aldridge; The Anderson Shelter (PDF Download 2.1MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Winter 2013Edition 203: Editorial; From the Secretary; Design Competition for the New Palace; Lambeth’s Edwardian Splendours Post Service in Norwood Walter Hobbs; Pickles; Bombs and Bus Routes (PDF Download 2MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Autumn 2013Edition 202: Chairman’s Report; The Golden Jubilee Drinking Fountain; The Crystal Palace Subway; Henry Bessemer (1813-1898); Albert Charles Orsborn - Part 3 of his life (PDF Download 7.1MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Summer 2013Edition 201: Annual Report 2012/13; Secretary’s Report; Planning Notes; The Life of Albert Charles Osborn Part 2; Bunny Austin (1906-2000); Three Stories in One (PDF Download 6.1MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Spring 2013Edition 200: The Crystal Palace Park Pneumatic Railway; Extract from ‘The Life of Charles Orsborn’; Another famous Person in Norwood; Walter Bentley Woodbury; Sir Hiram Maxim (PDF Download 6.0MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Winter 2012Edition 199: Obituary - Iain McAsh; From an 1880s Maid in Church Road; The Thompson-Bywaters Murder The Upper Norwood Connection; The British Vintage Wireless and Television Museum; Wolseley (PDF Download 6.1MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Autumn 2012Edition 198: The South Norwood Subway, West Norwood Cemetery Guide, Book Review ‘A Cog In The Wheel’, Ben Brown, Croydon Secondary Technical School (PDF Download 10.6MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Summer 2012Edition 197: Annual Report; Upper Norwood Library; The Crystal Palace High Level Railway; Norwood - A Second Selection; The Greek Necropolis; Croydon's Road Names; Another Jubilee Year (PDF Download 11.6MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Spring 2012Edition 196: Editorial; From the Secretary; Obituary - Dennis Britton; Abraham Steer and the Norwood Sports Pavilion; St. John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood; ‘Monkey’ Hollis of Gipsy Road; The Serious Mrs Stopes (PDF Download 3.9MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Winter 2011Edition 195: Editorial; From the Secretary; Betty Holdaway & Ken Russell; A Secure and Quarrel-free Future for the Upper Norwood Library?; New Publications: West Norwood Cemetery’s Greek Necropolis, The Old Croydonians Centenary Book, The Crystal Palace High Level Railway; Handley’s Brickworks, Woodside Green, South Norwood; Falkland Park; Stop Me and Buy One! (PDF Download 4.6MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Autumn 2011Edition 194: Editorial Comment; Secretary’s Report; Notes from the Norwoods; Report from the Webmaster; Report on Crystal Palace Park Conference; Now - and Then; Archie's Odyssey; Emile Zola in the Queen’s Hotel; The Zermatt Puzzle; Up the Hill to School (PDF Download 4.4MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Summer 2011Edition 193: John B Gent; Art Work in South Norwood Subway; Beaulieu Heights History; Friends of Horniman Museum Art Exhibition 2011; Kingswood House Open Day; The King's Speech (and the Sydenham Connection); Herbert Wilcox and the Norwood Connection; Henderson’s Laboratories (1927-2004); William Ford Stanley (PDF Download 10.2MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Spring 2011Edition 192: Guy Verstraete - Unsung Wartime Hero; Samuel Coleridge Taylor; Sundays at the Royal Cinema; The Norwood Spur; Dick Whittington at the Stanley Halls; Leslie Howard - The Lost Actor; Raymond Chandler; The Norwoods and the Vengeance Weapons (PDF Download 5.1MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Winter 2010Edition 191: Bernard Davies (1923-2010); All Saints’ Church; Norwood in the Press; Westow Street’s Oldest Building; A Brief History of Brockwell Park; Fireworks; Poem from Wilde Norwood (PDF Download 4.7MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Autumn 2010Edition 190: English Heritage Blue Plaque for Marie Stopes; August Manns; Norwood Historical Association in South Australia; The Norwood Author - Arthur Conan Doyle; Gerald Massey; Chartist, Poet, Radical & Freethinker; Open House London - Kingswood House; Lambeth Archives Open Day; The London City Mission (PDF Download 3.4MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Summer 2010Edition 189: Academy in Arcadia; Upper Norwood; the Grundy Family and Gayfere; Red Sky at Night; Henry Tate (1810-1899); Friends of the Horniman Art Exhibition 2010 (PDF Download 5.9MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Spring 2010Edition 188: 50th Anniversary Concert; Albert Court - Norwood to California in 1892; Kingslyn, Norwood; Laurence Coussell; Windermere House in the 1950s; Entertainment Venues Around Norwood; Girlguiding UK Opens Crystal Palace Maze; Upper Norwood Public Library (PDF Download 5.4MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Winter 2009Edition 187: Grand Anniversary Concert; Lawn Tennis Championship Won by a Norwood Lady; Charles John Letts 1836-1912; Book Review - John Logie Baird - A Life; Landscapes & Geological History of Norwood South Norwood; Personalities - The Jersey Lily; The Dead Centre of Streatham; Obituary - Harold Lockwood; Josiah Stamp 1st Baron Stamp (PDF Download 5.9MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Autumn 2009Edition 186: Kingslyn, Norwood; National Sports Centre; Camille Pissaro at Crystal Palace; The Atmospheric Railway; All Saints' School, Upper Norwood (PDF Download 3.3MB) |
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The Norwood Review - Summer 2009Edition 185: John Logie Baird and the Crystal Palace; Leo Held 1920-2009; Canals to Croydon and Camberwell; London's Water Supply; Conservation in Croydon; Norwood's Stench Pipes (PDF Download 8.6MB) |
The Norwood Review - Spring 2009Edition 184: A full copy is currently unavailable online but two selected articles are available: The Sad Story of Susan Shaw; South Norwood’s Canal |
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The Norwood Review - Winter 2008Edition 183: St Mark’s Church of England Primary School; Norwood Grove; The Crystal Palace Corner; Obituary – Major W P J Silva MBE; Obituary - Mildred Dodds; Book Review - The Tannoy Story (PDF Download 17.3MB) |