In 1800, John Brickwood owned all the land in the ECCO area outside Croydon Common. After its enclosure the following year, he owned considerably more. Brickwood was a merchant, colonial agent […]
More information about St Mildred’s Literary Society https://stmildredschurch.org.uk/our-church/our-activities/ For information about East Croydon’s history https://eastcroydon.org.uk/the-history-of-east-croydon/
A brief webpage has been published about the history of One Croydon, including a link to an article from The Arup Journal detailing its construction. The Architects Journal has published […]
Talk by Carole Roberts and Phil Swallow. This story of the former house in Warlingham called Overhill covers the land on which it stood, from its time as part of […]
Croydon’s first central library was moved to the Clocktower buildings when they first opened in May 1896. It was one of the first public libraries with open access shelves and […]
In the 1950s, the International Language Club occupied over 30 houses in the area between Addiscombe Road and Fairfield Road, only to leave hastily in suspicious circumstances in 1966. Read […]
FREE local history walk around the ECCO area (though donations welcome towards ECCO running costs). From The Cricketers to Lower Addiscombe Road, down Cross Road to One Croydon, then back […]
Bryan Cross comes to present a selection of monochrome images, all scanned directly from the Harold Clements collection of original Lantern slides, Glass plates and large format negatives. These were […]
Many of the actives will be presented by David Morgan, the Minster’s Education Officer. More information https://programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/8724 David also writes regular articles about the history of Croydon for Inside Croydon. […]
Martin Eales will explore the early ideas and evidence for the concepts of continental drift leading to the paradigm of plate tectonics. Early cartographers recognised that the continents across the […]
East Croydon Community Organisation 