Intriguing secret societies offer more than conspiracy theories insidecroydon.com/2025/11/25/i...
Intriguing secret societies offer more than conspiracy theories
KEN TOWL delved into the little-known world of local literary societies, the ‘Lits’, where talk is cheap and at least the fruitcakes promise ‘no nuts’ I have discovered a hi…
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November 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Intriguing secret societies offer more than conspiracy theories insidecroydon.com/2025/11/25/i...
Intriguing secret societies offer more than conspiracy theories insidecroydon.com/2025/11/25/i...
Intriguing secret societies offer more than conspiracy theories
KEN TOWL delved into the little-known world of local literary societies, the ‘Lits’, where talk is cheap and at least the fruitcakes promise ‘no nuts’ I have discovered a hi…
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November 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I was very, very drunk at the time... insidecroydon.com/2025/11/22/o...
Our journey through Beaujolais provided a nouveau experience
KEN TOWL’s unrelenting quest to uncover the best of Croydon culture sees him sent on some very demanding assignments. Thankfully, he managed to survive his latest “Spit or swallow?” I asked, …
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November 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I was very, very drunk at the time... insidecroydon.com/2025/11/22/o...
Apparent nod to The Pogues in two Mamdano-related stories in the Observer...
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Apparent nod to The Pogues in two Mamdano-related stories in the Observer...
Keeping in the LOOP can get us from Coulsdon to Banstead insidecroydon.com/2025/11/09/k...
Keeping in the LOOP can get us from Coulsdon to Banstead
WANDLE WANDERER: Crunching through the dried leaves of autumn makes this one of the better times of year to go off on a ramble. But avoiding the worst of the weather is something KEN TOWL discovere…
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November 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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It's the final countdown as Rowland reflects on our mortality insidecroydon.com/2025/10/19/i...
It’s the final countdown as Rowland reflects on our mortality
KEN TOWL considers Plato, kingfishers and Ian McKellen’s balls in an hour-long Croydonites Festival performance which could never over-run James Rowland is dead. Well, sort of. The end was in…
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October 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's the final countdown as Rowland reflects on our mortality insidecroydon.com/2025/10/19/i...
Croydonites provides a front-row seat for hard-hitting comedy insidecroydon.com/2025/10/13/c...
Croydonites provides a front-row seat for hard-hitting comedy
The 2025 Croydonites Festival is well underway, and KEN TOWL could not resist the chance to go along to see the sold-old Dick’s Picks (geddit?!) Dick Denham had been tasked with curating a ra…
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October 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Ghosts that stalk our streets and the history we learn from them insidecroydon.com/2025/10/07/g...
Ghosts that stalk our streets and the history we learn from them
KEN TOWL sets off to find as many ghost signs as he can According to Historic England, ghost signs are “typically historic hand-painted advertising signs or old shop signs preserved on buildings th…
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October 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Alan Partridge might not cope with his £1 breakfast at Ikea insidecroydon.com/2025/09/29/a...
Alan Partridge might not cope with his £1 breakfast at Ikea
Hej!, as they say in Sweden, the latest cut-priced customer offer at the large homeware store could keep KEN TOWL returning to Ampere Way all the way until Christmas When a colleague who often take…
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September 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Alan Partridge might not cope with his £1 breakfast at Ikea insidecroydon.com/2025/09/29/a...
Davis's big launch might have been good, if only I could hear it insidecroydon.com/2025/09/22/d...
Davis’s big launch might have been good, if only I could hear it
POLITICAL SKETCH: Ever been invited to a party when you’ve been expected to pay for your food? Or a launch event which is set up so you can neither see nor hear clearly the speakers on stage?…
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September 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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iC writers go on a quest: find a way through the Whitgift Centre insidecroydon.com/2025/09/01/i... You can't find anything in the Whitgift any more...
iC writers go on a quest: find a way through the Whitgift Centre
For the past year, one of Croydon’s MPs has worked from an office deep inside the Whitgift Centre. But just where? With the shopping centre’s managers blocking off entrances and removin…
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September 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
iC writers go on a quest: find a way through the Whitgift Centre insidecroydon.com/2025/09/01/i... You can't find anything in the Whitgift any more...
At the Tate Britain: "Orange, White and Black Composition" or a pint of Guinness on a bar?
August 17, 2025 at 5:57 AM
At the Tate Britain: "Orange, White and Black Composition" or a pint of Guinness on a bar?
From Westerham to Bletchingley, we retrace our walker's steps insidecroydon.com/2025/08/15/f...
From Westerham to Bletchingley, we retrace our walker’s steps
WEEKEND WANDERINGS: Continuing our tradition of providing guides to readily accessible walking routes in and around Croydon, KEN TOWL set off in the footsteps of this website’s original guide…
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August 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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It's a red-letter day for our 'covid generation' of school pupils insidecroydon.com/2025/08/13/i...
It’s a red-letter day for our ‘covid generation’ of school pupils
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Secondary school teacher KEN TOWL on the sense of anticipation gripping the nation’s teens, and their parents and tutors, ahead of tomorrow’s big A-levels results re…
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August 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Trout, Clarkson's lager and scotch eggs on a cathedrals walk insidecroydon.com/2025/08/08/t...
Trout, Clarkson’s lager and scotch eggs on a cathedrals walk
KEN TOWL, Inside Croydon’s regular walks guide, took a diversion last weekend, and with a group of old mates made a 20-mile pilgrimage between two of the finest medieval cathedrals in the wor…
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August 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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The review is in. Don't just take our word for it, the best amateur theatre is on your doorstep now. Read the review and then book tickets at twcoulsdon.org.uk
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August 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The review is in. Don't just take our word for it, the best amateur theatre is on your doorstep now. Read the review and then book tickets at twcoulsdon.org.uk
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The best beach in South London? insidecroydon.com/2025/08/01/c...
Costa Del Croydon offers beach experience unlike any other
Westfield’s latest sop for failing to deliver the long-promised regeneration of the town centre has been to have tons of sand dumped on the top of a shopping centre’s multi-storey car p…
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August 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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There's a revolution going on in a wooded glade in Coulsdon insidecroydon.com/2025/07/31/t...
There’s a revolution going on in a wooded glade in Coulsdon
‘Man is the only creature that consumes without producing’ wrote George Orwell 80 years ago, but as the Theatre Workshop Coulsdon has shown once more, they certainly know how to produce…
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July 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
There's a revolution going on in a wooded glade in Coulsdon insidecroydon.com/2025/07/31/t...
There's a revolution going on in a wooded glade in Coulsdon insidecroydon.com/2025/07/31/t...
There’s a revolution going on in a wooded glade in Coulsdon
‘Man is the only creature that consumes without producing’ wrote George Orwell 80 years ago, but as the Theatre Workshop Coulsdon has shown once more, they certainly know how to produce…
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July 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
There's a revolution going on in a wooded glade in Coulsdon insidecroydon.com/2025/07/31/t...
Pregnant with vulnerability, Gwilliam sets the scene for festival insidecroydon.com/2025/07/08/p...
Pregnant with vulnerability, Gwilliam sets the scene for festival
KEN TOWL ventured deep into an abandoned building site while full of hopeful expectation for a workshop performance ahead of the 2025 Croydonites Fringe I had seen Amy Gwilliam’s evil alter-ego, pr…
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July 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Podcast: Our Croydon Insider panel looks at council's crisis insidecroydon.com/2025/06/30/p... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Podcast @kentowl.bsky.social
Podcast: Our Croydon Insider panel looks at council’s crisis
What will the appointment by government of Commissioners to run Croydon Council mean to you as a resident? After five years of ever-increasing bail-outs for Croydon’s cash-stapped council, wh…
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June 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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How a lawyer and an artist are responding to the genocide in Gaza...
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Last Gasp: Ogbourne’s exhibition is summoning us to the sea
KEN TOWL meets an artist whose latest exhibition is about much more than just his paintings When Derek Ogbourne’s girlfriend threw a dustbin at a front door many years ago, she set in motion a cha…
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June 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
How a lawyer and an artist are responding to the genocide in Gaza...
Blurb on the back: 'if you only read one book about Croydon this year...'
May 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Blurb on the back: 'if you only read one book about Croydon this year...'
We had all better keep a look out for whatever Katie does next insidecroydon.com/2025/05/19/w...
We had all better keep a look out for whatever Katie does next
The play that takes its title from Bowie’s dismissal of the town where he went to art school is nearing the end of its run. KEN TOWL took the chance to glimpse at the brilliance of the one-wo…
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May 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
We had all better keep a look out for whatever Katie does next insidecroydon.com/2025/05/19/w...