Croydon Advertiser
A Memory of Croydon.
I worked on the Croydon Advertiser from about 1959 to 1963 and met my wife Frances Dowsett, who was also a reporter there at the office in High Street. We used to lunch most days at Batty's Bar, upstairs in a pub on the corner of George Street opposite the Advertiser.
We often ate in the evening if we had a late job at a cafe run by Ben Glazer in George St opposite the Town Hall. He was a major player in the creation of the Theatre in the Round in Croydon - was it called the Ashcroft after Dame Peggy Ashcroft?
I reported the campaign to save the old Grand Theatre and we loved going to the Classic Cinema - was that in South Croydon?
Are there any old Advertiser people out there to remember those days?
David Barber - barber.david01@gmail.com .
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I have already mentioned it on this site, when I described my memories of a summer job that my boyfriend got me in the RAC offices in East Croydon.
Sometimes we would go into work together, and on the morning in question, we were walking up Park Lane, where a lot of new , very tall buildings were being constructed. We noticed the road was cordoned off in one section and were told that there had been a suicide. We did not want to see what had happened, and in any case had to get to work, so hurried by, but later I ‘m sure I recall reading somewhere, or being told, that the suicide had been a young woman in her late teens who’d had an argument with her boyfriend.
Did you cover this event in your paper? Do you recollect it?
I am trying hard to keep my memories of different periods of my past in tact, and would be grateful if you remember this incident, that you contacted me to confirm that it happened as stated.
Many thanks in advance