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St Cyprian's Greek Orthodox Primary Academy, Thornton Heath; St James The Great RC Primary and Nursery School, Thornton Heath; St John's CE Primary School, Shirley; St Joseph's RC Infant School, Upper Norwood; St Joseph's RC Junior School, Upper Norwood; St Mark's CE Primary Academy, South Norwood; St Mary's RC Infant School, Croydon; St Mary's ...
Until the arrival of the railway in 1862, Thornton Heath was focused on an area 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of the Whitehorse manor house (now a school), at the locality on the main London–Sussex road known as Thornton Heath Pond in the parish of Croydon St John the Baptist. Between the manor house and pond was an isolated farmhouse.
Thornton Heath had developed at the right time to reap the benefits of a modern system of urban government. In 1881, the vestry of the newly established St Paul's church published Thornton Heath's first official population return as a separate parish, but this was a fleeting glimpse of the old parochial system.
St Cyprian's School was an English preparatory school for boys, which operated in the early 20th century in Eastbourne, East Sussex. Like other preparatory schools, its purpose was to train pupils to do well enough in the examinations (usually taken around the age of 13) to gain admission to leading public schools , and to provide an ...
The school was founded in 1931 as a boys' school in Thornton Road, Thornton Heath, near the junction with Mitcham Road and is close to Mitcham Common.In 1953 work began on a new school nearby in Mitcham Road, being opened in 1956 by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher.
Whitehorse Manor Junior School is a junior school for pupils aged between seven and eleven years. The school is in Thornton Heath.In April 2011 the school became part of the first Academy Trust in Croydon and the running of the school became part of the responsibility of the Pegasus Academy Trust, a public company limited by guarantee.
"Such, Such Were the Joys" is a long autobiographical essay by the English writer George Orwell.. In the piece, Orwell describes his experiences between the ages of eight and thirteen, in the years before and during World War I (from September 1911 to December 1916), while a pupil at a preparatory school: St Cyprian's, in the seaside town of Eastbourne, in Sussex.
5 March 1907 – the foundation stone for what would soon become St Cyprian's Cathedral was laid by Bishop William Thomas Gaul of Mashonaland. “Considerable anxiety was expressed by many even unconnected with the Anglican Church,” reported the local press, “that the building to be erected should be worthy of the great place it will in all probability occupy as the future Cathedral of the ...