It is also conveniently placed for a number of others located within a couple of miles from the village including Croydon High School, Harris Academy Purley, Riddlesdown Collegiate, Royal Russell School, The Quest Academy, Thomas More Catholic School, Warlingham School, and Whitgift School.
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It consisted of the main settlements of Coulsdon and Purley, both in the parish of Coulsdon, along with the parish of Sanderstead and (from 1933) Farleigh.
Eliot Hodgkin (19 June 1905–30 May 1987) was an English painter, born in Purley Lodge, Purley-on-Thames near Pangbourne, Berkshire.
This national record was achieved at the AMF Purley in South London, England in the Surrey Country trials on 7 January 2006.
All the while Head describes everything in plural, i.e. "Rottingdeans", "main roads near Pirbrights" (in the movie And Now for Something Completely Different the other route is mentioned, starting in Manchesters and going down through Oxfords, Londons and Purleys to Dovers, and from there to Nairobis and so on).
Grabban went to Cumnor House School in South Croydon, where his footballing talent was noticed, and was spotted by Croydon Schools and Purley Panthers teams.
For the last 30 years of his life, Menpes retired to Iris Court, Pangbourne from where he managed his Purley-on-Thames business, "Menpes Fruit Farms".
Coulsdon College was formerly Purley College and that was formed from Purley High School for Boys and Purley High School for Girls.
Purley Way Lido operated from 1935 to 1980; the diving board remains in the middle of a garden centre.
Ringway 3 was planned as a new motorway running either through or around the periphery of the capital's outer suburbs linking areas such as Barnet, Epping, Dartford, Purley and Chessington.
Other members of the principal cast of The Golden Spiders who would continue in the A&E series A Nero Wolfe Mystery include Bill Smitrovich (Inspector Cramer), Colin Fox (Fritz Brenner), Fulvio Cecere (Fred Durkin), R.D. Reid (Sergeant Purley Stebbins) and Trent McMullen (Orrie Cather).