I was raised in Selsdon, near Croydon in Surrey. Apparently while I was in my pram I was taken to a hillside and shown the Crystal Palace burning down. We had a small garden, so when the war began ...

Back in 1970 Ted Heath gathered his shadow cabinet here before the General Election to devise a Tory manifesto which was attacked by Labour for appealing to 'Selsdon Man'. The last round was ...

Birch Selsdon Hotel, formerly Selsdon Park Hotel (before undertaking 18 months of refurbishment in 2022), has remained closed since November 2023. The recent talk of possible buyers or development ...

Stories categorised in 'Surrey'. These stories may contain references to other themes. I was raised in Selsdon, near Croydon in Surrey. My dad was an air raid warden and would have to go and ...

The 3rd Baron Selsdon, who has died aged 86, was a banker, businessman and from 1999 to 2021 one of the Conservative peers elected to continue serving in the Lords after Tony Blair’s cull of the ...

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Birch Hotel Group’s new site Birch Selsdon is due to open its creatively fuelled hotel and members’ club in spring 2023, and if its sister site, Birch Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, is any indicator, it ...

Birch has opened its second UK outpost in the Selsdon countryside on the border of Greater London and Surrey. Its atmosphere mirrors the original hotel and members’ club in Hertfordshire — one built ...