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The Croydon Advertiser listed the approval as an "historic night for Croydon". [5] North End was the home of Allders department store, opened in 1862, which later became the flagship store of a chain extending across England and Wales. The company went into administration in 2005, and the Croydon store, the last to survive, closed in 2012.
English: Grant's, High Street, Croydon. Grant's was formerly Croydon's leading department store. It was rebuilt in 2000, retaining just the facade (much of which collapsed and had to be painstakingly reassembled) and re-opened in 2002 as a multi-screen cinema and entertainments complex, the top of which can be seen looming into the sky above the Victorian brickwork.
Croydon High Street runs from South Croydon up to the point where it meets the street called North End. North End is the main shopping street, while Croydon High Street is the main restaurant quarter. The High Street is also home to Wrencote House, a Grade II* listed building. Dating from the late 17th or early 18th centuries, and probably ...
Records of street directories dating back to 1851 give the names E.C. Johnson & Thorpe, though no detail of the usage of the premises at the time. After an unoccupied period, the shop was a pork butchers for around 20 years. From 1900 for 58 years, it was lived in by J. Gladwish, who established Gladwish's, a grocery and provisions shop.
The building has been designed to maximise the view of west Croydon from the eastern windows including the IKEA Towers landmarks on Purley Way.The building also has solar panels on the roof according to a report which was highlighting Croydon's Ashburton Learning Village on 24dash.com. Centrale does not have numbered levels (as do many UK shopping centres), but instead names them as Keeley ...
The Whitgift Centre is a large shopping centre in the town centre of Croydon, opening in stages between 1968 and 1970. [1] The centre comprises 1,302,444 sq ft (121,001 m 2) of retail space, and was the largest covered shopping development in Greater London until the opening of Westfield London at White City in 2008.
Grants of Croydon is an entertainment complex at 14–32 High Street, Croydon, London. Originally built in 1894, Grants became a Grade II listed building in 1990. [1] In 2000 Grants was re-developed into an entertainment centre. It was bought by Scottish Widows in early 2010.
Market stall, 1978 A shop on Surrey Street. Surrey Street is located behind the Grants of Croydon entertainment complex. The market stretches the whole length of the road. In 2024 there were 68 stalls in the street, [1] and shops including Iceland and KFC. The market is regularly used as a location for television, film and advertising.