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Croydon Clocktower, developed by the London Borough of Croydon in the mid-1990s, houses a state-of-the-art library, a performance venue in the old reference library, the David Lean Cinema (a small, independent, art-house cinema) and the Museum of Croydon, which details Croydon's history. The building links into Croydon Town Hall and some areas ...
Croydon Airport (ICAO: EGCR) [a] was the UK's only international airport during the interwar period. [1] [2] It opened in 1920, located near Croydon, then part of Surrey.Built in a Neoclassical style, [3] it was developed as Britain's main airport, handling more cargo, mail, and passengers than any other UK airport at the time. [2]
Croydon South had twice seen Croydon's only Labour MPs before the 1990s. David Rees-Williams held the seat from the 1945 Labour landslide until unfavourable boundary changes in 1950. David Winnick won the seat in 1966 before losing in 1970. Otherwise the seat, and indeed the rest of Croydon, had always been firm Conservative territory.
All three Croydon constituencies were abolished at the 1955 general election, re-creating Croydon South and creating Croydon North East and Croydon North West seats. For all of its history Croydon East had Conservative Members of Parliament. It saw three elections: the 1950 general election, the 1951 general election and a 1954 by-election.
Croydon West was a short-lived seat for the 1950 general election, creating three seats in the County Borough of Croydon from the previous two, also taking in areas from the East Surrey constituency to the south. Croydon West took in areas of the former Croydon North and Croydon South constituencies, and East Surrey.
The Croydon North West constituency was created for the 1955 general election, just five years after a previous re-organisation of the three seats in the County Borough of Croydon. It took in areas of the former Croydon North and Croydon West constituencies and bordered Croydon North East and Croydon South , as well as, when originally created ...
The Croydon power stations refers to a pair of demolished coal-fired power stations and to a gas-fired power station in the Purley Way area of Croydon, London. The coal-fired stations operated from 1896 until 1984, and the gas-fired station opened in 2005. Croydon B power station's chimneys have been retained as a local landmark.
Croydon was hit by extensive rioting in August 2011 during the 2011 England riots. Reeves, a historic furniture store established in 1867, that gave its name to a junction and tram stop in the town centre, was destroyed by arson. [19] Croydon is currently [when?] the subject of a series of £3.5 billion development projects, called Croydon ...