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  2. Croydon - Wikipedia

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    Croydon High School is an independent (fee paying) girls' school in Selsdon, and a member of the Girls' Day School Trust. [180] Royal Russell School is a co-educational independent (fee paying) boarding and day school in South Croydon and is a member of the Headmasters' Conference. [181] Croydon is also home to three single-sex Catholic state ...

  3. List of people from the London Borough of Croydon - Wikipedia

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    Cicely Mary Barker (1895–1973), illustrator and artist; created the famous Flower Fairies books; born in Croydon and lived locally; studied at the Croydon School of Art; Jon Benjamin (1964–), Chief Executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews since 2005; born and grew up in Croydon, and educated at Park Hill Primary School and Dulwich ...

  4. London Borough of Croydon - Wikipedia

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    Croydon Cemetery is a large cemetery and crematorium west of Croydon and is most famous for the gravestone of Derek Bentley, who was wrongly hanged in 1953. Mitcham Common is an area of common land partly shared with the boroughs of Sutton and Merton. Almost 500,000 years ago, Mitcham Common formed part of the river bed of the River Thames. [73]

  5. Adam Pearson (actor) - Wikipedia

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    Adam Pearson was born in Croydon, London, on 6 January 1985, along with his identical twin brother, Neil. [4] After he hit his head at the age of five, the resultant bump persisted instead of healing. He was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis type I, which causes non-cancerous tumours to grow on nerve tissue. Both Adam and his brother Neil have ...

  6. List of people educated at Whitgift School - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Old Whitgiftians (abbreviated OWs), former pupils of Whitgift School, which is a British private boys' day and boarding school in South Croydon in London. Academia, medicine and science

  7. Amy Johnson - Wikipedia

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    Amy Johnson CBE (born 1 July 1903 – disappeared 5 January 1941) was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia.. Flying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, she set many long-distance records during the 1930s.

  8. Category : People from the London Borough of Croydon

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    Pages in category "People from the London Borough of Croydon" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  9. List of Peep Show characters - Wikipedia

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    The series follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties who live in a flat in Croydon, London. Mark Corrigan (Mitchell), who has steady employment for most of the series, and his lodger, Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne (Webb), an unemployed would-be musician, are the main characters of the show.