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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. [178] 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. [179] Croydon is also home to three single-sex Catholic state ...
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 .
Dame Peggy Ashcroft (1907–1991), actress, born in Croydon and lived in George Street as a child; honoured in the naming of the Ashcroft Theatre, part of the Fairfield Halls; was a school friend of architect Jane Drew [1] Lionel Atwill (1885-1946), stage and screen actor, was born in Croydon [2]
The town centre also includes the famous Surrey Street market, one of the only lasting town centre markets in the Croydon and South London areas, and over 3 indoor shopping centres. The Whitgift Centre and the newest Centrale centre. Park Place will re-establish Croydon as one of the UK's
The low level station remain open, although passenger numbers at that station also fell after the fire of 1936 and many services were diverted to serve London–Croydon routes instead of the Victoria–London Bridge route. Rail travel was in decline across the UK in the 1960s and 1970s when the Beeching Axe was imposed. In the 1970s, two outer ...
Croydon's skyline has been built up mostly since the mid-20th century. No. 1 Croydon held the title of tallest structure in Croydon for 38 years until Altitude 25 is built. This was replaced in 2016 by Saffron Square, a 2016 Carbuncle Cup-nominated high-rise completed as part of Croydon Vision 2020. Other high-rise buildings proposed to be ...
This category includes people from the Croydon neighbourhood of the London Borough of Croydon in Greater London, England. It was part of Surrey until 1965.
The research found that the words "Croydon", "museum" and "history" were all "turn-offs", and so the new institution was given the neutral name of "Lifetimes". [9] [10] [11] Sally MacDonald, the principal museum officer, later explained: Croydon's museum had to be new, different, modern, daring, high profile, glossy, sponsorable and popular.