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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]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
Anacrostic may be the most accurate term used, and hence most common, as it is a portmanteau of anagram and acrostic, referencing the fact that the solution is an anagram of the clue answers, and the author of the quote is hidden in the clue answers acrostically.
Terry and June - Purley, London Borough of Croydon; The Thick of It - Westminster; The Thin Blue Line - London borough of Gasforth (fictional) This Life - South London; The Tomorrow People; Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town; Top Boy; Trust - City of London; Upstairs, Downstairs - London townhouse of the Bellamy family at 165 Eaton Place ...
The original Kennards store in Croydon was knocked down and replaced by a new Debenham store. The closure of this store was announced in 2020, bringing to the end of a period of more than a century and a half of trading from the site as either Kennards or its direct successor [ 6 ] while Debenhams are still located in the old Staines store.