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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 ...
On 20 March 2015, it was announced that a second Boxpark would be built in Croydon to coincide with the regeneration project Croydon Vision 2020. [14] The centre was built with a £3 million loan from the Croydon Council and intended to be a temporary structure that would last for five years, until homes and offices could be developed on the site.
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.
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.
Beanos (left) in 2009. Beanos was a second-hand record shop, once the largest in Europe, [1] located in the South London borough of Croydon.It was founded by musician David Lashmar in 1975 and continued to expand through three increasingly larger shops, ending up in an old printing works in Middle Street in the 1990s.
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.
The junction of Surrey Street (to the left) and the High Street (to the right) Surrey Street Market (also known as Croydon Market) [1] is a street market located in Surrey Street, Croydon, south London. Records of a market on the site date back to the 13th century. It operates six days a week, Monday to Saturday, and mainly sells fruit and ...
Rosslyn (/ ˈ r ɒ z l ɪ n / ROZ-lin) is a heavily urbanized unincorporated area in Northern Virginia located in the northeastern corner of Arlington County, Virginia, north of Arlington National Cemetery and directly across the Potomac River from Georgetown and Foggy Bottom in Washington, D.C.