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BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
if you know these people, grass them up!
http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/...dumping-bags/story-26360587-detail/story.html
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BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
no, but when you're sending 12 year old kids out into the world alone on the streets of london, trust me these stories get to you
Croham. My mum lives right near themprince george in thornton heath now sells nice cake and coffee.
the hills over at crooham in croydon are beautiful, as is grangewood park on a windy day like today.
If you are up that way, there is a great cafe in this lovely little Park just past the Beefeater near lloyds Park going up towards gravel hill
http://www.coachhousecafecroydon.co.uk/
Recommended, as is the little Park it is in.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
what a fucking bell piece.I don't feel the need to hype up Hackney, if you lived here you'd know how its simply one of the best places in London to live, well it is for me and my lifestyle anyway.
Croydon (or Little Britain as we commonly refer to it) is rubbish, violent and a cultural vaccum and anyone that says different is either dillusional, an utter chav or is easily impressed.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
there is no gentfrification in fort neef. a few more middle class families moving in, but apart from that zilch.
i prefer it that way, tbh. it is a community blessed with cheap housing, not some play ground for home county youngsters to swan around in before fing off to said home counties again.
i prefer it that way, tbh. it is a community blessed with cheap housing, not some play ground for home county youngsters to swan around in before fing off to said home counties again.
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BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
i really have to mention the YBR turkish bakery again in thornton heath. the cakes are brilliant and the turkish pastry type things are too. it makes cakes professionally, but is a cafe in the main with cakes, pastry, breads etc freshly cooked on site. always busy.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Grangewood Park has been saved by a group of local bods who call themselves Friends of Grangewood Park.
http://www.grangewood.btik.com/
They have organised events, funded by the council, like tree planting and bulb planting, and they have campaigned, successfully, for the play equipment to be fixed. And they have run carols in the park by candlelight. Oh, and they have a picnic in the park once a year in the summer, which is wonderful.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
It's not cheap, but the food is great. Definitely recommended.
Nearby there are some lovely gardens near there off Ballards Way, I think they're called Heathfield.
boohoo
No.
Went to Lloyds Park today - great playground - we had an ace time. The beautiful old tree sitting on its own looks like its dying though. It has been badly burnt and the leaves aren't looking too healthy. I will post some photos.
I had another nose around Croydon - love it - some good shops and the old areas of the town are interesting. I can't help but associate the word Croydon with something modern and dull but it is far from that.
I had another nose around Croydon - love it - some good shops and the old areas of the town are interesting. I can't help but associate the word Croydon with something modern and dull but it is far from that.
What road's that on? I'm in Thornton Heath once a month or so, my dad still lives there.
Aha, Brigstock Rd, near the train station.
http://www.ybrcake.com/
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Yeah, I like Lloyd Park. I've had a few picnics there as well, with my grand niece and, more latterly, my grandson.
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
I believe Heathfield was bequeathed to the Council by a local wealthy family and the old house was used as a staff training centre when I worked for them about ten years ago. I got to do a couple of days' training on really hot days and it was absolutely beautiful round there. Made 'Advanced Word' and 'Intermediate Excel' a bit more interesting when you got to look out over the countryside during the breaks.
ska invita
back on the other side
im surprised torys won in croydon - do they always?
eta: croydon central and croydon south....south makes more sense i guess, but still...
eta: croydon central and croydon south....south makes more sense i guess, but still...
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
It was very close in Croydon Central. Very close. Depressingly so. Just a few hundred more, and we would have made it. And the Labour candidate got more than 22 thousand votes - lots more than some MPs who were elected.
Croydon North is a Labour stronghold and Croydon South is a Tory stronghold. Central is a mixture of the two, so is marginal.
Bastard Tories.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
The Tories won Central by just 165 votes from Labour. I work in that constituency and saw how hard the Labour party were working to win the seat, pounding the streets, leafleting, canvassing, getting people out to vote etc. It is heartbreaking to see them lose by such a small amount.
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