Ah good. Might try for that, though my daughter is getting a bit tjeenagery, and anything that smells like learning is getting the thumbs down.The main celebration open day is the end of March, my mum was on about taking my son to it as he is a transport nut.
What’s On – Historic Croydon Airport Trust
www.historiccroydonairport.org.uk
He is good. I went to a talk he gave when Outskirts came out and really enjoyed it.
Yes and no. West Croydon usually has lots of groups of young men hanging about outside shops which us fairly intimidating. Theres occasional obvious issues with fights. The police are often around. There have been murders in the area but I'm not sure it's any worse on that front than central or East Croydon. The article jumps from talking about West Croydon to Croydon as a whole and back again. I don't think it's that clear.Is this really a fair reflection of West Croydon? Shocking
Out on the 'microbeats' where police hope to reclaim London's streets from gangs
Crime has fallen in lockdown, and the Met has a new strategy to take back control. The Observer goes out with the ‘violence suppression unit’ in Croydonwww.theguardian.com
Not moving very far. I'm not sure I see the point if the main aim is to build a load of flyovers and unders at selhurst junction.East Croydon Station to move?
Plans announced to demolish and move East Croydon station
East Croydon station could be moving to a new location if plans for a major railway upgrade in the area are approved, and funding found.www.ianvisits.co.uk
If you follow the link to the consultation document it says it's Windmill Bridge (Addiscombe Rd) which will need to be replaced. Even then, with Gloucester Rd tight up against the railway line on one side it's going to be a tight squeeze to get the extra width for the new tracks.
I haven't been around there for several years but I remember the playground and small tower block. Is the Windmill Pub still there, anyone know?
Even of they levelled the park there are two or three places where peoples houses would need to be destroyed on each side, there are so many issues.
I used to live just off Gloucester Road. It would give me the willies if I still did.
I've just looked on google maps. I'd forgotten about Cross Road (I don't think I ever knew its name)
This is 16 year-old Louis Johnson ...
... on Monday 27 January 2020, he was stabbed to death shortly after 4.30 p.m. at East Croydon station on his way home to his mother in South Norwood.
Friends said the teenager, who was wearing a tag at the time he was killed, had once been 'badly behaved' but was getting his life back on track.
Earlier on the day of his killing, Louis had been attacked at 11.00 a.m. A 16-year-old friend, who gave her name as Ashanti from Catford, said Louis had told her of the first attack, adding: 'We know he was scared for his life and he knew he was going to lose his life.'
The second, fatal, attack followed a youth offending team meeting in Battersea, where staff offered him a £50 Tesco voucher if he was home with his mother by 6.00 p.m.
He was supposed to take a taxi but decided to get the train home.
He reached East Croydon station at around 4.30pm and was ambushed while crossing a footbridge connecting two platforms.
A 16-year-old boy has now been arrested in Balham by detectives investigating the fatal stabbing.
Anyone with information should contact British Transport Police via text on 61016 or by calling 0800 405 040 and quoting reference 395 of 27/01/2020. Crimestoppers can also be called anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Great timing. I found buried on the website that it actually started on the 26th of may. Not very clear. I only have one actual parking meter thing in my road, and apparently that was the only thing that mentioned that there was a suspension. Most people use those ringo phone thing or the website. There is no way of knowing for most people that the parking suspension has been lifted. Mind you, they didn't really advertise that it was in place either.
