Croydon - nightlife, accommodation, things to do and general chat

[Callie]

I hope they don't build on roundshaw downs as there's skylarks nesting there
There was some suggestion of holding a festival but I'm not sure that's a good idea with cars bombing past at 40+ mph also wouldn't be good for the wildlife!

 

[D'wards]

Forgive me if I'm misremembering, but didn't Roundshaw have a pub called the Merry Go Round which was occasionally burnt to the ground?

Roundshaw was always considered a well rough estate round my way, and I grew up in New Addington!

 

[Guineveretoo]

I just heard about the Croydon Aerodrome museum just before lockdown 1.
Think that's open first Sunday of the month, or was should I say.

Me and me Pa were planning a visit

It is lovely. I have been a couple of times and really enjoyed it. It is/was run by volunteers, who give guided tours and who are really enthusiastic.

 

[D'wards]

Visitor Centre – Historic Croydon Airport Trust

www.historiccroydonairport.org.uk

 

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Forgive me if I'm misremembering, but didn't Roundshaw have a pub called the Merry Go Round which was occasionally burnt to the ground?

Roundshaw was always considered a well rough estate round my way, and I grew up in New Addington!

Touching the edge of Roundshaw, it didn't appear too bad and I also new it a little from years gone by.
www.closedpubs.co.uk/surrey/wallington_merrygoround.html

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I just heard about the Croydon Aerodrome museum just before lockdown 1.
Think that's open first Sunday of the month, or was should I say.

Me and me Pa were planning a visit

Is that the thing in the top of the old croydon airport?

 

[D'wards]

Is that the thing in the top of the old croydon airport?

Think it is now a hotel where my dear old Nan worked for years

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Visitor Centre – Historic Croydon Airport Trust

www.historiccroydonairport.org.uk

someone i worked with in last london based job said it was good, haven't quite got round to it yet.

do we need an urban outing when such things are allowed again?

 

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Think it is now a hotel where my dear old Nan worked for years

Not where I was thinking of, unless you mean the building next door to croydon airport that used to be a hotel.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

someone i worked with in last london based job said it was good, haven't quite got round to it yet.

do we need an urban outing when such things are allowed again?

Yeah that.
I filmed there once for a TV show with Adam Hart Davis. I loved my job when I was allowed to make history shows like that.

 

[D'wards]

Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo to Australia, took off from Croydon Aerodrome.

There's something super cool about the pioneering female aviators, apart from the untimely deaths of course

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I like the fact that all the big Hollywood stars all (pretty much) few in and stayed in Croydon in that little hotel next door. Croydon was the UK's doorstep to the world.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[TopCat]

I just heard about the Croydon Aerodrome museum just before lockdown 1.
Think that's open first Sunday of the month, or was should I say.

Me and me Pa were planning a visit

Worth a look. My first factory job making aircraft bits was nearby.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I thought westfield was over anyway.

John Lewis cancels plans for new Croydon shop in Westfield blow

The move casts further doubt on the long-planned Westfield development in the town centre

www.mylondon.news

 

[Puddy_Tat]

on flickr today, thornton heath pond when it was a pond (probably mid 1920s)

 

[D'wards]

There used to be an Addington Aerodrome- located where Milne Park is now before the estate was there.
Id never heard of this before, nor had Old Pa D'wards who grew up there, a did I.

 

[Maggot]

There used to be an Addington Aerodrome- located where Milne Park is now before the estate was there.
Id never heard of this before, nor had Old Pa D'wards who grew up there, a did I.

I'd never heard of it before, and I worked at Milne Park.

I was in Addington yesterday and saw this for the first time.

 

[D'wards]

I'd never heard of it before, and I worked at Milne Park.

I was in Addington yesterday and saw this for the first time.

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Milne Park - UK Airfield Guide

www.ukairfieldguide.net

 

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Recent pics of Croydon Aerodrome visitor centre

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Such a cute building.

 

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[D'wards]

Croydon has almost become the go-to reference for bad architecture in a town.

So what are the nice looking buildings of Croyesdene?
I'll start with the obvious one- the Town Hall

 

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There were some reasonable buildings by West Croydon bus station. There are some interesting bits between Surrey street and the church. Rather odd is the dome (towards top centre) in North End.

 

[D'wards]

This is a pretty interesting and unique building, when you think about it

 

[TopCat]

Has Croydon burst into life since Poundland opened again?

 

[Johnny Doe]

I once broke someone's leg in a football match in West Wickham.

I also met a girl I was seeing from Leeds at the Whitgift, as she was a buyer for Marks and Sparks and had to do a store visit there. Crazy times.

 

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This is a pretty interesting and unique building, when you think about itView attachment 267248

Is that thing now flats? It certainly hampered the redevelopment of the station infrastructure, bloody thing.

 

[D'wards]

Is that thing now flats? It certainly hampered the redevelopment of the station infrastructure, bloody thing.

Not sure. I live on the same road and pass it on my way to Sainsbos, and you get a lot of office type bods with lanyards having an oily rag outside, so its defo still partly commercial use

 

[D'wards]

Surrey Street Pumping Station