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

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ask your daughter to show you a few photos of the type of style she wants - hairdressers will want to know if it's long/short hair and if it's a complete restyle or a trim
Here's some more hairdressing vocabulary Hairdressing Vocabulary - Styles and Cuts - My English Language

I guess I am getting a wash cut and blow dry then?
If I ask my daughter to pick a style, she will probably show me some manga. I will get her to compile some stuff.
I think she needs a lot of thinning out (if that's a thing?), it seems to have become quite thick.
What price range will I be sweating about?

 

[Miss-Shelf]

I guess I am getting a wash cut and blow dry then?
If I ask my daughter to pick a style, she will probably show me some manga. I will get her to compile some stuff.
I think she needs a lot of thinning out (if that's a thing?), it seems to have become quite thick.
What price range will I be sweating about?

anything from 30 to 60 would cover that

 

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anything from 30 to 60 would cover that

Holy shit!

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Holy shit!

if it's less than 30 let me know: I would deffo go there

 

[Miss-Shelf]

real life anime hair....https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/339107046938789677/

 

[D'wards]

An Urban coach trip to Margate? (It's a great place to have drinks in! )

Can we go to Benbom Brothers too?

Maybe get an ill advised British bulldog tattoo

 

[D'wards]

Schools out of borough until Shirley High n Ruskin, then Croydon tech.
All best forgotten.

Castle Hill infants and junior in Addo, then Ashburton High then John Ruskin sixth form.

 

[D'wards]

Does anyone recognise this gaff? Apparently they are filming the new Darling Buds of May in Croydon and this is where they are filming.
Looks a bit grandiose for the Larkins farm but its all about angles innit

 

[Leafster]

Does anyone recognise this gaff? Apparently they are filming the new Darling Buds of May in Croydon and this is where they are filming.
Looks a bit grandiose for the Larkins farm but its all about angles innit

According to one of our local online rags, they were filming at Flanchford Farm just outside Reigate but I'm not sure that's the same farmhouse as in your photo.

 

[Leafster]

I've just re-read the article and I've realised your photo is the North Downs Primary School in Betchworth!

Home

www.northdowns.surrey.sch.uk

 

[D'wards]

Ahh not Croydon at all then. Thanks

 

[D'wards]

Sabrina Bartlett rides a horse on set of Darling Buds Of May remake

Work has been underway on the highly anticipated remake of classic TV series The Darling Buds Of May for the past several weeks.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Leafster]

Sabrina Bartlett rides a horse on set of Darling Buds Of May remake

Work has been underway on the highly anticipated remake of classic TV series The Darling Buds Of May for the past several weeks.

www.dailymail.co.uk

It's good to see that the DM are keeping up their long tradition of journalistic accuracy with the comment that the series is being "filmed in the Croydon area"

 

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Just turned up this. Who would have thought groups like this played the greyhound. Saying that, I'm told that I saw a queen gig there

 

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Wish it was still a venue, would be amazing to have something like that in Croydon again. . . . and Beanos.

 

[GarveyLives]

The following was broadcast by Channel Four news on 20 May 2021. A few hours later (in the early hours of 21 May 2021), a 42-year-old man suffered “life-changing injuries” after being shot in South End, close to the Skylark Wetherspoons pub:

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Wish it was still a venue, would be amazing to have something like that in Croydon again. . . . and Beanos.

I was talking to a colleague and discovered he used to work next door to the cartoon but didn't know the greyhound he is into music also and has Steve hacket tickets

 

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I was talking to a colleague and discovered he used to work next door to the cartoon but didn't know the greyhound he is into music also and has Steve hacket tickets

I can't believe I didn't go to those three nights of the Fall at the Cartoon just before it closed. I'd love to just walk to and home from a major gig.
I think it was because I was working long hours the other side of London at the time. Would not have felt so fancy.

The Greyhound would have been great in it's day though.

Layers of London

www.layersoflondon.org

 

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I can't believe I didn't go to those three nights of the Fall at the Cartoon just before it closed. I'd love to just walk to and home from a major gig.
I think it was because I was working long hours the other side of London at the time. Would not have felt so fancy.

The Greyhound would have been great in it's day though.

Layers of London

www.layersoflondon.org

I was at one of the Fall gigs.

Brilliant

 

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I can't believe I didn't go to those three nights of the Fall at the Cartoon just before it closed. I'd love to just walk to and home from a major gig.
I think it was because I was working long hours the other side of London at the time. Would not have felt so fancy.

The Greyhound would have been great in it's day though.

Layers of London

www.layersoflondon.org

When I lived in Croydon I sort of remember it taking 3 maybe 4 hours to walk home from a gig. Can't have been more than 2 miles

 

[TopCat]

Croydon appears dead now. Please, poke it with a stick.

 

[D'wards]

Was reminiscing about Turtles and googled it and this link came up.

Still missed over a decade later

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/turtles-of-croydon-rip.195351/&ved=2ahUKEwiB7dmg9OfwAhXIC2MBHS_ZCDAQFjABegQIGxAC&usg=AOvVaw36FYOZENTAsvIZjOIk8n84&cshid=1622051429272

 

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I know they were in Park At, opposite Pears Son & Webster (solrs). Were they on just two floors or did they have intermediate type ones or even a basement?

 

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I know they were in Park At, opposite Pears Son & Webster (solrs). Were they on just two floors or did they have intermediate type ones or even a basement?

Two floors and a basement. Proper shop with men in brown overall coats to help out.
Big haberdashery and craft section too.

 

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Regret to say I much preferred Model Zone or L&H Cloake.

 

[mack]

I miss the indoor flea market that used to be on Park Street, used to get all my dodgy overcoats and fingerless gloves from there.
Can't remember now if it burnt down or just closed down?

 

[D'wards]

I miss the indoor flea market that used to be on Park Street, used to get all my dodgy overcoats and fingerless gloves from there.
Can't remember now if it burnt down or just closed down?

My pal uses to paint those little miniatures and we used to go there to get them.
Had a distinctive smell i now think might have been patchouli oil.
I think it closed down and turned into a shit nightclub after extensive rebuilding- Reflex then Popworld. A bouncer murdered a lad there by shoving him down the stairs IIRC

 

[TopCat]

Was reminiscing about Turtles and googled it and this link came up.

Still missed over a decade later

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/turtles-of-croydon-rip.195351/&ved=2ahUKEwiB7dmg9OfwAhXIC2MBHS_ZCDAQFjABegQIGxAC&usg=AOvVaw36FYOZENTAsvIZjOIk8n84&cshid=1622051429272

Always used to meet dates outside Turtles.

 

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Seems a bit daft for quite a few reasons. Transport being one.

Locals concerned over ‘mini Glastonbury’ in Addington Park

Residents in Addington Village are filing lengthy objections to a licence application which, if the council allows, could see more than 11,000 festival-goers descend on a Croydon conservation area …

insidecroydon.com

 

[Maggot]

I was talking to a colleague and discovered he used to work next door to the cartoon but didn't know the greyhound he is into music also and has Steve hacket tickets

Maybe because the Greyhound closed earlier. When I lived in Croydon in the 80s I used to go to gigs at the Cartoon, but the Greyhound has already shut down.