brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
OK...here's what it says on mine...c&p that into google and it might/should take you to the readable version:
The rise, fall and rebirth of the shopping centre
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The rise, fall and rebirth of the shopping centre
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
When you click on it, it tells you the title.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Someone else had posted that. I was just letting you know that it wasn’t showing for others…
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
Love this story about Charlie Chaplin at Croydon Airport.
londonist.com
When Charlie Chaplin Was 'Kidnapped' At Croydon Airport
That's one way to get him to visit your cinema...
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Addington/Shirley Hills was one of my playgrounds as a kid, then It became something else, but goodness 
GarveyLives
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24-year old student nurse Owami Davies, of Grays, Essex, left her family home on Monday 4 July 2022. She was last seen just after midnight, at 12.03 a.m., on Derby Road, West Croydon, on Thursday 7 July 2022.
As Owami was in "a vulnerable state" when she was last seen over three weeks ago, the Metropolitan Police are now "extremely concerned" for her welfare:
Anyone with information about Owami's whereabouts is asked to call police on 101 or tweet @MetCC quoting reference 22MIS025307.
Alternatively, contact the Missing People charity in confidence on 116 000.
As Owami was in "a vulnerable state" when she was last seen over three weeks ago, the Metropolitan Police are now "extremely concerned" for her welfare:
Anyone with information about Owami's whereabouts is asked to call police on 101 or tweet @MetCC quoting reference 22MIS025307.
Alternatively, contact the Missing People charity in confidence on 116 000.
GarveyLives
Well-Known Member
24-year old student nurse Owami Davies, of Grays, Essex, left her family home on Monday 4 July 2022. She was last seen just after midnight, at 12.03 a.m., on Derby Road, West Croydon, on Thursday 7 July 2022.
As Owami was in "a vulnerable state" when she was last seen over three weeks ago, the Metropolitan Police are now "extremely concerned" for her welfare:
Anyone with information about Owami's whereabouts is asked to call police on 101 or tweet @MetCC quoting reference 22MIS025307.
Alternatively, contact the Missing People charity in confidence on 116 000.
A disturbing turn of events:
Owami Davies: Murder arrests over missing student nurse
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Some kind of rave in Lloyd Park,
Flipping noisy considering I don't live that close.
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I had to google to find out what it was. Apparently it's been a bit of a shock to residents closer to the event too. My god this would drive me potty if I was any further up the road. I'm am 15 - 20 minutes walk away.
SHUT UP!!!!!
Flipping noisy considering I don't live that close.
Lloyd Park locals confront council vacuum over two-day ‘rave’
For the second time this summer, Croydon Council has caused anger among the people they are meant to serve, with wide-ranging complaints from residents living in and around Lloyd Park they have had…
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SHUT UP!!!!!
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I don't think so. Not that I remember. I think it caused similar trouble elsewhere. (I might be wrong).
Though I always imagine the residents of those houses that face the park have an idyllic life waking up in a big house by a lovey open space, it's an event that would drive me absolutely potty. I'm exactly 1km from lloyd park and the music has been pissing me off.
People have been told not to park in the surrounding area but why wouldn't they? It's actually relatively cheap for croydon.
The cafe wasn't even properly informed apparently. Last I heard was that it was in Addington park, and I just remember thinking that it was a stupid place to have it, but at least it's 'kind of' away from most people.
The thing that would piss me off the most (apart from it actually taking place) was the apparent lack of information.
I never used to find the lloyd park festival (or mele) annoying. I could hear that, but it wasn't so thumping and relentless. Also I suppose there was something far more happy and community orientated about that weekend (RIP).
Callie
Pivoting
Yeah GN will be very much a £££ deal and I can't see many locals being interested in free tickets.
Bass heavy is always gonna travel more sound wise but I wonder how much it was being monitored? Do you know what time it finished?
I don't have much of a problem with parks being used for festivals and the like but there has to be limits to protect residents and the park itself. I doubt very much whatever money the council make from this will go back into parks and green spaces.
Bass heavy is always gonna travel more sound wise but I wonder how much it was being monitored? Do you know what time it finished?
I don't have much of a problem with parks being used for festivals and the like but there has to be limits to protect residents and the park itself. I doubt very much whatever money the council make from this will go back into parks and green spaces.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
10pm. . . . And it went right up to it. I could hear it and was waiting for it to stop.
Same all over again today until 9pm.
I went jogging though the park today, before it started. Slightly annoying the parts they blocked off. I actually had to leave the park and and cross the tramlines to get around it. Then getting back in, they only left a tiny route through the cafe to get past. They blocked off all entrances. Staff seemed to even be blocking me from entering by the cafe as it was. I think that might just have been down to a tight squeeze and general rudeness though.
Callie
Pivoting
I don't know what gams are?!
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I have to say I have not heard a single peep out of the rave thing at all today. Very weird considering it sounded like a party two doors down all day yesterday.
danski
"vibey"
Wind direction changed?
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Obviously wind direction makes a big difference, but that much? Was it blowing in exactly the right direction yesterday (all day) and the wrong one all day today? I really can't hear a think at all today.
danski
"vibey"
Lol I was asking you. I don’t live near there! 
I think I it can make a big difference as well as heat.
Better explanations here
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I think I it can make a big difference as well as heat.
Better explanations here
Why does wind direction significantly affect sound propagation?
I live about 2 miles from a race track. Some days the noise from testing is extremely noticeable, Other days despite the exact same testing activity, there is little-to-no noise at all. This is m...
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I can now hear it a tiny bit.
I reckon it must have been turned down today.
I reckon it must have been turned down today.
Callie
Pivoting
I did wonder. I think Queens Gardens has had a major revamp but who knows what goes on after dark
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I'm slightly confused by it's major revamp. It appeared to be fine, but while the tower block beside it was being built they wiped the whole thing out, levelled it. Then after a very long pause they started to build back the basics just as hit had been before. Finally they removed some of the grass and mud they started to put down, and built soft play areas and other grass-less areas instead.
I'd quite like to know what the whole story is.
From what I gather some, or all of it was given to the new block of flats as private land, but then they couldn't actually have it because it wasn't theirs? Was this why it was levelled, but then built back exactly as before (stairs and slopes had all been taken out then put back)??
TopCat
Putin fanboy
They built loads of utility gas electric water under the gardens and then put it back.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Its really bad.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
But didn't they do that on the side by the flats that they had walled off?
Their utilities stretched right to the other end of the park by the underground carpark entrance?
I'm not suggesting they don't, but it was always exposed and I don't remember seeing anything of the like being put in (I went past at least twice a week).
Anyway it's done now and it looks a bit shit. . . but then so does the rest of Croydon. When I arrived in Croydon in the early 2000s it looked like it was really on the up, but instead of more being poured into the glass, it slowly drained.
It's obviously not just a Croydon problem though. I am the member of facebook groups of other places I have lived and they are all suffering from the same problems, same resident complaints.
My biggest worry for Croydon is parks and woodlands being sold off, or being let to rot. The gardener at coombe gardens had just been let go with no replacement, and as I understand it two more council members dealing with parks and woodland sites and issues have been let go. Will this slow applications or just prevent them from being blocked at all (I may be over worrying on this issue).
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After years of living down that way, Coombe Gardens was only a recent discovery of mine, that's sad, but so was caring up Lloyds park and Addington Hills for the trams.
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