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[TopCat]

I have a strong suspicion that the place was named after a saint, though.

What is an irreligious saint?

St Helier Estate

The St Helier Estate was built by the London County Council in the early 1930s. At 825 acres, spanning the boundary of Morden and Carshalton, it is the second largest of the Council’s cottage…

mertonhistoricalsociety.org.uk

 

[ouirdeaux]

And you're saying that the estate was not named after a saint, but was a purely coincidental concatenation of letters? Hey, it's a theory.

 

[TopCat]

And you're saying that the estate was not named after a saint, but was a purely coincidental concatenation of letters? Hey, it's a theory.

The link explains who the area and estate and hospital are named after. Have a look perhaps. It’s not a saint.

 

[brogdale]

I have a strong suspicion that the place was named after a saint, though.

What is an irreligious saint?

A Baroness, none the less.

 

[TopCat]

Mary Jeune, Baroness St Helier - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[brogdale]

Mary Jeune, Baroness St Helier - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Mary Jane

 

[ouirdeaux]

You can go back as far as you like with X named after Y named after Z, but at some point something (probably the place in Jersey) was named after a saint known as St Helier. About which the average person knows nothing apart from the name. I am not sure why people appear to wish to spend so much time obscuring this unremarkable fact.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

You can go back as far as you like with X named after Y named after Z, but at some point something (probably the place in Jersey) was named after a saint known as St Helier. About which the average person knows nothing apart from the name. I am not sure why people appear to wish to spend so much time obscuring this unremarkable fact.

Helier - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[TopCat]

Helier - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

But the area and estate blah blah ain't named after that dead religious type. It was all named after a local dignitary.. No one should diminish the contribution she made by writing her out of history in favour of some charlatan purporting to do miracles and so on.

 

[Maggot]

Those KFC ads that they're showing during the World Cup are filmed in Croydon. One of them is on Westfield Rd by Wandle Park, I recognise some of the other locations but can't place them.

 

[brogdale]

Those KFC ads that they're showing during the World Cup are filmed in Croydon. One of them is on Westfield Rd by Wandle Park, I recognise some of the other locations but can't place them.

The two guys going over the Roman way flyover?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Those KFC ads that they're showing during the World Cup are filmed in Croydon. One of them is on Westfield Rd by Wandle Park, I recognise some of the other locations but can't place them.

Is there a link to a you tube ad? I don't watch football.

 

[D'wards]

On the itv idents its a view of Central Croydon- Nestles and Taberner House and that.

And the Lucozade advert with the bloke dancing down the road is filmed in my grandparents old road, Chaucer Green in addiscombe

 

[Maggot]

The two guys going over the Roman way flyover?

That's a different one. Thought I recognised it but wasn't sure.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

There was some recent advert that was filmed on Gloucester road. I forget what it was for. Some kid was doing the hoola hoop.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Those KFC ads that they're showing during the World Cup are filmed in Croydon. One of them is on Westfield Rd by Wandle Park, I recognise some of the other locations but can't place them.

Ah, just saw the underpass in a KFC thing.

Ooh ooh, and now an ITV ident. Famous.

 

[Maggot]

Ah, just saw the underpass in a KFC thing.

Ooh ooh, and now an ITV ident. Famous.

Yes, just saw that too.

 

[D'wards]

There was some recent advert that was filmed on Gloucester road. I forget what it was for. Some kid was doing the hoola hoop.

Yeah that's the lucozade one. His house is chaucer green but you see him in a coupla different local locations

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Yeah that's the lucozade one. His house is chaucer green but you see him in a coupla different local locations

Wonder what he was doing all the way over there. Not sure I have ever actually been to Chaucer Green. I did wonder if that other location was also in Croydon.
That Mika video for his song about fat girls is filmed in surrey street market etc.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Oh, and this Wet Leg video.



During lock down I did a lot of running around empty car parks so recognised it from the first shot.

 

[D'wards]

Lovely

 

[Leafster]

I'm sure we've had this one before but...



The building they're in for part of it is the Friends Meeting House on Park Lane (opposite my old office)

 

[Leafster]

While I was looking for that I found a BTS video which shows more of Croydon and mentions the NightWatch charity.

About Nightwatch | Croydon Nightwatch

» About Nightwatch | Caring for homeless people in Croydon since 1976

croydonnightwatch.org.uk

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Lovely

Well this of course

Also check out the Johnny Moped documentary on Netflix for a bit of 60s/70s croydon history.

 

[brogdale]

I suspect that this one has also been up before, but it's such a splendid video (using Surrey street) that it would bear repetition anyway...

 

[hash tag]

A large hospital with a huge catchment area; crikey

Updates as Croydon A&E shuts down after fire as 80 patients evacuated

The hospital has issued guidance for patients as it scrambles to re-open

www.mylondon.news

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Oh bloody hell, that's all Croydon needs.

 

[hash tag]

Oh bloody hell, that's all Croydon needs.

A major A & E hospital with a huge, heavily populated catchment area. It won't be helping "patients" or neighbouring hospitals. St George's A & E is grim at the best of times.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

The day I had to crawl there with an appendix that was about to burst (it came on very suddenly. it's not like I was sitting on it) what if that was today? It's going to be that day for loads of people every day.

 

[hash tag]

The day I had to crawl there with an appendix that was about to burst (it came on very suddenly. it's not like I was sitting on it) what if that was today? It's going to be that day for loads of people every day.

About this time last year, I was in St Georges A & E for about 12 hours prior to an emergency admission