More Information https://c20society.org.uk/news/second-time-around-new-listing-bid-for-croydons-50p-tower Listing provides some protection to future alterations to the buildings accorded that status. Croydon buildings listed by Heritage England, including The Leslie Arms https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/results/?search=Croydon&searchType=NHLE+Simple
Historic walking tour of East Croydon led by a native. Those who come along are welcome to contribute their memories. Marvel at one of the oldest electricity sub-stations in Croydon. […]
By the 20th century, North End was a major shopping and entertainment centre. Carole Roberts and Andrew Kennedy will look at how this happened and its key buildings past and […]
Talk by Lynne Dixon. After her marriage Annabel Dott lived in North Yorkshire, Woodside, Barnes and Wiltshire as she dutifully followed her vicar husband. But she had her own interests […]
Join author Dr. Velma McClymont at Croydon Central Library to mark Windrush 76, honouring the Windrush Generation who came from the Caribbean for “a better break”, especially those who helped […]
South London was a technological hotspot from the 1850s through to the 1980s, with companies such as Telcon, STC, Siemens and AEI pioneering international telecoms, and with Decca developing hi-fi […]
South London was a technological hotspot from the 1850s through to the 1980s, with companies such as Telcon, STC, Siemens and AEI pioneering international telecoms, and with Decca developing hi-fi […]
The electricity substation behind The Cricketers on Addiscombe Road dates to the late 1890s, part of a second wave of substations built as Croydon’s electricity network expanded from the town […]
Join Lucy James, Gardening Services Manager at The Wilderness for an evening tour of the garden. Rev Wilks’s rhododendrons and azaleas will be a highlight as well as seasonal displays […]
One of the windows is dedicated to John Blake, after whom Blake Road, off Addiscombe Road is named https://insidecroydon.com/2024/03/31/artists-in-glass-who-gave-the-minster-its-windows-on-the-world/. John Blake once owned the Brickwood House estate which covered from […]
East Croydon Community Organisation 