Comments on: Can Surrey Street survive the help of the council? https://thecroydoncitizen.com/economics-business/can-surrey-street-survive-help-council/ Comment, analysis & opinion Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: keithanthony https://thecroydoncitizen.com/economics-business/can-surrey-street-survive-help-council/#comment-4904 keithanthony Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:52:00 +0000 https://thecroydoncitizen.com/?p=65049#comment-4904 Little by little the Croydon council has sucked the life, and culture out of Croydon, and since living here I have seen them demolish Croydon Old town in order to build two monstrous flyovers that were going to link up with motorways into London that never happened. I've seen them demolish Whitgift school to build the Whitgift Center which was in turn demolished to remove a thriving Forum pub, I've seen the Scarbrook Road almshouses raised to the ground along with the our historic public pool. We've also seen many theaters demolished including The Grand, The Davis, The Theater Royal, The Empire, The Old Palladium Surrey Street, The Croydon Hippodrome, The Scala, the Civic Hall Crown Hill, Davis Picture Theater(Davis House), Savoy Cinema 1933, Eros Cinema, and Odeon Cinema. Look me in the eye and tell me this is not a cold calculated systematic decimalization of an incredible rich culture rivaling London that had existed in Croydon and tell me that someone didn't line their pockets doing this ongoing systematic vandalism. NB The director David Lean saw his first films at the Scala, North End (saw his first film there in 1921- Hound of the Bakervilles). Orpheus. * Surrey Street & Palladium, 1 Surrey Street Croydon is being turned into a soulless concrete blot on the landscape. Take a look below at the CGI of Croydon which is the vision of Westfield and Hammerson I would call them Westfield and Hammer or Westfield and Frankenstein. http://www.thecroydonpartnership.com/ Little by little the Croydon council has sucked the life, and culture out of Croydon, and since living here I have seen them demolish Croydon Old town in order to build two monstrous flyovers that were going to link up with motorways into London that never happened. I’ve seen them demolish Whitgift school to build the Whitgift Center which was in turn demolished to remove a thriving Forum pub, I’ve seen the Scarbrook Road almshouses raised to the ground along with the our historic public pool.

We’ve also seen many theaters demolished including The Grand, The Davis, The Theater Royal, The Empire, The Old Palladium Surrey Street, The Croydon Hippodrome, The Scala, the Civic Hall Crown Hill, Davis Picture Theater(Davis House), Savoy Cinema 1933, Eros Cinema, and Odeon Cinema.

Look me in the eye and tell me this is not a cold calculated systematic decimalization of an incredible rich culture rivaling London that had existed in Croydon and tell me that someone didn’t line their pockets doing this ongoing systematic vandalism.

NB The director David Lean saw his first films at the Scala, North End (saw his first film there in 1921- Hound of the Bakervilles). Orpheus. * Surrey Street & Palladium, 1 Surrey Street

Croydon is being turned into a soulless concrete blot on the landscape. Take a look below at the CGI of Croydon which is the vision of Westfield and Hammerson I would call them Westfield and Hammer or Westfield and Frankenstein. http://www.thecroydonpartnership.com/

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]]> By: Andrew Kennedy https://thecroydoncitizen.com/economics-business/can-surrey-street-survive-help-council/#comment-4900 Andrew Kennedy Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:27:00 +0000 https://thecroydoncitizen.com/?p=65049#comment-4900 The 1276 charter for a market is for Croydon, not just for Surrey Street. The 1276 charter for a market is for Croydon, not just for Surrey Street.

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