Showing posts with label croydon town centre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label croydon town centre. Show all posts

Sunday, February 21, 2016

Croydon is deathtown

According to The Architecture Foundation, owing to its 'uniformed commercial utility', 'Croydon is deathtown'. The actual quote appears on the Inside Croydon news site.
Occasionally, one spots an eye-catching natural phenomenon in among the sprawling metropolis that is Croydon town centre:


I sent in the picture above the Croydon Guardian:

Croydon Guardian 27.01.16


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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

The stall, then and now

 I do find myself getting quite nostalgic about Green Party activity, partly because as the General Election campaign moves into full swing mode, it's hard not compare with previous elections.

On Saturday (21st Feb) Esther Sutton, Peter Underwood and Bernice Golberg had set up the stall from 10am. I was rostered for an afternoon shift, and as usual the opportunity to joust with an anthropogenic global warming sceptic, meet the South African gentleman, who from memory has visited every stall we have done, and exchange email addresses with the Chair of the local mosque just goes to show the old ways of communicating are still effective in this new media age.

There was also plenty of interest in the No to Waddon Motorways campaign that Peter has taken a lead on.

When I arrived at the stall for my stint I noticed the stall was in front of HMV. In the recent past we've been positioned right in the centre of the pedestrian zone, but we've also pitched up on this spot before. I had a look through some old images on my old pc and found a picture which confirms this!


Photo taken on 22nd May 2004




Photo taken on 21st February 2015





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Monday, April 09, 2012

Crucifixion along side our stall

Link to video

I shot this video using my mobile phone on Saturday.

Many passers by mentioned seeing Jenny Jones' excellent performance on Newsnight.

Croydon town centre is becoming well known for its steel bands, Ahmadi stalls, chuggers, preachers, pan pipe players, and now crucifixions. In terms of grabbing the attention of shoppers, I can't imagine many local parties across the country encounter competition this varied!
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