Sunday, July 24, 2016
Croydon's an atypical town, with ambitions to be a city, and a slew of buildings to prove it.
Opening paragraph about how the council championed major redevelopment in the
1960s, including several lofty concrete office blocks.
How the National Trust surprised us all by organising architectural tours of Croydon over the last week, under the title
Edge City.
Description of the start of the tour, and the view from the 11th floor of AMP House overlooking East Croydon station.
Observations from the walking part of the tour, a 40 minute whistlestop through part of mini-Manhattan.
Praise for the behind-the-scenes tour of the
Fairfield Halls, which has just closed for a two-year re-fit.
Nostalgic look-back to that time Open House did visits to Croydon Council's 19th floor planning eyrie,
now demolished.
Regret that the new buildings going up don't look as impressive, but that's what people have always said about Croydon.
Conclusion that Croydon's actually incredibly interesting,
architecturally, but only if you like this kind of thing.
Confession that uploading
40 photographs of Croydon is a lot easier than writing about them.
My Croydon gallery There are 40 photos altogether [slideshow]
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