Like Taj etc, selling spices

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tramlink/

If you're a tram enthuasiast feel free to check it out!

Living in essex, I would get the 00:50 from Liverpool Str.

Hello South Norwood 🌟

I really enjoyed joining Imprint Church Croydon coffee morning today. ☕️

Highly recommend you going to see Beth who’s so kind to organise this on every Thursday at 11 am at Holy Innocents Church 🕦

It’s a welcoming space for the community to talk, share and find support. 🤗

Best,
Melanie Felten

Wondering what everyone else does with their road positioning here...

There are no lane markings on the Purley Way by the playing fields, so to me this is one lane despite the road being very wide on both sides. But every day needlessly aggressive drivers take it upon themselves to decide it's 2 lanes and bully and intimidate people to move over. Some get so annoyed they drive half on the wrong side of the road to get round people and make their point.

Anyone else experience this and see loads of near misses?

Walked through town last Saturday and noticed three new independents that were not there six months ago. The tram was packed with people going somewhere with actual purpose. Something is shifting and it feels different to the last ten years. Anyone else noticing it or is this just me being optimistic?

I'm tired of the extra 10 minutes I have to walk when there is a perfectly fine looking bridge.

Interested to know if anyone lives in the Altura 50 building, I’m contemplating moving to east Croydon into one of the high rises, what is it like? I also saw on the website they add on £400 for bills/month which I think is insane given I live in a 3 bed flat at the moment and it’s £280 for the entire 3 bed and they want £400 for a 1 BR flat…. Has anyone successfully negotiated down this bills add on?

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Reported on love clean streets hopefully he’ll get a fine.

Does anyone know of an independent man with a van local to South Croydon / Sanderstead. Thanks

Has anyone else seen an increase of Rats in the Croydon Borough, specifically South Norwood?

I can't recall seeing rats outside in the middle of the day in the streets before. I can't work out what has changed that they are so visible now?

Edit: Just for clarity, I'm not talking about rats at the lakes or parks. I am talking about running around suburban streets, in the afternoon to dusk, away from food places. I have not come across this previously, so wanted to understand if it is a very local issue or a more broad issue

Help shape ideas for new public artwork at Ruskin Square.

Join Croydon artist-led space Turf Projects and Turf studio artists for a creative workshop to gather early ideas for public artwork and public space for a new development at Ruskin Square.

Together, we’ll look at the space and its surroundings, and then use simple creative prompts and layered drawing methods to imagine what public art here could be like.

What local stories, memories & functions could be incorporated into it? How might the artwork feel like part of the landscape and uses of the future space? Where could it be located? What could it be made of?

You don't need to be an artist to take part! We’re especially keen to hear from local residents, nearby workers, young people, community groups and anyone with a connection to this space and Croydon.

This is an early-stage workshop to gather ideas. The ideas shared will become a short concept document for the development's project team, grounding future public art proposals in local voices & needs. You'll also get to learn about the process and timeline of developing work like this!

Free to attend. All materials provided.

Booking Link: https://turf-projects.com/event/co-creating-a-public-artwork-creating-ideas-for-public-art/

MEET AT: 10am, Mr Tinto's coffee stand, at the end of Caithness Walk, to walk 2 minutes to Lansdowne Road open air car park. whatthreewords location: ///coherent.civil.reward

Run in collaboration with Stanhope and Shedkm.

ABOUT TURF

Turf Projects is Croydon’s homegrown, artist-led space, founded in 2013 by locals.

Grounded in themes of place and belonging, Turf creates space and opportunities that nurture emerging and under-represented creative practices. Our work aims to help people to encounter and make art together that helps shape the spaces and experiences around us.

We do this through free exhibitions, workshops, collaborative projects, affordable artist studios, making facilities, resources and two artist collectives of young artists & learning disabled artists.

Deeply rooted in Croydon, Turf shows how cultural organisations rooted in community can create change with national ambition, relevance and impact.

We’ve created more than 600 paid opportunities for artists since 2013.

turf-projects.com

Really boring question, does anyone know which garden centres have pond plants? I assume some of the ones in Wallington have some but would rather avoid a chain like Dobies

Norwood Junction alleyway

Hello, I’m Melanie Felten, and last weekend I was elected as your Labour & Co-operative Councillor for South Norwood 🌹

I’m already working hard to help keep our streets clean and safe 🧹🚧

I’ve reported the ongoing fly-tipping in Belgrave Car Park and the sewage leak issue in the Norwood Junction alleyway, which is affecting both residents and local businesses.

I’ve raised these concerns with council officers and will continue keeping residents updated on the response and action being taken 📢

South Norwood is a fantastic community, and I want to support the residents and volunteers who work so hard to make our area better ❤️

If you’re experiencing similar issues in your neighbourhood, please get in touch.

📧Melanie.Felten@croydon.gov.uk

I want to hear from you and work together to improve South Norwood 🤝

#SouthNorwood #NorwoodJunction #Croydon #Labour #CooperativeParty #CleanStreets

Surely nobody can beat Dave’s Hot Chicken - established 1884 🤪

I’ve finally got around to doing some weeding and cutting back and there is absolutely LOADS. wondering if anyone has any recs (and an idea of how much it would cost?)

could obviously bag up some of the smaller bits and request a council collection but some of it is like….actual branches which might be hard to dispose of!

Whenever somebody posts on here about thinking about moving to Croydon, a wave of people start warning them about the dangers of living in the north of the borough.

It’s so interesting to me because people who live in south of the borough exhibit the same postcode snobbery that people from other parts of London have towards us Croydonites: ie having the most disparaging comments about an area despite never actually visiting.

The reality is that Thornton Heath (like many neighbourhoods in Croydon) is massive and your experience of it will vary drastically: live near the clock tower or the high street, a bit dodgy (again depends on how you define dodgy because it seems like for a lot of you on here dodgy = predominantly ethnic); live near Spa Hill or towards Norbury, you’re living in 3/4 bedroom terraced homes.

Also, I find it odd that we’re dissuading people from moving to the better connected parts of the borough: a commute into central London from TH, South Norwood or West Croydon is objectively easier and cheaper than the same commute from a station like Kenley!

In short, you’re not better than someone else because your postcode starts with CR0 or CR2 and living in the north of the borough ≠ abject poverty

If you know the most recent LE results, you might guess which ward I'm talking about. Its been Tory/Labour for years. This side of Addiscombe isnt the particularly affluent side - small/medium terraced houses, lots of young families, but plenty of people who've been around for a long time.

I dont have strong opinions on either of the 2 councilors- they both seem as ineffective as eachother.

I'm just curious because most of my neighbors seem to be Labour voters, but I guess there's lots of Torys too 👀

I read that the north facing flats will have an obstruction when eventual works are completed and I read that the south facing flats are difficult to live in due to the smell of smoke coming from a downstairs restaurant?

I also read that is is smoke friendly so you can smell smoke through the walls and also that the smell from the bin room affects the flats.

Is this all true? Any further info you can share?

I saw a flat for sale in the building and I’m considering viewing it but just trying to figure out if the building is actually good to live in.

Thanks!

Hi all, hoping anyone has some more info? I'm booking a statutory wedding ceremony at Croydon and wondered if anyone else has had one and how everything went? I know it's obviously the most basic ceremony you can have but the ceremony's structure and what it includes seems to differ between all counties. Does anyone have any experience with Croydon specifically?