Tag: Croydon
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Croydon’s Cameo: How a South London Shopping Mall Became the Star of a Taylor Swift Video
Croydon’s Whitgift Centre — a cavernous 1970s shopping mall that feels as architecturally unresolved as its future — now flickers into global view as the unlikely backdrop to Taylor Swift’s latest music video for Opalite. What was once just another concrete behemoth in South London has been recast, if only briefly, as a neon-washed shrine to nostalgia, dancing…
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Are Beavers Coming to Croydon?
Croydon is considering bringing beavers back to South Norwood Country Park, in what would be one of the most significant urban rewilding projects in the capital. The proposal follows the success of the beaver enclosure at Paradise Fields in Ealing, established by Citizen Zoo, where the animals have already begun reshaping wetland habitat within a carefully managed site. If…
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Celebrating Croydon
Let’s get one thing straight—Croydon is not just a punchline. For too long, it has been the butt of jokes, dismissed as a concrete wasteland or the Bermuda Triangle of urban planning. But those in the know understand that Croydon is more than just a postcode—it’s a state of mind. A place of history, reinvention,…