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Scarbrook Road, CR0 1LY

Croydon is currently witnessing its second large C20th building boom. While the 1960s boom was office-led, this one is residential. Not only are many new towers being built, but some of the first generation office blocks have been converted to residential use. More cranes here Image

Seven weeks after the riots, a pub in Croydon displays positive messages about the town placed on sticky notelets by residents and visitors to the borough. A heartfelt but strangely-worded tribute.

Croydon Kebab Centre and a cake shop

A notice at the top of Whitgift Street asks for witnesses to submit evidence to the enquiry into the riots' causes. These notices were displayed across the borough.

At the end of Scarbrook Road where it joins the High Street. Presumably, this building was a bank or similar. There had been a 'Green Dragon' on the High Street from 1668 until 1960 when it was demolished.

On the corner of the High Street and Scarbrook Road, not looking like a typical pub, and indeed it was once a bank.

This plaque is attached to the back of a drinking fountain at the junction of Surrey Street and Croydon High Street, the junction often referred to as Millett's Corner. The plaque commemorates the widening of High Street in 1896 from 29ft to 50ft. This was for electric trams, which eventually ran through from Embankment to Purley on the 16 and 18 routes. These trams, which were red double-deckers, ran until 1950 when they were replaced by buses on Route 109, but ironically, electric power seems to have hit back here, because just recently, Abellio have started to operate hybrid buses on this route. And Croydon now has trams once more, as since 2000 modern single-deckers have operated through the town, though now on an east-west alignment. Perhaps one day there will be trams again to Purley, and even Coulsdon, who knows?

The junction of High Street with Surrey Street and Scarbrook Road is the site of this image. The firm of Millett's have occupied this prestigious corner plot for very many years, originally selling Army surplus gear and so on, but later broadening their range to include a variety of outside and camping equipment. But now they are selling out. To the left is the Surrey Street market, still busy but a little less so than years ago.

Taken from Surrey Street. The Green Dragon stands at the top of Scarbrook Road where it joins the High Street.