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Turner Crescent, CROYDON, CR0 2NP

Facing Pawson's Road. The small wind turbine is unusual.

The new housing, to the left of the road, is "affordable housing for key workers", and was built on the site of the former Queen's Hospital. Built as high density housing, with minimal provision for motor vehicles. Note the wind turbines on some of the houses. To the right of the road is Queen's Road Cemetery. The "new" wall was built to replace the one destroyed, by falling trees, during the "Great Storm" of 1987.

Originally built in 1865 as the Workhouse, and more recently known as Queen's Hospital, the tower is all that remains of the original structure. Work is almost completed; converting the tower into luxury flats. Wings, in keeping with the original design, have been added. The development is known as "King's Tower". I wonder what the original occupants of the Workhouse would have thought. Having seen an original photograph dating from 1865 (in Victorian Croydon Illustrated), I note that the original wings were more than twice the width of the re-build. Image Image

This was originally the Croydon Union Workhouse, designed in 1865-66 by John Berney. It was heavily damaged in the Second World War leaving just this Italianate tower (with a pyramid roof underneath the scaffolding) and a small section of the facade below. Grade II listed. The area around it is being developed for housing and happily it looks as if the tower is being renovated. Or perhaps converted into a very tall and narrow bijou apartment. Three months later it looked like this: Image

Originally built in 1865 as the Workhouse, and more recently known as Queen's Hospital, the tower is all that remains of the original structure. The grounds have been used for housing development, and the tower is shortly to be restored.

Originally built in 1865 as the Workhouse, and more recently known as Queen's Hospital, the tower is all that remains of the original structure. Work has now started to convert the tower into luxury flats. As far as I can make out from the diagram, wings, in a contemporary design, will be added. The development will be known as "King's Tower". I wonder what the original occupants of the Workhouse would have thought.

The workhouse here evolved, as many did, into a hospital (the workhouse infirmary was typically the last bit to remain functioning and at the abolition of the Poor Law in 1929 would pass into local authority control as a hospital). It was closed in the early years of the twenty-first century, the site being redeveloped for flats with only the main block, seen here, surviving.

The houses in the background date from c2006, built on the site of the old Queen's Hospital. The grave in the foreground has been in place long enough to be affected by the ravages of time, and nature. The ivy-clad wall, in the centre of picture, was built to replace the one destroyed by the "Great Storm" of October 1987.

On a clear winter's afternoon, a view of the two Chapels from what I consider to be the best angle.

Looking towards the chapels, the right one of which is hidden by trees.