Wot you lookin at?

COYP

And his Logo2 shop for trainers.

COYP

Got my first Nike Wimbledon's there

walking down the holmesdale road to see the palace aces!

I've lived in Croydon for the entirety of my 22 year old life, and I do find it funny that most of the people who bad-mouth the place (in the media or in general conversation) tend to have either never actually been here before or have only lived in the place very briefly before leaving.

Call me whatever you want, but I love this town and I wouldn't trade growing up here for anywhere else. Yes of course the place has its problems and is a million miles from perfect, but it has managed to retain a sense of community and identity (not least because of our beloved CPFC) that very few other parts of London have.

Of course I do understand that mass immigration has left large numbers of people feeling somewhat alienated from the neighbourhoods that they grew up in, but to blame the town's modern problems solely on immigration is completely ridiculous.

If you dream of a return to a Croydon (or Britain for that matter) which is 99.9% white, then please feel free to do so. Just remember that that view is a million, million miles away from the way that the average young Croydonite (White, Black or Asian) wants things to be.

Croydon used to be ever so posh. Had its own supermarket "Caters". When it first opened all the customers received a free chicken. The local ambulances were uniquely two tone grey. You could get salmonella poisoning and travel to hospital in style!

Denial is not just a river in Egypt

Is/was Croydon ever a destination ?
To me, it was always somewhere you changed trains/trams/drove through, on the way to somewhere else.
Way too much concrete for my liking, and more shlt memories than good.
Liked the Cartoon Club (is that still there ?), Wing Yip on Purley Way, but generally it started as a poor design, and can only get worse

Edited by Forest Hillbilly (14 Oct 2017 1.01am)

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