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VARIOUS ARTISTS 'ARE THEY HOSTILE? Croydon Punk, New Wave & Indie Bands 1977 - 1985". Damaged Goods . Retrieved 10 April 2023. The arrival of the railways and other communications advances in the 19th century led to a 23-fold increase in Croydon's population between 1801 and 1901. [5] This rapid expansion of the town led to considerable health problems, especially in the damp and overcrowded working class district of Old Town. In response to this, in 1849 Croydon became one of the first towns in the country to acquire a local board of health. The Board constructed public health infrastructure including a reservoir, water supply network, sewers, a pumping station and sewage disposal works. The Surrey Street Pumping Station is Grade II listed; it was built in four phases. starting with the engine house in 1851, with a further engine house in 1862, a further extension in 1876–7 to house a compound horizontal engine and a further extension in 1912. [27] A growing town [ edit ] The Allders building in 1983 Shopping parade in North End, Croydon The Croydon Promise: Growth for All" (PDF). Croydon Observatory. Croydon Council. 2014. p.7 . Retrieved 2 February 2019. A new 'cultural quarter' around College Green will have emerged with the modernised Fairfield Halls one of the star attractions

Club Soda is a music charity supporting artists with learning disabilities, their artists include The Carbonators. [110] [111] They run a regular club night called Soda Beat. [112] Media [ edit ] The borough has many woods for walking in, which together account for 8.5% of Greater London's woodland resource (626.46 hectares). [118] These include Lloyd Park and Croham Hurst. TfL announces plans to take over Tramlink services". 17 March 2008. Archived from the original on 12 April 2008 . Retrieved 24 May 2008. Lancaster, Brian (March 2012). "Jean-Baptiste Say's 1785 Croydon street plan". Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society Bulletin. 144: 2–5. Nightingale, Anne (2020). Hey hi hello. London. ISBN 978-1-4746-1668-3. OCLC 1158144145. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)Historic England. "Wrencote(Grade II*) (1079291)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 15 August 2017. There are several local and small venues for comedy and community events dotted around Croydon and its districts. Croydon Youth Theatre Organisation celebrated its 40th birthday in 2005. There are several community arts groups, particularly in the large Asian community. Jane Drew (1911–1996), modernist architect, born in Thornton Heath and head girl at Croydon High School

Croydon is also home to three single-sex Catholic state schools. The formerly independent John Fisher School in Purley has not charged fees since the late 1970s, but during the 1990s was selective, choosing boys via exams, interviews, tests, previous school reports and written statements. [ citation needed] The school ended its selection policy in 1999, and now accepts pupils under a points system, which favours those who have high mass attendance and whose families are most involved in the Catholic Church. [ citation needed] Coloma Convent Girls' School is one of England's Catholic girls' schools: formerly a grammar school, it has now, like John Fisher, adopted points-based admission criteria. St. Joseph's College, on Beulah Hill in Upper Norwood, is a boys' school with a mixed sixth form.College Green & Fairfield Halls redevelopment exhibition". ECCO. East Croydon Community Organisation. 5 November 2015 . Retrieved 2 February 2019. Ethnic diversity is Croydon highlight". News Shopper. 25 September 2001 . Retrieved 25 September 2020. a b Croydon is made up of 13 wards in the London Borough of Croydon: Addiscombe, Ashburton, Broad Green, Croham, Fairfield, Fieldway, Heathfield, New Addington, Sanderstead, Selhurst, Selsdon and Ballards, Shirley, and Waddon. "2011 Census Ward Population Estimates | London DataStore". Archived from the original on 22 February 2014 . Retrieved 9 June 2014. Peggy Ashcroft (1907–1991), actress, was born in Croydon, lived in George Street as a child and attended Croydon High School; honoured in the name of the Ashcroft Theatre, part of the Fairfield Halls Apart from its large central shopping district, Croydon has a number of smaller shopping areas, especially towards the southern end of the town in which are many restaurants. As of 2011, two of Croydon's restaurants were listed in The Good Food Guide. [64]