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Tag Archives: Surrey Street
Street art on Surrey Street can’t fill the gap in the market
Armed with his re-usable canvas bag, KEN TOWL strolled down Croydon’s ancient street market to pick up a bargain and find out how the traders are getting along, more than a year after its £1.1million makeover It is a truth … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Ken Towl, Surrey Street
Tagged Croydon Council, Ken Towl, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Londonist website accuses Croydon of being boring… in 1896
Londonist.com, which often takes a sideways glance at matters in and around the capital, has clearly enjoyed the produce of Surrey Street Market, or its ancient public house, the Dog and Bull, a little too much… Someone at the website … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fairfield, History
Tagged Croydon High Street, Frederick Edridge, Londonist, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Council’s figures show traders in exodus from Surrey Street
Town Hall reporter KEN LEE has been doing some digging into how a £1.2m ‘improvement’ scheme has driven away businesses from the town’s historic street market The legacy of Mark Watson’s £1.2million, council-funded artwashing and gentrification of Surrey Street is … Continue reading
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Tagged Mark Watson, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Developers scale down towering ambition for Surrey Street
Developers who want to demolish an old shop and warehouse building on Surrey Street and replace it with a modern block of flats have scaled down their plans, following meetings with the council’s planning committee and a public consultation last … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Housing, Property, Surrey Street
Tagged Hoodoos, Matthews Yard, Surrey Street
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£300,000 refurb will provide a new stage in the Dragon’s Den
One of the town centre’s best-used pubs is undergoing a £300,000 Croydon face-lift which will see it offer punters a real “Dragon’s Den” once it re-opens next week. And at least regulars at the Green Dragon on Croydon High Street … Continue reading
Diwali Mela, Surrey Street Market, Oct 22
Posted in Activities, Business, Church and religions, Surrey Street
Tagged Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Developers appoint Hoodoos to run rebuilt Matthew’s Yard
Regent Land and Developments, a company which specialises in developing brownfield sites, has announced that a building on Surrey Street, including the premises known as Matthew’s Yard, is to be re-built to include a purpose-built café and arts performance space. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Comedy, Dance, Music, Surrey Street, Theatre
Tagged Hoodoos, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Open Mic Nights in aid of Nightwatch, Project B, start Oct 13
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Tagged Croydon Nightwatch, Project B, Surrey Street
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Night clubbers’ cars stop Surrey Street traders from working
It is only now, three months after the re-opening of Surrey Street Market, beginning to emerge why it was necessary to spend £1.2million on resurfacing a stretch of the road as part of Councillor Mark Watson’s attempt to drive stall-holders … Continue reading
Posted in Mark Watson, Surrey Street
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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‘Pound a croissant!’ Council continues to artwash Surrey Street
Croydon’s Labour-run council is not even trying to hide its gentrification agenda for Surrey Street any longer. Having ripped the guts out of the traditional street market through neglect of its traders and an enforced two-month closure, all done at … Continue reading
Genuine sockpuppetry is coming to Surrey Street Market
Surrey Street Market, which is operating now with only around half the number of traders that used to work London’s oldest street market before the council intervened with its £1.1million “improvements” programme, is to be livened up over the first … Continue reading
Something smells about council’s Surrey Street party flop
M.T. WALLETTE, our shopping correspondent, bolstered the numbers attending Councillor Mark Watson’s cosy little soiree on Surrey Street on Saturday, when even the offer of free drinks couldn’t pull in the crowds It was a fitting metaphor for the whole … Continue reading
Artful’s Grenfell tribute removed while council backs graffiti
Croydon Council’s attempts to paint itself, literally, as a hip and happening location for street art is, at you might have guessed, more than a bit bogus and ripe with hypocrisy and blatant double standards. Because in the same week … Continue reading
Experts express doubts over £1.1m spent on Surrey Street
The council’s own set of architecture and design experts have suggested that much of the Town Hall’s £1.1million spend on the gentrification of Surrey Street Market may have not been the best use of public money, Inside Croydon has learned. … Continue reading
Watson plans ‘giveaways’ at ‘launch’ for 700-year-old market
There’s less than a week to go before Croydon Council’s Mark Watson spunks away more public money on a “launch party” for a street market that’s been around for 700 years. Yet still the life and soul of Surrey Street … Continue reading
Only half the stalls return to Surrey Street after £1.1m scheme
26 That’s how many stalls were trading on Surrey Street on Saturday, the first weekend of trading since the 10-week closure for a £1.1million council revamp of the street market. The market was once the home to more than 100 … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Mark Watson, Pubs, Surrey Street
Tagged Croydon Council, Labour, Mark Watson, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Council unveils grenade sculpture days after terror attack
STEVEN DOWNES, editor of Inside Croydon, on the crass insensitivity of a senior councillor over an ‘artwork’ revealed off Surrey Street Market Residents, business owners and even senior figures on Croydon’s Labour-run council were embarrassed and angry when, within days … Continue reading
