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Valley Retail and Leisure Park is a retail park in the Purley Way retail and industrial area in Croydon, England. It is located near the Broad Green and Waddon areas of the London Borough of Croydon. Valley Park was opened in 1992 on the site of the former Croydon power stations, the first of which was built in the late nineteenth century ...
When the stop opened, it was named "Ampere Way" in reference to the nearby former Croydon Power Station. The two chimneys from the old power station still exist in the grounds of the IKEA store. The station was renamed IKEA Ampere Way under a sponsorship deal [3] on 18 October 2006, in order to promote the stop's location near IKEA's Croydon ...
The Croydon Colonnades on Purley Way. Purley Way is a section of the A23 trunk road in the London Borough of Croydon, in the areas of Purley, Waddon and Broad Green, and has given its name to the out-of-town shopping area alongside it with a catchment area covering most of South London. It was designed as a bypass for Croydon, and opened in ...
English: The chimneys at IKEA, Purley Way, Croydon The two chimneys were part of the old Croydon 'B' Power Station . They were built in the late 1940s. The power station opened in 1950, shut down in 1984, and was demolished in 1991. An IKEA store was opened on the site and the chimneys were retained and remain a local landmark.
IKEA Croydon, when it was built in 1992, brought many non-skilled jobs to Croydon. The store, which is a total size of 23,000 m 2, [91] took over the former site of Croydon Power station, which had led to the unemployment of many skilled workers. In May 2006, the expansion of IKEA made it the fifth biggest employer in Croydon.
The building has been designed to maximise the view of west Croydon from the eastern windows including the IKEA Towers landmarks on Purley Way.The building also has solar panels on the roof according to a report which was highlighting Croydon's Ashburton Learning Village on 24dash.com. Centrale does not have numbered levels (as do many UK shopping centres), but instead names them as Keeley ...
The Croydon power stations refers to a pair of demolished coal-fired power stations and to a gas-fired power station in the Purley Way area of Croydon, London. The coal-fired stations operated from 1896 until 1984, and the gas-fired station opened in 2005. Croydon B power station's chimneys have been retained as a local landmark.
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