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Lunar House, Croydon Lunar House is a 20-storey office block in Croydon , in South London . It is situated at 40 Wellesley Road, on its east side, and houses the headquarters of UK Visas and Immigration , a division of the Home Office in the United Kingdom .
Ruskin House. Ruskin House, situated in its own grounds on Coombe Road, Croydon, South London, has been a centre of Britain's progressive movements for a century.It is the headquarters of the Communist Party of Britain and Croydon's Labour, Trade Union and Co-operative movements and is itself a co-operative with shareholders from organisations across the four movements.
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Croydon continued as a market town, producing charcoal, tanned leather, and beer. Croydon was served by the Surrey Iron Railway, the first public railway (horse-drawn) in the world, in 1803, and by the London to Brighton rail link in the mid-19th century, helping it to become the largest town in what was then Surrey. [15]
The Croydon Community Against Trafficking campaigns against prostitution in Croydon. [13] The former Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said he would support Croydon becoming an official city and announced £23m of additional funding to help redevelop the town at the Develop Croydon Conference on 22 November 2011. Several luxury Docklands-style ...
The church is in the centre of Croydon, but is closer to West Croydon station than East Croydon and its parish is mostly in the west of the town. It has seven Sunday Masses at 7:00 pm on Saturday and at 8:00 am, 9:15 am, 10:45 am, 12:15 pm, 3:00 pm, and 6:00 pm on Sunday. [1]
Upon completion, Saffron Square was the tallest residential tower in Croydon, with 414 private apartments and penthouses, overtaken in 2019 by 101 George Street. [ 6 ] Saffron Tower was nominated for the 2016 Carbuncle Cup for the ugliest building of the previous 12 months, [ 7 ] but the award went to Lincoln Plaza in Docklands.