The Past and Present of Croydon's London Road

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1. George Harfleet 11 July 2014, 4:28pm If that's a cedar of Lebanon tree it might be where the old general hospital was, maybe? Went to flickr but couldn't see any answer??
2. Kake 11 July 2014, 7:39pm Oh dear, sounds like you're caught up in Flickr's recent redesign, sorry — it seems not to be showing the same page to everyone. It is indeed the general hospital site, as I'd hoped would be clear from the photo title on Flickr. Thank you for identifying the tree for me!

   Here's a Croydon Advertiser article on the new school that's due to open on the site this September.

3. George Harfleet 11 July 2014, 8:18pm Thanks Kake. Sad to see that long-standing hospital demolished. I spent quite some time as a kid in there after various accidents like falling off a roof and breaking my right wrist and having an artery cut in an ankle when a kid threw a milk bottle that smashed on a wall and a bit of glass sliced into my ankle. I was so mad I chased him halfway down Sumner Road until I noticed my right shoe was squelching, and blood spurting out like mad. Good old Croydon General did a damn good job on both occasions. I was about ten when I was an in-patient there. The Matron came to see me with questions about name address etc. She asked me "What religion are you" I said Church of England. "And which church do you attend?" she asked. I said "West Croydon Methodist." whereupon she burst out laughing. Didn't understand why then. Even that old church has gone too, almost opposite the hospital. Nowt stays the same.
4. Kake 13 July 2014, 4:51pm I have a photo of the hospital in the 1950s that I'll be able to share once my series gets that far (which will probably be in early 2016). And my friend Celia took plenty of photos during the demolition too.