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    <title>The Past and Present of Croydon's London Road</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>No more articles until 2022 at the earliest, but here are some sources</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/no-more-articles-until-2022.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[There’s still too much Covid around for me to do any fieldwork, so I can’t give a date for when I’ll be able to start publishing articles again.  However, I’ve been working on the sources section of this website, and I have a couple of new things to announce. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/no-more-articles-until-2022.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2021-10-15T00:00:00+01:00</dc:date>
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      <title>No more articles until 2021</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/no-more-articles-until-2021.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I’m taking a break from publishing until 2021. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/no-more-articles-until-2021.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2020-08-01T00:00:00+01:00</dc:date>
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      <title>226 London Road: Croydon Motor Spares</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0226-croydon-motor-spares.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Croydon Motor Spares has been at 226 London Road for the past four decades, but the premises have actually been used by various car-related businesses since the 1950s. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0226-croydon-motor-spares.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2020-07-24T00:00:00+01:00</dc:date>
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      <title>224 London Road: Gucio Express</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0224-gucio-express.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Originally a laundry depot, 224 London Road spent three decades as a toy and model shop before being taken over by the bank next door.  Today, it’s a Polish grocery shop. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0224-gucio-express.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2020-06-26T00:00:00+01:00</dc:date>
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      <title>222 London Road: Supreme Butchers</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0222-supreme-butchers.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[222 London Road is currently used for the sale of halal meat, but previously spent nearly the whole of the 20th century as a bank before being converted into a restaurant and finally into a shop. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0222-supreme-butchers.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2020-05-01T00:00:00+01:00</dc:date>
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      <title>212 London Road: Spice Land</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0212-spiceland.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Built just after the start of the 20th century, 212 London Road has been used to sell clothes, boots, artists’ materials, cars, video cassettes, windows, and now Sri Lankan food. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0212-spiceland.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2020-04-03T00:00:00+01:00</dc:date>
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      <title>210 London Road: Annys Mini Market</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0210-annys-mini-market.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[210 London Road is currently home to Anny’s Mini Market, a small African grocery shop.  Constructed in the early 20th century, over the years its occupants have included photographers, suppliers of savings stamps, and an early contraceptive provider known as the Stockwell Hygienic Company. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0210-annys-mini-market.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2020-03-06T00:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>208 London Road: Worf Enterprises and Afghan Exchange &amp; Travel</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0208-money-exchange-and-travel.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[208 London Road was built in the early years of the 20th century.  Over the decades since, it’s been occupied by glass and china shops, tailors and milliners, bicycle dealers, and party shops.  It’s currently home to a pair of money transfer businesses. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0208-money-exchange-and-travel.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2020-02-07T00:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>206 London Road: The Codfather</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0206-codfather.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Currently a punnily-named fish-and-chip shop, 206 London Road spent the first seven decades of its life as a bakery.  It was built in 1902 as part of Royal Parade, a grand stretch of shops and flats that stands where a “row of tall rook-haunted trees” once separated the Broad Green Place estate from London Road. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0206-codfather.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2020-01-10T00:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>206–272 London Road: Before Royal Parade: Broad Green Place</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0200-before-royal-parade-broad-green-place.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Royal Parade, which spans from 206 to 272 London Road, was built in the early years of the 20th century on land which had previously been part of a large estate surrounding a house known as Broad Green Place.  Later articles will discuss the individual properties in Royal Parade, but here I describe the history of Broad Green Place up to the point when the estate was sold off and Royal Parade — along with two hundred other houses — was built. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0200-before-royal-parade-broad-green-place.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2019-12-13T00:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Postponement of November 2019 article</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/postponement-of-november-2019-article.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I’m waiting for a will to be delivered, and so I’m postponing my next article until that arrives, since I think the information in it is likely to be quite important.  In the meantime, here’s a report on a food walk that a friend and I led along London Road last month. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/postponement-of-november-2019-article.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2019-11-15T00:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>185 London Road: Vistec House (part 3)</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0189-vistec-house-part-3.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Built in the 1960s as offices for the Viscose Development Company, Vistec House fell vacant after the first decade of the 21st century.  It’s now being converted into flats, with a new extension behind for a 90-room “Super HMO”. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0189-vistec-house-part-3.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2019-10-18T00:00:00+01:00</dc:date>
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      <title>185 London Road: Vistec House (part 2)</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0187-vistec-house-part-2.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Vistec House at 185 London Road was built in the 1960s following demolition of a semi-detached pair of houses.  I previously described the construction of these houses and events at the southernmost one until its last residential users departed; here, I cover the history of its neighbour up to the same point. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0187-vistec-house-part-2.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2019-09-20T00:00:00+01:00</dc:date>
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      <title>185 London Road: Vistec House (part 1)</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0185-vistec-house-part-1.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Vistec House at 185 London Road was built in the 1960s on the site of what was once a semi-detached pair of houses.  In this article I describe the construction of these houses and the occupants of the southernmost one up until the point when its last residential users departed. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0185-vistec-house-part-1.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2019-08-23T00:00:00+01:00</dc:date>
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      <title>204 London Road: Vacant</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0204-vacant.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[204 London Road is currently vacant, but in the past has been occupied by businesses including a fancy goods shop, a laundry receiving depot, a second-hand furniture dealer, a draper, and a lampshade shop.  In more recent years it spent time as a succession of convenience stores, one of which suffered badly in the 2011 riots. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0204-vacant.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2019-07-26T00:00:00+01:00</dc:date>
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      <title>202 London Road: Peri Pizza</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0202-peri-pizza.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[For the past decade, 202 London Road has been home to Peri Pizza, a small independent pizza and grill cafe.  Previous occupants include the Edison Engraving Company, Cook’s Domestic Stores, and eighty years of newsagents. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0202-peri-pizza.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2019-06-28T00:00:00+01:00</dc:date>
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      <title>192–200 London Road: Behind Kidderminster Terrace</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0192-behind-kidderminster-terrace.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Originally created in the 1870s as an area of gardens and outbuildings, the space behind 188–204 London Road was developed over the following century into a hive of light industry.  Today it lies vacant and cluttered with debris. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0192-behind-kidderminster-terrace.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2019 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2019-05-31T00:00:00+01:00</dc:date>
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      <title>190 London Road: Lobo Seafood (part 2)</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0190-lobo-seafood-part-2.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A fishmongers since 2002, 188–190 London Road began life as two “desirable shops” with living accommodation attached.  I’ve previously described the history of number 188 up to the point where 188 and 190 were joined into one; here I discuss the history of number 190, including events after it was amalgamated with its neighbour, right up to the present day. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0190-lobo-seafood-part-2.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2019 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2019-05-03T00:00:00+01:00</dc:date>
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      <title>188 London Road: Lobo Seafood (part 1)</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0188-lobo-seafood-part-1.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A fishmongers since 2002, 188–190 London Road began life as two “desirable shops” with living accommodation attached.  This article describes the history of number 188, including bicycle manufacturers, hairdressers, tailors, and grocers. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0188-lobo-seafood-part-1.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2019-04-05T00:00:00+01:00</dc:date>
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      <title>186 London Road: A long-vacant property</title>
      <link>http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0186-long-term-vacant.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Vacant for the past decade, 186 London Road was previously home to a singing teacher, a bird fancier, and several hairdressers and estate agents. <strong><a href="http://london-road-croydon.org/history/0186-long-term-vacant.html">Read the article.</a></strong>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2019-03-08T00:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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