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Angelina

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1 month ago

Taylor Swift's 'secret shoot' has caused a stampede to a Croydon shopping centre ‘It was nice for the town that they chose here, but I think it was only chosen because it was empty.’

#TaylorSwift fans are flocking to #Whitgift shopping centre in #Croydon where #Opalite video was filmed
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Inside Croydon

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1 month ago

Charity formed last October buys two Old Palace buildings The Rise School of Excellence has paid £750,000 for two buildings on the site of the former girls’ fee-paying school, as Croydon’s biggest landowners, the Whitgift Foundation, continue …

Charity formed last October buys two Old Palace buildings insidecroydon.com/2026/02/06/c... #Croydon #OldPalace #Whitgift #Westfield @propertyweek.bsky.social

Inside Croydon

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1 month ago

Whitgift Centre managers accused of lying about bar’s fate Paris-based Westfield refuse to comment after Post Office forced to abandon planned move, while developers’ February deadline for planning application draws near. By STEVEN DOWNES Westfield h…

Last week's top posts: Whitgift Centre managers accused of lying about bar's fate insidecroydon.com/2026/01/23/w... #Croydon #Westfield #Whitgift @propertyweek.bsky.social @theguardian.com @vickyspratt.bsky.social

Inside Croydon

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2 months ago

Westfield Scrooges stop choir singing carols in Whitgift Centre The traditional free, charity fund-raising Christmas carol concert by a long-established Croydon choir never took place in the Whitgift Centre this month. Last year, the Scrooges at Westfield turne…

This week's top posts: Westfield Scrooges stop choir singing carols in Whitgift Centre insidecroydon.com/2025/12/31/w... #Croydon #Westfield #Whitgift #Scrooges

Inside Croydon

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2 months ago

Whitgift Centre’s wine bar given six months’ notice to quit ‘Shuttering the doors deprives Croydon… of a piece of its community’s heart’ says the businesswoman who runs Bishops, after being handed an ‘arbitrary and unjust’ noti…

This week's top posts: Whitgift Centre's wine bar given six months' notice to quit insidecroydon.com/2026/01/02/w... #Croydon #Westfield #Whitgift

Inside Croydon

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2 months ago

How Farage’s party picked a dead woman as election candidate Into August, and the news stories just kept coming, including the latest moves by Westfield to make the Whitgift Centre ever more inaccessible, and the public library where council contractors chuc…

How Farage's party picked a dead woman as election candidate insidecroydon.com/2025/12/31/h... #Croydon #Reform #Whitgift #Westfield #Corbyn @ottoenglish.bsky.social @bylinesnetwork.co.uk @fisherandrew79.bsky.social

Inside Croydon

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2 months ago

Westfield Scrooges stop choir singing carols in Whitgift Centre Westfield refused to allow a choir to sing Christmas carols in a free, charity fund-raising concert in the Whitgift Centre this month. It is the second year in succession that the Scrooges at Westf…

Westfield Scrooges stop choir singing carols in Whitgift Centre insidecroydon.com/2025/12/31/w... #Croydon #MaleVoiceChoir #Westfield #Whitgift

Inside Croydon

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2 months ago

‘Permanently closed’: Whitgift Centre works mark end of days CROYDON IN CRISIS: With the 60-year-old shopping mall increasingly blocked off for what remains of its visitors, it cannot be long before the last remaining tenants of the Whitgift Centre give up a…

2025's most read stories: 'Permanently closed': Whitgift Centre works mark end of days insidecroydon.com/2025/08/23/p... #Croydon #CroydoninCrisis #Whitgift #Allders #Westfield @retailweek.bsky.social

Inside Croydon

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2 months ago

All change on the High Street with another fried chicken shop Our retailing correspondent, MT WALLETTE, on a Christmas rush with a difference – of businesses opening new premises in central Croydon Six high street businesses are locating, or re-locating…

This week's top posts: All change on the High Street with another fried chicken shop insidecroydon.com/2025/12/16/a... #Croydon #DavesHotChicken #Westfield #Whitgift @daveshotchicken.bsky.social @propertyweek.bsky.social

Angelina

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3 months ago

Taylor Swift Reportedly Filmed $1M 'Opalite' Christmas Video in UK Featuring Lewis Capaldi Taylor Swift reportedly filmed a £790,000 ($1M) Christmas-themed 'Opalite' video in London with strict security, featuring possible cameos from UK stars.

#Taylor Swift reportedly hired a disused part of the #Whitgift Centre in #Croydon to film her #Opalite #Christmas video
www.ibtimes.co.uk/taylor-swift...

Inside Croydon

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5 months ago

Whitgift becomes centre stage for Rebel Wilson’s new movie A film set in the beleaguered town centre shopping mall has come just too late to save another long-standing business, which brought its shutters down for a final time at the weekend Croydon’…

This month's top posts: Whitgift becomes centre stage for Rebel Wilson's new movie insidecroydon.com/2025/09/10/w... #Croydon #Hollywood #Whitgift

Inside Croydon

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6 months ago

Nursing home residents hammer home victory at annual match They play a mean game of croquet down at Whitgift House in South Croydon. This week the residents of the nursing home, which nestles in the grounds of the large private school, handed out a bit of …

Nursing home residents hammer home victory at annual match insidecroydon.com/2025/09/13/s... #Croydon #Croquet #Whitgift

Inside Croydon

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6 months ago

‘Permanently closed’: Whitgift Centre works mark end of days CROYDON IN CRISIS: With the 60-year-old shopping mall increasingly blocked off for what remains of its visitors, it cannot be long before the last remaining tenants of the Whitgift Centre give up a…

Last week's top posts: 'Permanently closed': Whitgift Centre works mark end of days insidecroydon.com/2025/08/23/p... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Whitgift @propertyweek.bsky.social

Inside Croydon

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6 months ago

Old Palace sale completed – for £2.3m less than asking price A special school operated by Serenity will begin to operate from the historic Old Town site from next month, after the sale was sealed by Croydon’s biggest landowners for £4.7m. By GENE BRODI…

Top posts in August: Old Palace sale completed - for £2.3m less than asking price insidecroydon.com/2025/08/28/o... #Croydon #OldPalace #Whitgift @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

Inside Croydon

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6 months ago

‘Permanently closed’: Whitgift Centre works mark end of days CROYDON IN CRISIS: With the 60-year-old shopping mall increasingly blocked off for what remains of its visitors, it cannot be long before the last remaining tenants of the Whitgift Centre give up a…

This week's top posts: 'Permanently closed': Whitgift Centre works mark end of days insidecroydon.com/2025/08/23/p... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Whitgift @itvnews.bsky.social

Inside Croydon

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6 months ago

Old Palace sale completed – for £2.3m less than asking price A special school operated by Serenity will begin to operate from the historic Old Town site from next month, after the sale was sealed by Croydon’s biggest landowners for £4.7m. By GENE BRODI…

This week's top posts: Old Palace sale completed - for £2.3m less than asking price insidecroydon.com/2025/08/28/o... #Croydon #OldPalace #Whitgift

Inside Croydon

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6 months ago

Old Palace sale completed – for £2.3m less than asking price A special school operated by Serenity will begin to operate from the historic Old Town site from next month, after the sale was sealed by Croydon’s biggest landowners for £4.7m. By GENE BRODI…

Old Palace sale completed - for £2.3m less than asking price insidecroydon.com/2025/08/28/o... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #OldPalace #Whitgift @neunion.bsky.social

Inside Croydon

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6 months ago

‘Permanently closed’: Whitgift Centre works mark end of days CROYDON IN CRISIS: With the 60-year-old shopping mall increasingly blocked off for what remains of its visitors, it cannot be long before the last remaining tenants of the Whitgift Centre give up a…

'Permanently closed': Whitgift Centre works mark end of days insidecroydon.com/2025/08/23/p... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Whitgift @retailweek.bsky.social

Inside Croydon

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7 months ago

Another Croydon mugging as Westfield stages latest charade There’s a public consultation about the long-delayed Westfield redevelopment of the town centre. Yes, another one. But there’s no promises of when any work will actually begin, or end. …

This week's top posts: Another Croydon mugging as Westfield stages latest charade insidecroydon.com/2025/07/19/a... #Croydon #Westfield #Whitgift @retailweek.bsky.social @sarahcalkin.bsky.social

Inside Croydon

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8 months ago

Council cuts off Whitgift Centre by closing subway permanently CROYDON IN CRISIS: Mayor Perry’s council has made another cost-cutting decision that could put the lives of pedestrians at risk. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Just a few steps away from the entr…

Top posts in June: Council cuts off Whitgift Centre by closing subway permanently insidecroydon.com/2025/06/09/c... #Croydon #Whitgift #CroydonInCrisis @rosslydall.bsky.social @londonermag.bsky.social

Inside Croydon

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9 months ago

‘It has to be’: Westfield scheme needs millions of public money UNDER THE FLYOVER: In our latest podcast interview, housing specialist Fiona Fletcher-Smith, now the volunteer chair of the Whitgift Foundation’s governors, discusses the housing crisis, the …

This week's top post: 'It has to be': Westfield scheme needs millions of public money insidecroydon.com/2025/06/03/i... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Westfield #Whitgift #Podcast @insidehousing.bsky.social @kwajo.bsky.social

Inside Croydon

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9 months ago

‘It has to be’: Westfield scheme needs millions of public money UNDER THE FLYOVER: In our latest podcast interview, housing specialist Fiona Fletcher-Smith, now the volunteer chair of the Whitgift Foundation’s governors, discusses the housing crisis, the …

'It has to be': Westfield scheme needs millions of public money insidecroydon.com/2025/06/03/i... #Croydon #Podcast #Westfield #Whitgift @insidehousing.bsky.social @fisherandrew79.bsky.social @christianwolmar.bsky.social

Inside Croydon

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9 months ago

We’ve got another terrific interview in the can - with inside insight into how millions of public money are needed to unblock the long-stalled redevelopment of #Croydon’s #Whitgift Centre. Check out our Spotify channel open.spotify.com/show/5cpU3Ae...

Inside Croydon

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9 months ago

Foundation sells Old Palace site to Serenity special schools CROYDON IN CRISIS: Old Palace girls’ school closes in July, with the owners having sold the site, but for less than the £7m guide price. EXCLUSIVE By STEVEN DOWNES The Old Palace private girl…

This week's top posts: Foundation sells Old Palace site to Serenity special schools insidecroydon.com/2025/05/23/f... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #OldPalace #Whitgift

Inside Croydon

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10 months ago

Enter the Almshouses and travel back in time four centuries SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: There will be an opportunity later this year to take a sneak peak back in time, to 400 years ago. DAVID MORGAN recently visited one of Croydon’s oldest buildings, that trac…

Enter the Almshouses and travel back in time four centuries insidecroydon.com/2025/04/20/e... #Croydon #Whitgift #History

Inside Croydon

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11 months ago

From Dolly Parton to Haydn: Whitgift concert jazzed things up DAVID MORGAN reports from an event which saw one of the Fairfield Halls’ biggest audiences for a while – and certainly one of its most enthusiastic The excitement and expectation of mor…

From Dolly Parton to Haydn: Whitgift concert jazzed things up insidecroydon.com/2025/04/04/f... #Croydon #FairfieldHalls #Whitgift

Inside Croydon

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1 year ago

Hindu fellowship buys Old Palace prep school site for £7.5m The new owners of what was once Croham Hurst Primary are BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, who want to use the site for educational purposes, while making it available for community use, as GENE BRODIE, o…

This month's top posts: Hindu fellowship buys Old Palace prep school site for £7.5m insidecroydon.com/2025/02/24/h... #Croydon #Whitgift #OldPalace

Inside Croydon

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1 year ago

Another Whitgift store to close – and manager blames Westfield There’s another closing down sale in the Whitgift Centre. And this time, the exiting retail business, toy store The Entertainer, has made it abundantly clear that their decision to quit the i…

This week's top posts: Another Whitgift store to close - and manager blames Westfield insidecroydon.com/2025/01/19/a... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Westfield #Whitgift

Inside Croydon

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1 year ago

Another Whitgift store to close – and manager blames Westfield There’s another closing down sale in the Whitgift Centre. And this time, the exiting retail business, toy store The Entertainer, has made it abundantly clear that their decision to quit the i…

Last week's top posts: Another Whitgift store to close - and manager blames Westfield insidecroydon.com/2025/01/19/a... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Westfield #Whitgift

Inside Croydon

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1 year ago

No apologies from council for Christmas closure of subway A week on since Inside Croydon reported on the plight of Whitgift Centre traders, cut-off from their customers by the abrupt, no-notice closure of the Wellesley Road pedestrian underpass, and Croyd…

This week's top posts: No apologies from council for Christmas closure of subway insidecroydon.com/2024/12/22/n... #Croydon #Whitgift #Westfield