There’s sure little things that are positive to confuse you while you transfer to any new city.
It may be it takes you seven journeys earlier than you possibly can bear in mind the way in which house from the city centre with out getting misplaced.
Or maybe you always get off on the mistaken bus cease in your approach again from an evening out.
But then there’s additionally these little things that do not simply confuse people who’re new to a city however pretty a lot everybody who lives there, even when they’ve lived there their total lives.
We determined to provide you with a listing of 27 little things that we reckon have confused pretty a lot everybody in Croydon at one time or one other.
Once we’re out of lockdown and are ready to head out into the city once more, we’ll be certain to be aware of these native mysteries.
1. Why is the Valley Park automobile park always full? Whether you might be there at 9am or 10pm for the final cinema exhibiting
2. Why do trains due on platforms 5 and 6 at East Croydon station change on the final minute so typically?
3. Who determined the slope that is Purley Way Playing Fields was the very best spot to maintain so many weekend soccer matches?
4. Does anybody ever use the platform 6 ready room at Norwood Junction station?
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5. There’s East Croydon, West Croydon and South Croydon – so the place’s North Croydon?
6. Why is there a piano at Thornton Heath station?
7. Why are there so few methods to drive into New Addington?
8. Why don’t the trams go to Purley or Sutton or Crystal Palace?
9. Why Crystal Palace’s Selhurst Park isn’t in Crystal Palace or Selhurst
Aaron Wan-Bissaka is clearly as confused as we’re about the place Selhurst Park really is
(Image: Julian Finney/Getty (*31*))
10. Where does Upper Norwood finish and Crystal Palace start?
11. Why are there two huge chimneys subsequent to Ikea?
12. Are we actually that into rooster as a city that we are able to preserve this many rooster retailers in enterprise?
13. How come each couple of months driver confuses a tram observe with a highway?
14. Why are there peacocks and wallabies at Whitgift School?
There wasn’t a peacock at my faculty
15. What’s the Croydon Facelift acquired to do with Croydon?
16. Why are there so many couch retailers on Purley Way?
17. Why did the one that designed Fiveways assume that was one of the best ways to design the junction?
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18. How trains at East Croydon which have been simply delayed can immediately vanish from the data screens fully
19. Which lane you might be meant to be in when driving around the Purley Cross roundabout
So many people have that look of panic as they drive spherical Purley Cross
(Image: David Cook)
20. Why there’s so many golf programs in the south of the borough
21. What really occurs on the Webb Estate down all these personal roads?
22. Why did the Blue Orchid ever shut if it was so fashionable?
23. And if everybody beloved the Black Sheep Bar a lot how come that’s not open any extra both?
24. Why is the Whitgift Centre such an entire maze? You suspect an aged couple strolling spherical trying misplaced have been making an attempt to discover their approach out for weeks
Once you enter the Whitgift Centre it may be weeks earlier than you see the surface world once more
(Image: Grant Melton)
25. How come everybody in South London appears to need to spend their Friday afternoon going for a pleasant little drive alongside Purley Way?
26. How come one little snowflake could cause full gridlock throughout the borough
27. Why the M23 could not have been prolonged when it was constructed all the way in which into Croydon
28. Why is there no platform 2 at West Croydon station?
29. Why is there a New Addington however not an Old Addington?
30. And an Old Coulsdon however not a New Coulsdon?
31. Do we dwell in London or Surrey or each?
