Postwar Architecture Of Croydon

Local architecture expert John Grindrod gives illustrated talk on Croydon's Urban Environment This free talk, to be given by local architecture expert John Grindrod and supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, will explore Croydon’s urban history and the iconic buildings found within the community. It is part of the Little Manhattan Project, which celebrates Croydon’s magnificent skyline and captures the memories of those who lived through the regeneration of the area between the 1950s and 1970s. For more information about the Little Manhattan Project go to: www.digitaldrama.org/project/little-manhattan . With thanks to National Lottery players for making the Little Manhattan project possible. The 11am talk will be accompanied by British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation. John Grindrod is the author of Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain (2013), Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt (2017) and Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain (March 2022). He grew up in Croydon's New Addington housing estate and his work reflects the strange jumble of urban, suburban and rural that he found on his doorstep. Using his home town as a starting point his books have been a way for him to try to understand how and why our modern towns and cities look the way they do.