The diverse architecture of Croydon has always interested me, it's been a long term goal to do a book of drawings of the Victorian, Edwardian and 1960s-1970s buildings, including 'No. 1 Croydon' (a facile Internet search reveals it was also known as the '50p building' or 'NLA Tower') the distant round building in the drawing above. The building was completed in 1970 and is currently, again, according to a superficial degree of research, 'the 88th tallest in Britain' , woo! Before decimalisation it was apparently referred to as the 'Threepenny Bit Building', this does actually ring bells, when we were children a trip to Croydon seemed like a jaunt to the Champs Élysées, oh how it has changed...many people observe a strange, lightning-swift depression that sets in after a trip there, I've experienced it myself numerous times.
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