PaulOfHorsham's photos with the keyword: Croydon

Racing past the Premier Inn

02 Jun 2015 155
Ghostly cycling figures racing through Croydon's North End shopping street

Soreen

02 Jun 2015 142
The malt loaf is fitness food for cyclists - who knew?

Festival of speed

02 Jun 2015 1 145
Racing past a banner for Croydon's Ambition Festival

Effort

02 Jun 2015 140
A line of cyclists in the women's race (part of the Matrix Fitness GP Series)

Zinger

02 Jun 2015 170
Afraid I don't even know the names of the teams, let alone the riders.

Camera man

02 Jun 2015 157
The race (and, hopefully, the preceding women's race) was filmed for broadcast on ITV4

Exit from the chapel

21 Sep 2014 142
The chapel is upstairs and contains a lot of wooden panelling

Croydon Palace

21 Sep 2014 168
Historic Croydon

The Old Palace

21 Sep 2014 219
Most of the Palace site today dates from the 15th and 16th century, but it is thought that there have been buildings here for a thousand years or more. This is now part of the Old Palace School, of the Whitgift Foundation.

Looking out at the quad

21 Sep 2014 136
This is the view out of one of the rooms on the first floor

Arms of Archbishop Whitgift

He that giveth

21 Sep 2014 161
The finger points to a collection tin that is no longer there

Almshouses chapel

21 Sep 2014 201
The chapel is used once a week

The quadrangle

21 Sep 2014 239
Once you enter the almshouses, you are in this central quadrangle. The residents' apartments are situated around the quad

Foundation stone

21 Sep 2014 184
The almshouses were established in 1596 by John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury