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Description: | When the Whitgift Centre was first imagined, the idea of a shopping centre was new and unnamed. Whitgift Centre News - a promotional newsletter for the Whitgift Centre - encouraged this revolutionary way of shopping. In October 1970, the Whitgift Centre officially opened in central Croydon. It was the largest shopping centre of its kind in Europe. The sales area was 35,000 square feet and new shops were appearing every week. The Trinity School of John Whitgift had stood in the centre of Croydon for nearly 100 years. In 1966 the school moved to Shirley as part of a deal with developers and the local council. This massive shopping centre was built in its place. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Croydon Museum and Heritage Service | Rights holder: | Croydon Museum and Heritage Service | Subjects: | Cityscape; Leisure | Temporal: | 1969 - 1970 | Source: | Croydon Museum and Heritage Service | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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