When engineering consultancy, John F Hurley and Partners opened up it had a fairly modest annual turnover of around £900,000. Now known as hurleypalmerflatt the company is celebrating 40 years in ...
Central Croydon's Woolworths store shut its doors for good. The 96-year-old store in North End, which was the company's longest surviving branch, had been due to close tomorrow. But managers deci...
Christmas Eve saw the shutters rolled up for the last time on one of Croydon's longest surviving family businesses. Turtle's based in Park Street, Croydon, is closing after 115 years of trading in...
The credit crunch has claimed another victim - homeless Michael Murphy who is a familiar face selling the Big Issue in central Croydon. But since the summer the 36-year-old has been a victim of pe...
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