It particularly hopes to draw attention to the brutalist architecture of the 1960s building boom and help to explain… However, Croydon is being tipped to become an unlikely tourist attraction thanks to the National Trust. The trust, best known for managing stately piles or preserving national parks, will soon offer walking tours of the gritty London borough to celebrate its “contemporary heritage”. Croydon is more known for brutalist architecture than breathtaking scenery but it does have ambitions to become the silicon valley of the southeast AlamyIt frequently tops lists of the worst places to live, was prominently featured in a book called Crap Towns and only this week Kate Moss, its most famous former resident, said that she felt lucky to have escaped.

Source: The Times July 07, 2016 23:09 UTC