Cover Story: What's so funny about Croydon?

The Independent - London | April 8, 1996| | Copyright

Almost exactly a hundred years ago, Mrs Bridget Driscoll was knocked down and killed by a Roger-Benz automobile. This new-fangled mechanical nasty was beetling through the outskirts of Croydon at the legal limit (4mph) and poor Mrs Driscoll became the very first of half-a-million Brits culled by the motor car.

In retrospect, Croydon seemed an appropriate setting for this novel Victorian tragedy, for few English towns have been given over so promiscuously to the car. When Croydon was rebuilt in the Sixties, under the direction of Alan Holt, the undivertible borough engineer, it became a ...

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