🌦️ CROYDON DAILY WEATHER
🌤️ Today, Thursday: sunny intervals and mild, up to 21°C, with a small chance of rain early on and gusts up to 28mph in the afternoon.
🌧️ Friday: light rain early, possibly heavy around dawn, then brightening to sunny intervals, 7°C to 16°C.
☀️ Saturday: a cool, bright start and a sunny day, 8°C to 14°C, with a chance of a shower later in the afternoon.
🌦️ Sunday: light showers on and off through the day, 9°C to 13°C.
Source: Met Office, forecast for South East London
🏛️ THE HEARTBEAT: TG JONES TO CLOSE IN THE WHITGIFT CENTRE
The yellow "everything must go" signs are up at TG Jones on North End. Inside Croydon reports that the shop, which traded as WH Smith until last summer, is closing, and that its owner Modella Capital has been restructuring its high street branches this year.
It is another loss for the Whitgift Centre, where WH Smith was one of the original tenants when the centre opened. The news arrives as Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield runs its latest public consultation on the future of the town centre. Inside Croydon says the current proposals include as many as 4,000 flats and a data centre, and URW's plans are on its Croydon website at urwcroydon.com if you want to have your say.
We will pass on a closing date as soon as one is confirmed. Source: Inside Croydon
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📅 TODAY: THURSDAY 15/10/2026
🪡 Crafting Croydon with Elly Platt, 6:30pm to 8:30pm, Museum of Croydon, from £4, booking required. A hand-sewing workshop making textile art from upcycled fabrics. Source: Museum of Croydon
🎷 Live Jam Session by SoulCulture, from 7pm, The Dog, 24 Surrey Street, free. Source: Croydon BID
🎤 Karaoke Night, 8pm, The Porter and Sorter, free. Source: Croydon BID
Times can change, so please check each organiser's listing before you travel.
🗓️ WEEK AHEAD: SAVE THE DATE
🚌 Grand Opening of 'Once Upon a Bus!', tomorrow, Friday 16/10/2026, 3:45pm, St John's CE Primary School, 38 Markfield Road, Caterham CR3 6RP (map). Ribbon cutting for the school's brand new library, and the school community is invited to celebrate. Source: St John's CE Primary PTA on Instagram
🚋 Tram heads-up: no trams between Sandilands and New Addington, Saturday 17 and Sunday 18/10/2026, for essential engineering works. There are no replacement buses. Trams still run between Wimbledon and Beckenham Junction/Elmers End, and normal service is due back from the start of service on Monday 19/10. Please check TfL before you travel. A longer closure of half the network is planned from Saturday 24/10 to Friday 6/11. Source: Inside Croydon
🧸 Pollock's Toy Museum Pop-Up, Saturday 17/10/2026, 11am to 4pm, Whitgift Centre, free. Source: Croydon BID
👻 Spooky Quiz Night, Saturday 17/10/2026, 6:30pm, The Ludoquist, £2. Source: Croydon BID
🍽️ The Kids' Table, Sunday 18/10/2026, 12pm to 4pm, BOXPARK Croydon, free. Source: Croydon BID
❓ Sunday Quiz, Sunday 18/10/2026, 7pm, The Spread Eagle, £2. Source: Croydon BID
🐕 The Hound of the Baskervilles, Thursday 22/10/2026, 7pm, The Spread Eagle, £15. Source: Croydon BID
🧡 COMMUNITY WATCH
🌧️ Flood Action Week: the Environment Agency is urging everyone to check their flood risk, make a flood plan and sign up for flood warnings. Weather experts and the government are warning of a wet autumn and winter, and Inside Croydon notes that low-lying parts of Purley and Kenley have seen localised flooding in recent years. It is worth passing the word on to a neighbour who might not have signed up.
📰 NEWS AND NOTES
🏭 The Works, Factory Lane: a £25m "urban logistics" development on the old Croydon Gas Works site has been completed, and it is expected to provide around 150 jobs. Source: Inside Croydon
🏠 Children's home contract: Inside Croydon reports that Ofsted inspectors have rated a council-owned children's home "Good", and that their findings contradict the council's own critical report, which led it to cancel an £8.6m, seven-year management contract. Inside Croydon says the council could face a legal challenge over the decision. Source: Inside Croydon
🗳️ Croydon BID ballot: town centre businesses are voting until 21 October on the BID's proposal for 2027 to 2032. Source: Croydon BID
💡 DID YOU KNOW?
The Whitgift Centre stands on the site of the old Trinity School of John Whitgift, which moved out in the 1960s. The shopping centre opened in 1970. Source: construction.co.uk
🏪 BUSINESS SHOUTOUT: GUAVA GRILL
🍗 Guava Grill is a South Norwood grill house whose signature is chicken grilled until crispy and glazed in its homemade guava sauce, served with jollof rice and plantain. The menu also includes grilled lamb chops marinated for 24 hours, suya, BBQ wings and a guava jerk chicken burger.
Find them at 243 Portland Road, South Norwood SE25 4XB (map). Customers rate it 4.3 out of 5 on Deliveroo, where it also delivers. Please check opening times with them before you go.
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