hello guys hello hello hello hello how are you this morning how are you today actually
it's early in the morning that's what i said this morning so today i'm located in Croydon and i'm
actually quite hungry i'm about to go get myself some breakfast now as it goes so i fancy a hot
chocolate maybe a croissant or something like that so go to greg's get something to eat come let's go
have a look what we can get in this morning let's have a look at these hungry pigeons first though
got a bunch of hungry birds here being fed wow they like this seed seed stuff don't they
I work for London wild life protection
oh you work for the wildlife protection parliamentary first okay that's nice yeah i
usually feed the birds sometimes as well for my front room window i usually throw out some
bread i know they usually eat brown bread but they like seeds the most seed is better because
bread is sort of like globes oh the bread bloats them up right if you want to feed them regularly
okay all right then because i got a pack of seeds before at the pound shop yeah yeah
wow oh my god yeah it's called happy little currency happy little birthdays right you get
it i mean there's three of us do it so we all get our own delivered oh interesting and you feed the
birds daily every day or no we do it on a roller system okay so do you do the whole of croydon or
well i started this project okay um as i said we feed them they get good monsters now just
once and then always carry a box with me oh and that is a is that a bird cage or is that just a
there's a place called pigeon recovery where we take if they're injured okay and i have a little
hot water oh so you actually help the pigeons if they oh that is so sweet yeah yeah they're very
good pigeon recovery they've got a non-kill policy if if they can be released or if they only put
them down if they're like really badly injured oh yeah because i've seen some pigeons myself
they the feet they have like the toes you know sometimes and sometimes i'm like oh my god i said
they seem to manage reasonably well um you know with the foot with the foot as if they can fly is
the difficulty oh the wings are more of a problem yes okay so some of our group goes on what we call
d-stringing oh d-stringing yeah pick them up oh when you put the tape is that the tape around the
ankle is that just take off the string oh okay if it's bad and it's really embedded we take it
we take it home you know okay see there's a guy there with starter stumps but really to pick
up any one creature and put it into captivity it's very stressful it can be yeah so so i'm so
we only pick them up with their you know if they if they're they're really neat so
he's mad oh but they seem to like you they're like following the whole they know the troll
oh they know the trolley and what kind of variety like is this seed is it like a specific kind of
variety of seeds or is it just normal it's just but pets at home is quite a good um i think
it's about 550 for a 12 kilo bag wow so i know it's just cheap to bite in the pit shop but um
you know hmm i did the posters went for them okay
i'm waiting to win to get a5 ones done
there you go oh thank you very much
london wildlife protection
pigs oh awesome yeah all right guys i'm now coming up to wick gift center it's a really old shopping
center and it was opened in 1970 croydon wick gift shopping center in the year 2019 there was plans
to turn this into a westfield shopping center we are now in year 2021 and look currently no changes
still the same i'd like to show you a closer look inside actually let's go have a look inside all
right so inside they just got shops like shopping centers like w h smith they have a clark's
in here as well okay so they got a jewelry shop here but the shops are closed at the moment due to
the pandemic but just heard that some of the shops will open nine o'clock so this is how it looks
inside also got super drug krispy kreme i'll definitely get this if they was open
boots pharmacy here in the wicked center was the first shop to open in the wick gift
that was a very long time ago
this is a coffee somewhere where to get coffee
it's quite cool actually have a look
interesting
and the boots as you can see straight ahead
and at one stage inside the whit gift center very long time ago the glass roof used to be open as
you can see the there's a roof on the top used to be an open shopping center and there's the boots
i'm just making my way out now to greg's okay and they have a mcdonald's as well it's closed
drinks
so this is grace
good morning can i have a hot chocolate and a crossover
what flavors do you have do you have like a chocolate
two please anything possible no thanks i'm going to pay my card yeah
all right i'm gonna try this food as it goes just down here try this food
here we are just going to try this i'm not going to allow i've got this puffy jacket on because
i thought it was really cold this morning but turns out to be it's not that cold but
oh well it's keeping me warm alright so i got myself a hot chocolate from greg's
it's an english bakery and also i've got myself a croissant
so that's how it looks my hot chocolate
it's good
oh that's nice and warm i'm telling you amazing all right let's look at
the croissant i ordered chocolate flavour well chop a chocolate croissant here it is
a little bit hanging out the side as well let's give it a go hmm nice
it's quite nice actually she's got chocolate in there as well
it says greg's every sandwich is freshly prepared in our shops every day awesome okay let's go
i'm going to take somewhere i'd like to tell you something and show you something
about a bit of croydon history i'm just walking past weather spoons
a bar i thought it'd be interesting to show you what kind of beverages they do here
in an england bar what kind of beer they sell so here it is
we've got carling fosters magnus which is a cider this is more of the um spirits captain morgan
black ball ian j brandley brandy stella heineken guinness i also got english breakfast here as well
what i am about to show you now is a war memorial monument located here in croydon
next to croydon library in memories of those that died in world war one
so here is croydon library
and here in front of me is the croydon war monument memorial in memory of those who lost
their lives in wars and conflicts a tribute to the men and women of croydon who died and suffered
so we got one of the soldiers
bandaging his arm you can see he has his rifle and his outfit like he's dressed for the wall
also on this side is like a woman to me this signifies like men leaving the home to go to
war and you have the woman hugging holding on to the child like she would be saying you know
she wants her husband to come back or she misses him or even she's tried to stop him from going
so this signifies a lot here in croydon for those that lost their lives in the wars and conflicts
oh look at this one here we've also came across a statue of victoria
located next to the spread eagle pub
this pub is closed now though
this is the front it's called the spread eagle
you can tell some of these buildings here in croydon are really old because
if you look above the shops you can see really old architecture like how their
houses were built and also how the bricks look they look really old if you can see where it says
albion house at the top this also looks like one of the old victorian built houses
and you've got the shops at the bottom but the top looks pretty old okay guys so i'm now in surrey
street market it's one of the oldest markets here in london with records dating back from 12 36.
yard food that means caribbean food also have food here from greece taste of greece
have a polish supermarket here as well
and here it is sorry street market fruit and vegetables
just got your carrots onions
peppers
bananas
thank i've you myself some blueberries from the market
all right this is surry street market
what i'm going to show you is was a place where they sold furniture which is called
house of reeves where they would sell beds mattresses and household furniture stuff like
that it was built in 1837 and due to the riots in 2011 it was burnt down i'm going to show you
so here is where was stood a sofa bed furniture and cabinet serving croydon since 1867 and the
furniture store was stood right here as you can see this is like the base of the foundation
so somebody's hard working business has collapsed because of
somebody wasn't being considerate about other people it's a shame isn't it
and across the road there is the second shop which stood next to it which is called reed's
corner so as you can see there was two there was one here and one in the center
and this one also is a part of this furniture store and this one also was built since 1867.
got the furniture in here sofas
wardrobe stuff like that in here and across the road was the same thing and in 2011
some idiot burned it down petrol bomb i don't know why
so now someone has to deal with the consequences of other people's stupidity
but still have something here
and here is the front
and edward reeves is the founder he's got his photo up there with his name
not sure if you can see at the top
some idiot burned it down in the riots 2011.
the following morning when i came down here it was horrific really and everybody knows and it's all
history now but that's how it came across to me of course i spent a lot of my life in there all right
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