Nostalgia for the future: Exploring Croydon’s past and present through six buildings
No. 1 Croydon Tower. Pic: Adrian Wallett
In these virus-stricken times getting outside is, in fact, just what the doctor ordered. If you have exhausted your local parks or get a little down looking at denuded trees in winter, Croydon’s wealth of 20th-century modernist architecture offers the perfect escape into the borough’s history and, if you know where to search, a map to its present.
The story of Croydon’s building boom began in the 1960s when a local councilor and Conservative alderman named Sir James Marshall consolidated power. Until 1978, unelected aldermen could be nominated by a council and determine policy direction without voter input.
authors of the study also pointed out that the number of victims has probably been greatly underestimated during the study they examined forty thousand files and they found that every third reported case was dealt with by the church itself and forty percent of reported cases were brought to court. the study says perpetrators were often transferred to other parishes without the communities knowledge of what they had done. the received a one time payment of twenty five hundred euros for his suffering he and many others are demanding that the catholic church confront it sexual abuse crisis with more transparency. peter saunders is head of the national association for people abused in childhood based in the u.k. and he joins us in our studio now for more on this story peter we were watching that report together and you were nodding your head does these do these revelations
to change and the figures whatever they are whatever the official figures are in terms of perpetrators and we often forget the victims but the figures have a far far greater than our of our knowledge to peter saunders thank you so much for your courage in coming forward peter and thanks for all your work founding britain s national socialism for people abused in childhood thank you very much for being with us and q. now for a look at some of the other stories making the news today hurricane lane is pounding hawaii with high winds and torrential rains as it moves across the pacific the storm has now been downgraded to category three but still can cause major damage with winds of up to two hundred kilometers per hour the extreme downpours have triggered flash flooding and landslides. south africa has accused president trump of fueling racial tensions after he said farmers were being forced off their land and many of them killed south africa s ruling a.n.c. plans to speed up the expropria
around one hundred sixty cases of abuse and in germany hundreds of cases of abuse have come to light one of the most shocking five hundred fifty children at a catholic school in the pagans book were victims of sexual molestation up until the one nine hundred ninety s. . the streets of dublin are getting ready for pope francis visit hundreds of abuse cases have been uncovered across ireland francis wants to meet with some of the victims but that hasn t made his visit any less controversial. let s talk about this more now to do that i m joined by peter saunders he s the founder of britain s national association for people abused in childhood and is themself a survivor of abuse peter thank you so much for being with us i d like to this question the global organization ending clergy abuse is calling for pope francis to commit immediately to an action plan to end clergy abuse and stop the cover up do you expect him to do that in ireland today. well it might be
concrete not just it s you meet him after apologies that was peter saunders speaking with me earlier he is himself an abuse survivor and founder of a british group to support adult survivors of abuse now to some of the other stories making the news at this hour hurricane lane is pounding hawaii with high winds and torrential rains as it moves across and. the storm has been downgraded to category three but can still cause major damage with winds of up to two hundred kilometers per hour. sixteen downpours have triggered flash flooding and landslides . south africa has accused president trump of fueling racial tensions after he said farmers were being forced off their land and many of them killed south africa s ruling a.n.c. plans to speed up the expropriation of land without compensation to redress racial imbalance as land ownership toria called trumps we listen for.