The hospital and the tram

Found myself in Croydon with a bit of time to spare.  It is a very busy multi cultural town with a lot of new buildings mixed with old.   This is the oldest building in Croydon dating from 1596.  In medieval times this was the main cross roads of the town but by 1923 this building was causing a bottle neck in the town and the Council wanted to knock it down.  It was saved by the intervention of the House of Lords and is now Grade 1 listed.   I thought I should record it together with one of the Croydon trams that have been in the news lately. Well its been on our local local news:- last week, one went round a bend much too fast , keeled over and killed 7 people. 

More history- 
In 1596 John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (1583-1604), laid the foundation stone of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity at Croydon.  The hospital was to be situated at the medieval town crossroads for the care of between thirty and forty "poor, needy or impotent people" from the parishes of Lambeth and Croydon.  The building is still almshouses for the elderly