We in Croydon have given up with no bid this time. Many times previously we've bid, only to be overlooked in favour of all sorts of odd little places.What a pathetic level of governing - can't make decisions, so hold cod competitions. If a place has a decent case, let them make it and judgement made. If they haven't, let them shut up and stop squawking.
City status: The 39 towns competing for an upgrade revealed
Our borough has a population far larger than the majority of existing cities. We have one of the largest commercial centres in the country outside of the City of London, nicknamed Little Manhattan, and we are major contributors to the national budget.
Our history extends back to the start of the 9th century and we were the home of the head of the C of E, the Archbishop of Canterbury from the 11th century until the mid 19th century. Eleven of the Archbishops of Canterbury are buried here. There is a Bishop of Croydon and Croydon's old town church is a Minster church with the Vicar of Croydon there being the C of E's senior vicar.
We are the home of the oldest continuously working market in the country, the home of the oldest continuously working forge in the country and the home of the oldest continuously occupied alms houses in the country, still fully occupied today. Both the market and the Alms Houses were founded by early Archbishops of Canterbury.
Some of our exclusive private schools like Whitgift, Royal Russell and Trinity at Whitgift have had more royal visits than Eton or Harrow.
So how we have not been appointed a city is baffling, possibly a matter of the unfair public image that Croydon sometimes has, or just London not wanting a third internal city to add to the City of London and the City of Westminster.
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