A report on Crawley

St John the Baptist's Church from the southeast
Crawley signal box in 2008
Queen's Square in the central shopping area, looking towards the bandstand, The Body Shop, Marks & Spencer and the former Woolworths store
One of the neighbourhood churches: St Mary's in Southgate (now a locally listed building)
Borough of Crawley shown within West Sussex
Crawley Town Hall, on The Boulevard in the town centre
Ordnance Survey map of the Crawley area, 1932
The Southgate neighbourhood's parade of shops
Each neighbourhood has colour-coded street name signs (Southgate example pictured).
Neighbourhoods of Crawley, identified in the table
Church Road in Lowfield Heath village, looking east towards St Michael and All Angels Church. No houses remain here; a hotel, depots and light industrial units have replaced the earlier development.
Graph of population growth in Crawley 1901–2001. Horizontal axis: year. Vertical axis: population.
Former Virgin Atlantic head office.
Schlumberger House, the head office of WesternGeco at Gatwick Airport
34 and 36 High Street - Grade II late 18th-century brick building with sash windows, two chimneys and a tiled roof.
The Friary Way entrance to County Mall
Crawley police station
Crawley library, opened in December 2008
Crawley station, with five storeys of offices above the ticket office and concourse area
A Metrobus double-decker bus at Crawley bus station
Gatwick is the world's second busiest single-runway international airport.
Entrance to the K2 Leisure Centre
Pond at Goff's Park Crawley, January 2009
The Memorial Gardens
The Grade II listed Worth Training Centre, Turners Hill Road, Pound Hill, Crawley
1902 Autocar in the 2018 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, High Street, Crawley.
The main building of Central Sussex College
Broadfield House, which now houses the Atelier 21 Future School
Erin Doherty
Ms. Dynamite
Romesh Ranganathan
Gareth Southgate
Daley Thompson
Alan Minter
Leadley
Laura Moffatt
Robert Smith

Large town and borough in West Sussex, England.

- Crawley

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Lemon's cartes de visite

Mark Lemon

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Lemon's cartes de visite
From M. H. Spielmann's The History of "Punch", 1895
Mark Lemon's grave, St Margaret's Church, Ifield, West Sussex.

Mark Lemon (30 November 1809, in London – 23 May 1870, in Crawley) was the founding editor of both Punch and The Field.

Horsham railway station

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Horsham railway station serves the town of Horsham in West Sussex, England.

Horsham railway station serves the town of Horsham in West Sussex, England.

The down line from Horsham railway station.
RCTS Sussex Rail Tour in 1962

Horsham would have been an important midway point in two of the original proposals for a London to Brighton railway via the Adur valley but in the event Sir John Rennie's proposed direct line through Three Bridges (in east Crawley) and Haywards Heath was given parliamentary approval.

British Caledonian

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British private independent airline which operated out of Gatwick Airport in south-east England during the 1970s and 1980s.

British private independent airline which operated out of Gatwick Airport in south-east England during the 1970s and 1980s.

British Caledonian Boeing 707-320C at Gatwick Airport June 1975.
British Caledonian BAC 111-509EW at Gatwick
A British Caledonian Airways Cargo Boeing 707 at London Gatwick Airport
The first Boeing 747 to wear BCal colours being prepared for an engine run prior to delivery to BCal.
A British Caledonian Helicopters Sikorsky S-61N at Aberdeen Airport in May 1986.
A British Caledonian Helicopters Bell 214ST at Aberdeen Airport
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, one of BCals's new aircraft in 1980, at Faro Airport in 1986.
This British Caledonian Charter McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 at Gatwick in March 1984 was one of two acquired from bankrupt Laker Airways in 1983.
A BCal Airbus A310-200 seen at Paris Charles de Gaulle in May 1984.
Seen here at Paris Charles de Gaulle in February 1985, this former British United BAC One-Eleven 500 was among 13 BCal hush-kitted in the mid-1980s.
A British Caledonian Boeing 747-200M at Gatwick in 1986.
Seen here at London Gatwick in April 1984, McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 G-BGAT was one of the aircraft BCal sold to Continental Airlines in 1986.
A Genair Short 360-100 operating for British Caledonian Commuter Service
British Caledonian BAC One-Eleven 200 at London Gatwick Airport in 1973.
British Caledonian Boeing 707-320C at Prestwick Airport circa 1972.
British Caledonian McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 at Manchester on schedule to New York JFK in 1987.
A British Caledonian Boeing 747-200 in 1988.
A British Caledonian Airways BAC 111 at Aberdeen Airport in a Dan Air London livery

BCal's 10th anniversary on 30 November 1980 coincided with the completion of its new corporate headquarters — aptly named Caledonian House — in Crawley's Lowfield Heath area close to the airline's Gatwick base.

Chagossian man harvesting coconuts, photographed shortly before the first United States encampment, 1971.

Chagossians

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The Chagossians (also Îlois or Chagos Islanders) are a currently exiled Creole ethnic group native to the Chagos Islands, specifically Diego Garcia, Peros Banhos, and the Salomon island chain, as well as other parts of the Chagos Archipelago, from the late 18th century until the middle of 20th century.

The Chagossians (also Îlois or Chagos Islanders) are a currently exiled Creole ethnic group native to the Chagos Islands, specifically Diego Garcia, Peros Banhos, and the Salomon island chain, as well as other parts of the Chagos Archipelago, from the late 18th century until the middle of 20th century.

Chagossian man harvesting coconuts, photographed shortly before the first United States encampment, 1971.
Abandoned church at Boddam Island, Salomon Atoll.
Diplomatic cable from Patrick Wright, Baron Wright of Richmond signed by D. A. Greenhill, dated August 24, 1966, stating "Unfortunately along with the Birds go some few Tarzans or Men Fridays."

Some settled in the town of Crawley in West Sussex, and the Chagossian community there numbered approximately 3,000 in 2016.

WesternGeco

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Geophysical services company.

Geophysical services company.

WesternGeco offices in Westchase, Houston, Texas, U.S.

It is headquartered in Schlumberger House on the property of London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex, in Greater London.

The house from the south

Broadfield House, Crawley

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The house from the south

Broadfield House is a 19th-century villa-style house in the Broadfield neighbourhood of Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England.

Virgin Holidays

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Company within owned by the Virgin Group that offers holidays worldwide with destinations including the US and Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, the Indian Ocean and the Far East.

Company within owned by the Virgin Group that offers holidays worldwide with destinations including the US and Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, the Indian Ocean and the Far East.

Virgin Holidays' headquarters are in Crawley, England.

Broadfield Stadium

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Broadfield Stadium - West stand

The Broadfield Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Crawley, England.

Three Bridges F.C.

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Three Bridges Football Club is a football club based in Three Bridges in Crawley, West Sussex, England.

Smith performing in June 2012

Robert Smith (musician)

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English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer.

English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer.

Smith performing in June 2012
Robert Smith with The Cure during the 1989 Prayer Tour.
Smith in October 1985

When he was six, his family moved to Crawley, where he attended St Francis' Junior School.