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Katrina Navickas
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Historian of protest, political movements and public space. My new book, Contested Commons, is out now: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
Croydon/Rochdale
UCU Herts branch secretary
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · Oct 27
A reminder that my book on the history of protest is now published. It is superbly produced with a great cover. Buy it now from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Contested Commons Formidably erudite, compellingly argued, and dryly humorous, Contested Commons will change the way you think about the politics of space, the "myth of the commons", and the history of England since the eighteenth century: MATTHEW KELLy, author of The Women Who Saved the English Countryside "Starting with Kennington Common, and ranging from Steeple Bumpstead to Sheffield, Stonehenge and Brixton, and with a cast that includes ramblers, ranters, revolutionaries and ravers, this is a superb, sweeping but fine-grained history. It's also a highly necessary, politically urgent reminder of what public space is - places for everyone, owned by everyone, accessible to everyone, whether carefully tended or wild - and what it isn't, the tradition of pseudo-public space that runs from Victorian parks to privatised malls.' OWEN HATHERLEY, author of A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1h
Has Reviews in History stopped?
I'd completely forgotten about it. Looking at the website, it appears that the last reviews were 1 in September and 1 in July last year. That site used to publish multiple reviews a month when I reviewed for them...

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2h
It still has its sign!

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2h
Electro still exists!!!
I must take a walk up there next time we go to the Dark Horse in Selhurst.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2h
And Estelle.
Directly opposite this Dead Pub.
Flat roof pub boarded up

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2h
Provence is still there
maps.app.goo.gl/RymqybDBUXXC...
House with Provence written on a sign

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3h
Choose your fighter
Revilo Provence Estelle Electro

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 4h
Fascinating rareading and photos

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 4h
Amazing thanks!

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Heather Tweed @heathertweed.bsky.social · 4h
Bobbed over to Transpirr Museum & here it is

www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/...
Culinary Croydon: London Transport’s Food Production Centre | London Transport Museum
By the early 1950s LT's catering department operated 165 canteens across Greater London. Discover how Croydon Food Production Centre was at the heart of improvements introduced to help canteens strugg...
www.ltmuseum.co.uk

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 4h
@themodernist.bsky.social might be of interest.
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You made me look :)

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piece about the Croydon Food Production Centre. It's a scanned image son can't print text but this accompanies it: A key part of post-war modernisation was the Croydon Food Production Centre, which opened in October 1950. Housed in a former aircraft components factory, it was equipped with a butchery, a vegetable preparation division, cook freeze units and a bakery. This was food production on a large scale. Food was prepared and cooked daily ready to dispatch to LT canteens, easing some of the strain on the overstretched facilities. Source https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/stories/people/time-tea-londons-transport-canteens

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 4h
Wow

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Mike @mikeyashworth.bsky.social · 4h
Indeed, I still have in my own collection some Griffin Catering products from Croydon! As well as supplying canteens they also sold retail goods to LT staff.
A brown kraft paper bag with string - printed "Griffin Tea" and a red teapot with the London Transport Griffin symbol overstamped" and below, The blend with Extra Delicious Flavour." London Transport's Food Production Factory at Croydon also sold products retail to LT staff through the canteens they served. London Transport's Food Production Factory at Croydon also sold products retail to LT staff through the canteens they served. This is a cellophane sausage wrapper printed in white on red "London TRansport Catering" - the Griffin symbol - and Farmhouse Sausages, 1lb. (one pound) net.

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Mike @mikeyashworth.bsky.social · 4h
Indeed - & I recall the amount of items that came out of there at closure for the LT Museum. Biscuit cutters, pots & pans, hampers full of picnic items for Ascot race day bus hires....

(TfL Collections)
A c.1950 metal biscuit cutter with "L T E Shortie" - London Transport Executive shortie biscuit cutter from the LT Food Production Centre at Croydon and now in LTM Collections

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 5h
I agree. You could argue for a half way solution, which is semi-structured assessment - I.e. that essay plans have to be completed by a certain date. But no more.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 5h
A Doppelganger road? Do all Costco branches lead to IKEA?

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 5h
You should have popped round mine for tea instead!

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 6h
Nice to hear some Squirrel Bait on the radios just

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 6h
Purley Way runs from that Costco (by the aerodrome) all the way to Ikea

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 6h
It's Ampere Way tram stop. See what they did there

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 6h
Here you go as well

youtu.be/VzLbXiSL0AQ?...
Our Canteens (1951)
YouTube video by Joanne Harris
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 6h
Fascinating

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 6h
Not really. There were already many warehouse and small industry units around the Purley Way by the 1930s, because of the power station and aerodrome. It remains a warehouse district today.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 7h
No tube in Croydon too, though this is near-ish to a railway depot

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 7h
Why am I now tempted to do a micro history of the Purley Way?
lukebmtb.bsky.social LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 7h
You made me look :)

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piece about the Croydon Food Production Centre. It's a scanned image son can't print text but this accompanies it: A key part of post-war modernisation was the Croydon Food Production Centre, which opened in October 1950. Housed in a former aircraft components factory, it was equipped with a butchery, a vegetable preparation division, cook freeze units and a bakery. This was food production on a large scale. Food was prepared and cooked daily ready to dispatch to LT canteens, easing some of the strain on the overstretched facilities. Source https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/stories/people/time-tea-londons-transport-canteens

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 7h
Yes. Off the Purley Way, half way between Croydon B power station and the aerodrome.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 7h
So cool. Thanks!

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 7h
Thanks!

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 7h
You made me look :)

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piece about the Croydon Food Production Centre. It's a scanned image son can't print text but this accompanies it: A key part of post-war modernisation was the Croydon Food Production Centre, which opened in October 1950. Housed in a former aircraft components factory, it was equipped with a butchery, a vegetable preparation division, cook freeze units and a bakery. This was food production on a large scale. Food was prepared and cooked daily ready to dispatch to LT canteens, easing some of the strain on the overstretched facilities. Source https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/stories/people/time-tea-londons-transport-canteens

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 7h
Also, when did this close?
Science museum repository

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 7h
I am intrigued by the Central Kitchen for London Transport. Did they make meals here? It's not that close to any transport links (now the back of Carpetworld opposite the Big Sainsbury's)