Construction industry gossip: Grave consequences

By Hansom2019-09-30T05:00:00

An Oscar-winner leaves Croydon, shopkeepers are angry as Crossrail eats into their profits – while a skeleton crew unearth bodies at an HS2 site

Curtains for Peggy

One of my colleagues got a guided tour of the newly revamped Fairfield Halls in Croydon recently. Thankfully, acres of asbestos had been removed from the Ashcroft Theatre but I was a little sad to hear that the venue’s famous safety curtain – which features a lovely portrait of the late Dame Peggy Ashcroft, a Croydon local and after whom the theatre was named – had to be dumped on account of its dangerous contents. It was labelled, rather ingloriously for an Oscar winner, ‘industrial waste’.

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