Drummond Centre

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Drummond Centre

Location	Croydon, London, England
Developer	Drummond Centre Group
Management	St. Martins Property Group
No. of stores and services	17
No. of anchor tenants	1
No. of floors	2

The Drummond Centre was a shopping centre located on North End in Croydon, London. The centre previously was a large branch of clothing chain C&A. It has now closed to make way for St. Martins Property Group's new shopping centre called Centrale, which is more than triple the size of the Drummond and includes a car park and four floors. It also boats a 168,000 sq ft House of Fraser, 21,000 sq ft Zara and 51,000 sq ft Next all of which was opened in 2004, along with a larger H&M, Mango, UNIQLO and Timberland. Although the side of the centre where the Drummond used to occupy was never modernised and still stays like a complete opposite of the completely new and stylish Centrale.

The mall was never very popular due to the size of it being very small, this is proved as four of the seventeen units were still vacant when the mall closed. Revenue was also low at the centre, and it could never compete with the larger Whitgift Centre across the road. The only reason why large stores such as TK Maxx and Debenhams opened in the centre was because of it housed the only large suitable units in Central Croydon.

Even though the Centre was mainly based inside, there are a row of shops outside at the back of the centre which are still considered part of it. The shops were on Keeley Road and was designated like a basement floor, the shops on the road were mainly specialist and are not well known outside of Croydon.

Shopmobility was also available in the centre along with, baby changing, toilets, lifts, escalators, stairs, entertainment area and seating. Smoking was never permitted in the centre and was not allowed on the premises. The centre was open seven days a week, Monday to Saturday 9 a.m. - 6.p.m., Sunday 11.a.m. - 5 p.m. and late night shopping until 9 p.m. on Thursday.

[edit] Former shops

Here is a list of the shops that occupied a unit inside the Drummond Centre. Note that all of them are still present in Centrale.

C&A*
Debenhams (previously Kennards Store)
Clinton Cards (one of three in Croydon)
TK Maxx
JD Sports (one of two in Croydon)
Virgin Megastores
McDonalds (one of four in Central Croydon)
Games Workshop
Budwals
Piccolinos
Workout World
1001 RUGS
Le Petit Pain
101 Records

*-C&A was present on the site before the centre was built, and was never part of the centre

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