• Bill Boaks, a retired Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander, won only 5 votes (a record low in a British Parliamentary election) in a 1982 by-election?

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Croydon

• a skyscraper in Croydon has been nicknamed the 50p Building because it resembles a pile of 50p coins?
• during Henry VIII's reign, Lancelot Ridley, one of the Six Preachers of Canterbury Cathedral, took part in the disputation Thomas Cranmer set up on Trinity Sunday 1542, in Croydon?