Nope not been to London, lived there for 10 years or still work there, not texting this message from London either, most of my relatives have at some point never lived there, indeed never even born there. So, no, I'm clueless and Croydon is an idyllic urban sprawling commuter belt for the rich...
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From the English "turnpike", the place where itinerent travellers and thieves would camp near a settlement.
Pikey is not a racial group, the term is used to describe anyone who lives in a caravan or shares the same values and "culture" of "the travelling community", and whose...