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Some very good things have come from Croydon, the often overlooked town in south London. The film director David Lean was born there, as was Roy Hodgon, the actor Peggy Ashcroft and the sexologist Havelock Ellis. Amy Winehouse studied in Croydon. The Bill and Peep Show were filmed there, as was the title sequence of the 1980s sitcom Terry and June. For a long time it was a centre of brewing…