Meetup this (Friday) evening at Bishops Wine Bar from 5pm

There's a meetup at Bishops Wine Bar around the back of the Whitgift Centre this evening from 5pm and it's open for anyone to attend, so if you're free and in the mood to meet up with some Croydon locals then it would be great to see you there! I've also shared the event with [the Croydon Eats Out group](https://www.meetup.com/croydoneatsout/events/311136669/) so there'll be some people from that lot there, too.

If you've not been before then Bishops is a very friendly pub with cheap drinks and Cosimo, the resident cat, though it is increasingly tricky to get to. The most straightforward route is probably to come along Wellesley Road [around the back of the Whitgift Centre and to go in via the car park exit, where there are now signs pointing the way](https://i.imgur.com/mTnX9Ru.jpeg) - keep the multi-storey car park to your left and walk towards the back of the shopping centre and you should find it.

Six months ago I would have said another option is to [go up the escalator near WHSmiths inside the Whitgift Centre, bear right and use the Allders car park exit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfk6VZUam8Y) but the doors around the back are not always open now and the escalator itself was blocked off when I last visited so it's more of a gamble as to whether you'll actually be able to get through, but I'll mention it for completeness.

I've met some lovely people at Bishops over the years and hope to do so again this evening, so maybe see you there... :-)