Rockmount Primary School pupils went bananas over their new playground after it was transformed into a jungle by local artists on Monday, November 26.
Darren Callen, Kevin Fitzpatrick and Joe Deakon, from local business Sureshot, got their spray cans out to create a comic cartoon mural for the Upper Norwood school's pupils and teachers to admire.
The project is the fourth major mural to be funded by a Smarter Croydon community grant and follows on from the sealife themed artwork created at the Rockmount Infants school earlier this year.
Other colourful creations can be seen at the Dingwall Avenue entrance to Whitgift Centre and the pedestrian underpass at South Norwood train station.
Town centre traders are currently in talks over developing plans to extend the Dingwall Avenue mural with the help of private sponsorship.
Croydon council leader Hugh Malyan said he hoped that: "by offering young people an attractive environment in which to play and learn then they will develop a more responsible attitude towards their neighbourhoods."
December 6, 2001 10:30
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