You can't keep a good rock down, it seems.
Just eight months after 22 much-maligned boulders were removed from New Addington, they're back: and this time they're ubiquitous.
The huge hunks of stone, first installed in Central Parade in 2012 to stop drivers parking on the pavement, are to be placed in 20 locations across Croydon to make the borough's 50th anniversary.
A boulder will be installed in each of the 20 original wards that made up Croydon when it became a London borough on April 1, 1965.
It means the people of New Addington will welcome back one the controversial stones they waved goodbye to in October last year.
The boulders were controversial throughout their stay in Central Parade. Some saw them as an eyesore, others as a danger, while the council came under fire for its decision to spend £7,000 of the Mayor's Regeneration Fund on their installation.
But the council believes they will now make a "unique and fitting" tribute of the birth of the borough.
Councillor Alison Butler, the council’s deputy leader, said: "Becoming part of London 50 years ago was a key moment in Croydon’s history, and placing these beautiful recycled stones across the borough is our way of celebrating this landmark."
Some of the boulders, including Bensham Manor's in Trumble Gardens and South Norwood's in Station Road, are already in place.
"Beautiful", apparently: South Norwood's boulder
The 1965 wards and the locations of their stones:
Addiscombe
Junction of Morland Road and Morland Avenue
Bensham Manor
Trumble Gardens
Broad Green
Wandle Park
Central
Queen's Gardens
Coulsdon East
Bradmore Green Pond
East
Ashburton Park
New Addington
Milne Park
Norbury
Norbury Park
Purley
High Street
Sanderstead North
Sanderstead Station
Sanderstead and Selsdon
Sanderstead Pond
Shirley
Library
South Norwood
Norwood Junction station
Thornton Heath
Clocktower on Parchmore Road
Upper Norwood
Upper Norwood Recreation Ground
Waddon
Waddon Leisure Centre
West Thornton
Thornton Heath Pond
Whitehorse Manor
Heavers Meadow
Woodcote and Coulsdon West
Coulsdon Library
Woodside
Woodside Green
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