The cover of a 1960s careers brochure: What Can You Do for Croydon Spaceport... And What Can Croydon Spaceport Do For You?
The cover of the Croydon Spaceport Annual review 1971
Croydon Spaceport Annual Report 1967
We've been uncovering some solid gold in the latest set of donations to the #CroydonSpaceport archives...
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ATTENTION CROYDONAUTS! We've just made a donation of £26 to @sheltercharity.bsky.social from sales of digital downloads of Ad Astra Per Croydon during the recent spell of cold weather. Thank you for all your support! 🌜🚀👩🚀
#croydonspaceport #zines #shelter
Here’s everything we published in 2025 - plus the #CroydonSpaceport CD with @tcfsr.bsky.social, of course, and our #ColossiveCartographies 5th birthday party @goshcomics.bsky.social.
Thank you all for being part of it. Have a Colossive 2026!
We sent out our latest newsletter yesterday with details of THREE new launches and various other flim-flam and flapdoodle.
Still don't subscribe? Suit yourself, pal. You can read it all here instead: bit.ly/colossivedec25
#croydonspaceport #zines #colossivepress
Happy #Caturday everyone!
Our joint CEOs Gertie and Gracie are well chuffed with their new #CroydonSpaceport CD (and definitely not just because we've hidden some kibble behind it).
Find out how to grab your copy at colossive.com.
In association with @tcfsr.bsky.social. Kibble not included.
Has anyone else heard those strange, otherworldly sounds that have been coming from #CroydonSpaceport over recent weeks?
It sounds like something really quite incredible is on its way...
All will be revealed tomorrow morning! 🚀
#BERG #committeeforsonicresearch #croydon
Three Colossive launches set for one week?
The nay-sayers insist it can't be done. But we're determined to prove them wrong. Keep 'em peeled for:
🔥 Our 71st Colossive Cartography
📘 A new #bookarts beauty from Sausage Fingers
🚀 Something VERY exciting from #CroydonSpaceport
#zines #morezines
We sent out our latest newsletter this morning with details of our 70th #ColossiveCartography, an upcoming book fair and more - all of which you would already know if you subscribed.
Still can't be bothered? Read it here instead: bit.ly/colossivenewsnov25
#zines #bookarts #croydonspaceport
Happy birthday to architect Richard Seifert, BOTD in 1910, who put a roof over the head of Croydon's municipal space programme
#croydonspaceport
(colossive.com/product/croy... - and we'll throw in the AFA one)
New #CroydonSpaceport sticker incoming!
Want one? Just buy anything from colossive.com/product-category/croydon-spaceport/ and we'll send you one with your order...
Keep fighting evil, Croydonauts!
#croydon #penge #zines #smashthefash
Poor Tom did THIS to his finger while making the usually-very-popular #CroydonSpaceport Historical Maps & Guides last week - and then nobody even bought one at Winchester Comics Fair. 😱
If you'd like to right this terrible wrong, you can grab the #zine for a fiver at bit.ly/croydonspaceport 🚀
WE HAVE LIFT-OFF! Croydon Spaceport: Mission Control - a solo journalling game of municipal bureaucracy - sees you take on the role of Launch Process Administrative Assistant.
Grab the game/zine for £4 at colossive.com/product/croy...
#croydonspaceport #zines #spaceisace
We sent out our latest newsletter this morning with details of our latest #ColossiveCartographies, #CroydonSpaceport news plus upcoming #zines and events.
If you already subscribe and opened the email, you'll know this already. But if you don't, you can read it here instead: bit.ly/colossiveoct251
A vintage photo of a scientist in a white coat fiddling about with some complicated-looking apparatus
ATTENTION CROYDONAUTS!
We've had a frankly astonishing email from the archivist at the Committee for Sonic Research. (@tcfsr.bsky.social)
Our researchers are looking into it, but if true, it could blow open a whole new chapter in the history of #CroydonSpaceport.
Watch this space...
LISTEN UP, CROYDONAUTS! Ever wished you could get your hands on a (space) capsule collection of five super-stellar #CroydonSpaceport stickers? You're in luck!
Grab your sticker pack - including our brand new South Side of the Moon design - for just £6 at bit.ly/spaceportstickers
The front cover of The Outer Periphery: Amateur Spacecraft Designs from the US Patent Office, by Andy Sturdevant, published by 50 Watts Books. It depicts an unlikely-looking triangular spacecraft hovering above a planet
Back-cover blurb: A collection of over 75 patent illustrations for functioning spacecraft and spaceflight technologies, designed by amateurs, hobbyists, sci-fi enthusiasts, engineers, and cranks. Ranging from "somewhat plausible" to "completely off the wall," these drawings beautifully capture the delirious optimism of the space age. In the years between Sputnik and Challenger, sitting in your garage drafting a design for, say, a rotating spacecraft that produced an electric dipole on four rotating spherical conducting domes seemed not just like an interesting hobby, but an obligation to the future of humankind
An inside spread from The Outer Periphery: Amateur Spacecraft Designs from the US Patent Office, by Andy Sturdevant, published by 50 Watts Books.
An inside spread from The Outer Periphery: Amateur Spacecraft Designs from the US Patent Office, by Andy Sturdevant, published by 50 Watts Books.
If your heart was warmed by the history of #CroydonSpaceport, then this will be right up your street - a collection and commentary on amateur spacecraft designs submitted to the US Patent Office
(Published by @50wattsbooks.bsky.social, bought at @goshcomics.bsky.social)
TOMORROW NIGHT! Don't miss your once-in-a-lifetime* chance to hear the story of #CroydonSpaceport mumbled aloud in a North London bookshop...
*probably
