A little bit of the riot happened within a small part of the shopping area of Croydon town centre, constrained to about half a square mile or so, apart from one or two stores in the Purley Way retail park. The Reeves corner store burning down was the "highlight" yes, and a couple of stores had some broken glass.

I walked through the town centre on the days of the riots, and frankly it was mostly quiet and uneventful - the media coverage was massively overblown.