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Thanks for investigating BrandNewGuy, it's nice to have the facts.

I live on Barry Road, don't wear ear plugs, don't have double glazing, do hear the planes but they don't bother me. I am quite a calm, relaxed person - so maybe that's the difference... What about meditation or similar?

Dear John K, these maps (and the other documents you share on the messageboard) are so interesting. Where are the originals kept? Is it possible to see them, and others too?

Great video - makes me proud to be an East Dulwicher (and Barry Roader!)

Can I just add (not sure if it has been raised before in thsi thread) that the automatic sign that indicates to cars that they are speeding as they go up Barry Road is not working (it is near the bottom on the left as you go up, almost opposite Barry's minimart). I am sure it had an effect on speeding cars as they zoomed up the road....Is it going to be fixed? To whom should I report it?

I read in the Standard yesterday that Southwark is having to make the hichest cuts of any London Borough. Other inner London, disadvantaged boroughs also have to make MASSIVE cuts: all between ?35m and ?39m. Wealthier boroughs have to make much smaller cuts, for example, Richmond, only has to make ?1m cuts. I understand that disadvantaged boroughs need, by definition, more government help and therefore there is more to cut. Nevertheless, it seems against all logic and fairness. I simply do not believe there is that much fat in Southwark's budget or that a cut in the Chief Exec's salary will make all the difference. I am really fearful for this borough and the people who live in it. Anyone agree?

If you get up very early on a Saturday morning and get to Billingsgate (through Rotherhithe tunnel and down the limehouse loop) for about 5.30 you can get VERY cheap and VERY fresh fish and have a great experience at the same time. It doesn't take long to get there at that time in the morning and when you get home you can go back to bed. I really recommend it.

I Love Barry's too and all the staff. They have a really wide range of products and will get stuff in for you if you ask them. BUT: they are more expensive than Sainsbury's. I don't care personally because they are convenient and I want to give them my custom. It's not all about money - and shouldn't be.

I work just off Piccadilly: longest journey home on the number 12 to Barry Road was 2 hours!!! That bus route is horrible. I cycle every day unless it's icy or snowing and love it - takes me 40 minutes (19 year old son does it in 23 mins!). We are only a small company but have a shower and encourage cyclists with the cycle to work scheme (I think soon to be ended due to the cuts - SHAME).

Just for info: private school terms are generally shorter than state school terms...

Just a note to say Charter kids also benefit from Townley rd lollipop men...

My husband and i moved here in 1991 with a 6 month old baby as this was the only place we could afford after selling our flat in Kennington. To begin with I was quite depressed as our house needed a lot of work and LL was really run down (it was just as Sainsbury's was opening and all the shops were shutting down). Lack of public transport was a pain and felt so far out of town and boringly suburban. It seemed like a step down.BUT... obut over the years I have really come to love living here and it has been a GREAT place for our kids to grow up. They went to local schools so could walk and cycle to school. Because their friends live locally their social life has been great and they love coming back here during holidays from Uni. I made loads of friends with other like minded mothers and now our kids are leaving home, these are the closest people in my life. Peckham Rye Park is beautiful (hope it stays that way with the cuts coming), the shops are fab and I love the way the local community is so mixed with young and old, professional people, musicians and artists etc. I was brought up and went to school in North London and would never go back. To me, ED is the best place to live in London.

With all this filming going on, it's almost like living in Hollywood...

Don't always agree with Huguenot, but do on this one.

I'm not that clever, but all seems very simple to me and a great idea. Well done Southwark.

Elderflower what does this mean? "I've never lived somewhere where before where people hark on about being middle class as much as here. In central london you are either from there or you can afford to live there. Its not I'm middle class and I like the fact that I have a local WI because it supports and re asserts the view to myself that I live in a middle class area. Well done you."

I have lived in E Dulwich since 1991 and have never been mugged, or seen a mugging. My kids also have never been mugged. A friend's son was hassled quite seriously on the No 12 last at night and there has been one fatal shooting on Barry Road - v near us - and one mock shooting in the last five (?) years. Nevertheless I feel very safe in this area, and can't imagine anywhere where one could guarantee complete safety. Small country towns seem to suffer from more drug abuse and alcohol-fuelled violence than we see here in ED - and are rarely the idyllic "safe havens" of our imaginations...

Wonderful husband has taken his secateurs and clipped back the overhanging branches. Hopefully this will have solved the problem. Perhaps a lesson for us all?

Heard from vaguely authoritve source that banned driver had raced through red lights and thus caused pile up of four cars. |Too many serious accidents at this cross roads...

Great post - makes ED forum worth reading (have saved in my favourites) - thanks everyone.

Sounds like he is living the life - don't worry about him!

I completely agree with claire11. Last year the beautiful trees in Barry Road, which used to form a fabulous canopy all the way up the road, were hacked apart and now look - to my eyes - pretty pathetic in comparison . FGS just push your way past and be pleased you can almost imagine yourself in the country.

Don't know if this is useful, but there was a triangular metal "man at work" sign just up from Turners on Thursday morning - to hold a parking space. At 7.30 the space was filled with a flat bed lorry with a guy in the driving seat. I thought it might have been a work man doing something to the tree. No sign of your car however. I was up from between 4am and 5am (don't ask) and there was no traffic on Barry Road. Get in touch if you need more info.

This thread is making me laugh.....

Or through Rotherhithe tunnel, Limehouse Link and then onto A12 - easy peasy. I usually leave an hour if not in the rush hour, and it's usually plenty. Easiest airport to get to in my opinion (apart from City).