NickT

Seabag there is a very good carpet shop in Beckenham, we just had our stairs done in a nice stripey number. But there's a good one on Lordship Lane or has it gone?

Hello, I'm Alice's partner. I was in East Dulwich for 15 years before moving to Beckenham, lived in Silvester Road and loved it. We moved in Jan 2015 mainly to have a bit more space indoors and out, it's leafy and green with lots of parks including Beckenham Place Park which is bigger than Greenwich Park. It is certainly already changing with some nice new eateries opened up in the last year. I think there are quite a lot of families moving here from ED, Balham and Tooting for the schools, parks and more house for your money. I had many good times in East Dulwich, great neighbours, got into all sorts of trouble up and down Lordship Lane over the years and the ED forum was a fabulous community resource that I really missed when I moved away which is why we decided to create something similar. I hope we can make it the success that the ED forum became.

Yeah I did miss the forum....so I started beckenhamforum.com which I'm launching soon. It is more suburban than ED for sure and I would say that it's less sophisticated but its also a lot less middle class snobby. I think my enjoyment of ED declined over the 15 years I lived there as it became more and more gentrified. In the last year I was in ED I always had the feeling I couldn't afford to live there, just paying more than I needed to for every meal out, drink in a bar or grocery shop. I'm sure Beckenham will change soon as well, there are already signs of it....especially with wankers like me moving in, putting white picket fences up and painting the front door with Farrow and Ball...writings on the wall ;-)

I was in ED, Silvester Rd, for 15 years, sold in January 2015 and moved to Beckenham. Now living in a big semi detached 3 bed home with beautiful 155ft garden. Was really unsure about leaving ED but have really enjoyed my first year in Becks. It has loads of lovely parks, three close to me and one right opposite with 8 new tennis courts, I basically garden and play tennis when I'm not working now. I just find it more relaxed here, more space and no mortgage after the move. Stations go into London Bridge, Charring Cross and Victoria. We have Waitroes, Sainsbury's and M&S food hall as well. Bromley is 10 mins by car and has really great shopping including Apple store and we have the best swimming pool in the country apparently and an Odeon cinema. Haven't really thought much about ED since moving.

PC World on Old Kent rd have taken my old stuff for recycling, I think those stores are obliged to now.

When I was buying a house in East Dulwich I chose a quiet street away from the shops so I could park outside and not be disturbed by noise. The pubs and bars, traffic and parking of Lordship Lane have always been there.

Yes silvester rd is out too

I'm in Silvester rd! heard the huge bang and saw the lightening strike as I was chatting on the phone to my mum and staring vacantly out the window (we were about an hour and 45 mins in), now my broadband router and modem are fried, won't even power up anymore...I'm having to post this tethered to my mobile.

The cheapest escorts/prostitutes charge ?80 hr servicing maybe 4 punters a day and working 4 days a week which is ?5120 a month and that's a very conservative estimate, most charge ?150/hr and are busier and working more days. I think many choose it over bar work or cleaning etc for obvious reasons. It's very unusual for girls to work the streets now in the UK...the internet has made it completely unnecessary. At the moment there is a huge influx of Romainian girls.

The Science Museum do great gifts for boys, solar powered vehicles etc that are also educational. http://www.sciencemuseumshop.co.uk/children

I don't know if it's connected but the CID visited me on Saturday because I have a CCTV camera outside the house, we spent 2hrs going through footage from Friday night around 11pm. Apparently a man was chased down the road by several others and a firearm was suspected to be involved, you can see a dog handler searching for the gun an hour or so afterwards. They took away some footage. I don't live on the Lane though.

Eggs Royal is a great brunch and a few green leaves to cleanse the palette between all that eggs and hollandaise is perfect IMHO. Plus it makes it a meal which is what I expect for ?9 ish especially now that you get two little slices of baguette rather than the slices of loaf that you got when it was Lucas.

Visited this week, service was super slow, over 30mins for Eggs Royal and then it was eggs and salmon on two tiny bits of baguette and no salad for nearly ?9. Hopefully just teaching troubles but it seems when things go upmarket you basically pay more for less. Will try again though.

I have been meaning to do a will for the last 20 years, has anyone had a good experience with any ED solicitors? Thanks....Nick

Well my road was resurfaced last week for the first time since I've lived here, 14 years. It needed it and they made a great job of it with minimum inconvenience. I'm happy they found the money wherever it came from.