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EDOldie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Have you tried to park by Chez Bruce? Parking here > is very easy by comparison. xxxxxx But Chez Bruce is right next to Wandsworth Common station, isn't it?

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Actually I think Fellbrigg is top spot, > Ulverscroft is for those whose can't find anywhere > decent to park. Why would anyone heading to > market leave there car by choice on such a rough > street ?! xxxxxx Because Crystal Palace Road is full of burglars? :))

Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've always thought it would make a great > "destination" restaurant - along the lines of Chez > Bruce in Wandsworth. However, the restriction on > opening hours stymies that. If Council Planning > officers / committee were more flexible and > approve longer hours for the right sort of place > it could have a positive impact on ED, xxxxxx I wonder why the restriction? I'd have thought the people who were running its last incarnation would have applied for evening opening (if they were able to), as surely they couldn't have hoped to make a go of it just during the day - as indeed they didn't. Did residents object? There can't be that many of them, with the Rye opposite, and it isn't as if it became a pub.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Typical Ulverscroft, dragging down the area.. xxxxxxx :)) :)) :))

esme Wrote: (er > KK where do you live that's so perfect?!) xxxxxx He lives on CPR, hence my comment :)

MarkE Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >if a member of EDF recommends you, > they save ?1/month off their bill too ;) xxxxxxx Really? Want me to recommend you, youandiaredominoes? I'm a penniless pensioner, I could do with saving a few quid :))

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It amazes me that the local Authority seems to > endorse these Acts of Vandalism. > xxxxxx What acts of vandalism?

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Inside72. 5 years too early. > xxxxxx Yes. R.I.P. Inside 72 :(

ksh Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Apparently there was a burglary on crystal palace > road xxxxx Dodgy street, that Crystal Palace Road :)) (only joking, responding to KK's post above ....)

scotslass Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do the house holders get paid for having this c@@p > on their houses? Wonder how it affects their > selling price! xxxxxx According to the woman from Dulwich Art Gallery who was key to having this initiative here, these are top international street artists. Therefore I would imagine it would affect the house owners' selling price positively. You may not like it. You may not even think it is art. But the fact is, the same has been said about almost every new art movement before it becomes more generally accepted. Have you watched the short film? Almost all the street art was based on an existing painting exhibited in Dulwich Art Gallery, either directly or as an interpretation. I think that's a brilliant idea, myself.

Link to a great short film about the street art here: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1159228

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > DulwichFox Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > > > > I really would not of felt safe in the area > > > walking back home alone. > > > I'm certain I'm not the only one to have > such > > > concerns. > > > > > > Foxy. > > > > xxxxxx > > > > Dear oh dear, man up Fox! > > > > I used to walk up there by myself through the > > estate in the dark. > > > > Anyway there are other ways to get there. > > > > PS It's "would not have", etc, not "would not > > of", etc :) > > Man Up... ??. > So you are saying because I am a guy, I should be > able to Fight and be a thug. > Bigger guys than me have been turned over.. > > Having been robbed and beaten unconscious in > Crawthew Grove Nov. 2006 I am always concerned at > night. > Have some pics. but you might not recognise me. > > Ok so you have walked back from there at night. > Well perhaps you had had a few bevvies and not > aware > of any danger. Well that's when folk are most > vulnerable.. > > Foxy xxxxxxx Who's talking about fighting and being a thug? I'm talking about just walking somewhere without constantly worrying about being attacked. I've walked to and from Hoopers both sober and not so sober, in the dark. I'm sorry if you were attacked in Crawthew Grove in 2006, but I've walked down there by myself in the dark many times over the last twenty years without incident. I'm not going to stay at home and never go out just because I live in an urban area where sometimes bad things happen. Mostly they don't.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I really would not of felt safe in the area > walking back home alone. > I'm certain I'm not the only one to have such > concerns. > > Foxy. xxxxxx Dear oh dear, man up Fox! I used to walk up there by myself through the estate in the dark. Anyway there are other ways to get there. PS It's "would not have", etc, not "would not of", etc :)

:( Dozens?? :(

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Bloody hell Foxy, I've missed it all. Nobody came and told me to stay indoors! ETA: Did they find who they were looking for? I've closed my back door !!!!! :(

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hoopers closed for good on Xmas Day and it > certainly wasn't spit and sawdust. It was a very > nice pub with a great selection of ales and a > fairly good selection of wine. There was good > music there and the comedy nights were fun. Damn > that neighbour. I miss it. xxxxxxx I'm pretty sure it didn't close down because of the neighbour. It closed down because despite Jamie and Viv's best efforts it was making a continuing loss due to lack of custom, and became totally unsustainable.

Brilliant film. Sad I didn't get to see the house when it was open though. Is there a list somewhere of what's where and what the original inspiration from the gallery was (if any)?

maxxi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Goose Green/Adys Rd. mural - like something > painted on remand. xxxxxx Actually I think it was done with the help of local schoolchildren. There is a thread on it somewhere. The original mural had to be repainted after some stupid council employees dealt with graffiti on it by painting over the whole lower half of the mural.

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Could anyone do a copy of the Haywain on a massive > scale? xxxxxx Please, no!

47A Irford Close Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > DulwichFox: The same general effect can be > achieved with a sheet of paper folded in half and > held at mid chest height. Provided one walks about > with a brisk, purposeful tread one can get away > with it for days :) xxxxx Would be less boring actually doing some work though, wouldn't it :))

:))

Strange how the folk music gigs we have in pubs so often sell out, then .... :)) ETA: I think cover bands should be banned from pubs, myself :))

StraferJack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Didn't Jamie @ Hoopers have specific issues with > some of local residents objecting to evening > entertainment? I thought that was the main > stumbling block xxxxx There was one particular resident. Jamie did everything he reasonably could to address her complaints, including putting up hideous shutters inside the pub, but she was still not happy. Yes, they did have a French chef at one point, but it was far from bistro food if I recall. His first attempt at a menu was things like ham sandwiches. Apparently he thought that the English had not changed their food preferences since the fifties. I did mention this to whoever was the bar manager at the time (Nick I think) and I think the menu changed a bit. Then for a while (I don't know if it was the same chef) it included stuff like "a selection of breads" which turned out to be a plate of dried up pitta bread. If it had been anywhere else it would have gone straight back, but I knew Jamie and Viv through putting on music nights there for a while, so didn't feel I could complain. I recognise that Jamie was trying to give Hoopers the feel of an old school back street boozer, but I always felt that the decor could have been updated - in particular the horrid swirly carpet at one end of the room - without straying too far from that concept. I never much liked it as a place to spend an evening unless there was music on. He did usually have a good selection of ales, though. The pub really picked up at one point when Pete (I think) put on musicians such as James Riley who brought a much younger crowd down, and there was a completely different and much welcome vibe, but apparently Jamie didn't renew Pete's contract - though Pete did reappear later on. But the writing was on the wall by then.

footandmaff Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- They had a special on last night for > Shoreditch Triangle IPA for ?2.75 a pint; I don't > think I've ever paid that for a pint. xxxxxxxx The EDT usually has Lighthouse for - I think - ?2.70 a pint :)