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148 Chinese is very good. It can be busy on the weekend so worth booking.

There is a burst water pipe on Underhill Road between Barry Road and Friern Road which has closed the road. It is mentioned in this thread

Why should residents of Dunstans, Langton Rise or Wood Vale bear the consequences of Ryedale being restricted? Rather than winners or losers perhaps residents on Ryedale should accept they live on a road that is used because it is a convenient route.

The southern end of Friern Road that the buses use to turn around for the start of the route has been closed whilst Thames Water repair a leak. The TfL Go app shows the 12 as yellow indicating disruption but says it is due to work in Whitehall.

Do you have the option to suspend listing the shop as a pick-up location? It would seem to be a sensible thing to be able to do if your storage was reaching capacity.

I think that was related to letter delivery and not parcel delivery. I think the parcel delivery and drop-off options we have now (such as lockers and pickup / drop-off locations) are far better than they were twenty years ago.

Drop on Melbourne Grove ae having a wine quiz on Wednesday 26th. I have gone to a couple and they are tough but interesting and include a blind tasting round. A good event for keen oenophiles.

Out of curiosity do the police send a ticket to the driver who was doing 41mph?

No indication on the signs that is the case - for instance this is a view of the sign on Heber road https://maps.app.goo.gl/cs2bRe4z1MEgpNqp9 (strangely placed on the righthand side of the road) and this is on Adys Road https://maps.app.goo.gl/EvwMDPbRhxGn1i5D7

I don't object to the idea of school streets but I think they way they have been implemented without taking bank holidays / school holidays into consideration is poor. Modern technology would allow them to be controlled in such as way that they are only active when schools are in perhaps indicated by amber or red lights on the school sign restriction signs themselves. It would avoid the confusion over whether the restrictions are in force during holidays and also avoid them being active during the 12 or 13 weeks when schools are not open.

The Etherow Street end seems an odd location to be doing it - I would think between Goodrich and Upland would be a more likely location for people to be speeding. Near Etherow Street drivers are either going to be coming from a standing start at the library intersection or slowing down for the corner and the traffic lights.

That's a shame as it was a nice local place that provided something different to pizzas, pasta or burgers. We are still fortunate to have a few independents such as Kartuli, Monkatsu, Evi's and Kokum but it does feel we are getting towards use them or lose them to the chains.

There is a new post box at about 217 Friern Road that has the CIIIR cypher. Replaced an old one that had rusted away.

This doesn't sound to promising Peckham Rye station upgrade sees funding axed by government - Murky Depths and Mixed news for rail as government backs transport infrastucture projects | Rail Business UK | Railway Gazette International Sounds like the project has been delayed / postponed.

Seems to be a very divisive article title with the area cherrypicked to to provide the class warfare angle. I'm pretty sure if similar pollution measurements were taken at the Friern Road / Etherow Street junction (near St Anthony's) or Whatley Road / Landcroft Road junction (near Harris East Dulwich) the results would be about the same.

It's not hard to understand how it happens in 20mph zones - a lot of drivers ignore the speed limit knowing they are not going to get caught. There are a few static speed cameras around and that is about it - no mobile speed cameras, no average speed cameras and no police patrols enforcing the speed limit. I constantly get overtaken on the South Circular or Sydenham Hill by other drivers only to catch up with them at the next traffic light.

That's more of a Shelbyville idea.

My daughter has been taking the 185 from East Dulwich to St Dunstan's for the past few years and on the whole it is very reliable. There is a bus lane for parts of the journey which helps. The road works at The Grove did make the journey time a little longer but this seems to have returned to normal. It can get busy with students and sometimes she has to wait for a second bus in the afternoons. I did check out the cycle route via Peckham Rye / Brockley Way, going over the rail bridge and via Ladywell Fields coming out at Catford Bridge but it is a bit hilly and felt a bit lonely in parts and I wouldn't feel comfortable with her cycling in the darker months of the year.

The article has now been published The sex parties coming to a stately home near you The forum even gets namechecked.

Based on the videos in this story https://x.com/NFBUK/status/1787211980027101194 it does seem like a bit of an issue. Although some of the pedestrians don't do the best job of stopping and checking the crossing is clear those efforts are far better than a majority of the cyclists. I would image they are picking up a reasonable amount of speed coming downhill off the bridge and are not aware of the crossing.

For small businesses the merchant fees charged by the payment processing companies can eat into their margins quite significantly which is why many of them prefer cash. The strange thing is that on their webpage (https://www.ryecars.com/contact-us) it shows they accept cards - maybe it has to be over the phone or in the office with a card machine but the drivers cannot take payment.

The slight issue with expecting residents to clear the leaves is they need somewhere to put them - perhaps the council could provide a bin or disposal scheme for green waste such as this 😄

I used to live up in that direction and quite a lot of locals (families and teenagers) used the bowling alley and cinema. It was reasonably inexpensive for London and certainly cheaper than going to the West End especially for eating out. One of the nice things about Rotherhithe is (or was) the amount of green space and scarcity of tall buildings. It is very easy to get to from here - Overground from Peckham Rye to Surrey Quays or P12 bus.

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There is also this site http://bombsight.org which gives details on the bomb that struck during the Blitz