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Petition for the convicted rioters to lose benefits
edhistory replied to snss75's topic in The Lounge
Frankito Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have always wanted to perform a live, > monkey-human brain swap but it would appear that > someone may have successfully beaten me to it....! I object to your insult to monkeys. John K -
Those web pages about hedgehogs also have interesting information about fox population densities. If I have read it right, the "natural" fox population of our entire valley would be about half a dozen fox "families". John K
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I meet several every day. They often have large wadges. Perhaps you are looking in the wrong places. John K
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Thank you for the reference, civilservant. I had assumed (bad thing) that out of all the mammals that re-colonised our valley about 12,000 years ago the hedgehog was an assured survivor. John K
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This is not a knee-jerk response. The British ruling class has a long history of the State (Crown) taking exemplary action against the Citizen (Subject). John K
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Just to complete the circuit here's the East Dulwich Finger - the part of Friern Manor the goes over the crest of Dog Kennel Hill almost down to Camberwell Green. The mis-alignment on the map is because only c50 control points were used to morph the 1799 map onto to Ordnance Survey projection. For publication I'll use several hundred control points. I'm not inclined to include this part of Friern Manor in the historic East Dulwich area for research purposes: unless someone can convince me otherwise. As far as I can make out, on little evidence so far, this was result of one of the local landowning families of shallow pedigree consolidating and extending its land-holdings. Someone in the Camberwell Society may have already done the research on this. John K
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Roman Catholics in East Dulwich 1856-1879 (Map)
edhistory replied to edhistory's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Mike, Michael Smith's book "The Dulwich Catholics 1879 To 1973" does what it says on the tin. It starts in 1879. I want to try to go back earlier. The only other lead I have at the moment is Camberwell Vestry's (the fore-runner of Southwark Council for East Dulwich) (alleged) c1840 petition to Parliament for money to have the Irish deported. It's on the to do list. John K -
The Roman Catholic English Hierarchy was re-established in 1850. The Church infrastructure had to be re-built. In 1856 Missions were established. These were the precursors of Catholic parishes. The 1856 Mission boundaries were point-to-point straight lines. I have not been able to find the local 1856 boundaries. In 1868 the Mission boundaries were revised so that some of the boundaries ran along roads, or rivers, or railways. The information about local 1868 boundaries comes from "Synodi Dioeceseos Suthwarcensis" published in 1868. By 1879 East Dulwich had its own Mission. I have not been able to find the 1879 boundary. The entry for St Anthony Padua from Bernard Kelly's 1907 "Historical Notes on English Catholic Missions" is attached. Does anyone have more information? John K
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Southern boundary. The base map is the Ordnance Survey First Series One Inch Map c1805. John K
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This was the Dulwich Manor boundary as mapped by the Boundary Commission and published in 1832. John K
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The book "Engineering in the Lambeth Group" is available here: http://www.ciria.org/SERVICE/Home/core/orders/product.aspx?catid=9&prodid=81 The "Excerpt from product (PDF)..." is the complete first 40 pages of the book. These pages include all the maps and the less technical descriptive pages. The rest of the book is very technical. It is unlikely this will be of interest unless you want to bore a tunnel under East Dulwich or sink deep foundations for a skyscraper. London Clay in the East Dulwich and Nunhead Valley? John K
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That's odd. There's a sharper image of that same photo (my way) on page 13 of The London Railway Record Number 26 January 2001. There's a low contrast image of that same photo (your way) as plate 22 in Vic Mitchell's Crystal Palace (High Level) book of 1991. On the evidence of the asymetrical chimney stacks in a photo taken of the buiding from the platform side I prefer my way. This photo shows some of the war damage and temporary repairs. I'd very much like to see your photo collection. John K
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This is part of the Dulwich College Estate map of 1906. It shows where the Estate boundary runs along part of Lordship Lane. This matches the Friern Manor map of 1799. Will people ever stop saying that the Dulwich-Friern boundary runs along Lordship Lane? I doubt it, no matter how much evidence is produced. John K
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mikeb: I've merged the two relevant 1820 map tiles and removed the overlap. Either the 1820 map is not to scale or whoever scanned it introduced an East-West distortion. Nevertheless the adjusted overlay is accurate to within a few yards. The discontinuous drainage ditch goes Northerly from the edge of the depression. John K
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The Dulwich Society are working on a similar project to commemorate World War Two civilian deaths by marking with metal plaques the sites where there were multiple air-raid deaths. The project extends into East Dulwich with plaques proposed for: Dog Kennel Hill Dovercourt Road Dunstans Road Friern Road Grove Vale Lordship Lane Melbourne Grove Underhill Road Woodvale It is unclear whether the East Dulwich Society is involved with this project. John K
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prickle: The Grove Vale Depression displays itself as a shallow basin from which water cannot drain naturally. I don't know what it is. My first thought is that there is a clay lens which has compressed a lower layer of mixed clay/sand/gravel. Further research is required. It is too subtle to read from a map or a LIDAR dataset. You will need to walk Grove Vale and see it for yourself. EDIT 2011-07-06: There is a small channel between Bellenden Road and Oglander Road. John K
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Alleyn's are entitled to run an exclusive cadet force. Ordinary young people of East Dulwich can join our local cadet force at Hign Wood Barracks. I had a look for the very old thread about why Dulwich Sea Cadets were forced to leave their Greendale base. Either I'm mistaken and there was no such thread, or it has been deleted. Could someone be good enough to post a brief synopsis? John K
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