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First Mate, I have this very morning had a horrid encounter on this lovely sunny day where an offlead staff pood on a pavement with his oblivious owner walking on ahead. So I called out and pointed it out to which I got all sorts of abuse. I think the dog had a dicky tummy, but even if he wasnt able to pick it up because of liquidity, if it had been on a lead he could have at least guided it into the gutter. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to ever challenge someone again. It acheived nothing except to make me feel a bit vulnerable.

Emily, remember well your awful experience from last year. But please lets not encourage the myth that a dog hostile to other dogs is going to start attacking babies, it just brings out the dog haters.

oh fuzzy, our dog came from a home in midhurst, he was well worth the 55 miles and it ended his terrible loneliness.

jctg, it doesnt take a pit bull to kill a small dog, just any larger dog that gets a grip and shakes it about. The problem here was an out of control dog. The dog wasnt out of control because it was a staffy or a particular breed but because it had a thoroughly irresponsible owner! Bring back dog licences. Last week I sat in the japanese water gardens on Peckham Rye with my dog on his lead sitting by my feet when a totally unaccompanied staffy of some kind came tearing into that enclosure- where dogs HAVE to be on the lead- and started to terrorize the ducks. No one came looking for it. If it had been a dog aggressive dog we would have been totally trapped. The problem was an owner who didnt give a f*** and was probably engrossed in in their mobile on the other side of the park.

the news is full of stories of elderly patients who have died on hospital wards from malnutrtion, dehydration- all these deaths are caused by medical negligence, whatever the excuse, whether too busy, religious convictions or filing their nails, it's still negligence. That is all.

in addtion to what First Mate says, when I went to dog training with Robert-off-dog-borstal who did classes in New Cross, he discouraged any 'play fighting' between dogs when young as he believed it gave dogs fewer inhibitions re aggression and then play could trigger a reflex aggression when they were older in a play situation.

what a terrible, frightening and sad thing to happen. I walk my dog on Peckham Rye and stay far away from any dog that looks like its running out of its owners control orbit. Can you say what time of day this happened- walkers are pretty regular so it may narrow it down to find this person. Big commiserations.

maybe it was for collection on the walk back!

oi! if things about peckham have to be discussed in Lounge, how come Forest Hill has snuck in here?

the gallery behind Bar Story? Blenheim grove? the parking is in cheap car park round corner. Bussey building, Rye lane? parking ditto.

aha Eileen! Now I see my confusion. I had glimpsed 'the spike' surplus scheme with the workhouse behind it and thought they were the same and had access though those gates onto the railway line. Has the workhouse building always been flats then?

I have just discovered the Bussey! What an amazing space. I had no idea it had a theatre space and a cafe! If the Waiting Room was used for theatre it would be wonderful. Ive just found the old spike too! I had glimpsed it through the hoardings on Consort Road but had no idea it was actually on a proper road and accessable- now developed into flats- such an awesome building completely unknown to me during its 'alternative arts' incarnation as a squat, even though I'd lived within a mile of it for ten years. Peckham also has the oldest/longest surviving high street of original buildings in London as the English Heritage paper records in great detail. On Peckham High Street, seeing a chippy/loan shop topped by two topsy turvy seventeenth century houses is a sight for sore eyes. ANywhere else it would be listed, restored, protected.

I live off Bellenden road and love it. I already use Barstory and local pubs so I would use the new station square. It can be a relief from getting your shins bashed by bugaboos in lordship lane. For those who mock Peckham, look at Hackney. Even the shithole bits like Lower Clapton that in the eightees you wouldnt deign to walk down without a bodyguard are now denizens of charm without the fantastic transport links of Peckham. Yup, Rye Lane is a bit of a mess, but so was Ridley Road. and we like pigs.

fantastic! I hope we won't have to wait too long for the results.

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police incident tape half way down on both sides but then gone a couple of hours later.

Oh it all sees to be over now.

spotted walking along East Dulwich Road by Goose Green last night, two of the 'cast' of Made In Chelsea.

computedshorty, can we get you anything?

It was hell driving down Lordship lane last night, really scarey. Tommorow our German exchange student returns home and I have to get him to a waiting coach at his school. I expect the coach wont be there and the school will be closed. I expect Eurostar will have stopped working. My first problem is to actually drive the car to the school. I had to abandon it last night in a better used local road. Last year our road was never gritted and my car was stuck in its parking place for two weeks until the thaw. I could attempt to get him direclty to St Pancras by train, but we know the trains wont be working, dont we. Meanwhile the student comes from a place that is fifteen below freezing and yet full functioning. He must think we are all idiots.

Yes I googled and read that report Intexas and Peckham High Street and Rye Lane have the most surviving original buildings behind the shops than any other high street In Britain. It was a fascinating document, detailing the chronological erection of the buildings often in pairs or quartets by different builders. For instance, down the Co-operative Flats end and on the otherside of the road is a quartet of buildings with oriental influence, at a time when the public were engrossed with exotic images of 'empire'. I never noticed it till I read the report. Now I can't go up Rye Lane without seeking out all the amazing buildings tucked behind the prefab shopfronts.

Ive had this problem amybe three times in all, we are just over the border in SE15 Nutbrook Street. Last Happened when a lot of building/development activity was happening in the street,not necessarily connected- about a month ago, We now have our milk put inside the garden wall, invisible from street.

I believe PECKHAM ROSE who is on this forum is a humanist celebrant.

Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson ?

Otta- a couple of years now, since Askes absorbed a local primary school which is now known as Askes Temple Grove and is temporarily on the upper school site.