KidKruger

This marnin oi 'ave been mainly listenin to banjer players Frank Proffitt and Roscoe Holcombe. Also an old record, Best of the Adverts.

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???? - yeah I agree the quality of the independents has improved locally and as you say not just based on undercutting competition (which they would likely fail at against orgs like Sainsburys !) womanof - the store opened early 90's, around 1992. No I did not go to Vauxhall shopping I did it on foot on LL and side streets off it, just goes to shwo we can have different experiences of the same areadepn. on our own individual circumstances. I would not be so bold as to say one is right and the other is worong.

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Protect our wall !! Perhaps we'll have to glue ourselves to it on 'painting day' to achieve this....

Can be quite exciting in a car.

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Huguenot I was not drunk, I drink shandy so had had a total of one pint of lager. I believe the guy had been drinking though I have no reason to believe that he was drunk enough to shout the comments he did because of alcohol. I don't think he was mentally ill, just angry. I don't think the police, had they been standing at the bus stop as I alighted with the AQ pretender, would have been inclined to arrest me for assault (though you may presume that implies the police would be neglecting their duty !). The people on the bus who had moved seats and appeared as scared as I was, seemed relieved as he left the bus, one of them stood in the doorway so AQ pretender could not get back on, personally I did not feel safe that I would not be blown to bits until I had got on my train at London Bridge. Your comments really are quite fantastic and it's a genuine education for me to witness how twisted and contorted information can become given the motive. Good luck my friend.

Brendan, house prices were rock bottom across the nation anyway I believe, ie. the house i had bought 2-3 years earlier was worth less. If you were new in the area you would not be aware of the changes until speaking with someone. Don't get me wrong, it's not as though LL and surrounding streets was a some kind of empty 'ghost town' with tumbleweed bumbling down the pavements and boarded up stores ! Hope I didn't paint THAT picture !

seeing as the wall is so bland and unobtrusive as it is, why not just leave it as, er, a token dull old wall ? i mean soon there'll be no dull old walls and we'll be breaking our b@lls getting across town just to see one.

Call the police, query them, get your questions answered, I do not think posters on this thread can change what the police are doing at ED station simply by arguing the toss on EDF. DO something to address your fears, perception of threat, unhappiness with misuse of police resource, and frustration with how current deployment reflects how sad society has become. And please share the replies with us.

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I think the sun will always travel behind the wall as it's pretty much North facing. But yeah I was having trouble picturing where the wall is, even though I have walked past it for years. I figured it was just some building. Pebbledash it.

Sean I think people were genuinely against the store they were just, ultimately, too lazy to react loudly enough. I think everyone was genuinely surprised when all the local stores had to shut, although they said that would happen as part of the reasoning against the supermarket they didn't really know if it would until it was too late. But it did.

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When the Sainsbury's at Dog Kennel Hill was mooted in the early '90s there was a lot of activity locally against it. Of course the supermarket/cronies got their way, then we lost our fishmongers(x2 I think), butchers (x3 or 4), many grocers @3) from LL and surrounding areas over a period of months to a year or so. 'Dave the Butcher' led a campaign against it which was very popular. There was not the 'power' of EDF at that time ! For a while I missed being able to stroll down the high street have chats in the shops and get all my meat/veg/fish stuffs in one local tour. ED has come along since then and we have replaced the basic provisions shops (albeit with slightly flashier versions) that were once actually gone. So, where we at one point had lost many of the important local shops, we have reinstated them which I think speaks volumes for the people down this way.

nero - ditto