jim_the_chin

I've never used it after dark. I'm not usually worried about cycling around in the dark but have a general rule to avoid isolated pathways after sundown, it's not a major detour to use the roads.

Just found some old deeds for Landells Road. It appears the property was sold by the Acock brothers in 1880 for between ?77 and ?90. Another document shows a gentleman bought it in 1937 for ?205. Anyone know if the Acocks built the whole of upper Landells?

The McNeill road lady wasn't so friendly if cars stopped to let her and people across, she would become quite angry as if it usurped her role as the stopper of cars.

I'm guessing you never cycled up townley towards the lights and tried to come out into traffic. That was dangerous.

I still think the capitol in forest hill deserves to be a cinema again, it's a corking building

Orson cart - he comes apart arf and Modern Parents not haha funny but...

What cheese would you use to hide a horse? Mascarpone

I heard last week from the PO guys that it was going to be a bingo-type establishment

My first ever poem, should I give up the day job? 176 I see you, every morning, your red livery with the white striped front speeding away from my stop, evermore. oh 176, bus of my nightmares cramped seating, magnificent heating - in summer. yet ice cold in winter, torture you are and tortoise you are, in speed walking pace crawl, through traffic 'this bus is stopped to regulate the service' or so you tell us. bollocks, I think, bollocks and drivers who can't find 3rd gear or stop to chat outside Edwardes Grrr! I think, Grrr! I have yet to look but assured am I that somewhere, in that great tome, you are mentioned in the geneva convention: protocol four

I have been thinking about writing to Clarkes for a while about how they drive through ED - consistently stupid speeds

Shorty, great post, really enjoying this info. does the ARP log cover 'ordinary' bomb damage and not just the Vs? On upper Landells Road there are two 50's houses, breaking the chain of terraced houses, must be bomb damage. Probably numbered in the 60-70 even numbers.

curly - what symptom were you missing? i had everything but the fever so the GP said it was technically not swine flu. but it clearly is given all the other symptoms, it's unlike anything i've ever had, and my son and full package a week before I got it.

Bellenden: 'South Camberwell' 3rd pic in http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/8158385.stm

i enjoyed the 'herding the gangs' by the mounted police - an impressive display. however, I was dissapointed that they didn't corale them into the jousting arena.

Ted Max Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This woman should move her pitch to LL. She'd > clean up. I just came here to post that Ted, but you'd b3tan me to it - it's a strange story.

your kids wake up at 7.30am? and you want sympathy? ;-)

Because of my awful memory I've left my car unlocked over the past couple of years about half of the time and nothing has happened. So, as an experiment, it goes to show either that I'm really an extraordinarily lucky man living in a den of thieves or that 99.9% of people who pass it by, even in a city, won't be professional or opportunistic car thieves. So, yes, I do think I can leave it unlocked because I do and nothing happens. Other posts have reminded me that I should lock it, but I suppose I picked on *bob*s post as I'm totally cheesed with the sarcastic posts on this forum at the moment. *bob* is probably the only forumite who's made me laugh out loud in the past but all these negative posts are making this a grim place indeed.

i wlll be remembering to lock my car doors as I don't always think it's necessary around here - as this is a nice area I get lulled into thinking we're not in a city and reminders always help. not one of the recent deluge of sarcastic replies to posts has ever helped me.

Did someone mention that the new place does wet shaves?

welcome on behalf of the jims

My interpretation of the highway code bit above is look out for people crossing the road and don't drive into them if they're crossing. Not really radical stuff. The raised crossings are designed to make a fairer society for people of all abilities; I imagine raised crossings are quite helpful if you're not able-bodied.

Sarcastic seems to be flavour of the month around here - but nice to see an old-style thread about local interest In my head I always thought it pre-dated barry road and followed an old main through route to the palace - although that would have made it upper norwood road I suppose. I imagine stage-coaches would have had trouble getting over those speed-bumps too. More accurately, Landells road next door is named after one of the founders of Punch magazine

"900 young men between 11 and 18" - 11 year old men? the 'man' term is used so loosely these days - i saw a headline the other day of 'man stabs teenager' and they were both 19.

Barriers at the crossing point directing people up ED Grove to a zebra crossing - no loss of parking on LL, no-one crossing on the junction (except anti-social citizens who go around the barriers) there's one like this at the junction of Oakley Street and Kings Road in Cheslsea http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?sourceid=navclient&q=Chelsea,+Kensington,+Greater+London+SW3,+United+Kingdom&ie=UTF8&hl=en&cd=7&geocode=Fe-iEQMdFW39_w&split=0&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=6.881357,14.941406&layer=c&cbll=51.486989,-0.169994&panoid=7FZkrxsvqtWWn5Uo6CCg1w&cbp=12,196.5,,0,21.42&ll=51.487042,-0.169859&spn=0.003173,0.006866&z=17&iwloc=A

I'd be interested in seeing the evidence base for these types of posters improving performance