East Dulwich, Crystal Palace Low Level, and Crystal Palace High Level railway stations all had goods yards. The Forest Hill station railway line was built on the bed of the Croydon Canal.
> The Belgrano was protected by two Type 42 escorts, powerful warships with effective anti submarine capability. Their crews had been trained, ironically, by the Royal Navy. The Commanding Officer of HMS CONQUEROR, Chris Wreford-Brown, was able to evade the escorts and attack from a range of 1800 yards. Not to decry fine seamanship, but is there more to this? After World War II the British Government sold refurbished German Enigma machines to third world countries having advertised them as un-breakable.
It is coming up to 19 years since Mrs Thatcher resigned. I am not a betting woman but I suspect the inane responses here are from those who were not out of school when she resigned.
> "a care in the community charitable & semi co-operative social enterprise". What is the legal name of the organisation? This is the only Charity Commission entry.
I used to do my banking at the little glass "bubble" inside the Co-op. I have fond memories of Follet's record shop. In the early 1950s the records used to be in the semi-basement. I guess because of the sheer weight of the shellac. Up to the mid-1950s when you went to buy a single you had a choice: you could buy a 10" 78rpm from the semi-basement or a 7" 45rpm from the ground floor. This lasted to at least 1956 when I bought my first vinyl single. Later on the semi-basement was closed and the LPs (sleeves only) were then kept on a mezzanine floor and the singles behind the counter on the ground floor. It's sad that young people today no longer have the excitment of visiting their local record shop. Sheet music used to come from Melbourne Pianos which was a few doors along from Caffe Nero. Up to the early 1970s East Dulwich had a much wider and more interesting range of shops than it has today.
dulwichbloke - You are wrong - on two counts (1) If, as you claim, ownership has not passed from the putative donor, then the theft is from the putative donor. (2) And on the point you ignored earlier, that the thief entered the the hereditament of the MIND shop. MacRoban