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Gen17, I think I love you.

Anytime I've gone in there I've regretted it, because I dont like the guy... :\

Oh that sounds hopeful! And after all these years, please can we get restoring it, before it really is too late? If I win the lottery this week, I'll chip in ???s. But, seriously, is there a way we could try and get funding to restore it? There must be a Houses in Need trust or something!

We've always been strangely attatched to the house, I even have an arty photograph of it framed in my bedroom...! Surely some of you have got to admit there is a strange beauty attatched to the house? It's become a Dulwich Landmark, not an eyesore. I really can't believe it's still not being rescued.

My family are selling the house, and we've had about four viewings in three months and have dropped the price by ?60,000... and still nothing.

Wow, that's an excellent photo! Thanks! I live in one of the post-ww1 houses and that's the nearest I'll get to seeing a photo of our stretch I suppose... There's apparantly a large tunnel that runs underneath our houses, but all my research points to nothing...!

Macroban, do you have any photos of the library end of Lordship Lane. Maybe even the houses on the library/church side of the road towards the Court Lane junction? I've been looking for YEARS and have failed dramatically! You always seem to have the goods!

I have never seen or heard of this man....

Izodia Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yep redrouge, as demery says there's a train link > to Wimbledon from ED. My other half works in > Raynes Park and he can do door to door in about 40 > mins. There's about 3 direct trains every morning > and evening. But even when the direct trains > aren't running, it's still quick with changing at > Tulse Hill. Did the journey only yesterday > evening. Left ED station at 19.20 arrived at > Wimbledon at 19.50. The direct trains are a bit too early for my commute and any time I've got the train to Tulse Hill and then the train to Wimbledon, I find that the trains are nearly ALWAYS delayed, so if I miss one of the trains to Tulse Hill/its delayed and get to Tulse Hill, the Wimbledon trains only run once every half an hour, and that's half an hour of waiting I've had to do too many times in the rain whilst holding big black bags of art work. Commuting is made 10x worse when you're a design student! And yesterday all the trains were cancelled/delayed forever! I waited at Wimbledon station for the 18:20 back to Dulwich, and it never came... Hoards of very annoyed looking people, scrambling for a new route home. I just got on the train back to Vauxhall. My patience with first capital connect/southern ran out after my first week at university.

I study in Wimbledon, so 185 to Vauxhall (about an hour) then train from there to Wimbledon (15 mins) then a 20 minute walk to uni. Then I go to work in the West End and that takes 45 mins on the tube and train, then 176 home from Leicester Sq and that can take up to an hour at 11pm at night! Unfortunately, my commute is so drastic, I'm leaving ED for the first time in my life and moving to Wimbledon :(

Well, there ALWAYS seems to be server problems with AOL... Urgh..

My 14 year old brother is being followed a lot, has had bikes and phones, even his coat stolen on MANY occasions. The police have done nothing, despite it happenning again and again on his commute to school and back. He even knows who the culprits are, but the police won't do anything...

I think we're prone to odd weather as opposed to strange earthmovements! My friend said he felt the earthquake, CDs fell from his shelf, yet my boyfrind and his flatmate felt absoloutely nothing! I suppose when it comes to Lewisham it all depends on how many CDs you own to measure the magnitude of truly British earthquake. I was also drinking at 1am (also gin!) but consuming cheese on toast (mozzarella). I wonder if cheese on toast buffers earthquakes...

Nothing on Lordship Lane. Lewisham friends say they felt it though!

Going to work I get the 176 (or 40) to Elephant, then get the Bakerloo Line to Piccadilly Circus... but get the 176 home as I work late. I waited 45 minutes tonight. With the flu. Am not pleased. I swear it's getting worse night by night. And what's wrong with it on Saturdays?! I have to leave at noon to get to Soho for 2pm because there are just no buses! And when they do arrive they usually terminate in Camberwell or just take forever...! I have a lot of built up hate for that bus. Handy at 3am. Not any other hour of the day.

Count me in too. We live on LL (top end) and always live in fear that our cute midget cat will discover the road. She's currently a bit too distracted by our Christmas tree to leave the house.

philiphenslowe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Or John Galliano's mum > dancing as she served lunch at St Anthony's > School? When did John Galliano's mum serve lunch at St Anthony's? I lived on Upland Road for years as a child and would spend HOURS looking out the window waiting for the Lady in White to walk past, I always wondered what she was doing on my street. Then she vanished! I wonder where she is now...

I've thrown up on the 176 twice. I feel terrible, but I was genuinely ill. Some sort of horrid infection. Bus driver didnt care much either, but the bits of vom-salad and chocolate didnt agree with everyone else... I couldnt stop apologising, it was awful...

I usually get the train from ED to Tulse Hill (then change again...) and my train is nearly delayed all the time too, usually meaning I miss the train from Tulse Hill to Wimbledon. And yes, 176 has been getting worse too. What is WRONG with Saturday lunchtimes on that damned route? I need to be at work by 2pm, and have been leaving at midday as the 176 just NEVER seems to arrive and when it does, it's only going to Elephant, or Camberwell... Lately I've been getting any bus to Elephant, then getting the tube to Soho...

I live top end of LL (near Upland) and our neighbours were burlgarled last Saturday night, completely ramsacked the place while they were on holiday :( Maybe it was the same guys... It's such a disgusting thing to happen.

And I thought I was going mad! No one believed that I could see parrots in my garden! Everyone thought I was making it up!

Well, I went to St Anthony's AND Heber School back in the 90s... I remember when St Anthony's was red and when Heber School had mouldy toilets! That was when the only choice for a 'decent' education in our area was St Anthony's, Heber and Goodrich were considered "rough". I thought Heber was the most terrifying place on earth. To a small four year old, that big brick building is the most intimidating thing in the world. I went to Heber for a year because I was too smart for nursery apparanty (!?) and too young for St Anthony's... My parents did have catholic faith in the early 90s when I started at St Anthony's, and now, almost 20 years later they send my little brother to the same school as me and my many siblings despite not having a faith anymore. So just because my parents lost faith, does that mean they should take my brother out of school and send him to Goodrich?... I've had an almost 100% catholic education, despite my parents losing faith in the catholic religon. Yet, I haven't turned out Catholic at all, quite the opposite! I dislike the Catholic Church immensely, St Thomas More church even more... probaly due to my education. I went to an all-girls convent secondary school and had to battle with my teachers because they were convinced I was crazy because I said gay people weren't the root of all evil and refused to do GCSE RE because of what they were saying, it was awful. Yet, I remember my teacher at St Anthony's telling us why Oscar Wilde went to jail and how it was simply awful, and we put on The Selfish Giant at Easter! But St Anthony's (in my day at least) were quite liberal when it came to religious education - I got more sex ed there then I did at my awful secondary school. I don't remember it being as much as a cruel dictatorship as people often see it as. Although apparantly now it's changed, its a lot more religion and league table based and it's just a shadow of its former glory. My mother is even considering taking my brother out of school and sending him to a different one because its just far too league table based, and it used to be such a creative school (we're an arty-farty family). But is it good marks in useless SATS that you want for your child (and St A's work those 11 year olds to the ground!) or something... less serious? And people lie about far worse things then religion and do worse things to get their kids into schools... And when it comes down to religion, you're going to end up making your own choice eventually. No one is forcing you to believe. It's not brainwashing. Primary school ought to be a lot more fun, because goodness, you spend enough of your life working! I should probaly stop rambling. Not sure what I'm talking about anymore or what point I'm trying to make exactly. I have to be up in mere hours, but have insomnia...

If Lloyds runs out or dies (which is often), I use the one in the Post Office - tis free too!

I'd like to go there (as it's my local), but being 20 they won't let me in after 6pm. I feel like a sixteen year old again, it's very distressing. I'd quite like to join my folks for drinks on a Sunday. I'm a perfectly civilised person. I hate Over 21 Only policies. Who are they trying to keep out? I could go during the day on a Sunday (my only free day to enjoy pub joy) but Sunday is sleep day. After Februrary next year, I'll be able to pass judgement.

Occasionally our recycling bin will vanish, and once our wheelie bin has vanished. No idea where they went, but they both randomly turned up a few days later! I live at the top end of LL, so you'd think you'd nothing someone wandering around with a plastic box of used newspapers and pizza boxes!