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Ah, I live on LL so I think a street party would cause meltdown! I grew up on Upland Road - lovely street :)

The house is getting worse day by day... Like I've said before I'd be heartbroken to see it go. I and my entire family would do everything in our power as LL residents to make sure the house doesnt get demolished. However my building grandfather reckons it's beyond repair and has been for about ten years. We at my household would be very interested in saving the house (if it is even possible anymore). How would we get started? I'm sure there's enough people in ED that want to save it. I've already lost my favourite Soho cafe to developers, I don't want to lose my favourite (albiet derliect) house go too.

My friend used to live on the Dog Kennel Hill Estate and she was always told that they were ww2 stretches too and I've always taken it as fact!

Fireman Alley is so called because of the fire station that was there before it got bombed during the war. Mount Adon Park is so called because there was a farm called Mount Adon Park I think... More and more road name origins are coming back to me...! You could probaly guess that every road is named after a farm or a building that was there... Not very imaginative!

There's an entire book about ED Road Name origins I think... I got it out of the library when I was wee. All I can remember is Upland Road is named after a field, and Lordship Lane and Frien Road are both named after manors and farms in the area at the time, and they were arch rivals or something. I was about seven when I read it to be honest!

Couture in Mundania Court! I saw the crazy house on Lewisham Way in Japanese Vogue once! Now that was a suprise...!

70 years... that's 50 years away! I've lived most of my life (living in a village in the middle of Ireland before moving here). And I have to leave East Dulwich next summer... Woe. By the time I'm seventy I hope to be rich enough to own my own riverside property on Bankside - one of those Georgian houses by the Globe theatre and Tate Modern. I'll be eccentric and wear tapestry robes with frizzy red hair, a proper theatre madam. People will think I'm proper posh because I grew up in East Dulwich, and by then the masionette I grew up in will be worth ?1,000,000 due to insane property prices (it's probaly already nearly there!). I'll occassionally drop back to Dulwich, I'll get my driver to bring me, because the 40 bus will be too expensive and dangerous for an old lady in 2057 for am amble in the woods (if it's still there and hasn't been built over by property developers) and I'll go see my previous homes in East Dulwich and shed a tear... for those days when I didn't have a riverside home... just views of a busy Lordship Lane... Yes, I've been dreaming of a riverside home most my life... Deary me...!

and now the Sunday People http://www.people.co.uk/news/tm_headline=laura-bags-a-killer-pet&method=full&objectid=19572857&siteid=93463-name_page.html !!

Mrs Doyle is all of my aunts, great aunts, mother, grandmothers and older cousins. When I was little the grown ups got asked for tea, and I always got asked for red lemonade!

dulwichmum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Despite the influx of different ethnic groups into > Ireland, I find them to be quite shockingly > overtly racist. Considering the fact that in our > life time the Irish have in the majority > experienced a good reception here in the UK, > Australia and in the USA for example, they are not > too welcoming of economic migrants into their > country. I am rather disappointed by that. It's worryingly true... The village I come from in Ireland, and all my relations over there seem to be overly racist and utterly backwards, jumping in shock at the mention of a gay person - I work in theatre, and they think its disgusting I work with "queers" (always said in a deep horrified whisper. I last went back for a wedding last year, and despite my love for the country in general, I won't be returning to my family's village as they're so small minded. Of course, this is only the tiniest village in deepest Ireland... Not everyone thinks that way... Ah yes, I thought it was the same one but moved! Aww the Irish festival! Haven't gone in years... My dad would spend a lot of time in the beer tent, then flicking through Christy Moore cassettes! I remember when I was about five I took ONE Irish dancing lesson in that dodgy looking church in Nunhead, but I was useless and gave up. It's terrible, but growing up in the country you werent born in makes you lose your identity. During England matches peers would always berate me for never supporting England. "You aint Irish! You live here! Effin support England!!" My parents have the accent, but I've more of a south east London brouge... *sigh* I've begun to see myself as a Londoner first and foremost.

citizenED, this proves the 176 is a far superior bus to all the bus routes in London - despite its occasional faults, I do love it! LL - Waterloo Bridge everyday! A nice thing to sometimes do if you have time, is to get the 40 to London Bridge, then walk along Bankside and South Bank to Covent Garden! Best walk in London

Funnily enough, when I (as a three year old) moved from Ireland to London, we lived right beside The Castle - what an interesting way to spend my first years! I remember another Irish shop in the 90s... Can't remember exactly where it was though. The current one scares me a little bit. I go in occasionally for Mikados.

Bleep Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > remember when you were lucky to get on a Night Bus > in the West End, and even then it would be the > equivalent of a journey through hell with drunks > for about 2 hours. Now they're every 15 minutes > and throughout the night. > I agree, Night Buses ARE better then they were years ago - but they're definately NOT every fifteen minutes. I get the 176 home from work (at night bus hours) home from Monday-Saturdays, and I usually wait 30 mins - 45 mins for a bus. The heating on buses is slowly driving me insane. I find myself almost WILLING the driver to drive faster just so that some air gets into the buses. The thing about the heat bars, is that they rest by your feet, and blow rediculously hot air onto your feet, so as not to get burnt, hot, sweaty red feet by the end of your journey, you either have to rest them uncomfortably ontop of the bar, or let them hover ontop... Not very fun. I've always had a half mind to go and complain, but have never been arsed. Once I nearly threw up because it was so hot when the heaters were on. However, I once flicked through a HGV/bus theory test manuel thing, and I remember it saying that above all things - your saftey, timetables, traffic, whatever that the passenger's saftey is paramount. And recently, drivers just haven't been driving like they give two damns about our saftey. I'm aware they've to deal with all the crazy people, but we've to sit with them on the journey and most of us don't say a word and just deal with it until we get to our bus stop. And, I do LOVE travelling on the bus. I love nothing more then to sit on the top deck, left hand side at the front going into my own little world...

Me and my entire clan are Irish - but I'm more of a lurker!

I HATE that disgusting bus. I live right beside where they terminate on LL, all through the night... BEEP BEEP BEEP, and trust me, living on LL isn't as noisy as you'd think - utter silence now... aside from those bloody buses. Reversing at all hours... Drivers pissing up against the walls. We've campagined to have the buses moved, but there's no where for them to go, if they went back by St Anthony's on Ethrow Street they'd end up running over the little ones. *sigh* When the 12 was a routemaster, it was a magnificent bus. Sounded better too... Clickty-clank. Lovely conductors. Hopping on and off at traffic lights if you wanted... no knocking on doors and begging... Drivers didn't launch themselves down Walworth and LL trying to meet timetable deadlines or whatever. I don't remember any yobs either... I got the 12 all last year to uni and back... Only to Camberwell College of Art, but it took 45 minutes to get back home most days! I've had my purse stolen five times on that bus... No idea how either, I'm usually quite alert. And of course not forgetting sudden terminations at Camberwell Green, Peckham, Trafalgar Square or Westminister. Incredibly taxing when you're already late! Or the incredibly bothersome "changing of the drivers" ARGH! I can only think of two redeeming things for the 12: Once I lost my passport, must've fallen out of my bag on to the floor of the bus... And the driver found it and took it too lost property... and if you get on at the top of Barry Road, you're always guaranteed a seat! Goodness, quite a rant! Don't get me started on my love/hate relationship with the 176...

Ah yes, I know of that chemist this side of LL... Haven't been in there ever since they claimed they'd never heard of Vicks stuff for clearing blocked noses despite it being on the shelf behind them, and me pointing frantically at it. I don't quite understand it, why are they in denial of what we want?!... Very odd indeed... I do like the one on Northcross Road - good selection of red hair dyes and nice face wash! Though the Boots in Peckham will always have happy memories for me as a place where I'd buy random crap to build 'sculptures' out of when I went to Camberwell College of Art... But it was a bit of an odd place. Always got lost in there!

I read that Boadicca's battle was fought on Dawson Heights! Not sure where I read this, but it was online a few years ago...

Had a peek in through the windows when the lights were on yesterday - lots of wood pannelling in musky muted colours...

Oh I think I'll keep the myth alive for my young siblings! Aren't there plague pits in the burial ground in Dulwich Village? Apparantly, much of Mayfair was built upon Plague pits too... And I was always told as a child that Blackheath Common was so called because of the Black Death... but I have no idea whether this is true. I always had a huge terror walking across (which I did for five years as I went to secondary school just off Blackheath Common, because I thought it was rude to the death to juse amble along their resting place!

Ah we must have the same postie Brendan, I live at the junction of LL and Frien Road too... I've had a lot of post go missing too, now that I think about it... Letters of acceptance from colleges and universities, bank statements, parcels from ebay... taking the money out of birthday cards is perhaps the worst thing... We've complained, but nothing was done about it, as there was no proof that the postman/Royal Mail worker had taken the money out of the card! I have yet to receieve my package of underwear from Figleaves.com! What the postie could do with that, I don't know!...

We've got the same problems here on LL with our Postie - birthday cards normally arrive tampered with, and money missing. Really quite awful :( Sometimes our postie, looks through the sitting room window to see if anyone is in, knocks on the window and doesnt give the post unless the door is opened for him. And we do have a very useful little hole in the door for post, but this postman seems to have issues with it! And parcels are always just left on the doorstep too - I'm expecting a parcel today, I wonder where it'll turn up...

Aw, I attended Heber School for one year in 1991 (I was too young for St Anthony's and apparantly too advanced for nursery so says my mother!) I remember, I got an awful splinter in my left thumb from the climbing frame, and had to go to the GP to get it taken out. I remember how tall and scary the older kids were, and once they were 'released' from the Big Playground were us small four year olds were playing happily and I just remember all these kids screaming at us! I also remember singing "All Things Bright And Beautiful" with words held up on a placard. ...and a dress up corner (which I blame for my degree course in set & costume design) where I could hide behind a curtain and be someone else! Oh the toilets were GROSS. Covered in mould, all wooden, bright green and slimy! How did get get away with that?...

Somerfield in Camberwell (in the Butterfly Walk centre place) does them pretty well, I came out half decent in mine!

But does anyone know WHEN the Walworth Road roadworks will end? I feel like the one-lane trafficlight business has been going on FOREVER. And when these LL roadworks begin?... I live on LL and don't really give a damn about widening the footpaths. It's fine how it is! And I don't drive or cycle. I walk and get the bus and am fed up of most of the route (any route!) into the West End being distrupted by roadworks!

Ooh I remember the toy shop down LL! It had a model train system right in the middle! And stacks and stacks of games and various fun things. The one in the village isn't as fun... It's basically a rich kid's bedroom. I'd like a local music shop, once a man on the street kept on pestering me "Where is the Lordship Lane Music shop?" "Erm... there isnt one." "No, no there IS one. There can't not be! There's a music shop along here somewhere!!" I thought he was having me on, but he seemed genuinely pissed off...