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I only live across the road... how did I miss all that!? :\ Goodness! Although my 176 on the way home did get its window smashed in by a brick just before we got to the Plough and there was bus chaos with the driver... etc etc... I thought it was a tad unusal to get bricked at on the way home (was about 11.30pm) I remember all the protests when the Just So Pub Co bought the Plough and turned it into the Goose and Duck (or something like that) then the buses went to "Dulwich Library" instead of "Dulwich Plough"! A nice grotty pub would be nice. Somewhere homely, relaxing, big open fire in the winter, sunny garden with Pimms in the summer. I've never even been in there! I've actually never been to a pub on LL because none of them appeal to me at all... I look at them from the outside with their fancy writing and I just could never be arsed...!

Oh no no no no NO please god no Tescos at my end of LL O_O We have too many newsagents and everyone has their favourite! They'd all be driven away and I love the guys at eurofoods (formerly costcutters... formerly square deals...). It'd look a bit wrong amongst all the little shops anyway. I quite like how this end is a little scruffy. No. I can't believe it. There's already a mini-tesco at the petrol station near the Horniman's Musuem. There can't be another one....

There's something like a war bunker in my one my neighbour's gardens - I live on LL, top end near the library and theres this huge concrete bunker thing in their garden. And apparantly there is a ladder and it goes down to a tunnell! Tunnels under Lordship Lane... what next?!

I'm quite annoyed my dry cleaners is shut... It would happen now when I need coats and dresses dry cleaned... How is the one down the bottom of Lordship Lane? I went to Badger Bakery for the first time in ages today (despite living across the road) had a rather yummy chocolate slice. For some reason they intimidate me although my mother is their most regular customer, judging by the amount of freshly baked bread and buns we seem to accumulate in the kitchen. Ahh don't get me started on Taytos (am agreed on their cheese and onion too - perfect!) and other Irish confectionary. I just wish the woman in the Irish shop wasn't so scary. I went into get Mikado biscuits, and she sat on the stool and growled at me... I paid for my biscuits and ran. I haven't been back since.

Concrete house is my favourite building... as is the large Victorian house on the junction of LL and Overhill Road, its facinated me since a child. I'm more for Victorian splendor too - life long obsession with Victorian gothic buildings and the Pre-Raphaelites. I long to live in one myself! The church on Barry Road used to terrify me - I went to St Anthony's primary, so passed it everyday for seven years, as a small midget of a child, it's spire was quite intimidating. Looked as though it was going to tumble down ontop of me...

So there's some hope left at least...

I only use the 12 in the mornings because I go to college in Camberwell... I miss the routemasters and double deckers... and their termination point is right outside my house. I can currently hear them reversing... I don't mind a long bus journey if I can sit on the top deck and day dream for a good hour out the window. Can't do that on the bendy bus - feels too intrusive! People standing all around you... Can't get a good view out the window either! And yes - its always terminating at Traflagar Square when I want to go all the way to Oxford Circus... Once again, I left my work at 10.30pm, got on the 176 at Cambridge Circus at 10.44pm... I didn't arrive home until 12.15am. It took an entire HOUR to go from Cambridge Circus to Charing Cross Station... as I sat there I thought I could've walked to Elephant and Castle in half an hour and got one of several buses back home. I'm tempted to start getting the 12 home from work, but I really hate going through Peckham late at night. It was amazing to see an entire bus get incredibly pissed off and deflated at unexpainable traffic for the fifth night in a row... The traffic was worse then Walworth Road I swear. At least that moved. Goodness what a moan. But I am so fed up with traffic. And I refuse to pay more to get the train in. ?14 bus pass is enough on minimum wage thank you very much.

I work on Shaftesbury Avenue, and I used to get the 176 from the top of LL all the way there and then walk... but ever since the roadworks on Walworth Road changing my non-rushhour journey to two hours rather then half an hour... I've changed routes. I now get the 185 all the way to Victoria and then I get the 38 bus to the Avenue, or if its nice our and I'm wearing comfy shoes I'll walk there from Green Park and down Piccadilly. And that takes an hour on a good day... I get the 176 home though... and I leave at 10.30pm, and never get home until 11.30pm... at that time of night it still takes forever to get home. It used to take twenty minutes to get home after work... WHEN WILL THE WALWORTH ROAD ROADWORKS EVER END?!??!

Ah yes Bob, it is a little young, but I do have expensive taste and a not-so well paid job! I'd be interested mockeny piers, I'm not sure what use a lowly student like me would be to the SLP, but I've lived here all my life and I'm too attached to that house to see it go!

The young couples have that look of smugness and have nice clothes and earn far more then me. Saying that I am only twenty. But I am about fifty at heart. I mean... if that house was done up, properly, back to it's old spendor, it would probaly get on the market for a good million or more.

I'm with you Ant, this house must be saved. You're right - the lack of information about the house seems to be affecting resident's view on the house. People seem to just think it's a dump. I also don't want to see more souless houses pollute East Dulwich. I seem to be one of the few that has actually grown up here, and my mother was born here too - the last thing we want to see is parts of Dulwich's unique heritage taken away by property developers building ugly square buildings for these annoying young couples. It's bad enough all the nice Victorian houses are all slowly being converted into flats...

Why does no one ever mention the excellent St Anthony's Primary school? It is Catholic, but not overly so. It's fantastic. Just need to get in with Fr O'Connor and you're set!

Top of Lordship Lane could do with some lights... It's far too dark, never know who is hiding behind the bushes...!

I think Southwark Council asked for Compulsary Purchase because the building, the empty shell of a new build built behind 546 Lordship Lane is against planning regulations and goes against all Grade II listing laws or something. I read about it somewhere, but I can't find the original link for the life of me. I sincerly hope Southwark Council has some pride in the history of our borough and does not give permission for the demolition, and perhaps the need for the house to be restored will be put in the limelight and someone will go and take care of the house. My childhood dreams would also be destroyed. I always imagined myself living in the house, completely renovated back to full Gothic Victorian splendor! Does anyone have a history of the house? I know bits and bobs... I've been facinated with it for the last 14 years...

Apprantly some American owns it and Southwark Council have been trying to get a compulsary perchase on it for years, but I live on LL and I would be utterly devastated if it was demolished. When I was growing up I always wished I could live there - I still do. Goodness, if I had the money I'd do it up, live there, and live happily ever after. I think my soul would be torn out if this house got demolished.