The man in the shack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Nicholas Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > East Dulwich, known as nappy valley,and bugaboo > > village. Dream on its a nice place to live but > its > > no village. > On the subject of Peckham, I?m sure the many > thousands of shoppers thronging Rye Lane today > would not be interested in your opinions, even if > they knew you existed and thought you were worth > caring about. Peckham is really larger than just > Rye Lane. There are many quite large, expensive > looking houses just of Rye lane that would not > look out of place in an English country village. So well put. This topic always make me smile. Let's not forget that the area around Rye Lane (talking residential streets, not the shopping area) is actually a conservation area; because it has many streets of note. The only conservation area in East Dulwich is The Gardens (I'm sure I will be told if I'm wrong). Personally I would rate living somewhere like Lyndhurst Way, Lyndhurst Grove, Choumert Road, Choumert Square, Holly Grove, Talfourd Road etc. etc., pretty high versus the characterless 'identi-kit' rows and rows of small 'identi-kit' Victorian boxes of ED. I've always appreciated the individuality and originality of residents who live in this area of SE15, compared to ED'ers; who, it seems, like to look and live like everyone else around them (and are happy to pay laughable inflated prices to do so). Faux plantation shutters... need I say more? I've lived in this bit of SE15 (by choice over ED may I add) for 12 years, and personally enjoy the friendly, creative and eclectic mix, good transport links, better nursery and primary education, and lack of general and unqualified smugness. East Dulwich is not, and never will be Barnes. Thanks to the postings on this Forum for making me laugh so much.
