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Try the bookshop on LL near N?RO (Spit) they have a local history section, and all the books on the place you could ever want.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 4.20 am yesterday morning was the first - joy for > an insomniac! Cure the insomnia..... Are you moaning about this, I've not been too sure? This is London after all, surely noise is to be expected? And do you fly yourself? If so, no argument surely? E

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I know about the East Dulwich Baths I just think > the area could do with another one as there are > significantly more people living here now that > there were 100 years ago. But that one is never full up, of people I mean, so why build another? Also, now as we're more mobile "the local baths" is not necessarily the place the locals swim. (If they have any sense...)

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What are people?s thoughts on the benefits of > having a universal system of measurement that is > used worldwide? Obviously a standard system makes life so much easier, but being of that age where inches were taught before the centimilliltres were drempt up it's hard to convert to the metric system for stuff. If I have to estimate something in metric, I have to do it in inches, then convert to centimeters mentally. Daft I know! One thing that does make me smile is our ability to swap between Centigrade and farenheight (Sp?)One minute we're talking about it being freezing, then the following week (This is England) we're talking about it being in the hundreds, like both are on the same scale!

Alan Dale Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No youtube here I'm afraid... > > I'm sure it's hilarious though. Suprising just how wrong you can be...and you are so very very wrong...!! Bob, "Last ever birthday party".....has ominous overtones. DO you know something the rest of us don't =8-0

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It really could do with an indoor public swimming > pool. I feel London is generally under catered for > when it comes to indoor pools. There's one 100 yds away from it!!!....you don't like to travel too far do you ;-) Of course it is dire, but you didn't express any requirements of a certain standard of hygiene! ;-)

Having been out for the morning I've just come back and read all these replies. Must say I've shed a tear as I think back to that day, and watching the enormity of it happening before my very eyes. Mockney, your comment about it being the biggest event is interesting. I collected all the papers from that day and the next, and have them safely locked away to look at again some time in the future. I'm no political animal, but I realised at that time the world had changed, and that it would be seen as possibly the biggest thing that has ever happened. Not simply for what happened, but for the fact that the whole world was able to watch it live, which brought home the enormity of the whole thing.

...so where were you when the towers came down? I was coming back from my lunch break, and saw some corporate building's lobby full of people watching the TV. I though the Queen Mum's death had been announced. Raced back to my office on Shaftesbury Avenue, and found the whole place watching the events unfolding. Very sad day that, that also produced some of the most evocative images ever published. IMHO E

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Anyone live around there and have experiences of > walking after dark to/from the station/Sainsburys? Not there as such, but I leave near, as you know. Only part I thought was dodgy was the pub "The Ivanhoe" but as it's now Hoopers, nowt to worry about. You'll have to come down for a pint-ette one evening. E

Ultraconsultancy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks for the reminder about concorde - i remember looking up at 4.20 or so every day, You must have had a sore neck! NY incoming went over at 6:05 each day I thought? (http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/airline/concorde/427032/ reveals a 17:25 landing...which is midway between our thoughts)

alieh Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is it just me or is there suddenly a huge increase > in the air traffic noise in East Dulwich? Personally I think it's you! Seriously though, been here since 1998, and the good old days of stopping what you are doing to watch Concorde pass over. (THAT was loud....) but other than that I've not noticed a difference. BTW, when I came into City airport recently, (http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=3915) we dropped straight in from the east, so didn't get to look for the house.... :-( Of course, it could be (As they did in the Iranian embassy seige - so the SAS could operate in the building, to spy on the hostages and their takers, prior to the rescue of the hostages.) that flights are being brought in lower over the area so the noise disguises other sounds. Probably best to blame Foxtons....

Alan Dale Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm not sure but then able bodied white middle > class males are rarely the butt of the joke. Apart from the whole feminist movement... ;-) (THAT WAS A JOKE LADIES!!) Yes agreed though.

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That tower scares me though, there's something very Omen about it! (6) That's Putney You're thinking of....or is it Guildford...I forget...

Alan Dale Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Try convincing yourself that you are laughing at > David Brent rather than with him but I'm not > convinced. I have to agree with you there, never quite sure where the differentiation between the two are...having said that though, some of his stuff is funny. Animals had a number of good bits in it, esp the elephants swimming right at the end...

There was a big programme to replace these in the early 90's, but quite often there were objections to the replacement, as people didn't want the iconic phone box replacing. BT's argument was that the newer boxes, which have the gap at the bottom, prevented litter build up, and kept the box aired (As an aside it also allows the wee to run out... ;-) ) Getting the phone boxes replaced could be a nightmare, as BT needed co-operation from local Parish councils (Long story, don't ask....) so many remained where they were. As an aside, BT had to actually buy back a number of red boxes to replace ones removed, when there was a bit of a groundswell of support for the box, which was a bit daft as they had sold them a year before to companies in question. How do I know all of this? I worked for BT Payphones at the time, and was embroiled in the who issue for about 6 years... Oh happy days....!!

Claire E Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hiya.. does anyone know what the old car parts > shop is going to be - at the top of Lordship lane I was gutted one day when I left my 1959 Austin in bits and went there for some parts only to find it had gone!! One of the reasons I got a garage up that end of the lane... Hopefully will be a motorists superstore.....but i doubt it :-(

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why not just pop them in the blue recycling bag > and and forget about it? Window envelopes, council won't take them.... :-(

Asset Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Also this article > I just found is on that subject. > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne > ws/2006/11/04/ntraffic04.xml That's interesting, but two things to note. Firstly "But it shifts the emphasis away from the Government taking the risk, to the driver being responsible for his or her own risk." - Does anyone think this government woudl let us take responsibility for ourselves? - I'd love to but it is difficult. Secondy, law in Holland states that if a car collides with a cyclist, then irrespective of who actually caused the accident, the car driver is automatically deemed to be at fault. Maybe something this country should consider....

Peckham native Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Foxtons 0% offer just dropped through the door. > First 200 who instruct them to sell their property > and sell it before 21st December pay no > commission. But for those of us who are not selling and received these letters, (I received 7 - I'm not joking!) anyone fancy joining me and gathering them together, and then in the first week they open, put all the damn envelopes back through their door?

smith Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It seems (in my humble opinion) to be written by > someone who doesn't have English as their first > language. So perhaps they don't realise that the > 'tone' is off. You gonna tell them? That'll let a whole can of worms out of the bag!

Bellenden Belle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Have a read of their About Us page As they clearly haven't! All that placeholder text at the bottom of it made me laugh...almost as much as the poor English on the site! "Bayberry asks after so much sacrifices and abuse are we satisfied with our lifestyle. The answer is NO." I would have presumed there should be a question mark in there somewhere?

Well blow me down!!

mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ooh, you're a bad man. Fear and I sometimes have > earworm wars in the music room. > I believe someone did reserach into this and found > wimmawah (or however it's spelt) otherwise known > as the lion sleeps tonight, to be the most vicious > earworm around. IN case anyone has an anti virus, a DOS attack... Wim-away, wim-away, wim-away, wim-away.....

aceface Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Unfortunately our flat flooded back in July, Sorry to hear that. As much as I loath the ambulance chaser lawyers that advertise, who not drop one a line and see if they would be willing to take on a no win, no fee case to get TW to sort out the problems that cause this. (I assume it's blocked drains cusing this, as opposed to yopu living in a very obvious water collection point?) MIght work? E

HI Folks, Was having a peruse of the area on Google Maps, and spotted this place to the west of Kelvington Garderns, on the Peckham/Nunhead borders. Anyone able to let me know just what it is? Eric