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Scaremongering - there is very little vacant land in East Dulwich available as sites for building 9 storey buildings so this is rather hypothetical. It could even be said the occasional taller, modern building breaks up the monotony of Victorian terraced housing.

If it's the same one I'm thinking of, it was a little further down the road towards LL, probably where the Fresh Flower Company is today. I'd forgotten all about it, with good reason. I think it disappeared before Blue Mountain opened and became a pizza place? I once bought a carton of milk from the deli and when I opened it, it was solid. I did get my money back though.

The hare krishna restaurant is called Govindas and still going strong in Soho Street, a different establishment to the one that used to be (still is?) in Hanway Street. I must go back to Govindas some time

Brigitte Bardot, 91

My memory, admittedly not very reliable these days, places the shop on the block on the left hand side just before Burgess Park going towards Camberwell. Have also found a reference to Franklins Antiques being located at 157 Camberwell Road which is on that block. This is a screen shot obtained from Google maps of that address which accords with my memory except the entrance door was on the right hand side, where the grey door is, rather than in the centre.

They've left all kinds of things in my garden including gardening gloves and shoes, not to mention scavenged food and packaging. Once they left an unopened vacuum pack of smoked trout, the next day some pita bread. All a bit biblical.

I was trying to remember when Franklins moved to Lordship Lane from Walworth Road where it was combined with an antique/bric a brac shop. Mid 1990s, first wave ED gentrification?

That's what i thought

OP has perhaps inadvertently provided free advertising for Gails, drawing attention to Dulwich Gails being open on Christmas Day.

Watching my cats over the years with foxes, I've found that foxes have totally ignored them. One exception was when a young fox hadn't seen my cat and found himself eye to eye with my cat at a distance of 1 metre. There was a stand off but the fox blinked first and my cat chased him out of the garden. So proud of her. I believe when foxes have attacked cats, the cat has been vulnerable - old, young, ill wounded.

I've noticed the foxes are very frisky at the moment, it's mating season. Perhaps it was a male fox who saw you as a danger to his vixen and wanted to see you off.

I took an item for tracking to Los Angeles having paid postage and customs fee already online to Family Stores in Upland Road. They printed label and custom form from a QR code and all good, present has arrived, and there was no queue. ETA Actually the main reason I posted this is to reassure those who are put off sending gifts to the US because of all the tariff business, like I was, that it is very straightforward

Trump said in his disgusting Truth Social post that Rob Reiner died as a result of suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. The person who suffers the most from this is Trump himself and it might just do for him.

Conservationists would not agree with you

... when animal welfare wasn't quite so well advanced

Didn't the same thing happen when the bee mural was there which eventually led to the second mural being painted?

I think they're kept up all year as it's cheaper that way, only turning them on around Christmas

It was the second mural on the site, perhaps it will be replaced by a new one. Don't think we can look on any of these murals as permanent fixtures.

The report of infestation is gross. How could anyone let things get so out of hand?

Stanley Baxter aged 99

There's been a previous thread about them here in April https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/360001-warning-we-r-blighty-outside-ms/#comment-1703274 and a second one in September https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/367417-‘we-r-blighty’-outside-ms/#comment-1721150 where I posted ",,, they have been found guilty and fined for illegal street trading and collections in June in the City of London. https://news.cityoflondon.gov.uk/we-r-blighty-pleads-guilty-of-illegal-street-trading-and-collections-in-the-city/ "

Oh my goodness, this is really shocking

That's certainly the narrative that runs ad infinitum on the Forum but I wonder how true it is. Speaking for myself I'm very happy M&S, Superdrug, Pret and, in the last century, Sainsbury's arrived and judging from the business they do I'm not alone.

In many places it's the businesses of the area who pay for Christmas lights. (That was the sound of LL businesses falling to the ground in a faint at the suggestion) The Christmas tree in Dulwich Square was paid for by a crowdfunder

Timely article in today's Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/dec/07/the-rise-of-parcel-thefts-how-to-protect-yourself-from-porch-pirates Doesn't really say anything new though Most companies these days do though offer online tracking, usually with links to the courier company they use, or have chosen to use for a particular delivery. In the rare cases where I consider placing an order with a company that can't offer this, I go somewhere else.