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sallyw

By sallyw
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Jeremy

Jeremy

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ImpetuousVrouw Wrote:

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> I think snobs like Jason don't belong in ED and

> should bugger off to Chelsea - woops, they can't

> afford it, oh well, can we send them to Clapham

> then? What? They can't afford that either?

>

> Not much good at this snobbery thing are they?


Haha, I like it!!

Sue

Sue

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jasonfr Wrote:

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> I agree with Sally, Iceland is ugly and for poor

> people. Not for ED lordship lane. If you

> want iceland it should be in peckham not here

> please


xxxxxxx


Is this a joke?


A friend of the OP perhaps?


I like Iceland, and it's been on Lordship Lane for years, previously as Bejam, so if you don't like it why didn't you move somewhere that doesn't have one? It was here first!

cate

cate

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jasonfr Wrote:

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> I agree with Sally, Iceland is ugly and for poor

> people. Not for ED lordship lane. If you

> want iceland it should be in peckham not here

> please



Too late because there is already one in Peckham! Is Iceland ugly or is it the building that is ugly? Put there due to bomb damage no doubt.

AlexC

AlexC

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standswithfist Wrote:

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> that is offensive. leave Iceland alone!!! We are

> not bl@@dy Battersea/Chelsea etc we are EAST

> DULWICH and PROUD!!


Just for my clarification, why is being proud of ED synonymous with liking Iceland? It's just another big chain shop. So what if it's been there 20+ years. Things change.

giggirl

giggirl

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I love Iceland. OK I don't go there all that often - but when I do I love it.


My maths skills are questionable so I like that I can always add up what's in my basket and have the right money ready for the till. A small thing - but it makes me feel less useless than I am.

AlexC

AlexC

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I quite agree re: supply and demand. If it's there, it's there because people are shopping there. I was just surprised how people get very defensive when people say they don't like it.


So, another vote for a Waitrose from me then. :)-D ...although, the building would still be fugly though!

computedshorty

computedshorty

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Looking back some sixty six years. The shops that were in this area were very good the stocks were in short supply because of the war on, but never did we base our purchase on what the exterior of the shop looked like.

Perhaps a little local history as seen by the writer and the reminder that 23 souls lost their lives here.


5/8/1944 Lordship Lane. Dulwich.


This was a very serious V1 incident, one of the worst in South London. The V1 hit the co-op store at the corner of Northross Road in Lordship Lane. The Co-op and 6 other shops were demolished and 20 houses damaged in Lordship land and 40 in Shawbury Road. A Salvation army hall was also damaged. It is stated in ARP reports held in the public records office that damage extended across a 700 yard radius, greater than the normal blast area. This is probably due to the fact that later V1's were packed with a heavier, more deadly warhead. It was also reported that Anderson shelters in the area stood up well to the blast. Bulldozers were called in to clear the debris and one tram track was cleared by 20.30 of the same day. The whole block where the Coop stood has been re-developed with post war shops. The opposite side of Lordship Lane also shows significant signs of re-building as do houses up Shawbury Road.

23 people were killed.


My own memory of that day. Shorty Aged 13 years


I used to go on Saturday morning as a child to the Salvation Army Hall in Shawbury Road to watch the film shows it cost one penny, and we all sat on long forms, I remember the film breaking down every time we went, we would all ?chi? ike? like mad till it was mended. I lived in Lordship Lane a bit up the road, and came on my wooden scooter made from bomb site nicked wood with ballbearing race wheels taken from old engines, we would all pile them up in front of the hall in a heap and sort them out later, each owner had a number of lemonade crown caps nailed to the front of their scooter so you soon found your one, the wheels made a clonk / clonk as they run over the Portland stone paving slabs.

The V1 put an end to our Saturday morning outing.

By the end of the war we had 8 V1 & V2?s drop in our road.

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