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Twirly

Twirly

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Keef - Brockwell Park used to be really good, apart from the getting in and out last year, which was in large part due to the reconstruction of the entrances. There was always a bit of a bottleneck there, but last year's was the worst it's ever been. Have been going for 12 years. So disappointed that it's cancelled this year.


From what I can see, there is the Lambeth one in Clapham (which will be rammed due to the other two they normally have not happening due to cutbacks) and the Southwark one in Southwark Park (which I'm not sure about as I don't know the area, and am not sure how to get to and from - any advice anyone?) or Crystal Palace, which costs ?5. Am in a quandry as to which one to go to, as none are particularly convenient for me.

Sue

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Keef Wrote:

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> Cuts happened.

>

> Went to Brockwell for the first time last year,

> and thought it was pony. Really badly organised,

> and dangerous bottle necks.


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Yeh but the actual fireworks were great, Keef :)


I agree re the organisation, it was impossible to get out of the park afterwards and once you did there were hundreds of people trying to cross the main road with no proper provision for it.

Sue

Sue

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Twirly Wrote:

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the Southwark one in Southwark Park (which I'm

> not sure about as I don't know the area, and am

> not sure how to get to and from - any advice

> anyone?)


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You can get a train from ED to South Bermondsey, and one entrance to Southwark Park is a shortish walk from there.


ETA: Though I don't know which part of the park the fireworks will be in.


ETA: If you're driving (though parking there might be difficult) it's down to the Old Kent Road, across, then down the road next to the restaurant where the Chinese Elvis used to appear towards Surrey Quays.


Turn right at the T junction, under the railway bridge, down to a roundabout and the park entrance (well, one of them) is just off the first exit.

Keef

Keef

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Yeh but the actual fireworks were great, Keef


I disagree, I didn't think it was anywhere near as good as Blackheath usually is.


Anyway, all in the past now. I do hope the fireworks will return to Brockwell Park in the not too distant future. More to the point, I wish they'd return to Peckham Rye, along with the big bon fires they had when I was a kid.

Twirly

Twirly

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Thanks Sue - am tempted to drive, as there will be three of us going, one of whom may be travelling from Herne Hill. And don't mind a short walk if we've got to park a little way from the park itself. Just don't know that area at all.


I wonder if, with some of the big displays not happening, people will be more tempted to do their own displays at home, with the resulting injuries causing a strain on the health care system? Swings and roundabouts financially I'd have thought, but cutting the displays makes a more obvious saving.

JohnL

JohnL

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We used to do our own informally in the local community in the 70s (Lots of 'spare' land still around)


With the advent of the 'Tea Party' and government cuts ... maybe these sort of things will start again


and I know we were terribly unsafety conscious back then.


ratty Wrote:

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> The problem with the future of these public fire

> displays is that they are coming when a whole ton

> of people from LAs are being made redundant.

> Whilst this is happening (duration of Tory govt

> probably) you aint gonna see no bang bangs!

Sue

Sue

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Twirly Wrote:

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> Thanks Sue - am tempted to drive, as there will be

> three of us going, one of whom may be travelling

> from Herne Hill. And don't mind a short walk if

> we've got to park a little way from the park

> itself. Just don't know that area at all.

>


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I advise you look it up on a map rather than just relying on my directions - I do that drive quite often but I might have missed out a road somewhere :))


ETA: There is a small carpark in the park but it's normally closed after dark, and there are parking restrictions in force on the main roads around it I think, don't know what time they finish, if they do.

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