The old Woolwich Bank site

[downsouth]

In saying that I'd like an office, bull frogs (clpaham and greenwich) or sole trader to open up.

[SimonM]

>>The bloody Village branch doesnt even have a cash machine! God I hate Barclays<<

They have recently applied for planning permision to instal one though (according to the latest Dulwich Society mag.), and are expected to receive it.

[marmalade]

Hello,

Given that this is a site used by all members of the community in East Dulwich, I was disappointed to see you describe my home as an "ugly block" and to see that you hope it will be "demolished soon". Perhaps you assume that all users of this site will be ABC123 aesthetes who would only consider living in a victorian property.

I agree; it is not, intrinsically, a particularly attractive building and has been shockingly neglected by our wilfully obstructive and incompetent Head Leaseholders with whom we are now engaged in ongoing legal disputes to have the building repaired and renovated.

However, the flats themselves far more spacious than any of the extortionately over-priced period conversions in the area and, for that reason, pleasurable to live in.

I understand that people become a bit trigger-happy on these sites but please try to be more sensitive to others and constructive in the future. I really can't see the point of the site if it is merely to be a forum for inflammatory and nefarious speculation and blunderingly composed invective.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Oh tush people. I'm well into middle age and happily espouse internet banking. Far more convenient (esp with the onset ofarthritis). What I don't hold with is these new-fangled sandwiches. Tuna and sweetcorn? What's wrong with spam?

[Jeremy]

Agreed, let's not go wishing for people's homes to be demolished!

Good luck with your renovation neogtiations Marmalade.

[marmalade]

Thanks - otherwise it's jam sandwiches all round I'm afraid...

[mamafeelgood]

"Here we go again! Another thread goes the way of "new vs old". Can't we just let it lie for once?!" can i second that motion and add that i have been priced out of my area in london to here and i just hope that people priced out of here are not treated the same way as 'newbies' are here.

back to thread:

i don't like mark one, would much rather have a primark, or even better a uniqlo. i love cheap clothes shops, just not mark one. there are many better ones. however, i agree, being that there is one in peckham doubt they'll open here.

[kford]

Sorry, that block's is a blot on the ED landscape. I'm sure they're lovely and spacious inside, but it's a depressing eyesore. As bad as the police station. And I'm not wishing for a chintzy Victorian pastiche in its place, as that would be worse. I'd just like to see a well-thought out, well-designed, modern arcade like the one containing Sainsbury's in Forest Hill.

[Quaywe]

capt_birdseye Wrote:

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> Here we go again! Another thread goes the way of

> "new vs old". Can't we just let it lie for once?!

Here here Captain!

[marmalade]

kford,

Yes that's fine, I'm not disputing that you're entitled to your opinion - I'm just saying that blithely denigrating my home on an interactive community website didn't seem to be in the spirit of the thing. Clearly the design of the building isn't ideal but it isn't going to be knocked down and it seems a bit futile to speculate on what you would have liked them to have built in its place 40 years ago, and indeed offensive to speculate on what you would like to be built if they did knock my home down. Appreciation of design is, of course, subjective and in turn I can't say that I admire the aesthetic of the Forest Hill Sainsburys development either; I certainly won't be suggesting that it should be demolished though. If you're particularly worried about planning issues then it would be nice to think you could turn your considerable energies to constructive lobbying of Southwark Council's planning department for future developments.

There is tremendous scope in this area for a fantastic campaign to - for instance - ensure the survival of our small, independent businesses and it would be thrilling to think of people writing in their hundreds if not thousands to the Council, to the papers and to their MP to try to push for a sensitive town planning strategy to be put in place for this area.

But I can't see how this can be put into action if you are content to indulge in specious and insulting chat. By all means have your opinions but it's thoughtless and counterproductive to hurl them into cyberspace with little or no consideration for the feelings of others.

[kford]

Marmalade, I'm not insulting your home, I'm offering a critique of the building it's located in. Don't take it so personally, it's just bricks and mortar. And I am entitled, on this site, to offer an opinion on anything in East Dulwich with affects my living here. And that block - which includes the Victorian shop that houses Winkworth, the 70s unit that houses Budgens and the windowless substation on Northcross Road - is not something I like.

[marmalade]

fine, it's just a bit upsetting to come on a site and find a complete stranger suggesting that your home should be demolished!! Never mind, one of those things. All the best.

[kford]

No offence, Marmalade; I mean that truly :)

[AllforNun]

Jah Lush i know it was ages ago but....

Tell me something about UK tuna fish - you know the ones in the little round tins around 50p - I will tell you if I was right to presume...................no extra research though, first answers only please

[Administrator]

AllforNun, stay on topic please.

[AllforNun]

Ah but Admin I think I am on topic.

like a postmodern film where you have to join the dots, you may find the answer yourself and then Eureka.

If the folks of ED are screaming for Organic, Free-trade and an end to harmoginous high streets, but in reality maybe do not understand the fundamentals then surely we have a problem? If we take taste as one example if you do not know why the UK is the home of crap Tuna, then surely you are just buying into a marketing exercise when it comes to organic, hand reared, grass fed food ?

And when this marketing exercise reaches it full potential will our high streets be any different from the harmoginous versions that people on this blog rail against now? These big companies came into being because, not equipped with sufficient knowledge, we all bought into them in the 80's.

So surely it's about informed decision making to avoid the mistakes of the past?

(although 3 pints of Kroneberg and then this badly punctuated attempt at theory is probably a mistake !)

Hoping for something different to arrive in ED in it current phase is like hoping that Lordship Lane can single handedly roll back the mechanics of Capitalism

[Administrator]

You can't say I didn't try

Lounged

[Quaywe]

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[AllforNun]

Sweet jehova what happened ? inform me please ?

[Jah Lush]

AllforNun Wrote:

> (although 3 pints of Kroneberg and then this badly

> punctuated attempt at theory is probably a mistake

> !)

You said it.

Personally, and you seem to be getting personal with your continued references to my taste in sandwiches (no, I don't use tinned thanks) You don't even know me, so don't be such a presumptous f**king arsehole.

As for the old Woolwich site I'd prefer a record store/guitar shop but I guess that isn't about to happen.

As for your taste in beer, Kronenberg..LOL

[AllforNun]

So if you don't use tinned what do you use ? Fresh Tuna from the Thames?

Now run of and stage dive .

[downsouth]

Guys - there's no need for such animosity and vitriol.

Just agree to disagree and move on.

[Brendan]

Jeez! All this over a sarnie! Glad I don?t like tuna and sweet corn. I?m more of a dolphin and foie gras man myself.

Only organic, tuna friendly dolphin mind.

[*Bob*]

I'll have an 'animosity and vitriol' sandwich. But hold the mayo. Thanks.

[Jah Lush]

AllforNun Wrote:

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> So if you don't use tinned what do you use ? Fresh

> Tuna from the Thames?

Look this is a thread about the old Woolwich Bank site is it not? Let's keep it that way. If you want to write about your so-called expertise on fish go ahead and start your own thread. Actually, I think you'll find there is already a thread about fish so go and rant on there if you so desire. Why you get so hung up about my sandwich filling is beyond me. Enough of this bollocks I say and let the rest of the people who want to talk about the Woolwich bank site continue to do so.