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There is a poster up in Dulwich Village saying that there will be a public meeting on Saturday 4th November, 2pm at the pavilion of the Streatham & Marlborough Cricket Club by the junction of Lordship Lane and Dulwich Common (opposite the Grove Tavern) to talk about its future - it is facilitated by the Dulwich Society who are keen to find out what neighbours would like to see on the site - given that neither the Dulwich Estate (the freeholder)nor the Council can agree on what should happen. If you have a view it might be worth attending.
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Thanks for this - we live close by and will come along. My understanding (gleaned on here more than anything) is that the Dulwich Estate want to turn it into housing (and have declined approaches from supermarkets and fast food outlets) and the Council want it to go back into commercial use or as an old people's home. Does anyone know if that's the latest state of play? I would love to see it reopen as a pub but - as was pointed out last time I said that - it just doesn't seem to be viable.

There is an item in Dulwich Society?s latest newsletter which gives the current state of play and the announcement that Southwark Council have agreed to fund a charette (no neither had I) - go to the bottom of http://www.dulwichsociety.com/2017-autumn/1551-dulwich-society-news


The Society?s home page also announces that Southwark Council have rejected the DE proposal to build almshouses on land currently occupied by Judith Kerr

The inefficiency of democracy, eh ? Benevolent dictators have their advantages at times.


This site has lain empty for years and years. The owners and the council bleat about lack of money and yet they are staring in the face of a huge lost opportunity. Years of no business, no housing, no income, no improvement to the local environment. Probably years of no business, no housing, no income, no improvement to the local environment to follow on too.


It makes me want to weep.

George Orwell Wrote:

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> Ah, a revision is needed. I just read that

> apparently the pub lessee is still paying ?100,000

> a year in rent - that helps a bit I suppose.


To Dulwich Estate? or to someone else? Either way its not particularly helping anyone. Unless you are one of the benefactors of one of the school bursaries?

Appalling location for a care home, equally the elderly or otherwise vulnerable people who might be housed in the almshouses - horribly busy junction, noise, accident hotspot, pollution, little in easy walking distance etc.


There has been an inn on that site for over two hundred years apparently. The eponymous Mr Cox who cut Cox's walk to link to Sydenham Wells owned it in the late 1700s. How about a bar/club? Need a dance venue around here.

The Sydenham Wells is a fake connection.


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An Account of a New Purging Spring Discovered at Dulwich in Surrey, by Mr. John Martyn, F. R. S. Prof. Botan. Cantab


Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1683-1775), Vol. 41 (1739 - 1741), pp. 835-838


Published by: The Royal Society



In the Autumn of 1739, Mr. Cox, the Master of a well-known House of good Entertainment, called the Green Man at Dulwich, lying about a Mile beyond the village, was desirous to dig a Well for Service of his House, there being no Spring of good Water near it.


December 11 1740.


[The full three page text of the article is available on-line]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> Looks like on the Lordship Lane side of the

> property some folks have moved in, or, at least,

> have tarpaulined-off a bay for use as sheltered

> accom.



Yeh, I noticed that the other day.


Please please please don't bring back the Harvester, it was horrible (in my opinion).

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