26 Lordship Lane [next door to White Stuff] (Lounged)

[MadWorld74]

*Bob* I was never present in the area when it was a 'secret'. I can still see the remains of some of the secrets though...

[*Bob*]

I don't want to piss on anyone's chips here, but it was never really a secret. It was just a bit shit - with potential.

And now, with the coming of Oliver Bonas, that potential is about to be fully realised.

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I was hoping for a bookies

[Frisco]

"It was just a bit shit - with potential."

Some think it still is!

[pearcesa]

Yawn, another gift shop, to go with Willow, ED, Mrs Robinson, Celestial etc etc .... Can't people who are opening shops in this area be a little more original?

I'm bored of these kind of shops that seem to want to appeal to the same kind of people - i.e. middle class people with too much money!

One thing that East Dulwich could do with is a cinema, but I guess that's out!

[SeanMacGabhann]

well a cinema was never going to fit in that space now was it?

[pearcesa]

I didn't specifically mean in the space next door to White Stuff, I meant generally ....

[AllforNun]

White Stuff, Oliver Bonas ! Leslie Ash on the horizon looking for her first members club venue in ED or should I say East Clapham by 2010

[RosieH]

the cinema in Peckham is great and only ?2.99 a seat - not so very far to go

[Jeremy]

> the cinema in Peckham is great and only ?2.99 a seat - not so very far to go

Agreed, it's a bargain - but some of us would like something which shows films which were a bit different from the mainstream offerings shown at the multiplexes. An independant cinema which could show indie and foreign films (as well the cream of the mainstream crop) would be excellent, but I'd be very surprised should it happen.

Anyway back on topic... surely it can't be long before the local gift/tat/nik-nak market reaches saturation point. Mrs Robinson is an excellent shop and clearly the market leader along LL, and Ed always seems popular. I'd say Moo Too or Celestial could find themselves in trobule. Or maybe Roullier White?

[RosieH]

there's something about all of this that troubles me slightly (hmm, troubles probably too strong a word)

But people wanting clothes shops / cinemas / guitar shops and whatnot - all very lovely and great to have - but what's wrong with actually venturing out of East Dulwich into the wider world once in a while? we are, after all, part of a rather lovely metropolis that has all of these things in spades. are we at risk of becoming rather insular?

[pearcesa]

Well, yes the point you raise Rosie H about people in ED ot being insular, but do we REALLY need another gift shop with overpriced 'bits and bobs' in it?

I definitely think a good bookshop, music shop & cinema are what the place lacks.

[Cassius]

RosieH Wrote:

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> the cinema in Peckham is great and only ?2.99 a

> seat - not so very far to go

Not ?2.99 any more - more like a fiver - although still good value AND it does show some off-beat films there.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Agreed Jeremy - it would be great, but very surprising

That said the Peckham cinema does better than most multiplexes with off-beat stuff - you might have to be flexible with timings, and it's not true every week....but it's not bad either

[RosieH]

ah, went to the cinema just before christmas and the seats had gone back down to ?2.99, but that could have been a temporary thing

of course it would be lovely to have all these things right on our doorstep. I'd love Vivienne Westwood or the Sanctuary or the Old Vic, but I don't think the area's missing anything without them - I don't expect to have those things in an, albeit villagey, suburb, I expect to go into town for them. And I quite like making the trip to other parts of town. They always have new and exciting gift shops to discover...

[EDmummy]

Went to an Oliver Bonas in Upper Street once. Hate the gift tat but they did have some lovely individual (in a non-mass produced way) clothing.

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[Mark]

what does "." mean?

Ah, I get it. Someone started an new thread asking what the shop next to White Stuff was so you resurrected the other thread with a "." May I recommend that you say something like "look at this" to avoid confusion and to possible stop there being two threads about the same subject.

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Now recruiting staff. There's a placard in their window.

[KalamityKel]

I fink *bump* is alot more affective than a "." as one may think it was accidentally done ;-)

[figgins]

Only time I went to the peckham 'plex it was full of kids using their phones. Grrr. Have never been since. Have things improved?

[JenniferJ]

:-)

[JenniferJ]

Oliver Bonas is a lovely little shop to have, I think we should be grateful as it could be a LOT worse. I too have lived in ED for years and am concerned about the volume of buggies and middle classness however if it means the area is on the up we should all be grateful as it means the place should be a nicer place to live and grow into.

[ladida]

Just had a look at Oliver B's website, do we really more of this stuff in ED?

[ladida]

I meant so say '...do we really NEED more of this stuff in ED?'