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East Dulwich Branch Update

TO ALL OUR CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS IT IS WITH GREAT SADNESS AND REGRET THAT ROCK STEADY RUM LOUNGE DULWICH WILL CLOSE ITS DOORS ON THE 26TH JANUARY 2020 THE PAST 3 YEARS HAVE BEEN CHALLENGING, INCREASING COSTS AND REDUCED FOOTFALL COMBINED HAVE CREATED DIFFICULT TRADING CONDITIONS.


THE DECISION TO CLOSE WILL END 26.5 YEARS OF TRADING ON THIS SITE IN EAST DULWICH.


https://www.rocksteadyrumlounge.com/post/east-dulwich-branch-update

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Pretty sure it was 1991 or 2?


It was just after I moved to East Dulwich.


Very sad to see it go, but I never really understood why it was changed to a rum lounge.


I liked it best in its original incarnation, with several separate quirky little rooms.

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Jules-and-Boo Wrote:

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> Gentrification is not about independent coffee

> shops. I doubt that word had even been used until

> early 2000s.

>

> It's about the cleansing of an area and making it

> bland (mainly closing the funky independent

> places.


The term gentrification emerged in 1960s London when a German-British sociologist and city planner, Ruth Glass, described the displacement of the poor in London as upper-class people moved in to refurbish houses in previously working-class areas


The term Gentrification dates back to the 14th Century

The Old French word genterise, "of gentle birth" (14th century) and "people of gentle birth" (16th century).


A form of Social Cleansing.

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Sue Wrote:

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> I liked it best in its original incarnation, with

> several separate quirky little rooms.


I agree, Sue. Complete with exposed lath and plaster! Became a bit too 'clean and shiny' after the first refurb.

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