alice Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Sad day - loved this place. The first on the block. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kford Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Didn't it become a rum bar of some sort? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dulwich Born And Bred Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Rock Steady Lounge or something like that. Is it going? Why? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dulwich Born And Bred Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 I stand corrected, Rock Steady Rum Lounge https://www.rocksteadyrumlounge.com/ Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398037 Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldilocks Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Website for Rock Steady Rum Lounge seems to indicate recruiting for both sites. How do you know its closing? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398046 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidKruger Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 From memory, the Blue Mountain caf? was the first ?trendy? establishment in the area. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398066 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Yep Mel was the first to open this coffee shop named after the coffee growing area in Jamaica must be 35 year's ago but not sure.Bob S Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398073 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidKruger Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Nah it was more like 1993-4, not 1985 ! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398085 Share on other sites More sharing options...
first mate Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Grace and Favour, run by Rose, opened up the day after the General Election in 1997. That was the second trendy coffee shop on Northcross, so reckon Mel?s Blue Mountain was a couple of year?s earlier Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398117 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dulwich Born And Bred Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 So when/why is it closing? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnL Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 East Dulwich Branch UpdateTO 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 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398148 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 KK only 9 years out very sad to see them go Bob S Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398159 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dulwich Born And Bred Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Sad times. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398161 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nxjen Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 bob Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> KK only 9 years out ...?? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398165 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Townleygreen Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 I think he mean his estimate of it opening in 1985 was only 9 years out Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398190 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398195 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 KidKruger Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> From memory, the Blue Mountain caf? was the first> ?trendy? establishment in the area.Yes,it was.The beginning of the gentrification. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nxjen Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Townleygreen Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> I think he mean his estimate of it opening in 1985> was only 9 years outThanks, that makes sense Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Yes that is what I ment Bob S Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398208 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules-and-Boo Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398214 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DulwichFox Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Jules-and-Boo Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> 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 areasThe 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398220 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbero Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Sue Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398223 Share on other sites More sharing options...
malumbu Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Loved Grace and Favour - better cakes coffee and prices than BMC (no issues with the latter beyond their cakes, coffee and prices weren't quite as good). Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398224 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidKruger Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 bob: "KK only 9 years out"I don't think I was 9yrs out...2020 (now) - 26.5 (yrs Blue Mountain was open - according to them, see their post above) = 1993.5I said "1993-4", so I was actually bang on !!(makes a change....) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbero Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Pretty sure Mel had some sort of deli on Peckham Rye near the old Austin's building (late 80s/early 90s?) Probably ten years ahead of its time though! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/247109-farewell-blue-mountain/#findComment-1398232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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