What does Lordship Lane need?

[Otta]

They were cool guys, very chilled, I too would occasionally hang out there for a couple of hours drinking Stella.

But KK, it was FACT!

[KidKruger]

Maybe I've seen you down there Otta - there was always someone hanging out when I went down.

Shocked on the biscuits, and slighty miffed..

[Sue]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Sue - sarcasm detector a bit rusty, perhaps.

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Quite likely, especially as I have no idea what you're talking about :))

ETA: KK, there were two daughters, the poor things had to stay down there in the half-light during half term, looking extremely bored and occasionally playing their recorders .....

ETA: Oh DUH I just looked up disco biscuits. What a sheltered upbringing I have had :))

[theron]

Despite cowling and Wilcox in camberwell, I would be more than happy to see a local independent art and craft shop on the lane..

[fazer71]

A GOOD CLEAN .....

I was in Dalston yesterday and it's high street was much cleaner than LL

YES DALSTON !

[Jeremy]

KK - With all that shoegazing music they were into, I'm not surprised some stimulants were needed to enjoy it.

Sue - Ted Max's post was a direct criticism of the Dream Machine, sarcastically suggesting that it was a good idea.

[Lin Henden]

Where you need is Hamiltons in Forest Hill

[Lin Henden]

Sounds like you need the Gowlett pub!

[anabonbon]

a short walk off the Lane there is the Il Mirto (towards East Dulwich Stn), and it is just lovely...http://ilmirto.co.uk/...we always enjoy it!

[anabonbon]

I would like a pharmacy with a bigger range of makeup, etc...or I can keep going into Peckham, I suppose. Also a privately run small stationer's, like the one that was once here! don't like chain shops much...

[Johnson11]

Has it got a tapas bar apart from Barcelona bar?

[Frankito]

Can someone please just give me a Waitrose...?! :0)

[sidmeister]

Il Mirto on Melbourne Grove fits the bill for a nice, friendly, family-run Italian restaurant.

[DavidPeckham]

1. East Dulwich Picture House

2. Authentic Tapas

3. Youth Club / Cafe

4. Proper Cocktails

5. The Magic Costume Shop (Mr Ben rememberers)

[Mabel2001]

Il Mirto on Melbourne Grove is a nice traditional family-owned Italian and only a hop, skip and jump from Lordship Lane.

[northlondoner]

Private landing strip.

[Jeremy]

David - it's a good list, but realistically we have two cinemas a short journey away, and two really good tapas restaurants arguably within walking distance (Camberwell and Herne Hill).

[????]

Tipplers' cocktails pretty highly rated by those ITK

[Dan G]

fewer curry houses - i don't know how many stay open, half of them are dead most nights. i ate in swadesh recently - 8pm on a saturday night. you'd expect there to be more people eating there than just me and the wife. shame because the food is nice but eating in an empty restaurant doesn't make for the most fun night out.

an italian restaurant/pizza place serving traditional thin crust pizzas cooked in a wood burning brick oven would make a killing.

likewise a japanese or vietnamese.

also agree a small indi cinema would go down well.

sadly, i expect the rents dictate that new arrivals will be more of the likes of cafe nero and oliver bonus.

the two chains i'd like to see depart are co-op and iceland. never use either of them. not sure who uses iceland. it's about as out of place as some of the joke suggestions on this thread for pound shops, strip bars and maccy ds.

[richard tudor]

If you used Iceland you might find out.

[Dan G]

my frozen peas and ice cream needs are fulfilled by sainsburys, thanks.

[macrobana]

Incomer?

[northlondoner]

Yes feels like it. More at home in Fulham perhaps.

[EmED]

Less funeral parlours and indian restaurants!

A Franco Manca, Byron, noodle place, waitrose, and a Zara or some sort of clothes shops would be amazing!!!

Tapas place, more cool independent cafes like Lucas.

A Toni and Guy!

[keane]

Iceland was here long before a lot of the newer shops, yes it's obviously on the way out but people do use it - there are many things you can buy there that are the same as sold in sainsburys but cheaper. Many people who are on lower incomes & pensioners shop there, not everyone in East Dulwich is flush & Lordship Lane hasn't always been full of chi chi shops!