Worst building in ED?

[Chillaxed]

This is really just an excuse to express my dislike of the block of flats opposite the ED railway station (and above Keatings). I am still waiting for them to begin cladding the exterior.

Anyone have another building in mind?

[StraferJack]

there is relatively little distinctive looking buildings in the area so "worst" is pretty subjective

Those flats are pretty dull but no more so than most modern builds everywhere. And certainly no worse than the Police Station. Or the iceland building (nothing to do with the shop brand!)

people hate foxtons, but the identikit redbrick, flat building there before them was even worse

[DulwichFox]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> there is relatively little distinctive looking

> buildings in the area so "worst" is pretty

> subjective

>

> Those flats are pretty dull but no more so than

> most modern builds everywhere. And certainly no

> worse than the Police Station. Or the iceland

> building (nothing to do with the shop brand!)

>

> people hate foxtons, but the identikit redbrick,

> flat building there before them was even worse

As I understand it the design of the Police Staion Which once housed Police Horses

was to make it 'Bomb Proof'

The narrow windows with the projections would make it 'Blast Proof' from any explosion from anywhere

other than directly opposite.

Fox.

[StraferJack]

other, less-ugly, police stations exists tho, don't they?

[edhistory]

I remember discussions when the police station was being built. It was said that it was one of a small network of anti-terrorist "bomb resistant" police stations being built in the Metropolitan Police area.

John K

[jimbo1964]

One forgets there were bombs going off all over the shop in the 70's.

[red devil]

The houses that replaced the timber yard on Barry Road, aka when pastiche vernacular goes wrong...

[El Pibe]

streetview links people, pur-leeeease!!!

[jimbo1964]

I don't mind them.. But there are too many for the space.

[*Bob*]

There are a few really lovely loft extensions which have gone-up of late - sympathetically styled in the manner of oversized temporary worksite portacabins.

So my vote goes to them - well done.

[Lynne]

the "Dwelling units" just past the Mind shop on Grove Vale get my vote

Lynne

[Ted Max]

St John's church on Goose Green is a mis-proportioned mish-mash of psuedo-rural pseudo-antiquity, with its ludicrous over-sized spire jammed down onto its roof like a giants' upturned ice cream cone. Its dimensions, its honey stone walls, its trim-prim hedged facade mirror exactly the aspirations of its lower-middle class patrons - each of them aspiring to a rural style as false as that of the church they inhabit.

The municipal, from muni (hideous) cipal (unwashed) library grimly squats on one corner of a petrified quadrangle of Victorian rapine: the gin palace, the bank, the church, the library. These sentries from a bygone age pass their customers one between the other in a square death-dance of mutual financial, intellectual and spiritual impoverishment.

http://i46.tinypic.com/4h5zf6.jpg

[edhistory]

Ted Max Wrote:

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> St John's church on Goose Green is a

> mis-proportioned mish-mash of psuedo-rural

> pseudo-antiquity, with its ludicrous over-sized

> spire jammed down onto its roof like a giants'

> upturned ice cream cone. Its dimensions, its honey

> stone walls, its trim-prim hedged facade mirror

> exactly the aspirations of its lower-middle class

> patrons - each of them aspiring to a rural style

> as false as that of the church they inhabit.

I guess you don't know much about our parish church and its history.

John K

[Ted Max]

I guess you will snarkily allude to your *special* knowledge, without ever going so far as to share any.

Ted M

[edhistory]

Ted Max Wrote:

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> I guess you will snarkily allude to your *special*

> knowledge, without ever going so far as to share

> any.

>

> Ted M

Your knowledge of the EDF isn't very good either.

John K

[Ted Max]

Can you at least confirm for me I've nailed the etymology of municipal?

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[LondonMix]

From the online etymology dictionary:

municipal (adj.)

1540s, from Middle French municipal, from Latin municipalis "of a citizen of a free town, of a free town," also "of a petty town, provincial," from municipium "free town, city whose citizens have the privileges of Roman citizens but are governed by their own laws," from municeps "citizen, inhabitant of a free town." Second element is root of capere "assume, take" (see capable). First element is from munus (plural munia) "service performed for the community, duty, work," also "public spectacle paid for by the magistrate, (gladiatorial) entertainment, gift," from Old Latin moenus "service, duty, burden," from PIE *moi-n-es-, generally taken as a suffixed form of root *mei- "to change, go, move" (Watkins; see mutable); but Tucker says "more probably" from the other PIE root *mei- meaning "bind," so that munia = "obligations" and communis = "bound together."

[edhistory]

Except...

The East Dulwich library building itself (and Nunhead library) is not of municiplal origin.

John K

[Ted Max]

FUCKIT.

Can I have the death-dance? I mean, that is literally what is going on there, isn't it?

[Chillaxed]

Here's my vote:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=google+maps+grove+vale&ll=51.461641,-0.079994&spn=0.000027,0.019248&hnear=Grove+Vale&gl=uk&safe=on&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.461692,-0.080103&panoid=e1D_InfXvuik-qvCaJ43gg&cbp=12,22.23,,0,-24.97

El Pibe Wrote:

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> streetview links people, pur-leeeease!!!

[david_carnell]

Crown House

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=google+maps+grove+vale&ll=51.461294,-0.072312&spn=0.000027,0.016844&safe=on&hnear=Grove+Vale&gl=uk&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.461335,-0.072025&panoid=zSJb_7jXVkVvGKqAGsHvhg&cbp=12,168.88,,0,2.52

[Townleygreen]

god, Crown House is really ugly...good nomination, David

[camberwell70]

There are very few buildings of note in ED.

[edhistory]

If you check the English Heritage register you will see that East Dulwich has four listed buildings.

Camberwell has three, but one of these is actually in East Dulwich.

John K

[camberwell70]

I have just checked the English Heritage register and Camberwell has no fewer than 104 listed buldings!