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I didn't get away with that one!


East Dulwich has five, plus those misallocated to Peckham (I'm not ploughing my way through the list to count them after excluding the Kent entries)


If you look at the register again you will see that a very large number of the Camberwell entries are actually in Lambeth and not Camberwell. It's the post code problem again.


John K

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.

>

> 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



I think you'll find the OP was quoting Jonathan Meades - YouTube it and you'll get the joke!

edhistory Wrote:

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> I didn't get away with that one!

>

> East Dulwich has five, plus those misallocated to

> Peckham (I'm not ploughing my way through the list

> to count them after excluding the Kent entries)

>

> If you look at the register again you will see

> that a very large number of the Camberwell entries

> are actually in Lambeth and not Camberwell. It's

> the post code problem again.

>

> John K


I grew up in Camberwell. The Southwark - Lambeth border went right through our flat. When you were in the kitchen you were in Southwark and when you were in the front room you were in Lambeth. But you were always in Camberwell.

david_carnell Wrote:

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> 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&cb

> ll=51.461335,-0.072025&panoid=zSJb_7jXVkVvGKqAGsHv

> hg&cbp=12,168.88,,0,2.52


Mmm, dunno... I think it has that designed-in-the-60s-and-looked-good-as-a-model look that used to be everywhere but is fast disappearing from our cities; a kind of Primark-Bauhaus.


It's grubby and neglected and the railings don't help but I quite like it, and I think the plain, small-windowed red brick slab (on the left of Crown House as you look at it) is uglier - as are the lego-built-look-we've-got-balconies flats next along on the corner of CP rd.

red devil Wrote:

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> The houses that replaced the timber yard on Barry

> Road, aka when pastiche vernacular goes wrong...



this gets my vote. in fact either side of Underhill at Barry Rd.. how ugly can new builds get?

maxxi Wrote:

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> david_carnell Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > 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&cb

>

> >

> ll=51.461335,-0.072025&panoid=zSJb_7jXVkVvGKqAGsHv

>

> > hg&cbp=12,168.88,,0,2.52

>

> Mmm, dunno... I think it has that

> designed-in-the-60s-and-looked-good-as-a-model

> look that used to be everywhere but is fast

> disappearing from our cities; a kind of

> Primark-Bauhaus.

>

> It's grubby and neglected and the railings don't

> help but I quite like it, and I think the plain,

> small-windowed red brick slab (on the left of

> Crown House as you look at it) is uglier - as are

> the lego-built-look-we've-got-balconies flats next

> along on the corner of CP rd.



You're probably right but I've tried not to list private residences and only municipal or office buildings. Otherwise it turns into a sort of perod property bukkake where we all jizz on anyone living in a new build.


However....


http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=dog+kennel+hill&ll=51.466191,-0.08534&spn=0.000003,0.002106&hnear=Dog+Kennel+Hill,+London+Borough+of+Southwark,+London+SE22,+United+Kingdom&gl=uk&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=51.466251,-0.085406&panoid=7utUaVuz-w8GG1exNKcTag&cbp=12,258.35,,0,1.26


That Eclair woman has a lot to answer for. Utter carbuncle.

david_carnell Wrote:

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> You're probably right but I've tried not to list

> private residences and only municipal or office

> buildings. Otherwise it turns into a sort of perod

> property bukkake where we all jizz on anyone

> living in a new build.

>

> However....

>

> http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=dog+kennel+hill&ll

> =51.466191,-0.08534&spn=0.000003,0.002106&hnear=Do

> g+Kennel+Hill,+London+Borough+of+Southwark,+London

> +SE22,+United+Kingdom&gl=uk&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=

> 51.466251,-0.085406&panoid=7utUaVuz-w8GG1exNKcTag&

> cbp=12,258.35,,0,1.26

>

> That Eclair woman has a lot to answer for. Utter

> carbuncle.



As does Grand Designs...


Okay - residences aside - you only have to go two to the right of Crown House (on the view you linked to) to see the spirit-draining numbness that houses the young offenders programme atm. A truly hideous 'unit 3 on the Gravesend Industrial Estate' kind of a building.


For residences I'm surprised no one has mentioned the whole Ladlands devpt - but I quite like that too .

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