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uncleglen Wrote:

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> Is the cost of this coming from the council tax?

> If so, I am not surprised they are wasting money

> on this type of hippy nonsense.


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The state of this country at present, we need something to cheer us up.


To call it "this type of hippy nonsense" says more about you and your prejudices than about the painted bollards :)

Not sure this is at all official painting, seems more ad hoc and impromptu.I live on FHR and I like them! There was a plan from Southwark council last year, which we all had through our doors, saying they would paint them black again. ( This was part of larger "traffic calming" measures. ( taking away parking spaces, really.) I know several neighbours wrote back to council to say they liked the colourful bollards. So we DID vote for this!

uncleglen Wrote:

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> What- when the whole place is infested by rats- I

> expect you would like to knit them some nice

> woolly bonnets for the winter Sue!


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I already do. And scarves and mittens. Rats feel the cold just like us, you know :)

I live near to FHR and have seen the bollards in their latest colours and when they were a lot less "accomplished"; they're better now. What cheeses me off about that stretch, though, is the higgledy-piggledy pavement. Can't the council pay for it all to be finished in a uniform way? And is there any way that that blue and yellow shop near the barber's could be spruced up a bit?

Sue Wrote:

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> Got out of bed the wrong side again, Foxy? :)


No.. Graffiti , litter , vandalism are just my pet hates.


I do not want to live in a slum.


Perhaps I just need to drink more to make sense of it.


Might of thought it was. 'Far Out Man' in '68


Oh wow man, look at the Bollards .... Doing my 'ead in man.


Just seen Ginger Baker in the Sky... :)


All Grown Up now...


Foxy

edhistory Wrote:

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> DulwicFox,

>

> You are confusing the scrawls on walls in your

> photograph, with the East Dulwich street art.

>

> John K


I said it starts with painting a few bollards and ends up like the photo I posted..


If you allow even ?Talented Artists? to scrawl on the wall then you open the door to anyone.

Needs to be nipped in the bud before it gets out of control. Bit late for that I feel.


I do not think the folk in Dulwich Village would put up with it.


DulwichFox

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> edhistory Wrote:

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

> -----

> > DulwicFox,

> >

> > You are confusing the scrawls on walls in your

> > photograph, with the East Dulwich street art.

> >

> > John K

>

> I said it starts with painting a few bollards and

> ends up like the photo I posted..

>

> If you allow even ?Talented Artists? to scrawl on

> the wall then you open the door to anyone.

> Needs to be nipped in the bud before it gets out

> of control. Bit late for that I feel.

>

> I do not think the folk in Dulwich Village would

> put up with it.

>

> DulwichFox


Well thank God this isn't Dulwich Village, which looks remarkably similar, come to think of it, to the film the Stepford Wives....

Sue Wrote:

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> Totally different environment, Fox!


The environment is created by the people that live in it.


It can be ruined by just a few anti-social beings..


Then it is a slippery slope to becoming a Slum.


Rubbish, Graffiti, Dog Poo. East Dulwich has it all.


I moved to E.D. in 1980. It was a LOT nicer and a LOT cleaner back then.


DulwichFox

maybe i was wrong ...I had thought funding was from CGS budget but have now looked at southwark website* and cant find any ref to it. Does anyone out there know how this was funded?





some fascinating details there


?500 for redthread youth club

?2500 for free cloth bags for ed people

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