Surely there must be some news...

[bald marauder]

...more interesting than smashed cars, old pubs, bedsits and ghosts.

Does anyone know what is happening with the refurb of the leisure centre, for example?

Or if there is any more news about any of the shops on Lordship Lane?

Maybe someone can make something up - I need a little frisson in my local gossip this morning!

I'm going for a run round Peckham Rye Park to try and burn off some marauding energy - I shall check to see what you inventive souls have come up with when I get back...

BM

[Ant]

I heard that Southwark Council are planning to turn LL into two bus lanes with a single lane in the middle for all other traffic that operates on a permanent contraflow basis.

(May not be 100% trufax)

[Mark]

Foxtons is moving to Lordship Lane in June. The building on the opposite corner to The Bishop.

[bald marauder]

Ooh, that's more like it, scandal!

Mark, does your news share the same source as Ant's (ie not 100% trufax*)?

*Nice reference Ant!

[Mark]

it's true, I've heard it three times now from different sources

[Joe likes dinner]

Tesco is buying the whole of Lardship lane, and the Peckham Hill estate and then going to war with Bolivia.

Its okay though, as they have a bumper list of b-list british celebrities and television personalities to front the campaign and they will use recycled bags.

[Jeremy]

I hate Foxtons. They are thieving scum, and I mean that literally! If they come to LL, I will personally wage war on them!!

[nutty]

I also detest Foxtons - can we have a EDF boycott on them? I fear the thread about estate agents in ED will become clogged with Foxtons horror stories....

[Ant]

Such a disappointment to hear you weren't joking about Foxtons.

And EDF boycott sounds like a good start.

[spadetownboy]

top shop,river island,next,woolies,wh smith,jjb sports and weatherspoons have all bought properties in prime ll locations and should be open by the summer.northern line to be extended to ed expected completion autumn 2007,and eurostar will be opening their new south east london terminal on the goose green spring 08.100%the truth.

[Jeremy]

Tube or tram would be nice though, wouldn't it! Anything but the crappy train which comes every 20 minutes, or the buses which take an hour to get into town.

[fractionater]

the train is fine - if you use the time table then you can get to the platform without having to hang around for a train - quite simple you know!

[Joe likes dinner]

Have to say if you can catch a bus before 7,45 the 176 / 185 can get you into town in about 40 mins.

That said, you do have to catch one before 7,45 - too right with the trains, esp as denmark hill never seems to make anyu announcements or give much warning when anything happens, such as on wednseday! Damn them in the face!

Apparently they are bringing back the Victorian LL tramline and to avoid confusion over the use of pre-pay oyster cards on overland trains, anyone who travels in period dress goes free!

[Ant]

I'd like something quicker than the bus, but the train's no good for me. What with the additional travel at either end of the journey it ends up taking just as much time but costing a lot more.

[mockney piers]

Jump off the bus at denmark hill and hey presto, 8 minutes to balckfriars or 12 to Victoria or London Bridge, marvellous.

Or get bus to Elephant & Castle, 15 minutes on good day (an hour on bad) and get tube or train as appropriate, there's always a way.

[mamafeelgood]

jesus, kids, i thought this was meant to be a fun thread. yet, here you are discussing bus times to town...

[Michael Palaeologus]

There is a plan to bring a tram from Camden to Peckham via Waterloo - there was a big consultation exercise at the end of last year. Good for Mockney P.

Yesterday i was one the train to ED from London Bridge. We ground to halt outside South Bermondsey, where it was announced that we would not be stopping at South Bermondsey or Peckham, etc, etc and that we would be re-routed to New Cross - no explanation. Most of the packed train got out at New Cross and had to get a train back to London Bridge to start all over again.

This is the kind of incompetence that sends people wild.

[mamafeelgood]

apparently putin, bored of russia, has bought up LL but much to his annoyance dubya has invested in northcross road. fighting will break out as the U.S. stop the russians from satisfying their sugar fix by denying access to hope and greenwood. bush will live in said shop thinking that he has been transported by a time machine to the 40's.

expect the newly built eurostar terminal on goose green to become a war zone, over taken by sincere international press talking drivel and drinking the area dry. visas will be required to gain entrance to ED which putin will have sold to alfayed. in turn mohammed has plans to destroy LL to create a massive memorial to dodi and diana.

trust no one.

[Parker's Folly]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> I hate Foxtons. They are thieving scum, and I mean

> that literally! If they come to LL, I will

> personally wage war on them!!

I'll join you - I hate them too.

By the way, do we really need another estate agent on LL? That would increase the number to about 10, not?

[mamafeelgood]

first bus times, then estate agents...setting the thread on fire.

[mamafeelgood]

Ant Wrote:

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a single lane in

> the middle for all other traffic that operates on

> a permanent contraflow basis.

>

>

>

> (May not be 100% trufax)

who would have right of way? going north or going south? will there be a 10 year multi million pound consultation that no one will reply to but to include lots of glossy shots of ED?

[fractionater]

I did start an interesting thread about big dogs

[Mark]

ohhh, don't get me started on consultations, the Goose Green consultation results were meant to be ready in November, came out 4 months late and nothing's happened since. A bit like the roundabout too, ?8,000 to spend on it and all they've done in 6 months is remove the old lampost, probably consulting consultants somewhere on the best way to have a consultation about it.

Fractionaiter, good point but the dog thread's turned into "who would win a fight between a fat bloke and the bloke from the Bishop". How about we build a boxing ring on the Goose Green roundabout and organise a fight between them? That would be news.

(I think I managed to get that back on topic)

[fractionater]

I think wrestling would be better than boxing - but a good idea none-the-less!

[bald marauder]

Well done Mark, safely back on topic (and special thanks to mamafeelgood for trying to keep the spirit of the thread alive!)

I have heard a rumour that there is a good reason why the men in the cheeese shop are sometimes less than friendly. I overheard some men in dark suits in a local pub saying that the cheese shop is actually a cover for an alien invasion. The owners are in fact, David Icke style lizards, part of the deadly power-sharing elite that run and exploit our planet. They only smile at people they want to RECRUIT to their corrupt and dastardly scheme. So if they don't smile at you, be grateful and move on quickly. Having said all that, I don't believe it for a minute, although it could be why their cheese is so damn tasty (especially the delice de bourgogne - perhaps it's got secret lizard flavouring in it...)