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11 hours ago, Moovart said:

I believe "Dulwich" is deemed where Dulwich library is situated so left at Peckham rye and straight up Barry Road

Or turning left,  continuing on down Forest Hill Road and turning right further up. 

Google maps has Dulwich marked at the junction by the old Grove, where the South Circular heads off towards the rest of Dulwich.

But whatever, yes you can definitely get to Dulwich by going in the direction shown on the signpost!

I'm not sure you would get "anywhere" by going straight down, though, let alone 23 miles down 🤣

I like the "Now here" though!

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15 hours ago, sebastiondangerfield said:

The dogs on the street know that Dulwich is straight ahead , Goose Green, turn left and there you have it😜

It's easier to turn left at that junction than to go straight ahead, though, because if memory serves there are only two lanes,  and buses turning right (there is no right turn for cars)  clog up the right hand lane.

And the distance driven is probably about the same.

5 hours ago, sebastiondangerfield said:

Not everyone wants to go to the library,

the real Dulwich (village) is straight ahead.

Eh? Straight ahead of what? 

If you turn left at Goose Green, as you also posted above, you end up at the library. Then the Grove.

Then, unless you turn right at the South Circular, you end up at Forest Hill!

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From the sign.

Turn left up Peckham Rye, turn right onto Barry Road, straight across at the lights onto Eynella Road which leads you to Court Lane and Dulwich Park.

You could turn right here and Dulwich Village is at the end of Court Lane.

Of course you could stand by the sign and be “Now here or Nowhere”

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2 hours ago, sebastiondangerfield said:

Dear Sue, straight ahead from the sign in question. Left at Goose  Green, right at East Dulwich Grove and on to the real Dulwich.😜

I think this could go on endlessly, so I suggest we finish it here! 

But why don't you  track down the makers of the sign? Which hopefully has amused a lot of people, as well as brightening my bus journey.

Tell  them that their directions to Dulwich are not only wrong, but they do not seem to know where the "real" Dulwich is 🤣

I'm sure they will be delighted 🤣

 

In the old days you used to be able to access the actual Dulwich by turning left there and travelling down eynella road. 

Someone asked James McAsh to look into updating the sign when they closed those roads to Dulwich and I think he said he'd look into it when he used to visit this website.

Perhaps someone from the Dulwich society can enlighten us on why Dulwich Library/ Dulwich Plough is deemed "Dulwich" for geographical purposes. 🙏

Personally I had always thought it was because it was determined as that for the tram stop in the days of trams and then for the number 12 bus.

I believe that public transport was once excluded from central Dulwich, so if you wanted to take e.g. a bus to 'Dulwich' the Library was about as close as you could get and hence that became Dulwich for maps. The Estate thought that public transport was infra dig. 

6 hours ago, CPR Dave said:

In the old days you used to be able to access the actual Dulwich by turning left there and travelling down eynella road. 

Someone asked James McAsh to look into updating the sign when they closed those roads to Dulwich and I think he said he'd look into it when he used to visit this website.

But the sign being discussed here is a joke sign, not an official sign!

6 hours ago, CPR Dave said:

 

Someone asked James McAsh to look into updating the sign when they closed those roads to Dulwich and I think he said he'd look into it when he used to visit this website.

He gave up using this website because some people on here gave him a really hard time.

2 hours ago, Sue said:

But the sign being discussed here is a joke sign, not an official sign!

He gave up using this website because some people on here gave him a really hard time.

It's actually an official sign, it's just the bottom third that's been covered over by the Poundland Banksy. The font gives it away.

It used to be sign-posted to Brixton, if I remember correctly.

 

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10 hours ago, David Peckham said:

It's actually an official sign, it's just the bottom third that's been covered over by the Poundland Banksy. The font gives it away.

It used to be sign-posted to Brixton, if I remember correctly.

 

Ah, thanks, I hadn't realised that!

To be honest, I'd never noticed it until it was mentioned on here. It's really subtle, but there's a small subscript/signature in the bottom right of the added bit saying 'Be Here Now'.

I've tried to Google that, but it just comes up with Oasis's overproduced, yet underwhelming, third album of the same name.

I wonder whether was influenced by this:

https://metro.co.uk/2024/11/11/bizarre-london-sign-directions-california-finally-corrected-15-years-21971040/


 

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