whats happened to the Bishop?

[jam_log]

Does anyone know what has happened to the bishop? normally like this pub late on, but went in there last night and it was really rough, the music was awful and it just felt really scruffy?

Have they changed management or something?

[Foxhelp]

Scruffy I like , time for change.

[Roundabout]

Ask the manager?

[ED - NAGAIUTB]

Perhaps the Foresters Arms crowd from back in the day staged a coup d'?tat and took the place back over?

[JohnL]

All gone to peckham ;)

[steveo]

Oh no they haven't

[ratty]

PFOC

You work it out!

[gg96cgp]

They need to turn the lights up. Too dark.

[Willard]

Acronym Definition

PFOC Prairie Fire Organizing Committee

PFOC Passive Fiber Optic Component

PFOC Partially-Filled Orthogonal Cavity

[MrBen]

Bars changes constantly. But having revisited most SE22 boozers of late, one thing I can see is that they are all quieter after about 9pm ish than they used to be.

On thursday night at 10 ishpm The Great Exhibition, Actress, and Bishop were all dead as a dodo when before they'd have a decent crowd eat that hour. I put that down to there being a much wider choice for late night stuff now in Peckham/Camberwell and an increasingly family demographic in ED. The one glorious exception was The Gowlett which was nicely buzzing to Lucky 7's and pizza.

[Kingy]

whats happened to the Bishop?

he's resigned following allegations of sexual indiscretion

[Otta]

I've always thought the Bishop was horrible in the evenings.

[Girl82]

MrBen Wrote:

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> Bars changes constantly. But having revisited most

> SE22 boozers of late, one thing I can see is that

> they are all quieter after about 9pm ish than they

> used to be.

>

> On thursday night at 10 ishpm The Great

> Exhibition, Actress, and Bishop were all dead as a

> dodo when before they'd have a decent crowd eat

> that hour. I put that down to there being a much

> wider choice for late night stuff now in

> Peckham/Camberwell and an increasingly family

> demographic in ED. The one glorious exception was

> The Gowlett which was nicely buzzing to Lucky 7's

> and pizza.

Sorry, but The Gowlett is technically Peckham ;)

[JohnL]

It changes - sometimes quite posh, sometimes a dating atmosphere - and

sometimes what my mother would have called a dockside working pub.

EDT depends on the football schedules - especially Arsenal :)

Was in the Montpelier this weekend - that's got a definite trendy

atmosphere on Saturdays.

Otta Wrote:

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> I've always thought the Bishop was horrible in the

> evenings.

[KidKruger]

ratty: PFOC - You work it out!

Place Full Of C**** ?

[Kingy]

Must be the Clockhouse ...place full of clocks

[chuff]

The Bishop use the secret dj app so the music choice could have been down to the crowd there at the time. Can change everything!

[edhistory]

MrBen Wrote:

>

> Sorry, but The Gowlett is technically Peckham ;)

Is it?

John K

[LondonMix]

Yes

[edhistory]

Don't worry about it.

John K

[Girl82]

edhistory Wrote:

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> MrBen Wrote:

> >

> > Sorry, but The Gowlett is technically Peckham

> ;)

>

> Is it?

>

> John K

Eh? Of course it is! It's SE15!

[edhistory]

SE15 is the post code for the local area that has its mail processed by the Peckham sorting office.

John K

Edited to remove out of area example which illuminates.

[Jeremy]

Girl82 - meet edhistory.

This happens quite a lot...

[Girl82]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Girl82 - meet edhistory.

>

> This happens quite a lot...

I see! Thanks Jeremy!

[El Pibe]

But to briefly offtopicate, he has a point.

A postcode is just an arbitrary administrative, practical demarcation for a single institution, overlaid very roughly on existing towns, neighbourhoods.

I guess people get snotty about it because they enjoy or loathe the fact that these imaginary lines dictate the value of their homes/cost of their rent/self and satisfaction/inverse snobbery as to their location.

I don't think a bit of pedantry does any harm, it might even be a starting point to people taking a genuine interest in the long fascinating tale of this quarter of London, over and above a superficial appreciation of their locality based upon a tally of chains vs independents, the presence or not of a waitrose or indeed an arbitrary set of Letters and Numbers appended to ones street address.

Aaaaanyway, as you were.....