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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.

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 ;)

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.

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.....

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