The first annual East Dulwich Awards

[Michael Palaeologus]

"SE22 Snobbery" ?

Its the East Dulwich Forum not the "East Dulwich and anywhere that you can get a bus to Forum"

If other areas would like their own awards they can copy us, as usual.

[Keef]

Just measured it... The Woodman is 1km from the SE22 border. Hoopers is 0.1km from the SE22 border.

Er, Yeah well slight exaggeration admittedly, but you get my point.

[Brendan]

Well it?s all academic really because I don?t think people from Sydenham are going to be able to vote. ;-)

[Keef]

Good thing I'm not actually from Sydenham then ;-) Hmmm, perhaps only people actually from Dulwich should get to vote...

[Jeremy]

Well, that's 95% of us forumites ruled out then!

[Brendan]

Meh. I wasn?t going to vote anyway. The likelihood of there being categories for best biltong and most reasonable priced outlet from which to buy khaki shorts seem remote.

[Sue]

My last post seems to have disappeared from the thread????

:-S

Edited to say: It said that I felt that trying to compare entertainment was trying to compare chalk and cheese ... where's it gone?!

On request I had cleaned up this thread so that a number irrelevant messages were removed, the original poster wants to keep this as "on topic" as possible - The Administrator

[Eileen]

some categories to consider in case they haven't been mentioned:

grocers, chemists, hairdressers, health service/practitioners, builders/tradespeople, gardeners, car repairers

[????]

How about best place for tea on a wet, wednesday in spring....er, shouldn't we/you be keeping this simple and clear,,,,oooh...best roundabout in East Dulwich etc

[JamesG]

Hoopers is 100 yards from having an SE22 post code and less than 500 yards from ED station. However its 1/2 mile from Denmark Hill station and a mile from Camberwell Green. Yes you're correct its got a Camberwell post code but how many people define where they live by their post code. People live in areas that border other areas which means there are blurred definitions. No boundary will please everyone but using a post code strikes me as being clumsy.

[*Bob*]

Favourite colour?

[Jeremy]

JamesG, I don't think there's any choice, any other boundary is purely arbitrary and will cause squabbles.

[Mark]

As I said before: "The border will be SE22/East Dulwich only, we have to draw a line somewhere and the SE22 border seems like the most obvious way to do it, but we would consider moving it based on nominations received."

To expand further, say Hoopers gets nominated for something then we'll include because it's close by the SE22 border, however if The White Hart in Bath was nominated then we won't include it because it's not close by the SE22 border. This seems like an obvious way to do it to us but please let us know if you have a better suggestion.

Categories are being decided tomorrow, any more good suggestions?

[JamesG]

Most amusing thread. I particularly liked "there are too many trees in ED".

[????]

Majenta

[karter]

How about best dressed shop window display?

One of the photographers from this forum could take the pics and post them up here.

[Keef]

Best place for a Friday night ruck?

Best customer service from a local drug dealer?

Just ideas, what do you think?

[AcedOut]

Best Kebab & Wine shop?

[cate]

Postcode snobbery. Oglander, Ondine and Coplestone Road are all SE15. A matter of minutes from East Dulwich Station. Hayes Grove is SE22. It is adjacent to Copleston Road. St. John's Church on East Dulwich Road is SE22. The school attached on Adys Road is SE15!!!!! The lovely new chocolate shop in Bellenden Road is SE15. Bellenden Village innit!

I like the way your mind works JamesG.

[*Bob*]

'Best postcode'?

[????]

'Best street nearly in SE22'?

[lard]

Tastiest bread and best place for a gift my ar*e

If all these things are worthy of an "award" then my suggestions are

Best Bookies

Best Fruit Machine

Best Jamaican Patty

[Keef]

Cate & JamesG, all the places you mention are great, as are other places in Peckham/Camberwell. Believe me, if I could vote for Ganapati, I would in a flash, but they simply are not in East Dulwich, and if these are the East Dulwich awards arranged by the people at the East Dulwich Forum, I don't see how you can call that snobbery, it is just geography, plain and simple.

I doubt organisers of a Peckham awards, of Forest Hill awards would allow someone to noninante the Bishop.

[Jeremy]

Haha, this is making me laugh... as the residents of Copleston Rd, Oglander Rd, and the environs of the fictional "Bellenden Village" cause an outcry because, erm, it's not in Dulwich.

[JamesG]

Keef Wrote:

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> Cate & JamesG, all the places you mention are

> great, as are other places in Peckham/Camberwell.

> Believe me, if I could vote for Ganapati, I would

> in a flash, but they simply are not in East

> Dulwich, and if these are the East Dulwich awards

> arranged by the people at the East Dulwich Forum,

> I don't see how you can call that snobbery, it is

> just geography, plain and simple.

>

> I doubt organisers of a Peckham awards, of Forest

> Hill awards would allow someone to noninante the

> Bishop.

Keef, my point is simple. Defining East Dulwich by post code is crude and simple. Hoopers for example (with a Camberwell postcode) is considerably closer to the social centre of ED than Camberwell. We do not dictate our purchasing behaviour or social behaviour by postcodes. For example I may go out for a drink in Clapham but not SW12!!! If when voting starts there are considerable votes for The Duke in Nunhead for example it should be registered and counted. After all the purpose is to ascertain where we like going/shoping/eating etc ?locally?, not where we like going up to a set of road boundaries as defined by the Royal Mail in the 60?s!