Break in at Dulwich Hospital

[Zaardvark]

Spotted on twitter:

Driving past Dulwich Hospital and witnessed a man break in using metal cutters and about ten traveler caravans go in #bigfatgipsyeastdulwich from @ellen_godwin

[Paolo.S]

Yes! Gypsies have tried to take over Dulwich Hospital... Pic from my friend

[Labib1.83]

good thing police turned up quickly, dont want them ruining Dulwich

[Paolo.S]

Exactly...

[macutd]

just one van and one caravan, plus two police cars.( about 9 pm)

[aquarius moon]

Labib1.83 Wrote:

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> good thing police turned up quickly, dont want

> them ruining Dulwich

Ruining Dulwich?

Please.

[TheArtfulDogger]

Did you say running Dulwich?

well I guess they couldn't make any more of a mess then Southwark do at the moment 😉

[uncleglen]

It would be an improvement...the travelers would make the 11 year olds work for that ?10 instead of giving it away.

[BrandNewGuy]

Not exactly a break in at Dulwich Hospital, given the empty site is not accessible from the hospital. Surprised it's taken travellers so long to try this - absolute disgrace how long it's been 'empty'. I seed-bombed* the site a few weeks ago, just to add some colour and life to the place. Even if they do start building the new school / health centre next year, it's been a shocking waste of space for far too long and a huge administrative bureaucratic b*lls-up.

* http://www.guerrillagardening.org/ggseedbombs.html

[Earl Aelfheah]

BrandNewGuy Wrote:

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> Not exactly a break in at Dulwich Hospital, given

> the empty site is not accessible from the

> hospital. Surprised it's taken travellers so long

> to try this - absolute disgrace how long it's been

> 'empty'. I seed-bombed* the site a few weeks ago,

> just to add some colour and life to the place.

> Even if they do start building the new school /

> health centre next year, it's been a shocking

> waste of space for far too long and a huge

> administrative bureaucratic b*lls-up.

>

> *

> http://www.guerrillagardening.org/ggseedbombs.html

Agree with that, unfortunately this is Southwarks way. They did a similar thing with the site of the demolished Elmington estate flats. Left acres of land empty for more than a decade.

[macutd]

i wish you would seed bomb my garden!

[Marjoram]

I am told that one large white caravan and a white van did get onto the site and were there overnight, and that this morning one of the occupants could be seen emptying a bucket/bowl of liquid onto the ground beside it. However, as at 10.20 a.m. it seems that both vehicles have now moved, although it's not clear whether they are now on another part of the site, or whether they have left completely.

[DadOf4]

this thread has the potential to be the best ever EDF thread - its got it all

planning,southwark, casual racism, attitudes to tax, society, property prices,crime - guaranteed to all come up

[KidKruger]

A bowl of liquid ?

Jeez, this is getting serious.

[Otta]

Better than the squatters of Goose Green a couple of years back.

[goosey-goosey]

Did we have squatters on GG? I missed that. Perhaps they were the perps who planted that horrid little tree.

[maxxi]

Was it orange liquid? Everyone knows this should be disposed of in bottles.

[PippaD]

goosey-goosey Wrote:

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> Did we have squatters on GG? I missed that.

> Perhaps they were the perps who planted that

> horrid little tree.

That "horrid little tree" was planted by the the children of goose green school and the friends of goose green. It is a living Xmas tree and had to be a young specimen, like any other tree planted, it shall grow!

The children are all very proud of it and look forward to the now annual Carol singing event round it in December.

[Otta]

Thats's lovely for the kids. People are allowed to find it horrid though, doesn't make them chail murderers.

Personally I have no idea where this tree is.

From memory the squatters were actually a bunch of middle class kids playing at being alternitive. Not sure there was any actual housing need involved.

[Otta]

Goose Green squatters thread (classic)

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,447811,page=1

[ednewmy]

...bloody blow ins...

[Dopamine1979]

Otta Wrote:

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> Goose Green squatters thread (classic)

>

> http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?2

> 0,447811,page=1

Well there's an hour of my life I won't get back.

Great thread.

[Otta]

I know, I read through a lot of it yesterday.

[TillieTrotter]

Sorry to go all Louisa/Foxy on yo ass but that squatter thread has made me miss the good ole days. I even yearned for Hugenuts to be back among us albeit for a fleeting moment ;-)

And some of the posters that are no longer with us, Moos, Crystalclear, Shambles, Bagpuss...all so sad ;-(

[TillieTrotter]

Can anyone remember any other threads with that much class/fun/wrangling. Such a shame Colin Catflap has disappeared.