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Otta Wrote:

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> Catford has the cat and a good guitar shop.


The cat has NO significance to Catford


The real reference is that the area Catford Lewisham and Depford were Cattle farming regions.


There was a cattle ford at Catford.


Sorry no cat.


Foxy

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DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

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> > Catford has the cat and a good guitar shop.

>

> The cat has NO significance to Catford

>

> The real reference is that the area Catford

> Lewisham and Depford were Cattle farming regions.

>

> There was a cattle ford at Catford.

>

> Sorry no cat.

>

> Foxy



I never thought it had, I just meant that because it's called Catford, someone decided to stick a fuckoff big cat up, and I've loved it since I was a little kid who would get excited to see it whilst on what seemed like a horrendously long 185 ride to Lewisham on the odd occasions mum needed to get something she couldn't get in Peckham.


So the area "has the cat". (until it gets taken down)

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The name derives from the place where cattle crossed the River Ravensbourne in Saxon times. It is also said that the name originates from all black cats, associated with witchcraft, being thrown into the ford to drown during the witch hunts.[citation needed]


Catford's most prominent landmark is the Catford Cat, a giant fibreglass sculpture of a black cat above the entrance to the Catford Centre. This is a small shopping centre, housing Tesco and Iceland supermarkets as well as some independent shops in the punningly-named Catford Mews. There is a street market on Catford Broadway. Catford has several pubs and a variety of non-chain restaurants and cafes. Catford's oldest pub is the Black Horse and Harrow (now called the Goose on the Green) and Karl Marx is reputed to have been an occasional patron.[citation needed] The pub has existed since at least 1700[citation needed] though the present building dates from 1897. Between 1932 and 2003, Catford Stadium was a successful greyhound racing track, but was closed and then destroyed by fire in 2005[8] and ultimately demolished to make way for a new housing development. As of April 2009, the site of Catford Greyhound Stadium remains vacant and overgrown.


Taken from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catford


Louisa.

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If you think beyond Catford central miga it doesn't take much of a stretch of the imagination to see overspill from nearby Forest Hill, Brockley and let's not forget everything that's going on in Lewisham. Fairly well connected with nearby overground and DLR, not to mention mainline trains and buses. Give it 5 years.


Louisa.

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Louisa Wrote:

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> If you think beyond Catford central miga it

> doesn't take much of a stretch of the imagination

> to see overspill from nearby Forest Hill, Brockley

> and let's not forget everything that's going on in

> Lewisham. Fairly well connected with nearby

> overground and DLR, not to mention mainline trains

> and buses. Give it 5 years.

>

> Louisa.



Some old friends of mine sold their family home on Penderry Rise this year and moved down to Margate. They sold to a professional couple (think he was a solicitor) and were very happy with what they got for it. It will happen.


Also there's St Dunstan's School which may be an attr4action for ambitious parents.

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