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by Robin Orton
18 Jun 2009 07:21
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Proposed mosaic outside the Naborhood Centre
Replies: 37
Views: 25224

Rebelmc wrote:
I have an issue with the fact that (it seemed clear to me) the project was being supported by people with a hidden agenda...
Could you clarify this please, Rebelmc? What do you think the 'hidden agenda' was?
by Robin Orton
16 Jun 2009 14:52
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Proposed mosaic outside the Naborhood Centre
Replies: 37
Views: 25224

Poppy wrote: Robin, are you involved in running the assembly and came up with this idea by any chance? I would also like to add to the other comments that the first time I heard about it was on this forum about one of two days before the last assembly meeting. No, I'm nothing to do with the assembl...
by Robin Orton
12 Jun 2009 17:39
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Come along to the Sydenham Assembly - Thursday 11 June 7pm
Replies: 38
Views: 28670

I agree in principle with Lee and Simon's last postings. The procedures so far have been far from perfect. But I'd feel a bit uneasy about going right back to square one so far as the mural is concerned, lest the best become the enemy of the good. Starting the whole process afresh might result in lo...
by Robin Orton
12 Jun 2009 15:10
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Come along to the Sydenham Assembly - Thursday 11 June 7pm
Replies: 38
Views: 28670

Leenewham said: I think it's perfectly reasonable to object to a proposal if you disagree with it, especially if you have only just heard about it. Couldn't agree more, but I suggest that at this stage, given last night's vote, it's better if people now discuss the merits, i.e. say why they don't l...
by Robin Orton
12 Jun 2009 13:49
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Come along to the Sydenham Assembly - Thursday 11 June 7pm
Replies: 38
Views: 28670

The mural will probably only appeal to older people, if at all. Try substituting 'football' and 'younger' for 'mural' and 'older', Poppy, and see how that reads! In any case, I'm puzzled by the idea that mural appreciation is somehow age-related! To tell the community "pick, a 50k mosaic or no...
by Robin Orton
12 Jun 2009 09:39
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Come along to the Sydenham Assembly - Thursday 11 June 7pm
Replies: 38
Views: 28670

Leenewham wrote: 2. What is the budget? Is it 10,000 or is it 50,000? This is not clear. This is the only one of his questions I think I can answer! The total cost is £50,000. £10,000 is the amount deemed necessary to attract '(more than!) matching funding' from other sources. Valerie Kelly, the sp...
by Robin Orton
12 Jun 2009 07:52
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Come along to the Sydenham Assembly - Thursday 11 June 7pm
Replies: 38
Views: 28670

Rebelmc wrote: '...when, after three votes (with the results from the first two being made known to all, and some newcomers being allowed to vote, after they'd turned up as the first vote was in progress and were told they wouldn't be allowed a say ) there was a three way tie for second place, so s...
by Robin Orton
11 Jun 2009 21:32
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Come along to the Sydenham Assembly - Thursday 11 June 7pm
Replies: 38
Views: 28670

In the voting for the Mayor's fund bids, £3000 for Switch It (young people's football project) came first. Second equal were £10,000 for the Naborhood Centre mosaic, £3700 for Sydenham ward youth forum development, and £3000 for the Sydenham community radio project. £2000 for a small grants initiati...
by Robin Orton
7 Jun 2009 22:04
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: This evening's Endellion String Quartet concert in St Bart's
Replies: 0
Views: 2005

This evening's Endellion String Quartet concert in St Bart's

I'd be interested to hear others' views about this. For me, it wasn't quite as exciting as I'd hoped. Perhaps we were sitting in an acoustically bad spot (though the bloke sitting next to me was obviously enjoying himself), perhaps the thundery atmosphere didn't help, perhaps I just wasn't in the mo...
by Robin Orton
6 Jun 2009 15:26
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Proposed mosaic outside the Naborhood Centre
Replies: 37
Views: 25224

One of the things which attracts me to the idea of the mural is the intention that it should depict the past as well as the present of Sydenham. I hope it might evoke a sense of historical depth, which I suspect can be helpful in fostering a sense of place and therefore of community - particularly f...
by Robin Orton
5 Jun 2009 10:57
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Proposed mosaic outside the Naborhood Centre
Replies: 37
Views: 25224

Proposed mosaic outside the Naborhood Centre

I gather this is to be discussed at the Sydenham ward assembly next Thursday - see http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/B61131AB-E6A7-4D21-A570-67CBAD475D4F/0/SydenhamCoordinatingGroupMinutes23_04_09.pdf. Valerie Kelly has shown me some (purely illustrative) design mock-ups, and they look great. ...
by Robin Orton
25 May 2009 08:03
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Free cash machine in Kirkdale
Replies: 0
Views: 2175

Free cash machine in Kirkdale

Parker said (in April):
The new Tesco will have a FREE Cash machine accessible from the exterior, something that Kirkdale desperately needs
Perhaps I'm not the only one to have only just noticed that this now actually exists. It is an RBS one, on the left hand side of the building.
by Robin Orton
15 May 2009 09:16
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: WHAT IF: no1 THE NABOURHOOD CENTRE
Replies: 84
Views: 61391

BTW - why couldn't they spell 'Neighbourhood' bit correctly when it first became that? Is it an Americanism or could someone genuinely not spell? Or am I just missing some obscure point somewhere? And how do you pronounce it? I've heard some important person at a meeting say 'Nabberhood', which sou...
by Robin Orton
14 May 2009 07:32
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Theft of motorscooters in Upper Sydenham
Replies: 1
Views: 2591

Theft of motorscooters in Upper Sydenham

One of our local roadsweepers told me that he thinks there may currently be a wave of thefts of motorscooters in Upper Sydenham. (He'd just found a bolt-cutter semi-concealed in Baxter Fields, which he thinks may have been used to break locks and which he was going to take to the police). Apparently...
by Robin Orton
24 Apr 2009 16:05
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: New Tesco in Kirkdale?
Replies: 216
Views: 148094

Cafe Jasmine is certainly still open and seems to be doing good business; I pass it every morning.
by Robin Orton
24 Apr 2009 14:37
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: New Tesco in Kirkdale?
Replies: 216
Views: 148094

MikeinDenham wrote: I was thinking more of Caf'e which is further along...
I suspect you and Gaz are talking about the same place - 'Caf'e Asmine' (sic - the 'J' seems to have fallen off!) at 149 Kirkdale. The place next to the Windmill is, I think, the 'Caribbean Queen' (123).
by Robin Orton
22 Apr 2009 20:17
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: New Tesco in Kirkdale?
Replies: 216
Views: 148094

Barry, I haven't been a 'leading light' in any 'fight' - flattering though it would be thought one! My contributions to this thread have been largely to raise the issue in the first place, to ask a question, and to post bits of information I've received from Ram. But I admit to mixed feelings. As I ...
by Robin Orton
22 Apr 2009 14:25
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: New Tesco in Kirkdale?
Replies: 216
Views: 148094

Re: Kirkdale developments/Tesco

Also, does anyone know about that pine furniture shop which appears to have being lying empty for months? I guess you mean 'The Oak and Pine Shop'? In my quick survey of the shops in upper Kirkdale reported on the 'empty properties blight' thread - see http://forum.sydenham.org.uk/viewtopic.php?p=2...
by Robin Orton
22 Apr 2009 07:19
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: new bar in kirkdale
Replies: 23
Views: 22409

Shop next to Perfucare

multisync wrote:No didn't know about that,but does anyone know whats opening in Kirkdale,next to Perfucare
According to Ram - and I think he was being serious - it's going to be a '[?takeaway] chicken shop'. I'll ask Mr Patel at Perfucare the next time I go in.
by Robin Orton
18 Apr 2009 14:08
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Empty properties blight
Replies: 32
Views: 31424

I've counted the shopfronts, including pubs and restaurants, in the upper part of Kirkdale, i.e. above Wells Park Road and Sydenham Park. Out of 41 properties, 14 (34%) are empty or apparently not trading. I've counted as empty the LiveLAN internet cafe (133) which looks closed and whose website see...