Sydenham Town Forum

I don't feel qualified to comment on my own views about the Pools as I don't use them. IMHO it is the user's view that should have priority. I do remember going to extensive and well attended consultations on whether the Pools be demolished or, if possible, refurbished. It would be helpful if someon...

Don't want to be a party pooper but ... with credit crunch I would have thought most CEOs of the major retail chains would be embarking on a brisk task of de-risking their businesses. Looking to get the best out of their existing stock and not making themselves victims to an increasing rental base. ...

I can understand why you would ask for a CPZ. But this would cost the residents, cause inconvenience/expense for resident's visitors etc and have a knock on effect to adjoining areas. I note that many other areas near stations have the 1 hour parking restriction during the day effectively blocking c...

Thanks Simono for your postive response. I think it is easy in these threads to see each other as opponents. But I think most of us feel exactly the same as you when we can't park outside our own homes or we find a drinkcan or worse thrown over the wall. There is also this tricky thing of whether wh...

And in answer to PP's post about trying to 'deny free and easy access' to platform one - well just walking a bit further and then up and over a footbridge to that same platform is not exactly a hardship for the able bodied surely? . No - they will just spend a little less time with their families a...

I am confused over this issue of private/public housing. If its your own house - you can sell up and move to somewhere quieter if you can afford it. Tough if you can't. Siimilary all the public housing associations I am aware of have swopping arrangements. I know of a couple who live far away from a...

ah yes Mugabe, another Marxist liberator,and friend of the people.him and Ken subscribe to the same ideals dont they? OK - lets try and think of one. Homosexuality, racism, military spending. I'm beginning to struggle. The Evening Standard isn't Ken's favourite rag but I don't think he has yet bann...

I am old enough to remember his confrontation with Bromley council over the first free bus scheme he dreamed up;? I think your memory fails you on this one. Bromley stopped Ken's Fares Fair policy *NOT* for implementing free fares but from cutting fares by 33% by taking a small levy on the rates. I...

gone wrote:This is something that Red Ken and the Noisy left, this countries worst bigots.

Mirror broken?

PP

Changing washer? These modern ceramic washers are a bit more challenging. Indeed I thought it easier to change my kitchen taps then find the right washer. So this weekend I shall discover whether I need to eat my words (again). I would point out that compression joints, a DIY book and a nagging wife...

I'm gobsmacked!

My first science lesson in secondary school was on how to change a tap washer. The second on how to wire a plug. If you can't do either you can't go on to do much practical science or engineering.

What do they teach these days?

PP

Or are you just trying to get the plug pulled on this thread?

PP

I can exclusively reveal that this Thursday's Regeneration meeting at the Narborhood Centre will reveal some exciting new plans for our community. The Station will be rebranded as part of the London Overground and become 'Sarf Dulwich'. Say that gently. Did you feel £50,000 go onto the value of your...

leenewham wrote: he's annoyed at the snobbery between upper and lower Sydenham.

Nope. Its MidSyd that's the problem

PP

My apologies Nork1. There were two ways to read your post and I, of course, got it wrong. Great we are both on the same side on this one.

There is a place for Ciabatta. But not around a nice bit'a'bacon.

PP

So, not dissimilar to another contributor on here, a Dolphin regular who dismisses anyone he perceives as outside of his demographic and who he obviously hasn't met as 'peasant underclass' or worse. So what's my demographic? Have you any evidence that I have a problem with any other demographic? Or...

Hi CockneyRebel! Do you think it unfair if I say you appear to be seeing Sydenham exclusively through class powered spectacles? That they might just be distorting reality to fit a model of a class ridden society that even I can only just remember? I enjoy the Dolphin. I was once accused of enjoying ...

Sounds like you are a Corbousier fan, he wanted to demolish the centre of Paris to make way for rows of tower blocks. Like Manhatten or Chicago? Didn't Napoleon Bonaparte bulldoze the old medieval Paris to create a city that is surely more beautiful and a more pleasant place to live than London. Ur...

Take the Tate ... What if it had not been suitable? Suppose it had been demolished and Frank Geary had given us a Bilbao Guggenheim? What if we had got a elephant and castle instead? (which is far more likely). Unlikely. The E&C would never have been regarded as of significantly greater archite...

When you talked about 'knocking down Buckingham Palace' it seemed to me you were suggesting that any old bulding was game for complete replacement by a modern building. Yep. By a better modern building. I mention Buck House deliberately as it is generally considered to be poorly designed building o...