Lewisham

[May Kasahara]

For sure. Anyone who's been in the Toad's Mouth can confirm this ^^^

 

[Melinda]

Im back in Hither Green for a few days. Not been back in a month or two. I cycled the length of Hither Green Lane. The Bellway village place is complete. Its so odd! Hundreds of continental-style box sized flats with people having breakfast on their glass balconys. Just like the brouchure! Its like another world.

And there have opened up a Tescos Express onsite as well. I went in and they have security tags on the bread and meat! Hilarious! Less hilarious is the fact that the community fought to save the old hopsital site from the grasp of Tesco in the first place, for fear of traffice and killing off the shops on HGL, but low and behold Tesco got their claws in anyway. The Co-op was a ghost town as I cycled past.

And the Spotted Cow has closed down on HGL I loved that pub, every six months it would change the colour of its livery. Now its gone. Forever!

 

[Streathamite]

the only good thing abouit Lewisham is it's first rate transport connections so you can leave there in a hurry. ladywell's Ok and so is brockley

 

[sarfsider]

Which gated community do you live in? Brockley is firmly in the hands of the Guardianistas.

Exactly. It used to be rough, but has changed. Telegraph Hill, Crofton Park and around Lewisham College are fine. But cross Lewisham Way and it gets a bit shitty, esp around Friendly St (crime-friendly street ?) and that horrible park. But technically that's in SE8, Deptford/St John's not Brockley/Crofton Park. The Honor Oak Estate on St Norbert Rd is the only rough bit of SE4 nowadays.

In fact, even though Sydenham is generally more suburban than Brockley, it's getting as shit in parts as Brockley used to be. Eg Wells Park Est, then around Home Park, and Bell Green.

 

[the button]

the only good thing abouit Lewisham is it's first rate transport connections so you can leave there in a hurry.

*drones on & on about how good Lewisham market is*

 

[editor]

I had to go there today. Awful place. Roads everywhere, ugly tall buildings and horrid architecture.

 

[cesare]

I had to go there today. Awful place. Roads everywhere, ugly tall buildings and horrid architecture.

Well sussed out editor avoid in future.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

the bit round the station is a bloody shambles, bloody awful for bus passengers - no bus station and not even a shelter at some of the main stops.

the high street and market is still much as it was, though

 

[cesare]

the bit round the station is a bloody shambles, bloody awful for bus passengers - no bus station and not even a shelter at some of the main stops.

the high street and market is still much as it was, though

The town planners have effectively moved Lewisham by a quarter of a mile towards Deptford and surrounded old Lewisham with dual carriageways. It's a fucking irredeemable mess.

 

[Maggot]

It's unrecognisable from how it looked 10-12 years ago.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

It's unrecognisable from how it looked 10-12 years ago.

and the roundabout (built in the 90s) was supposed to solve all lewisham's traffic problems...

 

[clicker]

A friend sent me this last week. I saw David Essex (teenybop swoon) in Lewisham Odeon years and years ago. Assuming it's gone, but can't even work out where it would have been.

I don't like the look of those balconies either. Accident waiting to happen.

 

[Sasaferrato]

 

[Puddy_Tat]

A friend sent me this last week. I saw David Essex (teenybop swoon) in Lewisham Odeon years and years ago. Assuming it's gone, but can't even work out where it would have been.

yes, it was demolished in the early 1990s for the roundabout based traffic scheme, although much of the site was vacant until fairly recently.

on that picture, it's about under the 2 largest towers.

this side by side map (1950s and now) might help (what became the odeon was the gaumont then) - the row of shops including ladbrokes has been there for some time - ladbrokes is 54-56 high street, rennell street is still where it was only now wider (the north side of the road is part of the odeon site) - the photographer is stood outside what's now the police station - site was then chiesmans' department store.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

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I think the small print might say this, but charlottenburg in berlin twinned with lewisham borough in 1968. i don't think lewisham named a street charlottenburg street, though



there was a berlin road in catford, but it got re-named canadian avenue during the 1914-18 war

 

[clicker]

yes, it was demolished in the early 1990s for the roundabout based traffic scheme, although much of the site was vacant until fairly recently.

on that picture, it's about under the 2 largest towers.

this side by side map (1950s and now) might help (what became the odeon was the gaumont then) - the row of shops including ladbrokes has been there for some time - ladbrokes is 54-56 high street, rennell street is still where it was only now wider (the north side of the road is part of the odeon site) - the photographer is stood outside what's now the police station - site was then chiesmans' department store.

Thankyou that's a great map. I've just been to Nunhead, Peckham and Forest Hill without moving off the sofa.