what's camberwell like?

[innit]

Oval tube walkable from Camberwell?

Good god, people in london forget they have legs, even though I dare say most of them grew up in towns with no buses and walked everywhere.

The walk from Camberwell Green to Oval is shorter than my walk from home to school when I was 11 years old.

 

[editor]

The walk from Camberwell Green to Oval is shorter than my walk from home to school when I was 11 years old.

I used to walk two and a half miles to school every day and though nothing of it.

 

[PacificOcean]

I used to walk two and a half miles to school every day and though nothing of it.

Eye, and we had to share a pair of shoes between seven of us and we were greatful, etc.

 

[innit]

I used to walk two and a half miles to school every day and though nothing of it.

Well they didn't have buses in them days, did they

 

[PacificOcean]

Good god, people in london forget they have legs, even though I dare say most of them grew up in towns with no buses and walked everywhere.

The walk from Camberwell Green to Oval is shorter than my walk from home to school when I was 11 years old.

I have always lived in London, and have always bussed it.

Walking is a pointless exercise.

 

[editor]

Well they didn't have buses in them days, did they

Aye, it were all steam powered ploughs back then.

For the rich.

 

[innit]

Walking is... exercise.

Very true

And it's only when you walk around london that you realise how blooming close together everywhere is.

 

[Ms T]

apart from the supermarket, there's sod all shops in camberwell itself. in fact, apart from what i've listed so far, sod all anything. trips to brixton and walworth are more or less inevitable

There's a big Chinese supermarket (Wing Tai) right opposite the supermarket. Also a couple of good places to buy food on Camberwell Church Street.

 

[innit]

If Paul's Continental Olives is still open, I highly recommend it (and they are lovely people).

 

[Belushi]

Eye, and we had to share a pair of shoes between seven of us and we were greatful, etc.

Shoes? Luxury! We had one pair of feet between seven of us!

 

[PacificOcean]

Very true

And it's only when you walk around london that you realise how blooming close together everywhere is.

Bollocks. You walk from Euston to Selhurst then and tell me that everything is close together.

 

[liberty]

We are gooing to move there I like it

 

[innit]

Bollocks. You walk from Euston to Selhurst then and tell me that everything is close together.

Well obviously London as a whole is quite large, but actually the part of south London under discussion here isn't particularly large in terms of walking distances... eg walking from Peckham to Brixton via Camberwell is probably still less than the 2.5 mile walk editor was talking about.

 

[zenie]

Camberwell Is good I like it there – happiest days were at Art College there.

Yeh I wouldn’t walk down butterfly arcade late at night (or at all) and the day release patients from the Maudsley can be a bit daunting but they’re ill and only human.

Similarly St Giles Place can be a dodgy one but every place has issues I just know about the ones in Camberwell IYSWIM.

Don’t talk to the people on the green in the day either.

There’s buses from the green in every direction of London possible, you have Denmark Hill station though being on Albany Road you’re more Walworth really. Is it an SE5 or SE17 postcode?

Snooker club’s cool, there’s a wicked record shop on Camberwell New Road, Oval tube aint far, Nando’s still there??

Houses are lush – there’s some cool peeps that live up Camberwell grove and some even cooler houses.

I’d move back there in a shot if I was offered somewhere but then I’ve lived there I’m bias.

 

[maximilian ping]

thanks for all the information

the only time i have been in camberwell (that i can remember) is when i got dropped off there after a year in Australia. It was like walking into Night of the Living Dead/Starsky and Hutch compared to my nice sleepy manor in north Melbourne.

reason i am tempted is it's a mate's house (so no contract, deposit) and she's gonna be away for the majority of the time cos of her job.

but the general vibe i'm getting is that it is a bit of a smaller, crapper version of brixton

i think i will take a turn around camberwell in the new year and check out the flat.

 

[Streathamite]

BTW Jezza, isn't Harriet Harman the MP for most of the area

atchers, I think the constituency boundaties split camberwell in half, so you get the choice of 2 equally useless, worthless blairite muppets (god, is harman ever an arse)

 

[PacificOcean]

Well obviously London as a whole is quite large, but actually the part of south London under discussion here isn't particularly large in terms of walking distances... eg walking from Peckham to Brixton via Camberwell is probably still less than the 2.5 mile walk editor was talking about.

Brixton to Peckham via Camberwell is 3.7 miles according to the AA route finder. I wouldn't walk that but then I am a lazy sod.

 

[Streathamite]

I used to walk two and a half miles to school every day and though nothing of it.

it's these young people.guv'nor, they don't know they're born. pampered, I tell ya, pampered, the lot of them!

 

[guinnessdrinker]

The Hermit's Cave (Camberwell Church Street) is ace. Real ale and lovely scruffy Bohemian atmosphere

seconded. one very good reason for max to move to sunny camberwell (although the mention of albany road suggest walworth, really, but then, that's even better).

 

[William of Walworth]

We are gooing to move there I like it

If you mean that square , you'll be just as near Walworth as Camberwell, and don't you forget it!!!

 

[William of Walworth]

One shop I've for a long time wanted to look into in Camberwell is Howard Bros., a few doors from the end of Coldharbour Lane. An old fashioned hardware/household goods shop, not a chain, looks worth investigating ...

 

[Principle]

Camberwells alright!! Lots of junkies around Camberwell though but i like it (my aunts there)

 

[Maggot]

but the general vibe i'm getting is that it is a bit of a smaller, crapper version of brixton

I prefer Camberwell to Brixton, because it is smaller, less hectic and you are less likely to get hassled on the street.

No one has mentioned Sophocles one of the best bakers in London, and Tadims: a lovely cheap Turkish cafe. Hermits Cave, Joiners and the Phoenix all great pubs. Etc is a good bargain shop.

Haven't tried the Dispensary yet, anyone been there?

 

[Maggot]

Now that Unsound are taking over the Red Star, Camberwell's gonna get even better!

 

[guinnessdrinker]

I prefer Camberwell to Brixton, because it is smaller, less hectic and you are less likely to get hassled on the street.

No one has mentioned Sophocles one of the best bakers in London, and Tadims: a lovely cheap Turkish cafe. Hermits Cave, Joiners and the Phoenix all great pubs. Etc is a good bargain shop.

Haven't tried the Dispensary yet, anyone been there?

some good points there (Sophocles, Tadim, and the beers of the Hermit, mmm....)

 

[spanglechick]

Bollocks. You walk from Euston to Selhurst then and tell me that everything is close together.

hold on a minute - i've found it hard to find the motivation to drive to selhurst on many occasions, and i live here - why in the name of civilisation would anyone walk?

re camberwell - i've done a couple of plays at the community theatre behind southwark town hall, so i've been there quite a lot, day to day over the last couple of years. I probably would live there, but it does feel slightly more dangerous than brixton, for some reason.

edit - just to reaffirm... Tadim's is very nice, and i quite like the castle (but then i like my pubs poncey)

 

[Pickman's model]

camberwell's alright! the large number of buses which pass through there mean that you can swiftly return to civilization at any time of day or night!

 

[guinnessdrinker]

edit - just to reaffirm... Tadim's is very nice, and i quite like the castle (but then i like my pubs poncey)

I don't know how it is now, but it wasn't always poncey, back in the days of the stirling castle (I'm that ancient)

 

[Maggot]

I probably would live there, but it does feel slightly more dangerous than brixton, for some reason.

The Maudsley?

 

[guinnessdrinker]

camberwell's alright! the large number of buses which pass through there mean that you can swiftly return to civilization at any time of day or night!

indeed, Walworth is only down the road.