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Would you live in Peckham?

it's off queens road, no? between the dodgy flats on sticks (aylesbury estate?) and queens road train station.
which other people are saying is not as good as the bellenden road area (although there is an amazing fish and chip shop round the back of the estate :))
 
that's the woodene estate, aylesbury is in walworth. I wouldn't chose to live round that way tbh liberty, but that's just by going on the impression I get going round that way, not any cold hard facts.
 
ah yes, woodene... i only walked past it for two years, how could i forget? perhaps i'd erased it from memory because shortly before we moved in across the road a boy was raped at knife point and just after i moved out someone was shot in the community centre whilst holding a baby...so yeah, not the nicest of places liberty!
 
and I believe there's a lot of troubles on meeting house lane, can't remember what I read in the SLP though, but it's not the best of areas.
 
meeting house lane runs behind the woodene estate so that would make sense, but it also has the police station on the corner so the boys in blue arent far if you need em :)

but there is also a very interesting turkish coffee shop round there that only sells weed and hash, not even coffee :confused:
 
yeah but be careful cos the police can never bust the cafe so they bust people who have just come out... i had to go and prize my then boyfriend and two housemates of the time out of the long arm of the law after they were caught being naughty!
i remember the hilarious conversation i had with one PC
Me: " is my boyfriend here?"
PC: "what makes you think that?"
Me: "cos he was supposed to cook me dinner and went missing on the way home from the shops"
PC: "well yes he's here and he's been a rather naughty boy"
:D
 
foamy said:
yeah but be careful cos the police can never bust the cafe so they bust people who have just come out... i had to go and prize my then boyfriend and two housemates of the time out of the long arm of the law after they were caught being naughty!
i remember the hilarious conversation i had with one PC
Me: " is my boyfriend here?"
PC: "what makes you think that?"
Me: "cos he was supposed to cook me dinner and went missing on the way home from the shops"
PC: "well yes he's here and he's been a rather naughty boy"
:D
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that made me chuckle! I've abandoned my idea :D
 
gracious said:
oh yeah, and since they are bringing in the tube (2016)
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Source??? </sceptical>

You weren't thinking abut the notion that got a bit of publicity a little while back, to bring a TRAM link to Peckham were you?

The suggested route was from Elephant via Walworth :cool: as part of the mooted general North - South tram scheme, involving a rumoured branch of the tramline to Brixton.

I'm a bit sceptical that any of that will ever happen either.

and demolishing all the estates
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ALL the estates??

And is that a good thing? There's politics there to be looked at you know!!

(I'm a Southwark tenant).
 
Thanks William we are going round with a builder tomorrow so I will let you know...

I'm going off the idea of Peckham at a rapid rate
 
liberty said:
Thanks William we are going round with a builder tomorrow so I will let you know...

I'm going off the idea of Peckham at a rapid rate
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It really, really depends where you are. The Bellenden Road area is very nice and you can go East Dulwich-wards and not even know you're in Peckham. And you get more for your cash.

To be honest, I last lived in the area nearly 20 years ago and it really hasn't changed very much at all in that time. But then neither has Camberwell from what I can see either.

Don't give up on the house Liberty - I reckon it could all come good :)
 
Reminds me of "Porkpie" - the spin off from Desmonds (which you can go and visit when you move to Peckham on Bellenden Road) - Porkpie wins the lottery and so he moves to Goose Green (the nicest bit of Peckham) -

guess you has to be/live there...
 
ALL the estates??
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dunno if its all of them, but the north peckham estate has already gone hasnt it? and good bloomin riddance...

if you wanna live in a place like that, may i suggest you move to beirut?
 
trashpony said:
It really, really depends where you are. The Bellenden Road area is very nice and you can go East Dulwich-wards and not even know you're in Peckham.
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Another vote for this part of Peckham... it's really nice :)
 
I really like Peckham! My boyfriend lives there and we recently discovered Bellenden Road (and more specifically, Review books!), so we're very happy!! Also, has anyone been to Ganapati's, on Holly Grove? It's my new favourite restaurant!
 
Yeah, one ex lives pretty much opposite it, ate there a couple of times, wasn't that impressed to be honest.. maybe it's got better!
 
I've been there once but my bf has been 3 times in the last 10 days... When I went we had lots of different starters rather than a main dish. Apparently there is some chocolate and cardamon thing that is really nice (and being a chocaholic, I just HAVE to try it!!)... shame you didn't like it, though yes, maybe it's got better.
 
hatz said:
Also, has anyone been to Ganapati's, on Holly Grove? It's my new favourite restaurant!
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went there once a while back, got told it was full at the mo but if we left our number they'd phone us back.. we did.. left for a drink (bar story).. waited... no call... ended up going to Il Giardino on Blenheim Grove. Come midnight when we left the italian, they still hadnt rang.. I'd have been one hungry pissed off boy if I'd waited :rolleyes:

anyway.. will go back and try it one day...
 
Blimey... just as well you went somewhere else then!!

There's a pub/restaurant opposite Review on Bellenden Rd which looks quite good (can't remember the name of it) - has anyone been and is it any good? Thinking of going out tonight for birthday meal (yay!)
 
the peckham experiment?

dunno, its changed hands again really recently and they seem to have covered the front of it in a dirty great big plastic bag... kind of lowers the tone.

last time i went there it was average (at best) french food.

if i was you i'd stick to il giardinos or head to lordship lane
 
i went to the peckham experiment with my g/f the other week (well about 3 months back actually)... we walked it and sat down (at a messy table) .. the guy who was walking around didnt even say hi... we waited for the guy to clean our table and give us a menu...

it took him a good 5 minutes to (grumpily) acknowledge us then another 5 to give us a menu... didnt ask us what we wanted for drinks... didnt clean the table..

there was barely anyone in there, a couple indoors and a small group outdoors.... we noticed a couple come in from outside and say 'we're ready to order now' .. he said 'i'll be out in a minute'.....

a good 15 minutes after we had walked in he had neither cleaned our table or asked us what we wanted to drink... the couple came in again about 5/10 minutes after the first time to say they were (still) ready to order.

so.. 20-odd minutes after we had walked in, sat down, decided what we wanted to drink and eat and read half a paper... we said 'fuck this' and got up and left. :mad:

We then went to the greasy spoon accross the road and had a very decent fry up. nice.

Shockingly enough, new management or no, I wont be rushing back to PE in a hurry.. :rolleyes:
 
Fact of the matter is, that if you attempt to drive through Peckham and take a wrong turn, you have to live there. It'll take you the rest of your life to work out the endlessly changing network of one way roads. The amount of times I've gotten myself lost there....... :mad: !!
 
twister said:
i went to the peckham experiment with my g/f the other week (well about 3 months back actually)... we walked it and sat down (at a messy table) .. the guy who was walking around didnt even say hi... we waited for the guy to clean our table and give us a menu...

it took him a good 5 minutes to (grumpily) acknowledge us then another 5 to give us a menu... didnt ask us what we wanted for drinks... didnt clean the table..

there was barely anyone in there, a couple indoors and a small group outdoors.... we noticed a couple come in from outside and say 'we're ready to order now' .. he said 'i'll be out in a minute'.....

a good 15 minutes after we had walked in he had neither cleaned our table or asked us what we wanted to drink... the couple came in again about 5/10 minutes after the first time to say they were (still) ready to order.

so.. 20-odd minutes after we had walked in, sat down, decided what we wanted to drink and eat and read half a paper... we said 'fuck this' and got up and left. :mad:

We then went to the greasy spoon accross the road and had a very decent fry up. nice.

Shockingly enough, new management or no, I wont be rushing back to PE in a hurry.. :rolleyes:
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That really is shocking, in so many ways!!! :eek: :(
 
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