Bromley Area News and Gossip

[Treacle Toes]

The swimming pond has re-opened. What the hell is the point of the inflatable waist floats though?

In a local group it has been suggest that it is proof that you have paid.

 

[gaijingirl]

Tow floats are usually to help you be more visible in the water and are a really good idea when sea swimming or anywhere there are boats etc. They're not meant to be buoyancy aids although they can help to a certain extent if you lose confidence. So I do wonder what the point is. When I went to BPP on opening day my daughter was required to wear one which I didn't mind as she's only 9 but I'm not sure why they'd make everyone wear one. It may well be to see who has paid and who hasn't.

 

[Maggot]

Question Time coming from Beckenham tomorrow.

 

[Maggot]

2 from my visit to Bromley today. There's now a Crystal Palace club shop in the Glades, which is handy.

Another plug for the superb Indian food shop in the Mall. Anything you could possibly want for cooking Indian and other dishes. Fresh veg and spices. It's called Best Price and is in between Iceland and Poundland and easy to miss.

 

[editor]

What awful people. Not so smart either as they're almost certainly going to get shopped.

Three sought after vulnerable boy robbed at knifepoint in Bromley

 

[ska invita]

Some seemingly unaligned individual/group has had a go at our local sitting MP

 

[bromley]

 

[ska invita]

Whenever theres heavy rains Beckenham gets a flood warning like this one above from the weekend, but it seems a long way off the river Beck or the Ravensbourne ever breaching their banks.

Someone posted this on Facebook
"In September 1968, after a week of heavy rain, the Ravensbourne burst its banks from Loampit Vale through Lewisham and all the way up to Beckenham.' "

In the comments it was suggested the rivers have been deepened since that time, and banks enforced, and to do it hasn't come close to flooding again since. Which im glad to hear as my home is right in one of the bits that always gets a flood warning. hopefully they're being either over cautious, or basing on historic precedent.

 

[ska invita]

I'm no Sparks expert. They have an enormous back catalogue and I don't know most of it. They had some huge hits around the same time as This Town, The Number One Song in Heaven is pretty good. Proper Moroder-style disco synths.



From their more recent stuff I like Good Morning.



They also teamed up with Franz Ferdinand to form FFS (geddit?) and some of that is worth checking out too.

Any chance this is one of the Sparks now?
Man's in Lewisham

 

[ska invita]

No I asked
Still let's pretend Yes
He does look like the guy on the tshirt

 

[ska invita]

Made it down to Cigarette Records in the mansion at Beckenham Place Park - absolutely excellent second hand record shop. Everything you want from a second hand shop, including a dog! Stock some new bits too

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"working class daddy lizard" made me chuckle...unfortunately the tune wasnt all that

being evicted by cunts




****** Record Shop being Evicted and Needs Your Help ******

We’ve been given 10 days to move 12,000 records.

And have 5 days left

Hi, I own/ run Cigarette Records in Beckenham Place mansion and I organise the “Party at the Mansion” Events.
We’re so shocked that after two and a half years as a tenant and sticking with our landlords through covid (we could have been in storage for less) we have been served an eviction notice by Beckeham Place Mansion Management, Copeland Park.
We’ve been given 6 weeks to vacate the building (30th September).
But we’ve only been given 10 days to remove 12,000 records from a shared storage space in the attic which we have to find storage outside of the building for.
We have communicated to the management why this is unlawful based on the Quiet Enjoyment clause of our contract which stipulates appropriate notice periods for works to be undertaken so as not to hinder the ability to run my business (I have explicitly expressed how and why this will hinder my ability to run my business).
The reply from Copeland Park to legal points about Quiet Enjoyment is that the original 28th August deadline stands.
Reason given is that they have had to consider how their business operates post Covid.
I’m confused how this only involves evicting me (no one else has been served notice).
I have always paid rent on time.
Disclosure there are some arrears from Covid around confusion with when and what I should pay because they offered some rent relief, all has been communicated by email and approved by the management.
How You can help

• Email, or Call Beckenham Place Mansion + Copeland Park to tell them how you feel about this situation.
• Email your local MP.
• Email Lewisham Council (they rent the property to Copeland Park)
• Let us know if you have a premises for us.

Covid was tough and the business still hasn’t recovered.
Just as we are starting to see an increase in business and starting to recover from Covid losses we are being evicted.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.

 

[Maggot]

Here's a film of West Wickham in the 1960s.

 

[Elpenor]

Thanks, will have a look later on. My memories are from the late 90s a friend lived there.

 

[Maggot]

This is what counts as excitement in Bromley. This person has been logging which car park spaces in the Bromley Sainsburys he has used.

 

[ska invita]

This is what counts as excitement in Bromley. This person has been logging which car park spaces in the Bromley Sainsburys he has used.

would you be up for going to a Beckenham Town FC game sometime Maggot?

 

[Maggot]

would you be up for going to a Beckenham Town FC game sometime Maggot?

Yes, I've missed live football and Selhurst Park. Let me know which game,

 

[Elpenor]

This is what counts as excitement in Bromley. This person has been logging which car park spaces in the Bromley Sainsburys he has used.

Wild by name, wild by nature!

 

[Maggot]

Emma Raducanu, the 18 year old who is currently doing very well at Wimbledon, is from Bromley.

Bromley teen extends Wimbledon 'holiday' as she wins again

A Bromley teenager has vowed to keep playing every point like it is her last after she extended her Wimbledon “holiday” into the weekend.

www.newsshopper.co.uk

 

[Callie]

Emma Raducanu, the 18 year old who is currently doing very well at Wimbledon, is from Bromley.

Bromley teen extends Wimbledon 'holiday' as she wins again

A Bromley teenager has vowed to keep playing every point like it is her last after she extended her Wimbledon “holiday” into the weekend.

www.newsshopper.co.uk

one commentator mentioned she used to go go karting in streatham and I was like "yeeerrrrrr sarf lahndun innit!!"

 

[ska invita]

Emma Raducanu, the 18 year old who is currently doing very well at Wimbledon, is from Bromley.

Bromley teen extends Wimbledon 'holiday' as she wins again

A Bromley teenager has vowed to keep playing every point like it is her last after she extended her Wimbledon “holiday” into the weekend.

www.newsshopper.co.uk

 

[Elpenor]

Same secondary school as Dina Asher-Smith

 

[hash tag]

Here's a film of West Wickham in the 1960s.

Yep saw that on the box (posted elsewhere). Have many, ahem, intimate memories from that area

 

[Ted Striker]

BROMLEY REPRESENT

 

[Ted Striker]

Here's a film of West Wickham in the 1960s.

(This is ace btw - I grew up in West Wickham, and my parents still live there - about 5 mins from the Swan pub!)

 

[hash tag]

Yep saw that on the box (posted elsewhere). Have many, ahem, intimate memories from that area

 

[ska invita]

 

[Elpenor]

I don't know the new constituency names but what was once Bromley and Chislehurst would go to Labour?

 

[ska invita]

I don't know the new constituency names but what was once Bromley and Chislehurst would go to Labour?

I don't really understand the question...
Seems that despite labour having a 40 point lead in London Bromley remains Tory

 

[Elpenor]

I thought the borough had 3 - Orpington, Beckenham (which show on that map as the Tory ones) and the one I’ve circled which is projected to be Labour. But perhaps there’s only 2 constituencies in Bromley now

 

[ska invita]

That red one looks like penge-Beckenham, but would be good to see a proper map