Camberwell news and chitter-chatter

[BoxRoom]

Anyone know what's going on on Coldharbour Lane? Just up from Sun and Doves it's cordoned off, sniffer dogs and a remarkable waft of TCP.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

No idea, but I've been told about an eatery that's really good in Camberwell. Angels and Gypsies. Shit name, great food apparently.

 

[Crispy]

Pricey. And you'll need to book on a friday/saturday.

 

[Guineveretoo]

I have eaten there a few times, and I do quite like it, but more because of the building and the weird name, than the food, which was okay, but nothing special. However, I am vegetarian, so my food choices were more limited than some.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

The person I know who went there had pumpkin and scotch bonnet peppers and said it was one of the best things they'd eaten, closely followed by the squid. I can't remember what else she said she'd eaten but about another 2 or 3 dishes. She ate and drank her fill for about £25 which she thought was good value as she's spent more in the past on very mediocre meals.

 

[corporate whore]

SE5 blue plaque nominations here:

http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/200160/blue_plaques/1553/blue_plaque_voting/2

The inventor of Bovril? Dame Muriel Spark? The ubiquitous Ruskin? Giant Haystacks!?

 

[mango5]

Anyone know a locksmith? A couple of neighbouring Urbz have locked themselves out.

 

[Onket]

The other week I went to the Greek place mentioned a page or so back. Average. Some of the stuff was quite nice, but other stuff, like the feta cheese that you'd expect them to get right, was terrible.

 

[ringo]

Anyone know about a fatality on Denmark Road in mid-August? Looks like it was outside the old Denmark pub under the bridge. from the yellow police signs.

There have been a few accidents there, and at least one youth killed in the time I've lived there. The kids crossing Denmark Road to get to Crawford Primary school face a huge risk. I walk my daughter to school and cross it daily and see not only idiot drivers charging up the road at high speed but quite a few kids under 10 walking to school unsupervised who aren't road aware enough to do it safely.

 

[golightly]

I notice that they are putting up a partition wall in the Post Office thus cutting the customer area in half. I'm not convinced that it will improve what is possibly one the most depressing Post Offices I have ever been to.

 

[mango5]

Camberwell Post Office is a depressing shit hole

 

[Maggot]

I haven't been to Camberwell Post Office for years, but the memory still haunts me.

 

[golightly]

There's something Soviet about the bleak, brutalist architecture and the bleak brutalised staff.

 

[teuchter]

*subscribes to thread*

All going to plan, I will be moving to Loughborough Junction in a few months' time. I will be right on the SE24/SE5 border.

Has the geographical scope of the Camberwell chitter-chatter thread been defined or debated yet?

 

[Crispy]

Loughborough Junction is just the name of the railway station. If you're West of it = Brixton. East of it = Camberwell, IMO.

 

[fogbat]

I'd prefer that teuchter stuck to Brixton. Cheers.

 

[teuchter]

I'd prefer that teuchter stuck to Brixton. Cheers.

I feel that Camberwell will benefit greatly from my input.

Crispy, your definition seems reasonable although I would argue that Loughborough Junction can be recognised as a neighbourhood as well as a station. As for the east/west thing do I just draw a straight line north/south through the station? Or perhaps the Thameslink line forms a natural border.

 

[teuchter]

Oh and what is the Cambria like? It seems to be the only pub still alive round there but from peering in the windows it seems to have had the standard gastropub patterned wallpaper/random chandeliers makeover quite recently.

 

[Crispy]

I think Loughborough Road and Myatts Park make a better boundary, cos the railway line curves in closer to the green. The Cambria is your standard poshed-up pub. There's the Sun & Doves closer to Camberwell, which is similar. The 'spoons the other side of Ruskin Park is absolutely massive range of people and spaces. Would be my favorite pub in the area if it wasn't up the hill

 

[teuchter]

I'm more interested in the bit south of Coldharbour Lane.

 

[Crispy]

South of CHL is either Kings hospital or a handful of little roads backing onto Ruskin Park. The Cambria is all there is.
There's the Robin Hood on the estate the other side of CHL, but it's Extra Cold lager or nothing. Pool tables though.

 

[teuchter]

I actually meant I'm more interested in defining the brixton/camberwell boundary south of CHL.

 

[Crispy]

Oh. Well, Shakespeare Road is in Brixton, Mirkwood Road is just industrial/railway nowhereland, and then you're past the railway into Camberwell. Camberwell south of CHL is mostly Kings and the Park anyway. After that it's Herne Hill.

 

[Kaye]

I think Loughborough Road and Myatts Park make a better boundary, cos the railway line curves in closer to the green. The Cambria is your standard poshed-up pub. There's the Sun & Doves closer to Camberwell, which is similar. The 'spoons the other side of Ruskin Park is absolutely massive range of people and spaces. Would be my favorite pub in the area if it wasn't up the hill

It's horrible though - especially the food. Not impressed with the hygiene at all. The Sun and Doves is expensive!

 

[Kaye]

Oh, and I like to eat in the Love Walk Cafe because they never scrimp on the portions.

 

[Crispy]

Yeah, but who goes to a spoons to eat?!
The beer is cheap and varied, there's no music, and there's loads of space, indoor and outdoor. Good pub

 

[Maggot]

I think Loughborough Road and Myatts Park make a better boundary, cos the railway line curves in closer to the green. The Cambria is your standard poshed-up pub.

I really like the Cambria. I can't vouch for the food cos I haven't eaten in there, but have always enjoyed the atmosphere when i'v epopped in for a drink. Friendly staff and decent ales.

I used to live opposite it and above it in the 90s. When I first moved there it was a 3 old men and a dog type of place. Has also benefitted from the closure of all the pubs on the stretch of Coldharbour Lane nearby.

 

[teuchter]

I really like the Cambria. I can't vouch for the food cos I haven't eaten in there, but have always enjoyed the atmosphere when i'v epopped in for a drink. Friendly staff and decent ales.

Is this fairly recently (because it looks like it's quite newly done up)? If so, this is encouraging news!

 

[Maggot]

Is this fairly recently (because it looks like it's quite newly done up)? If so, this is encouraging news!

I was last in there about 6 months ago. It was like your description (chandeliers, wallpaper etc) then.

Why don't you give it a try?

 

[teuchter]

I shall do soon.