DeadManWalking
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Anyone any idea what they are doing on that bit of green on Camberwell new road by John Ruskin street opposite the Black Sheep? Boarding has gone up and tons of earth brought in.
Camberwell news and chitter-chatter
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Onket
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Housing.
I went to a meeting/consultation about the redevelopment of St Agnes Place a while back & there were people from Southwark there talking about that. Unsurprisingly it looks shite and they're cutting all the trees down (but they're planting new ones so apparently this makes it acceptable).
DeadManWalking
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That's a shame, I guess as there's another green down John Ruskin street that makes it ok.
Incidently I saw loads of trees being planted in Peckham yesterday
mango5
Endeavour era
That bit of green on Camberwell New Road was not very pleasant, and it is right next to Kennington Park. Do you have any idea what the new buildings will be like?
In other news, apparently Lucas Gardens has been 'saved' from sell-off (it's likely that the council buildings will go to the Arts college). And the Elephant Shopping Centre will be with us for longer than we thought.
In other news, apparently Lucas Gardens has been 'saved' from sell-off (it's likely that the council buildings will go to the Arts college). And the Elephant Shopping Centre will be with us for longer than we thought.
Onket
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I saw the plans and unsurprisingly they looked horrible. They had the minimum legal amount of Social Housing allowed too.
I preferred the green.
Also, I've had a quick google and I can't find anything about it. A very quick google though, mind.
Oh, and the Council have approved plans to redevelop the snooker hall site (pic below), and a meeting to discuss redevelopment of the United Reformed Church (on the corner of Grove Lane and Love Walk) is this evening.
That will be a sad day.
Spent some interesting times in that place. Grotty snooker halls are what South London used to be all about
DeadManWalking
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No nor could I
That will be a sad day.
Spent some interesting times in that place. Grotty snooker halls are what South London used to be all about
That snooker hall used to be one of the three cinemas in Camberwell - if only it could be returned to a cinema. Architecture looks a bit brutal but I guess its better than the run down appearance of the snooker hall.
According to this article - http://www.southwarknews.co.uk/00,news,15864,185,00.htm the snooker facilities will still take place in the basement
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
The Golden Grill is great. Haven't been there for ages, but used to be a good place to get after hours booze from.I ate in at the kebab place between the Buckle and Noodel City the other night. Highly recommended.
I only remember it as a snooker hall.
I can remember the old cinema at the junction of Cold Harbour Lane and Denmark Hill and even have vague recollections of going to see films there but then it closed and became 'Dicky Dirts' (at least thats how I think its spelt)
Where was the other one ? On the site of Butterfly walk ?
What a denim memory that is. I remember going there with my mum & dad so my mum could get dungarees.. Dicky dirts ruled.
Any way i belive that was the old empire music hall pre dicky dirts.
i think the Camberwell palace of varieties was on the spot of butterfly walk.
on the 1913 Ordanance survey map I count a total of 4 picture house's..
gaijingirl
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OMG - I had forgotten about Dicky Dirts - my dad used to take us there - for shirts of course....
Blimey MASSIVE blast from the past... 
The Regal is still there on Camberwell Road but now is the bingo place
This website - http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Camberwell.htm has further information on the Camberwell cinemas:
"A little later, in the great days of the cinema, there was plenty of choice, around Camberwell Green for the weekly or twice weekly night out at the pictures. Both the Empire and the Camberwell Palace changed from live entertainment to films. The Empire was rebuilt in 1939 as one of the popular Odeon cinemas, with seating for 2,470. Also on Denmark Hill, on the site of Kwiksave, there was the Golden Domes, later known as the Rex and then as the Essoldo. Across the road, on the site of the Post Office, was the Bijou, known to locals as the Bye Joe. The New Grand Hall Cinematograph Theatre in Camberwell New Road, opened in 1912, had seating for 840 people. The Coronet was a small cinema in Wells Way."
Angels and Gypsies tapas restaurant has opened in the Church Street Hotel - after 3+ years of promised opening its finally happened and it has been reviewed - see http://www.tehbus.com/2009/12/angels-and-gypsies-camberwell.html. Looks good - worth a visit to escape from turkey over Christmas
Yep although that first picture seems to me to be at the same location as well (unless I am missing something obvious)
Dj TAB
Mr Whippy
ref The Oberon, Camberwizzle Green...
Audio Sushi asked me to host NYE there this year, and for a while we were into the idea...
...A bit further down the line though, and having had a dig through the history of the place we felt it better not to be involved yet.
The company that has bought it is the same as runs the Dogstar in Brixton, hence the connection.
I may well do stuff there in the future, but will watch and see how they decide to run if first....
Audio Sushi asked me to host NYE there this year, and for a while we were into the idea...
...A bit further down the line though, and having had a dig through the history of the place we felt it better not to be involved yet.
The company that has bought it is the same as runs the Dogstar in Brixton, hence the connection.
I may well do stuff there in the future, but will watch and see how they decide to run if first....
corporate whore
oh, thought you were dead
Were they planning on getting it open for NYE? Place is boarded up now, and stripped down to the original frontage - it used to be The Tiger
Were they planning on getting it open for NYE? Place is boarded up now, and stripped down to the original frontage - it used to be The Tiger
yes when I walked by the other day I thought nye was a bit optimistics - it would be another few weeks' work at least to get it up to standard. This website - http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/63/6324/Oberon/Denmark_Hill - seems to suggest they had to do more than they originally planned
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