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We've talked about the bunker site on this thread before, I am sure.
It's now a nice little garden. A bit scruffy and a refreshing change from most new 'green spaces' which seem to be largely troughs and concrete (like the bit behind the library).

mango5 said:
I've probably posted this before, but did you know Camberwell is home to Southwark Council's abandoned nuclear bunker? iirc boohoo told me about it years ago

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There's a new mobile refill/no packaging shop visiting Camberwell, Brixton, Peckham and surrounding areas.
Not cheap, though they appear to sell posh tea bags individually. As well as selling food staples and cleaning products, they also sell locally produced baked goods.

I've not tried it yet but may well be worth a look and worth supporting. It will be around St Giles Road, Benhill Road and Addington Square this Thursday. You can see all the planned locations here Appointments 1 — THE FLOAT
 
mango5 said:
There's a new mobile refill/no packaging shop visiting Camberwell, Brixton, Peckham and surrounding areas.
Not cheap, though they appear to sell posh tea bags individually. As well as selling food staples and cleaning products, they also sell locally produced baked goods.

I've not tried it yet but may well be worth a look and worth supporting. It will be around St Giles Road, Benhill Road and Addington Square this Thursday. You can see all the planned locations here Appointments 1 — THE FLOAT
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That's an interesting idea and better than the model where you have to travel to get your heavy bulk stuff, which potentially results in people driving instead of just going to their local shop.
 
Got this via my local scout group
New Musical Mural for Camberwell

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Welcome to the sounds of Camberwell! The Peckham Road entrance to Camberwell has a new piano keyboard mural on the wall of 36 Peckham Road mural, inspired by the history of the Piano Factory building.
A QR code will be added to the mural soon, which will take you to a short history of music in Camberwell, playing clips including the Basement Jaxx track I live in Camberwell and Mendelssohn’s Spring Song (also known as Camberwell Green because he composed it while staying there in 1833).

The mural was painted by artist Lionel Stanhope after consultation with Piano Factory residents and the 23rd Camberwell Scouts group. It was funded through a crowdfunding campaign which raised over £1000 and the balance of £500 was donated by the Camberwell Society.

The 23rd Camberwell Scouts group tweeted about the new mural:
“We played a part it this! We joined @CamberwellArts, @lionel_stanhope & @SE5Forum on a Zoom call to discuss art within our area and gave our thoughts and suggestions towards this piece of work. And we love it!"

Kelly Blaney, chair of the Camberwell Identity group which organised the crowdfunding campaign, said: “Camberwell Murals is part of building the buzz around Camberwell. Encouraging people to explore more of our diverse area and attract new customers for our local businesses.”

Camberwell Murals is part of the Camberwell Identity project by SE5 Forum, Camberwell Society and Camberwell Arts with the local community and businesses. The aim of these murals is to highlight Camberwell’s unique identity and make everyone feel proud of it. The Identity Group has already successfully installed three murals: one on the Camberwell New Road entrance to Camberwell, one at Denmark Hill station, and one on Wren Road at Butterfly Walk.

The Piano Factory was constructed at the turn of the last century, used as an ammunition factory during World War 1 before becoming a Piano factory. It kept the name when it was converted into apartments in the 1990s.
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'3D' photogrammetry capture of Southwark Borough Control bunker
3240 photos taken in May 2021 with a Sony a6000 and processed in Reality Capture. Bunker was pitch black so 7 LED camping lights and one LED diffuse panel were used for lighting.
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The artist (David Fletcher) reported "there are no working lights and most of the bunker is flooded in several inches of stagnant water ... apart from the bathrooms which are full of 6 inches of horrendous sludge"
 
Tomorrow Wednesday 16th June the cops are hosting a free 'bike marking event' at the back of the library outside Camberwell Magistrates Court from 1-4pm.

Also this at the Remakery next week
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Next Monday at 6.30pm, Southwark Council is live-streaming its planning committee's meeting on the Butterfly Walk redevelopment plan on its YouTube channel. The plans have been changed a bit but I haven't kept up with the changes (did not realise it's called Camberwell Lanes ). I am surprised that a cinema and a hotel are still considered to be profitable ideas but guess that there are some assumption that these will benefit the wider local economy.

Council officers are recommending that planning permission is granted. All the comments and documents are available on the planning application portal.
 
I've never had that Tweeter's experience with people begging outside Morrisson's and I usually walk through the car park. Most of the folk begging on Denmark Hill are regular characters who have been around for years, largely unthreatening ime. Nasty account. I wonder what prompted them to start it.
 
greetings, camberwell urbanites

mum-tat has a minor operation (cataract) booked at kings college hospital on saturday week.

we are contemplating options for getting there and back (she lives somewhere between lewisham and eltham.) i will drive over friday night from the berkshire region, but seeing that there's no parking on the hospital site now, we were wondering if it might be simpler to go there on the bus (appointment is early afternoon), then i can go with her to the door of the right building rather than turfing her out and driving off, then having to find somewhere to park for an unknown amount of time and so on in reverse, but then get a cab back to her place.

i can probably cope with having a mooch round, and going and seeing what rat records have got.

anyone know what the arrangement is with mini cabs there? do hospitals still have a deal with a particular minicab firm? (i suspect the dedicated phone on the wall went out with spread of mobile phones) is there a 'black cab' rank? or any recommendations for a decent mini cab firm near there? (there's a firm mum-tat uses occasionally round her part of the world, but there's no way of knowing what time we'll get away so probably simpler to get one that's local rather than try and book one from the other side of lewisham.)

(can you tell i've been a bus person for most of my working life? i can't remember the last time i used a taxi / minicab anywhere...)
 
For similar reasons as you, I'm no good on minicab knowledge, hardly ever use taxis. Of course many people now just default to Uber.

Don't forget Denmark hill station is right next to the hospital and has direct trains to Lewisham and Eltham. May not be much good to you if you want transport door to door though.
 
teuchter said:
For similar reasons as you, I'm no good on minicab knowledge, hardly ever use taxis. Of course many people now just default to Uber.

Don't forget Denmark hill station is right next to the hospital and has direct trains to Lewisham and Eltham. May not be much good to you if you want transport door to door though.
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thanks. inclined to think cab of some sort home after the event, but get there by bus or possibly train.

local station and denmark hill station might be just a little bit too far for her to walk comfortably (although looks like the bit of KCH we need to get to is at the denmark hill end of the hospital site) and local station at her end is on the sidcup line, so would mean changing at lewisham

you posted a picture fairly recently of denmark hill station that looked like a building site - is it still like that? from memory (must be a few years since i used the station) the bridge with lifts was towards the east end of the platforms.

i don't really want to touch uber with the proverbial, and i try to avoid these fancy modern 'app' thingies...
 
There is a phone in the waiting area but last time I was there I didn’t work. It’s not the most pleasant waiting area when I was there at 4am sat morning . I used Gett or you could use Uber.
I was in the Childrens dept but had to go and sit with the adult chaos waiting for a cab. I preferred to wait on the street!!
 
www.sd-structures.com

Camberwell Lanes Development - SD Structures

Proposed 25,000m2 mixed use development in Camberwell, Southwark set over 3 phases: Block A – building a hotel/ residential over the existing shopping centre; Block B – new build residential and Cinema over existing supermarket; Block C – 12 storey RC new build residential tower. Block A – A...
www.sd-structures.com www.sd-structures.com

I think everyone agrees that Camberwell needs a tidy up - is this the right way to go about it? Maybe. I do feel sorry for people living nearby, with proposed night builds.
 
Puddy_Tat said:
thanks. inclined to think cab of some sort home after the event, but get there by bus or possibly train.

local station and denmark hill station might be just a little bit too far for her to walk comfortably (although looks like the bit of KCH we need to get to is at the denmark hill end of the hospital site) and local station at her end is on the sidcup line, so would mean changing at lewisham

you posted a picture fairly recently of denmark hill station that looked like a building site - is it still like that? from memory (must be a few years since i used the station) the bridge with lifts was towards the east end of the platforms.

i don't really want to touch uber with the proverbial, and i try to avoid these fancy modern 'app' thingies...
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They are still building the new bits at Denmark hill station yes, but it doesn't really affect the existing access. As you say, the bridge with lifts is towards the east end, and there's level access from the ticket hall to there.
 
Puddy_Tat You can park at my place, about 12 mins walk from the hospital if that's any help. I have vouchers for street parking but only near Brunswick park.

Unfortunately the buses from Peckham Road don't go to the hospital main entrance (least worst option is 345 to Coldharbour Lane) but there's an easy interchange by Butterfly Walk to go up the hill.
 
hungry_squirrel said:
www.sd-structures.com

Camberwell Lanes Development - SD Structures

Proposed 25,000m2 mixed use development in Camberwell, Southwark set over 3 phases: Block A – building a hotel/ residential over the existing shopping centre; Block B – new build residential and Cinema over existing supermarket; Block C – 12 storey RC new build residential tower. Block A – A...
www.sd-structures.com www.sd-structures.com

I think everyone agrees that Camberwell needs a tidy up - is this the right way to go about it? Maybe. I do feel sorry for people living nearby, with proposed night builds.
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It's depressing how all these new builds look pretty much exactly the same

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