Lewisham Neighbourhoods Chitter Chatter

[bromley]

Next time you're in Dirty South, wave at the highrise block opposite, and I'll be sure and wave back.

Did you see a guy who looks like Guile from Street Fighter doing poi with funny glow stick/lightsabres last Saturday? If so that was my mate Table!


My gripe with Surrey Canal station is that there are other stations a 10-15 minute walk away, it does seem to benefit Millwall FC a lot, who have previously received help in 1993 from the council with financing the building of their new ground, despite it being in the Southwark borough.

I'll probably attend the people's festival as;
A) It's free
B) I'm tight.

 

[softybabe]

Who's coming to Peoples Day this Saturday? Line up looking good this year,
The Beat
and Katrina (minus her waves tho)

my sis and niece.....and ME! if I can muster enough strenght after an early morning trip to central London ....'tis only about 10 walk away

 

[porno thieving gypsy]

Who's coming to Peoples Day this Saturday? Line up looking good this year,
The Beat
and Katrina (minus her waves tho)

Yep

 

[Melinda]

I will.....yippee

leave you knives at home though-last year they had metal scanners at entrances to Mountsfield park

pmsl!

A shank could come in handy when the wastemen crews from Peckham, Croydon and New Cross turn up and start coveting our wifeys/ trainers/ open spaces...

 

[clicker]

I'll be there...mirror in the bathroom...gotta be done!

They have fenced off all the overgrown edges today....and the wildflower garden is all fenced off...last year rumours were rife that knives had been hidden in the undergrowth the day before the event, to be unhidden at the event......so this year we have no undergrowth.

The Deptford arts centre ( i think) have drawn and stencilled fab design up the hill from the brownhill road entrance.....showing the Thames and it's bends and twists, with various bits pointed out.....very colourful and I love the stencilled rugs that have been put in front of all the benches up the hill....dont know if they have done all the park.....really very good.

The bands look a good mix this year. The weather will be corking...last entrance at 6.30pm tho...ends at 8pm as usual.

 

[Maggot]

A friend of mine works at a gym in Lewisham and the had all the American WWE wrestlers training there recently, whilst they were performing at the O2. Wonder what they made of Lewisham?

 

[bromley]

A friend of mine works at a gym in Lewisham and the had all the American WWE wrestlers training there recently, whilst they were performing at the O2. Wonder what they made of Lewisham?

Cool, I enjoy wrestling (Although it's been pretty poor since 2001). Which gym did they use, fitness first above the old yates?

Some of them come from quite deprived backgrounds so I doubt it would have been that shocking, they would have been a bit disappointed though!

 

[Maggot]

Cool, I enjoy wrestling (Although it's been pretty poor since 2001). Which gym did they use, fitness first above the old yates?

It was Lucky's Gym just off Lee High Road.

 

[Melinda]

I'll be there...mirror in the bathroom...gotta be done!

They have fenced off all the overgrown edges today....and the wildflower garden is all fenced off...last year rumours were rife that knives had been hidden in the undergrowth the day before the event, to be unhidden at the event......so this year we have no undergrowth.

The Deptford arts centre ( i think) have drawn and stencilled fab design up the hill from the brownhill road entrance.....showing the Thames and it's bends and twists, with various bits pointed out.....very colourful and I love the stencilled rugs that have been put in front of all the benches up the hill....dont know if they have done all the park.....really very good.

The bands look a good mix this year. The weather will be corking...last entrance at 6.30pm tho...ends at 8pm as usual.

Its going to be HEAVING, people are coming from all over. Are you allowed to take drinks in?

How is it funded?

 

[clicker]

Its going to be HEAVING, people are coming from all over. Are you allowed to take drinks in?

How is it funded?

They'll be checking your bags pretty well at the gates and giving you a quick once over with the friendly metal detector....just so you know you're going to a real class do....

they won't allow glass bottles in, but drinks in plastic bottles are fine and they don't say no alcohol...at least they didnt last year...even if you bring glass bottles you can pour them into plastic glasses at the gates.....

it looks set to be better prepared than years before......just been through the park and a lot more is fenced off than before, including the main arena....the thinking behind it must be it is easier to control.....I hope in the heat expected people dont get trapped where they dont want to be in a big crowd...should be a perfect day for it.

The Beat are on the main stage at 6.50pm....

I think my councul tax funds it...please enjoy!

 

[softybabe]

It was Lucky's Gym just off Lee High Road.

My son used to go there until a week ago when he decided it was too small for his needs

 

[dynamicbaddog]

Looks like we might be closing 5 libraries (amongst other things)
There's an anti -cuts lobby outside the town hall this Wednesday (14th)

 

[Mr Blob]

I live just by Surrey Canal Rd and I'm not keen. Don't fancy having to put up with all the disruption it would cause while they are building it, and we are already only a short walk away from existing stations.
Been looking closely at that photo of them people standing protesting with Ruddock under the blue bridge on Surrey Canal Rd and I don't see any local residents among them

local projects are often quoted as benefiting the whole local area, whilst those in the immediate vicinity are inconvenienced

 

[Mr Blob]

What do people think of Ladywell pools? it will eventually close and get replaced when a proposed town centre redevelopment gets done- north side by the bus station. An earlier closure plan just after opening got aborted when locals thought it was ludicrous so soon- and Labour lost three councillors to the Greens in 2006 there

 

[dynamicbaddog]

local projects are often quoted as benefiting the whole local area, whilst those in the immediate vicinity are inconvenienced

Yesterday there was a man on Bridge House Meadows with a clipboard and a diagram
He explained to me that the extension is going to be built right on the footpath that goes past my estate (Winslade)at the end of the year

 

[dynamicbaddog]

What do people think of Ladywell pools? it will eventually close and get replaced when a proposed town centre redevelopment gets done- north side by the bus station. An earlier closure plan just after opening got aborted when locals thought it was ludicrous so soon- and Labour lost three councillors to the Greens in 2006 there

Tragic how they have fucked with Ladywell pools over the years. Upstairs they used to have the most fantastic turkish bath/sauna but they closed it in 2002.

 

[Mr Blob]

Tragic how they have fucked with Ladywell pools over the years. Upstairs they used to have the most fantastic turkish bath/sauna but they closed it in 2002.

I agree- the council made a mess of it

 

[clicker]

The upstairs spectators gallery is the new turkish bath....the heat up there is ludicrous, and that was in March/April of this year.....and what was the story with the flume....now you see it, now you don't...possibly health and safety....but the novelty of seeing it sticking out of the back of the building was amusing.
Hopefully the new pool will be better, altho the current one suits us....what is being built where it is now then?

 

[oryx]

Looks like we might be closing 5 libraries (amongst other things)

The cuts proposed by Lewisham have been the subject of interest in the local press and local websites. There seem to be proposed cuts in what I'd call very front-line services, e.g. children's social care, meals on wheels.

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/l...Mayor_admits_council_cuts_will_be__shocking_/

(sorry to post link to a pile of cack like the News Shopper, but it gives a run-down of the proposed cuts).

I hope we get a broad-based anti-cuts campaign going in the borough.

Meanwhile, there are comments on local websites that the Mayor's office should be the first thing to go!

 

[dynamicbaddog]

There's an anti cut campaigning group - Community Action Lewisham
Here's their facebook page
http://bit.ly/9LDX9F
and on twitter -
http://twitter.com/CActionLewisham

 

[oryx]

Cheers

 

[hipipol]

How was the Poeples day out?
I meant to make it but well bad hangover meant standing in open felt like my head was going bust open in the heat.......

I am v feeble

 

[dynamicbaddog]

How was the Poeples day out?
I meant to make it but well bad hangover meant standing in open felt like my head was going bust open in the heat.......

I am v feeble

I was teh feeble too. Cycled there but when I got to the entrance & saw the massive queue I turned back

 

[clicker]

People's Day was very good....I've probably been to nearly all of them, and this was the first one where I saw no hint of trouble...and never sensed it....it had a perfect hot, summer's day vibe.....waited until there was no queue at the gate about 5pm ish....nowhere near as many police as previous years visible, no dogs and no screaming girlies at the gate pulling each others hair out....result.

The Beat were not on long, or so it seemed....have put some pics up on the JULY 2010 phot thread in the photography bit here.....good crowd...bars stopped serving beer at 7pm...but we brought in plastic bottles of boze no probs.....music unplugged sharpish at 8pm and the whole place packed up in record time.... the corn on the cob was traditionally good and the fruit salad man must have made a mint.....it really gets better every year.

They left the park gates open and as it was a sweltering evening people lingered until late....11pm bods still coming out of the park....a good time was 'ad by all.

 

[dynamicbaddog]

according to a leaflet that came today they are gonna turn Surrey Canal Rd into a 'regional and local centre for sporting excellence'
http://www.surreycanal.com/
the leaflet also implies that the building of a new station there is a done deal....

 

[ska invita]

- Close one of four early childhood centres out of Rushey Green, Honor Oak, Amersham and Ladywell. This, along with decreased budgets for the remaining three, could save up to £2,180,000 over three years.

i presume this is sure start? i heard that all lewisham borough sure starts are to be offered to the private sector - any not taken up will be shut - is that true?

5 library closures is horrible

 

[Melinda]

My gripe with Surrey Canal station is that there are other stations a 10-15 minute walk away, it does seem to benefit Millwall FC a lot, who have previously received help in 1993 from the council with financing the building of their new ground, despite it being in the Southwark borough.

I had quite a long chat with one of the head honchos of Renewal who were at People's Day in force and the chief architect. The development is much higher density than I had realised and completely ugly- most of the offered social housing will be high rise accommodation.

Neither of them live in the area- the closest living in Blackheath, and they dont think the Lewisham Gateway development fuckups will affect the way locals perceive this project. Renewal will be going for outlying planning consent in the autumn.

Apparently apart from expanding the facilities at New Den, there will be lots of other sporting goodies on offer and the aim is absolutely not to price locals out of the newly gentrified neighbourhood. All the buildings coloured orange are to offer sporting facilities.

 

[ska invita]

Apparently apart from expanding the facilities at New Den, there will be lots of other sporting goodies on offer and the aim is absolutely not to price locals out of the newly gentrified neighbourhood. All the buildings coloured orange are to offer sporting facilities.

You are still talking about that area round the New Den right? I dont think this development would be enough to gentrify it...

i like the look of the new trees theyve got planned!

 

[IMR]

I had quite a long chat with one of the head honchos of Renewal who were at People's Day in force and the chief architect. The development is much higher density than I had realised and completely ugly- most of the offered social housing will be high rise accommodation.

Neither of them live in the area- the closest living in Blackheath, and they dont think the Lewisham Gateway development fuckups will affect the way locals perceive this project.

 

[Melinda]

People's Day was very good....I've probably been to nearly all of them, and this was the first one where I saw no hint of trouble...and never sensed it....it had a perfect hot, summer's day vibe.....waited until there was no queue at the gate about 5pm ish....nowhere near as many police as previous years visible, no dogs and no screaming girlies at the gate pulling each others hair out....result.

I havent been in a looooong time, and I really enjoyed it, possibly because I didnt queue! It helps to know the park so well!

Any one see the guy in the long white suit jacket demanding dances from ladies? Or even better the Elvis fans dressed in their finest 70s polyester?

They gave me my biggest laughs of the day- they gathered right at the front to dance to Katrina and were grooving away attracting a lot of attention (properly funny!).



I turn around and the next minute they were up on stage next to Katrina- fair enough it explained the costumes and the wild dancing.

But then Katrina nervously asked them who they were- THEY WEREN'T PART OF THE ACT, they were just Lewisham freaky deak Elvis fans who had blagged their way onto the stage. Katrina carried on singing! Although she did announce she was about 10 minutes from the end of her career!




Learning the walking on sunshine dance with Laban Dance group.