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Wonder whats happened to old the old boys who used to play dominos in the Oglander all them years ago?
No doubt they have been "decanted/ethnically cleansed" to some far off concrete wilderness
 
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Wonder whats happened to old the old boys who used to play dominos in the Oglander all them years ago?
No doubt they have been "decanted/ethnically cleansed" to some far off concrete wilderness

dunno, but apparently ""Gentlemen are required not to commit a nuisiance against the walls" say the sign on the side of the oglander


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the brick brewery under the arches at Peckham station does great beer, not cheap bu they do saturday open house and you can chug samples of their output- the Peckham Pils is rather nice
 
Cant help it but think that as soon as some trendy fish wrappin like TO starts trumpeting about a place, its already fucked
Wish the Kings on the Rye was still open.............
Starts?

It's been going on years.
 
Talking of London's London Evening Standard, Peckham is London's next 'gaybourhood'. Make of that what you will.
 
Cant help it but think that as soon as some trendy fish wrappin like TO starts trumpeting about a place, its already fucked
Wish the Kings on the Rye was still open.............
ah yes, the good old days
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the expensive bakers on the bellend road is now an expensive burger eaterie at nights. I am pretty well travelled, but have fuck all idea what a cholla bun is
 
the new italian resturant on the bellend road is turning people away at the door each night and is booked solid by the look of things.

prices have gorn made here- we would not be able to live here is we hadnt got in 12 years ago - a 3 bed EoT is up for over a million

My peckham barbers despair

Oh and theres a hugh mural of a spitfire on the house end next to the Thai place
 
its been and gone now but if you went to Troy Town you couldnt have missed it. The green itself was part of an adjoining estate.

BTW Troy Town was featured on Robert Elms notes and queries a few months back, as to why its called Troy Town. A Troy Town can mean one of two things
a maze
a maze particularly created of low knee-height shrubs.

The consensus seemed to be that at some point before houses were built on it there was such a maze, and it would have stood directly opposite from the Lido (and before there was a lido there there was a naturally occurring pond on that site) and where Troy Town road runs .
 
I went to the cinema there today which is very affordable, £4.99 for a movie. The peckamplex is nothing as fancy as the ritzy but it's serviceable and is affordable for all.

We then had some tapas in Miss Tapas which is down the street where the market is...tiny place, really delicious and not expensive.

General vibe in Peckham was like Brixton circa 2001.

Apart from the hipster, trendy joints which are everywhere in london now, Peckham still feels real and still has it's original community. Most of the original local shops are still present along the high street and it felt easy walking around. I'll definitely be spending more time here.
 
I went to the cinema there today which is very affordable, £4.99 for a movie. The peckamplex is nothing as fancy as the ritzy but it's serviceable and is affordable for all.

We then had some tapas in Miss Tapas which is down the street where the market is...tiny place, really delicious and not expensive.

General vibe in Peckham was like Brixton circa 2001.

Apart from the hipster, trendy joints which are everywhere in london now, Peckham still feels real and still has it's original community. Most of the original local shops are still present along the high street and it felt easy walking around. I'll definitely be spending more time here.
It just felt refreshing to be able to walk past rows of normal shops and not feel like the entire place was aimed at servicing the middle class/hipster/well off tourist demographic. Sure, gentrification is taking a grip there, but as you say, it feels a long, long way behind where Brixton is at now.
 
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