Streatham chitter chatter thread

[lang rabbie]

Tate mansion, Streatham Hill?

I assume marty21 meant to say "the hill at the top of Streatham Common"

 

[marty21]

I remember Sister Rose. Went on a couple of guided tours of Park Hill before the order had to sell up. They used to conclude with tea and Mr Kipling cakes served in the room that had once been Henry Tate's billiard room.

I went a few times, I liked the ruined castle folly in the gardens, and the grottos! When Tate died, his family didn't want to sell the mansion to a religious order, so the nuns who did the negotiations didn't wear their habits , they didn't say they weren't nuns, or say that they were, I guess they weren't asked the right questions

Peg (or Sister Rose) lives in Brighton now. They made a fair bit of money on the sale, they still have a convent in Brentford, I think, in a place called The Butts.

Tate mansion, Streatham Hill?

My knowledge of the mysterious Streatham area is not too good.

I assume marty21 meant to say "the hill at the top of Streatham Common"

That'll be it.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Looks lovely

Found this from 2004

The refurbishment of the Grade-II listed building began four years ago, and the scheme is split between developer CPS, which has created eight luxury apartments in the main house, and Barratt, with 23 new townhouses in the coaching yards and three new houses round a courtyard at the back. Barratt has also converted some of the original outbuildings and stables, including the old billiards wing.

Park Hill was built as a merchant's country house around 1790 and Tate lived there until the end of the 19th century. The house was extended between 1870 and 1880, then sold in 1919 to an order of nuns, the Congregation of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God, who established St Michael's Convent here. One of their design contributions was turning the woodland "secret garden" into a Garden of Gethsemane grotto, complete with a statue of the crucified Christ.

Untouched for nearly 80 years, the convent eventually closed and the house and grounds were sold off to developers. One of the advantages of living at Tate Gardens is the location: orchards, woods and parkland in close proximity to Streatham Common. The residents have a herb garden, formal walk, folly and lake rather than the usual back garden.

 

[teuchter]

Is that the place that kind of backs onto Streatham Common? I remember going for a walk around the park some time ago, and coming across some kind of mysterious building hidden among the trees.

 

[marty21]

Is that the place that kind of backs onto Streatham Common? I remember going for a walk around the park some time ago, and coming across some kind of mysterious building hidden among the trees.

there's a ruined castle in there, well a fake ruined castle, a folly, looks pretty good though.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Is that the place that kind of backs onto Streatham Common? I remember going for a walk around the park some time ago, and coming across some kind of mysterious building hidden among the trees.

Google images of it

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

and map

 

[teuchter]

Can you do it for me MTM? I'm a little busy today.

 

[Ms Ordinary]

For one fabulous moment I thought Prince William's new title was "Earl of Streatham"

















(It's Strathearn)

 

[teuchter]

And the Duke of Cambridge? How many titles can one person have?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Can you do it for me MTM? I'm a little busy today.

nope, been too busy today. Still, you should be finished work now so you can do it

 

[teuchter]

I'm still very busy.

 

[quimcunx]

I'm still very busy.

too busy to be on here, I would have thought.

 

[Belushi]

What are all these Brixton Hillbillies doing on the Streatham thread?

Get back to your own endz

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

What are all these Brixton Hillbillies doing on the Streatham thread?

Get back to your own endz

Were there any Streathamites in Brixton yesterday?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'm still very busy.

I'm too busy lookng at butterflies

 

[teuchter]

too busy to be on here, I would have thought.

correct.

 

[teuchter]

What are all these Brixton Hillbillies doing on the Streatham thread?

Get back to your own endz

Filling in space because there's not actually anything to chitter chatter about in Streatham.

 

[Cowley]

I've just been informed that an Aveda Salon & Spa is opening on the High Road.

The High Road is going through a real change at the moment, Foxtons, Aveda, whatever next?

 

[Belushi]

Streatham Pulse is reporting that

Rumour has it that the Antic pub chain is taking over the Goose in Streatham at the end of August.
Other pubs in the chain include The Balham Bowls Club, The Tooting Tram & Social, The Dogstar, Brixton & The Westow House in Crystal Palace.

 

[Cowley]

Rumour has it that the Antic pub chain is taking over the Goose in Streatham at the end of August.
Other pubs in the chain include The Balham Bowls Club, The Tooting Tram & Social, The Dogstar, Brixton & The Westow House in Crystal Palace.

Streatham Pulse is reporting that

Hope that's true, Streatham could do with a proper pub on the High Road.

Edited to add: Did a bit of digging and your right they are taking over the Goose. It's going to be called Pratts and Payne. It's on their website listed as Pratts and Payne, no pictures yet for obvious reasons....http://www.antic-ltd.com/

 

[lang rabbie]

Possibly the worlds most depressing Facebook photo album of the former Goose put together by Antic's new management

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I've just been informed that an Aveda Salon & Spa is opening on the High Road.

The High Road is going through a real change at the moment, Foxtons, Aveda, whatever next?

Starfucks?

 

[g force]

Good the Goose is awful. If they could restore the building frontage that would be immense.

I'm all for gentrification TBH the High Rd has been utterly shit for too long - but in terms of them actually redeveloping some of the sites not shite like Starbucks taking over an existing unit.

 

[Belushi]

I wondered about the new name. According to the Streatham Guardian it refers to an old local Department Store and legendary Streatham Madame Cynthia Payne

Pratts and Payne

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I wondered about the new name. According to the Streatham Guardian it refers to an old local Department Store and legendary Streatham Madame Cynthia Payne

Pratts and Payne

Streatham Hill went downhill when Pratts left, not that I remember it, but so everyone says. Ridiculous innit, that the longest high street in Europe (reputedly) doesn't have a department store

 

[TruXta]

Only goes to show that the quality of a high street is usually inversely proportional to its length.

 

[teuchter]

Good to see people making use of the Streatham chitter-chatter thread.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Good to see people making use of the Streatham chitter-chatter thread.

I only did it to make you feel better, but I shall try to stick to the Brixton one

 

[lang rabbie]

I wondered about the new name. According to the Streatham Guardian it refers to an old local Department Store and legendary Streatham Madame Cynthia Payne

Pratts and Payne

Do the pubco realise that she is still alive and living just around the corner?