Rushy
basically a scrotum
I think your memory may be hazy. About where JL lives, that is. I've no idea where you lived or how hazy your memory is on that subject.
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cuppa tee
Well-Known Member
a quick search tells me she has a drum on Albert Sqare ......but she definitely lived on Durand Gardens, my contacts in "the industry" told me..........maybe she moved
Rushy
basically a scrotum
The first page of that same search should have brought up a 2011 interview in which she says she has lived in the same house in Stockwell for over 20 years. And another interview in 2001 in which she says she has lived in the area for 11 years, i.e. moved into the area in 1990. I think your "contacts in the industry" may be confused, dahlink.
James Bond went to Durand Gardens school though. And he hung out at the Brockwell Lido.
cuppa tee
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lol, she was just trying to put paparazzi and autograph hunters off the scent, btw pogo pattersons [from grange hill] mum used to have the Prince Of Wales in cleaver square and denis healey played the piano there often
obviously because the dinky winky pouch had not yet been invented
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Rushy
basically a scrotum
Only been in there two or three times (after court!) but lovely pub. Pogo may be before I came to UK - no idea who he is!
Rushy
basically a scrotum
boohoo
No.
Roger Moore went to Durand when it was Hackford Boys at the time. As an ex-Durand pupil I don't think it's ever been called Durand Gardens School.
boohoo
No.
I don't and I'm British
Who was on it when you watched it?
Manter
Lunch Mob
I never did. Very, very little tv in my childhood
boohoo
No.
Was that out of choice or you weren't interested in it? We didn't have a TV til I was 8 so I think I got quite into it (well as much as my parents would let me)I never did. Very, very little tv in my childhood
Yes, I do!
And Sammo and Rolly.
Roland! No one ever called him Rolly!
Ro-land is acceptable if you're a stalky little West Indian girl.
Manter
Lunch Mob
We weren't allowed much, so we found other stuff to do, then when the restrictions on what we could watch were relaxed, we weren't interested because we had other interests.
It's one of the reasons I'm so odd
boohoo
No.
We weren't allowed much, so we found other stuff to do, then when the restrictions on what we could watch were relaxed, we weren't interested because we had other interests.
It's one of the reasons I'm so odd
I think some of the things we watched - like Harold Lloyd, Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin, fueled my interest in early cinema. And there were lots of other movies such as all the old musicals that I still love today.
buscador
culturally dominant
We weren't allowed much, so we found other stuff to do, then when the restrictions on what we could watch were relaxed, we weren't interested because we had other interests.
It's one of the reasons I'm so odd
Was one of your restrictions commercial telly? Or telly while it was still daylight?
I have huge gaps in my "cultural landscape" as a result.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Im sure you're right. I just meant that school there! Ages since I read his biog. First part is great. Then gets a bit lovey. And very polite. Never finished it.
Manter
Lunch Mob
there were things we were allowed to watch- some children's TV, news, sport, nature programmes, documentaries, but a restriction on amount. Certain number of hours a week, can't remember which. Soap operas were emphatically not allowed. I've never been bothered by not having seen Eldorado or byker grove or whatever- apart from my teenage years when I went through a tediously predictable hating my parents stage.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Bit of evidence suggesting house prices have stopped rising - and may even be dropping.
This is a good thing.
May reflect tighter lending rules, rate fears etc
This is a good thing.
May reflect tighter lending rules, rate fears etc
Evidence?
Rate rises and tougher lending rules will help reduce prices. What about foreign buyers, are they effected?
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Just a string of newspaper stories such as this: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/h...-rate-rise-9534858.html?origin=internalSearch
I agree. A few places in herne hill that were put on market at crazy prices have dropped by up to 20%. Good. These Fucks trying to pass a cupboard as a third bedroom deserve to get shafted.
It's about time the market hit the top so it can start to go the other way.
Although house prices stopped making any sense to me a long time ago.
20% is quite steep. Seems like the old Foxtons tactic of overpricing to get the instruction, tying the vendor in for 2 or 3 months and then persuading the vendor to drop to a more realistic value.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
But there may be something in it.
Sister-in-law was told three weeks ago she could name her price for her flat by Brockwell Park.
A week after it went on sale, an 'open house' event has been cancelled through lack of interest and just one inquiry has been made.
Things seem to have changed very quickly.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
It is always the way. It's never a straight run upwards and the peaks and troughs along the way will often be quite large even though the annual figures disguise this. London annual figures between 96 and 2007 don't show any negative growth periods (that I remember, not significant ones anyway) but there were some fairly big drops and spurts. If you think about it, prices went up maybe 30% in a short period months recently but a sudden drop of 10% would still show 20% annualised growth. A slow down in June is very normal and usually picks up again in September. The less inspiring first floor 2 beds which have been breaching the 500K mark in a frothy market will be hard hit - maybe more than 10% - and then slowly catch up again.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
If, as often alluded to here, the Brixton Hill crazy prices are influenced by school catchment, is there a seasonality to the prices?
I have heard anecdotes of people buying near Sudbourne, leaving the flat empty, getting their child in, selling up, pocketing £100k in the process.
If there is any truth in this, I'd imagine that there will be additional supply after school places are offered. We're in that period now.
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