I don’t know Peckham at all, but understand parking round there is a bit difficult. Have a taxi coming to pick me up — any suggestions where I should get it to wait for me? Think Sunshine House is on a red route…

Sorry such a trivial question, but any advice very gratefully received…

There must be something in the technique of how bricks used to be made that just makes them look better — The Old Yellow London Brick for example is far better than it’s cheap,chalky looking modern counterpart

By the way if you were really wealthy in Georgian/Victorian times you could get some limestone bricks, they have an off– white appearance…there are still a handful of streets in Kennington with houses made out of them — they look totally unique, even now

I wonder if the Sunshine House bricks are the same as the old, dark grey impervious bricks. I doubt it. They were very expensive. If you’d ‘ad one row at ground level on yer ‘ouse, you were posh.

still prefer the Old Red Staffordshire Northern Bricks — The ones that St.Pancras and much of Manchester and the north is full of them…there is just an warm, earthy quality about them that I always like to see…

Black Bricks? — I just don’t like them there is an estate on the Black Prince Road in Kennington made from black brick stocks and it just looks depressing, like a flippin’ gulag or something…

Thursday 7th February 2008 — 7pm Herne Hill Baptist Church, 30 Half Moon Lane SE24 9HU

http://www.hernehillforum.blogspot.com
hernehillforum@btinternet.com

Chair: Giles Gibson
Vice Chair: David Cianfarini
Secretary: Paul Reynolds

I shall be attending this meeting and I am thinking of putting forward the suggestion that perhaps it might be a good idea to collaborate with SE5Forum on many of the issues that we share in common.

I think the issues they worry about are much the same as in SE5…

Well funded transport links

Improved traffic management

Better street environment through flora/landscaping

Encoraging innovative business enterprise

Less anti-social drinking outlets/establishments

I think it would be an excellent idea to pursue the possibility of collaborating, I think it is something which the SE5Forum needs — especially bringing together reprsentatives from Lambeth and Southwark councils in the same room (as they are doing), which helps to co-ordinate any plans or initiatives which all the community groups in the local area decide upon.

Apologies for not being at meeting yesterday (again) — I work until 9.00pm on most weeknights, but hopefully not for much longer…which will be great for me personally, then perhaps I can get my teeth into something which interests me!

Peter Gasston got a special mention for the volunteer work he’s done for the Forum.

If the community groups in Camberwell could agree on anything and work together they would be able to lever in considerable funds for SE5. They don’t often see eye to eye on detail though.