76 thoughts on “Merry Christmas”

  1. Oh great it’s working now! I wrote the same message 4 (four) times yesterday…

    Anyway…looks like the Buckle that was once Silver is going to get a more extensive makeover than originally planned…Antic are planning to restore the beautiful glazed tiled that have been uncovered by the removal of that clumsy oversized plasterboard…

    Check the link:

    http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/63/6324/Oberon/Denmark_Hill

    I would like it to remain “The Tiger” though…Far more apt for Camberwell…Maybe Grand Union was far better off being called “The Oberon”?

    Hmmmmm…Still they have to really pull their finger out to top reliable old faithfuls Hermits Cave or Sun and Doves…

    The Cambria are doing their best though…special mention to them…

  2. WHY CAN’T WE COPE? It’s been snowing grit, we have won the Olympics, we have nearly won the World Cup, we have thrashed the South Africans at crickit, but we still can’t cope. This is broken Britain. What we need is that executive from Carlton TV to run the show. He can bring in Jonathan Ross as Minister of Snow Business, now that he is freed from the shackles of his BBC contract. Stephen Fry could be his butler. These are the men of the minute.

    Thank goodness Harriet Harman’s friend Patricia Hewitt has unseated Gordon Brown. Now we will live wild and free.

  3. SIMON COWELL should run this country. Simon Cowell & the Tescolettes. So now they’re serving burghers at the Sun & Doves. Has anyone else got cabin fever? “I am going outside, I may be some time.” That’s what Russell Brand said when he got engaged to Jonathan Ross and they eloped to LA.

  4. Just a reminder for those of you who are stranded in Camberwell and are in the mood for a bit of camp: Pink Screen Sundays restarts tomorrow after its Christmas break. It’s upstairs at The Castle, every Sunday at 5pm. Tomorrow’s the Wizard of Oz, then next Sunday The Hours, then My Private Idaho, then To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar. Do come along.

  5. Apparently we are in the gay-bar capital of Europe and the new Shoreditch. So says the review.

    Gay Camberwell can you confirm the first fact? Dagmar, from what you say, are your annoying neighbours the vanguard sent over to recce Camberwell and report back. (probably via facebook and with lots of OMG and smileys).

  6. The most recent Camberwell Quarterly reports — in a characteristically understated way — that Damien Hirst has opened a workshop in Myatt’s Fields? Can this possibly be true?

  7. Well he may have trouble now as i think the workshop is located next to the site of the great Camberwell New Road fire last week!

  8. @ Monkeycat — well, since some of our reasons for starting gaycamberwell.com were to raise the profile of SE5 as a good place to socialise, and to encourage gay people and their friends to take advantage of the fine venues and events available in Camberwell, we seem to have done alarmingly well…

    Now I’m off to enjoy Camberwell’s very secret underground gay bar scene that puts Soho and Vauxhall (and Europe) to shame…

  9. NickW you are right — the staggered red brick terrace on the right of Cutcombe as you walk up toward the hospital from Coldharbour is going.

  10. @ Peter. Thanks for that. I know of several residents who wrote to object to this however not enough could be bothered and now we have this to blight the area well beyond our lifespan. It is very depressing. The council and developers should hang their heads in shame and I can not believe the Camberwell Society approved this. It is very very disappointing.

  11. @NickW — did the Camberwell Society look at the application? Nothing the Society does anymore surprises me … last year they wrote on behalf of the membership (though the membership hadn’t been consulted) complaining that there were too many buses in Camberwell. Needless to say the recipient of the letter — the Mayor — made short of the letter. It’s a crying shame that a Conservation Society wants to take buses off the road leaving more space for cars. Beggars belief.

  12. @ John. I think your comment may be a bit unfair. As I recall, the Society was not advocating the reduction of bus services. It was complaining about the fact that there are two large bus garages in Camberwell and that, as a result, there are many buses passing through Camberwell which are not carrying passengers. They were expressing the hope that one or other of the garages might be relocated, so that the Camberwell junction might be less congested — therefore allowing those buses which are carrying passengers to make better speed. You may think it was a bit pie-in-the-sky to ask Boris to move a bus garage. But they were certainly not asking for less public transport for the people of Camberwell.

  13. The Society objected, as did everyone else who wrote — and there were many. The Councillors approved it. And there are too many buses not to have a better strategy and to allow driver changes.

  14. I am not convinced that the bus stations and their buses really contribute that much to the general congestion. Those that are serving other areas: they come in, they go. However, a lot of buses seem to be on the street picking up and dropping off passengers.

    Liliana. How was the meet?

  15. Two different Johns posting again.

    @Julian — the response, judging by the letters printed since the original article, was unanimous opposition to the Society’s position. So some buses that serve routes in other parts of London are based in Camberwell? He provided no figures on how many times they may or may not use the roads in Camberwell (almost certainly very early in the morning and very late at night). Far more lorries and cars pass through Camberwell without stopping — should we redirect them somewhere else? Much better to have more buses and fewer cars on our roads.

  16. @monkeycat: meeting went well thank you m’dear — am going through notes at the moment so will be emailing you too actually — if anyone wants to be involved in email discussions about this, drop me a line (info@​peoplesrepublicofsouthwark.​co.​uk)

  17. I always think that a hospital is a perfect case study for students of architecture…

    The whole history of great,average and appalingly bad practice can all be found in the concise environs of a medical estate…

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