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Hello Mr Barber I am depressed that the residents of a parrallel street seem to have carte blanche to "hide" their stinky bins in ours... Many residents in Landells Road have found a new way of making their homes prettier - by stashing their bins in the tiny cul-de-sac behind their properties - Plough Lane. This is a tiny road that never receives any council attention at all ? pot holes go unfilled and street sweepers seem immune to its charms - although they often meet smoke, drink and even sleep here... A year ago or so a resident of Landells Road found a way of making his trimmed bush at the front of his property look more impressive by moving his bins into the street behind. Since then his neighbours have been impressed enough to follow suit. Now, our tiny street, which doesn't even boast a pavement for half its length, is now host to those bins deemed too unsightly for the house-proud Landells residents. I attempted to reason with the instigator of this dump-fest but was told in no-uncertain terms that he had council backing and that the residents of Plough Lane would just have to live with it. Can this be true? Is it fair that a big street can use a much smaller street as its litter tray?

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In the wake of "APOCALYPSE PLOUGH", little blue signs have gone up that reveal the new owners as Mitchells & Butlers. This means that we might be expecting an All Bar One, or an O'Neill's, or, horror of horrors, a Harvester!

I'd love to see the postcards (didn't make it to the tent yesterday). Any chance of putting them up on Flickr or something?

hey - congratulations!

Yep, there's chipboard nailed to several wondows and doors, looks like the locals gave it good send off(!) Where will the underage teens and old men smelling of wee go now? Signs in the windows say that it's closed for "refurbishment" and will reopen in July. Following what Tom was saying earlier, I doubt whether the Just So Pub Co will be involved as they were the ones who ran it into the ground in the first place. Apparently it was quite a nice pub before they got their hands on it. It's changed hands twice since then but never really recaptured it's glory days - it may be hard to believe, but it was once one the oldest and most famous pubs in London. With such a distinguished heritage, the site deserves something better and I'll be interested to see what develops.

I used to live at number 3. It's really nice, not too noisy and you've got Franklins on the corner.

Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but I've just heard from one of its regulars that the Plough, the last "punch-up-pub" on the Lane is to close next week and is to be converted into a gastro pub. This may be a good thing as, despite several facelifts, it's always been pretty ghastly, but does Lordship Lane need yet another GP?

Cheese Block for Cheese, trucklements and small treat based oddities Hope and Greenwood for chocs (though, bizarrely, EDD is cheaper) The bread stall on Friday and Sat for bread cakes etc Green and Blue for cured meat (I think)

Hmmmm... Well apart from a decent bakery and a better bookshop, what East Dulwich really needs is more places to cross Lordship Lane safely without winding up underneath the wheels of an SUV with a "Baby-on-board" sticker in the back window. What else? Oh, yes, a black hole that sucks estate agent offices into a parallel dimension...