jimmyraj

Paul McGann in Peckham Rye Park last week.

I live at the top end of Choumert Road, near Coppleston Road, and the train screeching is very noticeable. I must be a good 300 metres from the track and it's fairly loud sometimes. I think it's when the trains are coming round the bend towards the rear of Chadwick Road and towards the back of Coppleston / Ivanhoe.

Sorry Mick Mac - I think you're reading too much into that comment. agree that watching sport shouldn't mean you have to put up with a tired old pub. Personally I'd quite like to drink in a decent well kept pub, with decent decor and environment, that offered some of the 'old school' pub offerings like pool, darts, live sport, fruities. My point was that all the nearest pubs to the Wishing Well show sport already - ie the Prince Albert, Hoopers Bar, and the Montpellier (albeit sometimes with the sound down). As a result it's hardly a shocker that a new pub might choose to offer something different to the immediate local market. Not sure there's anything one dimensional about that view - there's room for them all...

look forward to the new place opening, Scott. Recently moved into Choumert Road so it'll be really good to having another good neighbourhood pub - especially because a well patronised pub should be a good thing for the road in general, keeping life around the place during the evenings. I've previously enjoyed the Florence and the Bishop, both of which have fairly different identities so be interesting to see what you do with this place. Hope you are able to keep a reasonable range of beers and ales on tap. I think it's good that there's such a mixed economy of pubs in the area - I can't see why the complaints about it being 'gentrified'. At the end of the day if you want an old school boozer with sport on the TV, there's the Prince Albert, and Hoopers Bar round the corner. Having moved up the road from Stockwell/the Oval where there's a glut of decent boozers, I feel a little spoilt for choice up in SE15/SE22 so far as pubs go. Long may it continue.