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The dome was Sir Henry Bessemer's Observatory.

Greendale/Green Lane is an ancient thoroughfare that connected Dulwich Village to Camberwell. This allowed for easy access as Dulwich was in the parish of Camberwell and the parish church was St Giles. It would have been used as a track for foot and horse drawn vehicles. The bridge was built on Dulwich College land, and they leased building plots on both sides from East Dulwich Grove up to the bridge (see attached picture). So, the track would have been widened for this. If you look from the bridge in the direction of North Dulwich Station, you can see another bridge built by the railway company for a road that Dulwich College planned but never built. The old Dulwich College Estate maps right back to 1806 show Green Lane as a road that joined, as it still does to Champion Hill. The estate map of 1886 shows the college proposed widening Green Lane all the way to the top and connecting it to Denmark Hill, but once again this didn’t happen, and the widening appear to stop about a third of the way up the lane. When Camberwell Borough Council acquired a lot of the land on the upper portion of the hill, I assume they decided that the path could be narrowed from Wanley Road up to Champion Hill to maximise space to build the housing estate. The attached photo is of Green Lane looking up the hill with what would be Wanley Road on the right.

Called in this morning and was told the filtration system may take up to four weeks to repair.

Sue, I received my leaflet today. I see that they don't mention a caddy liner, which as you say would mean the bin gets messy so I used the link on the leaflet to see what that said about food waste. The website says 'You do not have to line it, but you can buy your own compostable liners or use newspaper'. Pity that wasn't mentioned on the leaflet. As for general rubbish the council website says 'If you have a bin you must put your waste in a bin bag first'. It's a pity the leaflet specifies black and the website doesn't. I assume they want it bagged as the examples of general rubbish on the leaflet such as crisp packaging and nappies would need bagging. Small items could fall out during rubbish collection and soiled items would need bagging to prevent contamination.

Cesummers, I think you may have misinterpreted the Southwark Council guidance document. I have downloaded and read it. Paragraph 3.6.1 refers to 'permitted development' and restates the statutory law which say planning permission is required if a loft extension is greater than 40 square meters in a terraced property and greater than 50 square meters in a semi-detached of detached property. Under permitted development the extension should be set back 20cm from the existing eaves (not 100cm). Paragraph 3.6.2 applies to loft extension that fall outside the scope of permitted development. Under these circumstances the council require the set back from the eaves and boundary walls to be 100cm and the extension roof to be 50cm below the existing roof ridge. I would imagine that most loft extension in our area fall within 'permitted development '.

If by small you mean narrow, I don't think you will find any front loading machines less wide than the standard 60cm. You could look at top loading machines. These are about 40cm wide, but you'll need access to the top to load the washing. There aren't many for sale in the UK but Appliances Direct advise some. https://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/ct/laundry/washing-machines/top-loading

Park in the Lidl carpark in Peckham and walk over the road to the Alex TLC charity shop on Peckham High Street

I have just used Austin Jones of Underhill Road. Ask for Pardeep, she was really helpful and professional. [email protected]

I'd also like to make a point that hasn't yet been mentioned about the CPZ. There are a number of homes that have a crossover drive and more than one vehicle. Some residents park one car on the drive and the other across their drive on the road. As far as I'm aware this technically breaches highway code 243 which states 'do not stop or park infront of an entrance to a property', (no mention of an exemption if it's your own property). Currently with no parking enforcement in place this practice goes unenforced. You can imagine that once the council start enforcing parking, any infringement will be swiftly punished.

You will find that water from a domestic water softener is not recommended for drinking or cooking. The reason being a softener removes dissolved calcium ions from the water and replaces them with sodium ions. It is calcium carbonate that forms limescale. The problem with having sodium in drinking water is sodium is linked to high blood pressure. That's why people are advised to limit their intake. Also the water from a softener can contain significantly higher levels of bacteria than mains water as the water moves slowly through the softener and can stagnate. If you want to reduce limescale in your kettle you'd be better using something like a Brita filter jug. This doesn't add sodium, but does remove calcium. A whole house softener would though reduce the amount of detergent needed in a washing machine. Hope this helps with your decision.

Which pool is it that's cold?

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Yes. Went two days ago. No booking needed.

It killed my brand new Dell PC! The computer came with an advert saying it would upgrade to Windows 11 when released. I did the upgrade immediately it came out. It worked for a day. The next day it wouldn't boot, can't remember the error message, but it wouldn't load Windows. Phoned Dell tech service. Waste of time. After about 45 minutes the advisor said the main board was faulty and they would arrange a collection for repair. Luckily I'd created the recovery drive when I first started the PC when I bought it. This allowed me to uninstall the Windows 11 updated. PC worked again. Perhaps I'll try again just before the 12 months warranty expires.

Thanks for this helpful post. Lewisham publish a comprehensive pdf recycling guide on their website. The advice might not be the same as Southwark's policies, so it would be helpful if Southwark could publish something similar. This is the link:https://lewisham.gov.uk/myservices/wasterecycle/a-to-z-recycling?fbclid=IwAR2gkEm47HzfJkSaTp-USwKqpXyRCOiYh7NyM4ffUd7eL360QfCCduW4SdY