
Charles Martel
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"What on earth happened to poor Tommy Robinson? 10 Things You Should Know." https://thesecretbarrister.com/2018/05/25/what-has-happened-to-poor-tommy-robinson/
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Apollo 12 Astronaut Alan Bean who was the 4th man to walk on the moon, commanded the second SkyLab mission and became a renowned artist, has died at 86. https://www.space.com/40718-alan-bean-apollo-moonwalker-artist-obituary.html I had the pleasure of meeting Alan Bean at an inspiring lecture he gave in the UK in 2013 where he talked about his missions and illustrated his account with his paintings. From the distance of half a century the Apollo program can seem like a remote historical event. Hearing the human stories of this great series of achievements firsthand from people who were part of the team that made it happen brings it closer and links us to it. RIP Alan Bean.
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Shooting in Lordship Lane opposite Grove Tavern
Charles Martel replied to malcolmchurch's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
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Is East Dulwich the poor part of Dulwich??
Charles Martel replied to trinidad's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
You could use the bus routes that pass through the area to compare income in the various parts as someone has mapped the average income along all the London bus routes. https://public.tableau.com/profile/george.walker#!/vizhome/Incomedisparityoverbusroutes/HowdoesincomevaryalongLondonbusroutes -
Man arrested in connection with Dulwich Park stabbing
Charles Martel replied to gerry's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
More details of the case and the fund raising in the aftermath of the attack are here: https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/dulwich-park-stabber-left-man-paralysed-memory-loss-will-face-jail-10-years/ -
SimonM Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It was a sweet shop not a newsagents. George was > very seriously stabbed indeed - by a seventeen > year old as I recall - and spent many months in > King's in intensive care. His kidney function was > irretrievably damaged and he had to have a renal > transplant after a lengthy period on dialysis. I came across these news reports from the time, as well as this thread, when I googled George Hammond after a chat with an old friend. It is difficult to express how shocking this crime was at the time because George was such a part of the community. He was not just a policeman, he was a proper beat bobby that almost everybody knew by name and had chatted to. He was the gold standard of policing. Still fondly remembered. Police Constable Stabbed during Sweet Shop Robbery | Thames News Archive Footage HAMMOND,PC George -return to work
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uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I saw this some months ago so I will not be > signing the petition (as well as the number I have > come across in school are obviously men rather > than schoolboys but it is hushed up) It was not ?hushed up?. It was front page news. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2016175/charity-falsely-claims-38-year-old-child-migrant-from-calais-jungle-is-actually-an-adult-interpreter/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3858392/First-child-migrants-proved-ADULT-fingerprints-appeared-database-used-check-criminals-entering-Britain.html Nobody who has followed what has gone on in other countries like Sweden or Germany with so called ?unaccompanied minors? would have been surprised by the appearance of these man-children. It was only a surprise to those who only follow the BBC lie machine with its pictures of lovely little children playing in the mud. I noticed these pictures were back on the BBC news again last week. LOL. More propaganda from the blatantly biased corporation. Grown men pretend to be under 18 to get the preferential treatment extended to children in the asylum system. These men have been trafficked across Europe by organized criminal people smuggling networks. If we want to help genuine refugee children then we should focus on the UN and other refugee camps in the mid-east region, as we have done before. Children already in Europe are obviously the responsibility of the European nation they are in. None of these European nations is having a holocaust, are they? The Dubs amendment, no matter how well meant was always based on flawed logic. It does not matter whether we take 300, 3000 or 300,000. There will always more who want to come and traffickers who will bring them. http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/15/europe/freedom-project-misery-trail-children/ A line has to be drawn. Why should we take the ones who have been trafficked rather than 300,000 taken at random from the 65 million refugees around the world? If this line is not drawn by normal politicians, then eventually we will end up like France with its failed open border policy. Their next election seems to be shaping up to be a choice between Fascism now or Sharia law later. Brexit came about because of the Euroscepticism in the Conservative party which started in the mid 1980s. It never had anything to do with immigration as such. It also never had anything to do with ?the people?. The eurosceptics were concerned with British sovereignty being lost to a federal EU. Simply power being lost by the traditional British political elite to a new European elite based in Brussels. The European elite have been shown to be grotesquely incompetent, hence the growth in euroscepticism finally leading to the brexit vote. This was the referendum that really should have been held before the Maastricht treaty was ratified by the UK. Control of immigration is a normal part of being a sovereign state. Brexit obviously has nothing to do with wanting ?no more brown people? as there are none in Poland, Hungary etc.
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Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks, but the Post Office is much more > convenient than Rye Lane for me, and I don't like > posting cheques in case they get lost. > > Anyone know if the Lordship Lane post office has > reopened? Yes. It was open this morning.
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Dulwich & West Norwood Results
Charles Martel replied to Penguin68's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
DuncanW Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If the main factor in London returning more Labour > MPs is self-interest then please could you explain > this to me: > > Our corner of se London has seen significant > gentrification over the last 5-10 years, so one > would assume a demographic shift in the electorate > towards the better off. Yet Camberwell & Peckham, > and Dulwich & West Norwood returned Labour MPs > with an increased share of the vote and Bermondsey > and Old Southwark voted in a new Labour MP. How > does that work? Many ?better off? people believe that they are ?better off? today than their parents or grandparents were because of the structural changes in society over the last century driven by the Labour movement. Free secondary education, comprehensive schools and expansion of access to university have all driven massive social mobility. It is now completely normal for white collar professional people, from the kind of ordinary office workers who live in East Dulwich to Emily Thornberry et al. in their large north London houses, to come from industrial working class or similar blue collar lower class backgrounds. Because of the role the Labour party played in creating the social changes these people as individuals, and their communities, have benefited from there is still a great degree of loyalty to the party. This is a loyalty based on a century of history, often oral family history, not whether there would be a tax cut after the next election. I was a Labour party fund raiser in 1991 and talking to donors then the impression I got was that they were ideologically committed to the Labour party as a means of social change. I am not sure what is supposed to have happened in East Dulwich over the last 5 ? 10 years that had not happened over the previous 10 or 20 years. The first ?middle class? person to buy a house, renovate it and then have a baby did not do so in the last 5 ? 10 years. Most of the change in this area actually consists of more and more of the same rather than anything very different. In the 1970s this was a Conservative Labour marginal, held by Labour, but with a very high profile Conservative candidate Eric Morley, founder of Miss World. The Conservatives were very active and had a much, much higher profile than they do now. When Gerry Bowden won the seat for the Conservatives in 1983 I can recall that they had dozens of activists walking down our road with him, knocking on doors and getting people to come out and shake his hand. The seat was still marginal when he lost to Tessa Jowell in 92, but with the boundary changes by 1997 it had become a safe Labour seat. The only real change since then has been the LibDems becoming the second party in the constituency, until last week. -
Heber primary school memories
Charles Martel replied to jim_the_chin's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
JOHNNYBOY Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > [...] > > Miss Dyson was my Teacher for the first two years, > what a lovely person she was, anyone remember her ? Yes I remember Miss Dyson from Top Team at Heber when I was there 73 ? 77. She was a great teacher. She had a brother who had a open topped sports car. Once when our class went on a school trip to Devon her brother took me and another boy down to Devon in his car rather than go on the coach with the rest of the class. It was an outstanding trip. He drove at 100mph at times, laughing and pointing this out to us on the speedo. We went past Stonehenge then stopped off at the Fleet Air Arm museum. > Mr Regan was a bully, he used to hit me on top of my > head with a clenched fist and his rings would dig > into my head, one time he lifted me up off of the > floor by my ears, I had to go to the hospital > after that, he was very lucky he didn't have to > after my Dad had a word, Keith Regan, his son, was > also in my class. > I remember Mr Regan. As I recall he was PE teacher who also ran the pottery kiln that was in the Jennings building. I still have a pottery piggy bank I made in his class. I don't remember him as a bully, but maybe he had mellowed by the mid 70s when I was at Heber. I did see Mr Regan get beaten up very badly by the brother of a pupil he had slippered. To date it is the worse act of violence I have personally witnessed anywhere. The boy's brother just walked into the classroom and knocked Mr Regan down with a series of punches to the face then kicked him across the floor. Mr Regan was left drenched in his own blood. I vividly remember how it gushed from his mouth and nose soaking his shirt. The boy and his brother departed as quickly as they had arrived. Mr Regan was away from the school for several months after the attack. -
david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "Alternative" medicine/health/woo advocate dies > after ignoring actual medical advice and > treatement instead opting for kilos of fruit juice > and coffee-enemas. Mother had previously died > after following same treatement plan. Darwinism at > work. At least she made her own choice. Those who were victims of the Morecambe Bay scandal did not. The deaths of almost a dozen babies were blamed on midwives in ?over-zealous pursuit? of ?natural childbirth at any cost?. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11448226/National-probe-into-maternity-care-ordered-after-lethal-mix-of-failings-found.html Midwives, and any others, who want ?natural childbirth at any cost? should go and live in the Congo where they might actually do some good.
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How to teach Muslims about dealing with offense
Charles Martel replied to reggie's topic in The Lounge
Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Putting religion aside would Charlie have insulted > a race in the same way and called it free speech? http://social-justice-fire-mage.tumblr.com/post/107444852419/pm-hello-i-agree-that-no-journalist-artist -
You can always keep updated on the ISS flying overhead by checking NASA?s Spot the Station website. You can set it up to send you email alerts hours before the station flies overhead. http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/ See the view from the station in this spectacular Earth timelapse HD video. The crew on that little point of light
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How romantic! Childhood sweethearts marrying in the school where they first met presumably.
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Old William Hill on Crystal Palace Road
Charles Martel replied to Richy86's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Ron70 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sophron Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Anger management centre for Ron and Louisa. > > > No, I'm not angry just thoroughly bored with > people knocking anyone who hasn't lived in the are > for 30 years... Dull.. Some people who have lived in the area for 30 years or more are equally bored with people who have lived here for 15 minutes telling us all how terrible it was before they moved in. Tedious. -
The opening scenes of Bob Hoskins' film Mona Lisa were shot in East Dulwich. Bob Hoskins' character walks down Landells Road, stopping to buy flowers, before reaching his home on Darrell Road, then going on to Robbie Coltrane's garage on Upland Road. The garage is still there, though much else has changed.
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Trying to buy a house in this area is near impossible
Charles Martel replied to Grotty's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Voyageur Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I lived in ED (Darrell Rd) in 1981 - and BOY has > ED changed since then. It was the cheapest place > to rent in those days that we could find (being > student nurses) and very much a down at heel but > pretty much ok part of SE London. Were you one of the four frightfully posh, Sloaney nurses who drove around in a VW beetle? -
david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > DulwichBorn&Bred Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Sorry , I am not used to different kind of > > protection vests . They were just padded and I > > assumed bullet proof as I have never heard > anyone > > say knife proof before ( wouldn't bullet proof > be > > knife proof too?). > > Stab proof vests are often worn by ordinary PCs or > UKBA forces. Bullet proof vests would only be worn > by armed officers in situations where they were > deemed needed. > > And a stab proof vest is much lighter and wouldn't > stand a chance of stopping live ammo. Only thick, > heavy kevlar will do so. Actually the first "bullet proof" vests effective against handguns were made from cross woven silk by a Catholic priest from Chicago in the early 1900s. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand was actually wearing one when he was shot. Unfortunately he was shot in the neck. > > I sometimes wonder why I know this stuff... A show called Weaponology on Discovery Channel?
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anyone had more than 3m side return extension??
Charles Martel replied to rafsta's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
LondonMix Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm not saying they are all well designed or all > even appropriate. However, similarly, they aren't > all rubbish either. Like everything in life, the > devil is in the detail. L-shaped loft conversions > have a greater impact than standard dormers. The point you make is an excellent one. Should it not be the role of the planning department to discriminate between good design and bad design by actually looking at the detail? No one should argue that people not be allowed to extend their homes, but surely choosing a design that has minimal impact on your neighbours makes sense on all levels. Why would anyone choose erect a structure which would blot out the sunlight to their neighbour's windows? What is wrong with a standard loft conversion that is actually in the loft space? It yields a similar amount of extra space. Why allow this bizarre ?required distance before the eaves? sophistry that adding a third storey is a roof extension? red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > pikey, gypo, need I go on?...hardly 'well put' You are making an inference that was not intended. Pikeys in my mind are not Gypsies in any sense. Gypsies are an ethnic group with distinct language, history and culture. You do not become one simply by living in a caravan, any more than you would become a Native American by buying a wigwam. Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Several points > > 1. Caravans used by Irish Travellers... > 2. Traditional Romany caravans... That is why I said Pikey caravan. Not the same thing. > 3. Building control would ensure that any replaced > chimneys were not 'crooked' From my garden I can see one of these extensions. Sticking out of the side is air vent of some kind which resembles the stove pipe chimney you might see on a shack. It looks crooked. It also reminds me of a chimney I once saw stucking out of a new age traveller type converted bus. > 4. > [?] > The point about light is perfectly reasonable, > although possibly over-egged I understand what you say, but reading this thread it is quite clear that there are people who have little or no regard for their neighbours. There is a point where being ?steamrollered? becomes bullying and intimidation if not controlled. -
Heber primary school memories
Charles Martel replied to jim_the_chin's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Does anyone remember the Heber Carnival? I think this was around 1974 or 75. It only happened once when I was at the school and I was ill with a bad case of chicken pox so I did not take part. My father took this photo near the annex on Darrell road, now the community centre. -
anyone had more than 3m side return extension??
Charles Martel replied to rafsta's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Tr? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks LM, but I'm talking about the first floor > window in the 'main' part of the house (in most ED > houses this is the second bedroom). > > I'm not suing (or being sued if I decide the do > the conversion), just mining the goldmine of info > that is the EDF! Consult your immediate neighbours rather than randoms on the EDF or little men with light meters and slide rules in the planning department. In almost all cases adding a third storey to a two storey back addition in an area of closely packed terraced houses will result in a detrimental loss of light to neighbouring homes. It should be obvious that by blocking the light coming in over the back addition roof you automatically reduce the sunlight to all the windows looking out onto the rear infill below the new roof line. Why should anybody living in a house now lose a level of light and outlook that every other occupant has enjoyed for the previous 4 - 5 generations? Just so someone can have what amounts to a grotesquely incongruous prefab pikey caravan complete with crooked chimney perched on their roof? What is the point of having a planning department if they are happy to allow this area to become a trailer park? -
woodrot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > expect much anti islam agitation and posturing out > of this. it could be a marinus van den lubbe type > of trigger for the short of sense Really? I expect the usual "not all muslims are bad" line we always get in the aftermath of every such atrocity. Better comparison would be Herschel Grynszpan who provided the justification for Kristallnacht.
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anyone had more than 3m side return extension??
Charles Martel replied to rafsta's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
first mate Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > LM, > thanks for the detail, I shall take a look. I > remain dubious because, as I said, I know of two > cases where work has been done and I have senn for > myself the before and after impact on the > neighbours- definitely less light and definite > loss of outlook- I was simply amazed that planners > had okayed it. Do you know if an objection was made to the extension at the time the planning application was made? Southwark council does have a design standards document that gives clear guidelines for daylight and sunlight tests. It would be worrying if these were being ignored. It should be expected that the planning department would apply their own standards as a minimum when looking at applications.
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