The Woolwich Bank closing

[Louisa]

I think ED will surpass Clapham on the posh factor, because as you say Jeremy, Clapham does have some very rough housing estates, whereas ED has realtively few examples of no-go areas.. Most of the council blocks are on land owned by the Dulwich Estate anyway.

[Nero]

I didn't take you to sound like a ****, and now I realise that starting my sentencing with 'well comma' sounds very indignated, which I wasn't. Such is virtual communication! Nero

[scor46]

Macroban

Where did you get that information?

I would like to see a top book shop or a cool bar - old style but with modern workings. Maybe a brew bar.

[macroban]

Agent's sign went up a couple of days ago.

[Edmund]

Let's have a 9-5 business like a book shop for the sake of the residents above! Though since the whole block is owned by the Co-Op perhaps its own bank wouldn't be such a far-flung idea?

[macroban]

The agent's sign is looking battered.

The rent is cheap.

Perhaps we've seen the end to new retail openings that are not already commited for a little while.

[nico1]

How about a Quality SPA? The area is cryin out for one

[Frisco]

_I've never thought that E D will become like Clapham where practically every house is House and Garden'd. Nero_

People used to say that about Clapham 25 years ago when I lived there, just after I moved from Fulham. The yummy mummies are taking over everywhere. It's just a matter of time.

It was the twentieth anniversary of me moving to ED last week, in order to escape. I moved in just two weeks before the great storm of October 1987.

[darcy]

Does anyone know when ED became so self-satisfied? It seems really recent to me - the last year maybe, unless I just didn't notice it before, I'm not sure. It used to be a nice place to hang out in the evenings or weekends without being so pretentious. Lordship Lane reminds me of a Victorian promenade, where people just want to be see and be seen these days.

[Jah Lush]

Or posing up the Kings Road used to be, or French cafe society. Go on any street in Paris and people are doing exactly the same. Mind you all us smokers have to be outside the bars and cafes these days just so we can have our fags with our booze. But I would certainly draw the line at being called self-satisfied as you put it Darcy.

[Zebedee Tring]

Although we non-smokers now have much cleaner and pleasant pubs and restaurants to visit, the downside is that in good weather pub gardens and pavement tables at restaurants and cafes are now monopolised by that poor downtrodden minority, the smokers.