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As previously discussed elsewhere there is budget accommodation available at the Salvation Army place near Denmark Hill Train Station.


Here is a link:


http://www1.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/www_uki.nsf/vw-sublinks/A4E872A1A4B5FA8C8025704300378202?openDocument


Has anyone stayed there or had friends/relatives stay there? If so a review would be appreciated.




Open house weekend (http://www.openhouse.org.uk/london/home.html) is coming up and I believe it is usually possible to climb to the top of the tower- best views in London apparently.


Sat 15th September 2pm-4.30pm.

Entry to Tower 2pm-4.30pm. Talk on building in Assembly Hall 2pm, 3pm, 4pm.

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okay so this has nothing to do with the college...but seeing as you've been lounged already... another interesting (to me) building on the Old Kent Road is the huge Driscoll House. Why is it borded up? Please don't tell me they're knocking it down. A philanthropist built it to offer ex service men a home when they came back from the trenches and a place to rehabilitate (that's what I can muster from googling it!)


Anyone know anything different.....

Yes but if developers are possibly happy to torch a Greek forest killing 60 odd people to get their way, I can't see them stopping because a building looks nice.


That said, they haven't got the concrete house yet, and as much as I love it, it seems to be getting more and more dangerous, and a risk to health. Starting to turn against it!

GGS is underappreciated as an architect, and his influence in using brick in the period after victorian gothic was very influential. He did a lot of bread-and-butter work too, Giles Church in Camberwell I'm told, but I'm sceptical.


His Grandfather designed the Great eastern Hotel, popularly known as the St Pancras Hotel, currently being restored.


UC

can't believe I'm going to miss the open house w/e again - requested it off work especially this year and then a family thing came up so I'll be heading off to Portsmouth - drat!! Luckily I can get a good view sneaking onto the roof at work(just down the road from WB college)!

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