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After having a couple of pints of real ale that has brought a smile to my face. Seriously though it seems you're not that clued up as to this area. Some estate agent schpeel for you http://www.thatchandco.com/locations/West_Dulwich.htm You perhaps ought to find out a bit more of the area if your geography is so poor.

Children and geography!


We used to get out our old bikes and explore. When we got home we drew maps from memory of where we had been.


I well remember regular visits to the West Dulwich Police Station wooden notice-board to check the Colorado beetle poster. Never did find one that we could report to the police.


The Belair council-run cafe/canteen was more useful to park-goers than the exclusive eatery that's there now.

i'd have to go for sydenham although i understand the big houses in the conservation area go for anything up to ?800k (stupid money i know, but the houses are huge)...


high street does have potential and the transport links are first rate... i dont know an awful lot about schools but i dont think that they are that great? (i'm taking about the state schools here)..

lordship_bod Wrote:

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> i dont know an awful lot

> about schools but i dont think that they are that

> great? (i'm taking about the state schools here)..


I think they're a mixed bag. A good friend of mine worked in a local school a couple of years ao and told me it was absolutely awful and advised Mrs Keef (a teacher) to avoid it. Mrs Keef did some work in another school last year though, and said it was great.


Biggest shame is that they're probably going to close Brent Knoll which is a special school that Mrs Keef worked in for most of last year. They are fantastic, and offer great support from kids from primary through secondary, with autism and other needs. But Lewisham in their knowledge have decided that these kids will be better off in mainstream classes of 30, with a couple of mornings a week one to one.... Go Bless the money men

Nunhead Lass--Please don't take offense at what I'm saying about schools. I am not slating the children who go there. I am simply saying compared to other schools in the wider area, Nunhead schools are not as good. I'm sure we can all agree that it helps to have decent facilities, staff that aren't under-supported and over-worked (and probably underpaid), and parents who are willing to get involved in the schools. Unfortunately, all these things combined need to reach a "tipping point" before things turn around for a school. But of course, it takes a long time to reach that tipping point, and usually an under performing school becomes stuck in a viscious circle.

downsouth Wrote:



> Bolands Wine Bar and Number 22 all opened quite

> recently.


A small quibble here, Bolands shut at least two years ago. It's now a restaurant but the names of it slips my mind. Dave, who ran the bar there now runs The Drum on North Cross Road.

Agreed, I grew up there and for the strip north of jamaica Road there simply is no comparison. As a little kid walking round that wasy I used to dream of living in one of those Warehouses overlooking the Thames.


Bermondsey is not ED - that's like comparing apples and pears. But they are both good in their own way.



Alan Dale Wrote:

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> I'm not sure that Bermondsey can be the new East

> Dulwich.

>

> There are 119 registered sales in excess of

> ?1million in SE1

>

> http://www.houseprices.co.uk/e.php?q=se1&s=111&f=p

> d&n=10

>

> East Dulwich has nine.

>

> http://www.houseprices.co.uk/e.php?f=pd&q=se22&n=1

> 0

Hey Downsouth I know the guys who made a stack buying up those old warehouses when they were going for a song, simply to get the storage, then sold out later. Nice guys, and own the kind of jets you dont have to bend down to get into.All of the millionaires I know from bookselling made their stack on property speculation necessitated by needing lots of cheap storage. Look and learn, as the fans used to sing...

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