mockney piers Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Is it true about the Palm Trees on Peckham High St. I was listening to a very surreal conversation on the tube this morning, and this chap with a booming voice was decrying Southwarks use of ?30k of taxpayers' money to line Peckham with Palm Trees.If so I demand Lordship Lane get a host of Saguaro cacti now!! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 They'd be well suited to our future climate. (Unless of course they end up underwater.) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9797 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsEd Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 There was a half-page article in Monday's Daily Mail, with several photos; they're between the bus station and Queens Rd BR. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9801 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bagpuss78 Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Some have been planted near the bus station, I see them, close my eyes and pretend I'm really on my way to work in sunny Bermondsey! B) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadWorld74 Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 You can line the pavements with sand and have rum served up free on the way to work, but Peckham for me still remains a miserable and run down place. Sorry for those of you who love it (my next door neighbour has a sign displayed in their front window reading 'I love Peckham', but we both live in ED) Peckham used to be nice, just look up from street level and see the great old architecture. To me it's a place I have to travel through every day to get to and from work. Nothing more. The library and the farmers market bring it some class at least. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9803 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratty Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Having just been advised of Southwark Councils Maternity Pay package for my wife, I am surprised they can shell out 30p for something let along ?30 grand!I shall use this as a stick to beat them! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgia Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 I agree - it pi***s me off that their idea of regenerating these run-down areas is to put up a few palm trees. Surely the money would be better spent on improving housing, transport etc etc Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9805 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fractionater Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 MadWorld74 - you be careful walking through there every day! Just make sure you're wearing your bullet/Stab proof vest, and don't look anyone in the eye... they might think you're dissin' them! (happened to me once and nearly started a fight - good job the cops were passing by) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadWorld74 Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 I've already been 'started' on by some bloke yelling abuse at me, and why? I walked 'too near' him as I was on my way to the bus stop. The police don't even go there unless they're en route somewhere else. Palm trees? Sort out the shootings first dear MP's. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9807 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted April 11, 2007 Author Share Posted April 11, 2007 I know Peckham's not to everyone's taste. Mrs Mockers looks positively alarmed every time we visit, but I do like it's charm (and scotch bonnet peppers) but strictly during the day. And yeah, you have turn a blind eye to people starting on each other etcAdmittedly this does seem something of a folly, but tracking down some minutes it seems to have been originally promoted by residents' groups back in about 2005, and anything that helps a troubled area buy into community can't be all bad can it?Besides, I want those cacti ;) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parker's Folly Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 As I'm sure you are all aware, quite a lot of money is being spent widening the Walworth Road pavements, in the process narrowing the actual road and in my opinion, causing chaos. I don't live around there, but is there really a need to widen pavements along there? The traffic is so heavy along that road that surely it could cause bottlenecks in future?Who knows, if they plant palm trees there as well, it could become the Sunset Boulevard of London, with Dulwich and Cystal Palace neatly placed to take on the mantel of Hollywood Hills! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9809 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted April 11, 2007 Author Share Posted April 11, 2007 I was just thinking on the 68 bus last night how nice the pavement looks, and how much more of a congenial environment it makes Walworth Rd. Isn't it about time we did the same (cacti and all) to LL's shameful pavements, to make it Tenochtitlan to Walworth's Sunset Boulevard? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 You don't happen to have a job-lot of cacti you're looking to shift, do you Mockers? Special price for the council? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted April 11, 2007 Author Share Posted April 11, 2007 Darn, found out :D. We could start at the Crystal Palace Road end of LL, just by that green door on the corner. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9813 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 I think I know the one... by the Plough Cafe? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9814 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Flickr? ;-) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9815 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Possibly. ;) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9819 Share on other sites More sharing options...
louisiana Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Ant Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> You don't happen to have a job-lot of cacti you're> looking to shift, do you Mockers? Special price> for the council?I'm thinking about planting a pomegranate tree, as well as a fig.Louisiana Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcedOut Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 I've been travelling to work via Peckham Rye for over 3 years now and have never seen any trouble - and that often includes travelling back quite late in the evening. The Rye area is hardly glamorous, but I've never felt threatened there. I wish people would give the place a break Rodney! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9837 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fractionater Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 You probably look to 'ard then Aced! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9841 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcedOut Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 The only time I've seen any trouble is on or outside busses, and in innermost Peckham towards Old Kent Road. Both of which I tend to avoid.What gets me are the people that sit in busses and openly listen to the similar sounding (crap rap, as I like to call it) distorted 'music' playing from their mobile phones for all to hear. I keep meaning to carry a set of cheap headphones to throw at those people. If they can afford the phone, surely they have some spare pocket money for headphones, no? One day I'll get beaten up for the looks I give them. It almost happened on a train, but I think he was more scared of me! A young child would have been able to flick that character to the floor with his little finger.How about a new campaign - Headphones for Hoodies (HfH) ?? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Apparently it's illegal (playing music on buses) but not particularly enforceable. I think I also heard that they might be changing or adding to the legislation to make it easier to enforce, but I can't remember any details so it's possible that I'm just making that bit up. Anyone else heard the same?(Does this count as offtoppication?) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 There is actually a website campaigne about this very thing, but can't remember the address off the top of my head. I would genuinely rather them play the music louder through a proper stereo than listen to the awful tinny round you get from a mobile speaker, it drives me insane! Doesn't help that I pass about 5 schools on the way to work! :-( Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted April 11, 2007 Author Share Posted April 11, 2007 Perhaps we could plant Headphone trees on Lordship Lane, like those lovely spaghetti trees in Italy? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9864 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted April 11, 2007 Author Share Posted April 11, 2007 He he, I love this new functionality in google mapshttp://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&om=1&z=15&ll=51.459622,-0.068192&spn=0.01615,0.034032&msid=116533662858830805344.00000111e12305c1d712b&msa=0&mid=1176304123 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/455-peckham-florida/#findComment-9883 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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