Mysterious East Dulwich...

[Huguenot]

Here's a few for you:

On the junction of Upland Road and Crystal Palace Road is a large well-protected house, with huge gates, anti-climb fencing and reflective windows. It has no identifier apart from the sign 'HAZCHEM' on the hefty front door. Is there any substance to the rumour it's an MI5 safe-house? B)

On the corner of Friern Road and Peckham Rye is a large upraised area populated by around 200 tiny concrete chimneys. Is it true that each of these is the sole entrance to a 4x4 cell designed specifically to house people who cheat in online best bar polls?

At 238 Peckham Rye is an attractive double-fronted family home where all the windows have been senselessly bricked up. It also smells slightly of poo. Is it possible that this is the new home for East Dulwich's very own Miss Whiplash, and is well frequented as a local crack den for MPs?

As you can tell, I need these questions resolved urgently... ;-)

[simog]

Huguenot Wrote:

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> Here's a few for you:

>

> On the junction of Upland Road and Crystal Palace Road is a large well-protected house, with huge

> gates, anti-climb fencing and reflective windows. It has no identifier apart from the sign 'HAZCHEM'

> on the hefty front door. Is there any substance to the rumour it's an MI5 safe-house?

No - it is where Osama Bin Laden is staying whilst Tony has our boys in Afghanistan.

You are right on the other two.

[Guest]

The Upland / Crystal Palace Road place used to be a police station. It's still in use for some police IT stuff.

[Guest]

I was told by an estate agent its where the police issue firearms licenses...

not the best selling point when they were trying to sell me the house next door!

[Huguenot]

Crikey - with the Hazchem sign does that mean they're selling chemical weapons too...?

[Guest]

For the Upland/Crystal Palace one... are you talking about the wholesale hairdressing supplies place? Is so the hazchem sign could be about the bleach or something like that.

[Huguenot]

Ermm - not sure: the large house on the opposite corner to Uplands Pub and Plantnation (North East/Peckham side of the junction).

Wholesale hairdressing supplies?? Bah! Hardly seems worth the level of protection they've got. Are you sure you're not part of the conspiracy? Have you had visitors late at night?

That would still leave the chimneys and the bricked-up house... ;-)

[Ant]

I know it's around there, but it might not be the same place. I'll have a look next time I'm down that way.

Those chimneys have got me baffled too - although until I came here I'd always imagined they were pilings/foundations for something to sit on that was never built.

Inbetween them and the bricked-up house is that crumbling old building that looks like it was a school. Perhaps they're all connected somehow? The whole area looks like it's ripe for demolition and rebuilding.

[Keef]

Think that hairdressing suppliers is further up, on the corner of Crystal Palace, and Silverster Road.

[Guest]

The chimneys are not chimneys. The site used to house some kind of academy/scholl which consisted of a whole load to portakabin type buildings. They used to sit on the little raised concrete things - prob to obtain a level surface.

The salon supply building is completely different from the one opposites Uplands. It is up by the CPT and does exactly what its says on the sign.

The building opposite Uplands I was told by Haart, was a regional office for the Special Branch.

[Guest]

Im sure you are all aware of the colourful history of the local ED based plod and their mass involvment & subsequent prosecution for the supply of controlled substances back in the late 1990's ? then again, I doubt many of the posters on here were residents at the time .

With regard to the Upland question, ratehr than pontificate on the board, just go up and knock on the door - policemen are public servants and you, as a member of the public, should be able to take them to task and demand answers. you do pay their wages after all.

[Huguenot]

Hmm, with a history like that they sound a little scary. Anyone up for a quick knock and run?

[shambles]

the only plods left in ED are safer neighbourhood teams so wouldn't worry too much!!

[macroban]

Not an anonymous building, but a building with secret responsibilities...

I understand that High Wood was part of a chain of buildings that would be used if London came under nuclear threat/attack.

The military were to use it as a base for their operations to put a cordon around central London to stop the civil population fleeing.

I believe there is further information in this book: "London Under Attack : the report of the Greater London Area War

Risk Study"

I though it a little optimistic to expect that the military wouldn't try to leave London too.

[Keef]

Keef 0 Wrote:

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> The Upland / Crystal Palace Road place used to be

> a police station. It's still in use for some

> police IT stuff.

Ah look, one of my first ever posts, not even registered yet. *sniff* You get such little time with them before they're up and running.

[mockney piers]

I've been overwhelmed by nostalgia. An unregistered snorky, a still posting shambles..

[SeanMacGabhann]

I wasn't even born

[Keef]

I notice I was registered the very next day ;-)

[Lynne]

Don't think the Upland/CPRd is either M1s. I was always told it was a special Police operations place.

[Frisco]

"On the junction of Upland Road and Crystal Palace Road is a large well-protected house, with huge gates, anti-climb fencing and reflective windows. It has no identifier apart from the sign 'HAZCHEM' on the hefty front door. Is there any substance to the rumour it's an MI5 safe-house?"

If we're talking about the same place, that building used to be East Dulwich Police Station. I've often wondered what it's used for now.

[Horsebox]

It's nothing sinister, secret or particularly IT related.

It is the office of the Met Police Firearms Enquiry Team. They deal with granting/renewing of firearms licences in South East London.

Have a look on www.met.police.uk for more details.

[fish]

Horsebox Wrote:

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> It's nothing sinister, secret or particularly IT

> related.

>

> It is the office of the Met Police Firearms

> Enquiry Team. They deal with granting/renewing of

> firearms licences in South East London.

>

> Have a look on www.met.police.uk for more details.

Yeah, they must really grant a lot of firearm licences in the South East London area. Do you think those idiots who shot that young woman in New Cross, last night, had a gun licence?

[Horsebox]

fish Wrote:

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> Horsebox Wrote:

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> > It's nothing sinister, secret or particularly

> IT

> > related.

> >

> > It is the office of the Met Police Firearms

> > Enquiry Team. They deal with granting/renewing

> of

> > firearms licences in South East London.

> >

> > Have a look on www.met.police.uk for more

> details.

>

>

> Yeah, they must really grant a lot of firearm

> licences in the South East London area. Do you

> think those idiots who shot that young woman in

> New Cross, last night, had a gun licence?

Probably not although I'm not sure how or why you've made the link between licensed firearms and last nights shooting.

Care to enlighten me?

[Keef]

Last night was a bad one, double stabbings in Woolwich too, both fatal I think. Anyway, completely off topic, sorry.

[fish]

Horsebox Wrote:

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> fish Wrote:

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> > Horsebox Wrote:

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> > -----

> > > It's nothing sinister, secret or particularly

> > IT

> > > related.

> > >

> > > It is the office of the Met Police Firearms

> > > Enquiry Team. They deal with

> granting/renewing

> > of

> > > firearms licences in South East London.

> > >

> > > Have a look on www.met.police.uk for more

> > details.

> >

> >

> > Yeah, they must really grant a lot of firearm

> > licences in the South East London area. Do you

> > think those idiots who shot that young woman in

> > New Cross, last night, had a gun licence?

>

> Probably not although I'm not sure how or why

> you've made the link between licensed firearms and

> last nights shooting.

> Care to enlighten me?

Point being, they can't be issuing too many licences in SE London, as the majority of guns that are carried are unlicenced.