furryjumpergirl Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 Hello everyone from a new forum user - I lived in East Dulwich in 2004/05 but defected to Clapham then West Dulwich for a couple of years of flatmate hell. I'm pleased to say I'm due back in July, hurrah! I was just wondering whether any residents of (or near to) The Gardens can tell me what that area's like, where to go and what to avoid? I used to live on Lordship Lane so am unfamiliar with the top end. Also, does anyone have any idea what decade the flats in The Gardens were built in? Finally, is it ok to have guests in the green bit in the middle or is it strictly residents only?Thank you in advance for your help :) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
clare Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 My friend used to rent a flat in The Gardens through a company called TILT, on Peckham Rye. She had her own key for the garden and we could only go there when she invited us in !If you aren't with a doctor The Gardens practice is very good.PS welcome back! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelie Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 Where are the Gardens? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dulwichmum Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 They are off Peckham Rye - to the right as you travel down Forest Hill Road towards Peckham. It is really pretty in there. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 Here's a view of it from abovehttp://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=sk91w0gztvyg&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=4271276&encType=1 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clazza Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 Hi, it's lovely I live just round the corner from there. Tilt estates own a lot of the property around there & let it through http://www.propertyindulwich.com/lettings.htm . One studio flat on at the moment. You'll love it. welcome back Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24369 Share on other sites More sharing options...
monica Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 The gardens are lovely,my friend lives there,im very impressed by the lack of noise,and the peaceful serenity you get when you enter the gardens,im sure you will love it Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
furryjumpergirl Posted June 26, 2007 Author Share Posted June 26, 2007 Ooh I'm so pleased other people are saying nice things about it, it seemed so tranquil and pretty but you can never tell from just visiting once. It's nice that all the East Dulwich people are so friendly too, that's rare in the other places I've lived! I've been reading about the new WI and will be right round there as soon as my boxes are unpacked :) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24390 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcedOut Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 I'm living just off a street there. It's perfect! Quiet and also close to Peckham Rye, which is great for the summer. Also close to the shops on East Dulwich Road, but a 5 minute walk to Lordship Lane. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24398 Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizenED Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 welcome back FJG. The Gardens should be a bit different from living on Lordship Lane - more tranquil. Peckham Rye Park is right on your door step (and there is going to be a cafe there soon) and you are not far from the brillianr North Cross Road with its fantastic weekend market.citizen Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24409 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 From what I?ve seen the flats around the gardens are Victorian conversions. Rather big old 3 ? 4 story houses that have been converted into flats.Welcome back! It's top here:)) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24420 Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_carnell Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 I'd be interested in other forum-ite's suggestions of things round that way as I'm moving into Oakhurst grove next Saturday, which is just round the corner.It's also nice and quiet as the road is blocked off preventing it being a rat run bypass of LL.Apparently the Gold Lee chinese is very good? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24422 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Oakhurst Grove is awesome. I like the way all the houses look like castles. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_carnell Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Errrm....perhaps further down they do. I'm closer East Dulwich Road and mine looks distinctly like a pebble-dashed Victorian town house. Those castle people are clearly vey lucky! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24457 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 David, I think you'll find this quite clearly looks like a castle!http://img.findaproperty.com/propertyindulwich/p1055982.jpg Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24469 Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_carnell Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Damn, those are nice. Perhaps underneath the pebbledashing and PVC windows, my new flat looked like that!At least the inside is very nice. I do find it slightly strange that you happen to have a photo of this lying around....it's not your own castle by any chance? :) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Oh my god!!!! Top floor is Huguenot's old flat from 3 years back! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Nah, just grabbed it from findaproperty. I've been flathunting, so knew where to find the pic! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24479 Share on other sites More sharing options...
moz200 Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Hi,I actually rent a flat from Tilt. They own over 100 flats/properties in and around the gardens. They seem to have a complete monopoly in this area, pricing other individuals out of the buying market. That said, they are quite good landlords, even if many of their staff are very rude. It is pretty quite in the gardens, except in the daytime. Pretty much every day, all day, the man who maintains the main "garden" in the centre is either mowing or hedge cutting, which is VERY VERY NOISY. Also, as Tilt are constantly buying properties in the area, there are constant building works going on. They use a team of builders who work for them, who constantly drive around and around all day in vans/lorries. Due to the building work, the area is extremely dusty (don't bother cleaning windows, there's no point!). The quality of the building work is very basic, in our flat almost every fixture and fitting has now broken or needed repairing. The big bonus is the use of the garden in the centre, which you get a key for when you rent from Tilt. This is great on occasions, apart from when huge groups decide to have picnics and BBQ's with all their little brats runing around crying and leaving bits of sausage everywhere, while they stay sitting in the dark until 2am, singing and cheering after drinking way too much white wine...Anyway, I guess you take the good with the bad... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 I haven't been to the Gradens for a few years, so can't comment on it's current state. However, I always thought it would be an absolutely beautiful place to live!!! (tu) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24572 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 > I actually rent a flat from Tilt. They own over> 100 flats/properties in and around the gardens.> They seem to have a complete monopoly in this> area, pricing other individuals out of the buying> market. I almost bought an ex-rental flat from Tilt, on Barry Road. They accepted the offer, but then pulled out because they'd decided to sell it to someone else as part of a batch. That's enough to convince me never to deal with them again! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dulwichmum Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Dear Moz200,Somebody has to have "little brats", "who run about screaming and leave bits of sausage everywhere" or else who will there be to look after you when you are old and grey, you good natured sweet tolerant person? You must be glad you live in The Gardens, just 5 minutes up the road to Peckham High Street where you can buy yourself a great big bag of strangely shaped vegetables to boil in your cauldron for tea? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_carnell Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 dulwichmum Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Dear Moz200,> > Somebody has to have "little brats", "who run> about screaming and leave bits of sausage> everywhere" or else who will there be to look> after you when you are old and grey, you good> natured sweet tolerant person? > > You must be glad you live in The Gardens, just 5> minutes up the road to Peckham High Street where> you can buy yourself a great big bag of strangely> shaped vegetables to boil in your cauldron for> tea?Harsh but fair......And funny.:))I'm sure your two delightful children don't even eat sausages (very common) do they DM? Although your polish "manny" may convert them onto kielbasa. I'd watch out. It'll be saurkraut next. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24588 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dulwichmum Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Dear Mr David_carnell,Thank you so much for your kind comments. I pride myself on my harsh but fairness, and my blooming nanny is Lithuanian - that woman has ruined my life! (sob)... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24591 Share on other sites More sharing options...
moz200 Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Dear Dulwichmum,Why do you end every sentance with a question mark? Is it because you know I'm right? Either way, I live here, you don't, so it was just my observations from my window during the past year...Keep eating the sausages darling. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/964-the-gardens/#findComment-24593 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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