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Originally posted by Stirlingsays

You can't even write it correctly.....So you are probably telling the truth.
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sorry did not realise this was an english exam

Edited by richard shaw (og)65 (13 Mar 2019 5.11pm)

 


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Originally posted by richard shaw (og)65


sorry did not realise this was an english exam

Edited by richard shaw (og)65 (13 Mar 2019 5.11pm)

You can't even post correctly.

Blimey.

Edited by Stirlingsays (13 Mar 2019 5.12pm)

 


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Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

I’ve lived my whole life in London, aside from 3 years at University, and I can’t see myself leaving any time soon; I still love it.

Can’t agree at all with the assessment that it’s ‘fallen’.

It’s interesting to read all this talk of how all these dangerous ghettos have formed - there are countless areas which are infinitely safer and more desirable than even 10 years ago; Brixton, Peckham, Lewisham, Elephant & Castle have all been gentrified beyond recognition, and appear to be continuing to do so.

I started working in Lewisham back in the 1970s today it has lost all it's character and looks more like Croydon every day. Soulless high rise tower blocks dominate the high street and surroundings but the local people cannot afford to buy or rent them. The number of dwellings between Catford, Lewishm, Deptford and Greenwich has gone up astronomically and all the council cares about is the increased tax this brings.

Yet this new "prosperity" doesn't trickle down one look at the high street says it all. Dominated by fast food shops, bookies and pound shops. There is no decent pub or restaurant in sight it's a dump.

God I sound like Steeleye and Pussay moaning about trickle down but I don't recognise any gentrification just more blocks of flats.

 


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Originally posted by Stirlingsays

You can't even post correctly.

Blimey.

Edited by Stirlingsays (13 Mar 2019 5.12pm)

you are amazing mate

 


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Originally posted by richard shaw (og)65

you are amazing mate


Tell me something I didn't know.

 


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Originally posted by Stirlingsays


Tell me something I didn't know.

the caps button is broken on my computer

 


interviewer " iggy , do you think you influenced anybody?"
iggy pop " I think I wiped out the 60`S "

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Originally posted by richard shaw (og)65

the caps button is broken on my computer


You mean your keyboard.

Well, you have my sympathy.

Anyway, what's with the 'deluded' comment? What do you think is deluded in the thread?

Edited by Stirlingsays (13 Mar 2019 5.20pm)

 


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Originally posted by Stirlingsays


You mean your keyboard.

Well, you have my sympathy.

Anyway, what's with the 'deluded' comment? What do you think is deluded in the thread?

Edited by Stirlingsays (13 Mar 2019 5.20pm)

no i mean my computer , which the keyboard is part of , pedant

its not really but to pick on that is pretty pathetic

Edited by richard shaw (og)65 (13 Mar 2019 5.27pm)

 


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Originally posted by Badger11

I started working in Lewisham back in the 1970s today it has lost all it's character and looks more like Croydon every day. Soulless high rise tower blocks dominate the high street and surroundings but the local people cannot afford to buy or rent them. The number of dwellings between Catford, Lewishm, Deptford and Greenwich has gone up astronomically and all the council cares about is the increased tax this brings.

Yet this new "prosperity" doesn't trickle down one look at the high street says it all. Dominated by fast food shops, bookies and pound shops. There is no decent pub or restaurant in sight it's a dump.

God I sound like Steeleye and Pussay moaning about trickle down but I don't recognise any gentrification just more blocks of flats.

I’m a local person who owns and lives in a high rise block in Lewisham, so I don’t particularly agree with your assessment. The majority of my neighbours are British.

I don’t quite get the point on the number of dwellings in SE; in light of the housing issues, isn’t that a good thing?

The shops/restaurants will come; it takes serious time for an area to change to that extent; Lewisham in another 20 years will be unrecognisable - you’re already seeing a load of these trendy sorts of pubs/bars and cafes opening up in Lewisham, assuming that’s what you mean by character. The residential investment only really kicked into gear in the last 5 years or so.


 

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Originally posted by richard shaw (og)65

no i mean my computer , which the keyboard is part of , pedant

Ok genius, the caps button is broken on your computer.

Have you got anything else amusing you'd like to say?

 


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Originally posted by richard shaw (og)65

never existed , a south london stereotype by writers who didn't have a clue , only fools and horses never really reflected the south london i grew up in and live in .

funny enough, I find it exactly as I remember London as a child in the 60s.
I assume the writers are fairly old, so have based on their memories.
My dad had a brother & 5 sisters who lived Dagenham, Bethnal green, orient, Bermondsey and other areas.
one uncle was a caretaker, ran a block of flats just like 'Del boys.
Although the areas deteriorated as time moved on, I remember they seemed pretty clean & tidy with a genuine community spirit.
The real London went decades ago.

 


Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.

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Originally posted by richard shaw (og)65

no i mean my computer , which the keyboard is part of , pedant

its not really but to pick on that is pretty pathetic

Edited by richard shaw (og)65 (13 Mar 2019 5.27pm)

Oh so you're a liar.....but I'm the pathetic one?

 


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