please empty your brain below
Shame that there aren't seven noteworthy peaks, then Lewisham could twin itself with Rome!

Ken | 17.06.17 - 7:25 a.m. | #

Wow, a post that reaches new heights.
And don't you ever use that awful phrase 'going forward' again. 'In future' or 'soon' will do.

popartist | 17.06.17 - 7:42 a.m. | #

@Ken
There are seven - but DG only wrote about six of them today because he'd done Sydenham Hill before.

timbo | 17.06.17 - 7:55 a.m. | #

Never seen Drones being raced, but bemused as to why participants would require 'VR headsets'..

Any ideas?

Frank F | 17.06.17 - 8:06 a.m. | #

Frank F - I believe the drones have cameras, so the headsets give you a drones eye view to the 'pilot', this is helpful negotiating the course.

It does help explain why there was no bounce in sports participation after 2012, computer 'sports' are more fun compared to jumping in sand, throwing a stick, or jumping over a pole.

Still anon | 17.06.17 - 8:18 a.m. | #

Thanks, that makes sense. VR as in video relay, rather than virtual reality!

Frank F | 17.06.17 - 8:50 a.m. | #

>>there was no bounce in sports participation after 2012

I suspect a stronger reason for this might be that the Government supplied lots of empty rhetoric encouraging people to take up sports but (as usual) provided bugger all money to actually enable more people to do it.

Agent X | 17.06.17 - 9:39 a.m. | #

Although I believe it's just out of Lewisham and into Southwark (which may account for its absence here) but just a short distance from Dawson Heights is one of the most amazing views across London, anywhere: it comes from the upper balconies of the Ladlands development on Overhill Road.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/32293736@N04/12257741273/

RogerW | 17.06.17 - 10:33 a.m. | #

(PS: unfortunately it's a private building and you can't simply walk in there)

RogerW | 17.06.17 - 10:37 a.m. | #

@timbo - good point! However, the opening paragraph alludes to six, and the seventh is effectively a footnote. Minor edit needed DG?

Ken | 17.06.17 - 10:53 a.m. | #

The precise number of hills in Lewisham is debatable. I trekked up half a dozen.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 17.06.17 - 11:24 a.m. | #

You've saved a reason to return - Blythe Hill Fields is easily missed but is an absolute treat, especially at sunset - just a stunning view. It also has one of London's finest pubs at the bottom of the hill, the Blythe Hill Tavern.

Here's another take on some of those hills (and across the border into Southwark) http://go-feet.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/running-london-brockley-and-nunhead.html

Darryl | Homepage | 17.06.17 - 12:12 p.m. | #

Wonderful Modernist houses on Horseman Drive.

Michael | 17.06.17 - 12:25 p.m. | #

Horniman Drive damn autocorrect.

Michael | 17.06.17 - 12:27 p.m. | #

You missed the top of Canonbie Road which is definitely a hill and a road.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/758354

Mr Canonbie | 17.06.17 - 3:06 p.m. | #

You also missed Telegraph Hill the second last telegraph before the Admiralty. The news of Nelson's death would have been sent through this station.

Mr Telegraph | 17.06.17 - 3:15 p.m. | #

You might also be interested to know that at Hilly Fields the Bowling Club team hut was designed by Leonard Mannesh one of the UKs leading post-war architects who only died in March this year.

https://www.hilly.org.uk/leonard-manasseh-at-hilly-fields/

Mr Mannesh | 17.06.17 - 3:16 p.m. | #











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