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EN3 will be dull after this.
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Just for once I'm up at what, for me, is an ungodly early hour. Which makes the Brilliant Visions exhibition at Bethlem Museum unusually attractive. Or maybe I'd better go back to bed.
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I never knew Park Langley and Shirley were areas in London until I went 2 weeks ago and now DG visits.
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well done and I hope your post (if you authorize this use of course) will be leveraged by the Tourist Office of BR3
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Excellent post there,DG.,but if I'd only known that you were wandering around this area, I could have invited you in for a mug of tea!
Anyway, your description of the Bethlehem Museum has reminded me that we still haven't visited but obviously should. |
“Late Austerity era” - wonderful! A great post, thank you.
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I’m going to enjoy this series. “Late Austerity” indeed, you’re the Tom Peck of London blogging.
I think Bethlem was featured in a recent Louis Theroux documentary? |
Bethlem museum looks very worth a visit - I've never even heard of before, despite living just a few miles away, Thank you. Very much looking forward to seeing what you feature in SE3...
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Is 'local history month' going to consist of lots of first articles of different series?
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Thanks for revealing that fascinating Chinese Garage, which planners apparently want to retain, although nowadays they would not allow it to be constructed.
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Video: Pathe newsreel of the Chinese Garage in 1929 (soon after opening)
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Off to a cracking start BR3 has set the bar high!
TW3 will be a challenge! I used to live there until the mid-1990s. There is a lot of history in the area but good luck finding any sign of it now other than some lovely late Victorian streets round the back. Google suggests the Bell pub might still be there though. |
I think it'd be less judgemental or leaded to say '...psychedelic drug mescaline' rather than 'psychotic'.
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If I rememberer the 80s correctly, Texaco ran the petrol station at the Chinese garage along with neighbouring pumps across the road where I assume the Kia showroom now stands.
I hope you caught sight of the old park house just past Sponge Kitchens beside the Wickham Road entrance. Inside Kelsey Park there used to be what we as kids presumed was an air raid shelter (or fairy house!) though I later heard it was once a wine or ice cellar for the long since demolished Kelsey manor house. |
The garden as shown in the film ought to be reinstated. Generally, with new mobility and shopping trends, we should go back to beautification schemes in car parks and along the roads. Driving on Parkways in the US was supposed to be a pleasant experience and part of the enjoyment of travel.
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As a resident of BR3 for the last 40 years it shows that DG can tell me more about where I live than I previously knew
I walk my dog in the grounds of Bethlem hospital which are woods and open spaces. The hospital office which encourages use by the public told me it is the largest green space in London that is not a park. |
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