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Best and Worst in Lewisham, Greater London*

Lewisham, Greater London Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• Bunjy-jumping Jesus, as my mate calls it - the catholic church with the HUGE tower and the son of god poised to leap off the top, on Lewisham high st
• Wonderful 1900-ish houses on Loampit Hill & Lewisham Way. Some of them painted silly colours.
• The art deco building on ladywell bridge, I think it's a glue factory or seomthing.
• southeast london college lewisham way
• The main building of Goldsmiths College on Lewisham Way.
• The Lewisham Clock Tower, the Co-op building (Yates') and Lewisham Theatre.
• The 'Hansel and Gretal' House on New Cross road. Its called that cos its a colourful house - anyone who has passed it will know it. Citibank - because although it dont look that good, its probably the most famous thing in Lewisham. Hugh Grant mentioned it on the radio (capital) once (maybe he lives in Lewisham). Also the catford cat. Did his arm used to move in the eighties? I thought it did but everyone seems to think different.

Demolish It Now Building

• The Venue
• MFI and that carpet shed at the end of Loampit Vale near the station - souless, ugly, depressing buildings that bore the hell out of me every day when I walk past them. Wouldn't shed a tear if someone nuked McDonalds either.
• St Joseph' school
• that strange lump of rocks on the roundabout and knock down Catford while youre at it !!!!. Ladywell Police station.
• Any of the tower blocks in the North of the Borough.
• Eros house
• Citibank - its not that nice looking. Burger King/Macs - then there would be less police signs saying someone was seriousley injuryed at 11pm etc.

The Best Things

• Good transport - lots of night bus services to Lewisham, DLR, trains to Charing X in half an hour etc
• Sheels pharmacy/health food shop. If you are into complementary medicine or health foods this is a great place. If they don't stock it, just ask they'll get it. If you want unconventional advice from a pharmacist this is the place; they can advice on homeopathic remedies if you do not use conventional drugs and remedies.
• Independent publishers, The Do-Not Press (http://www.thedonotpress.co.uk) home of Ken Bruen, Bill James, John B Spencer and Russell James are based in Lewsisham.
• THE BEST THING ABOUT LEWISHAM IS THE ROAD COMING OUT OF IT
• Over 100 ways to get into town & back home by public transport. Trains to VLondon Bridge (12 minutes), Waterloo, Charing Cross and Victoria, also DLR + East London Line + Jubilee Line, also 6 night busses an hour, all night, every night. If you live in Lewisham & you go out at all you end up seeing a lot of Trafalgar Square. My local pub has regulars from (roughly in order) Ireland, Jamaica, England Barbados, Turkey (both Turks and Kurds), Nigeria, Guyana, Grenada, Trinidad, India, Pakistan, Sweden, Sri Lanka, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the USA, France, Canada, Germany and Lithuania and probably other places. Brilliant!
• Not coming from North London
• THE FORDHAM PARK URBAN FREE FESTIVAL !!!! BRING IT BACK !!!!
• The black cat over the catford centre
• The relaxed approach to life in a lively part of Sarf Eest Landan.
• Plenty of buses.

The Worst Things

• All the bloody students
• Too much traffic
• The rounabout in the town centre. It has causes drivers to lose common sense and the ability to negotiate a busy roundabout. Badly designed it’s a nightmare for pedestrians as well as motorists and cyclists. Grate if you need an innovative method to commit suicide.
• Cars everywhere. Total traffic jam 3 or 4 hours a week.
• The public transport (or lack of it).
• It always looks half finished.
• The Catford Pussy wid da green nastiness eyes.

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Last updated: 2006-10-27