[cite]Posted By: Goonerhater[/cite]Oiiiiiiiiiiii oiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii we is posh now dont youknow !!
Kidbrooke Village
nice
4,800 apartments(£200K a pop)
Hotel
Gastro pub
Cator Park ??????
still looks like the Ferrier to me !
I spent 24 years on the place , went to school local and was born in kidbrooke , as much as i hated the place towards the end , i still miss the surrounding areas , i just hope they don't move the same people back when its completed , as is often said " it only takes a few f**kers to ruin the area "
only live round the corner from the ferrier oursleves and was interested about the whole bars , restaurants and the like in the new developement , then I saw it was taking 15-20 years to complete!
I used to live on the Ferrier. Got broken into twice by some scumbags down the corridor (although I couldn't prove it was them) and got stopped & questioned by the police regularly. Like a lot of those 60's developments however, the flats were really quite nice on the inside - spacious and quiet. There were also some very nice people living there, although you were unlikely to find them in the estate boozer.
[cite]Posted By: 24 Red[/cite]I used to live on the Ferrier. Got broken into twice by some scumbags down the corridor (although I couldn't prove it was them) and got stopped & questioned by the police regularly. Like a lot of those 60's developments however, the flats were really quite nice on the inside - spacious and quiet. There were also some very nice people living there, although you were unlikely to find them in the estate boozer.
The wat tyler closed down around 15 years ago ! the sort of place where the music stopped when you walked in the door ! as you say the places were nice , the rooms bloody huge ! i bet the new houses are pokey little places going on the basis that the propertys they are building will be twice as many as they have knocked down .
I saw an advert for it and you help but laugh at the name Kidbrooke Village, reminds me of the Brixton Village market! I've said on a previous thread that it's a great location for a development. The flats won't be as nice inside as the old ones but the price and façade will attract a different demographic.
[cite]Posted By: Friend Or Defoe[/cite]I saw an advert for it and you help but laugh at the name Kidbrooke Village, reminds me of the Brixton Village market! I've said on a previous thread that it's a great location for a development. The flats won't be as nice inside as the old ones but the price and façade will attract a different demographic.
1 beds starting at 205k I think. Spreading from the Yorkshire Grey roundabout on the old Greenwich Borough site all the way to the station. Lived nearby on the other side of the roundabout for a few years and struggling to think of many shops/restaurants/bars to sustain that many houses? Must be building a little village on site then if what people have said above about gastro's etc is true.
[cite]Posted By: Friend Or Defoe[/cite]I saw an advert for it and you help but laugh at the name Kidbrooke Village, reminds me of the Brixton Village market! I've said on a previous thread that it's a great location for a development. The flats won't be as nice inside as the old ones but the price and façade will attract a different demographic.
1 beds starting at 205k I think. Spreading from the Yorkshire Grey roundabout on the old Greenwich Borough site all the way to the station. Lived nearby on the other side of the roundabout for a few years and struggling to think of many shops/restaurants/bars to sustain that many houses? Must be building a little village on site then if what people have said above about gastro's etc is true.
[cite]Posted By: Friend Or Defoe[/cite]I saw an advert for it and you help but laugh at the name Kidbrooke Village, reminds me of the Brixton Village market! I've said on a previous thread that it's a great location for a development. The flats won't be as nice inside as the old ones but the price and façade will attract a different demographic.
1 beds starting at 205k I think. Spreading from the Yorkshire Grey roundabout on the old Greenwich Borough site all the way to the station. Lived nearby on the other side of the roundabout for a few years and struggling to think of many shops/restaurants/bars to sustain that many houses? Must be building a little village on site then if what people have said above about gastro's etc is true.
I guess that's the mystery of the name solved!
Think it looks like one of the grimmest most intensive developments I've seen for a while. Just everything looks so compact.
Went to Tallis so had quite a few friends on the old estate. As has been said before, some of the people were nutters but most of the people were nice and the flats were massive inside, fantastic for house parties especially if you lived on one of the upper floors. Good to see they’ve finally started building the new Tallis as well, needed knocking down even before I got there, the teachers worked wonders with the shocking resources they were given and some of the pupils they had to deal with. I guess people will moan no matter what, but the flats will have to be small in order to fit a large number of people over a relatively small area to ensure we don’t go back to tower blocks.
Lived on there for nearly 15 years or more, Benny Hill, not everyone who lived on there were scum!
Drank with Van Den Hauwe in the Wat Tyler a few times, he lived in my square (Dando Crescent) at his parents flat when he split with Mandy Smith, an ok fella, started mixing with some serious wrong uns though.
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I spent 24 years on the place , went to school local and was born in kidbrooke , as much as i hated the place towards the end , i still miss the surrounding areas , i just hope they don't move the same people back when its completed , as is often said " it only takes a few f**kers to ruin the area "
some opposite me i reckon.
The wat tyler closed down around 15 years ago ! the sort of place where the music stopped when you walked in the door ! as you say the places were nice , the rooms bloody huge ! i bet the new houses are pokey little places going on the basis that the propertys they are building will be twice as many as they have knocked down .
1 beds starting at 205k I think. Spreading from the Yorkshire Grey roundabout on the old Greenwich Borough site all the way to the station. Lived nearby on the other side of the roundabout for a few years and struggling to think of many shops/restaurants/bars to sustain that many houses? Must be building a little village on site then if what people have said above about gastro's etc is true.
Think it looks like one of the grimmest most intensive developments I've seen for a while. Just everything looks so compact.
Drank with Van Den Hauwe in the Wat Tyler a few times, he lived in my square (Dando Crescent) at his parents flat when he split with Mandy Smith, an ok fella, started mixing with some serious wrong uns though.