Robert Doyle

Living, loving, coffee drinking and cake eating in Streatham Hill for 31 years before we got a Gail's Bakery
Sometime Lord High Everything Else of Streatham

[Robert Doyle @RJDoyleSW2]

Considering adopting "Well we’re not prim here in Streatham, we’re as broadminded as the rest of you, but there’s a limit." as new tagline...

[Grayson Perry @Alan_Measles]

Sorting through some old boxes and came across this letter to Ceramic Review from 1988

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: Nigel Farage using the murder of Henry Nowak to sew division in society, "rights of white people matter less than ethnic minorities"

Right: Henry Nowak's father, "We do not want his death used to create further division hated or tension"

[Robert Doyle @RJDoyleSW2]

@MunicipalDreams When first constructed, Carey Gardens was half in Lambeth and half in Wandsworth (the formerly Battersea bit).
It was only united in one borough in mid 1990s. IIRC the lure of lower council tax prevailed over any other logic in local responses to the boundary commission report?

[Robert Doyle @RJDoyleSW2]

@MunicipalDreams The new station could only be constructed as part of the city's expansion after the Spanish Government finally allowed the inland fortifications around the port to be dismantled. The plan finally adopted was rather less ambitious than this 1896 scheme.

[Robert Doyle @RJDoyleSW2]

@ElectCllrsUK *Streatham* in Lambeth not *Stretham* in rural East Cambridgeshire.

[Councillor News UK @ElectCllrsUK]

By-election date announcement for 9 July:

🌍Clapham Park (Lambeth) GRN
🌍Stretham St. Leonard's (Lambeth) GRN

[Friends of West Norwood Cemetery (FOWNC) @fownc1837]

Professor Robert Flanagan (1948-2026)
It is with great sadness that we share news of the recent and unexpected death of Bob Flanagan.
In 1990, Bob led a dedicated group of community members, historians and conservationists, to establish the Friends of West Norwood Cemetery.

[Robert Doyle @RJDoyleSW2]

@RobertSterry6 @DuncanStott @AnyaM8_ I think the annual grants in recent years have been to run the annual Soho Fete event, not to support their casework on planning /licensing?

[Robert Doyle @RJDoyleSW2]

@MunicipalDreams Municipal Fever Dreams? Even by the standards of Modernista Ayuntamientos, I always thought this one is a bit over ripe.

[Christopher Howse @BeardyHowse]

The appearance of this building has nothing to do with the window tax. The side round the corner is full of windows. The blanks are not bricked up but decorative devices.

[Robert Doyle @RJDoyleSW2]

@RoyalFineArt @BeardyHowse The house at 38 Delancey Street is listed because it is a pioneering example of "composition" artificial stone block construction and not as an example of the window tax.
https://t.co/VssFbCy2BY

[Joe Brown @JoeBrownLondon]

#OnThisDay 36 years ago City Thameslink opened. Fascinating image of the newly-opened station in its original 'St Paul's Thameslink' incarnation (its name changed after just 16 months on 30/09/1991), and before it was rafted over. Tom Burnham https://t.co/OyxAmxx58G

[Robert Doyle @RJDoyleSW2]

@andrewpconnell Lambeth's planning site has been more down than up recently!

Here is the developer's visualisation of their plans. The existing C19th pub gets stretched upwards by adding an extra storey to the bay windows and raising the cornice height by a further storey.

[Robert Doyle @RJDoyleSW2]

What next for the Crown & Sceptre pub?
#StreathamHill #BrixtonHill

Plans for 173 "co-living units" on top of the pub and in new buildings replacing the beer garden and car park.

I seriously doubt if a pub in the remaining space would be viable.

[InStreatham BID @instreatham]

A Planning Application has been received by Lambeth Council for development at The Crown And Sceptre Streatham Hill & 1A And 3 Streatham Place London SW2.

Please see the attached document for details of the proposal and on how to comment.

https://t.co/OwlYKfv2Y4

[Robert Doyle @RJDoyleSW2]

@andrewpconnell Tram infrastructure in the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth (including Streatham) would previously have been marked as the property of the LCC Tramways.

(There was also a small bit of the former London General network from Tooting going west towards Wimbledon.)

[Robert Doyle @RJDoyleSW2]

What a petty little man he is.

[SE1 - @se1.news on Bluesky @se1]

This letter from Neil Coyle MP (deliberately?) spells the name of the new Southwark Green leader incorrectly

[Lambeth Police | Central South BCU @LambethMPS]

Do you recognise Ja’Nyah, 13?

His family are growing increasingly concerned for his welfare as he was last seen in Lambeth on Sun, 24 May at 8pm. At the time he was wearing a black Nike tracksuit.

Please call 101 with information, or 999 if you see him, quoting 01/7604532/26.

[Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦 @DuncanStott]

This is great and everything 🫡🇺��
...but please don't give the UK Treasury any ideas on how to save a few bob on rolling stock.

[Mark Bery @SocStreatham]

We still have a few tickets left for this fascinating tour along Streatham High Road and Streatham Hill.

Sunday 7th June at 11am. Booking essential via our Ticket Source link on the web site

#streathamhistory

https://t.co/xS5WEoaEDW

[Robert Doyle @RJDoyleSW2]

@heartstreatham It was Streatham *Common* station