Lambeth Country Show-n off at its best

If you're putting on a big day out, you need sun. The Lambeth Country Show on Saturday 18th July, when we went, was sunny and showed off the spectacle at its best.

The sun, lighting one of the quieter spots

Brockwell Park is a big place, but it was full. Children's rides and games; craft tents; a health (check) tent; avenues of food; a charity tent and stalls; a display arena banked around with its large crowd; a Trade Union tent; portaloos (thankfully); local societies and groups; a food tent, well, two of those. Lots and lots of people. Plus lots and lots of purple-topped Lambeth Council people out from behind desks and having a good time and sharing what they do with the community.



The Tulse Hill Forum asked a good question

It was good to see The Tulse Hill Forum and the Norwood Forum next to each other and close to a marquee with many Council housing services on display.

This steel band was a joy to hear

A lot of the food and drink were very local - and on a day when the Herne Hill Market greeted people coming to the Show via Herne Hill station. Certainly, there was a roaring trade going on, as the smokin' hot photo below shows.

The queue was lengthy for GDH Gordons Grill

There was a lovely buzz to the day. All over, you could see friends bumping into each other and smiling, children playing and dancing, people eating, drinking, sitting down, sitting up, and lying down. All ages and backgrounds of people were strolling about.

Lambeth clearly wants to put itself on the map

We're already looking forward to next year.

You can view our earlier posts in our Index here.

Useful post: South London local online

At Edward Ashdale we enjoy communicating and being part of local life.  One of the nice things that you can do with a blog is to be helpful, which is why we already have posts giving information about local schools - we will be updating those and adding to them -, and a "property related services to consider" post.

This "South London local online" post combines social media (well, we are 21st century estate agents) and local communities. It's not always easy to find the online communities where people get together online in South London, so we thought we'd offer some helpful links here. Want to find local people socialising and contributing to local life online? This is a blog post to add to your Favourites, and if you think we should add an online community we've missed, let us know. More will be added as we discover them.

In alphabetical order:

Beckenham

Beckenham Town us - Website here, Twitter here

Crystal Palace

- Crystal Palace People - website here, Twitter here

Norwood

- Virtual Norwood. Website here, Twitter here

Orpington

- Orpington Community. Website here, Twitter here

Tulse Hill

- Tulse Hill Forum. Website here, Twitter here

In the news again

With the publication of the latest Bromley and Bexley Property Mart magazine, we're in the news again.  Following one of our properties being on the cover of the magazine earlier this year here, and the last issue carrying a featured property, this time there is a profile which talks about the way we work, and also about our innovative (and fun) series of community-inspired, recipe card leaflets.

You can view the magazine here. The page pictured to the right, together with our latest page showcasing our properties for sale and lettings, is on pages 20 to 21. 

In an exclusive to this blog, we can confirm that the next recipe flyer will be a recipe for cheese biscuits from the Cookery Club of the Worsley Bridge Junior School in Beckenham.  We're grateful to the Head Teacher, staff and pupils of the school for helping us and we're already looking forward to testing the recipe for ourselves. 

And we must again thank the Blackbird Bakery of Herne Hill, Crystal Palace, East Dulwich Grove, and West Norwood, which contributed the lemon tart recipe which was in the leaflet that included the tasty picture in the Property Mart page above. And also for the use of their brand to the left, which moves!  Just watch it closely.

Why not drop into our branch in Bromley or Tulse Hill and pick the recipe leaflet up? If you need to find us, just look at our website.

And of course, we're here for you if you need to buy, sell, let or rent a property or if you require a property management service.  As the Property Mart said, we're a Recipe for Success.