This is your opportunity to let us know about living in or visiting Green Street Green. What do you love or hate about the place? How long have you lived here? Why did you move here? Do you have any concerns - anti-social behaviour, rubbish, graffiti, noise, crime, green spaces, schools, activities? Just add a comment below and, if something needs action, the Village Society will take it on board. It is your chance to help your community help itself: to ensure your haven of existence remains that way; to resolve local issues and improve the area in which we live.
Are there any issues you want to debate on here? Tell us and we can set up a separate blog. So over to you............................
6 Comments
Margot Rohan
19/2/2012 02:08:39 pm
I have lived in Green Street Green for 33 years but still feel a relative newcomer, because there are many families here, which go back several generations.
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Marjorie Pasrker
25/7/2012 07:13:02 am
There is a small local greengrocer and a baker at Crescent Way. Is this too far to go? These shops need our support or they will go too.
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Margot Rohan
25/7/2012 02:31:56 pm
I agree. We do need to support individual local businesses or we will end up with boring homogenous supermarkets, none of which provide decent bread or the variety of local produce a local greengrocer will supply.
Tony Bradley
21/2/2012 02:12:10 am
Margot - Thank you for setting this up. I was sceptical but here I am using a blog at my advanced age! My main reason, apart from welcoming the initiative, is to let folk who contact it know that we are hoping - alongside the Queens's Diamond Jubilee - to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of the Greenwood Community Centre which was opened in 1952. We are planning a celebration on Saturday 2 June and hope to display photos and other reminiscences of the Centre and The Village Society. So this blog is a call especially to older residents to see if they have any old photos from the last sixty years we can borrow to use. Please get in touch if you have or if you know someone who may not see the blog and who may have. Thank you!
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Colin Warner
22/2/2012 10:04:49 am
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My wife and I moved from Lewisham to GSG when I retired 11 years ago . I decided that the parking problems in my terraced road were going to be too much for us so we agreed to move. We started off looking at Eastbourne and gradually moved nearer and nearer until my son who lives in Worlds End Lane just happened to mention that there was a property near him in Beech Road. We fell in love with the property and bought it there and then. Two months later we moved in. The views of the green belt were available to us from every room in the house. We fed a sett of badgers with peanuts only a yard from our conservatory door, that is until we got a dog. Now she guards our garden, the neighbours homes and the farmers field. My wife and I joined a local political party and the Village Society and I joined Broke Hill Golf Club which was a mere 5 minutes drive away. In no time at all we had met many people and in my position of Village Green Membership Secretary we really got to know the roads, streets, closes and avenues of GSG. The pace of life in the village is slow compared to the pressures of Lewisham and it really suits my wife and me. Only yesterday a young offender selling door to door goods said to my wife 'What a lot of lovely people live in this area'. How right he was. In fact we feel that we have everything we need in Green Street Green, a peaceful house with lovely views, easy access to the motorways and public transport, great Doctor's surgery, close to hospitals and very caring and pleasant residents. What more could we want!,
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