SEnine Barbara Fielder


I read with interest the above article and think its a brilliant idea.


As an ex-resident of Eltham I still keep a keen interest in Eltham and visit it at least once a week. One of my sons lives in Eltham and always passes SEnine on to me.


I went on a coach trip to Sandwich this week and the fi rst thing we did was dive for the public toilet in the car park. We found it locked but after paying the attendant 30p each he unlocked it for us and we found it well looked after and spotlessly clean. Well worth 30p.


Not like Bexhill's public toilet on the sea front, which I also visited recently. It was free but disgusting and no toilet paper.


I would much prefer to pay and have a clean well looked after toilet.


Good luck with your campaign. Our High Street


I was born in Woolwich and have lived in Lewisham since I was 7 years old. Eltham High Street was the place to shop in those days. Many shops of interest have been replaced by pound shops, charity shops and pawn brokers and mobile phone shops. Shops such as Wilkinsons and Primark would help keep the 'young people with families' in the area and using the high street.


I support the idea of keeping the toilets and having an information centre there.


How do we attract shops back to the high street that would make a diff erence? BJ Walbridge


Our Magazine Great magazine anywa I enjoy reading


eat magazine anyway. I enjoy reading it, especially `Spy `and `letters` Janet Lugton


So come on staff and students, pay up, let the residents off the hook and make the roads where you are parking safer. Carol Doust


Mail Box is for your opinion, express it It Robot Check Outs was stated on the news that


supermarket costs have risen in relation to wages. I have often stated that I can not understand why business is so willing to spend millions on machinery i.e. robot check-outs (self service check- outs), which have to be constantly serviced and not a comparatively


few


thousand on wages, thereby actually paying more to destroy jobs. Guilty of this are Sainsburys and B and Q and others in face of the fact that customers dislike them intensely, except for a very few who think they are somehow being clever by using them. If they were to get rid of these expensive, disliked metal mickies the cost wages comparison may well be reversed and there would be more job opportunities, and help the economy to grow. Terence T Jon


Avery Hill Parking Idlii h ii i


I do not live in the vicinity of Avery H College so I have no axe to grind. That said, I have to say that I am astonished at the selfi shness of staff and students at the College. I have been retired for more than fi ve years, but in my last year of full time employment I paid considerably more than £480 to park my car in Peggy Middleton House Car Park. What makes it even more inconsiderate is that I suspect many of the staff or students don't even live locally.


fAHill


Controlled Parking Zones are a way of making residents pay to park in their own road. Why should residents pay to park when staff and students at the College are refusing to pay to park in a purpose built car park.


When deciding to use your own vehicle to commute to and from work, the cost of parking as well as all the running costs of a car should be taken into account. If staff and students can aff ord to run a car, they can aff ord to pay the car park fee.


MAILBOX


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Eletriq Cafe


The loss of the Eletriq Cafe is a tragedy. We had something very unique to Eltham and it was a wonderful place to go and eat.


Very friendly and


welcoming. I am sad it is going as is all of my family. Good luck to Ed and everyone for the future. Clive Eff ord


Eletriq Cafe


Hi Mark, haven't spoken or seen you in ages but I heard yesterday that the Eletriq is going to close in a couple of months. THIS CANNOT BE TRUE! It's such an integral part of Eltham Society now and has been since it's opening.


I understand that it's to be taken over by an "Italian chain". Do you know anymore & are you planning to put it in SEnine next month! Sue Head


See cover and pages 4&6


High Street canvassing Many th


thanks f k for your ongoing eff i ff ort ts.


It all started with junk mail, but was quickly followed by cold-calling, door- stepping and spam. Now there is a new threat to the right to mind our own business: the high street salesperson. I don’t know if it happens everywhere or if it is just an Eltham phenomenon, but it seems that a part of the high street is now open territory for eager salespeople to try to get us to change gas provider or shame us into contributing to some worthy charity. Is there no aspect of our private life that remains free from intrusion?


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