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“old”Eltham library? The modern library layout may be aesthetically better for many, but I fi nd the browsing experience far less enjoyable. and the computer checkout means that the library has also lost its personal touch, which is something that people in retirement age (who form a sizeable percentage of the users) would particularly appreciate. We are encouraged to move with the times but surely a library with a large percentage of its books concerned with history, autobiographical recollections and classic works should move a little more slowly.


If the new set up has encouraged more people to use the library then it has served a purpose, but i for one use it a lot less now. Barry Spencer


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have always enjoyed the many parks and their facilities. I now mainly walk in Eltham Park North woods with my 2 dogs. I have noticed over the last couple of years the amount of vandalism has increased. There have been motor bikes dumped and set fi re to, benches set fi re to. I was walking through the middle of the woods yesterday (23rd August) and my dogs ran over a large pile of broken glass from many beer bottles in the middle of the path. Thankfully neither of them were injured but that was just luck. If these people must use our parks, why cant they leave them in a safe condition for all? I believe that it's only a matter of time before a dog or child is injured. Debbie Hewett


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Dear Spy, as the wife of an avid sky sport viewer (therefore I watch with one eye) I have a question to ask concerning the position of the cricket pitch. If adults or children hit a six in four directions i.e. the Motorway the gym, the cafe or worse the children's playground would anybody get hurt? Yours is the fi rst page I read, my subscription is in the post. PB


I read your article on "Middle Park- The Turf" in the September issue with great interest, having lived there for many years (from around the age of three years), and had heard much but not all of the facts in the article. I have since wondered how many people are still alive that remember, as I do, that for a time early in the war a barrage balloon was sited on that small green in Newmarket Green in front of the school complete with lorry mounted winch and trailers loaded with gas cylinders. With so much other green land around to my mind it was a most inappropriate site but nevertheless it was there, or at least most of the time when it was not fl oating around partly infl ated, having somehow become detached from its tender, and having to be walked back by RAF personnel holding it down by the mooring lines which hung from it and had trapped it to trees or telegraph poles or whatever much further away. At that tender age it was quite frightening when we lived a matter of yards away, for my mother and I to be stopped by an RAF guard complete with rifl e and fi xed bayonet and questioned as to where we were going and what we were doing. I suppose in those days a saboteur would have been a comparatively young woman clutching a six year old child by the hand. Similarly I wonder how many remember the two, probably tiniest shops in the country, sitting one on the green in Cuff Crescent and the other in Eltham Palace Road on the green in front of Kings Park School, each about four feet square or thereabouts, built rather like green painted sentry boxes. The proprietors just had room to sit in the centre on a small stool surrounded by his wares on an array of tiny shelves but including everything that may be required from cigarettes and matches to confectionary and bread, aspirins and safety pins to cereals and sugar etc. The stock was delivered to their homes which they transferred to the shops by home made wheelbarrows. They apparently did not become millionaires but made a satisfactory living. Terry Jones


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II just wanted to report the recent attempted burglary and then successful burglary, just days ago both at Eltham Park Gardens. Access was from the park. It appears to be Gold that they are looking for because of the increased rise in Value.


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I also saw today someone running at top speed past my window in Eltham Park Gardens, with what looked like a grey hoody with full pockets that he was holding whilst running and ran straight into Eltham Park north entrance, i ran to my next window but heard a motorbike that must have been waiting for him in the park. It was so quick i never even got a glimpse of the Number plate. I have no idea what he had done if indeed anything but it certainly looked suspicious.


Everyone needs to lock up be vigilant both in the park , in their properties and just when out and about, reporting anything suspicious as this road is clearly being targeted. Zoe Reynolds.


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The latl est parking company that operate in Sainsburys in Eltham are using a warden who is not in an offi cial uniform, he wanders around mixing with the car cleaners and swoops when he spots a non payer,the ticket he produces takes approximately 1 minute then he disappears back into the crowd. The new regime started overnight and a lot of drivers are being caught out, if a warden was visible it would prompt drivers to ensure they purchase a ticket. Surely the warden must wear an offi cial uniform or is it another way of taxing the poor motorists of Eltham. Gary Taylor


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