French coffee shop for West Norwood

Elorie has just opened Culdesac on the corner of Bloom Grove and Knights Hill SE27 0HY. Cakes & croissants baked on the premises. Great place to watch the world go by!

Usually open 8am to 5pm Mondays to Saturdays   Tweet and follow @culdesaccoffee

Car boot sale at St Josephs

Friends of St Josephs’  PTA are holding a Car Boot sale on Saturday 18th May 10am to 1pm at St Joseph’s Infant School, Crown Dale SE19 3NU

Refreshments available. All proceeds to the Friends of St Joseph’s PTA

Cars £12. Table £8. NO VANS. To book a pitch contact: mail@friendsofstjosephs.org.uk
Entry tickets : adults 50p and children free. Early entry,before 10am, is £1

Question Time comes to Norwood

Lib Peck visiting new leisure & health centre construction site

People in West Norwood have the chance to quiz new Lambeth Council leader, Cllr. Lib Peck on Thursday, April 18th from 7pm-8.30pm  at Elmgreen School in Elmcourt Road SE27 9BZ.

Cllr Peck, who’s been leader of the council for just three months said: “ I want to get out and meet people face to face as much as possible. The success of Lambeth depends on us working together so I want to hear what people are doing locally, what they’re concerned about and how we can collaborate to make the borough even better.”

To reserve a ticket and submit a question email  dpacker@lambeth.gov.uk or phone 020 7926 7758.

Doors will open at 6.30pm.

Antiques Discovery Day

Rosebery’s of Knight Hills

Rosebery’s of Knights Hill, West Norwood, the  Fine Art and Antiques Auction House, has teamed up with local charity ‘Dulwich Helpline and Southwark Churches Care’ to run an Antiques Discovery Day at Herne Hill Baptist Church,Half Moon Lane SE24 9HU  on Saturday 20th April from 10am until 2pm.

For £5 bring along an item to be valued by Rosebery’s experts, be it a picture, ceramic, or piece of jewellery: in fact, anything you want to know more about. A further two items may also be valued at a cost of £2.50 each.

All the proceeds go to Dulwich Helpline and Southwark Churches Care which provides friendly volunteer support for isolated older people.

Refreshments will be available.

West Norwood FEAST for 2013!

What do you want to see at this year’s  West Norwood Feast? Come along to the  ’I Love FEAST’ pop-up cafe  for all the information you need to get involved and meet other West Norwood community groups, organisations and local businesses. With free children’s activities.

On  Sunday 3rd March 2013 10am – 4pm
The Portico Gallery 23a Knights Hill  SE27 0HS

http://westnorwoodfeast.com/

Ideas Pop Up?

Pop up shop?

Watch this spot for ideas on improving West Norwood!

Another bank closes in West Norwood

Nat West Branch in West Norwood – now closed

Nat West bank closed its West Norwood branch at 270 Norwood Road on Friday 26^th October and moved its accounts to 54 Streatham High Road   SW16 1BZ .

A notice in the bank says the closure is for health & safety of staff and customers. Your local councillors will try to get more details from Nat West on the reasons for closure and what is to happen to the building.

Barclays at 543 Norwood Road SE27 9DW has recently refurbished its premises and seems committed to staying in West Norwood.  So many local Nat West customers may  move their accounts to Barclays rather than go to Streatham.

The remaining free ATMs ( cash machines)  in West Norwood are outside Barclays and outside the Post office in Nettlefold Place SE27 0HX.

More shoppers parking

Residents, businesses, councillors  and The Norwood Forum have asked the council for more free shoppers’ parking in West Norwood town centre. Lambeth’s Highways engineers are now working on a scheme to introduce more than 30 additional one-hour free parking  spaces around West Norwood town centre. These spaces  will  help people how are shopping in the town centre rather than commuters using the station.

Following the necessary statutory consultations the new one-hour free bays should be in place by the end of the calendar year 2012.

Tired of supermarkets?

How about trying  West Norwood’s growing number of delicatessens?

Baron for speciality Brazilian & Polish food

Baron at 368 Norwood Road SE27 9AA has newly opened (next door to Sainsburys) and sells speciality food from Poland and Brazil.

Run by Artur & Neide the shop is open 9am to 9pm Mon- Fri , 9am to 8pm on Saturdays and 10.30am to 5pm on Sundays.

Coffee for workers

Volcano

Volcano Coffee Works have officially opened their café at Parkhall Trading Estate, Martell Road SE21 8EN – at the end of Robson Road.

With a stylish fit out and impressive equipment on display, the café’s main customers are those working in the industrial estate. The café is one of those word-of-mouth gems & a delight to experience: superb coffee and an array of cakes and sandwiches in a spacious, industrial yet surprisingly serene environment. Children are welcome, but the owners ask that buggies be left in the special buggy parking area. Open 8am to 4.30pm Monday to Fridays.