I've been to Lewisham many times myself, and this I find hard to believe... 135,000 quid for a public toilet-turned flat. Especially in a working-class area like Lewisham.

John, this story broke 6 years ago when Lewisham was a posh, upscale neighborhood housing all the nouveau riche, post punk, tea gargling limeys.
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The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough.

And I thought Mammoth Lakes charged stupid prices for apartments. I imagine Intrawest would charge about $300,000 extra if they could convince some yuppy slime that it was "an historic toilet".

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I didn't know that this story was from 6 years ago, Bilgepump... the last time I was in Lewisham was in November 2001. I remember that it was becoming more clean since my previous visits in 1997, 1996 and 1993, especially in Lewisham proper and Deptford, but it's actually gotten more upscale? Like what happened in Hoxton and in the Docklands?

I've heard people say that they were 'living in a toilet' or sometimes I'd hear 'I used to live in this toilet in Manhattan-or-wherever', but I never thought it would be taken literally...

Keesler Air Base in Mississippi was still housing us in 1960 in barracks that had been built for temporary use during World War 2.

Since they were totally unheated I had a couple of enterprising buddies who moved their bunks into the latrine. The proximity of hot water pipes raised the temperature a couple of degrees higher than that in the rest of the building.

They said that the constant light, and smell from visitors was more than compensated for by the warmth.

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John I was just being silly, don't pay any attention to me, I don't know squat about Lewisham.
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The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough.

Chief, I have heard that those barracks are not standing since Katrina. Apparently she did some nice remodeling and the base has been forced to build better facilities. I've noticed sometimes it takes a slap in the face (i.e. a hurricane) to get people off their asses to improve.

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