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| | Finger on the Tulse | London Entertainment Guide from The Evening Standard | This is London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | So we decided it was time to move from hip-and-happening Spitalfields, where we had lived for 15 years, to the more spacious appeal of the green suburbs, where Tom, 15, Georgia, 12, and Grace, 10, could mess about on bikes or kick a ball around after school. |
 | | And, best of all, at £500,000, it cost at least 50 per cent less than a posh Dulwich or Clapham equivalent and is perfectly placed for our family's needs: a 10-minute walk from a mainline station and shops, and a five-minute drive/bus ride to schools, open spaces and the open-air lido in Brockwell Park. |
 | | For literary and historic interest there is the brilliant West Norwood library and, next door, the romantic and bucolic West Norwood Cemetery, burial ground of 19th century local worthies, including Mrs Beeton, the original domestic goddess, and Julius Reuter, the founder of the eponymous news service. |
| www.thisislondon.co.uk /homes/news/articles/9604209?source=EveningStandard (1364 words) |
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