Dear LPG,

I went to Lewisham sorting office the other day to collect a parcel that the Royal Mail chose to deliver when I was out, and as I left and walked towards the shopping centre I took the time to take a good look at the roundabout that is the biggest thing that you can see in front of you. 

It is one of those things that we have got used to and I have to admit that I really don’t remember when it was put there.  It is one of those things that we take for granted; it is just there and it does its job of organising the buses as they, and a few other vehicles are allowed to drive through the pedestrianised area of Lewisham Shopping centre, but do you remember a time before that odd looking brick pyramid was standing on top of it?

I know it is art but does anyone remember when, for just a short time there was a sculpture of two sumo wrestlers fighting, what looked like a ship’s container box? 

I can see them in my mind’s eye and think that they were a lot more interesting than the bricks that are there now.  I take lots of pictures now that we have mobile phones that double as instant cameras, but this must have been thirty years ago when people did not take pictures so readily.  I suppose that, in the light of all the changes that have happened in Lewisham lately, at least the roundabout survives for now.

I just wondered if anyone remembers, or by some chance took a picture?

JD, Ladywell.

LPG did a little Googling and found a picture of the piece that inspired JD’S posting.  It is there courtesy of a website called Pinterest and our link should take you to a page where you can see it in the top left hand corner of the page, but you have to have subscribed to that site to see it in more detail, and clicking on it will bring up a dialogue box obscuring the picture and inviting you to become a subscriber.  So our advice is look but don’t touch (or click).

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