Possibly worth speaking to the local councillor who lives in Thorpewood. They had a petition to improve road crossing around here a couple of years ago. http://www.lewishamlibdems.org.uk/news/0...ition.html

No sign of it having any effect yet, but it is worth keeping up the pressure from all direction.

I think there used to be a lollipop person at the top of Kirkdale when I attended Eliot Bank, but it was a little time ago and my memory is not what it once was (or at least I vaguely remember it being better).