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  Thread: Racist attacks on HOP restaurants
Post: Racist attacks on HOP restaurants

I have heard, third person, that Donde and possibly Hattush were bricked last night by racists in a post-Brexit anger (there have been other racists incidents across Lewisham this weekend). Anyone ...
lillam SE23 Topics 8 8,952 28-06-2016, 12:09 AM
  Thread: merry xmas everyone
Post: merry xmas everyone

:thumbsup: xx :hic:
lillam SE23 Topics 4 4,395 24-12-2014, 01:04 AM
  Thread: (Supposedly) replacement bus service
Post: RE: (Supposedly) replacement bus service

Reginald D Hunter said it all when he said "The Uk has an amazing public transport system - in fact it has the best bus replacement service in the world".
lillam SE23 Topics 29 30,750 24-12-2014, 01:03 AM
  Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...

i get the 9.20 or 9.27...neither of which even showed up today...what a joke
lillam SE23 Topics 333 285,878 16-12-2014, 01:32 AM
  Thread: Coffee shop at HOP station priced out
Post: RE: Coffee shop at HOP station priced out

ah but then if you are travelling south you cant use the stall as it'll be on the other platform
lillam SE23 Topics 42 46,352 06-11-2014, 04:44 PM
  Thread: Coffee shop at HOP station priced out
Post: RE: Coffee shop at HOP station priced out

Couldnt agree more. I dont shop at any coffeshops but he really makes the atmosphere at HOP station - hearing his top music choices drift across the station really gets the day off on the right foot, ...
lillam SE23 Topics 42 46,352 19-10-2014, 02:37 AM
  Thread: Gogi's Off Licence closed
Post: RE: Gogi's Off Licence

well yes, in the 90s the main staff were all Sikh, but above all it always felt the least cared for of all Gogis shops in SE London. Id be miserable too
lillam SE23 Topics 21 26,774 15-10-2014, 11:28 PM
  Thread: Gogi's Off Licence closed
Post: RE: Gogi's Off Licence

Gogi's offies are an institution around the new x to honor oak area but the one in HOP was really run without any care or interest - really limited selection for a whole shop given over just to alcoho...
lillam SE23 Topics 21 26,774 14-10-2014, 09:57 PM
  Thread: A Boyle
Post: RE: A Boyle

For prosperity: [img]http://statics.192.com/estreet/original/large/2127/21276369.jpg[/img] [attachment=3119]
lillam SE23 Topics 5 6,371 07-10-2014, 09:09 AM
  Thread: A Boyle
Post: RE: A Boyle

thanks millie - i had feared that had happened but didnt want to suggest it. RIP Mr Boyle
lillam SE23 Topics 5 6,371 07-10-2014, 12:23 AM
  Thread: A Boyle
Post: RE: A Boyle

Thanks PVP Wow 50+ odd years in that shop...I doubt theres been another business in SE23 still run by the same person as long. Hats off to him
lillam SE23 Topics 5 6,371 05-10-2014, 11:35 PM
  Thread: Phoenix Works
Post: Phoenix Works

Does anyone live or know someone who lives in Phoenix Works (to be found by the railway line at the bottom of Bird in Hand Passage, down the slope from the Bird in Hand pub)? Are there any problems...
lillam SE23 Topics 0 2,863 03-10-2014, 11:26 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill article in The London Economic
Post: RE: Forest Hill article in The London Economic

i preferred Babur before the modern refit - that includes the refit of the menu too
lillam SE23 Topics 41 39,696 01-10-2014, 11:47 PM
  Thread: A Boyle
Post: A Boyle

I moved to HOP in 95....even then A BOYLE's shop on the parade was almost always closed...but every so often the sign would be turned to open and you could sneak in to buy a second hand mug or what no...
lillam SE23 Topics 5 6,371 01-10-2014, 11:07 PM
  Thread: Supporting Local Shops
Post: RE: Supporting Local Shops

BUMP From the conversations I've had most of our long-standing local shops are really hurting at the moment... please think twice if you really need to buy whatever it is at Sainsburys
lillam Wider Topics 26 22,834 14-03-2014, 12:34 AM
  Thread: Free 28" Sanyo TV
Post: Free 28" Sanyo TV

Works perfectly but has no remote - but you can get universal remotes for all TVs cheaply - right here in Forest Hill at Maplins in fact! Looks a lot like this (without the Sanyo logo on the top) [i...
lillam Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 1,689 08-03-2014, 07:00 PM
  Thread: Offered Free: 2x Studio Speaker Stands
Post: Offered Free: 2x Studio Speaker Stands

Look a fair bit like this, but are nonbranded Maplin versions [img]http://media.soundonsound.com/sos/may07/images/EssentialsTower_l.jpg [/img] they rest on pins which are something to do ...
lillam Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 2 3,969 13-01-2014, 08:15 PM
  Thread: Looking for a jazz double bass player in SE23
Post: Looking for a jazz double bass player in SE23

Looking for a jazz double bass player in SE23 for a session if anyone knows anyone could you put me in touch please? (pm) many thanks
lillam Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,192 05-01-2014, 05:22 PM
  Thread: Free floor standing speakers
Post: RE: Free floor standing speakers

If for some reason this doesnt work out can i be next in line please? Thanks a lot
lillam Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 3 4,458 16-12-2013, 07:54 PM
  Thread: Apple G5 PowerMac + Monitor for sale, £95
Post: RE: Apple G5 PowerMac + Monitor for sale, £95

Hi all, the buyer pulled out having decided to buy a brand new computer, and before i stick it on ebay im knocking the price down to £50! Would much rather sell locally - selling heavy iterms like th...
lillam Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 3 6,970 12-11-2013, 12:07 AM
  Thread: Women's bike - brand new! (for sale)
Post: RE: Women's bike - brand new! (for sale)

Sold! Thanks very much - happy riding
lillam Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 2 3,256 10-11-2013, 04:31 PM
  Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E

As far as i understand it this isnt over - Hunt will try and change the law (so a judge couldn't rule the closure illegal) and proposed the changes again. One saving grace might be that it takes longe...
lillam Wider Topics 205 173,210 05-11-2013, 10:00 AM
  Thread: Supporting Local Shops
Post: RE: Supporting Local Shops

Bizarrely i've been shopping in local shops more since the Sainsburys opened :thumbsup:
lillam Wider Topics 26 22,834 05-11-2013, 09:51 AM
  Thread: Women's bike - brand new! (for sale)
Post: RE: Women's bike - brand new! (for sale)

I had a question about the make - I'm fairly certain its Dawes (handbuilt UK bike firm), but when we bought the bike it had stickers on with the make and model, which we took off - hence the all black...
lillam Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 2 3,256 05-11-2013, 12:49 AM
  Thread: Apple G5 PowerMac + Monitor for sale, £95
Post: Apple G5 PowerMac + Monitor for sale, £95

Also selling this... Apple G5 PowerMac + Monitor OSX 10.5.8 Dual 2 Ghz processors 512 DDR RAM 20" monitor Apple Keyboard Mouse wifi-ready Office package installed. In excellent condition, no marks ...
lillam Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 3 6,970 04-11-2013, 08:46 PM
  Thread: Women's bike - brand new! (for sale)
Post: Women's bike - brand new! (for sale)

Hi everyone, I'm selling my wife's bike... I bought it for her a little over a year ago and its been ridden twice in all that time!! Best intentions and all that. It's as good as brand new, and has...
lillam Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 2 3,256 04-11-2013, 08:30 PM
  Thread: A plan to save the Honor Oak pub?
Post: RE: A plan to save the Honor Oak pub?

I dont know Mr Numbers, and im sure theyd be up for giving advice, but i would add that one thing that gets written in co-op books is the importance of encouraging co-op members to put money into the ...
lillam SE23 Topics 108 112,074 07-10-2013, 10:32 PM
  Thread: A plan to save the Honor Oak pub?
Post: RE: A plan to save the Honor Oak pub?

Wonderful news. I wonder how things are going at the Ivy House, which became co-operatively run recently. I'm sure Forest Hill Society will do their homework and look at the figures before wadin...
lillam SE23 Topics 108 112,074 03-10-2013, 09:01 PM
  Thread: Bakerloo Line Extension
Post: RE: Bakerloo Line Extension

http://brockleycentral.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/boris-seriously-looking-at-bakerloo.html QUOTE: Mayor Boris Johnson has confirmed that he is giving serious consideration to a Bakerloo Line extensi...
lillam Wider Topics 89 91,101 23-09-2013, 09:27 PM
  Thread: What has happened to FH high street?
Post: RE: What has happened to FH high street?

Not to be downbeat, but id love to know how traders here are actually doing? Are they making ends meet? I manage a shop and when i think about their footfall, rents and so on I wonder if everything is...
lillam SE23 Topics 5 7,828 22-09-2013, 02:30 PM
  Thread: Ex Honor Oak Pub
Post: RE: Tesco Metro coming to site of HO Pub?

hopefully the council will squash that plan in crofton park - Jay's Budgens is doing the job of tesco better than tesco can, and him and his family have had a shop in the community for years. bring...
lillam SE23 Topics 22 21,375 22-09-2013, 02:22 PM
  Thread: Anyone peeked into the new HOP Sainsburys?
Post: RE: Anyone peeked into the new HOP Sainsburys?

underwhelmed too, but they do sell tofu, otherwise most things i can and will get elsewhere man in the shop over the road was looking at everyone going in, while his shop was empty <dont fancy his ch...
lillam SE23 Topics 43 33,995 16-09-2013, 01:46 AM
  Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E

i wouldnt worry too much about the wording - senior politicians are quite happy to ignore petitions, protest, marches, etc. the 38degrees petition that raised money for the legal campaign is something...
lillam Wider Topics 205 173,210 01-08-2013, 10:31 PM
  Thread: Experience of BT Broadband in SE23
Post: RE: Experience of BT Broadband in SE23

As FH is the site of a telephone exchange internet speeds here should be as advertised. Where i am in HOP we can't get Virgin as the necessary cables haven't been laid - I didn't realise you could ...
lillam SE23 Topics 10 9,882 08-06-2013, 09:54 AM
  Thread: Large black post
Post: RE: Large black post

there was a campaign to stop it being put up at one point i seem to remember
lillam SE23 Topics 6 6,319 16-05-2013, 11:02 PM
  Thread: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
Post: the new lamp posts

some questions: why are they putting up new lamp posts? what was wrong with the old ones? how much is this all costing? council budgets are being cut to shreds - why replace perfectly good lamps n...
lillam Wider Topics 128 127,356 16-05-2013, 11:01 PM
  Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E

HUNDREDS of patients arriving at Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) are waiting more than 12 hours in A&E every month. A News Shopper Freedom Of Information request shows waiting times at the Woolwich...
lillam Wider Topics 205 173,210 21-04-2013, 10:14 PM
  Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham Hospital A&E to close?

Transpontine round up: Lewisham Hospital Next Steps Links includes links to things mentioned in article http://transpont.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/lewisham-hospital-next-steps.html After the...
lillam Wider Topics 205 173,210 27-02-2013, 09:51 AM
  Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham Hospital A&E to close?

It transpires that Hunt has lied to parliament! From today's Standard Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt pressed ahead with plans to downgrade Lewisham Hospital despite the “critical” concerns of the NHS...
lillam Wider Topics 205 173,210 04-02-2013, 08:59 PM
  Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham Hospital A&E to close?

lest we forget protecting NHS services was that key platform of the last Tory campaign, with posters all over the country telling the same lie [img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-a...
lillam Wider Topics 205 173,210 01-02-2013, 02:56 PM
  Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham Hospital A&E to close?

Check Save Lewisham Hospital for campaign updates. Forthcoming events include: Friday 15 February, 1 pm - Lunctime rally for hospital workers and community campaingers to discuss the next steps, at...
lillam Wider Topics 205 173,210 01-02-2013, 11:20 AM
  Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham Hospital A&E to close?

The transpontine blog expresses it better than i could. http://transpont.blogspot.co.uk/ Fight goes on to Save Lewisham Hospital [img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TjNiyBadQ0o/UQtZKzOU28I/AAAAAAAA...
lillam Wider Topics 205 173,210 01-02-2013, 11:19 AM
  Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham Hospital A&E to close?

Disagree - this is just as bad a decision as any. The decision is designed to stop the campaign whilst achieving all initial aims. What remains of the A&E will be salami sliced to extinction over tim...
lillam Wider Topics 205 173,210 31-01-2013, 04:07 PM
  Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham Hospital A&E to close?

yes, thats about it. all blue light services will go to other hospitals, but if you can make it into A&E on your own then for now at least you will be seen. Maternity all to shut. So the fight ...
lillam Wider Topics 205 173,210 31-01-2013, 02:49 PM
  Thread: Attempted break in, Garthorne Road
Post: RE: Attempted break in, Garthorne Road

this isnt the first time ive seen garthorne road flagged up for burglaries on se23.com ... i wonder why this is?
lillam SE23 Topics 7 9,984 29-01-2013, 01:45 PM
  Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham Hospital A&E to close?

£195 million to close it :cursing: see you all saturday
lillam Wider Topics 205 173,210 22-01-2013, 02:52 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill's own ram raiders
Post: RE: Forest Hill's own ram raiders

went past on the bus today - does that new sign say Welcome From Cash Machines??
lillam SE23 Topics 35 33,333 12-01-2013, 12:02 AM
  Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham Hospital A&E to close?

As part of the consultation on the proposed closure of services at Lewisham Hospital, Matthew Kershaw ('The Special Administrator' who is recommending the changes) will be speaking tomorrow night at t...
lillam Wider Topics 205 173,210 04-12-2012, 01:12 AM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools

The gym is fantastic and cheap by the way. I've tried gyms before but the atmosphere is always weird (testosterone and steroids)...not like that here
lillam SE23 Topics 2,074 2,032,507 25-11-2012, 02:48 AM
  Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham A&E to close

This is of interest (copied from elsewhere): Matthew Kershaw, the special administrator and decision-maker on the fate of Lewisham A&E isn't exactly neutral in all this.(Surely not ). Here is a...
lillam Wider Topics 205 173,210 25-11-2012, 02:44 AM
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