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  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 2,040,785 25-11-2012, 02:48 AM
  Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: The Old Bank to become a Domino's Pizza

Agree this would be a great spot for a pub - next to a train station is the traditional spot for pubs
lillam SE23 Topics 736 625,594 03-11-2011, 02:39 PM
  Thread: New Sainsburys, 55-59 Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Planning Application: IndoBangla / Honor Oak T...

Surprised at how positive everyone is about this - it will kill local shops, and once they're gone they're gone.
lillam SE23 Topics 349 322,604 28-01-2012, 06:01 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 333 287,849 16-12-2014, 01:32 AM
  Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham A&E to close

Great post Sue
lillam Wider Topics 205 174,777 01-11-2012, 12:50 AM
  Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham A&E to close

yes this is local to all SE23ers. the only chance of saving it is if enough of the existing local groups, resident associations, church groups, school groups, neighbours, pull together behind it. ...
lillam Wider Topics 205 174,777 28-10-2012, 12:14 AM
  Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham A&E to close

Lewisham is not the only A&E under threat in London - I hear there are 4 closing in NW London Hammersmith, Charing Cross, Central Middlesex and Ealing. There is a campaign up and running around those ...
lillam Wider Topics 205 174,777 28-10-2012, 11:14 AM
  Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham A&E to close

[img]http://www.savelewishamhospital.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/public-meeting-for-web-copy.jpg[/img]
lillam Wider Topics 205 174,777 28-10-2012, 11:39 AM
  Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham A&E to close

Dont forget everyone, the demo is this Saturday...really important to come out and show public strength of feeling.
lillam Wider Topics 205 174,777 19-11-2012, 10:40 PM
  Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham A&E to close

Excellent write up of the demo here http://transpont.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/huge-demonstration-to-save-lewisham.html and here http://crossfields.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/save-lewisham-hospital-demons...
lillam Wider Topics 205 174,777 25-11-2012, 02:37 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 205 174,777 04-12-2012, 01:12 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 205 174,777 25-11-2012, 02:44 AM
  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 205 174,777 22-01-2013, 02:52 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 205 174,777 31-01-2013, 02:49 PM
  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 205 174,777 31-01-2013, 04:07 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 205 174,777 01-02-2013, 11:20 AM
  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 205 174,777 01-02-2013, 02:56 PM
  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 205 174,777 04-02-2013, 08:59 PM
  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 205 174,777 01-02-2013, 11:19 AM
  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 205 174,777 21-04-2013, 10:14 PM
  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 205 174,777 01-08-2013, 10:31 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 205 174,777 27-02-2013, 09:51 AM
  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 205 174,777 05-11-2013, 10:00 AM
  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 128 128,454 16-05-2013, 11:01 PM
  Thread: Honor Oak Park Rail Station
Post: []

Does anyone know what work is happening on the track around HOP? Have they cut all the trees down to widen the track? Why did track workers sit around in the woods behind HOP station for a week...
lillam SE23 Topics 112 118,079 30-04-2009, 09:58 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 108 113,137 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 108 113,137 03-10-2013, 09:01 PM
  Thread: Honor Oak Park Station Upgrade
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park Station Upgrade

im a self confessed tree hugger, and normally im the first to mourn any tree that gets chopped, but wild flowers are jsut as important a part of the environment, and if theyre going to sow wild flower...
lillam SE23 Topics 89 107,341 18-11-2010, 09:33 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 91,520 23-09-2013, 09:27 PM
  Thread: Extend 63 Bus to Honor Oak Park Station?
Post: RE: Extend 63 Bus to Honor Oak Park Station?

Sorry if someone has already said this: :thumbsup:+I always thought 63 should go to the station, then swing around by the CHandos and park up where it normally does. +THe reason I think it doesn...
lillam SE23 Topics 85 93,610 08-08-2009, 03:02 PM
  Thread: Flight Paths over SE23
Post: RE: Flight Paths over SE23

I find that from about 5.30 - 7am I get Jumbos on their way to Heathrow flying over - woken me up on more than one occasion.
lillam SE23 Topics 72 70,400 01-10-2009, 07:52 AM
  Thread: Which is your Favourite Pub in SE23?
Post: RE: Which is your favourite pub in SE23?

[quote=gingernuts] [quote=lillam] Anyhow, back to SE23: where is the Moor Park Tavern? Rings a bell, but cant picture it. [/quote] Why do people keep calling the Moore Park Hotel the Moore Park ...
lillam SE23 Topics 66 70,622 25-01-2008, 02:13 AM
  Thread: Which is your Favourite Pub in SE23?
Post: RE: Which is your favourite pub in SE23?

[quote=hilltopgeneral] Not a single vote for 'local pub for local people', the Forest Hill Hotel? Come to think of it, I'm not sure I've ever seen it mentioned on this forum. [/quote] Clearly pe...
lillam SE23 Topics 66 70,622 23-01-2008, 11:02 PM
  Thread: Which is your Favourite Pub in SE23?
Post: RE: Which is your favourite pub in SE23?

Went to the All in One / Foresters for the first time this Saturday - excellent music, and a really nice atmosphere inside - really impressed. Looks a bit snooty from the outside, but pretty down to e...
lillam SE23 Topics 66 70,622 27-01-2008, 11:00 PM
  Thread: HOP parade: are all the changes good?
Post: RE: HOP parade: are all the changes good?

Very sad that Whitewood shut...they built that shop up from nothing...great to see it grow over the years. I'm sure they wouldn't have left that spot unless they were forced out...they put so much int...
lillam Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 64 52,704 06-03-2012, 10:32 PM
  Thread: HOP parade: are all the changes good?
Post: RE: HOP parade: are all the changes good?

Jsut a word about chainstores - I went down Lordship Lane last week and the whole length of that road there are no chains apart from estate agents and the Co-Op. Church St in Stokey also takes pride i...
lillam Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 64 52,704 08-03-2012, 07:08 PM
  Thread: Incident in Stanstead Road 19-02-2012
Post: RE: Police in Stanstead Road

Certainly this habit of police shooting/killing people in situations where it most definitely isn't necessary to do so needs to be stamped out: trust in the police is very low on the streets, and as p...
lillam SE23 Topics 63 75,407 23-02-2012, 07:53 PM
  Thread: Incident in Stanstead Road 19-02-2012
Post: RE: Police in Stanstead Road

Excellent post from Transpontine: http://transpont.blogspot.com/2012/02/police-shooting-in-forest-hill.html [img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-07f9xovyBKI/T0YTIBq2qFI/AAAAAAAAFWQ/ob89m0g5G7c/s640/forest...
lillam SE23 Topics 63 75,407 23-02-2012, 07:36 PM
  Thread: Incident in Stanstead Road 19-02-2012
Post: RE: Police in Stanstead Road

CONTINUED... The Independent Police Complaints Commission statement says: 'An independent investigation was immediately launched by the IPCC after Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers’...
lillam SE23 Topics 63 75,407 23-02-2012, 07:37 PM
  Thread: Incident in Stanstead Road 19-02-2012
Post: RE: Police in Stanstead Road

As expected the police story does not appear to match up with what happened that day, namely it now looks that the police shot four times at a man with mental health problems, then gratuitously tazere...
lillam SE23 Topics 63 75,407 04-04-2012, 09:04 AM
  Thread: Dog mess
Post: Dog mess in HOP

A lot more people seem to have dogs these days, and whilst pooper scooper culture seemed to be doing okay 10 years ago, it is a distant memory amongst the current generation of dog owners. In a 10 ...
lillam Wider Topics 62 51,055 28-03-2008, 08:56 PM
  Thread: Budget 2012
Post: RE: Budget 2012

An additional £10 billion cuts in 'benefits', on top of the £18 billion already announced/being implemented vs 5% tax break for the richest (supposedly it would've been 10% but [url=http://www.indepen...
lillam Wider Topics 57 45,206 26-03-2012, 11:56 PM
  Thread: Bar Equal
Post: RE: Bar Equal

:thumbdown: bad news. Add my respects to Ana - I remember when Bar Equal opened up - it was a brave move at the time... Perhaps the people at For YOur Eyes Only would want to take over VisualEye...
lillam SE23 Topics 56 60,320 26-01-2008, 02:33 PM
  Thread: Bar Equal
Post: RE: Bar Equal

Isnt Jim Dowd (MP for Lewisham West) head of the small-businesses-something-or-other? Probably he is a good person to get in touch with...
lillam SE23 Topics 56 60,320 26-01-2008, 02:38 PM
  Thread: Lifts at Honor Oak Park station
Post: RE: Lift in Honor Oak Park station?

Working at a quiet station like HOP has got to be a test of endurance and patience for anyone...standing there all day with barely anything to do... im thankful they are there. Good news about the...
lillam SE23 Topics 53 48,419 23-09-2012, 12:57 PM
  Thread: Linda Barker and Other Celeb Types in the Area
Post: RE: Linda Barker and other celeb types in the area

[quote=michael] According to Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders) both she and Joe Strummer (The Clash) lived in a flat in Forest Hill "with the guys who became the Basement Five". http://entertainment.t...
lillam SE23 Topics 47 81,458 02-02-2008, 07:13 PM
  Thread: Linda Barker and Other Celeb Types in the Area
Post: RE: Linda Barker and other celeb types in the area

Also, this one: [img]http://photos1.blogger.com/img/169/2272/320/flux.jpg[/img] [quote]Part of the Transpontine mission is to document the various byways of music in South London. In this spirit, an...
lillam SE23 Topics 47 81,458 02-02-2008, 07:25 PM
  Thread: Linda Barker and Other Celeb Types in the Area
Post: RE: Linda Barker and Other Celeb Types in the Area

Not all that famous to be honest, but SE23 can also lay claim to one of the UKs only gay rappers, Q-Boy [img]http://www.pinknews.co.uk/images/qboy2.jpg[/img]
lillam SE23 Topics 47 81,458 28-06-2009, 02:49 AM
  Thread: Youth Behaviour
Post: RE: Youth Behaviour

There was an eruption of gang warfare at en event at the Rockbourne youth club a year back or so, but it was all about kids from other areas coming for a ruck. I think, to some extent, these things...
lillam Wider Topics 45 37,674 26-01-2008, 03:07 PM
  Thread: HOP - New baker/Patisserie?
Post: RE: HOP - New baker/Patisserie?

[quote=fany9560] I looked through the window of the new baker yesterday and it doesn't look too inspiring - there is a plastic notice saying something like"kiddies favourites" and a plastic coke drin...
lillam SE23 Topics 43 38,975 19-01-2008, 02:47 PM
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