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Thread: Sydenham Hill, SE23 3PL
Post: RE: Sydenham Hill, SE23 3PL
| If it’s an ex-council flat where the council is the freeholder I would strongly advise against buying. The initial price may be lower than an equivalent “private” flat, but you are liable to pay for t... |
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17-04-2024, 10:25 AM |
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Thread: TfL considering running the Overground into London Bridge
Post: RE: TfL considering running the Overground into Lo...
| For one day only - it happened.[attachment=5033][attachment=5034] |
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Hillman |
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31-03-2024, 03:25 PM |
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Thread: Boots on Dartmouth Road is closing
Post: RE: Boots on Dartmouth Road is closing
| Boots in Penge closed a while back - at least it's still a pharmacy though. I'm not sure if it's chain or independent. |
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Hillman |
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31-10-2023, 07:49 PM |
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Thread: Renovated Sainsbury's Is it better?
Post: RE: Renovated Sainsbury's Is it better?
| . . . and . . .following the major refurbishment . . . the roof STILL LEAKS. There were a few buckets around and the staff were complaining when I popped in during a heavy rain shower one day recently... |
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Hillman |
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06-09-2023, 03:06 PM |
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Thread: Cleaner seeking to expand her client base
Post: Cleaner seeking to expand her client base
| My mum's own cleaner is asking for her friend, an experienced cleaner too, who is moving to the area.
The cleaner looking for more local work is: Ilona 07494 255513 |
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Hillman |
Businesses & Services |
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02-06-2022, 02:43 PM |
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Thread: September 29th Action Day
Post: RE: September 29th Action Day
| " Another point is that some of the people who voted to leave have probably died "
That's a whole new take on Project Fear - presumably only remainers will survive. |
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Hillman |
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13-09-2018, 07:04 PM |
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Thread: Barclays to close
Post: RE: Barclays to close
| If it helps any Barclays customers who need to pay in cheques I would like to advise that it is possible to pay-in cheques at a Post Office.
Phone Barclays and ask them to send you a pile of Post O... |
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Hillman |
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17-03-2018, 01:47 PM |
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Thread: Re-tune your telly 21 March
Post: Re-tune your telly 21 March
| SE23 residents using Freeview will need to re-tune their TVs from 21 March or they will lose some HD channels. (PS Post Code is for Sainsburys)
http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/coveragechecker/main/tra... |
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Hillman |
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17-03-2018, 11:31 AM |
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Thread: Looking for a roofer
Post: Looking for a roofer
| The pitched tiled roof on my house leaks - probably in a valley. Does anyone have knowledge of an experienced roofer or company who could investigate and fix it ? |
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Hillman |
Businesses & Services |
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10-03-2018, 12:53 PM |
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Thread: Why does Lewisham Council need a Mayor and a Chief Executive
Post: RE: Why does Lewisham Council need a Mayor and a C...
| How about:
One is needed to promote his political agenda and to come up with proposals again in line with his political views. The other is an employee who is paid to try and make it all work, get i... |
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Hillman |
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03-03-2018, 01:39 PM |
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Thread: Roof fire at Sainsburys Forest Hill
Post: RE: Roof fire at Sainsburys Forest Hill
| That might explain the roof leak evidenced by water dripping into a bin adjacent to the cereals section I saw today. |
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Hillman |
SE23 Topics |
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21-01-2018, 03:53 PM |
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Thread: Failed TW temp traffic lights - Honor Oak Road
Post: RE: Failed TW temp traffic lights - Honor Oak Road
| I emphasise that I am not condoning any action that includes passing a traffic signal at red. But, in order for signals to have validity in law there must be a proper legal Traffic Order issued. This ... |
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Hillman |
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17-01-2018, 07:47 PM |
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Thread: Proposed Forest Hill Mural
Post: Proposed Forest Hill Mural
| I have seen this on another site and in my view deserves to be better known.
"" A Better Welcome to Forest Hill ""
The proposed mural design features the walrus mascot of the Horniman Musuem. Ap... |
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Hillman |
SE23 Topics |
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10-01-2018, 01:27 PM |
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Thread: SE23 on BBC News website
Post: SE23 on BBC News website
| We are famous (?) now, particularly W Reginald Bray and 135 Devonshire Road SE23.
"W Reginald Bray, an accountant from Forest Hill in south-east London, claimed to hold that honour having posted h... |
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Hillman |
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21-12-2017, 04:08 PM |
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Thread: For Sale: Solid Wood Pull-Along Trolley £65
Post: RE: For Sale: Solid Wood Pull-Along Trolley £65
| NOW SOLD
NOW SOLD
NOW SOLD |
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Hillman |
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04-12-2017, 09:12 PM |
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Thread: For Sale: Solid Wood Pull-Along Trolley £65
Post: For Sale: Solid Wood Pull-Along Trolley £65
| Hand made by carpenter - a wooden pull along cart with draw bar and handle. £65.
Totally unique, there is not another like it.
It was made by a carpenter for his grandchild, but owing to unfort... |
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Hillman |
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15-11-2017, 03:44 PM |
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Thread: Rising Damp Treatment that Works?
Post: RE: Rising Damp Treatment that Works?
| I have retired from a lifetime's work in the construction industry, a significant part of which involved repair of houses.
I can only agree that rising damp is a myth.
Take look at this:
http... |
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Hillman |
Businesses & Services |
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31-10-2017, 12:12 AM |
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Thread: Water Meters
Post: RE: Water Meters
| Walking along Westwood Park (Tewkesbury Lodge Estate - behind Hornimans Museum) I spotted 2 Thames Water trucks and several blue plastic pavement barriers. I spoke to a man digging a hole and he confi... |
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Hillman |
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06-07-2017, 05:53 PM |
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Thread: Water Meters
Post: RE: Water Meters
| Please send them round to my house. I have a lettter telling me they will fit a compulsory (apparently no choice - but I want want anyway) water meter by the end of May.
I'm still waiting. We see t... |
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Hillman |
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25-06-2017, 10:37 AM |
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Thread: Forum confusion
Post: RE: Forum confusion
| It seems there is a similar bit of argy bargy going on in East Dulwich. The users of the SE22.com website are getting a bit uppity about a new Dulwich Forum.
http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum... |
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Hillman |
SE23 Topics |
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16-05-2017, 03:45 PM |
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Thread: Changes to rubbish collections from July 2017
Post: RE: Changes to rubbish collections from July 2017
| You eat bones, grisle, potato peel, orange peel, apple cores, grapfruit skin ?
I take my hat off to you. |
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Hillman |
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15-04-2017, 11:50 AM |
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Thread: Unsafe looking wall London road
Post: RE: Unsafe looking wall London road
| Please report it to Lewisham Council - Dangerous Structures. The number is open 24/7. They are duty bound to investigate and it'll be a nice bit of overtime for the staff member who pops out over the ... |
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Hillman |
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10-03-2017, 11:32 PM |
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Thread: Lead pipes in our new house, any advice?
Post: RE: Lead pipes in our new house, any advice?
| I wouldn't bother to replace it as a matter of urgency or maybe not at all. There is a lot of hysteria about lead poisoning which is plain wrong - similar in a way to the gross exaggeration of the asb... |
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Hillman |
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05-02-2017, 11:18 AM |
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Thread: Advice about moving to Forest Hill
Post: RE: Advice about moving to Forest Hill
| Take care about school catchment areas. I know someone living in Westwood Park (Tewkesbury Lodge Estate - up on the hill) in a house no more than 400 metres away from Horniman Primary who didn't get a... |
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Hillman |
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19-01-2017, 06:34 PM |
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Thread: So where were the gritters ?
Post: So where were the gritters ?
| There was a predicted frost overnight Wednesday 28 to Thursday 29.
The roads and hills in the very hilly Tewkesbury Lodge Estate weren't gritted and at 10 am on Thursday I nearly slipped over in th... |
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Hillman |
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30-12-2016, 12:45 PM |
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Thread: Floor Sanding - Recommendations please
Post: Floor Sanding - Recommendations please
| We have three rooms of 1930's American White Oak T&G strip flooring. Can anyone recommend a good/reliable person to sand and seal the floors.
Thanks |
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Hillman |
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30-08-2016, 09:39 PM |
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Thread: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
Post: RE: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
| Thanks, it was good to hear the positive comments, but I don't think I'm being too picky by mentioning that not all the photos were by Steve Grindlay and that he had no direct input into this thread. |
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Hillman |
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03-02-2016, 04:56 PM |
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Thread: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
Post: RE: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
| I'm not sure when they went - I'm guessing mid-late 1970s.
They were certainly there in 1926 as these photos show.[attachment=3919][attachment=3918] |
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Hillman |
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21-01-2016, 12:07 AM |
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Thread: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
Post: RE: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
| I certainly do remember the middle platfrom at Forest Hill and remember when the 'fast to Forest Hill' trains from London Bridge stopped there.
Here's a true story: In about 1978 after an after wor... |
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Hillman |
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14-01-2016, 07:49 PM |
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Thread: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
Post: RE: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
| These photos from Steve Grindlay's flickr site show the station bridge as it was.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevegrindlay/albums/72157628035428279
It certainly was a narrow bridge. |
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Hillman |
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05-01-2016, 08:30 PM |
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Thread: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
Post: RE: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
| '...those wonderful facilities on the platforms.'
That reminds me: I recall one occasion in a winter in the late 1950s or very early 1960s on the down platform that the station staff were stoking t... |
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Hillman |
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27-12-2015, 07:00 PM |
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Thread: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
Post: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
| Looking through old photos (as you do), I found this one of Honor Oak Park Station I took in August 1970. The view is towards Forest Hill.
In some ways very different and at the same time familiar. |
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Hillman |
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25-12-2015, 11:41 PM |
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Thread: SE23 Palace fans
Post: RE: SE23 Palace fans
| I was there and have followed CPFC for more than 50 years through mainly rough times with the occasional high spot - like now. There seem to be one or two fans in my road but I don't know them. |
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Hillman |
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04-10-2015, 12:31 AM |
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Thread: Gas Fire Service / Repair wanted
Post: Gas Fire Service / Repair wanted
| We have one of those real flame gas fires and it needs attention. Does anyone know of a reliable and suitably registered person who could take a look at it and fix it.
Thanks in adavnce. |
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Hillman |
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27-08-2015, 11:21 PM |
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Thread: Wood Vale News Closed
Post: RE: Wood Vale News Closed
| Once there were six shops, now it's down to only two.[attachment=3590] |
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Hillman |
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30-06-2015, 03:27 PM |
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Thread: Wood Vale News Closed
Post: Wood Vale News Closed
| I've been away for a while and see that the newsagent in Wood Vale has closed down. Apparently Pat and family are moving to Bolton.
Shame, lovely chap and lovely family. |
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Hillman |
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21-06-2015, 12:23 PM |
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Thread: New Street Name: "Moonlight Drive" - Objection Deadline
Post: RE: New Street Name: "Moonlight Drive" - Objectio...
| Where's your sense of romance ? :rolleyes: fancy a moonlight drive darling ... |
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Hillman |
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20-03-2015, 10:50 AM |
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Thread: New Street Name: "Moonlight Drive" - Objection Deadline
Post: New Street Name: "Moonlight Drive" - Objection De...
| New Street Name: Moonlight Drive SE23 Deadline 26 March
This is the proposed name of the access road leading to Moore Park Garage and to the new houses being built off Wood Vale SE23 to the si... |
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Hillman |
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19-03-2015, 12:33 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Photos
Post: RE: Forest Hill Photos
| This is the mosaic tiled entrance to the old Sainsbury - now Red Cross shop.[attachment=3419] |
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Hillman |
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17-03-2015, 04:34 PM |
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Thread: Getting to Heathrow by Heathrow Connect
Post: RE: Getting to Heathrow by Heathrow Connect
| I can only agree.
I used it in 2013 when the Piccadilly line was closed over a week-end. I eventually found a website (forgotten where now) to buy an advance ticket.
The trouble getting a ticket... |
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Hillman |
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17-03-2015, 04:19 PM |
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Thread: New Street Lights
Post: RE: New Street Lights
| Hi, a newbie here.
I've been keeping an eye on the installation of the new lights in our road for a while now.
The new column nearest our house was installed at the beginning of May 2013. Nothin... |
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Hillman |
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21-11-2013, 04:47 PM |
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