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Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: The Old Bank to become a Domino's Pizza?
| May I suggest that everyone who originally sent in objections [u]does[/u] write in again - I have had several experiences that have shown me that this is very important.
It is very common for a de... |
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Thread: Walking whilst reading
Post: RE: Walking whilst reading
| I haven't noticed this particularly but I have noticed,
for some considerable time,
an idiotic lack of consideration for any fellow passengers on the pavement afforded by people plugged into mobil... |
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Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: The Old Bank to become a Domino's Pizza
| Now please don't anyone accuse me of not listening to anyone else's views. I'm listening but I am just expressing my own.
I think some people on this forum have a remarkably optimistic view of the ... |
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19-10-2011, 11:22 PM |
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Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: The Old Bank to become a Domino's Pizza
| I think it is good that people take an interest in what businesses move into their area. There are two good pizza delivery places very near this site and I don't see why a large chain selling not very... |
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psyche9 |
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19-10-2011, 08:16 AM |
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Thread: Duncombe Hill?
Post: RE: duncombe hill?
| I would love to live there - if I had more money it would be my street of choice. Great views .. well, maybe not so much lower down but even then, just a 2 or 3 minute walk to one of the prettiest an... |
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19-08-2011, 06:19 AM |
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Thread: People's Day
Post: RE: People's Day
| I go every year and have never had a problem - I think it is an amazing day.
I have always left late afternoon, however, and I tend to like slightly wussy things like tea dance tents.
The park ... |
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09-07-2011, 06:48 AM |
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Thread: Knock-out music
Post: RE: Knock-out music
| I find talking more soporific than music, so, yes, Radio 4 - except that if am having trouble sleeping it has become World Service by then. I used to listen to World Service on digital but they put on... |
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05-02-2011, 10:49 AM |
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Thread: Oyster machine at Honor Oak station
Post: RE: Oyster machine at Honor Oak station
| I've had similar problems at Denmark Hill and Crofton Park - initially I was told it was my fault, although I knew it wasn't, but when I complained online I was told there had been machine errors and ... |
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20-11-2010, 11:40 AM |
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Thread: Petrol thefts
Post: RE: Petrol thefts
| That is really annoying for you. When we had our old car we used to regularly get our fuel line cut so petrol could be rained (this was back in the 90s) and had to replace the fuel line with a stronge... |
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21-08-2010, 05:12 AM |
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Thread: Sydenham Hill Roadside Shrine
Post: RE: Sydenham Hill Roadside Shrine
| The dumped cars, abandoned marquee and so forth were there when the heiress owned the place. Earlier in the year there was a lot of workmen there (I take a lot of interest in it and secretly regard it... |
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10-07-2010, 08:30 AM |
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Thread: Fares increases
Post: RE: Fares increases
| I have been in the situation (fortunately, not now) where an extra pound a week on fares - or on anything - made a difference. A change that seems small to me now isn't necessarily small to others.
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17-10-2009, 07:08 AM |
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Thread: Church submits planning application for CP cinema
Post: RE: Church submits planning application for CP cin...
| I think the objection to a cinema some years back was about the proposal to build a very depressing aircraft hanger-look 'leisure complex' on site of the old Crystal Palace. I don't feel that campaign... |
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19-09-2009, 10:44 AM |
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Thread: Tell Me About SE23 Please
Post: RE: Tell Me About SE23 Please
| Living in South East London is like being in wonderful a secret club, albeit with a vast, vast membership, that north londoners tend to sneer at without knowing anything about. This is basically becau... |
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19-09-2009, 07:19 AM |
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Thread: SE23 v SE22
Post: RE: SE23 v SE22
| Is the woman in white still around? If I am thinking of the same woman, she wore wings and believed she was an angel. I haven't seen her for many years though - I work in Se5 and used to see her most ... |
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26-08-2009, 07:14 PM |
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Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens
| They could reconstruct the seven wonders of the ancient world in Lewisham and the first response would be ' there'll be no-where for anyone to park'.
PS: I am sympathetic to people who live near 'at... |
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07-08-2009, 06:12 AM |
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Thread: Bricklayer's Arms, Beckenham
Post: RE: Bricklayer's Arms, Beckenham.
| There is a pub in Beckenham called the Jolly Woodman that I love. (You can read up on it on aforementioned 'beer in the evening'. Normally I avoid places called 'the jolly' anything, but this place is... |
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23-07-2009, 05:49 PM |
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Thread: A Cinema for Crystal Palace?
Post: RE: A Cinema for Crystal Palace?
| I think once you get a car (we've got one but I don't drive) you do tend to base your social life around it more - because, yes, it is convenient, warm, and nice to take your world with on the way. I ... |
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13-07-2009, 06:35 AM |
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Thread: A Cinema for Crystal Palace?
Post: RE: A Cinema for Crystal Palace?
| I stand at that bus stop in all kinds of weather, and really don't see what the problem is. |
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11-07-2009, 07:04 AM |
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Thread: How to Dispose of Large Items?
Post: RE: How to Dispose of Large Items?
| The ?15 service is very efficient - just used it.
They will take fly tipping away for free, of course. |
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11-07-2009, 07:02 AM |
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Thread: Blythe Hill Fields
Post: RE: Blythe Hill Fields
| In my day dogs ran around biting me and my small friends, and we all played in dog crap, and none the worse for it |
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25-06-2009, 05:52 PM |
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Thread: Children in Pubs
Post: RE: Children in Pubs
| One very recent example of what I find annoying: 2 children having a roller-skating race round and round my table last weekend and - after half an hour - when I asked if they could do this somewhere ... |
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12-06-2009, 05:49 AM |
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Thread: Which is your Favourite Pub in SE23?
Post: RE: New Pub in SE23?
| Glad you like the Blythe and the Sun & Doves too, Tersie, but remembering the outcry a few years back from some of the faces who drink in the Chandos, simply cos the windows were made marginally more ... |
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23-05-2009, 11:44 AM |
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Thread: Which is your Favourite Pub in SE23?
Post: RE: New Pub in SE23?
| I quite agree, Oryx.
I have to say I preferred the East Dulwich bars before they went the way they went - and find it slightly puzzling how anyone could like them now - but that is probably my age ... |
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23-05-2009, 07:01 AM |
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Thread: Brockley Jack
Post: RE: Brockley Jack
| OK, thanks for the tip - they must have changed things then, as when I went it was just after they created the garden and there were signs on every table in the garden saying things like 'this is a no... |
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14-05-2009, 06:02 AM |
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Thread: Brockley Jack
Post: RE: Brockley Jack
| I stopped going and so did all my friends. The reason being we like having the odd cigarette, and seeing a lovely garden being constructed at the Brockley Jack for first time, only to find it was non... |
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10-05-2009, 08:10 AM |
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Thread: Dogs on Buses
Post: RE: Dogs on Buses
| Don't ! Am going to that vet today with my cat - I definitely do not want to find any snakes or spiders on that bus. |
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08-05-2009, 07:11 AM |
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Thread: Serial attacker lives in HOP or FH?
Post: RE: Serial attacker lives in HOP or FH?
| The guy who drives around in a battered green van - does the van have something about pipes or piping written on the side? ie. looks like a van that once belonged to a company. i got followed by a van... |
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30-04-2009, 09:33 PM |
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Thread: The Railway Telegraph
Post: RE: The Railway Telegraph
| Hi Pam
That sounds really fantastic - good luck with the venture.
One thing I really like about this pub is the great garden. I am a smoker and garden-lover and very few places round this area h... |
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01-04-2009, 07:00 AM |
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Thread: Feedback on proposed name
Post: RE: Feedback on proposed name
| I agree that 'The Sauce Company' is better than Gourman. Some names have the ability to irritate so much that I avoid the product. Gourman would be one such. |
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18-03-2009, 07:42 AM |
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Thread: New Coffee Shop
Post: RE: New coffee shop
| Regular opening hours during the potentially lean times when a new business opens seems to me to be one of the most important factors in its success. At least, that is what I have seen around Crofton ... |
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26-02-2009, 06:50 AM |
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Thread: Post
Post: RE: Post
| No post in crofton park area for last 3 days! |
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05-02-2009, 07:26 AM |
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Thread: Accident during police chase in Dartmouth Road 16/12/08
Post: RE: Accident during police chase in Dartmouth Road
| I saw the immediate aftermath of accident, as was on bus going from Brockley Rise to Crystal Palace that got stopped - I carried on on foot past the scene, not knowing what was going on til I got ther... |
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19-12-2008, 08:10 AM |
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Thread: 10 reasons not to emulate East Dulwich
Post: RE: 10 reasons not to emulate East Dulwich
| Apologies for my grammer in first sentence 'my memories *are* different'. |
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09-12-2008, 08:19 AM |
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Thread: 10 reasons not to emulate East Dulwich
Post: RE: 10 reasons not to emulate East Dulwich
| My memories of Lordship Lane, going back to 1975, is different. It certainly was not a fashionable area that wealthy young people moved into, but ('but' may not be the apposite word, 'so' might be bet... |
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09-12-2008, 08:17 AM |
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Thread: Greyhound Pub Fire
Post: RE: Greyhound Pub Fire
| I haven't got a problem with new buildings around it, just that those particular new buildings, from the drawings shown, are unimaginative and ill-suited to that site. Better suited to Life on Mars. T... |
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05-12-2008, 07:46 AM |
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Thread: Greyhound Pub Fire
Post: RE: Greyhound Pub Fire
| I used to go there in the 1980s and it was just how I liked places: scruffy but beautiful. Then it kind of got done up (in done-down kind of way) and some - not all - of the lovely interior was destro... |
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03-12-2008, 06:58 AM |
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Thread: 10 reasons not to emulate East Dulwich
Post: RE: 10 reasons not to emulate East Dulwich
| I like East Dulwich and Honor Oak
and my own dear Crofton Park,
and Sydenham and Crystal Palace
and Catford and
downtown Lewisham.
Surely it is lovely to get on a bus and go to these interes... |
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29-11-2008, 08:49 AM |
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Thread: Snowing!
Post: RE: Snowing!
| You didn't miss much - I was out in it with two suitcases - it was slushy, freezing and nasty here, not really settling - though travelling by train back from York that night there was a belt of thick... |
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01-11-2008, 02:15 PM |
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Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing
| I don't think 'going down to East Sussex' is the same as 'going down to Kent' duffing-wise, but that is just my view. A liking for cats doesn't qualify one as a duffer - don't worry! - unless coupled ... |
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08-09-2008, 06:58 AM |
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Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing
| I think sensitivity to excessive noise is a duffing characteristic (re the volume control in cinemas).
I find noise persecutory these days.
No sooner have I found a quiet spot to sit down (it is, ... |
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05-09-2008, 06:37 AM |
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Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing
| Duffing list:
the aforementioned slippers, shed, radio 4, shipping forecast.
Also:
Dr Who, libraries, church flower-arranging, gardening / allotments, going down to Kent, caravans and camping, kni... |
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16-08-2008, 03:26 PM |
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Thread: Where are the free cash machines?
Post: RE: Where are the free cash machines?
| I think they areasking about cash machines at Brockley Rise, so Forest Hill Station is quite a way. The post office is the only free cash machine there. Sainsbury's in one direction and Crofton Park ... |
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12-08-2008, 04:42 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Library
Post: RE: Forest Hill Library
| Whoops, I meant to type 'inured' |
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12-08-2008, 07:05 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Library
Post: RE: Forest Hill Library
| I loved the library. I thought it was beautifully restored, the equipment was wonderful and, early on a Saturday, it was quiet, with plenty of seats should I have wanted to sit and read.
I agree th... |
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12-08-2008, 07:01 AM |
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Thread: Where are the free cash machines?
Post: RE: Where are the free cash machines?
| It is particularly badly served for cash machines, I agree. I live near there, and during the day the post office is fine - out of hours, you've got a 15 minute walk to Crofton Park one in one direc... |
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11-08-2008, 06:31 AM |
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Thread: SE23 link in DNB Life of the Day
Post: RE: SE23 link in DNB Life of the Day
| She's just on the top page. You have to log in and search |
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10-08-2008, 06:29 AM |
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Thread: Housing market
Post: RE: house price recession
| Dylan, you sound like a nice neighbour to have, but having the occasional barbeque is nothing for neighbours to complain about. If they live next door to Horniman gardens they must be used to some noi... |
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Thread: Baited food? Watch out round Waldram
Post: RE: Baited food? Watch out round Waldram
| You could be right about a theory: I think there are foxes around with urban mange, so maybe someone is feeding them with medicated meat. |
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21-07-2008, 05:57 AM |
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Thread: Advice on grass
Post: RE: Advice on grass, in SE23
| I mean you'll need to water at times when re-seeding. The new grass seems Ok through dry spells, but hard to judge, as the dry spells have been few and far between this year. |
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20-07-2008, 09:15 AM |
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Thread: Advice on grass
Post: RE: Advice on grass, in SE23
| Different types of grass seed are sold at Shannons- I bought the multipurpose by Evergreen which has done well in our very shady garden with poor soil (the garden has a lot of heavy clay sub-soil brou... |
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