|
Search Results
|
| Post |
Author |
Forum
[]
|
Replies |
Views |
Posted |
 |
|
Thread: King's College London is seeking bidders for a new ?7 million sports ground in HOP
Post: RE: King's College London is seeking bidders for a...
| I think King's won't know til the Autumn if they have the money to go ahead and complete the whole project this year. I hope they don't.
For those who don't know, the council gave planning permiss... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
4 |
6,536 |
13-05-2008, 07:52 AM |
|
|
Thread: King's College London is seeking bidders for a new ?7 million sports ground in HOP
Post: RE: King's College London is seeking bidders for a...
| I agree that the sportsground has to develop. I was in favour of many aspects of the scheme, most in fact - but not cramming 3 pitches including 2 hard surface ones, into an unusual and attractive spa... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
4 |
6,536 |
13-05-2008, 06:58 PM |
|
|
Thread: Does Perry Vale need a coffee shop?
Post: RE: Does Perry Vale need a coffee shop?
| It isn't that near me but I would definitely use it a couple of times a week if the quality was good. There isn't a good patisserie (that I know of) in this area, though i love the Turkish bread and s... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
17 |
18,449 |
30-05-2008, 05:44 AM |
|
|
Thread: Does Perry Vale need a coffee shop?
Post: RE: Does Perry Vale need a coffee shop?
| No, it would be wonderful to have places like that that sell really excellent ckaes and good coffee - why would it be too upmarket? I am fed up with places opening up that sell just-about-ok things. ... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
17 |
18,449 |
06-06-2008, 05:47 PM |
|
|
Thread: National Brand Invests in Prominent Forest Hill Shopping Location
Post: RE: National Brand Invests in Prominent Forest Hil...
| Will that make the corner more atttractive? |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
15 |
22,779 |
06-07-2008, 11:00 AM |
|
|
Thread: National Brand Invests in Prominent Forest Hill Shopping Location
Post: RE: National Brand Invests in Prominent Forest Hil...
| Just slightly surprised as there are so many other tile places nearby. If something opens up near me about 85% of time it turns out to be an estate agent (still) or property surveyor, or some kind of ... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
15 |
22,779 |
08-07-2008, 07:01 AM |
|
|
Thread: National Brand Invests in Prominent Forest Hill Shopping Location
Post: RE: National Brand Invests in Prominent Forest Hil...
| I love Shannon but bafled as to how anyone can possibly enjoy DIY, but glad it is going to be popular with local residents. |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
15 |
22,779 |
08-07-2008, 06:57 PM |
|
|
Thread: National Brand Invests in Prominent Forest Hill Shopping Location
Post: RE: National Brand Invests in Prominent Forest Hil...
| (..baffled, I mean.) I do lots of it, but only under duress. |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
15 |
22,779 |
09-07-2008, 05:58 AM |
|
|
Thread: National Brand Invests in Prominent Forest Hill Shopping Location
Post: RE: National Brand Invests in Prominent Forest Hil...
| At last, some sanity - except I miss Spud-u-like |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
15 |
22,779 |
10-07-2008, 05:57 AM |
|
|
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. |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
6 |
8,255 |
21-07-2008, 05:57 AM |
|
|
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... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
15 |
14,981 |
11-08-2008, 06:31 AM |
|
|
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... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
105 |
112,405 |
12-08-2008, 07:01 AM |
|
|
Thread: Forest Hill Library
Post: RE: Forest Hill Library
| Whoops, I meant to type 'inured' |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
105 |
112,405 |
12-08-2008, 07:05 AM |
|
|
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 ... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
15 |
14,981 |
12-08-2008, 04:42 PM |
|
|
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... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
5 |
6,724 |
01-11-2008, 02:15 PM |
|
|
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... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
6 |
10,758 |
19-12-2008, 08:10 AM |
|
|
Thread: Post
Post: RE: Post
| No post in crofton park area for last 3 days! |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
24 |
23,570 |
05-02-2009, 07:26 AM |
|
|
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 ... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
4 |
7,416 |
26-02-2009, 06:50 AM |
|
|
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... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
34 |
34,049 |
01-04-2009, 07:00 AM |
|
|
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 ... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
66 |
70,625 |
23-05-2009, 07:01 AM |
|
|
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 ... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
66 |
70,625 |
23-05-2009, 11:44 AM |
|
|
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 |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
44 |
50,053 |
25-06-2009, 05:52 PM |
|
|
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... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
293 |
275,539 |
07-08-2009, 06:12 AM |
|
|
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... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
28 |
25,193 |
19-09-2009, 07:19 AM |
|
|
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 ... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
8 |
8,967 |
20-11-2010, 11:40 AM |
|
|
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... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
14 |
20,081 |
19-08-2011, 06:19 AM |
|
|
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... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
736 |
625,661 |
13-12-2011, 08:36 PM |
|
|
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... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
736 |
625,661 |
19-10-2011, 08:16 AM |
|
|
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 ... |
|
psyche9 |
SE23 Topics |
736 |
625,661 |
19-10-2011, 11:22 PM |
|
|
Thread: Brockley Jack
Post: RE: Brokley Jack
| It looks like they are nearly finished. A while back there was a board up saying they would be offering 'tapas and deli-boards' |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
18 |
15,883 |
13-05-2008, 07:44 AM |
|
|
Thread: Things to do Locally with Visitors
Post: RE: Things to do Locally with Visitors
| Great suggestions above.
I took my in-laws dancing at the Rivoli - they loved it.
I also regularly take visitors on a brockley footpath walk to Nunhead cemetery.
Food-lovers i take to Lewis... |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
16 |
16,024 |
21-05-2008, 07:22 AM |
|
|
Thread: Supermarkets
Post: RE: Supemarkets
| A while back, I fell on hard times and started shoppng at Lidl and Aldi (as well as going to Lewisham market and the excellent Turkish Food Centre shops round Lewisham). It is a bit anxiety-making buy... |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
17 |
15,154 |
25-05-2008, 07:39 AM |
|
|
Thread: More than ten reasons not to move to Bromley
Post: RE: More than ten reasons not to move to Bromley
| They do not have any ?1 shops in Bromley, so shopping there is beyond my reach |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
34 |
41,909 |
18-06-2008, 05:50 AM |
|
|
Thread: Supermarkets
Post: RE: Supemarkets
| The TFCs (Turkish Food Centres) : there are only 2 actual TFCs
http://www.tfcsupermarkets.com/branches.html
They are: i) in Lewisham High St, ii) large supermarket mentioned above on Bromley Rd o... |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
17 |
15,154 |
26-05-2008, 07:41 AM |
|
|
Thread: More than ten reasons not to move to Bromley
Post: RE: More than ten reasons not to move to Bromley
| Yes, but I need a whole arcade of pound shops, like at Camberwell. |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
34 |
41,909 |
20-06-2008, 05:24 PM |
|
|
Thread: More than ten reasons not to move to Bromley
Post: RE: More than ten reasons not to move to Bromley
| They sell rubbish - or most fo them do and they seem to be taking over some parts of South London. |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
34 |
41,909 |
22-06-2008, 06:28 AM |
|
|
Thread: Right-turn camera at Wickes/Halfords
Post: RE: Right-turn camera at Wickes/Halfords
| You can turn in that little road that used to lead to the dogs. That way you avoid going into crazy downtown Catford. It is an awkward turn as you have to cut across the mouth of Ravensbourne Park, an... |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
40 |
40,531 |
30-06-2008, 06:22 AM |
|
|
Thread: Brockwell Park
Post: RE: Brockwell Park
| I once got into it (Brockley Hill Park) when one of the houses was a building site - it had some lovely trees and also tennis courts. |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
6 |
9,720 |
04-07-2008, 06:11 AM |
|
|
Thread: Brockwell Park
Post: RE: Brockwell Park
| I think it is shown at
http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/images/lewisham/brockley/map-01365-750.jpg |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
6 |
9,720 |
04-07-2008, 02:24 PM |
|
|
Thread: Gardeners Question Time
Post: RE: Gardeners Question Time
| It depends on what you like. Our flat garden has a fence alongside a little culvert with a large mature willow tree right the other side of it. I think it is absolutely lovely having the willow stems ... |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
7 |
8,539 |
10-07-2008, 06:07 AM |
|
|
Thread: Quiet Coach
Post: RE: Quiet Coach
| Is there any gadget that blocks signals on mobile phones? That would put a stop to a lot of noise pollution. My friend has a gadget that turns off TVs in pubs, though she never uses it if someone is w... |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
8 |
7,512 |
19-07-2008, 07:31 AM |
|
|
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... |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
8 |
7,823 |
20-07-2008, 09:13 AM |
|
|
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. |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
8 |
7,823 |
20-07-2008, 09:15 AM |
|
|
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... |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
45 |
50,234 |
02-08-2008, 04:56 PM |
|
|
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 |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
2 |
4,691 |
10-08-2008, 06:29 AM |
|
|
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... |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
61 |
55,416 |
16-08-2008, 03:26 PM |
|
|
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, ... |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
61 |
55,416 |
05-09-2008, 06:37 AM |
|
|
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 ... |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
61 |
55,416 |
08-09-2008, 06:58 AM |
|
|
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... |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
22 |
30,507 |
29-11-2008, 08:49 AM |
|
|
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... |
|
psyche9 |
Wider Topics |
28 |
28,331 |
03-12-2008, 06:58 AM |
Search
Help
| 
