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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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13-12-2011, 08:36 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: 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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psyche9 |
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19-10-2011, 11:22 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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psyche9 |
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07-08-2009, 06:12 AM |
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Thread: SE23 v SE22
Post: RE: I wish...
| Just to go back to Edd's comment about East Dulwich having better clas of shop/restaurant because it is "populated by a more middle-class type". Does anyone remember the recent history of ED? Lordship... |
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psyche9 |
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13-05-2008, 08:14 AM |
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Thread: SE23 v SE22
Post: RE: SE23 compared to SE22
| Really strange how memories differ - used to go over about once a week in early 90s to Lordship Lane to meet old friends and we'd go out to different places to eat, not great on names, but from memory... |
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psyche9 |
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14-05-2008, 06:27 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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psyche9 |
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26-08-2009, 07:14 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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psyche9 |
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12-06-2009, 05:49 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: 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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psyche9 |
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12-08-2008, 07:01 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Library
Post: RE: Forest Hill Library
| Whoops, I meant to type 'inured' |
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psyche9 |
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12-08-2008, 07:05 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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psyche9 |
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23-05-2009, 07:01 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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psyche9 |
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23-05-2009, 11:44 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: 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
| 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: 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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02-08-2008, 04:56 PM |
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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: 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: 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 |
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18-06-2008, 05:50 AM |
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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. |
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20-06-2008, 05:24 PM |
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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. |
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22-06-2008, 06:28 AM |
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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... |
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psyche9 |
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30-06-2008, 06:22 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: 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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psyche9 |
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01-04-2009, 07:00 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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? |
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psyche9 |
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06-07-2008, 11:00 AM |
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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 ... |
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08-07-2008, 07:01 AM |
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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. |
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08-07-2008, 06:57 PM |
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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. |
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09-07-2008, 05:58 AM |
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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 |
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psyche9 |
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10-07-2008, 05:57 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: 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: 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: 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... |
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30-05-2008, 05:44 AM |
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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. ... |
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06-06-2008, 05:47 PM |
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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: 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: 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: 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... |
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21-05-2008, 07:22 AM |
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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' |
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13-05-2008, 07:44 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: 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: 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... |
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