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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| I agree that the existing pools frontage building is at best (on a sunny day) undistinguished, at worst bleak and unattractive. The 'Save the Face of Forest Hill' campaign is, in my view, fundamental... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Perryman, I think you're misrepresenting the views of those who, like me, are inclined to support option 3. I [u]do[/u] very much want a pool and option 3 seems to provide the best chance of actually... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Sorry, 'option 3' in the last sentence of my previous posting should of course be 'option 2'. |
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16-03-2009, 11:55 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Here is an email I have just sent to the mayor:
'Dear Sir Steve
In my view the desiderata are, in descending order of importance
1. the best building (architecturally) that can be afforded... |
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17-02-2009, 12:19 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Thanks, Grasshopper. I personally don't feel in a position to judge between the options, particularly the financial aspects. I thought it might be more useful to give my views, as a Forest Hill ward r... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Michael, I think I assumed that 'quality of facilities', certainly as regards the swimming pools themselves + changing rooms etc (the most important 'facility', I take it) would automatically be a des... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| <<I believe that the vast majority of the local population want the pool to remain on its present site in Dartmouth Road. >>
<<The thought of losing the Pools from Forest Hill, especially in light ... |
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04-03-2009, 06:18 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Does 'in Forest Hill' mean 'on the existing site'? Or 'in SE23'? Or 'in Forest Hill ward'? |
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09-03-2009, 03:53 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| I feel uneasy about Perryman's statement that 'SE23 is pretty united on option 2.' What about the views of Gaz, DavidWhiting, Roz, Baboonery, Alanque and aswaspooluser, all vigorously expressed on th... |
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16-03-2009, 05:37 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Can anyone explain to me the implications of the following, an extract from paragraph 10.10 (about option 2) of the report on the pools considered by the Mayor and Cabinet last month?
[i]The value ... |
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18-03-2009, 10:09 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Nasaroc is 'confident that people will place the long term future of FH first.' I'd have thought that what should come first is the health and well-being of the people who live in this part of London ... |
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24-03-2009, 12:13 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| As a swimmer living in FH ward, I'd like, for selfish reasons, there to be a good quality pool nearer to my house than The Bridge as soon as possible. But as a Lewisham citizen and taxpayer, I'd like ... |
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08-04-2009, 11:07 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Have I won the prize for finding the first evidence of some positive support for the Willow Way site? There is a (one off?) poster in the window of Kirkdale Express Cleaners, headed 'Willow Way All Th... |
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11-04-2009, 05:48 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Wasn't Piloti involved in the pools issue earlier, under his real name (Gavin Stamp)? |
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16-04-2009, 10:12 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| [b]Michael[/b]
[quote]I believe there are ways to build a pool on the existing site within the budget (not that it is easy), but with the cost of building falling sharply, and with potential cross-su... |
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27-04-2009, 10:51 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Michael, as I understand your proposals, there woud be 'live/work' units (on just one floor?) each with a flat (sold or ?rented quite separately) above it. That suggests that the 'live/work' unit wou... |
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robin orton |
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23-05-2009, 09:00 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| [quote]Robin,
There is not yet figures on the split between swimmers and non-swimmers, but we have asked for this split to be included in the final report. [/quote]
I don't see this in the 'answer... |
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02-07-2009, 08:23 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| One bit of analysis I can't find - have I missed it? - is how the total number of votes of active swimmers (those who currently swim elsewhere or at any rate were regular FH pool users - I think we w... |
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24-06-2009, 04:12 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Is it possible that the number of people who said they were 'unlikely to visit' the WW pools was boosted by tactical voting by those whose main priority is not swimming as such but a desire to ensure ... |
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25-06-2009, 01:06 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| [quote]This is all becoming very sad indeed, now even conspiracy theories flourishing behind the curtains of this consultation[/quote]
I certainly wasn't suggesting a conspiracy, Millesens. All I w... |
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25-06-2009, 04:44 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Congratulations to Michael, the Forest Hill Society and everyone else who worked for this result. I voted for WW, not because I don't believe the existing site isn't the better of the two, but because... |
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16-07-2009, 11:33 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| I'm very glad we are having a new pool and no doubt I shall come to love the building in due course. But on the basis of the artist's impression, I think it looks rather ugly.The clash of styles is ju... |
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12-05-2010, 08:45 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| [b]David Whiting said:[/b]
[quote]On the whole, I think the architects have done a grand job of fitting a viable leisure centre into a difficult site. [/quote]
I wouldn't disagree. The problem is in... |
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robin orton |
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13-05-2010, 08:21 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Apologies for driving you mad, Sydenham Central. Quite unintended. Any other kinds of word I ought to avoid in future for the sake of your mental health? |
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13-05-2010, 12:37 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Should we be concerned that the pictures of happy swimmers on the hoardings round the pool site don't include an obviously black person? |
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08-08-2010, 09:29 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| 'Michael' said:
[quote]I had a look at the boards this evening and noticed that there is indeed an "obviously black" person in the panel closest to Louise House[/quote]
But he's doing some sort of k... |
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robin orton |
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10-08-2010, 03:36 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Haven't counted but certainly quite a few. |
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10-08-2010, 04:53 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Having been rather sniffy in the past about the new building, I'd like to say that, as of now (and I know it's not finished yet), I think it looks very impressive as you approach it from the FH end o... |
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13-02-2012, 05:32 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Yes, I know, Lee, the signage was one of the things which I disliked particularly in the original pictures. |
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13-02-2012, 05:58 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I'm not sure you can blame Fusion for the current problems at The Bridge in Lower Sydenham (if that's what Ryananglem is referring to.) I suspect it was in a poor condition when they took it over fro... |
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04-05-2012, 02:55 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I had another look at the Victorian facade the other day. I still think it looks very heavy, gloomy and institutional (although not quite as much as Louise House next door) but I guess it would be imp... |
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21-06-2012, 04:35 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| If you heard it in Rob's, it must be true! He knows everybody and everything in FH. He told me the other day that his is the oldest established shop in Dartmouth Road - been there since 1970, apparent... |
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21-06-2012, 10:39 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Deano said:
[quote]I love the Forest Hill Pools sign and the wave logo[/quote]
I disagree - I think it clutters up the look of the new building (which I admire). And why did they have to use that no... |
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24-06-2012, 11:06 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| [quote]Why do you think it's noisy and agressive Robin? [...] I LOVE CAPS.
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[i]Res ipsa loquitur[/i], Lee.
But if you want me to spell it out, upper case is BULLYING, OLD-FASHIONED an... |
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24-06-2012, 08:36 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| [quote]Or perhaps "silva tumulosus lacus"![/quote]
My suggestion would be 'Balneae Collis Silvestris' - or perhaps 'Balneae Collissilvestrenses' sounds more idiomatic? |
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25-06-2012, 09:43 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| [quote]'Sylva monte lavantem II' [/quote]
'The forest [is doing something to] the person who is washing [something] with a mountain' II? |
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25-06-2012, 11:50 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Of course not, Michael, I'm sure you're just being your usual quirky self. |
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25-06-2012, 12:15 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| It would be good if Fusion, or Lewisham, would give us some information about what the problem is and what is being done to resolve it. |
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10-08-2012, 04:46 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I've heard a rumour that the pools may not be available for public use immediately after the official opening on 22 September (although the other facilities, gym etc will be), because of a problem to ... |
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10-09-2012, 08:03 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Rob the barber told me this morning that he had it on good authority that the air-conditioning problem has now been fixed and that everything should be ready by 22 September. |
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13-09-2012, 01:20 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Had my first swim in the new pool this morning, in the over 60s 10.00-11.00 session. Hardly any queue to get in (although a bit of a one had built up when I came out just before 11.00) and there was p... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I don't understand why people dislike the showers so much. Perhaps they're used to power showers at home? I find the showers at the pool perfectly adequate for rinsing off the chlorine, which I assume... |
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06-10-2012, 10:36 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| [quote][b]Poppy 9560 said:[/b]
I expect showers in a swimming pool to provide enough water for a wash and hairwash with shower gel and shampoo![/quote]
Blimey. I'm obviously behind the times. |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I apologize. I thought it might be a sly dig at those of us of the male gender whose hair may be slightly - VERY, VERY slightly, you understand - less luxuriant than it was when we were younger. (It'... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I noticed this morning that one of the two roped-off lanes was labelled 'fast lane.' (It was empty most of the time I was there!) So some progress, it appears. |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I don't think anyone has mentioned that there are signs up at the head of each lane enjoining those using them to swim down one side and up the other and indicating whether the direction of travel sho... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Somebody's listening: what I assume were 'anti-wave ropes' - bigger and fatter ones anyway - were in place between the lanes when I swam this morning. |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Thanks for this interesting update, Satchers.
Why is a 'clean shoe policy' needed in the changing rooms? Is the occasional bit of mud on the changing room floor going to hurt anyone? |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Only in very small amounts, surely, if at all. And the pool is chlorinated, so the health risk must be infinitesimal. And, anyway, people are asked to shower before swimming. |
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