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Thread: Letter from Police
Post: RE: Letter from Police
| We live in Honor Oak and my partner had a visit from a plain clothes officer the other night. Her description of this interview made me suspiscious as well. But I contacted the local Safer Neighbourho... |
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18-01-2008, 12:02 PM |
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Thread: Bogus Window Cleaner
Post: RE: Bogus Window Cleaner?
| A scam of this kind was described a while back on the East Dulwich Forum - although I've not been able to find the thread.
If memory serves, the bloke was white, forty-something, 'geezer-ish', conf... |
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19-03-2008, 02:16 PM |
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Thread: What are the nicest streets in HOP?
Post: RE: What are the nicest streets in HOP?
| Another vote for the block of redbrick Edwardian terraces bounded by Gabriel St, Bovill Rd, and Garthorne Rd.
I like living there. It's pretty quiet and peaceful with a nice social mix - not too ro... |
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14-05-2008, 12:59 PM |
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Thread: Water Supply Problems
Post: Water problems Honor Oak (Sat a.m. 26 July 2008)
| Just got up to very low water pressure in our house in Honor Oak - barely a trickle coming out of the taps.
Has a water main burst? Anyone else had any problems? Or know how widespread this is? Or ... |
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26-07-2008, 09:22 AM |
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Thread: One Tree Hill
Post: RE: Dog walkers on One Tree Hill
| I agree that it's not unusual to see commercial dog walkers with groups of six to eight dogs on One Tree Hill, of all shapes and sizes, sometimes running free and off the leash. I have been up on One... |
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30-07-2008, 11:28 AM |
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Thread: Door to door scammers
Post: RE: Door to door scammers
| A chubby teenage boy tried to work this one on me, a couple of years back in the Honor Oak area. The crumpled sponsorship form that he presented had the blurry appearance of a second-generation photoc... |
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30-07-2008, 11:46 AM |
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Thread: Crime map of Forest Hill
Post: RE: Crime map of Forest Hill
| I was interested by Ghis' observation that crime in the area north-west of Honor Oak Park was below average in contrast to the surrounding areas. I wondered why that was.
My first thought was that ... |
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21-08-2008, 10:17 AM |
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Thread: Recycling
Post: RE: Recycling
| Note: most charity shops won't take electrical items even if they're still working. However, some specialist British Heart Foundation shops will. I think that our nearest one is on the Old Kent Road s... |
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22-08-2008, 10:29 AM |
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Thread: The planning system
Post: RE: The planning system
| I think that it's morally right that a local council should do their best to maximise the amount of affordable housing in their area where a proven need for it already exists. Although, I accept that ... |
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27-08-2008, 03:38 PM |
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Thread: Ewart Road crime scene - what's going on?
Post: Ewart Road crime scene - what's going on?
| I've just walked psat Ewart Road as I cut through the back streets from Honor Oak to Forest Hill. A large area around Ewart Road has been cordoned off. There were about four uniformed police in the ar... |
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13-09-2008, 12:15 PM |
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Thread: Bail Hostel
Post: RE: Bail Hostel
| I believe the bail hostel is in Brockley Rise, near the Stanstead road end.
I've lived a few streets away from it for about a decade, during which time it has had absolutely zero impact on my life... |
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03-02-2009, 02:20 PM |
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Thread: Supermarket Shakespeare
Post: RE: Supermarket Shakespeare
| Odd choice of Sainsburys sites though.
Surely the one by Dulwich Hamlet would have been more appropriate?
I'll get my cape... |
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27-03-2009, 02:24 PM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Park Rail Station
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park Rail Station
| The guitar guy has been around forever. His musicianship is undeniably terrible but I've never heard him being abusive. Is this a new development? He's always seemed harmless to me.
He disappeared ... |
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21-07-2009, 12:42 PM |
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Thread: Warning attempted Burglary - Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Warning attempted Burglary - Honor Oak Park
| Two constables were conducting door-to-doors in the area last night looking for anyone who might have seen anything. One of them suggested that the burglars had succeeded in breaking in to another hou... |
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17-06-2010, 01:51 PM |
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Thread: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
Post: RE: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
| For what it's worth, the map in my head more or less corresponds with Michael's version. I've lived in Honor Oak for about 12 years and grew up down the road in pre-gentrification East Dulwich.
So... |
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06-07-2010, 10:55 AM |
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Thread: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
Post: RE: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
| ...and now it's occured to me that the old Honor Oak Baptist Church is on the corner of Mundania Road with a SE22 postcode which might be thought to scupper the postcode theory. (Maybe there was an Ho... |
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06-07-2010, 12:54 PM |
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Thread: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & Bovill
Post: RE: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & ...
| Clue: rhymes with inconsiderate anti-social git. |
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07-07-2010, 10:36 AM |
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Thread: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
Post: RE: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
| Does everyone agree that the area north of Wood Vale but west of Forest Hill Road (including Underhill Road) definitely isn't Honor Oak? Is there a consensus on that?
North of Wood Vale but east o... |
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07-07-2010, 10:53 AM |
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Thread: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & Bovill
Post: RE: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & ...
| Gabriella - those stencils have been appearing aound the area for about a decade with no obvious effect. Unfortunately.
PVP - if you're insisting on a full five asterisks' worth, how about rhymes w... |
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07-07-2010, 12:07 PM |
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Thread: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
Post: RE: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
| I believe that the cemeteries were so named when they were both within the boundaries of the old London Borough of Camberwell. You can still see the old metal boundary marker half-submerged at the top... |
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07-07-2010, 07:29 PM |
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Thread: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
Post: RE: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
| Maybe 'Celebrity Oak' would have been closer than 'Fornication Oak'? Queen Bess was a big deal back then and her arrival would have caused a bit of a stir. It was probably featured in 'Hey Nonny No!' ... |
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08-07-2010, 10:52 AM |
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Thread: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
Post: RE: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
| Backtracking a bit: at least two posters on this thread would extend the northernmost boundary of Honor Oak to include the stretch between Wood Vale all the way up to Peckham Rye Park. Is that the maj... |
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08-07-2010, 08:06 PM |
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Thread: Good local park
Post: RE: Good local park
| Honor Oak Rec seems to have quite a popular swing park. It's off of Honor Oak Park accessed down the path by the allotments.
The new improved Blythe Hill Fields swing park might actually be bigger... |
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09-07-2010, 04:47 PM |
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Thread: Ridiculous Doctors Catchment areas
Post: RE: Ridiculous Doctors Catchment areas
| I'd have been quite happy with the Jenner Health Centre because I live a short walk away. But I've ended up at the surgery halfway down Brockley Road. That doesn't seem logical if other users are havi... |
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26-07-2010, 11:46 AM |
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Thread: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & Bovill
Post: RE: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & ...
| Turd wars are hotting up in the Honor Oak area. When I walked down one local street today I noticed that someone had not only actually fashioned a cardboard frame for one of the gruesome crap-corries ... |
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11-08-2010, 09:14 PM |
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Thread: Strange caller
Post: RE: Strange caller
| The East Dulwich burglaries sound like the same lot that were targetting SE23 recently: ground floor windows crowbarred open from front gardens where tall hedges provided cover from the road. |
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29-09-2010, 11:47 AM |
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Thread: Sound insulation in SE23 halls-adjoining houses?
Post: Sound insulation in SE23 halls-adjoining houses?
| We've lived in our Honor Oak half-house for more than a decade. We're fond of the house and the neighbourhood. But one drawback to the house is a very thin dividing wall on one side of the house.
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29-09-2010, 12:04 PM |
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Thread: Sound insulation in SE23 halls-adjoining houses?
Post: RE: Sound insulation in SE23 halls-adjoining house...
| BCM - thanks, that's quite reassuring. We're not super-neurotic about noise. But the idea of spending several months with a newborn baby (not) sleeping in a cot in the bedroom next to ours is a bit da... |
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04-10-2010, 11:25 AM |
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Thread: Sound insulation in SE23 halls-adjoining houses?
Post: RE: Sound insulation in SE23 halls-adjoining house...
| Well...there are other reasons to move as well.
But that might be both the deciding issue, and something we want to avoid if/when we do move into somewhere else.
Thanks anyway. |
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06-10-2010, 06:27 PM |
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Thread: Awful Story: Cat Owners Beware
Post: RE: Awful Story: Cat Owners Beware
| Yet another possibility - although maybe a more unlikely one? - is that this signals the return of the 'Sydenham Panther'.
There have been repeated sightings of an unidentified big cat in the area ... |
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07-12-2010, 03:58 PM |
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Thread: Christmas lights?
Post: RE: Christmas lights?
| We always have had Christmas lights on the main drag in Honor Oak, and they've usually appeared at the same time as the tree.
This year the tree's here but the lights aren't. I wonder if they're a ... |
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08-12-2010, 12:52 PM |
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Thread: Awful Story: Cat Owners Beware
Post: RE: Awful Story: Cat Owners Beware
| @ ceetee : The RSPCA's website refers readers to an external link 'The Fox Website' whose line is that it is relatively rare for a fox to attack a fully grown cat (as opposed to a kitten).
''In an ... |
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09-12-2010, 12:06 PM |
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Thread: Awful Story: Cat Owners Beware
Post: RE: Awful Story: Cat Owners Beware
| ...and here's some Sydenham Panther related material.
This article from September 2009 concerns cat remains discovered in a Sydenham park. A commentator describes how the 'sandpapery' tongue of a b... |
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09-12-2010, 12:17 PM |
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Thread: Awful Story: Cat Owners Beware
Post: RE: Awful Story: Cat Owners Beware
| That's fair enough, Cettee. Intrigued about your brother: where was he at the time? |
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09-12-2010, 03:25 PM |
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Thread: 3-course lunch for £2 ??
Post: RE: 3-course lunch for £2 ??
| Is this the place that I remembered as The Dartmouth Restaurant? With most of the tables in a basement space? Or did Coulters come later?
As 1970s teenagers, I'd go there with my first girlfriend s... |
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14-12-2010, 02:55 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| A few idle points...
I agree with Robin Orton that it's probably misleading to conceive of a pure and unsullied gold-standard English. The language is constantly mutating. Even Fowler's accepts thi... |
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07-01-2011, 12:03 PM |
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Thread: Why are coffee shops so important to 'young professionals'?
Post: RE: Why are coffee shops so important to 'young pr...
| Tend to agree with all of the above. Although I would add that the sort of person who would style themselves as a young professional, eagerly and without irony, may also be the sort of person who's pr... |
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24-02-2011, 03:51 PM |
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Thread: Why are coffee shops so important to 'young professionals'?
Post: RE: Why are coffee shops so important to 'young pr...
| Do people 'tend not to go to' caffs? Which people? The Oak Cafe on Honor Oak Park, for example, seems to do quite a decent trade. My partner and myself are both quite fond of it. (It's probably fortun... |
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24-02-2011, 07:59 PM |
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Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red bull marketing?
| ...although Perry W's experience forms such a striking contrast to the general tone that there's bound to be some sceptics who will suspect him of being some kind of troll or of having some connection... |
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14-03-2011, 12:17 PM |
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Thread: Congratulations to France.
Post: RE: Congratulations to France.
| Just out of interest, would posters on this topic be prepared to take part in a quick straw poll?
I would / would not like to live in a society in which the elected government enforced on its citiz... |
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14-04-2011, 01:54 PM |
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Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red bull marketing?
| Well, if they are Andura Guard, then everybody's misgivings seem to have been well founded:
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/andura-guard-c227113.html
The link above leads to some inter... |
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20-04-2011, 01:50 PM |
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Thread: People door knocking offering a roof survey
Post: RE: People door knocking offering a roof survey
| I'm pretty sure that there has been an extensive thread on the East Dulwich Forum about the woman-and-imaginary-baby scammer that Marthasmum describes. From memory ,a lot of the features match: plausi... |
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28-04-2011, 12:17 PM |
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Thread: Tatoo Removal paid for by us.
Post: RE: Tatoo Removal paid for by us.
| Now here's a thought: if somebody had a facial tattoo would it be better or worse for them to conceal it by means of a veil?
(Everybody stand back. I think Brian's head might be about to explode.) |
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11-05-2011, 02:22 PM |
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Thread: Can you not sit somewhere else?
Post: RE: Can you not sit somewhere else?
| Incredible. I'd have asked her whether she'd bought a separate ticket for her handbag...
Where do people like that get their massively over-developed sense of entitlement from? |
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18-05-2011, 10:49 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Can't see why it's an either/or issue.
Feminism is for feminists - who specifically want to advance the cause of women in regard of gender equality. Most of the people who'd define themselves as f... |
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24-05-2011, 12:07 PM |
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Thread: Low water pressure?
Post: RE: Low water pressure?
| Very low, slowing to a tiny trickle this a.m. in Honor Oak. Could find myself brushing my teeth in sparkling mineral water in if it actually runs out. |
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07-07-2011, 07:58 AM |
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Thread: Low water pressure?
Post: RE: Low water pressure?
| P.S. Just checked the Thames Water incident map and there's a triangle of leaks (Ewelma Road SE23, Railway Terrace SE13, Inchmery Road SE6) with our neighbourhood in the middle. Could one/all of those... |
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07-07-2011, 08:08 AM |
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Thread: Half houses
Post: RE: Half houses
| There are a lot of half-houses around Honor Oak. These are terraced Edwardian properties in which two neighbours share a common hallway from the front door. This leads to two internal 'front doors'. M... |
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14-07-2011, 12:01 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill in the Times property section
Post: RE: Forest Hill in the Times property section
| It's funny, because I don't remember anyone enthusing about 'grot'. Not by using that word. Nor in a more general sense.
Maybe someone could and paste the relevant quotes?
..........<eerie wind,... |
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22-07-2011, 10:54 AM |
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Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: Disaster The Old Bank to become a Dominoes piz...
| 'Disaster' is pitching it a bit strong, isn't it?
I live in Honor Oak so the Old Bank site is on my doorstep. It'd be nice to have a decent restaurant or pub there. If it became a Domino's, then I... |
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