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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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22-07-2011, 02:11 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: 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: 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: 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: Forest Hill in the Times property section
Post: RE: Forest Hill in the Times property section
| At this point, I'm really not sure how serious or how ironic Robin Orton is being. (Although I would sign my name to a notional list of anyone who considered their house to be a home rather than an in... |
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22-07-2011, 04:18 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: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO
Post: RE: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO
| Hi there,
Friends of mine are thinking of moving into the area. But they've heard worrying rumours that the recent influx of middle class newcomers includes a tiny lunatic fringe of mean-spirited ... |
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17-09-2015, 03:51 PM |
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Thread: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO
Post: RE: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO
| Well, I think that's settled the issue. |
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17-09-2015, 04:37 PM |
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Thread: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO
Post: RE: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO
| Feeling a bit worried now. I've lived in the area for eighteen years but it now occurs to me that I may not meet the new and exacting requirements for the contemporary Honor Oak resident. Do I need to... |
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17-09-2015, 04:56 PM |
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Thread: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO
Post: RE: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO
| Good luck Snazy. I believe the oral exam is particularly challenging.
I'll be working on my glottal stops. |
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17-09-2015, 05:07 PM |
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Thread: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO
Post: RE: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO
| Wait a minute...I'm getting lost...let me just take some notes...
Self loathing: bad
Barely concealed loathing for perceived social inferiors: good
OK. Carry on. |
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18-09-2015, 12:40 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?
| 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?
| 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Dog Fouling
Post: RE: Dog Fouling
| '' I confronted the couple about it and they were as unpleasant as you'd expect ''
Why would you/we expect them to be unpleasant? That doesn't seem clear. |
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21-10-2014, 07:46 PM |
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Thread: Dog Fouling
Post: RE: Dog Fouling
| Can I ask you a couple of questions?
1) Let's imagine a scenario in which I'd been passing by on the other side of the road. I film the incident on my phone from a different vantage point and from a ... |
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21-10-2014, 07:41 PM |
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Thread: Dog Fouling
Post: RE: Dog Fouling
| Really? Or would it have been just as reasonable to conclude that kindness to animals, in however misguided a form, was the sign of a generous nature?
I might not be convinced of the merits of the... |
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22-10-2014, 09:06 AM |
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: losing Hope updated........
Post: RE: losing Hope updated........
| Hi there - it's probably a good idea to use this thread to remind people what your cat looks like, just in case they haven't seen the other thread (I hadn't). Maybe you could attach a photo?
Best o... |
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11-10-2011, 01:40 PM |
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Thread: Followed home from station
Post: RE: Followed home from station
| Just read this thread. I noticed a man/boy matching this description in Garthorne Road this morning around 9 am.
He was wearing a black nylon hooded tracksuit and a black wool cap.
I'd have esti... |
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18-10-2013, 10:18 AM |
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Thread: Followed home from station
Post: RE: Followed home from station
| dita - Glad to hear that the police that have been stepping up their efforts. Let's hope that they get a result a.s.a.p. It must be horrible being forced out of your own home like that. |
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21-10-2013, 12:10 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: 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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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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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: 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: Fox attack
Post: RE: Fox attack
| Almost feeling a kind of warped admiration for Brian at this point as he peruses a discussion about local wildlife and concurs that, once again,the key issue is the undesirable effects of immigration.... |
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