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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I read today that you can get tours around the place as part of the London Open House weekend, which is 22 & 23 September, so presumably they're aiming to be open by then, at least...
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14-08-2012, 09:28 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| If anyone wants to read a positive (and objective) review, there's a lady who blogs about London's swimming pools, all very well written and entertaining, and she's paid the new pool a visit already..... |
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18-10-2012, 07:45 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Hi Poppy - I know, I visit it regularly and enjoy it, despite barely being able to swim myself. Perhaps once my lessons materialise (I was too late for the first lot so am waiting to hear when there'l... |
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19-10-2012, 07:11 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Sorry for the thread necromancy - but I just joined the pools today, had a nice gym session, then thought I'd enjoy a swim from 5pm. Did my thing and was out and changing, but surprised to hear at 5.3... |
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04-05-2013, 06:16 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Satchers, I appreciate your efforts - and having had no reply to my message via their website about closing times I'll definitely do my best to head along when the next feedback session is scheduled.
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Oh, I would love it if it were adults only after 7pm! I haven't been for a while, because I've assumed that the sunshine will give everyone the same idea at the weekends - and in the evenings the pool... |
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30-07-2013, 07:59 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| IWereAbsolutelyFuming, officially I think family swim means you have to be there with a kid. That's what it says on the timetable. But I asked at the desk once if I was allowed in (solo) and they said... |
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31-07-2013, 05:55 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I think there's a men-only session at one of the pools (I forget which), but I have to say I'm not fond of gender-segregation, really. But, if it has to happen, there should be an equal amount of men-... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| The last time I went to a women-only session it was indeed pretty busy. I suspect it's because people like me, who don't actually need it to be women-only (couldn't care less, if you want to ogle me i... |
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19-09-2013, 08:11 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
| But if it's to do with 5 carriage trains on the underground, why does it affect the Southern trains? Because they often (usually?) have more than 5 carriages. I'd understand if the overground was off,... |
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24-11-2013, 09:17 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| *Why* would you ever need to tell anyone you were "nursing at keyboard"?
One for STFU Parents, I reckon. ([b]There's[/b] an acronym to savour.)
As for the DS, I had a little groan when I saw it... |
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04-06-2013, 06:54 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| Might it just have been the receptionist doing that thing I know I do from time to time - using the wrong stock phrase because your brain's on automatic?
"Happy birthday."
"Thanks - and you." |
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13-09-2013, 06:48 PM |
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Thread: East London Line
Post: RE: East London Line
| It says on their homepage that a number of their trains have been "damaged by snow".
What the heck...? |
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24-01-2013, 08:15 AM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| Wearing my shiniest tin foil hat, I'm wondering if the service has been so poor of late intentionally, so that we won't be so upset when the Southern trains disappear for the next fortnight. Or indeed... |
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18-12-2014, 12:30 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| Was there anything odd on the Overground tonight? I got to Canada Water about 6.45 pm, and the West Croydon train that arrived then was heaving (left many behind), which meant the Crystal Palace train... |
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06-01-2015, 08:53 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| How can they possibly claim that removing 5 trains in the evening rush hour is an improved service? :cursing: |
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07-01-2015, 04:21 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| I've started avoiding Canada Water on the way home - I get on the Overground further up the track, by using a different combination of tubes from work. Probably adds ten minutes to my journey home, wh... |
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14-01-2015, 10:47 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| But surely if the crush gets much worse it'll lead to more people going "the long way round", and thus alleviate the problem? I always go up and then down - not sure if it's quicker (I reckon it might... |
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02-01-2015, 06:10 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| I took the 8.21 to LB this morning - I was there for the 8.17 to H&I but of course that was late and the LB train arrived first, so I squeezed on - arriving at LB at 9am.
I hijacked a group of thre... |
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07-01-2015, 02:21 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| Well, on Twitter the Jubilee Line account is warning me that Canada Water is likely to be busy so I should avoid it. And I'm getting emails from TFL warning me about London Bridge.
Erm... So I'm be... |
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08-01-2015, 06:21 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| So reading the update on Southern's site, those evening services withdrawn for a week, and then for four weeks, are now gone for good.
I can't say I'm surprised. I guess that's their cunning "alter... |
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22-01-2015, 08:47 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| I do think though the downside to the lovely new concourse is the loss of platform space. That's why, as I understand it, the completed new platforms still have bits fenced off on them - because that'... |
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08-02-2015, 01:27 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| The trouble with that statement from Southern in Michael's post is that they're talking about how they're going to improve "reliability and service punctuality".
They could very easily do that by r... |
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28-01-2015, 01:37 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| Well, I "met the managers"...
I asked one simple question: "Are you restoring the rush hour trains to Forest Hill that you cut?"
The answer (she knew exactly what I was talking about straight aw... |
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05-02-2015, 09:43 AM |
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Thread: The Capitol to close
Post: RE: Capitol to close
| Flats would be lovely, thanks. Particularly part buy, part rent ones. London doesn't, as far as I'm aware, suffer from a shortage of cinemas. A shortage of affordable housing, on the other hand...
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24-06-2014, 07:33 PM |
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Thread: The Capitol to close
Post: RE: Capitol to close?
| Oh, so we get to choose what we want it to be? And then someone else will front up the cash and make it happen? That's pretty cool. |
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30-10-2014, 08:21 PM |
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Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: Location x3
| I'm sure it's all very lovely for those who own property here - and of course it's all true, it's a marvellous place to live.
But as someone who has got at least another couple of years of hard sav... |
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10-07-2013, 09:53 PM |
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Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: Kebab shop at FH station
| Enquiring minds (well, one enquiring mind, mine) needs to know - is this just a massive refurb, or has the kebab shop at the station in FH gone for good?
Anyone any info? |
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22-02-2014, 04:19 PM |
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Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: Kebab shop at the station
| No! Why do you hope it's gone? What would you have take its place? |
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22-02-2014, 06:02 PM |
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Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: Kebab shop at FH station
| *relief* :thumbup: Sometimes all I require in life is a bit of indeterminate meat product with a side helping of guilt-assuaging salad! |
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23-02-2014, 04:27 PM |
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Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: Kebab shop at FH station
| gbrownings - I understand your point. William Morris had a good idea - I'm happy for anything in the town as long as it's useful or beautiful. Occasionally the kebab shop is one of those for me; hopef... |
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23-02-2014, 06:42 PM |
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Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: Shops, restaurants, pubs etc
| Bugger. I knew there was a reason I should have had kids.
Mums can visit the pub from 10am? Sweet. |
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26-06-2014, 09:04 PM |
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Thread: Farmers' market in the Horniman Gardens
Post: RE: Farmers' market in the Horniman Gardens
| Or, building on nottinghillbilly's post, promote Dartmouth Road as the place to be on a Saturday morning if you want to do your shopping in kid-free peace. "Come drink coffee in our tantrum-free cafés! ... |
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Thread: Farmers' market in the Horniman Gardens
Post: RE: Farmers' market in the Horniman Gardens
| I do know this thread has made me quite keen on attending the market. It didn't occur to me to go at first, as I get my groceries delivered, and some of the posts about how it's a haven for running-ab... |
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13-11-2013, 02:39 PM |
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Thread: Farmers' market in the Horniman Gardens
Post: RE: Farmers' market in the Horniman Gardens
| Next and Wallis, please. There's more to life - and especially to spending disposable income - than food. |
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19-11-2013, 08:09 AM |
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Thread: Farmers' market in the Horniman Gardens
Post: RE: Farmers' market in the Horniman Gardens
| Who "owns" this market? Is it a random group of traders, not affiliated to Forest Hill, who have borrowed/rented the space from the Horniman and who are probably thrilled at their success?
Or is it... |
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01-11-2013, 09:01 AM |
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Thread: Planning Application: M&Co to become a Morrisons Local?
Post: RE: M&Co to become a Morrisons Local
| I'm genuinely interested to know, if the objections win out and Morrisons don't open on that site - who do the objectors honestly think will take the site?
It seems that you don't want a grocery st... |
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15-07-2014, 10:31 PM |
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Thread: Planning Application: M&Co to become a Morrisons Local?
Post: RE: M&Co to become a Morrisons Local
| Local convenience stores are indeed usually more expensive than their large equivalents. I'd be pleasantly surprised to find that the Sainsburys in Forest Hill has the same prices as the huge one at B... |
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16-07-2014, 07:32 AM |
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Thread: 63 Honor Oak Park (ex White Wood Shop)
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park Parade
| What I don't understand, and this is relevant both to this thread and the one about the Forest Hill laundrette, is why estate agents want to spend money on their offices anyway. Doesn't everyone look ... |
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19-10-2012, 09:15 PM |
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Thread: Planning: 2-4 London Road FH (Launderette)
Post: RE: Planning: 2-4 London Road FH (Launderette)
| Mmm. Intrigued as to how it'll "provide significant employment", if they're just moving their shop down the road.
But, you know, yay - more glass windows full of pictures of overpriced property. B... |
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05-03-2014, 08:18 AM |
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Thread: Traffic lights Dartmouth Road/London Road
Post: RE: Traffic lights Dartmouth Road/London Road
| Really? People won't walk that [b]immense [/b]distance from the car park round the back of Sainsburys?
Sod your fizzy drink tax. I spot the root cause of the obesity epidemic right there... :) |
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20-02-2013, 08:19 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill in the Times property section
Post: RE: Forest Hill in the Times property section
| All I know is that Forest Hill is clearly a very popular place to be right now. I've been trying to find a flat to rent there since the beginning of the year, on and off, and more seriously for the la... |
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07-06-2012, 01:03 PM |
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Thread: Pedestrian crossings: London Road junction - railing removal
Post: RE: Pedestrian crossings: London Road junction - r...
| I was once waiting in the middle of the crossing, coming from the station. I'm one of those naughty types that waits to the right of the island, so I'm not inside the railings (as I'm heading off down... |
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03-03-2014, 09:44 PM |
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Thread: Bakerloo Line Extension
Post: RE: Bakerloo Line Extension
| I got quite excited about the huge improvement to my commute, then realised in 2030 I won't be living or working where I do now.
I'll also probably be dead of Ebola... |
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30-09-2014, 01:55 PM |
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Thread: Southern trains into London Bridge
Post: RE: Southern trains into London Bridge
| The 08.31 is a lovely train - long, usually one of the brand new ones, and yes, pretty empty. Which means all the people on the later stations can get on too - it's not just us that are going to suffe... |
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Thread: Southern trains into London Bridge
Post: RE: Southern trains into London Bridge
| Hi Randall. I get trains at FH, and yes, the 7.50 is usually old stylee. If you can hang on for the next one (about 8 mins later I think) that's usually both new and empty-ish. The one before (7.42 fr... |
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Thread: Southern trains into London Bridge
Post: RE: Southern trains into London Bridge
| On which note... I went to Finches Ski Emporium last Sunday (not yesterday) for their Sunday opening celebration (my friends' band was playing) and I spotted someone across the shop I recognised. We e... |
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Thread: Southern trains into London Bridge
Post: RE: Southern trains into London Bridge
| Mr Numbers, he's going to need a sex change... :laugh: |
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Thread: Southern trains into London Bridge
Post: RE: Southern trains into London Bridge
| Randall - hurrah for the quiet trains! :cool:
Blushingsnail, that's exactly what happened - I got there just before 8.30 and they'd closed the barriers as the platform was too crowded. Once an Over... |
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Thread: Alarming house prices!
Post: RE: Alarming house prices!
| It's only "too much" if no one will pay it. Given the current market, and the trend for "open days" which just draw on people's panic about the lack of available properties in their price bracket - I ... |
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