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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| I wonder if Sir Steve & his cronies are beginning to worry about the responses they are receiving to the "consultation" document and are trying to get different responses by other means?
I have ju... |
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ChrisR |
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14-05-2009, 05:59 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: What the hell is going on with the trains? PUN...
| The reason Southern can claim that 90% of the trains are on time is that the figures only relate to a proportion of their total services. They only have to refer to the punctuality of peak hour trains... |
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ChrisR |
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18-11-2008, 03:47 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| When I first moved to Forest Hill 20 years ago there used to be off-peak through trains to Charing Cross every day (2 per hour Monday - Saturday and 1 per hour on Sunday). I seem to remember services ... |
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ChrisR |
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1,398 |
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23-02-2009, 11:51 AM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train Service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| [quote]What was interesting was that the London Transport guy said that I was the only person he had surveyed in our area who had brought this up at all and most people were just chuffed that we were ... |
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ChrisR |
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1,398 |
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30-09-2009, 11:36 AM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak
| I thought I was seeing things today when I arrived at Forest Hill to find trains running through to Charing Cross. It seems there is track capacity available from London Bridge to Charing Cross aftera... |
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ChrisR |
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1,398 |
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03-01-2010, 10:14 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
| No London Overground services on our line at present - as per TfL website at 1542:
"Services are suspended between Dalston Junction and West Croydon/Crystal Palace due to a vehicle hitting a bridge... |
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ChrisR |
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1,398 |
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09-07-2010, 03:48 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Station
| Great timing Southern! Just as people start Christmas shopping and have to struggle home with more bags than usual they decide to close the Perry Vale entrance while they do the work on the new barri... |
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ChrisR |
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19-11-2008, 08:30 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station
| [quote] DSMDUNCAN says Southerns motto is to "think like a passenger" [/quote]
Southern certainly don't think like their mobility challenged passengers!
If they did they would appreciate how unac... |
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ChrisR |
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20-02-2009, 04:48 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station
| The ticket office was closed on Saturday morning, but Perry Vale gate was open as were all the ticket barriers. It seems at weekends we either have trains running or a ticket office open but not both ... |
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ChrisR |
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18-03-2009, 04:44 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station
| Re letter above from Southern Railways
Another cop out from Southern! Why don't they just admit they don't care about their customers?
I fail to see what difference the work they have already d... |
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ChrisR |
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761 |
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26-05-2009, 02:59 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station
| [quote]I see they are finally starting to install a ticket machine on the Perry Vale entrance. Workmen are placing the concrete footing today, so hopefully we can avoid having to go around to the fron... |
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ChrisR |
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761 |
706,354 |
05-09-2009, 11:53 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station
| Thanks Fandango for your quick response - another hike up and down the stairs with suitcases to platform 2! |
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ChrisR |
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761 |
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05-09-2009, 12:07 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station
| I'd rather have a station with a footbridge I can use, and direct trains from Charing Cross in the evening than a T-shirt with a map of the ELL stations on! |
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ChrisR |
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761 |
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06-10-2009, 05:37 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station
| When I asked at FH ticket office on Easter Saturday I was told the footbridge should have been opened that weekend, however there was a problem with the power supply!
When returning from LB last n... |
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ChrisR |
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761 |
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16-04-2010, 12:17 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station
| Used the lifts for the first time on Saturday - it was lovely not to have to struggle up and down the stairs with a suitcase and laptop etc. Now all I want is for the same to happen at Clapham Junctio... |
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ChrisR |
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26-04-2010, 05:56 PM |
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Thread: East London Line
Post: RE: East London Line
| [quote]Did anyone else receive an email regarding the opening of the ELL on Sunday this morning? It seems to be being sent to registered Oyster Card users who use our line[/quote]
I had one from TF... |
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ChrisR |
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20-05-2010, 11:59 AM |
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Thread: East London Line
Post: RE: East London Line
| I have just received the following response from London Overground following my complaint several weeks ago that the last southbound trains are not late enough, and will mean late night travellers are... |
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ChrisR |
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17-05-2010, 01:47 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...
| Email received from London Overground this morning:
[b]I apologise for the unacceptable level of service on London Overground's route from Highbury & Islington to West Croydon, Crystal Palace an... |
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ChrisR |
SE23 Topics |
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287,855 |
15-01-2015, 02:55 PM |
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Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: RE: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
| I'm with Talk Talk and have had a very unstable broadband connection since Sunday morning. On Monday evening Talk Talk advised me it was a general issue in the area and engineers were working on it, ... |
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ChrisR |
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03-02-2011, 11:06 AM |
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Thread: WH Smith & Post Office, Forest Hill
Post: RE: Forest Hill Post Office
| There was a police helicopter circling over the centre of Forest Hill at lunchtime today so wonder if that was anything to do with whatever was going on at the Post Office? |
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ChrisR |
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14-02-2009, 11:53 PM |
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Thread: 14 Waldram Park Road
Post: RE: Major fire on Waldram ?
| Loads of emergency vehicle sirens in the area around 2ish. The Air Ambulance came in very low and seemed to be landing somewhere in the vicinity of the Church Rise/South Road junction. |
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ChrisR |
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30-09-2010, 04:12 PM |
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Thread: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
Post: RE: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
| Concerned to see Snazy's comments about the effect of the new street lights on the pavements in Church Rise & Westbourne Drive as they're now being installed on Sunderland Road which is a similarly wi... |
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ChrisR |
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18-09-2012, 05:26 PM |
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Thread: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
Post: RE: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
| Unfortunately it does seem as if Sunderland Road is going the same way as Church Rise and Westbourne Drive - not helped by the fact that some of the old lights are being switched off before all the ne... |
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ChrisR |
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12-11-2012, 12:42 PM |
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Thread: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
Post: RE: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
| The Waldram end of Sunderland is now better as the first of the middle 5 lamp posts on the right-hand side as you walk up is finally working. However although the white lights are better than the yell... |
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ChrisR |
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16-11-2012, 02:10 PM |
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Thread: A plan to save the Honor Oak pub?
Post: RE: A plan to save the Honor Oak pub?
| I moved to Forest Hill at the end of 1988 and the Swiss Cottage was still standing then but I don't think it was open. I seem to recall it was demolished a couple of years later. |
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ChrisR |
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08-10-2013, 05:54 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill 20 MPH Zone
Post: RE: Forest Hill 20 MPH Zone
| [quote]Brian said:
They should also impose 20mph on Perry Vale side of the tracks[/quote]
There already is a 20mph limit on many of the residential roads In Perry Vale ward, not that many motorists ... |
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ChrisR |
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21-08-2009, 03:24 PM |
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Thread: Oyster Cards and FH Station
Post: RE: Oyster Cards and FH Station
| [quote] An off peak return to London Bridge would before have cost me £2.10 and last week jumped up to £3.50, a lovely 67% increase in cost [/quote]
By the prices you've quoted mjc it seems you eit... |
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ChrisR |
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18-03-2010, 04:25 PM |
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Thread: Upcoming Rail Engineering Works Update thread
Post: RE: Upcoming Rail Engineering Works Update thread
| SUNDAY JULY 22ND
No Southern or London Overground services operating between New Cross Gate and Crystal Palace/East Croydon or West Croydon.
Rail replacement bus services will operate every 15 m... |
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ChrisR |
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22-07-2022, 03:02 PM |
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Thread: Upcoming Rail Engineering Works Update thread
Post: RE: Upcoming Rail Engineering Works Update thread
| [b]Wednesday 5th October[/b]
No London Overground service at all due to industrial action
Southern operating normally ie 2 trains an hour to/from London Bridge and 2 trains an hour to/from Vict... |
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ChrisR |
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05-10-2022, 11:53 AM |
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Thread: Upcoming Rail Engineering Works Update thread
Post: RE: Upcoming Rail Engineering Works Update thread
| @nottinghillbilly - As already posted by rbmartin on post #51 above there are no Southern services from Forest Hill/Honor Oak Park in either direction on Saturday. And it appears the few bus replaceme... |
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ChrisR |
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06-10-2022, 02:40 PM |
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Thread: Upcoming Rail Engineering Works Update thread
Post: RE: Upcoming Rail Engineering Works Update thread
| @Nottinghillbilly
There are 2 trains an hour from Crystal Palace to London Bridge on Saturday at 23 and 53 past each hour but the routes goes "round the houses" and takes 28 minutes to get to Londo... |
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ChrisR |
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14-09-2023, 12:42 PM |
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Thread: Buses
Post: RE: 75 bus
| There was a serious accident in Catford about 11am at the junction by the library (apparently an elderly lady was knocked down and dragged under a lorry) closing Catford Rd between the main junction a... |
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ChrisR |
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04-10-2008, 06:27 PM |
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Thread: Buses
Post: Pickpockets on buses
| Just a warning to everyone that uses buses to be extra careful these days particulary in relation to keeping your valuables safe as pickpockets are working in the area. I had my purse taken from insid... |
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ChrisR |
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12-02-2009, 03:28 PM |
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Thread: SE23 - Most Burgled. Really?
Post: RE: SE23 - Most Burgled. Really?
| I think SE23 postcodes have long been regarded as higher risk by the insurance companies. I remember when I moved here 20 years ago from W11 (Notting Hill/North Kensington) I had to pay an additional ... |
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ChrisR |
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14-08-2009, 12:55 PM |
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Thread: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
Post: RE: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
| As long as we don't get yet another take away - there's already too many in that stretch of Perry Vale. |
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ChrisR |
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19-12-2007, 05:07 PM |
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Thread: No Overground or Rail this Weekend
Post: RE: No Overground or Rail this Weekend
| For those near the 185, 171 bus or 75 bus routes it's also worth considering taking a bus to Catford Bridge, and then the train to London Bridge or Charing Cross. Sunderland Road to a theatre in the ... |
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ChrisR |
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21-05-2014, 10:11 AM |
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Thread: Planning Application: 35 Sunderland Road
Post: RE: 35 SUNDERLAND ROAD CHANGE OF USE
| How can they be allowed to get away with this? There is already enough parking problems on Sunderland Rd with the Friends Meeting House (Quakers), Lewisham Labour Party HQ, and visitors to Waldram Par... |
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ChrisR |
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21-10-2008, 02:08 PM |
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Thread: Royal Mail Delivery of Packages
Post: RE: Royal Mail Delivery of Packages
| Redalways - you have confirmed what I have been suspicious about for some time. I too have had several occasions in the last year or so when I have received a "sorry you were out" card when I have bee... |
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ChrisR |
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02-03-2010, 11:59 AM |
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Thread: Rail engineering works
Post: RE: Travel misery 28 Feb - 1 Mar
| If it was only one weekend it wouldn't be so bad but over the next 5 weeks we only have trains one weekend - March 14/15th!
Although Penge East may be a good alternative for some it is in zone 4 ... |
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ChrisR |
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25-02-2015, 12:42 AM |
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Thread: Rail engineering works
Post: RE: Rail engineering works
| The appalling replacement bus "service" being offered is totally unacceptable, and Southern Railways should be held to account.
On Saturday February 27th I had to travel to Buckinghamshire and Nati... |
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ChrisR |
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09-03-2015, 04:56 PM |
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Thread: SE23 Magazine
Post: RE: SE23 less posh magazine
| If you mean Living South it is still the same format and being delivered (October edition delivered yesterday) |
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ChrisR |
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09-10-2008, 10:18 AM |
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Thread: Reporting water leaks made easy
Post: RE: Reporting water leaks made easy
| Thanks Snazy - finger's crossed! |
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ChrisR |
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13-09-2012, 10:34 AM |
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Thread: Reporting water leaks made easy
Post: RE: Reporting water leaks made easy
| There is definately a vast difference between investigation by Thames Water and the actual repair. It is now two weeks since the Sunderland Rd leak was investigated and the spot marked with blue paint... |
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ChrisR |
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12-09-2012, 05:04 PM |
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Thread: Reporting water leaks made easy
Post: RE: Reporting water leaks made easy
| Still no news on the Sunderland Road leak despite almost daily calls to Thames Water! Each time the promised call back within 24 hours has not materialised. The case was passed to the Escalation depar... |
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ChrisR |
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17-09-2012, 05:07 PM |
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Thread: Reporting water leaks made easy
Post: RE: Reporting water leaks made easy
| No call back as promised from the person in escalations I spoke to yesterday. However following contact with the Consumers Council for Water yesterday I have now been called by someone else in Thames ... |
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ChrisR |
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18-09-2012, 05:09 PM |
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Thread: Reporting water leaks made easy
Post: RE: Reporting water leaks made easy
| Church Rise and Dartmouth Rd may be fixed but the saga of Sunderland Rd continues!!
Contractors claim to have been 3 times and cars parked where they need to dig, but nobody has seen any sign of t... |
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ChrisR |
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21-09-2012, 07:50 PM |
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Thread: Reporting water leaks made easy
Post: RE: Reporting water leaks made easy
| Thanks Snazy - yes finally contractors have arrived and drilling has commenced - Hallelujah! |
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ChrisR |
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22-09-2012, 09:08 AM |
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Thread: Reporting water leaks made easy
Post: RE: Reporting water leaks made easy
| I can confirm "River Sunderland" is no more. After 3 weeks of waiting for the leak to be repaired the job took less than 1 hour! |
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ChrisR |
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22-09-2012, 02:02 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Delivery Office
Post: RE: Forest Hill Delivery Office
| Applespider - according to the 'Something for you' card I had this morning the times are as you've posted Mon-Fri but 8am - 2pm Saturdays.
Don't know why they bother giving a phone number on the ca... |
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ChrisR |
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05-01-2012, 02:15 AM |
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Thread: Busy Weekend
Post: RE: Busy Weekend
| The Christmas event at the Station Car Park has disappeared from the Town Talk website. Does anybody know if this is because it has been cancelled? |
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ChrisR |
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06-12-2007, 07:07 PM |
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