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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I thought it might be Fusion running this, just from what's on this page (I scrolled back a couple of forum pages to check).
Judging by how they've been handling the new pools in East Dulwich, whi... |
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13-08-2012, 10:59 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I notice FH pools are part of London Open House.
So that's going to be interesting. |
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24-08-2012, 05:23 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Went swimming last night. Water temperature is a real triumph - at last, a pool that isn't that bit too cold. Liked the overall design very much. There aren't enough showers and they're in an odd plac... |
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18-09-2012, 11:04 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| If you two fancy chilly pools then you have your pick - East Dulwich, Peckham, Brixton... |
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18-09-2012, 04:20 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
| 'The good news is that the plans (although not finalised) include at least some of our services operated by Thameslink and running through to Blackfriars, Kings Cross and beyond.'
This is the b... |
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09-12-2011, 04:06 PM |
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Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: The Old Bank
| Bit annoying really. It's hardly secret if you have to just email someone. Anyway I've done that but had no reply. |
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20-09-2012, 09:46 AM |
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Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: The Old Bank
| Now had a reply so get the concept a bit more. Totally agree it's nice to have but not much of a help for the area per se. Also see that big rent plus high refurb costs is a daunting start with banks ... |
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20-09-2012, 04:00 PM |
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Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: Planning: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (was The Old Ba...
| Boy oh boy can I not wait for this to open... |
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13-12-2013, 05:56 PM |
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Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: Planning: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (was The Old Ba...
| Ach, why can't it be sooner! (I know, I know - you can see them working in there). I'm just impatient. |
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10-01-2014, 11:15 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...
| Indeed - but that's FROM the Jubilee line TO the Overground.
The crush point is the other way around - FROM Overground (particularly northbound) to Jubilee. Where there is only one escalator. |
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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...
| Am I being dense, but how do you mean both escalators down only? There's only one escalator to make anything at the key crush point - from northbound Overground platform to Jubilee line platforms. |
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31-12-2014, 03:15 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...
| Nick M - if only train franchising worked on the basis of logic, as you imply.
But I agree that it's not about being spoiled. The reality is that the London B service, when running, copes fine in ... |
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31-12-2014, 12:01 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'm still not getting this - how would changing the up escalator to down help? It's going to the wrong place. |
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02-01-2015, 11:41 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...
| Fine, but in terms of improving this interchange day to day for folk, what options are there beyond rebuilding?
The key pressure point is northbound ELL to Jubilee line - where for direct access th... |
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02-01-2015, 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...
| If you have to hold the train you start knackering the whole timetable, no matter how much recasting you do - surely?
And which escalator is it that you could reverse that would help with the flow ... |
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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...
| For the millionth time, NO.
I am talking about northbound Overground to Jubilee line. There is famously just one, horrendously crowded escalator. It goes down. There is no escalator to go up, so... |
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05-01-2015, 04:56 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...
| Sorry, I take it all back - that shows you're quite right. Amazing how I'd blanked that out. I still can't quite believe it's there, but the photo shows it is.
Switching that to downwards would be... |
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06-01-2015, 02:57 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...
| Like the exit in Ikea ;-) |
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06-01-2015, 05:45 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 has it been in the mornings the last couple of days, on Southern or Overground? |
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14-01-2015, 04:03 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...
| Where are you coming from plastic, FH?
Have you tried going to East Croydon, then fast to CJunction? Not sure it's a good idea, just an idea.
You're alive to the C Palace route.
Up or over ... |
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15-01-2015, 11:39 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...
| Completely agree David W.
And keep up the research! But if you could lay out where you're starting from and going to exactly (stations, not your home address!) that would make it more useful. |
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15-01-2015, 12:57 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...
| Staggering isn't it? I know they've got antiquated IT and signalling etc etc but why should we care about all that? [/align] |
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15-01-2015, 05:14 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 got that email too.
I started off thinking - ah, well at least someone is saying sorry, that is a start; and it's not the people who are responsible for the worst of it either (i.e. Network Rail... |
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15-01-2015, 04:07 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...
| Decker, do you know if that's what they are actually planning? Gulp is my reaction to closing that downward escalator. |
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15-01-2015, 05:17 PM |
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Thread: The Capitol to close
Post: RE: Capitol will revert to a cinema.
| I agree about chain pubs, but I make a distinction for Wetherspoons. They have good beer, fair food, nice atmospheres, good staff, great prices, fabulous buildings that they do an alright job of looki... |
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24-06-2014, 10:24 AM |
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Thread: 63 Honor Oak Park (ex White Wood Shop)
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park Parade
| I'd rather a different business rather than yet another estate agent, but better a business than none.
Completely against any lying to the Council in the application.
Most of the off licences ... |
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18-10-2012, 02:14 PM |
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Thread: 63 Honor Oak Park (ex White Wood Shop)
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park Parade
| Totally agree that clarity is what's needed. |
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25-10-2012, 04:45 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've sent my email in and hope I can help in some way. Think it's a great idea, and if done right I believe it should thrive. The Ivy House example and FHS involvement are encouraging.
The comments... |
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04-10-2013, 10:26 AM |
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Thread: A plan to save the Honor Oak pub?
Post: RE: A plan to save the Honor Oak pub?
| Punch Taverns not having the right idea...whatever next? |
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18-12-2013, 10:56 AM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Park Station Upgrade
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park Station Upgrade
| That's an interesting idea, about ski-sloping the edge of the platform nearest the train upwards to make an easier train exit/entrance for people.
Would it bring up issues of skidding in slippery ... |
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09-12-2011, 04:10 PM |
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Thread: Why i moved to SE23
Post: RE: Why i moved to SE23
| Dear me, can we be a bit more accurate about place names please?
Honor Oak Park has the train station (and is to my mind quite distinct from Forest Hill).
Honor Oak lost its train station long ... |
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25-07-2014, 02:14 PM |
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Thread: Forest Croft
Post: RE: Forest Croft
| If what Bt says is right about the freehold having been acquired then the situation should be reasonably positive.
We bought out our freehold a year and a bit ago. While it hasn't been an always-e... |
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26-09-2012, 10:55 AM |
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Thread: Lifts at Honor Oak Park station
Post: RE: Lifts at HOP Station
| The rate of progress is staggeringly slow. |
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13-10-2014, 10:18 AM |
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Thread: Lifts at Honor Oak Park station
Post: RE: Lifts at Honor Oak Park station
| Hooray!
(would have been even better if they'd been open last night when I had two bikes to haul up...) |
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06-01-2015, 02:52 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill and Sydenham Portas Bid
Post: Portas bid Town Team for Honor Oak Park?
| I was interested to read the first comment on this page http://www.see3.co.uk/about/
It made me wonder if there has been an attempt to get a team together to try to get Portas funding for HOP?
I... |
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Thread: Shooting on Forest Hill Road 3rd Nov 2011
Post: RE: Shooting on Forest Hill Road
| "can't just cry 'gang' and close the case."
Oh really?
From the story you linked to:
Last week, Detective Superintendent Gordon Allison, of Operation Trident, said the boy whose funeral it ... |
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11-11-2011, 03:59 PM |
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Thread: Shooting on Forest Hill Road 3rd Nov 2011
Post: RE: Shooting on Forest Hill Road
| Hmmm. And yet it appears there were gang links on both the levels of the guy who was shot having gang contact and the funeral outside which he was shot being a gang one. There's also the general backg... |
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11-11-2011, 04:37 PM |
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Thread: Shooting on Forest Hill Road 3rd Nov 2011
Post: RE: Shooting on Forest Hill Road 3rd Nov 2011
| But as he wasn't the intended victim that's hardly the end of it. What about the guy pulling the trigger? |
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14-11-2011, 04:48 PM |
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Thread: To the owners of the pizza place @ The Old Bank
Post: RE: To the owners of the pizza place @ The Old Ban...
| Given they look to have more demand than they can quite cope with still, the signage is probably not their priority.
The food and service are consistently excellent and good respectively. Surely t... |
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14-04-2014, 03:05 PM |
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Thread: Hills and Parkes deli up for sale
Post: RE: Hills and Parkes deli up for sale
| Tinkerbell - I agree with all those points. H&P pricing was way above the level those factors would take it to. I don't expect it to be S'bury's price, but I don't expect the sort of multiples it is r... |
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16-10-2014, 03:24 PM |
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Thread: Hills and Parkes deli up for sale
Post: RE: Hills and Parkes deli up for sale
| The criticisms on here are in my view well-founded.
It did some things well enough:
- overall look
- coffee
- bread choice (depending a bit on what you went for)
- Scotch eggs
But it fell d... |
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16-10-2014, 11:56 AM |
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Thread: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
Post: RE: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
| What great photos.
Very sad at how much we've lost since that 1970 photo, albeit the service is so, so much better! |
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Thread: Royal Mail Delivery Problems
Post: RE: Royal Mail Delivery Problems
| I've complained as well. We're on Agnew Road, south of HOP station. No post then other people's post - all got much worse recently.
Got the standard reply about how concerned they were etc etc and... |
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Thread: Rail services during the Olympics
Post: RE: Rail services during the Olympics
| They don't seem to enforce the non-folding bike rules currently.
That's because the rules are different for the Olympics - non-folding bikes are allowed after 19.00 |
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29-06-2012, 07:31 PM |
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Thread: (Supposedly) replacement bus service
Post: RE: (Supposedly) replacement bus service
| Make sure you complain to both Southern and TfL and tell them each that you are complaining to them and the other. Compensation vouchers should be your due at teh least I would think |
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08-10-2014, 02:12 PM |
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Thread: Jumping the ticket barriers
Post: RE: Jumping the ticket barriers at HOP station
| There is a point in complaining. It should mean someone looks into it. Even putting my cynical hat on the worst outcome is that nothing happens and you've wasted at most five minutes. I think it's mor... |
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08-11-2011, 02:21 PM |
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Thread: Jumping the ticket barriers
Post: RE: Jumping the ticket barriers at HOP station
| Completely agree any station staff should be doing their job and not yacking with mates outside.
There is presumably CCTV on the barriers.
If you're not happy with the response then you can go... |
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Thread: Parking controls in HOP
Post: RE: Parking controls in HOP
| I agree with the be careful what you wish for points.
Having our house renovated at the moment, and tradespeople just being able to park is a Godsend.
We don't have a car, we use the Zipcar. T... |
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Thread: Parking Policy Review
Post: RE: Parking Policy Review
| I can see a case in limited circumstances. But my road is not heavily parked and there is no justification whatever for taking £120 or whatever amount off me and everyone else there per year for a sys... |
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Thread: We want to buy a house in Honor Oak
Post: RE: We want to buy a house in Honor Oak
| Good stuff.
We're also wanting to buy a house in Honor Oak Park. For us it's got it all: we can still cycle to work; the transport is good and will get better; there's a good balance of shops; t... |
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