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  Thread: HOP Station Staff
Post: RE: HOP Station Staff

Try buying a ticket from a member on the London Overground staff, they only sell the tickets on the screen even when it's explained to them that the quoted price is wrong, they continue to persist. Ve...
dbboy SE23 Topics 9 9,568 15-06-2010, 05:22 PM
  Thread: East London Line
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station

Ok, lets get somthing straigt. The "old" East London Line ran as far as New cross and New Cross Gate. It was on the underground map as it was a "real" underground service. The Overground replaceme...
dbboy Wider Topics 281 296,367 26-05-2010, 05:30 PM
  Thread: Helicopter and Police in HOP
Post: RE: What happened?

I heard it about 1.15am flying round in circles over the top end of Forest Hill Road. It woke me up and took ages to get back to sleep.
dbboy SE23 Topics 28 29,273 23-05-2010, 04:52 PM
  Thread: Honor Oak construction site
Post: RE: Honor Oak construction site

A correction, its not just for Southwark peopleas long as you're willing to pay for a plot, residents outside Southwark are charged more for a plot.
dbboy SE23 Topics 12 10,085 16-05-2010, 03:54 PM
  Thread: Honor Oak construction site
Post: RE: Honor Oak construction site

An extension of the current cemetary
dbboy SE23 Topics 12 10,085 14-05-2010, 10:50 PM
  Thread: Trust A Tory - Your Having A Bubble
Post: RE: Trust A Tory - Your Having A Bubble

So where has this been published?
dbboy Wider Topics 68 55,872 14-05-2010, 10:12 AM
  Thread: East London Line
Post: RE: East London Line

Travelled from Honor Oak Park to Shoreditch High Street, can't praise the journey enough, smooth, quick and certainly value for money. Using Oyster off peak cost $.00 for the return value. Shoreditch ...
dbboy Wider Topics 281 296,367 05-05-2010, 05:46 PM
  Thread: Recycling
Post: RE: Recycling

I'm with you, JUST let them try and take it away. ps when were WE as residents consulted, wish "bright spark" in the Council came up with this dumb idea. How would they like it if we all decided t...
dbboy Wider Topics 70 74,421 08-04-2010, 09:14 PM
  Thread: Work next to Honor Oak Park Station
Post: RE: Work next to Honor Oak Park Station

As stated earlier its clear up work for the extension of the cemetry.
dbboy SE23 Topics 15 19,069 30-03-2010, 09:02 AM
  Thread: Power Outage SE23 3
Post: RE: Power Outage SE23 3

yep, lasted a couple of minutes last night, thankfully it was just a blip.
dbboy SE23 Topics 8 8,704 25-03-2010, 03:18 PM
  Thread: Virgin Media broadband speeds
Post: Virgin Media broadband speeds

Was wondering if others have experienced a reduction in up and download speeds for Virgin broadband. Started having email send and receive issues and was advised to do the speed test only to discover ...
dbboy Wider Topics 11 12,145 19-03-2010, 12:03 AM
  Thread: Royal Mail Delivery of Packages
Post: RE: Royal Mail Delivery of Packages

Had an attempted early morning delivery before 8am, and the usual red card. When I phoned up they delivered next day. On arrival still a very short soft ring of the door bell. The other day was up...
dbboy SE23 Topics 33 35,940 01-03-2010, 07:08 PM
  Thread: Power Outage SE23 3
Post: Power Outage SE23 3

Has anyone been affected by teh power outage since about 10.00am this morning?
dbboy SE23 Topics 8 8,704 04-02-2010, 10:11 PM
  Thread: Who Do You Love in Lewisham?
Post: RE: Who Do You Love in Lewisham?

Who Do You Love in Lewisham? Well, how about the Lewisham Market stalls for fresh fruit and veg all year round.
dbboy SE23 Topics 59 54,377 29-01-2010, 11:25 AM
  Thread: Mail Delivery
Post: Postal Service

Does anyone know if Royal Mail are delivering post today?
dbboy Wider Topics 11 9,838 13-01-2010, 04:40 PM
  Thread: Snow!!!
Post: RE: Snow!!!

It's a shame that our local councillors only get off their rear ends and make contact with voters at election time, but when WE need them to represent us and put pressure on the highways department to...
dbboy Wider Topics 119 101,926 12-01-2010, 10:26 PM
  Thread: Snow!!!
Post: RE: Snow!!!

Actually Canonbie yesterday morning (Monday) the part from Forest Hill Road to Westwood Park was like an ice rink. Cars had no grip and slid down round the bend or on the way up getting close to the c...
dbboy Wider Topics 119 101,926 12-01-2010, 03:26 PM
  Thread: Snow!!!
Post: RE: Snow!!!

Is snowing heavily off Forest Hill Road
dbboy Wider Topics 119 101,926 06-01-2010, 05:20 PM
  Thread: Local Convenience on TV
Post: RE: Local Convenience on TV

yep, it was Honor Oak Park
dbboy SE23 Topics 7 7,768 06-01-2010, 03:40 PM
  Thread: Snow!!!
Post: RE: Snow!!!

Saw gritters doing Canonbie and Netherby roads aboy 8pm although now impassable except by 4x4, even the gritter will struggle, last time took three attempts to get round the bend be Westwood Park.
dbboy Wider Topics 119 101,926 06-01-2010, 01:14 AM
  Thread: Honor Oak Park Rail Station
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park Rail Station

didn't the ticket machine get robbed either last Christmas or very early in the new year if memory serves me right?
dbboy SE23 Topics 112 118,099 23-12-2009, 04:25 PM
  Thread: Guardian Weekend - Let's move to Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Guardian Weekend - Let's move to Honor Oak Par...

The Evening Standard have done this before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dbboy SE23 Topics 10 15,483 22-12-2009, 12:59 AM
  Thread: Snow!!!
Post: RE: Gritters in Forest Hill?

Just off Forest Hill Road up past Woodvale, no gritting of the road of any kind on any of the turnings, car wheels spinnong and and slidding all over the place.
dbboy Wider Topics 119 101,926 21-12-2009, 11:50 PM
  Thread: Snow!!!
Post: RE: Gritters in Forest Hill?

OR rather a general lack of gritting on roads and pavements[/color][/i], [b]FULL STOP[/b][i][color=#FF0000]
dbboy Wider Topics 119 101,926 20-12-2009, 04:29 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak

Good to see how much "Southern" care for their passengers and how the change was so poorly publicised by Southern trains. Also have noticed how all Sothern's branding ha[/align]s been removed from sta...
dbboy SE23 Topics 1,398 1,250,787 12-12-2009, 11:56 PM
  Thread: Fares increases
Post: Fares increases

As reported this morning travel costs in London will rise significantly and in particular on the buses by 20%, discuss.
dbboy Wider Topics 58 46,442 15-10-2009, 03:46 PM
  Thread: Bogus Window Cleaner
Post: window cleaner scam

A window cleaning scam has been taking place in part of Honor Oak, asking for money before windows are cleaned, then promising the window cleaner will come later in the day and who never comes back....
dbboy SE23 Topics 42 50,901 06-10-2009, 02:19 PM
  Thread: Serious Accident on Forest Hill Rd, between Friern Rd and Barry Rd
Post: Serious Accident on Forest Hill Rd, between Friern...

Coming home this evening Forest Hill Rd is closed off between Barry Rd and Frien Rd due to a serious accident involving a 63 bus run off the road and a BMW spun 90 degrees in the middle of the road op...
dbboy Wider Topics 1 4,293 04-09-2009, 12:09 AM
  Thread: Broadband in SE23
Post: RE: Broadband in SE23

Am in Honor Oak, just off Forest Hill road. I use Virgin media as my ISP and currently get 3.4mb/s for ?15.00 a month. There was a whole thread about this on East Dulwich Forum a couple of weeks a...
dbboy SE23 Topics 12 23,555 25-08-2009, 08:44 AM
  Thread: Lewisham Boro Council not helping employment
Post: RE: Lewisham Boro Council not helping employment

This post is NOT concerned with the outsourcing of the Lewishams Council Tax to Manchester, but rather about the work being done by the council to help those out of work to find jobs. Lewisham Cou...
dbboy Wider Topics 12 13,499 21-08-2009, 07:46 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill to Greenwich on Public Transport
Post: RE: Forest Hill to Greenwich on Public Transport

P4 to Lewisham, then choice of the DLR or any bus going to Greenwich, Hop of the P4 at Lewisham bus station and the bus stops for Greenwich are a 1min walk, then probably 10 - 15 min bus ride to Green...
dbboy SE23 Topics 19 24,908 19-08-2009, 03:13 PM
  Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens

Two points, Firstly strong letters of complaint to Horniman Gardens and Museum. Secondly [color=#FF0000][b]this was a money making event[/b], [u]someone made a "mint" from yesterday with no reg...
dbboy SE23 Topics 293 275,541 10-08-2009, 06:59 PM
  Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens

Apparently some 8000 - 10,000 people are attending the chicken jerk event with the park full to bursting having spoken with the museum. Cars are parked all around the surrounding residential roads...
dbboy SE23 Topics 293 275,541 09-08-2009, 05:13 PM
  Thread: Planning: Tyson Road
Post: RE: Planning Application: Tyson Road

In Canonbie Road, some three years ago now (time flies past so quickly), developers converted two adjoining five bedroom family houses into eleven flats. The road of a morning and evening is like ...
dbboy SE23 Topics 101 123,511 07-08-2009, 05:38 PM
  Thread: Road Repairs
Post: RE: Road Repairs

as could may roads at the Western end of the borough on the border with Southwark.
dbboy SE23 Topics 4 5,207 07-08-2009, 05:25 PM
  Thread: Lewisham Boro Council not helping employment
Post: RE: Lewisham Boro Council not helping employment

LEWISHAM GOLD COMMUNITY PROJECT
dbboy Wider Topics 12 13,499 07-08-2009, 11:17 AM
  Thread: Bonfires
Post: Bonfires

Are their any rules on having bonfires on summer evenings or late at night, apart from being totally anti-social?
dbboy Wider Topics 5 5,984 07-08-2009, 11:16 AM
  Thread: Extend 63 Bus to Honor Oak Park Station?
Post: RE: Extend 63 Bus to Honor Oak Park Station?

I think the 63 and 363 routes should remain unchanged. The suggestion of a hoppa bus 63a sounds reasonable but it will duplicate the P12. which on its return journey can be boarded at the Kings Arms, ...
dbboy SE23 Topics 85 93,613 03-08-2009, 10:57 PM
  Thread: Extend 63 Bus to Honor Oak Park Station?
Post: RE: Extend 63 Bus to Honor Oak Park Station?

There is a similar thread of extending teh 63 to Honor Oak Park Station on the East Dulwich Forum. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,319240,319860#msg-319860 Of course passenger...
dbboy SE23 Topics 85 93,613 31-07-2009, 05:08 PM
  Thread: Honor Oak Park Rail Station
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park Rail Station

Actually, Lets not and spare our ears!!!!!!!!
dbboy SE23 Topics 112 118,099 03-07-2009, 01:10 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Fantasy Homes
Post: RE: Forest hill fantasy homes

I'd like to get to the top of the follie in Liphook Crescent/Horniman Drive
dbboy SE23 Topics 6 8,378 20-05-2009, 11:33 AM
  Thread: Dogs on Buses
Post: RE: Dogs on Buses

didn't it swipe its oyster card with its paw!!
dbboy Wider Topics 20 18,488 07-05-2009, 04:02 PM
  Thread: Honor Oak Park Rail Station
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park Rail Station

Honor Oak Park station: Southern have just invested and installed new entry and exit turnstils whilst also doing up the booking hall area a bit but the rest of the station including the stairs to both...
dbboy SE23 Topics 112 118,099 01-05-2009, 10:24 AM
  Thread: Municipal Golf Courses
Post: RE: Municipal Golf Courses

Try the Aquarius Golf Club in Marmora Road, off Forest Hill Roda SE22 http://www.golftoday.co.uk/clubhouse/coursedir/london/aquarius.html
dbboy SE23 Topics 3 5,388 19-04-2009, 10:34 PM
  Thread: British Gas Click energy 6 billing problems
Post: British Gas Click energy 6 billing problems

Last year I switched to Click Energy 5 and then 6 with British Gas, from the Standard gas tariff and ever since every time they bill me quarterly they get it wrong, switching me back to Standard billi...
dbboy Wider Topics 2 3,454 16-04-2009, 10:07 PM
  Thread: Asbestos in HOP
Post: RE: Asbestos in HOP

Learnt something new today, I had no idea that Fredrick Horniman, founder of the Horniman Museum, is buried in Camberwell Old Cemetery.
dbboy SE23 Topics 6 10,653 09-04-2009, 12:54 PM
  Thread: Water Supply Problems
Post: RE: loss of water pressure

Stilll off in SE23 at 14.20pm, phoned up and said a technician "insert engineer" was on the way asap. At worst the call centre person called Simon in Swindon estimated 7.00pm this evening
dbboy SE23 Topics 96 95,314 30-03-2009, 02:22 PM
  Thread: 11 Tewkesbury Avenue Development
Post: RE: 11 Tewkesbury Avenue Development

Not been along Tewkesbury Avenue for ages, when does the build begin?
dbboy SE23 Topics 50 64,938 18-03-2009, 01:10 PM
  Thread: Using the DLR from Lewisham to Canary Warf
Post: RE: Using the DLR from Lewisham to Canary Warf

A note of caution, on Thursday, I went from Lewisham to Canary Wharf using prepay on the DLR. Touched in my Oyster card at Lewisham and on getting off at CW, got to the bottom of the escalator to leav...
dbboy Wider Topics 14 13,571 08-03-2009, 01:00 PM
  Thread: Post
Post: RE: Post

Shock horror, hold the front page, postman sighted at 08.00am delivering post in Canonbie (was a temp).
dbboy SE23 Topics 24 23,570 06-02-2009, 09:48 AM