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Thread: Offered. Double bed. Free. SE20. Post: Offered. Double bed. Free. SE20.
Double bed with divan base. We have manged to put the mattress in a Ford Focus before, but you'd probably need a second trip to pick up the base, which is in two pieces. |
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19-05-2018, 10:21 PM |
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Thread: The walk to the station at night Post: RE: The walk to the station at night
It's a walk I do from time to time and never had any problems. |
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20-04-2017, 11:52 PM |
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Thread: Outdoor gyms Post: RE: Outdoor gyms
There's one in Betts park in Anerley. |
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18-10-2016, 04:21 PM |
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Thread: Cycling on the pavement Post: RE: Cycling on the pavement
[quote]Only about 1 in every 1,000 cycling accidents and offences are reported and that is when there is a serious injury.[/quote]
I can't imagine the majority of driver offences are reported. People... |
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07-09-2016, 11:12 AM |
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Thread: Virgin Broadband Super Super Slow in the evenings - anyone else? Post: RE: Virgin Broadband Super Super Slow in the eveni...
We are just over the border in SE20 and our Virgin service is very variable. We have a square two bed flat and one of the bedrooms you pretty much can't stream TV in. Trying to use Apple TV in the liv... |
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29-05-2016, 09:21 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
I can't see if anyone's looking at me anyway without my glasses. Prescription goggles would aid communication for me. |
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30-06-2015, 08:34 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
Yes, I gave up on Glass Mill as I was fed up of going and queuing for an age to get in and then the timetable being wrong.
Then there was the lane swim which consisted of a single, narrow lane for t... |
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08-04-2015, 10:06 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...
Great video. And all so familiar! |
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12-02-2015, 01:10 AM |
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Thread: Annual travelcard: Gold Card improvements from Jan 2015 Post: RE: Annual travelcard: Gold Card improvements from...
Until this, it was only £1 to buy a second Railcard, although you were restricted to a Gold Card. |
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21-12-2014, 06:27 PM |
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Thread: No trains to WE or CX from LB from mid-Dec Post: RE: No trains to WE or CX from LB from mid-Dec
Isn't this going to mean a whole load of people on the Jubilee Line as they go to Waterloo/Westminster in place of Waterloo East/Charing Cross? Is there room for them? Is this therefore going to mean ... |
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20-11-2014, 12:43 AM |
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Thread: Southern trains into London Bridge Post: RE: Southern trains into London Bridge
"At least it will be on bright, air-conditioned trains". You're joking, right? At least half the time the Overground has no aircon I can tell and is headache-inducingly stuffy. Just give us windows th... |
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24-10-2014, 11:36 PM |
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Thread: Bakerloo Line Extension Post: RE: Bakerloo Line Extension
Michael, what do you meant there's room for a couple more trains? I assumed the reason we are all packed in like cattle was they couldn't fit any more trains on the line. |
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27-07-2014, 10:28 PM |
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Thread: Direct train to Charing Cross Post: RE: Direct train to Charing Cross
When South Eastern train stop stopping at London Bridge where are they expecting all the people who change onto them to go? The Jubilee Line? The Overground? It's From January to August and I can't se... |
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18-06-2014, 11:32 PM |
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Thread: Sainsburys big freeze Post: RE: Sainsburys big freeze
Please tell me it's fixed now! |
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20-12-2013, 11:45 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
Yes, please bring back the timetable of coloured blocks! The current one is impossible to read. I've resorted to taking a photo of the coloured one with my phone when I'm at the pools and using that; ... |
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10-12-2013, 09:38 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
I agree. I really don't like the new seats. They are hard, the backs are too upright and make me hunch my shoulders. And the arm tests are in the wrong place for my arms at least. They are all fou... |
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06-11-2013, 10:37 PM |
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Thread: 24 dates without southern trains to London Bridge next year Post: RE: 24 dates without southern trains to London Bri...
I am glad of that. I was sad to see it go.
I went to see the people standing by the model although he couldn't tell me a great deal. A lot of it is still to be decided by the DfT. He did promise the... |
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13-09-2013, 11:11 PM |
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Thread: 24 dates without southern trains to London Bridge next year Post: RE: 24 dates without southern trains to London Bri...
Did they have any detail about what the station will be like? The model's got very little detail and the leaflets next to nothing. I want to know what the interiour will be like. |
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05-09-2013, 11:54 PM |
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Thread: Indian Takeout suggestions Post: RE: Indian Takeout suggestions
I like the Elachi although I've only ever eaten in there. |
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24-08-2013, 06:08 PM |
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Thread: Signal Problems on Trains - 22nd July 2012 Post: RE: Signal Problems on Trains - 22nd July 2012
Agree, it's hopeless. Although if does seem to be the one escalator on the Tube (well, almost) where people are incapable of walking on the left. I know it's busy but they seem to manage it at other p... |
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26-07-2013, 09:31 PM |
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Thread: Signal Problems on Trains - 22nd July 2012 Post: RE: Signal Problems on Trains - 22nd July 2012
Yeah, the LOG trains seem to get very hot and stuff the minute they are busy. So much for aircon! They are nice and cool if you happen to get a quite one though. |
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24-07-2013, 08:13 PM |
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Thread: Buses Post: RE: Buses
Robin, I got on the bus from Catford, it said Forest Hill on the front so I was also a bit confiused when it turned up Brockley Rise where I got off. I think it must do a loop/Uturn and come back down... |
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11-07-2013, 09:36 PM |
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Thread: Buses Post: RE: Buses
Anyone know what's going on with the 122? Last night the Countdown board heading towards Crystal Palace at the Waldram Park Road stop showed no 122s at all. Then the same thing this afternoon. Then wh... |
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06-07-2013, 11:12 PM |
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Thread: Motorcycle nuisance on rise in SE23 Post: RE: Motorcycle nuisance on rise in Se23.
Don't get me started on those idiots who roar along the South Circ with bikes that sound like loud painful farts at well over 30 mph. |
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05-07-2013, 09:52 PM |
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Thread: Buses Post: RE: Buses
Are you supposed to fill in one for every route you use ? Seems odd that it's all very route specific. |
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26-06-2013, 11:03 AM |
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Thread: Random lamp post placement Post: RE: Random lamp post placement
On my road they've done five on one side then five on the other repeated. Are they doing a similar thing here, just haven't finished it? |
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09-06-2013, 11:10 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
I think that kids have as much a right as adults to use the main pool, and if they don't want to swim lengths in the general swim area, well, that's fair enough; it's not just for us adults. If there ... |
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18-05-2013, 12:56 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Station Subway Post: RE: Forest Hill Station Subway
I'm all for the whiteboard idea. |
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06-04-2013, 10:16 AM |
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Thread: Traffic lights Dartmouth Road/London Road Post: RE: Traffic lights Dartmouth Road/London Road
I agree with hopper about that junction being a pain to cross. I get very fed up having to wait twice for the lights to change just to cross one road! |
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21-02-2013, 12:28 AM |
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Thread: Shop Shutter Art Post: RE: Shop Shutter Art
I think they should do this in the subway too. Much better then the water stained plain wall we are going to get if they don't fix the drips! |
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10-02-2013, 07:23 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
Yes, this happened to me this evening, Rob. Felt a bit conned. If the pool shuts at 5.45 then the time table should say that. I'd have arrived earlier if I'd known.
Also, if you are closing the buil... |
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10-02-2013, 07:22 PM |
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Thread: Morning travel experiences?! Post: RE: Morning travel experiences?!
I get the train to London Bridge about 8/half past and tend to get a seat, especially if I'm later rather than earlier. Back of the train as other have said.
Overground: probably no seat. I never do... |
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16-01-2013, 11:01 PM |
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Thread: Perry Rise/Perry Hill Buses Post: RE: Perry Rise/Perry Hill Buses
Thanks for all the answers. Siegee, do you find that the bus manages to stick to the timetable in the mornings?
Does sound like I don't want to rely on buses and may end up walking down to L Sydenha... |
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09-01-2013, 11:08 PM |
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Thread: Perry Rise/Perry Hill Buses Post: RE: Perry Rise/Perry Hill Buses
Lower Sydenham would mean paying for Zone 4 and once you get a certain way north it's not much closer than Forest Hill/Catford, so you might as well walk there.
I would like to buy closer in to the ... |
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08-01-2013, 12:07 AM |
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Thread: Perry Rise/Perry Hill Buses Post: Perry Rise/Perry Hill Buses
We are currently looking at buying somewhere around the SE23 and nearby area and one place that we keep seeing properties is around the bottom of Perry Rise/Perry Hill, near the giant Sainsbury's. Bu... |
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07-01-2013, 10:52 PM |
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Thread: Clapham Junction by Southern Trains or London Overground? Post: RE: Clapham Junction by Southern Trains or London ...
Yep, I'd get the Overground to Crystal Place and get Southern from there. Only any good if you are happy walking up all those stairs though. But it is a nice station to change at as bits of it are so... |
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16-12-2012, 06:35 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
I pay £3.50 for an adult swim and £3.85 for am aquafit class. |
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16-12-2012, 06:16 PM |
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Thread: Closure of London Bridge (upper station) in 2015 Post: RE: Closure of London Bridge (upper station) in 20...
But one extra car really isn't much. I can't see that it will take all the people who will be pushed off the Southern LB train. The Overground is already horribly overcrowded in the morning rush hour ... |
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29-11-2012, 12:28 AM |
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Thread: Parking Policy Review Post: RE: Parking Policy Review
Have gone and filled it in. Do they think they made it that long to put people off? ;)
Did feel the some of the questions were rather presuming CPZ introduction. Surely they haven't decided until th... |
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12-08-2012, 03:07 PM |
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Thread: Departure board at Forest Hill station Post: RE: Departure board at Forest Hill station
Time to dust off that green pen, Erekose! Maybe I'll write them a poem. They could display it on the whiteboard they have in aforementioned ticket acquisition space. Or as I call it extension non-acqu... |
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20-07-2012, 10:40 PM |
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Thread: Jubilee Eastbound - Change at London Bridge or Canada Water? Post: RE: Jubilee Eastbound - Change at London Bridge or...
I can make it up to the NR platforms at LB in 5 minutes, did it in 4 the other night. But that only works if the train is on the middle number platforms; no good if you're stuck on platform 16!
My r... |
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16-07-2012, 10:18 PM |
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Thread: Rail services during the Olympics Post: RE: Rail services during the Olympics
So there is room on the line to ease the overcrowding that occurs every morning then? They just don't bother. |
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08-07-2012, 07:09 PM |
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Thread: What's happening at Waldram Crescent?? Post: RE: What's happening at Waldram Crescent??
[quote]When we met with TfL in October 2010, they were planning on making Waldram Place easier to cross for pedestrians by putting an island in the middle of the entrance.[/quote]
I wish! It's a hope... |
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08-07-2012, 02:56 PM |
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Thread: Jubilee Eastbound - Change at London Bridge or Canada Water? Post: RE: Jubilee Eastbound - Change at London Bridge or...
I prefer the forward/backwards seat and the seats themselves are more comfortable, they lean back; do that on the Overground and you hit your head on the window. Heading north you also get the 4 acros... |
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20-05-2012, 09:36 PM |
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Thread: Jubilee Eastbound - Change at London Bridge or Canada Water? Post: RE: Jubilee Eastbound - Change at London Bridge or...
I manage it by knowing the times of the LB trains and getting off the Jubilee or not depending on whether I will make the next one or not. Do prefer going Via LB as the trains are much nicer. |
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20-05-2012, 08:28 PM |
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Thread: Pedestrian crossing by Forest Hill Station (Perry Vale side) Post: RE: Pedestrian crossing by Forest Hill Station (Pe...
I find the worst bit is crossing over by Dawes for Doors. That little side road is a rat run as people can't turn left from Perry Vale onto the South Circ. BTW does anyone get the logic for the left t... |
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05-02-2012, 06:53 PM |