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Thread: English Usage
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| shzl400
While not quite at Robbrockley's level, I would have a lot more sympathy with what P1971 says, if only she learned how and when to use apostrophes. Please, please, I'm begging you! Post #... |
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29-12-2013, 01:30 AM |
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Thread: Advertising hoarding outside Paddy Power - not a good advertisement
Post: Advertising hoarding outside Paddy Power - not a g...
| For Forest Hill.
Prime spot - always a mess and attracts a mess. Anyone advise me who I need to contact to get it tidied up/removed?
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06-08-2013, 05:04 PM |
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Thread: Any Parking sign interpreters out there?
Post: Any Parking sign interpreters out there?
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Perry Vale beyond Waldram Place (by the old Dawes for Doors). 3pm. Can I park here? |
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Thread: Cars being broken into.....
Post: Cars being broken into.....
| A word of warning - twice in the last few weeks thieves have somehow managed to get into our cars despite them being locked and alarmed and parked off-street on our driveway.
Fortunately not a lot... |
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10-02-2014, 05:21 PM |
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Thread: Fireworks - can we stop now, please...
Post: Fireworks - can we stop now, please...
| Bonfire night seems to last weeks these days - tonight is Nov 9 and still they are being let off in people's gardens. Have some consideration - not everyone want to listen to YOUR fireworks. I do not ... |
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09-11-2014, 10:31 PM |
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Thread: Location x3
Post: Location x3
| More good PR for Forest Hill in this week's Location programme - I spotted Horniman Museum and St David's cafes, the Hob, Manor Mount houses to name but a few. Kirsty and Phil seem to like us. |
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24-01-2013, 11:00 PM |
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Thread: Parking ticket woes at Pearcefield Av (Sainsbury's) car park....
Post: Parking ticket woes at Pearcefield Av (Sainsbury's...
| Anyone here been stung by the Free parking scam being operated by Lewisham Council in Pearcefield Avenue (Sainsbury's) car park?
It is quite clever and nets the authority thousands of pounds a year ... |
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04-03-2013, 06:26 PM |
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Thread: Posting images
Post: Posting images
| Having problems. Are there any instructions on things like file size etc? The help topics are rather minimalist. |
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20-11-2013, 02:20 PM |
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Thread: ADT security consultants cold calling
Post: RE: ADT Security - cold callers Forest Hill area S...
| http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1232380
seems they are going up-market and trying their luck in Forest Hill.... |
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01-03-2014, 04:57 PM |
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Thread: Advertising hoarding outside Paddy Power - not a good advertisement
Post: RE: Advertising hoarding outside Paddy Power - not...
| Two months and no action. Still an unsightly mess.
LoveLewisham.com - too much to expect of Lewisham really. |
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04-10-2013, 04:15 PM |
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Thread: Advertising hoarding outside Paddy Power - not a good advertisement
Post: RE: Advertising hoarding outside Paddy Power - not...
| [i]"Hardly Lewisham's fault if (as an earlier post correctly suggested) it isn't in their remit[/i]..."
I would be surprised if it were not within a local authority's remit as it probably required ... |
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04-10-2013, 04:56 PM |
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Thread: Advertising hoarding outside Paddy Power - not a good advertisement
Post: RE: Advertising hoarding outside Paddy Power - not...
| {[i]Tweeted the pic to them on their Twitter account. Publicly shown images always seem to hit a sweet spot. https://twitter.com/jcdecaux_uk[/i]}
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04-10-2013, 04:58 PM |
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Thread: Advertising hoarding outside Paddy Power - not a good advertisement
Post: RE: Advertising hoarding outside Paddy Power - not...
| I spoke to someone in environmental services at Lewisham yesterday. Apparently, these lovelewisham issues are progress-chased after seven days. This one it seems was not. Fulsome apologies etc. Someon... |
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08-10-2013, 04:51 PM |
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Thread: Advertising hoarding outside Paddy Power - not a good advertisement
Post: RE: Advertising hoarding outside Paddy Power - not...
| Good news! The advertising hoarding has been cleaned up and papered over in plain white. Looks so much better. Well done Lewisham...let's see how long it remains free of flyposters.
Sorry about th... |
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11-10-2013, 04:27 PM |
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Thread: Advertising hoarding outside Paddy Power - not a good advertisement
Post: RE: Advertising hoarding outside Paddy Power - not...
| Not brilliant, but certainly an improvement! Maybe another mural would brighten that corner up? |
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14-10-2013, 01:17 PM |
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Thread: Advertising hoarding outside Paddy Power - not a good advertisement
Post: RE: Advertising hoarding outside Paddy Power - not...
| Well, that didn't last long. Not that I expected it to.
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24-10-2013, 05:01 PM |
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Thread: Any Parking sign interpreters out there?
Post: RE: Any Parking sign interpreters out there?
| Thanks for clearing that up.
I didn't risk stopping as the only other cars in the road had the driver in so I (maybe like others) thought it wasn't allowed. Not good for local businesses.
Anyway, ... |
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04-12-2016, 03:25 PM |
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Thread: Barking Dogs
Post: RE: Barking Dogs
| Of course you must speak to them. I would be horrified if my dog was barking away all the time I was out and would want to know.
In my view it is wrong to leave dogs by themselves for 6 hours any... |
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09-04-2014, 10:16 PM |
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Thread: Burglary - sunday night / monday morning (13th jan)
Post: RE: Burglary - sunday night / monday morning (13th...
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Sorry to read this, but glad nobody was hurt. |
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14-01-2014, 06:23 PM |
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Thread: The Capitol to close
Post: RE: Capitol to close
| Only rumour, but someone who works at one of the stores at the Bell Green retail park told me they understood the next arrivals (after the giant McDonalds) will be a Frankie and Bennys restaurant and.... |
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07-07-2014, 11:20 PM |
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Thread: Car thieves about
Post: RE: Car thieves about
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thanks for the warning. |
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26-01-2016, 06:03 PM |
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Thread: Cars being broken into.....
Post: RE: Cars being broken into.....
| Westwood Park pretty close to us. I hope these incidents were all reported to the police? They attended my place pretty promptly after it was reported this morning. |
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10-02-2014, 10:47 PM |
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Thread: Cars being broken into.....
Post: RE: Cars being broken into.....
| we are near the Sainsbury's (on London Road) |
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10-02-2014, 10:14 PM |
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Thread: Cars being broken into.....
Post: RE: Cars being broken into.....
| [quote]Forest Police Hill Safer Neighbourhoods Team now have this as one of their three priorities or 'promises' in the area.
(Obviously)[b] please do report any incidents or suspicious behaviour t... |
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13-02-2014, 06:18 PM |
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Thread: Dog Fouling
Post: RE: Dog Fouling
| well done - thread of the year....! |
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16-10-2014, 11:52 PM |
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Thread: Evict Foreign Nationals from Lewisham Council Homes, Demands MP Candidate
Post: RE: Evict Foreign Nationals from Lewisham Council ...
| Anyone using Migration Watch for their 'facts' has pretty much lost the argument before they start.
Migration Watch has a well-deserved reputation for never letting the truth get in the way of th... |
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24-04-2015, 01:45 PM |
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Thread: Fireworks - can we stop now, please...
Post: RE: Fireworks - can we stop now, please...
| - and this is why the rules need looking at. Currently OK to set off explosives in your garden at 22.59 on a Sunday night (Remembrance Sunday included FGS).... |
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09-11-2014, 10:48 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Safer Neighbourhood Team - April 2015 Newsletter
Post: RE: Forest Hill Safer Neighbourhood Team - April 2...
| [i][b]You Said, We Listened, We Did[/b]
We’ve been conducting traffic operations throughout the ward recently and have been using the speed gun on Sydenham Hill advising those motorists caught exce... |
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13-05-2015, 07:59 PM |
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Thread: Gridlock
Post: RE: Gridlock
| Nobody appears to be working on the gas "emergency" that is causing traffic chaos in FH and surrounding areas.
- downed tools for the weekend? Will be fun on Monday morning.
Well played Southern... |
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28-02-2015, 02:47 PM |
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Thread: I found a round
Post: RE: I found a round
| Sure. I've lost count of the number of times I've found a gun and bullets when cleaning out my drains........:laugh: |
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22-04-2014, 04:21 PM |
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Thread: Idiot drivers rat running
Post: RE: Idiot drivers rat running
| Surprised you are surprised. Not lived here long but reckon the driving is the worst (certainly the least courteous) I have experienced anywhere. It's like the wild west. Red traffic lights are igno... |
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10-03-2014, 04:53 PM |
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Thread: Idiot drivers rat running
Post: RE: Idiot drivers rat running
| would certainly get my vote.....! |
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11-03-2014, 01:44 PM |
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Thread: Idiot drivers rat running
Post: RE: Idiot drivers rat running
| [php]Could we ask Lewisham to change it back for the greater good? [/php]
Not sure whose greater good (maybe yours) but, no thanks.:thumbdown:
Far better that motorists are encouraged to stick t... |
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11-03-2014, 10:10 PM |
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Thread: Idiot drivers rat running
Post: RE: Idiot drivers rat running
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16-03-2014, 09:53 PM |
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Thread: Junction of London Road and Honor Oak Road
Post: RE: Junction of London Road and Honor Oak Road
| It appeared me that work had more or less ground to a halt.
This is the reply I received from TfL today....
Was it really meant to take until June 30?
[i]Thank you for your Report-It regard... |
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26-06-2015, 06:14 PM |
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Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: Kebab shop at FH station
| [quote]No! Why do you hope it's gone? What would you have take its place? [/quote]
Frankly, almost anything or nothing.
For me it is a shame one of the first things greeting people (and their se... |
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23-02-2014, 05:54 PM |
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Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: Kebab shop at FH station
| [quote] Even East Dulwich has a kebab shop which has survived the gentrification, so I don't see why we can't have the nice coffee shops and a kebab shop which is [b]handy for a one-off kebab[/b] if t... |
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23-02-2014, 07:44 PM |
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Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: Kebab shop at FH station
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23-02-2014, 09:33 PM |
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Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: Kebab shop at FH station
| At least the kebab shop is in keeping....:rolleyes: :laugh: |
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23-02-2014, 09:52 PM |
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Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: Kebab shop at the station
| let's hope it is the latter.... |
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22-02-2014, 04:57 PM |
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Thread: Junction of London Road and Honor Oak Road
Post: RE: London Road at junction with Honor Oak Road
| Seems like a relatively small project (basically just widening sections of pavement) which has had plenty of people working on it so odd it should be taking so much longer than expected.
Still,... |
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18-05-2015, 03:26 PM |
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Thread: Junction of London Road and Honor Oak Road
Post: RE: London Road Junction with Honor Oak Road
| Much needed but, as ever, vital they get it right.
I have written to TfL several times since moving to FH a couple of years ago about the inherent dangers of this junction (living as I do close by).... |
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14-01-2014, 06:02 PM |
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Thread: Junction of London Road and Honor Oak Road
Post: RE: London Road Junction with Honor Oak Road
| "......But the last couple of weeks the traffic[b] has regularly been backed up as far as Ewelme Road trying to get out[/b]...."
And thus some drivers wanting to turn left at the junction opt to ra... |
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18-10-2014, 01:44 PM |
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Thread: Junction of London Road and Honor Oak Road
Post: RE: London Road Junction with Honor Oak Road
| Sooner they get on with proposed road improvements the better.
Looked like a nasty accident involving several cars and a motorcyclist at this (London Road) junction around 6pm last night.
Hop... |
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13-11-2014, 10:28 AM |
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Thread: Junction of London Road and Honor Oak Road
Post: RE: London Road Junction with Honor Oak Road
| [quote]Jenros, the issue is that it is not only drivers taking the easy way out, some of the people who live on Manor Mount do the same. I have seen two local residents come out of their drives and dr... |
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Thread: Junction of London Road and Honor Oak Road
Post: RE: London Road Junction with Honor Oak Road
| As I understand it, minor breaches of traffic regulations (as would be considered driving down a one-way street) have for some years not been something the police concern themselves with unless they w... |
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Thread: Junction of London Road and Honor Oak Road
Post: RE: London Road Junction with Honor Oak Road
| won't hold my breath but...
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21-11-2014, 10:50 AM |
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Thread: Junction of London Road and Honor Oak Road
Post: RE: London Road Junction with Honor Oak Road
| The operation did not discourage the person in the black BMW X5 driving down there yesterday afternoon.
Were they undercover? Never saw them.
Be interesting to know how many they caught and whe... |
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09-02-2015, 02:12 PM |
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Thread: Junction of London Road and Honor Oak Road
Post: RE: London Road Junction with Honor Oak Road
| it HAS been going on for months....and months....and months. I think they built the Channel Tunnel quicker....... |
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Thread: Low to no water pressure on Horniman Drive
Post: RE: Low to no water pressure on Horniman Drive
| I dont imagine the water that has been pouring out onto the London Road from the front of the flats by the Tesco garage for the last week or so is helping water pressure in the area..... |
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