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Thread: Southern rail strike
Post: RE: Southern rail strike
| Am I reading this wrong? This notice on nationalrail.co.uk says Southern services will be [url=http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/149985.aspx]disrupted 'on every day' from 6 December[/u... |
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mrwandle |
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01-12-2016, 11:36 AM |
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Thread: Red marking outside house
Post: RE: Red marking outside house
| Thanks. I'm on Garthorne Rd. Had a walk around locally and couldn't see and more but these were pretty discrete. I'll let the Police know, for what's it's worth. |
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mrwandle |
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19-07-2016, 09:29 AM |
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Thread: Red marking outside house
Post: Red marking outside house
| Has anyone noticed any odd markings outside their house? We had a strange red small dot sprayed on our fence, it couldn't really be called graffiti. I then noticed a neighbouring property has a white ... |
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mrwandle |
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17-07-2016, 10:17 PM |
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Thread: Please sign the petition Remove the franchise for Southern Rail from Govia Thameslink
Post: RE: Please sign the petition Remove the franchise ...
| The last 'emergency timetable' was in Jan 2015 and lasted for months, I think it was May before the West Croydon peak trains came back. I'm sure there were services that never reappeared on the schedu... |
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mrwandle |
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05-07-2016, 11:34 AM |
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Thread: Please sign the petition Remove the franchise for Southern Rail from Govia Thameslink
Post: RE: Please sign the petition Remove the franchise ...
| Rumour has it Southern were turned down for [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-36702107]this franchise[/url]
New Southern 'emergency timetable' to be launched tomorrow. I'm ... |
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mrwandle |
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04-07-2016, 04:27 PM |
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Thread: Council's Plans for Camberwell Cemetery Woodland
Post: Cemetery Consultation
| Poster up in Sainsbury's this morning advertising Southwark's [url=https://consultations.southwark.gov.uk/environment-leisure/camberwell-new-cemetery-consultation]consultation[/url] on an extension to... |
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mrwandle |
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01-07-2016, 09:54 AM |
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Thread: Unofficial Southern train strike
Post: RE: Unofficial Southern train strike
| There's an [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36528579]official strike[/url] Tues 21st June (England play late Monday night, coincidence?), probably won't be much different from the service all... |
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mrwandle |
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17-06-2016, 11:13 AM |
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Thread: New nursery on Sunderland Road?
Post: RE: New nursery on Sunderland Road?
| Haven't heard anything, but I'd be really interested to hear of any new nurseries or plans to improve existing ones locally. There are some great ones just outside of SE23 but not convinced about the ... |
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mrwandle |
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06-06-2016, 01:49 PM |
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Thread: Burglars about - Garthorne Rd
Post: RE: Burglars about - Garthorne Rd
| Thanks all - car found intact yesterday in Brixton.
If nothing else some basic maintenance on the fence should be a priority with the potential to replace the whole lot when some funds are raised.... |
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mrwandle |
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04-03-2016, 01:05 PM |
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Thread: Burglars about - Garthorne Rd
Post: RE: Burglars about - Garthorne Rd
| PS - if anyone sees a 10 year old metallic blue Volvo V50 that looks abandoned could you let me know! Thanks. A bit optimistic I know. |
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mrwandle |
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03-03-2016, 11:12 AM |
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Thread: Burglars about - Garthorne Rd
Post: RE: Burglars about - Garthorne Rd
| Thanks both,
It happened between 12am and 6am Tuesday morning. The Council have been very responsive and have repaired the gate already. That's great about the group Herbparis, thanks for the updat... |
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mrwandle |
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03-03-2016, 09:59 AM |
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Thread: Burglars about - Garthorne Rd
Post: Burglars about - Garthorne Rd
| Hi - not to frighten anyone, just a tip off to be careful.
We were burgled Monday night on Garthorne Rd. They got in from the nature reserve at the back and crow-barred the kitchen window, looks l... |
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mrwandle |
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02-03-2016, 12:45 PM |
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Thread: Proposed Group: Friends of Garthorne Road Nature Reserve
Post: RE: Proposed Group: Friends of Garthorne Road Natu...
| Hi Tinkerbell - please do report this to Lewisham and tell the property owner, that's disgusting. Building contractors have been making a mess on Garthorne Road for a while now and the people that com... |
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mrwandle |
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23-02-2016, 03:00 PM |
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Thread: Delays on London Road Saturday 20th
Post: RE: Delays on London Road Saturday 20th
| I think all the robust and proactive enforcers spend their time in Sainsbury's car park, they're always there. I got a ticket once for going 27 seconds over the allotted free period. Now that's robust... |
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mrwandle |
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22-02-2016, 01:46 PM |
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Thread: Possible door to door scammer in forest hill??
Post: RE: Possible door to door scammer in forest hill??
| We might of had the same guy on Garthorne Road. However he was well over 30 so I doubt part of a young offender's programme. |
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mrwandle |
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20-10-2015, 12:47 PM |
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Thread: Over the hill but not far away - Peckham 'coal line'
Post: RE: Over the hill but not far away - Peckham 'coal...
| And the 'LowLine' in Waterloo / Bankside / London Bridge area http://www.betterbankside.co.uk/buf/the-low-line
I just hope they can temper the understandable enthusiasm for craft breweries and hav... |
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mrwandle |
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19-10-2015, 01:39 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 think they freed up some track space when the 8.12 from FH didn't show up at all. |
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mrwandle |
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27-07-2015, 09:17 AM |
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Thread: Gym at Forest Hill Pool
Post: Gym at Forest Hill Pool
| Hi - can anyone give me advice about the best times to use the gym? Is it rammed straight after work or best avoided? Thanks. |
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mrwandle |
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22-07-2015, 12:54 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...
| Southern have just tweeted me that the 1736 and 1806 from LB to West Croydon will be running tonight.... we'll see. |
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mrwandle |
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04-03-2015, 05:33 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...
| Does anyone know if the LB to West Croydon peak time trains withdrawn a few weeks ago are now back running, for example the 1738?
They are now appearing on the national rail enquiries website but ... |
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mrwandle |
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04-03-2015, 02:37 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...
| Not sure if this [url=http://www.southernrailway.com/download/33005.7/gtr-2015-consultation-document/]Thameslink consultation[/url] is worth responding too. It's mainly for the Brighton to Bedford/Cam... |
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mrwandle |
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23-01-2015, 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...
| A simplistic solution. Couldn't some of the longer distance trains from Kent and Sussex go into Waterloo using the old Eurostar tracks and platforms through Brixton while this goes on? Freeing up capa... |
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mrwandle |
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16-01-2015, 01:15 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...
| Fortunately, or maybe not, Network Rail was reclassified as a central government body on 1 September 2014. So ultimately they are answerable to MPs (or is that us?). With the elections coming up the M... |
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mrwandle |
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16-01-2015, 12:07 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...
| Those cancelled trains for tonight are still running accourding to national rail enq and TfL journey planner - going to try Crofton Park via Peckham Rye, apparently only 24 mins... we'll see. |
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mrwandle |
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15-01-2015, 05:54 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...
| On top of the trains not runing and the overcrowding, the very [i]least[/i] they can do is gets their communications right. It never is.
Right now the Southern website says this for today on the ho... |
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mrwandle |
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15-01-2015, 05:05 PM |
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Thread: Sodo / Old Bank building up for auction
Post: RE: Sodo / Old Bank building up for auction
| Wow! Good for them. I'll make a vow here and now to eat more pizzas to support them. I'm community spirited like that! |
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mrwandle |
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20-10-2014, 10:59 AM |
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Thread: Sodo / Old Bank building up for auction
Post: RE: Sodo / Old Bank building up for auction
| It's unclear to me now why the current owner held out so long for a tenant (3 years?), leaving in empty, just to flog it on a few months into getting some regular income? I can't imagine Sodo have a h... |
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mrwandle |
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20-10-2014, 10:37 AM |
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Thread: Coffee shop at HOP station priced out
Post: RE: Coffee shop at HOP station priced out
| There's got to be a balance between the station operator's need to generate income to supplement tranpost services and the desire to create pleasent enviroments for passengers. You would have thought ... |
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mrwandle |
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20-10-2014, 10:33 AM |
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Thread: Sodo / Old Bank building up for auction
Post: Sodo / Old Bank building up for auction
| Sodo / Old Bank building up for auction next week - see Lot 3:
http://www.auction.co.uk/commercial/onlineCatalogue.asp
Not surprised they've not managed to pay for new signage if they have to pa... |
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mrwandle |
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17-10-2014, 04:58 PM |
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Thread: Dog Fouling
Post: RE: Dog Fouling
| I think it's one of this pair that I've seen standing in the middle of the street on the Garthorne Rd end of Ebsworth at around 11pm, chucking slops from a bucket out to feed the local wildlife.
A... |
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mrwandle |
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16-10-2014, 03:21 PM |
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Thread: Southern trains into London Bridge
Post: RE: Southern trains into London Bridge
| Or in future you might be able to catch the Bakerloo line from Ladywell, Sydenham or Catford... you can tell TfL what you think about that https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/tube/bakerloo-extension |
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mrwandle |
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30-09-2014, 12:12 PM |
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Thread: Southern trains into London Bridge
Post: RE: Southern trains into London Bridge
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Thanks all, and thanks Michael for lobbying them on our behalf.
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mrwandle |
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24-09-2014, 02:52 PM |
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Thread: Southern trains into London Bridge
Post: RE: Southern trains into London Bridge
| Thanks Mr Numbers. Sounds like a sandwich filler I'm not keen on trying. |
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mrwandle |
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24-09-2014, 10:06 AM |
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Thread: Southern trains into London Bridge
Post: Southern trains into London Bridge
| These services seem to be back to the bad old days of circa 2007. Late, short trains, signal problems, queuing outside London Bridge, then fighting to get off the train when you get there. Today a 13 ... |
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mrwandle |
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24-09-2014, 09:54 AM |
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Thread: Planting in the Town Centre
Post: RE: Planting in the Town Centre
| Hi Michael - great plans. For the Edible High Road, have you considered St Mungo's Putting Down Roots to help maintain it? [url=http://www.mungos.org/pdr]www.mungos.org/pdr[/url]
Seems to have grea... |
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mrwandle |
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14-03-2014, 11:50 AM |
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Thread: School catchment areas again!
Post: RE: School catchment areas again!
| Lewisham Council is currently consulting on schools admissions policy - survey [url=http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/news/Pages/Have-your-say-on-proposed-changes-to-school-admissions.aspx]here[/url].
or ... |
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mrwandle |
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06-02-2014, 01:11 PM |
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Thread: New Street Lights
Post: RE: New Street Lights
| Maybe the Skanska workers also live opposite one of their new lights and don't get any sleep either, hence they have a struggle doing a full days work and aren't completing the job?
From product ch... |
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mrwandle |
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21-11-2013, 02:34 PM |
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Thread: Wanted - loft conversion specialist recommendations
Post: Wanted - loft conversion specialist recommendation...
| Hi - can anyone recommend a builder who has completed a local loft conversion on time and on budget while managing the project themselves? If they have done ones around Grierson / Garthorne / Bovill t... |
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mrwandle |
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14-11-2013, 04:14 PM |
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Thread: List of primary school catchment areas
Post: RE: List of primary school catchment areas
| Thanks for those tools.
The door to door Google one puts us 2m outside the catchment for our 'local' school this year, it's going to be a close call in 2014! |
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mrwandle |
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11-10-2013, 11:43 AM |
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Thread: List of primary school catchment areas
Post: RE: List of primary school catchment areas
| Thanks for this. Has anyone got a trundle wheel or a good website for working out exact distances as the crow flies? |
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mrwandle |
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11-10-2013, 10:27 AM |
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Thread: Where did you live before you came to SE23?
Post: RE: Where did you live before you came to SE23?
| I lived in Tooting and Earlsfield before it. FH is a bit like Earlsfield but with better schools, more creative types and less antipodeans. Very happy here and positive changes occur on a weekly basis... |
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mrwandle |
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17-09-2013, 12:11 PM |
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Thread: Workers in Tapatiserie
Post: RE: Workers in Tapatiserie
| Just what I was told so might be wrong. |
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mrwandle |
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04-09-2013, 11:52 AM |
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Thread: Skyglow and the new street lighting
Post: RE: Skyglow and the new street lighting
| Not sure the directional element works for me. I can't see the skyglow for the dazzling light beaming through all windows at the front of our house. It's like the clip from E.T. when the floodlights a... |
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mrwandle |
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04-09-2013, 11:18 AM |
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Thread: Workers in Tapatiserie
Post: RE: Workers in Tapatiserie
| One half is going to be more of a bar, the other half more of a restaurant. A bit like before but more defined. Looking forward to the re-opening. |
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mrwandle |
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04-09-2013, 10:03 AM |
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Thread: 24 dates without southern trains to London Bridge next year
Post: 24 dates without southern trains to London Bridge ...
| To do with the rebuilding of London Bridge station. More details here: http://www.thameslinkprogramme.co.uk/about. At least we've got plenty of notice.
[b]23 - 31 August 2014[/b]
No Southern se... |
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mrwandle |
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30-08-2013, 04:38 PM |
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Thread: Lamppost misplacement
Post: RE: Lamppost misplacement
| A very prompt and courteous response from John Barnes at Skanska. Appartently they can only fit light shields to the back of the lamp, due to the design there is nothing they can do to channel the lig... |
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mrwandle |
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30-08-2013, 12:49 PM |
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Thread: Lamppost misplacement
Post: RE: Lamppost misplacement
| Will try the same route. Thanks for doing the leg work squashst. |
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mrwandle |
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29-08-2013, 10:02 AM |
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Thread: Lamppost misplacement
Post: RE: Lamppost misplacement
| How was it for you squashst? I've put in a complaint to the council about the one outside our house on garthorne rd., via both lovelewisham and the main council website. Same issues as raised here pre... |
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mrwandle |
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27-08-2013, 01:59 PM |
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Thread: Indian Takeout suggestions
Post: RE: Indian Takeout suggestions
| Dewaniam for sure. Weirdly digime is right about the takeaway branch seeming better, they share the same kitchen though don't they?
On the rare occasion we've had a delivery they've always been rea... |
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mrwandle |
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16-08-2013, 12:52 PM |
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Thread: New Sainsburys, 55-59 Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: New Sainsburys, 55-59 Honor Oak Park
| Does anyone know anything about Neighbourhood Forums and Plans, part of the Localism Act 2011?
Reading [url=http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/inyourarea/neighbourhood/]this[/url], if residents set o... |
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mrwandle |
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12-08-2013, 10:42 AM |
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