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  Thread: Streetlights on private property
Post: Streetlights on private property

We have a couple of streetlights on a private road leading to our property. I know that these are not maintained by the council (Lewisham) but when we have needed work done on them before we have been...
billham SE23 Topics 0 2,496 14-01-2008, 04:40 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Overcrowding on Trains to London Bridge

Thankfully I no longer have to use these trains on any regular basis though I have done the HOP to London Bridge daily cattle truck at various times in the last 20 years. However, and maybe I am be...
billham SE23 Topics 1,398 1,250,406 23-01-2008, 04:55 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park Secrets
Post: RE: Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park Secrets

One of the secrets apparently is that Honor Oak lies north-west of Forest Hill ............ :)
billham SE23 Topics 4 8,873 23-01-2008, 05:34 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Overcrowding on Trains to London Bridge

Maybe I can be the first to say...sophisticated weighing system my ****!! Perhaps they should send staff to occasionally try and board one of their trains in rush hour (or increasingly out of rush ...
billham SE23 Topics 1,398 1,250,406 30-01-2008, 01:31 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Overcrowding on Trains to London Bridge

Love the poster BarCar. :) Now maybe a few of those should be printed and discretely placed around the stations and trains involved. Legal disclaimer. The above was just a random thought and...
billham SE23 Topics 1,398 1,250,406 30-01-2008, 02:03 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Overcrowding on Trains to London Bridge

What a lovely example of a lot of verbiage to add precisely nothing!! It could have come from a 'Yes, Minister' script. It also seems that they regard paragraphs a bit like they do carriages...some...
billham SE23 Topics 1,398 1,250,406 01-02-2008, 10:24 AM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Overcrowding on Trains to London Bridge

This thread is taking on a fishy twist with herring now joining the sardines! It is just a pity that the 'sardines' seem to have less rights than the pigeons. Then again the pigeons rarely catch th...
billham SE23 Topics 1,398 1,250,406 21-02-2008, 10:30 AM
  Thread: Water Supply Problems
Post: RE: White tap water

Well I don't know about events at the weekend but I live off Netherby Road and our water has been cloudy for quite some time. In fact I was surprised not to see comments in here much earlier than they...
billham SE23 Topics 96 95,303 16-05-2008, 11:25 PM
  Thread: "Shelter 100 yards" on FH wall
Post: RE: A question for the historians amongst us

To quote from ' A History of Kings and Princes Garth and Forest Hill' by Jad Adams (1993) p42 "The residents of Kings and Princes Garth spent many nights huddled in the basement with the sound of e...
billham SE23 Topics 10 12,347 31-03-2008, 01:03 AM
  Thread: Green Chain Walk - FHSoc
Post: RE: Sun 25th May 2pm: Green Chain Walk - FHSoc

Having seen the weather forecast I had all but written off my plan to go along. But lo and behold the awful morning turned into an excellent afternoon, pretty much perfect for walking. Very enjoyable ...
billham SE23 Topics 7 8,980 26-05-2008, 10:12 AM
  Thread: Fire!
Post: RE: Fire!

Probably pretty pointless since most people will be offline but here's the story from the BBC. Looks pretty serious and if it started at 7.21 power has already been down 4 hours...how come this never ...
billham SE23 Topics 40 35,426 08-06-2008, 11:17 AM
  Thread: Doorstep scam or fraud
Post: RE: Doorstep scam or fraud in HOP area

Hi Jane Sorry to hear about your problem. I sincerely hope it is not too serious for you - it sounds like they used your address to order the parcel. Hopefully it is only your address they have use...
billham SE23 Topics 31 37,237 08-06-2008, 12:23 PM
  Thread: Electricity Supply Problems
Post: RE: Driving during the power cut

It didn't seem particularly calm when I walked through the Horniman and out onto the South Circ at about 4.30. The lights were off at the pedestrian crossing and where traffic was coming down from Syd...
billham SE23 Topics 59 58,314 10-06-2008, 11:56 AM
  Thread: Intimidating kids hanging around
Post: RE: Intimidating kids hanging around

Hi CB You are not alone, and I fully sympathise with your position. We have had a lot of similar problems in the last year in the flats where I live. We do have the advantage that the land is pr...
billham SE23 Topics 27 30,987 10-06-2008, 03:52 PM
  Thread: Intimidating kids hanging around
Post: RE: Intimidating kids hanging around

Ok Reverend we will send them around to stand outside your house since it would obviously not be an issue for you!! I think your reply shows a total lack of understanding of what this problem might...
billham SE23 Topics 27 30,987 19-06-2008, 10:51 PM
  Thread: Intimidating kids hanging around
Post: RE: Intimidating kids hanging around

I accept that the situation in a public area is more complex, and I imagine it would be very hard to get the police to act unless some substantial disturbance was being caused. However, I live in a...
billham SE23 Topics 27 30,987 21-06-2008, 08:20 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Society not allowed at Forest Hill Day
Post: RE: F Hill Society not allowed at Forest Hill Day

This does seem a rather strict enforcement of a 'political' group. I could understand that the IRA or Al Queda might reasonably be refused but the Forest Hill Society?? I sense some deeper underlying...
billham SE23 Topics 23 23,528 13-06-2008, 09:53 AM
  Thread: Horniman Triangle Play Park
Post: RE: Horniman Triangle Play Park SE23

I think that the link is slightly wrong. Try this [url=http://se23streets.blogspot.com/2007/04/up-eliot-bank.html]Up Eliot Bank[/url]
billham SE23 Topics 163 171,721 23-06-2008, 12:44 PM
  Thread: Right-turn from Honor Oak Road into London Road
Post: Right-turn from Honor Oak Road into London Road

I don't know if this is a regular occurrence or not, but last night about 6.15pm as I was walking up towards the junction of Honor Oak Road and the South Circ at the Tesco garage two cars made a right...
billham SE23 Topics 12 13,032 08-07-2008, 07:59 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Central
Post: RE: Forest Hill Central

Interesting that the Old Bank Italian Restaurant (presumably the one in Honor Oak) is included as a 'local' restaurant. There must be at least 20 restaurants nearer if not more. Do I smell some 'produ...
billham SE23 Topics 289 274,083 11-07-2008, 04:49 PM
  Thread: WH Smith & Post Office, Forest Hill
Post: RE: Forest Hill Post Office

And of course there is a posting box inside the post office, to the right as you face the counter...
billham SE23 Topics 157 174,815 17-09-2008, 04:01 PM
  Thread: Dacres Wood Nature Reserve
Post: RE: Dacres Road Nature Reserve

The canal ran right down Davids Road. The attached map shows the canal route - not very close to the railway from HOP to Forest Hill! http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=1095274...
billham SE23 Topics 23 31,159 15-10-2008, 06:35 PM
  Thread: Right-turn from Honor Oak Road into London Road
Post: RE: Right-turn from Honor Oak Road into London Roa...

Foxe Whilst I agree that these lights can be extremely frustrating, and I have uttered the odd curse or fifty myself whilst waiting for them to change, this does not in any circumstances make an il...
billham SE23 Topics 12 13,032 10-07-2008, 11:38 AM
  Thread: Broken Window
Post: RE: Broken Window

Sorry to hear of your experience Holly. As someone who has had missiles through a window on a couple of occasions in the 20 odd years I have lived here (though I am not particularly close to the South...
billham SE23 Topics 11 9,002 11-10-2008, 02:05 PM
  Thread: Broken Window
Post: RE: Broken Windon

We recently had trouble over a period with groups of youths hanging around our (private) grounds, smoking dodgy substances and generally making a nuisance. The police response seemed to be that unless...
billham SE23 Topics 11 9,002 13-10-2008, 12:11 PM
  Thread: Dacres Wood Nature Reserve
Post: RE: Dacres Road Nature Reserve

Looking in more detail at the route map would suggest that you are right Perryman. Although the canal follows the line of Davids Road if the map is correct it was actually located between Davids Road ...
billham SE23 Topics 23 31,159 16-10-2008, 10:19 AM
  Thread: Dacres Wood Nature Reserve
Post: RE: Dacres Road Nature Reserve

A voluntary environmental and conservation group. Their web site is www.btcv.org Interestingly if you look there (as I did) you will hunt high and low for what those letters mean. The explanatio...
billham SE23 Topics 23 31,159 16-10-2008, 03:11 PM
  Thread: Used to live there
Post: RE: Used to live there

Hi Margaret Interesting to hear your memories. Interesting you should mention police flats. I live in Sydmons Court of Netherby Road which was built in the 1950s and I was told that these were orig...
billham SE23 Topics 9 12,386 20-10-2008, 11:43 AM
  Thread: Manor Mount - Abuse of One-Way System
Post: RE: Manor Mount - drivers still at it

I don't think it is only you Roz. I think most people treat that section as one-way, probably because it logically looks like it should be! I suspect the reason that it isn't is down to the location o...
billham SE23 Topics 143 128,603 24-10-2008, 10:32 AM
  Thread: Manor Mount - Abuse of One-Way System
Post: RE: Manor Mount - drivers still at it

I assume we are talking purely about the section between the two ends of Pearcefield so Sainsbury's traffic is not involved since it would enter the end of Pearcefield nearest Davids Road and exit ont...
billham SE23 Topics 143 128,603 24-10-2008, 12:20 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...

Jimmy? Maybe that is the way forward, giving all the trains names instead of times. Be just like Thomas the Tank Engine! Ah, here he comes now that loveable old rogue Jimmy, always late but you ...
billham SE23 Topics 1,398 1,250,406 21-11-2008, 02:06 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...

Two carriages on a train out of London Bridge at that time of night is just taking the &^*%!!
billham SE23 Topics 1,398 1,250,406 25-11-2008, 07:55 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Library
Post: RE: Forest Hill Library

Being in my early 50s, I too grew up in the pre-computer age. However, I am certainly no technophobe and have been employed in IT for 25 years. However, on my one visit to this library I really fel...
billham SE23 Topics 105 112,398 25-10-2008, 02:56 PM
  Thread: Southern Electricity
Post: Southern Electricity

Just had a visit from a representative of Southern Electricity. Along with various graphs and diagrams he basically said that Southern could 'see' that my tarriff was high (I am with British Gas fo...
billham SE23 Topics 5 6,243 30-10-2008, 03:43 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill's Xmas Tree
Post: RE: Forest Hill's xmas tree

Most likely it means you have just staggered out of the Hob.... :)
billham SE23 Topics 50 51,762 17-12-2008, 05:15 PM
  Thread: Camille Pissarro's Paintings of Forest Hill
Post: RE: Camille Pissarro's paintings of Forest Hill

or here http://www.art.co.uk/asp/sp-asp/_/Aff--CONF/CTID--861164771/RFID--457103/TKID--15039121/pd--10023210/posters.htm
billham SE23 Topics 21 35,176 20-12-2008, 03:59 PM
  Thread: SE23 Magazine
Post: RE: SE23 Magazine

Personally I would feel more confident if you could spell 'write' or 'edition' but maybe that's just old-fashioned Virgo me..... :)
billham SE23 Topics 22 31,425 05-01-2009, 08:54 PM
  Thread: Post
Post: RE: Post

Not seen so much as a bill or a circular in Netherby Road. Might easily be the Arctic up here....the snow comes half way up my....shoes..... Full marks however to my trusty milkman Lee from Dairy C...
billham SE23 Topics 24 23,569 04-02-2009, 10:24 PM
  Thread: Post
Post: RE: Post

Well I must admit I didn't take an inchtape to it but I do live quite high on the hill, near the Canonbie/Netherby junction. I took a fairly close look at undisturbed snow in our bin area and it was 5...
billham SE23 Topics 24 23,569 05-02-2009, 09:37 PM
  Thread: Stolen Siberian Husky Please Help
Post: RE: Stolen Siberian Husky Please Help

Really glad to hear this had a happy ending! I noticed it earlier and wanted to post but decided against it in case you thought it was someone with positive word! I guess you won't be leaving her outs...
billham SE23 Topics 11 9,401 05-02-2009, 10:14 PM
  Thread: Post
Post: RE: Post

Whilst I do accept that deliveries are more difficult in the current circumstances, I don't think it is unreasonable to expect some sort of service 3 days after 4 inches of snow fell. Checking the Roy...
billham SE23 Topics 24 23,569 05-02-2009, 11:37 AM
  Thread: Used to live there
Post: RE: Used to live there

Hi Graham I do still live in Sydmons Court and more than happy to chat. However, I don't really want to post my email address here and I seem unable to leave a private message. Can you see if you a...
billham SE23 Topics 9 12,386 30-03-2009, 05:06 PM
  Thread: Searching for english relatives
Post: RE: Searching for english relatives

Hi Carol This is a website that concentrates on issues related to an area in south east London. It has nothing to do with family history as such. Unless you know your relatives are in this area it ...
billham SE23 Topics 15 14,735 19-04-2009, 04:58 PM
  Thread: Perry Vale - Road Issues
Post: RE: Perry Vale - Road Issues

To be pedantic, pedestrians only have right of way if they have started crossing (per highway code 170) 170 Take extra care at junctions. You should......... watch out for pedestrians crossing...
billham SE23 Topics 348 293,868 19-04-2009, 08:56 PM
  Thread: Perry Vale - Road Issues
Post: RE: Perry Vale - Road Issues

Who'd have though there could be a 60 page catalogue of benches! Looks uncomfortable to me...not even sure whether you are meant to sit in the crest or the trough!! :laugh:
billham SE23 Topics 348 293,868 11-05-2009, 09:46 PM
  Thread: Perry Vale - Road Issues
Post: RE: Perry Vale - Road Issues

or more correctly ON the crest.....
billham SE23 Topics 348 293,868 11-05-2009, 09:48 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...

The link in the previous post has a rogue full stop. This should work... http://londonreconnections.blogspot.com/2009/07/official-launch-of-new-overground.html
billham SE23 Topics 1,398 1,250,406 14-07-2009, 11:54 AM
  Thread: Tell Me About SE23 Please
Post: RE: Tell Me About SE23 Please

You can see it online....sounds like a nice place...maybe I'll move there!! :) http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/buying_and_selling/article6856797.ece
billham SE23 Topics 28 25,193 03-10-2009, 07:30 PM
  Thread: Large Cat Like Animal
Post: RE: Large Cat Like Animal

I notice it doesn't say that they caught that one in 2005! The picture looks familiar......
billham SE23 Topics 14 14,264 03-11-2009, 12:20 AM
  Thread: Oyster Cards and FH Station
Post: RE: Oyster Cards and FH Station

On further thought, I think that the statement that your 'travel card must be valid on all the zones you travel through' is designed to cover the fact that a journey may start and end in say zone 4, b...
billham SE23 Topics 114 109,704 17-01-2010, 06:52 PM
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