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Thread: Gridlock
Post: RE: Gridlock
| Nottinghillbilly, there is (or there was, at least) a sign attached to the front of From the Forest pretty much stating exactly that - that the gas company had had to break in because there was a leak... |
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MightyMouse |
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28-02-2015, 02:54 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...
| I do think though the downside to the lovely new concourse is the loss of platform space. That's why, as I understand it, the completed new platforms still have bits fenced off on them - because that'... |
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MightyMouse |
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08-02-2015, 01:27 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...
| Well, I "met the managers"...
I asked one simple question: "Are you restoring the rush hour trains to Forest Hill that you cut?"
The answer (she knew exactly what I was talking about straight aw... |
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MightyMouse |
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05-02-2015, 09:43 AM |
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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...
| The trouble with that statement from Southern in Michael's post is that they're talking about how they're going to improve "reliability and service punctuality".
They could very easily do that by r... |
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MightyMouse |
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28-01-2015, 01:37 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...
| So reading the update on Southern's site, those evening services withdrawn for a week, and then for four weeks, are now gone for good.
I can't say I'm surprised. I guess that's their cunning "alter... |
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MightyMouse |
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22-01-2015, 08:47 PM |
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Thread: Keep it classy Forest Hill. Fly tipping outside Pedder
Post: RE: Keep it classy Forest Hill. Fly tipping outsid...
| Oh, I think it goes beautifully with the smashed door and newspapered windows just nearby, no? |
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MightyMouse |
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17-01-2015, 07:00 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've started avoiding Canada Water on the way home - I get on the Overground further up the track, by using a different combination of tubes from work. Probably adds ten minutes to my journey home, wh... |
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MightyMouse |
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14-01-2015, 10:47 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...
| Well, on Twitter the Jubilee Line account is warning me that Canada Water is likely to be busy so I should avoid it. And I'm getting emails from TFL warning me about London Bridge.
Erm... So I'm be... |
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MightyMouse |
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08-01-2015, 06:21 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...
| How can they possibly claim that removing 5 trains in the evening rush hour is an improved service? :cursing: |
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MightyMouse |
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07-01-2015, 04:21 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 took the 8.21 to LB this morning - I was there for the 8.17 to H&I but of course that was late and the LB train arrived first, so I squeezed on - arriving at LB at 9am.
I hijacked a group of thre... |
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MightyMouse |
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07-01-2015, 02:21 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...
| Was there anything odd on the Overground tonight? I got to Canada Water about 6.45 pm, and the West Croydon train that arrived then was heaving (left many behind), which meant the Crystal Palace train... |
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MightyMouse |
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06-01-2015, 08:53 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...
| But surely if the crush gets much worse it'll lead to more people going "the long way round", and thus alleviate the problem? I always go up and then down - not sure if it's quicker (I reckon it might... |
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MightyMouse |
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02-01-2015, 06:10 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...
| Wearing my shiniest tin foil hat, I'm wondering if the service has been so poor of late intentionally, so that we won't be so upset when the Southern trains disappear for the next fortnight. Or indeed... |
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MightyMouse |
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18-12-2014, 12:30 PM |
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Thread: Crime Alert Message - robbery between Sunderland Road and Trilby Road
Post: RE: Crime Alert Message
| I agree - I think it's odd advice. Particularly as night currently begins at about 4pm. How will I get home from work if I can't take public transport or walk home from the station?
Facetiousness a... |
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MightyMouse |
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26-11-2014, 10:47 AM |
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Thread: Southern trains into London Bridge
Post: RE: Southern trains into London Bridge
| Randall - hurrah for the quiet trains! :cool:
Blushingsnail, that's exactly what happened - I got there just before 8.30 and they'd closed the barriers as the platform was too crowded. Once an Over... |
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MightyMouse |
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20-11-2014, 08:35 PM |
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Thread: Southern trains into London Bridge
Post: RE: Southern trains into London Bridge
| Mr Numbers, he's going to need a sex change... :laugh: |
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MightyMouse |
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19-11-2014, 08:51 AM |
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Thread: Southern trains into London Bridge
Post: RE: Southern trains into London Bridge
| On which note... I went to Finches Ski Emporium last Sunday (not yesterday) for their Sunday opening celebration (my friends' band was playing) and I spotted someone across the shop I recognised. We e... |
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MightyMouse |
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17-11-2014, 09:45 PM |
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Thread: Southern trains into London Bridge
Post: RE: Southern trains into London Bridge
| Hi Randall. I get trains at FH, and yes, the 7.50 is usually old stylee. If you can hang on for the next one (about 8 mins later I think) that's usually both new and empty-ish. The one before (7.42 fr... |
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MightyMouse |
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17-11-2014, 03:08 PM |
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Thread: The Capitol to close
Post: RE: Capitol to close?
| Oh, so we get to choose what we want it to be? And then someone else will front up the cash and make it happen? That's pretty cool. |
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MightyMouse |
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30-10-2014, 08:21 PM |
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Thread: Southern trains into London Bridge
Post: RE: Southern trains into London Bridge
| The 08.31 is a lovely train - long, usually one of the brand new ones, and yes, pretty empty. Which means all the people on the later stations can get on too - it's not just us that are going to suffe... |
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MightyMouse |
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14-10-2014, 08:06 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill article in The London Economic
Post: RE: Forest Hill article in The London Economic
| Sorry to break in to the restaurant critiquery, but I just wanted to point out the irony (possibly in the Morrissette sense of the word) that in the same week an article appears in the press bigging u... |
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MightyMouse |
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02-10-2014, 07:29 PM |
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Thread: Bakerloo Line Extension
Post: RE: Bakerloo Line Extension
| I got quite excited about the huge improvement to my commute, then realised in 2030 I won't be living or working where I do now.
I'll also probably be dead of Ebola... |
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MightyMouse |
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30-09-2014, 01:55 PM |
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Thread: Scottish Independence
Post: RE: Scottish Independence
| Though they are smaller than Tunnocks so I can get a whole one in without effort. So there's that in their defence...
Yeah, I'd say this is about the level of Scottish Independence conversation amo... |
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MightyMouse |
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06-09-2014, 04:29 PM |
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Thread: Scottish Independence
Post: RE: Scottish Independence
| They're not quite the same, but Marks and Spencer teacakes are a not-bad alternative if it comes to that...
As for independence - can't see how it will affect me as an individual, to be honest. Can... |
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MightyMouse |
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06-09-2014, 10:07 AM |
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Thread: Trains on 28 August 2014
Post: RE: Trains on 28 August 2014
| As another alternative, again depending on where you're coming from/going to, if the trains are stuffed in the morning I sometimes get the 176 to Elephant and Castle and then on to the Bakerloo. The b... |
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MightyMouse |
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29-08-2014, 06:45 PM |
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Thread: SE23 2015
Post: RE: SE23 2015
| I'd like a house price correction such that a one bedroom flat in Forest Hill was once again within my reach. I'm sure when I first heard of Forest Hill about 4 years ago they were about 160k, so knoc... |
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MightyMouse |
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10-08-2014, 09:02 PM |
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Thread: Why i moved to SE23
Post: RE: Why i moved to SE23
| [quote]Honor Oak and those within, i salute you ALL for being less moany, less whingy, less stuck up, less pretentious, less irritating and less snobbish.
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Wait. You've [b]read [/b]these... |
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MightyMouse |
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24-07-2014, 05:39 PM |
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Thread: Planning Application: M&Co to become a Morrisons Local?
Post: RE: M&Co to become a Morrisons Local
| Local convenience stores are indeed usually more expensive than their large equivalents. I'd be pleasantly surprised to find that the Sainsburys in Forest Hill has the same prices as the huge one at B... |
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MightyMouse |
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16-07-2014, 07:32 AM |
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Thread: Planning Application: M&Co to become a Morrisons Local?
Post: RE: M&Co to become a Morrisons Local
| I'm genuinely interested to know, if the objections win out and Morrisons don't open on that site - who do the objectors honestly think will take the site?
It seems that you don't want a grocery st... |
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MightyMouse |
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15-07-2014, 10:31 PM |
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Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: Shops, restaurants, pubs etc
| Bugger. I knew there was a reason I should have had kids.
Mums can visit the pub from 10am? Sweet. |
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MightyMouse |
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26-06-2014, 09:04 PM |
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Thread: The Capitol to close
Post: RE: Capitol to close
| Flats would be lovely, thanks. Particularly part buy, part rent ones. London doesn't, as far as I'm aware, suffer from a shortage of cinemas. A shortage of affordable housing, on the other hand...
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MightyMouse |
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24-06-2014, 07:33 PM |
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Thread: Sad demise of the car park kebab shop
Post: RE: Sad demise of the car park kebab shop
| It looked even better when it contained glorious, glorious indeterminate meat product (with salad and pitta bread to pretend I'm a bit healthy) for the odd Friday when I would get off the train from w... |
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MightyMouse |
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30-05-2014, 12:41 PM |
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Thread: Sad demise of the car park kebab shop
Post: RE: Sad demise of the car park kebab shop
| Just what Forest Hill needed, though, eh, because we're so short on cafes. |
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MightyMouse |
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28-05-2014, 07:25 AM |
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Thread: Direct train to Charing Cross
Post: RE: Direct train to Charing Cross
| Ta-da!
http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/myservices/transport/cycling/Pages/Free-cycle-lessons.aspx
Yep, lessons from scratch, or for those who just want to get braver at being on the road, I think. A... |
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MightyMouse |
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22-05-2014, 09:07 PM |
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Thread: Direct train to Charing Cross
Post: RE: Direct train to Charing Cross
| clausy, I hear you, but:
1) I can't actually ride a bike. I've signed up for lessons from the council though!
2) I work in Paddington. Forest Hill to Paddington doesn't seem like all that terrif... |
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MightyMouse |
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22-05-2014, 02:44 PM |
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Thread: Voting - Thursday 22nd May
Post: RE: Voting - Thursday 22nd May
| With regards to the council elections, apparently the Electoral Reform Society say there's a strong chance Lewisham will become a virtual One Party State: http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/press-rele... |
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MightyMouse |
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22-05-2014, 12:09 PM |
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Thread: Direct train to Charing Cross
Post: RE: Direct train to Charing Cross
| I don't know what's true or what's likely, but I do know that I'm going to pretend for the rest of the day it's both, and smile (this would mean a two-train commute to work, not a three-train one, and... |
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MightyMouse |
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22-05-2014, 11:54 AM |
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Thread: World Cup Pubs
Post: RE: World Cup Pubs
| timbo, I have the unalloyed pleasure of working for one of the sponsors. We already have a huge stuffed cuddly mascot in the foyer, and are currently running an internal suggestion scheme about things... |
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MightyMouse |
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14-05-2014, 10:34 AM |
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Thread: Suggestions for good Sunday roast
Post: RE: Suggestions for good Sunday roast
| I've enjoyed roasts at Canvas and Cream and especially at the All in One / Foresters. At neither of them have I felt discriminated against for being on my own. |
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MightyMouse |
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03-05-2014, 01:07 PM |
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Thread: slow trains Monday
Post: RE: slow trains Monday
| It's just a theory, but I reckon when things like this happen, Southern are only too happy to cancel the trains that stop at FH etc. "Oh, they've got the Overground, they won't mind." Except they forg... |
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MightyMouse |
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31-03-2014, 08:09 PM |
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Thread: Cycling to Work
Post: RE: Cycling to Work
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MightyMouse |
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28-03-2014, 04:58 PM |
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Thread: Accident outside HOP station
Post: RE: Accident outside HOP station
| I don't remember any objections to the picture on the recent thread about the accident outside the All In One.
Just checked. Thread's called Perry Vale Closure. Nope, no objections. |
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MightyMouse |
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28-03-2014, 11:55 AM |
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Thread: Alarming house prices!
Post: RE: Alarming house prices!
| It's only "too much" if no one will pay it. Given the current market, and the trend for "open days" which just draw on people's panic about the lack of available properties in their price bracket - I ... |
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MightyMouse |
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09-03-2014, 03:22 PM |
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Thread: Anyone else lost their mains water around Woodcombe Crescent/Devonshire Road?
Post: RE: Anyone else lost their mains water around Wood...
| I'm sure the cones will have it fixed in no time! |
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08-03-2014, 11:45 AM |
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Thread: Anyone else lost their mains water around Woodcombe Crescent/Devonshire Road?
Post: RE: Anyone else lost their mains water around Wood...
| Crumbs. Just checked the Thames Water website and now it's showing an additional burst main nearby - its pin is on Devonshire Road at the junction with Woodcoombe Crescent, but I wonder if it's really... |
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08-03-2014, 11:06 AM |
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Thread: Anyone else lost their mains water around Woodcombe Crescent/Devonshire Road?
Post: RE: Anyone else lost their mains water around Wood...
| The usual chestnut: "as soon as possible". It's a burst water main, last updated on the website at 6.28 am.
There's a red area that goes quite a way so it looks like it's affecting quite a few peop... |
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08-03-2014, 09:17 AM |
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Thread: Anyone else lost their mains water around Woodcombe Crescent/Devonshire Road?
Post: RE: Anyone else lost their mains water around Wood...
| Woken up to no water - according to the Thames Water website there's a leak on Dunoon Road that they're fixing.
In my entire life until I moved to Forest Hill I'd never ever experienced leaks or wa... |
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MightyMouse |
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08-03-2014, 09:08 AM |
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Thread: Planning: 2-4 London Road FH (Launderette)
Post: RE: Planning: 2-4 London Road FH (Launderette)
| Mmm. Intrigued as to how it'll "provide significant employment", if they're just moving their shop down the road.
But, you know, yay - more glass windows full of pictures of overpriced property. B... |
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MightyMouse |
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05-03-2014, 08:18 AM |
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Thread: Pedestrian crossings: London Road junction - railing removal
Post: RE: Pedestrian crossings: London Road junction - r...
| I was once waiting in the middle of the crossing, coming from the station. I'm one of those naughty types that waits to the right of the island, so I'm not inside the railings (as I'm heading off down... |
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MightyMouse |
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03-03-2014, 09:44 PM |
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Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: Kebab shop at FH station
| gbrownings - I understand your point. William Morris had a good idea - I'm happy for anything in the town as long as it's useful or beautiful. Occasionally the kebab shop is one of those for me; hopef... |
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