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  Thread: Upcoming Rail Engineering Works Update thread
Post: RE: Upcoming Rail Engineering Works Update thread

Or the 63 all the way from Forest Hill Road, about 1 1/2 hours.
samuelsen SE23 Topics 320 84,061 04-05-2024, 10:11 PM
  Thread: Upcoming Rail Engineering Works Update thread
Post: RE: Upcoming Rail Engineering Works Update thread

If you go to Nunhead station you can get a train direct or a change at Blackfriars
samuelsen SE23 Topics 320 84,061 04-05-2024, 11:55 AM
  Thread: Why Forest Hill deserves its spot in the Best Places to Live in London
Post: RE: Why Forest Hill deserves its spot in the Best ...

Perhaps as this is supposed to be about Forest Hill it should focus on that.
samuelsen SE23 Topics 15 2,246 23-04-2024, 12:01 PM
  Thread: Why Forest Hill deserves its spot in the Best Places to Live in London
Post: RE: Why Forest Hill deserves its spot in the Best ...

"I think I have heard people say that in ever decade I have lived in London and of course there is some truth. But it is also true that the homicide rate in London has halved in the last 20 years (htt...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 15 2,246 22-04-2024, 07:11 PM
  Thread: Why Forest Hill deserves its spot in the Best Places to Live in London
Post: RE: Why Forest Hill deserves its spot in the Best ...

"London has become so unsafe with kids behaving like gangsters, stabbings out of control and the police are totally ineffective. Thieves know their are no consequences and run amok, day by day, week b...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 15 2,246 22-04-2024, 03:00 PM
  Thread: Why Forest Hill deserves its spot in the Best Places to Live in London
Post: RE: Why Forest Hill deserves its spot in the Best ...

Well it's clear where your political loyalties lie. Khan has been an absolute failure as a Mayor, in fact London does not need a Mayor, much the same as Lewisham does not need a Mayor. As was demon...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 15 2,246 21-04-2024, 05:49 PM
  Thread: Why Forest Hill deserves its spot in the Best Places to Live in London
Post: RE: Why Forest Hill deserves its spot in the Best ...

Well it's clear where your political loyalties lie. Khan has been an absolute failure as a Mayor, in fact London does not need a Mayor, much the same as Lewisham does not need a Mayor. As was d...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 15 2,246 21-04-2024, 05:36 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Police Communication
Post: RE: Forest Hill Police Communication

I am aware of at least four cars having been stolen from my road in the last 6- 8 weeks, no action, case closed. Hit and run in my road, no action Mobile phone thefts, no action Retail thefts, pol...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 11 1,361 28-03-2024, 03:50 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Police Communication
Post: RE: Forest Hill Police Communication

Like stolen cars, lots and lots and lots of them and no apparent action Lots of break ins and again no action Hit and runs and again no action Mobile phone thefts and again no action Retail thefts...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 11 1,361 27-03-2024, 10:07 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Police Communication
Post: RE: Forest Hill Police Communication

[i]"Local officers including myself and Joanna will visit every address within the ward over the next few weeks to speak to you about our new plans to maintain contact and keep you up to date with cri...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 11 1,361 25-03-2024, 01:01 PM
  Thread: Why Forest Hill deserves its spot in the Best Places to Live in London
Post: RE: Why Forest Hill deserves its spot in the Best ...

So lets break this down. What do you see has deteriorated rapidly in Forest Hill? Transport links, oh the Overground that gets you to Shoreditch and Hoxton, in about a third of the time it did b...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 15 2,246 18-03-2024, 05:23 PM
  Thread: Mayoral election costs
Post: RE: Mayoral election costs

No We need democracy but how did it cost £635k?????
samuelsen Wider Topics 4 837 09-03-2024, 06:16 PM
  Thread: Mayoral election costs
Post: RE: Mayoral election costs

"But it does make you wonder what is the value of a directly elected mayor in a council with no opposition party." Exactly my point, no opposition, no democracy, why bother??
samuelsen Wider Topics 4 837 09-03-2024, 02:19 PM
  Thread: Mayoral election costs
Post: Mayoral election costs

The cost of the mayoral election and the Mayors salary before any other costs are added on is £715,000, i.e. that's before any costs of running the Mayoralty are added on which council tax payers have...
samuelsen Wider Topics 4 837 08-03-2024, 05:14 PM
  Thread: Mayoral result 2024 - the one party state remains
Post: Mayoral result 2024 - the one party state remains

[i]The full results: DACRES Brenda - Labour and Co-operative Party - 21,576 HAMILTON John Nicholas - Workers Party of Britain (WPB) - 2,378 HERRON Michael - The Green Party - 6,835 LONG Nick - Ind...
samuelsen Wider Topics 2 883 08-03-2024, 01:26 PM
  Thread: A link I found about Lewishams formers Mayors term of office
Post: A link I found about Lewishams formers Mayors term...

Found on another neighbouring forum, it makes interesting reading and is a bit of an expose on life in the very heart of Lewisham council. https://themaslinmemo.blogspot.com/2024/02/damien-egan-may...
samuelsen Wider Topics 0 476 19-02-2024, 11:42 PM
  Thread: The Windrush Line - Red
Post: RE: The Windrush Line - Red

Yes the garden bridge was a disaster, another one that Boris got seriously wrong and look at the brown stuff he's managed to splatter himself with. But we're not talking about Boris, this is all a...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 17 2,445 16-02-2024, 03:10 PM
  Thread: The Windrush Line - Red
Post: RE: The Windrush Line - Red

It was unofficially nicknamed the "ginger line". This is a vanity project undertaken by the Mayor's minions which he has probably endorsed. Personally, the money could have been much better spent, con...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 17 2,445 16-02-2024, 12:30 AM
  Thread: The Windrush Line - Red
Post: RE: The Windrush Line - Red

Absolutely agree with Anothejohns sentiments, what an abhorrent waste of money.
samuelsen SE23 Topics 17 2,445 15-02-2024, 10:06 PM
  Thread: Route P4 towards Lewisham on Diversion till 31/12/24
Post: RE: ROUTE P4 towards Lewisham on Diversion till 31...

My understanding is that the P4 misses the first two stops on Stondon Park but still stops at the stop close to the Brockley Jack, that's my understanding.
samuelsen SE23 Topics 6 1,490 12-02-2024, 05:40 PM
  Thread: Route P4 towards Lewisham on Diversion till 31/12/24
Post: RE: ROUTE P4 towards Lewisham on Diversion till 31...

They did this last year "P4 does a !72 loop" around the Chandos rather than turn left into Stondon Park - which just delayed things" and then earlier this year reverted to a normal left turn from Hono...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 6 1,490 12-02-2024, 12:09 AM
  Thread: Route P4 towards Lewisham on Diversion till 31/12/24
Post: RE: ROUTE P4 towards Lewisham on Diversion till 31...

Just to re-iterate, it is the service t[b]owards Lewisham is on diversion via Brockley Rise, missing stops 'Stondon Park / Honor Oak Park' (HC) and 'Maclean Road (HN)'[/b]. Buses towards Brixton are...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 6 1,490 10-02-2024, 11:28 PM
  Thread: Route P4 towards Lewisham on Diversion till 31/12/24
Post: Route P4 towards Lewisham on Diversion till 31/12/...

Needed go get the P4 on Monday, checked and shock horror found this...... HONOR OAK PARK, SE23L ROUTE P4 towards Lewisham is on diversion until 23:59 Sunday 31 December. Buses are diverted via Broc...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 6 1,490 10-02-2024, 11:16 PM
  Thread: M&S Food Hall plan to open at Bell Green
Post: RE: M&S Food Hall plan to open at Bell Green

M&S. yes please.
samuelsen Wider Topics 3 1,243 01-02-2024, 05:04 PM
  Thread: Bizarre Road Rage Incident - Bell Green 29/1/24
Post: Bizarre Road Rage Incident - Bell Green 29/1/24

Bizarre Road Rage Incident - Bell Green (Monday 29/1/24) See Sydenham Town Forum/Town Hall
samuelsen Wider Topics 0 676 29-01-2024, 10:58 PM
  Thread: A new year and another advertising splurge from Dexters
Post: RE: A new year and another advertising splurge fro...

Thanks for the detailed response. Dexters are aware and I doubt I'll be getting anymore, but as they say, time will tell....
samuelsen SE23 Topics 2 1,208 26-01-2024, 10:33 PM
  Thread: Dartmouth Road closed from the 26th January
Post: RE: Dartmouth Road closed from the 26th January

Thanks for posting this info, really helpful to know what is planned. That along with the Thames Water disruption works to the 176, 197 and 227 along Crystal Place Park Road leading into Penge.
samuelsen SE23 Topics 1 1,339 24-01-2024, 05:15 PM
  Thread: A new year and another advertising splurge from Dexters
Post: A new year and another advertising splurge from De...

So only 19 days into 2024 and Dexter's have picked up where they left off in 2023 with another spurge of advertising material, this time a plush thick brochure but with no connection whatsoever to SE2...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 2 1,208 19-01-2024, 11:50 PM
  Thread: 16.01.2024, Car chase across The Horniman Heights
Post: 16.01.2024, Car chase across The Horniman Heights

Who'd have thought it in this "quiet" backwater of SE23, criminality abounds. https://twitter.com/HornimanHeights/status/1747508743003095221
samuelsen SE23 Topics 0 968 17-01-2024, 02:11 PM
  Thread: The Bell Green Works development proposed by Barratt London consists of: Six blocks o
Post: RE: The Bell Green Works development proposed by B...

Just to clarify this was taken from a post on the Sydenham Town Forum
samuelsen Wider Topics 2 1,204 15-01-2024, 11:24 PM
  Thread: The Bell Green Works development proposed by Barratt London consists of: Six blocks o
Post: The Bell Green Works development proposed by Barra...

Please make your comments now. Deadline is imminent. The Bell Green Works development proposed by Barratt London consists of: Six blocks of flats, grouped on three plots. Block D = 14 storeys. B...
samuelsen Wider Topics 2 1,204 15-01-2024, 02:36 PM
  Thread: Upcoming Rail Engineering Works Update thread
Post: RE: Upcoming Rail Engineering Works Update thread

These updates are so helpful, thank you.
samuelsen SE23 Topics 320 84,061 12-01-2024, 10:40 AM
  Thread: Damien Egan, Mayor of Lewisham has resigned 10-1-2024
Post: Damien Egan, Mayor of Lewisham has resigned 10-1-2...

https://lewisham.gov.uk/articles/news/resignation-of-damien-egan-mayor-of-lewisham Published by Lewisham Council "Resignation of Damien Egan, Mayor of Lewisham Damien Egan has resigned as Mayor o...
samuelsen Wider Topics 0 714 11-01-2024, 03:36 PM
  Thread: Navigating International Taxation: UK Property Rental and German PhD Stipend
Post: RE: Navigating International Taxation: UK Property...

Not an SE23 topic imo.
samuelsen Wider Topics 1 798 30-12-2023, 12:45 PM
  Thread: Kirkdale Bookshop robbery
Post: Kirkdale Bookshop robbery

Kirkdale Bookshop robbery "Sad news. Lost their Saturday cash takings last night. Books are safe. Support them if you can" https://sydenham.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22542
samuelsen SE23 Topics 2 1,379 18-12-2023, 10:12 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Police Newsletter - November 2023
Post: RE: Forest Hill Police Newsletter - November 2023

That's really good to hear about the SNT but they need to TELL residents what's happening, issues which have arisen, things dealt with, things that are ongoing, [b]numbers[/b] of incidents i.e. anti ...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 7 2,225 05-11-2023, 04:32 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Police Newsletter - November 2023
Post: RE: Forest Hill Police Newsletter - November 2023

Are there no station staff, and if they do not want to intervene shouldn't they call the PCSO's at the very least??
samuelsen SE23 Topics 7 2,225 05-11-2023, 02:52 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Police Newsletter - November 2023
Post: RE: Forest Hill Police Newsletter - November 2023

How about actually producing something useful rather than repeating what you have said in previous newsletters, or even better go catch some criminals, it's what you are there for,
samuelsen SE23 Topics 7 2,225 04-11-2023, 05:42 PM
  Thread: Boots on Dartmouth Road is closing
Post: RE: Boots on Dartmouth Road is closing

As rb said earlier above, it is evidence of Boots closure programme of smaller stores in practice.
samuelsen SE23 Topics 16 4,770 31-10-2023, 08:22 PM
  Thread: Boots on Dartmouth Road is closing
Post: RE: Boots on Dartmouth Road is closing

Didn't know Boots in Catford had closed, that was a slightly larger branch, I wonder if the Peckham branch is at risk of closure?
samuelsen SE23 Topics 16 4,770 31-10-2023, 11:22 AM
  Thread: Lack of Royal Mail letter box deliveries in Forest Hill lately
Post: RE: Lack of Royal Mail letter box deliveries in Fo...

The issue regarding postal deliveries is quite simply they have a lack of staff through sickness, holidays etc. Those posties still working are trying to cover other rounds. The other day our usua...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 3 1,827 31-10-2023, 11:20 AM
  Thread: Boots on Dartmouth Road is closing
Post: RE: Boots on Dartmouth Road is closing

It's been there for as many year's as I can remember, however it is a small store. Perhaps the rent was becoming excessive or the store wasn't viable any longer or Boots decided that it wants to opera...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 16 4,770 30-10-2023, 11:06 PM
  Thread: Boots on Dartmouth Road is closing
Post: RE: Boots on Dartmouth Road is closing

And on Lordship Lane A Sogim Pharmacy Pharmacy 102 Lordship Ln · 020 3714 6265 Closed ⋅ Opens 9 am Mon In-store shopping· In-store pick-up· Delivery Website Directions B Sadler's Pharma...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 16 4,770 29-10-2023, 11:21 PM
  Thread: Total gridlock in Forest Hill because of Thames (Turd) Water
Post: RE: Total gridlock in Forest Hill because of Thame...

And sit in clay which is lumpy when damp/wet and shrinks when dry causing pipes in the ground to burst. TW are "slowly" replacing the old pipes with new blue plastic piping, but it takes time and effo...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 7 2,467 21-10-2023, 06:19 PM
  Thread: P4 diversion due to Thames Water
Post: RE: P4 diversion due to Thames Water

Quick thought, if possible, walk to the bus stops at the Forest Hill Road end of Woodvale, hail the P4 at the 363 bus stops.
samuelsen SE23 Topics 4 1,593 21-10-2023, 02:56 PM
  Thread: P4 diversion due to Thames Water
Post: RE: P4 diversion due to Thames Water

From TfL, "HONOR OAK ROAD: From 08:00 Saturday 21 October to 17:00 Sunday 29 October, route P4 is on diversion between Dulwich Common and Honor Oak Park via Melford Road, Wood Vale and Forest Hill Roa...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 4 1,593 21-10-2023, 02:53 PM
  Thread: Total gridlock in Forest Hill because of Thames (Turd) Water
Post: RE: Total gridlock in Forest Hill because of Thame...

Large parts of SE London have been "inconvenienced" by Thames Water works since early 2022, however it's worth noting that the works are frequently undertaken by third party contractors, those that di...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 7 2,467 21-10-2023, 12:02 AM
  Thread: Horniman looking for new trustees
Post: RE: Horniman looking for new trustees

Suggest you re-title this as; Volunteer unpaid trustees wanted
samuelsen SE23 Topics 1 1,034 16-10-2023, 09:23 PM
  Thread: Upcoming Rail Engineering Works Update thread
Post: RE: Upcoming Rail Engineering Works Update thread

Alternative route for Croydon; 363 from Forest Hill Road, or Woodvale, or Melford Road/Underhill Road, or Lordship Lane (The Barracks) to the other end of Sydenham Hill, alight Bluebell Close, Wa...
samuelsen SE23 Topics 320 84,061 30-09-2023, 11:41 PM
  Thread: Dexters fails spectacularly again.....................
Post: RE: Dexters fails spectacularly again................

Aren't you a shop's Landlord in FH?
samuelsen SE23 Topics 5 2,981 18-09-2023, 11:11 AM
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