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  Thread: low-flying jumbos
Post: RE: low-flying jumbos

Yes I also noticed the planes very early yesterday. I put it down to having all the bedroom windows open because of the temperature making them seem louder.
Erekose SE23 Topics 16 24,380 04-08-2011, 08:12 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Underpass
Post: RE: Forest Hill Station Upgrade (Phase 3)

Excellent news. It must be around 20 years since I first wrote a complaining letter about the state of the underpass..........I hope it will be worth the wait. Any sign of the trees which were suppos...
Erekose SE23 Topics 17 15,986 05-07-2011, 01:00 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Underpass
Post: []

What would really improve FH would be to upgrade the revolting underpass below it. Why this cannot be organised is beyond me. I recall arguments a few (10 maybe+?) years about who actually has respons...
Erekose SE23 Topics 17 15,986 04-07-2011, 10:23 PM
  Thread: Police at Stansted road address
Post: RE: Police at Stansted road address

Almost evryone I know in the F/H area believed that the Bagel shop south of the station was actually a knocking shop......
Erekose SE23 Topics 47 51,494 20-06-2011, 09:06 PM
  Thread: A Turkish Delight
Post: RE: A Turkish Delight

FHF As the rat bait was often sited in the alley behind our garden I claim more detailed knowledge of the Lings rat problems....... Oddly the brazil nuts the squirrels burried in our garden were cho...
Erekose SE23 Topics 15 29,978 03-03-2011, 09:46 PM
  Thread: A Turkish Delight
Post: RE: A Turkish Delight

Having had the misfortune to live nest to it for 8 years I was pleased when it went......the rat infestations it generated were legendary amongst those whose houses backed onto it. Oh yes and the exci...
Erekose SE23 Topics 15 29,978 30-01-2011, 05:27 PM
  Thread: Awful Story: Cat Owners Beware
Post: RE: Awful Story: Cat Owners Beware

The story reminded me of this item from a few years back: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4195162/Hungry-foxes-start-eating-the-nations-cats.html
Erekose Wider Topics 16 14,748 13-12-2010, 08:17 PM
  Thread: Recommend a Bonfire Night?
Post: RE: Recommend a Bonfire Night?

Lewes is now Royston Vasey?
Erekose Wider Topics 12 11,336 03-11-2010, 11:16 PM
  Thread: Burglaries
Post: RE: Burglaries

Yes my sympathies as well. We were burgled back in June when three 'lads' kicked our front door open. Luckily they were caught and prosecuted. They pleaded guilty and are now doing some no doubt helpf...
Erekose Wider Topics 67 65,206 24-10-2010, 08:56 AM
  Thread: South Circular closed
Post: RE: South Circular closed

[align=left]Hrmmm B[/align]ack to 1980's anyone? Tunnel under F/H maybe or was that just for Dulwich I can't quite remember..... At least the s/c reopened today.
Erekose SE23 Topics 128 128,045 13-10-2010, 09:43 PM
  Thread: Does anyone use the Overground in the evening
Post: RE: Does anyone use the Overground in the evening

I have come back on it at around 11:00 and it was quite quiet. Perceptions of safety vary but I have not had any problems returning to FH by train late at night. Six or seven years ago when I used t...
Erekose Wider Topics 7 6,472 04-10-2010, 08:47 PM
  Thread: Does anyone use the Overground in the evening
Post: RE: Does anyone use the Overground in the evening

Busy but 100% better than the equivilant trains back from LB used to be.
Erekose Wider Topics 7 6,472 04-10-2010, 07:42 PM
  Thread: South Circular closed
Post: RE: South Circular closed

I questioned the fact that the number of hours being worked did not seem sufficient for the level of disruption being caused and received this reply: Dear Sir/Madam [i]Thank you for your email. ...
Erekose SE23 Topics 128 128,045 30-09-2010, 07:58 PM
  Thread: Warning - burglaries in Forest Hill area
Post: RE: Warning - burglaries in Forest Hill area

Interesting and very depressing. See my post on the attempted burglary in Honor Oak for our experience of having our front door kicked in and two bikes stolen. [/u]
Erekose SE23 Topics 5 9,338 25-08-2010, 10:55 PM
  Thread: Planning Application: 27 Shipman Road
Post: RE: Planning: 27 Shipman Road

Looks like a clear case of over development to me with a definite lack of amenity space for the new units. I would guess that a couple of flats is more realistic. I note the Architects seem to be usi...
Erekose SE23 Topics 50 59,985 19-08-2010, 10:15 PM
  Thread: Move to Kemble Rd?
Post: RE: Move to Kemble Rd?

Hi We have lived on Kemble road since 1988 and although it suffers from its share of 'urban living' problems we have found it fine. However East Dulwich it is not...... Our children both went to Kil...
Erekose SE23 Topics 8 9,313 09-08-2010, 09:34 PM
  Thread: Petrol thefts
Post: RE: Petrol thefts

I was have been wondering on and off regarding the point that the price of petrol would start this off again. During the oil crisis in the 1970's when fuel prices rocketed siphoning off fuel from cars...
Erekose Wider Topics 19 16,331 04-07-2010, 09:53 AM
  Thread: Art nouveau, deco and modernism in SE23
Post: RE: Art nouveau, deco and modernism in SE23

Odd that. When I paste the link in it works but it fails to display fully in the post... Full link is: www.themodernhouse.net /docs/properties/sixpillars.pdf Try cutting and pasting it. Its a PDF...
Erekose SE23 Topics 36 41,617 16-06-2010, 08:20 AM
  Thread: Art nouveau, deco and modernism in SE23
Post: RE: Art nouveau, deco and modernism in SE23

More Six Pillars info: http://www.themodernhouse.net/docs/properties/sixpillars.pdf. I thought it was usually credited to Tecton (& Valentine Harding?) rather than to Lubetkin specifically? [/align]
Erekose SE23 Topics 36 41,617 15-06-2010, 09:36 PM
  Thread: Warning attempted Burglary - Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Warning attempted Burglary - Honor Oak Park

Not alone there. This happened in Forest Hill. Last week my son answered the door to three teenagers who asked if they could use the phone. He was put off by their general attitude, refused and close...
Erekose SE23 Topics 19 22,487 15-06-2010, 01:54 PM
  Thread: Songs Featuring Local Areas
Post: RE: Songs Featuring Local Areas

I seem to recall that carter also did 'The taking of Peckam 123'.
Erekose Wider Topics 23 26,616 27-05-2010, 09:46 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park

Teething troubles aside and having recovered from been cooked on a delayed train yesterday I can report that todays journey on the line formally known as the East London line was fine. Both ways. And ...
Erekose SE23 Topics 1,398 1,250,706 25-05-2010, 10:03 PM
  Thread: East London Line
Post: RE: East London Line

Hrm. I was stuck for ages on a very slow train from Shadwell at around 6:00 where the air con was not working...... we waited outside of NXG for around 10 minutes getting hotter and hotter....only a f...
Erekose Wider Topics 281 296,366 24-05-2010, 10:21 PM
  Thread: ELL Line to HOP: Will it boost house prices?
Post: RE: ELL Line to HOP: Will it boost house prices?

Yes baggydave that accords with my recollection of events. We moved to FH in 1988 at the peak of that boom and then spent several years sitting on a nice pile of negative equity.....
Erekose SE23 Topics 30 30,390 20-05-2010, 08:45 PM
  Thread: East London Line
Post: RE: East London Line

I tried the change at Canada Water going East last week one day at around 8:15 and it was 5 trains and 17 minutes later before I could elbow my way on. I wrote to TFL asking what forward planning they...
Erekose Wider Topics 281 296,366 13-05-2010, 09:59 PM
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