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Thread: Photographs of HOP
Post: RE: Photographs of HOP
| I've just seen these photos, has anyone else got any old photographs of Honor Oak Park.
I know the chippie in HOP as a larger collection in their shop. |
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01-12-2013, 07:25 PM |
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Thread: Whereabouts was this church in Dartmouth Road?
Post: Whereabouts was this church in Dartmouth Road?
| It's an old Wesley church, but was it the old church that used to be on the corner of Derby Hill? If so when was this church demolished?
I remember that style of steps, but not the gates.
http://... |
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29-12-2013, 06:43 PM |
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Thread: Sainsburys big freeze
Post: RE: Sainsburys big freeze
| But the heat is pouring out and working perfectly well if you enter via the rear entrance into the car park. |
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31-12-2013, 06:31 PM |
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Thread: Street scam - distressed woman asking for baby formula money
Post: RE: Street scam - distressed woman asking for baby...
| I came across her Christmas Eve in Catford Market. The line was, her baby had just died and she needed money for flowers for the funeral. I asked her when the funeral was, at first she said in a month... |
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31-12-2013, 06:53 PM |
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Thread: New Shops on Perry Vale
Post: RE: New Shops on Perry Vale
| A mini-mart appears to have opened. |
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31-12-2013, 06:56 PM |
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Thread: Internationally renowned storyteller Jan Blake to perform in SE23 on Saturday 8th Feb
Post: RE: Internationally renowned storyteller Jan Blake...
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02-01-2014, 08:40 AM |
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Thread: Whereabouts was this church in Dartmouth Road?
Post: RE: Whereabouts was this church in Dartmouth Road?
| Thanks, that's very interesting, however you are wrong about the Baptist church at the bottom of Derby Hill. That was demolished in 1977, I remember this myself as I used to pass it on my way to schoo... |
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15-01-2014, 08:19 PM |
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Thread: Sainsburys big freeze
Post: RE: Sainsburys big freeze
| I wish we could return to the time when hardly any shops were open on a Sunday.
That way ALL members of the family could sit around the table together on a Sunday. |
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28-01-2014, 07:44 PM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Women's Institute Meeting - Monday 3rd February 2014
Post: RE: Honor Oak Women's Institute Meeting - Monday 3...
| How often do these meetings take place and what other subjects/activities have the WI dealt with in the past?:) |
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01-02-2014, 05:33 PM |
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Thread: The Capitol to close
Post: RE: Capitol to close?
| For those who don't think a cinema is needed or will survive, remind us, how many cinemas are there in the borough?
If this goes ahead in Forest Hill, people will park in Sainsbury's. |
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27-10-2014, 07:50 PM |
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Thread: Lifts at Honor Oak Park station
Post: RE: Lifts at Honor Oak Park station
| Does anyone know if the lifts are working yet? |
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26-12-2014, 07:47 PM |
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Thread: HOP Recreation Ground to Become a Cemetery?
Post: RE: HOP Recreation Ground to Become a Cemetery?
| I understand there was a meeting earlier this month on the long term plans of HOP recreation ground. Does anyone know what proposals were put forward for the future of the park? Are they planning to t... |
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30-12-2014, 09:33 PM |
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Thread: Crofton Park Trains
Post: RE: Crofton Park Trains
| I agree, Southeastern trains on that route are amongst the dirtiest I have ever seen. |
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30-12-2014, 10:04 PM |
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Thread: Crofton Park Trains
Post: RE: Crofton Park Trains
| I dislike the fact that at Crofton Park there are only two trains an hour after 10.00 am. If a train is cancelled you've had it, especially if you're going to Luton Airport, even though you may leave ... |
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05-01-2015, 02:49 AM |
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Thread: Drain smell in Forest Hill
Post: RE: Drain smell in Forest Hill
| I have just walked down the stairs at HOP station where there were a few left over tiny balls of salt at the bottom of the stairs. I crushed a few, and can confirm that the fishy smell of ammonia come... |
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05-01-2015, 01:56 PM |
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Thread: HOP Recreation Ground to Become a Cemetery?
Post: RE: HOP Recreation Ground to Become a Cemetery?
| All they need to do is have a narrow pedestrian entrance in addition, which is separate from the main entrance. That way pedestrians won't get mowed down by traffic entering or exiting the cemetery. I... |
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13-01-2015, 10:23 PM |
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Thread: One bedroom wreck - Honor oak Park
Post: One bedroom wreck - Honor oak Park
| £280k for this, is the world going mad?
http://m.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/11806201.Is___280_000_for_a__one_bedroom_wreck__in_Honor_Oak_good_value_/ |
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27-02-2015, 05:19 PM |
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Thread: One bedroom wreck - Honor oak Park
Post: RE: One bedroom wreck - Honor oak Park
| There's always one. :rolleyes: |
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28-02-2015, 06:21 PM |
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Thread: Parliamentary Election Hustings
Post: RE: Parliamentary Election Hustings
| I'd love to vote TUSC but unless we get proportional representation it will seem a wasted vote. I will vote tactically,anything to stop the Tories gaining power. |
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27-04-2015, 09:10 PM |
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Thread: Sainsbury's Forest Hill - Sunday Opening Hours
Post: RE: Sainsbury's Forest Hill - Sunday Opening Hours
| Here in the UK, long gone are the days when you earn more working on a Sunday. At one time it was double time, or even time and a half. Now it's just normal pay and part of your normal contract. Anoth... |
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27-04-2015, 09:21 PM |
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Thread: Ice Cream Van Chimes
Post: RE: Ice Cream Van Chimes
| We had three within an hour last year going around Devonshire and Boveney road.
:angry:
Now I don't mind ice-cream vans, but everyone noticed they were far louder than they used to be, and too many ... |
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21-05-2015, 05:05 PM |
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Thread: Ice Cream Van Chimes
Post: RE: Ice Cream Van Chimes
| You can buy mini Cadbury's flakes especially for your ice-cream cornet, and you can buy Cornetto whipped soft ice-cream cones, or just traditional ice-cream from the freezer.:thumbsup:[/u] |
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21-05-2015, 10:06 PM |
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Thread: Swifts - locally extinct?
Post: RE: Swifts - locally extinct?
| We had Swifts for about 40 years, until 3 years ago when we had a plague of Starlings that got to their old nesting place a few weeks before them. We haven't seen them since.:( |
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22-05-2015, 04:20 PM |
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Thread: Swifts - locally extinct?
Post: RE: Swifts - locally extinct?
| Swifts usually make a shrieking noise as they fly. |
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23-05-2015, 10:50 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Photos
Post: RE: Forest Hill Photos
| Does anyone know if there are any plans for Steve Grindlay to give a talk about Forest Hill later this year? Has anyone been to these talks, which I believe are held in the library?
Also, wouldn't ... |
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23-05-2015, 01:33 PM |
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Thread: Dartmouth Road plans and Forest Lodge
Post: RE: Dartmouth Road plans and Forest Lodge
| If it is not illegal and no permit is required to park outside Forest Hill Lodge, what is there to stop anyone parking outside there?
Are there any notices to state 'Residents private parking only... |
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09-06-2015, 09:35 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Photos
Post: RE: Forest Hill Photos
| You may find this old thread and photos of old Forest Hill station of interest.
http://www.se23.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=422 |
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12-06-2015, 09:23 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Photos
Post: RE: Forest Hill Photos
| Does anyone remember when there used to be a toy shop in Honor Oak Park? |
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13-06-2015, 05:15 PM |
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Thread: Shaw Cottages and the Prince of Wales Pub
Post: RE: Shaw Cottages and the Prince of Wales Pub
| See this Amazon link for books. Scroll half way down the page and you will find a variety of books about Forest Hilll.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445634929/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_img?_encoding=UTF8&col... |
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13-06-2015, 06:13 PM |
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Thread: Motor Bike Maniac around Forest Hill
Post: Motor Bike Maniac around Forest Hill
| Just heard this idiot speeding around the streets of Forest Hill. This idiot will end up killing someone. Has anyone else heard or seen him? |
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22-08-2015, 09:45 PM |
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Thread: Motor Bike Maniac around Forest Hill
Post: RE: Motor Bike Maniac around Forest Hill
| Agreed, and there was no way this was a teenager's quad bike or low cc moped, this was a heavy duty bike which if there is an accident could inflict serious injuries or death, as a result of the power... |
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23-08-2015, 02:58 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Police Newsletter July 2015
Post: RE: Forest Hill Police Newsletter July 2015
| I second that, could our local police look into the following matter re. anti-social motorbike behaviour, as in following thread:
http://www.se23.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=11863 |
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23-08-2015, 03:05 PM |
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Thread: Loud street party near Honor Oak
Post: Loud street party near Honor Oak
| Been going on all afternoon still on now. Really loud, whose party is it and when will it stop? |
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29-08-2015, 08:26 PM |
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Thread: Dartmouth Tandoori to become Domino's Pizza?
Post: RE: Dartmouth Tandoori to become Domino's Pizza?
| Why did McDonalds disappear? |
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29-08-2015, 08:47 PM |
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Thread: Dartmouth Tandoori to become Domino's Pizza?
Post: RE: Dartmouth Tandoori to become Domino's Pizza?
| Oh, and there's no VAT on drugs right?:laugh: |
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29-08-2015, 09:11 PM |
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Thread: Loud street party near Honor Oak
Post: RE: Loud street party near Honor Oak
| No, it's because I haven't been invited!:cool: |
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29-08-2015, 09:14 PM |
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Thread: Burglaries in FH
Post: RE: Burglaries in FH
| Which area of Forest Hill were they in? |
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11-10-2015, 08:35 PM |
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Thread: The Capitol - anti-social behaviour
Post: RE: The Capitol - anti-social behaviour
| Re. The first post. Has anyone heard anymore about whether Witherspoon's are going to renew their lease or whether it is going to open as a cinema again? |
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10-11-2015, 05:49 PM |
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Thread: Local history question
Post: RE: Local history question
| It could have originally been a ladies and gents toilets. The reason being, there was a similar building in Brockley, opposite the Brockley Jack on the corner of Brockley Grove. That has now been conv... |
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23-11-2015, 10:05 PM |
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Thread: Toe-rag stole my Electric bike at FH pools.
Post: Toe-rag stole my Electric bike at FH pools.
| Yesterday at 9.37am, cctv caught a hoodie riding my bike towards FH station.
It's an Electric bike, very distinctive, but with a white basket on the front and a grey motor bike box on the back.
H... |
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18-12-2015, 12:03 PM |
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Thread: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
Post: RE: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
| I did a paper-round from the station newspaper kiosk in the 70s.
I remember the chunky old telephone kiosk with A & B coin boxes where as school kids we used to listen to 'dial a disc'.
Does anyone re... |
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13-01-2016, 11:48 PM |
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Thread: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
Post: RE: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
| What an incredible story. :ohmy:
I know there used to be fast trains from London Bridge, but I was unfamiliar with the middle platform.
Can you remember when that middle platform was demolished becaus... |
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14-01-2016, 08:30 PM |
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Thread: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
Post: RE: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
| So when was that middle platform demolished? |
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15-01-2016, 01:59 PM |
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Thread: The Capitol to close
Post: RE: Capitol to close?
| Since this is officially now the case, let's hope that whoever purchases it returns it back to its former glory as a cinema.
As long as a developer doesn't get hold of it and turn it into luxury f... |
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19-05-2016, 04:25 PM |
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Thread: Red marking outside house
Post: RE: Red marking outside house
| It makes me mad when leaflet distributers leave leaflets hanging half way through the letter box. This is a gift to burglars that you are out all day.
What do they think a post box is for? |
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18-07-2016, 11:22 PM |
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Thread: Avoid Devonshire Road - Road Closed
Post: RE: Avoid Devonshire Road - Road Closed
| Especially as no lorries are going through there and using it as a rat run from Forest hill to Honor oak park station. |
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22-07-2016, 07:33 AM |
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Thread: Avoid Devonshire Road - Road Closed
Post: RE: Avoid Devonshire Road - Road Closed
| What were they doing, just re-surfacing the road, or making the junction smaller to prevent two cars lining up at the edge of the junction to turn left or right?
If that is the case it will be even ... |
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23-07-2016, 07:41 AM |
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Thread: Avoid Devonshire Road - Road Closed
Post: RE: Avoid Devonshire Road - Road Closed
| Devonshire road is totally unsuitable for large lorries, even more so now that parked cars either side are not allowed to park on the pavement. I wish it wasn't used as a rat run. |
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23-07-2016, 07:30 PM |
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Thread: Train Disruption Due to Sinkhole on Track
Post: RE: Train Disruption Due to Sinkhole on Track
| I can't believe it's a sewer, why have a sewer so high up on a railway? :confused:
I wonder if it's the old subway where you had to walk from the old middle platform?
The middle platform and subway ... |
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04-08-2016, 06:25 PM |
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Thread: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
Post: RE: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
| The BBC had a report on its local news yesterday. Collage, a London archive company have added more photos of old London, which are available online. There are 8 of Forest Hill station in this link. T... |
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12-08-2016, 12:22 PM |
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