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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Interfaith Walk for Peace
Post: RE: Interfaith Walk for Peace
| This walk is a great idea. I've always wanted to ask questions about other faiths and have the opportunity to visit where others worship, and discuss these faiths.
What a wonderful opportunity.
When... |
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13-08-2016, 02:05 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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Thread: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
Post: RE: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
| Type out 'Forest Hil' and 182 photos appear, see this link.
http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/quick-search?q=Forest%20hill%20&WINID=1471001712585 |
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12-08-2016, 12:36 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.
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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: 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 History Of Forest Hill Station
Post: RE: The History Of Forest Hill Station
| There used to be a Wimpy's two doors past Sainsbury's, where The Teapot now is.
I also remember the green grocers, called Vickers. They were opposite Armstrong solicitors. |
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23-01-2017, 07:52 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: 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: Loud Biker Boveney Rd
Post: RE: Loud Biker Boveney Rd
| It's several times throughout the day. Isn't it illegal to take the silencer off the bike, hence the dreadful noise?
The noise is similar to a car with a broken exhaust. |
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06-02-2017, 06:06 PM |
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Thread: Loud Biker Boveney Rd
Post: Loud Biker Boveney Rd
| Has anyone else heard this loud biker? Every night or a couple of times every night the noise is unbelievable. It really spoils such a quiet family road. |
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10-01-2017, 06:47 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: 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: First time buyer - Greystead Road Flats...
Post: RE: First time buyer - Greystead Road Flats...
| Watch out for the service charges. It maybe ok for now, but if the council plan to do any extensive work on the block, as a private tenant you could end up paying thousands as your contribution toward... |
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16-04-2017, 04:15 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: 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: 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: Devonshire Road "spooky" house new residents?
Post: RE: Devonshire Road "spooky" house new residents?
| A quick google showed the following auction details.
http://www.auction.co.uk/residential/LotDetails.asp?A=969&MP=84&ID=969000139 |
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07-05-2018, 10:12 AM |
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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: 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: 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: 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: History of Forest Hill - 25th March
Post: RE: History of Forest Hill - 25th March
| Does anyone know if Steve will be giving any more talks on the 'History of Forest Hill?' He appears to do this at a local venue each year. |
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28-01-2017, 07:51 PM |
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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: History of Forest Hill - 25th March
Post: RE: History of Forest Hill - 25th March
| Does anyone know if Steve will be giving any more talks on the 'History of Forest Hill?' He appears to do this at a local venue each year. |
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18-08-2016, 10:09 PM |
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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: 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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