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Thread: Where do local primary kids go on to, on whole?
Post: RE: Where do local primary kids go on to, on whole...
| Lord Harris is the Chairman of Carpetright plc, close friend of David Cameron and substantial donor to the Tory Party, so I guess he insists on his schools ran as if they were businesses.
Do parents ... |
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13-03-2013, 08:31 PM |
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Thread: Front Driveways
Post: RE: Front Driveways
| The planning portal website seems to make the rules quite clear, but lots of people just don't understand the reasons for having proper drainage into the subsoil.
Yes a concrete block driveway looks ... |
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12-03-2013, 11:59 AM |
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Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: Pubs
| Thanks, [b]mg monkey[/b], for that comprehensive review!
So when do you get time to write so much if you're always in the pub?
Oh I know, you do it IN the pub.
So that's another thing we need to... |
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10-03-2013, 02:28 PM |
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Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: Pubs
| Thanks Jane 2 for putting in the link -I wasn't sure how to do that!
Yes Catford Bridge Tavern (not in SE23!) seems to be doing well and sunday roasts are basic but good quality and value. A real fa... |
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09-03-2013, 03:36 PM |
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Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: Pub guide to SE23
| Thanks for starting the local pub guide: just what we need now the weather is warming up - NOT!
Have a look at this posting in the [u]Trading Post [/u]Section started originally about the Honor Oak p... |
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08-03-2013, 12:50 PM |
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Thread: GP appointment waiting times
Post: RE: GP appointment waiting times
| At the Jenner Practice, where I have been a patient for many years, you can generally get an appointment within 48 hours (I believe that this is a NHS requirement of any group practice of GPs).
You... |
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05-03-2013, 06:52 PM |
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Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: The Honor Oak pub. How is it doing?
| Thanks for your comments.
Yes Erekose, it is sad that such a pleasant place as The Honor Oak once was, has had such a "Decline and Fall".
I do hope that it stays in business as we all need these... |
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19-02-2013, 05:24 PM |
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Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: The Honor Oak pub. How is it doing?
| The pub had new management last December and a new exterior repair and paint job (the colour is called "industrial grime" I believe, apparently popular in East Dulwich for pub frontages!)
It always l... |
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16-02-2013, 06:54 PM |
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Thread: Where do local primary kids go on to, on whole?
Post: RE: Where do local primary kids go on to, on whole...
| A very sensible balanced response from Perryman.
Assuming that you are not in the big money for St Dunstans (£14,061 per year, mutiply that by 5 or 7 years), then there is quite a baffling choice.
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14-02-2013, 03:44 PM |
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Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham Hospital A&E to close?
| Well done Mayor Steve!
I am sure legal challenges to the government don't come cheap but if every person in Lewisham (population around 250,0000) put in a couple of quid then [b]we could have a fun... |
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08-02-2013, 09:57 PM |
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Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham Hospital A&E to close?
| Agree with you Tim.
Lord Darzi and Dame Joan were talking about quite different issues, and I could agree with them both!
Joan made some good points about Lewisham Hospital. |
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27-01-2013, 08:15 PM |
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Thread: Old HOP photos
Post: RE: Old HOP photos
| You can research old photos in the the Lewisham local History Library, on the top floor of Lewisham Library, and you can order copies of them.
There are several books by John Coulter and others (John... |
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18-01-2013, 04:33 PM |
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Thread: Hanging pictures
Post: RE: Hanging pictures
| I will assume that
a) you don't have picture rails,
b) the precious walls are papered or beautifully painted,
c) you want to hang pictures rather than posters or prints.
My only suggestion is to... |
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31-12-2012, 04:57 PM |
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Thread: Estate Agents for SE23/SE22 border
Post: Estate Agents for SE23/SE22 border
| I am looking for valuations on a property that is on the "Forest Hill" end of Lordship Lane, not far from the Grove Tavern.
As some of the Lordship Lane agents seem to be too busy to even pick up t... |
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20-09-2012, 08:55 PM |
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Thread: Tips on tips?
Post: RE: Tips on tips?
| Hardcore (rubble, not the other sort!) is difficult to get rid of legally, and the Lewisham depot will send you away with it and ask you to go to a contractor nearby who will charge you by weight, wei... |
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07-05-2012, 05:13 PM |
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Thread: need to get a new TV- advice sought!
Post: RE: need to get a new TV- advice sought!
| 1. Do lots of research: tedious and time consuming, but it's worth understanding the jargon. LED sets tend to be the lowest energy consumption. Don't bother with plasma sets.
2. Don't buy from Sain... |
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15-03-2012, 04:31 PM |
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Thread: Moving back to the area - schools
Post: RE: Moving back to the area - schools
| Sorry, rshdunlop, don't follow your previous remark that [b]"LEAs don't exist anymore"[/b].
Did you mean that the [b]ILEA[/b] (Inner London Education Authority) doesn't exist anymore (Maggie Thatch... |
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derbybill |
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13-03-2012, 03:07 PM |
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Thread: Post Problems
Post: RE: Post Problems
| FHMonkey
Many, many years ago (before e-mail was invented!) I experienced missing post over a period of 3 months or so. I was concerned about missing bills, then missing the reminders and then getti... |
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09-03-2012, 04:42 PM |
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Thread: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
Post: RE: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
| jgdoherty
Keep up the good work, I am pleased that someone is watching out for wheelchair users. Putting lamposts in the middle of the pavement seems utterly daft to me.
On the subject of disab... |
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08-03-2012, 02:04 PM |
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Thread: A Levels At Home
Post: RE: A Levels At Home
| Your son would need to look up where he could take the exams in the relevant A-levels - maybe his current school/6th form would be willing to provide for him as a "private candidate", for which the sc... |
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07-03-2012, 05:12 PM |
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Thread: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
Post: RE: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
| Thanks for the detailed info. I wondered what all these yellow marks were on manhole covers etc.
I hope mgmonkey is going to complain about a street light being installed inside the front garden: h... |
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06-03-2012, 03:27 PM |
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Thread: Urban foxes?
Post: RE: Urban foxes?
| Foxes are everwhere in these parts if you are out after dark. I have had them walking along with me on the pavement!
I have had cute fox cubs frolicking in my back garden (aaaaaahh..), foxes sunba... |
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21-02-2012, 12:46 PM |
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Thread: Incident in Stanstead Road 19-02-2012
Post: RE: Police in Stanstead Road
| Traffic flowing as normal now and bus routes restored. |
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20-02-2012, 05:14 PM |
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Thread: Incident in Stanstead Road 19-02-2012
Post: RE: Police in Stanstead Road
| BBC London News website now carries the full story, and it was on the 2pm BBC Radio 4 News.
Don't carry knives! |
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19-02-2012, 03:11 PM |
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Thread: Albion Millennium Green
Post: RE: Albion Millennium Green
| Thanks for the info. Great to see that things are happening there. I will try and visit sometime as the my late mother was a very active member of the Tennis Club there, many many years ago. |
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19-02-2012, 02:11 PM |
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Thread: Incident in Stanstead Road 19-02-2012
Post: RE: Police in Stanstead Road
| [b]BBC London Travel News website says:[/b]
A205 London - A205 Stansted Road (South Circular Road) in Honor Oak Park closed in both directions between the B218 Brockley Rise junction and the A212 C... |
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19-02-2012, 01:33 PM |
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Thread: Crofton Park Assembly Sat 4 Feb
Post: Crofton Park Assembly Sat 4 Feb
| [b]Saturday 4th February, 1.30 - 3pm, St Hilda's Church Hall, junc. of Brockley Rise and Courtrai Road[/b]
Public Meeting open to anyone who lives/works/studies in the Crofton Park ward area.
Agend... |
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03-02-2012, 02:41 PM |
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Thread: Cold Spell
Post: RE: Cold Spell
| But if you really want to do some "cold calling" (get it?) then don't do it after dark and remember to take a big bar of chocolate with you.
And perhaps a shovel and broom to clear the snow off the p... |
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03-02-2012, 02:27 PM |
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Thread: Recycling in Lewisham
Post: RE: Recycling in Lewisham
| Thanks, Cllr Wise for the update.
Since you do not mention [u]expanded[/u] polystyrene, the white packing material much used for fragile electronic equipment, then can we assume that it should be put... |
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21-01-2012, 06:08 PM |
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Thread: Power cut in HOP 2nd Jan 2012
Post: RE: Power cut in HOP last night
| If it was planned it would have probably been during daylight hours, not at 4 am.
I reckon it was only for 4 or 5 minutes.
Perhaps something to do with the very high winds last night? |
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03-01-2012, 11:49 AM |
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Thread: What would perfect Forest Hill?
Post: RE: What would perfect Forest Hill?
| Like the idea of the town square around the station, as the station is very much the reason why Forest Hill actually exists at all: it was the railway that came first, then the houses.
What's really ... |
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30-12-2011, 04:10 PM |
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Thread: clear candle 6v 2.4w christmas light bulb
Post: RE: clear candle 6v 2.4w christmas light bulb
| Try Maplins, opposite the Railway Telegraph Pub on the South Circular |
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23-12-2011, 04:14 PM |
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Thread: Car air conditioning
Post: RE: Car air conditioning
| Try Ichthus Motors, opposite Dalmain School in Brockley Rise.
They did a good job on my elderly Peugeot.
There's usually a fixed price for an aircon service that includes the fluid, so ask them. A... |
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22-12-2011, 12:55 PM |
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Thread: One Tree Hill
Post: RE: One Tree Hill
| Humble apologies to dbboy and of course you are most welcome sydenhamcentral in Honor Oak!
Sorry!
Blythe Hill Fields has also got great views. |
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19-12-2011, 08:25 PM |
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Thread: One Tree Hill
Post: RE: One Tree Hill
| Sorry, dbboy, but if you want to come and live in these parts then please be aware we spell it[b] Honor[/b] Oak and not in the way that you have used.
Origin of the reason for the spelling is uncerta... |
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18-12-2011, 07:52 PM |
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Thread: Man Digs Pond
Post: RE: Man Digs Pond
| Presume this is some sort of performance art.
Questions:
Will the Man get suitable refreshment and comfort breaks?
Is any heavy machinery (eg JCB) involved?
What will happen to all the soil dug ou... |
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derbybill |
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07-10-2011, 03:20 PM |
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Thread: Vermin on rampage again
Post: RE: Vermin on rampage again
| Sassy said (28th March: [i]"Those that caused the trouble were nowhere near the main group, because they had no interest in cuts in government spending, they were there to cause as much mayhem as poss... |
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30-03-2011, 07:24 PM |
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Thread: Vermin on rampage again
Post: RE: Vermin on rampage again
| Following Saturday's demo, 149 people have been charged so far and no doubt there will be many more charged from the cctv and photographic evidence.
Free speech is OK but it doesn't give the right ... |
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28-03-2011, 11:56 AM |
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Thread: Dropped kerb enforcement - Lewisham
Post: RE: Dropped kerb enforcement - Lewisham
| But please don't try painting white lines across the driveway as only the Council can do that (not that it has any legal status, it's just to remind potential parkers).
Apparently people have been pr... |
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08-03-2011, 07:05 PM |
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Thread: Dropped kerb enforcement - Lewisham
Post: RE: Dropped kerb enforcement - Lewisham
| Ehegarty: as you clearly live near FH station then all I can do is sympathise. There has been an increasing problem of parking in the streets around Honor Oak Park station since the Overground servic... |
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08-03-2011, 06:59 PM |
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Thread: Check out Jim Dowd MP's new website
Post: RE: Check out Jim Dowd MP's new website
| Labour candidate for Bellingham Ward of Lewisham Council has been selected: see
http://www.lewishamlabour.co.uk |
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20-02-2011, 01:48 PM |
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Thread: Feed me to the sharks!
Post: RE: Feed me to the sharks!
| No, I don't think we want "sky burials" in Forest Hill: too many foxes around!
Cremation is ok and used by 70% of the population, but we ought to be looking at heat recovery methods and try and mak... |
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20-02-2011, 01:41 PM |
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Thread: I will one day!
Post: RE: I will one day!
| Re the big Building in Waldram Place, now a MOT testing station.
Yes I think you are probably right saying that it was for the electricity supply for the trams. Not a power station generating elec... |
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19-02-2011, 07:25 PM |
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Thread: lewisham Libraries Read-in 5th February
Post: RE: lewisham Libraries Read-in 5th February
| I'm not surprised the LibDem councillors kept quiet. They should be ashamed of what their Coalition is doing.
And today Nick Clegg is banging on about the Alternative Vote referendum, that will le... |
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18-02-2011, 06:56 PM |
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Thread: I will one day!
Post: RE: I will one day!
| Lovely clear picture of the 58 on its way to the Blackwall Tunnel. Thanks!
I also happen to have a copy of "Round & About London by Tram, by Charles G. Harper, Vol II South of the Thames, 2nd edition... |
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15-02-2011, 08:49 PM |
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Thread: I will one day!
Post: RE: I will one day!
| If you want a good starting point for local tram information, then I can recommend
South London Tramways 1933-52, by Robert J Harley, published by Middleton Press 2006,
ISBN 1 90447489 6.
I spotte... |
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15-02-2011, 05:25 PM |
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Thread: Consultation on Kilmorie school becoming three form entry school
Post: RE: Consultation on Kilmorie school becoming three...
| Well said roz.
I would never want to risk any child's future in a "free school".
Unqualified teachers, no curriculum guidelines, any old admission policies. A total waste of precious education fund... |
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08-02-2011, 10:19 PM |
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Thread: Scams
Post: RE: Scams
| Oops!
Sorry, forgot the "uk" bit.
Try again: http://www.tpsonline.org.uk |
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29-01-2011, 05:40 PM |
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Thread: Scams
Post: RE: Scams
| Following up on baggydaves post, if you don't want your evenings spoilt by unwanted sales phone calls, then go to www.tpsonline.org and register yourself. It takes less than five minutes.
It's illeg... |
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29-01-2011, 05:35 PM |
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Thread: Brockley Rise accident 25/1/11
Post: RE: Brockley Rise accident tonight
| Thanks for the info Jane2.
I also use that crossing. Fine if the lollipop man is there, but it often takes a while before you get noticed by passing traffic. I prefer to cross by St Saviour's churc... |
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