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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Pool pragmatism
| But of course the suggestion that any new pool will most certainly be 'a featureless/anodyne box' isn't arrogantly dismissive in any way at all, oh no no no. |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Wow, you really are comparing Forest Hill Pool with the Bankside Power Station there, aren't you?
I mean, WOW. |
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25-03-2008, 12:06 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| We received eight leaflets for six flats some time last week. |
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22-07-2008, 10:53 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| I found the STFOFH petition person at the station the other night rather annoying, to be honest, suggesting that everything I said actually amounted to support for her position, when it really didn't.... |
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17-09-2008, 01:58 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Decisions are made by those who show up. Elevating the opinions of those who didn't over the opinions of those who did is a route to anarchy. |
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20-02-2009, 02:53 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Quite right, Roz.
I warned people at the time to be careful what they wished for. As ye sow... |
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04-03-2009, 02:15 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| The listing of Louise House is not a red herring, because it meant that for many months the campaign focused on the ridiculous moon-on-a-stick demand to keep new modern pools within those buildings, o... |
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05-03-2009, 03:04 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| I think the idea that 'all views were welcome' in groups like SFFH is laughable, frankly. Imagine going into a meeting and saying 'I think the best way to save the face of Forest Hill is to demolish t... |
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15-03-2009, 11:12 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Electorates are particularly unlikely to think like that if pressure groups paint the politicians as having no dilemmas at all, but merely as rapacious buffoons who want to drive their steamroller ove... |
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23-03-2009, 04:52 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Sniffer, gingernuts et al, sooner or later you have to realise you can't always get what you want. Specifically, the moon on a stick demands for
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[*]Brilliant pools
[*]On the existing site
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01-04-2009, 06:09 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Gingernuts, I'm afraid it's childish to complain about Sydenham getting money for street upkeep. Is everything else everywhere else to go on hold until we get our (architecturally stunning, dead cheap... |
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01-04-2009, 07:03 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| But kipya, the huffin' and puffin' on here last year wasn't because the council didn't want to build a pool, it was because they did. Were they to know that the community would have such an odd reacti... |
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02-04-2009, 12:26 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Also known as another minute in a car and an entire two more stops on a bus.
Of course, under the vile Bullock's Forest Hill hating campaign, everyone will be forced to walk to the pool and the use... |
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08-04-2009, 12:29 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Just like SFFH skewed its consultation in in favour of retaining the old building and KSIFH skews its petition by not being named honestly. Keep Swimming In One Bit Of Forest Hill In One Existing Buil... |
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08-04-2009, 03:19 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| The Horniman Triangle? Now there's a good site for a pool...[runs away];) |
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09-04-2009, 12:15 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| It would also be if others were hassled into agreeing to sign it despite similar reservations, which I have no doubt happened. |
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09-04-2009, 12:56 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| "Why not sign to make this person go away from me, given that petitions are generally meaningless and half the people on it are probably 'M. Mouse, 38 Disney St, SE23'", yes.
We've already had some... |
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09-04-2009, 01:24 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Satchers, I really don't understand. The public rejected Dartmouth Road last year, the council is offering something other than Dartmouth Road and being lambasted for not listening. Eh? They can't win... |
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02-04-2009, 01:01 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| SFFH was dishonest because the frankly extremely unpleasant volunteer who engaged me outside the station one day insisted that I should sign her petition even though I disagreed with her aims, her met... |
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08-04-2009, 09:53 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Michael.
Journey planning on TFL states that it takes 6 minutes to walk from Boots to the station. No, really, it does. Obviously that's an anomaly, but I generally find its walking times overstated.... |
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09-04-2009, 12:35 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Steve,
That post has made me really angry. Posters are claiming that volunteers, possibly the same one, have been unpleasant to them because they didn't agree, and your automatic reaction is to be o... |
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10-04-2009, 03:15 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Piloti returns to the pools issue in the new Private Eye, pursuing the 'it's old, therefore I like it' line that regular readers of his column will know very well. Third time in four issues he's been ... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Brian,
I've tried to ignore you for a while, but 'Reimposing apartheid' is shameful. |
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27-04-2009, 12:37 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| But responding to surveys might not be... |
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27-04-2009, 12:58 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| And why is it shameful? Because comparing an inoffensive question in a questionnaire, which it is entirely his right not to answer, to a system which directly denied democratic rights to 80-odd percen... |
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27-04-2009, 01:03 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Michael,
The insults have to stop. That woman was rude to me. Live with it. |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Sniffer,
I was replying directly to a needless carp at me from Michael.
And I don't particularly support Willow Way, I just don't like the attachment to the old pool frontage, and don't think it's... |
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29-04-2009, 04:15 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| It is your right to do so, Brian. In fact, most issuers expect a fair number of people not to fill in these sections and understand when they do. Leaping to words like 'Apartheid' and 'disgrace' is no... |
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27-04-2009, 02:54 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| I like watching everyone cram onto the 1820 while sitting in space and luxury on the 1824.
Still doesn't make up for the loss of the 1825, mind. |
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28-01-2009, 01:39 AM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| I'll be sure to look out my back window early morning and update you all. I was about to post that there were no trains so don't bother setting off this morning, but didn't want to take the responsibi... |
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02-02-2009, 10:22 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| Snow has stopped and the thaw is definitely on. The rails are visible at the down end of FH station, which they haven't been since about this time yesterday. I wouldn't give up hope/get your hopes up ... |
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02-02-2009, 11:08 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| Still exists with a separate station code on the enquiries website, station signs still say Waterloo East. |
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19-08-2009, 12:01 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak
| I'm not entirely sure that saying 'open Cannon Street in the late evening so that Southeastern services can go in there rather than into Charing X' is the best argument to support the fact that a late... |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak
| I'm also not shedding too many tears for the end of the bleak wait on platform 5. Better to wait on a train, or at least not on a wind tunnel platform with a bunch of drunken oafs from Scumhole-on-Sea... |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
| There were Overground trains running at what looked like an 8tph+ service on the line yesterday, busy busy busy. |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
| Ah, that's why it was so full this morning. I was in the front carriage so couldn't see.
Also: PEOPLE OF BROCKLEY! If the train is full, shouting at the people on it is not going to make it any emp... |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
| I said the train was full. |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
| The 23 May date has been the official opening for months, hasn't it? Not really a delay. The live testing bit between NXG and Dalston was only ever unofficial. No? So nothing to get upset about? |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
| I too was on the 0842/0844, and the platform at FH was certainly quite full when I got on. I think the loss of the 0835 (oh, the lovely, lovely 0835) will be felt quite strongly here.
By the way, t... |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
| Hmmm, something to do with the Southeastern services that stop there, perhaps. |
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24-05-2010, 11:43 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
| Well there's an example just outside of SE23, where the stations are much closer, so thankfully you don't have to think too hard. |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
| On the 0857 yesterday, and I had a four-set with table to myself when I got on at FH. Still had it to myself when I got off at LB. Weird. |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
| Though I can see the platforms at LB if I stand up at my desk, I decided to go Jubilee-Overground home last night, just to try it out. I was leaving the office at about 18.02, so might not have made t... |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
| I'll miss the 1824. By far the most pleasant train home. Because there was never anyone on it. Couldn't last. |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
| No service AGAIN this weekend. Will this be the third Sunday running? Catford Bridge line off too. Pretty shoddy if you ask me. |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Apologies for the inconvenience
| The coffee-stand gate on the main side has been closed the last two mornings as well. Though there are a couple of loose flags there. |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Apologies for the inconvenience
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Does FH has ticket barriers? I am considering moving to FH and have a Zone 1-2 season ticket, will I need to get the Zone 3 upgrade?
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Yes, because we don't appreciate thef... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Access to Forest Hill station
| Of course, the closures of these gates last year were just 'routine maintenance, weren't they?' |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Access to Forest Hill station
| Will the station be manned until end of service once the gates are installed? Because if not, then there's no change to the vulnerability to dodging, it just inconveniences the ordinary passenger.
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Access to Forest Hill station
| [quote=michael]
If you do wish to email Southern Railways about this issue: comments@southernrailway.com. You may also wish to include our London Assembly Member, Len - Len.duvall@london.gov.uk, or ... |
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