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  Thread: Restaurants in SE London
Post: RE: Restaurants in SE London

There appeared to be people doing things inside the pub formerley known as the Catford Bridge Tavern yesterday. There have also fitted bollards (of a kind) in the pub parking spaces? Anybody kno...
mgmonkey Wider Topics 34 29,285 14-11-2014, 04:58 PM
  Thread: Pub opening hours on Christmas Day
Post: RE: Pub opening hours on Christmas Day

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/pubs-to-trial-professional-lanes-2013122082253
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 6 9,761 20-12-2013, 06:41 PM
  Thread: Catford Bridge Tavern No More, (Again)
Post: RE: Catford Bridge Tavern No More, (Again)

Hope they are just as reasonable with their beer prices!
mgmonkey Wider Topics 6 8,047 21-08-2013, 06:21 PM
  Thread: ADT security consultants cold calling
Post: RE: Bogus 'security' consultants cold calling?

I had a visit a while back and told them straight away that I was not interested, to which they started to question why, which just got me rialled. Have since bought a No cold callers, junk mail,...
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 50 51,446 21-08-2013, 01:22 PM
  Thread: Street drinkers outside Paddy Power
Post: RE: Street drinkers outside Paddy Power

http://www.se23.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=7443 This chap by any chance?
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 9 13,358 08-08-2013, 09:25 AM
  Thread: Lamppost misplacement
Post: RE: Lamppost misplacement

http://www.se23.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=5957 Names and numbers can be found on this thread which I started when I had a misplacing problem.
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 11 16,380 08-08-2013, 09:18 AM
  Thread: Catford Bridge Tavern No More, (Again)
Post: RE: Catford Bridge Tavern No More, (Again)

Word is this is the company taking over. http://www.camdenbars.com/ As long as they don't change anything it might be ok... Or it might go a bit too "trendy Wendy". I'd imagine it will be mo...
mgmonkey Wider Topics 6 8,047 01-08-2013, 02:07 PM
  Thread: Catford Bridge Tavern No More, (Again)
Post: Catford Bridge Tavern No More, (Again)

Horrible News The CBT have just updated their Facebook page with the news they are definitely to close. No idea of timescale yet though, "could be tomorrow, could be a few weeks". The reason gi...
mgmonkey Wider Topics 6 8,047 31-07-2013, 02:31 PM
  Thread: Local(ish) News
Post: Local(ish) News

http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2013/07/16/daily-mail-panic-alert-fox-panics-man-having-apoo/
mgmonkey Wider Topics 0 2,473 16-07-2013, 08:53 PM
  Thread: Planning: 2-4 London Road FH (Launderette)
Post: RE: 2-4 LONDON ROAD (launderette) for sale

Is it time for Foxtons or Cafe Nero to arrive and stomp their big feet around the place? I recall leaving East Dulwich on the same day Foxtons arrived. It felt like the right time to leave.
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 156 138,435 11-06-2013, 04:13 PM
  Thread: Is this your cat?
Post: RE: Is this your cat?

Wow, "Ginger" looks exactly like our cat.
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 8 6,746 22-05-2013, 10:48 AM
  Thread: Ginger Puss with a pink nose
Post: RE: Ginger Puss with a pink nose

Phew, can't be ours then. I saw a ginger cat today at the junction of Colfe Road and Farren Road with a red collar. I often see one a little further up Farren Road on the left as you walk up sat ...
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 8 8,192 15-05-2013, 09:31 PM
  Thread: Ginger Puss with a pink nose
Post: RE: Ginger Puss with a pink nose

So we can rule out ours, which road are you on? I know there are a few gingers about.
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 8 8,192 15-05-2013, 09:04 PM
  Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: Local businesses

Beer gardens near Stanstead Road? The Blythe Hill Tavern has a lovely garden at this time of year. Flowers blooming all over the place. Then it would have to be All Inn One, although the sun is...
mgmonkey Wider Topics 301 213,646 23-04-2013, 02:50 PM
  Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English

oops, sorry :unsure:
mgmonkey Wider Topics 587 486,654 09-03-2013, 09:12 PM
  Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: Pubs

In SE23 Sylvan Post - Favourite range of beers, good food and staff, an easier quiz than that of The Hob or All Inn One. All Inn One - Best Sunday Roast in SE23. Good staff. Best place to go in th...
mgmonkey Wider Topics 301 213,646 09-03-2013, 09:00 PM
  Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English

I was one of the two "Anyhoo" users. I probably picked it up of some American telly programme or film. I think the use for it is when you are aware you are rambling or going off subject and maybe ...
mgmonkey Wider Topics 587 486,654 09-03-2013, 08:19 PM
  Thread: What is that smell??
Post: RE: What is that smell??

I smell it at 8:15am, when waiting for a train. Would Jolly Bee be frying fish at that time?
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 12 12,064 11-01-2013, 10:49 AM
  Thread: Stray (?) white and black cat, Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Stray (?) white and black cat, Honor Oak Park

Perhaps a microchip recognising catflap may be more quickly to lock? We have 3 or 4 cats that like to try to hassle our two, but they have yet to end up in the house, but have often been seen headbu...
mgmonkey Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 4 5,866 09-01-2013, 01:23 PM
  Thread: Looking for a 2 bedroom property to rent
Post: RE: Looking for a 2 bedroom property to rent

Hello As someone born and bred in Reading and that managed to escape a few years ago I would recommend that you will get much more for your money in Forest Hill. I guess it depends on your age a...
mgmonkey Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 2 4,013 08-01-2013, 05:31 PM
  Thread: What is that smell??
Post: RE: What is that smell??

This smell is still about. When waiting on platform two in the mornings it can make me feel a bit sick. Smell like really greasy stinky fried fish. I think it may be coming from or near to th...
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 12 12,064 04-01-2013, 03:17 PM
  Thread: Catford Bridge Tavern to become retail units?
Post: RE: Catford Bridge Tavern to become retail units?

Big news imminent according to their Facebook page! :D:thumbsup:
mgmonkey Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 15 14,819 05-12-2012, 02:36 PM
  Thread: Catford Bridge Tavern to become retail units?
Post: RE: Catford Bridge Tavern to become retail units?

The fight continues! https://twitter.com/catfordtavern http://www.facebook.com/catfordbridgetavern?fref=ts&rf=380256768671087 :thumbsup:
mgmonkey Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 15 14,819 02-12-2012, 09:42 PM
  Thread: Catford Bridge Tavern to become retail units?
Post: RE: Catford Bridge Tavern to become retail units?

Not sure why this thread has been moved away from the discussions of the Wider Area threads? Surely it's along the same lines as St Davids Coffee House nearly closing, but just outside of SE23 as o...
mgmonkey Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 15 14,819 27-11-2012, 11:17 AM
  Thread: Catford Bridge Tavern to become retail units?
Post: RE: Catford Bridge Tavern to become retail units?

If I have to go long without some draught Kernal Brewery Pale Ale I may lose the will to live. In the interim I have asked if The Sylvan Post can get some in, otherwise I will have to make do with ...
mgmonkey Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 15 14,819 22-11-2012, 11:02 AM
  Thread: Cinemas
Post: RE: Cinemas

A bit out there, but I have on occassion gon to Rich Mix across from Shoreditch station up on the East London Line. Well priced tickets and snacks and the kind of audience who don't make lots of nois...
mgmonkey Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 20 19,960 19-11-2012, 04:33 PM
  Thread: Antisocial Behaviour in Codrington Hill and Brockley Rise
Post: RE: Antisocial Behaviour in Codrington Hill and Br...

Imagine just how many of these young families moving into the area will have bored teenagers in a few years.
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 8 11,122 07-11-2012, 05:20 PM
  Thread: Antisocial Behaviour in Codrington Hill and Brockley Rise
Post: RE: Antisocial Behaviour in Codrington Hill and Br...

As a grown man of 40+ I must say this terrible, but the 13 year old side of me remembers doing the same stuff and can commend them on picking a good vantage pont. Mini Rockets can be easily aimed a...
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 8 11,122 02-11-2012, 05:08 PM
  Thread: Harassment by male in London Road area
Post: RE: Harassment by male in London Road area

Whilst sitting in The Sylvan Post, I think I have seen the same guy hassling people outside Paddy Power on Dartmouth Road. He then came into The Sylvan asking for stuff and swearing. From what I g...
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 19 19,793 01-10-2012, 04:30 PM
  Thread: Who can fix my flooded basement!?!?
Post: Who can fix my flooded basement!?!?

Hello My basement seems to have accumulated about 100 lites of water, which I have scooped out, but it now seems to be accumulating more water. I am assuming it must be a build up from the weeks...
mgmonkey Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 1,973 28-05-2012, 06:13 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Food Fair
Post: RE: Forest Hill Food Fair

How about pitching them along Havelock Walk? Too small? Never seems to be much traffic coming in and out?
mgmonkey Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 28 27,972 24-04-2012, 12:31 PM
  Thread: Recycling Rubbish Inspection
Post: RE: Recycling Rubbish Inspection

Yep, saw a couple of people doing this on Colfe Road last week. I guess they need to see if people are managing to put their brains into gear or not and recylce properly.
mgmonkey Wider Topics 18 17,206 21-03-2012, 05:03 PM
  Thread: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
Post: RE: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights

I am glad to report that following my inital email, I contacted Lewisham council using an email address I found on their website and the offending post was moved to a correct position within two days!...
mgmonkey Wider Topics 128 127,344 12-03-2012, 02:40 PM
  Thread: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
Post: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights

Hello Does anyone know which department I need to contact at Lewisham Council regarding the new lamp post that appear to be planned for much of the postcode, (you may have seen yellow spray painted n...
mgmonkey Wider Topics 128 127,344 05-03-2012, 07:25 PM
  Thread: Incident in Stanstead Road 19-02-2012
Post: RE: Police in Stanstead Road

In light of last years Mark Duggen incident and following riots, they can take as long as they like to dot their I's and cross their T's.
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 63 74,993 20-02-2012, 05:13 PM
  Thread: Buying in HOP
Post: RE: Buying in HOP

Hello Here's an old thread regarding the next road down Duncombe Hill, which at the time I now see I got mixed up with Codrington Hill. I imagine most of the info is still relevant. http://ww...
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 4 5,805 17-02-2012, 09:38 PM
  Thread: commuting from HOP, trains and station - general queries
Post: RE: commuting from HOP, trains and station - gener...

Woudln't know without checking the Southern trains website. I've certainly got one going via Norwood Junction at around 5:10pm before.
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 9 9,030 14-02-2012, 02:39 PM
  Thread: commuting from HOP, trains and station - general queries
Post: RE: commuting from HOP, trains and station - gener...

Yep, some fast trains whose last stop would have been Norwood Junction then stop next at New Cross Gate.
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 9 9,030 14-02-2012, 01:51 PM
  Thread: New Sainsburys, 55-59 Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Do we want fresh fruit and veg in HOP or not?

I'm confused. The above post by Pico appears to have been posted after the cut-off mentioned within it?
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 349 320,225 12-02-2012, 10:08 AM
  Thread: Post Office Conversion
Post: RE: Post Office Conversion

ooh and the first Tweet was they may open 23rd or 24th...
mgmonkey Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 16 17,704 09-02-2012, 08:35 PM
  Thread: Post Office Conversion
Post: RE: Post Office Conversion

Updates are continuing to trickle through now via their new Twitter feed.. https://twitter.com/#!/SylvanPost Nearly there. Thirsty.
mgmonkey Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 16 17,704 09-02-2012, 08:34 PM
  Thread: Post Office Conversion
Post: RE: Post Office Conversion

Yep, got a email from Fi via their mailing list confirming the same. According to their Facebook page it looks like it will open very close to same day as the new Catford Bridge Tavern, formerly Copp...
mgmonkey Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 16 17,704 31-01-2012, 08:11 PM
  Thread: Post Office Conversion
Post: RE: Post Office Conversion

I keep wandering up there to see of progress but it always seems the same. Looks like there may currently be more focus on The Copperfield at Catford Bridge at the moment. Soon to reopen as The Catf...
mgmonkey Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 16 17,704 20-01-2012, 05:41 PM
  Thread: Over run by Dogs Poo in the Forest Hill area
Post: RE: Over run by Dogs Poo in the Forest Hill area

http://www.se23.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=5315 http://www.se23.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=4139 Previous threads on dog mess.
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 6 7,624 16-01-2012, 05:33 PM
  Thread: Planning application: 33 Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Planning application: 33 Dartmouth Road

A local publican said to me recently they welcome more pubs in the area as it will hopefully mean Forest Hill turns into a destination where people will come for a whole evening at the weekend, rather...
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 16 19,699 28-11-2011, 08:00 PM
  Thread: Plastic Bags
Post: RE: Plastic Bags

I have a reusable bag full of reusable bags. Always decided to go to the supermarket off the cuff and did not have any bags so paid for more reusable bags. Once it got to the point of having abo...
mgmonkey Wider Topics 33 31,708 22-10-2011, 08:54 AM
  Thread: losing Hope updated........
Post: RE: losing Hope updated........

*great
mgmonkey Wider Topics 18 16,398 17-10-2011, 06:45 PM
  Thread: losing Hope updated........
Post: RE: losing Hope updated........

Greta news!
mgmonkey Wider Topics 18 16,398 17-10-2011, 06:44 PM
  Thread: Bike Stolen From Shed in Middle of the Night
Post: RE: Bike Stolen From Shed in Middle of the Night

There are Neighbourhood Watch signs on Vancouver Road, but whether it is still up and running I don't know. After reading just how much of hotspot Vancouver seems to be for garden theft perhaps it ...
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 15 17,272 17-10-2011, 01:02 PM
  Thread: Incident in Honor Oak?
Post: RE: Incident in Honor Oak?

We live in a area safer than many in London, but we do still live in London and with that you will get some crime. The latest crime map... http://www.police.uk/crime/?q=London%20SE23,%20UK#crime...
mgmonkey SE23 Topics 23 23,425 15-10-2011, 11:31 PM
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