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Thread: Total gridlock in Forest Hill because of Thames (Turd) Water
Post: RE: Total gridlock in Forest Hill because of Thame...
| It’s strange, that having given some detail of Thames Water and its failures, to assert the reason for being inconvenienced on a bus is the fault of three hard working local councillors. And then to c... |
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20-10-2023, 11:11 PM |
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Thread: Solar Panels
Post: Solar Panels
| A scheme set up through the GLA and Lewisham involved the supplier Green Energy Together (GET). It appears that GET did get quite a lot of money, but it is not clear that anyone who paid a deposit act... |
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25-04-2023, 07:21 PM |
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Thread: Fusion - Forest Hill swimming pool
Post: RE: Fusion - Forest Hill swimming pool
| This is an old thread but I wondered whether anyone had seen anyone else using the blue overshoes?
I have seen teachers with them on, but oddly not the 20 children they have with them. I haven't se... |
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24-06-2017, 06:13 PM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: Dartmouth Road Pavement Parking
| Over the years I have been quite appalled by the pavement parking on Dartmouth Road. Buses can't get by, and occasionally people with buggies have difficulty getting along the pavement. It is illegal ... |
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13-04-2016, 06:37 PM |
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Thread: Delays on London Road Saturday 20th
Post: RE: Delays on London Road Saturday 20th
| I was informed by LB Lewisham that there are NO parking problems on Dartmouth Road. There is no parking on double yellow lines, nor the pavement. This is due to "robust and proactive enforcement".
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22-02-2016, 12:29 PM |
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Thread: Junction of London Road and Honor Oak Road
Post: RE: London Road Junction with Honor Oak Road
| A while ago I was narrowly missed by a car driving through the no entry sign on Manor Mount, as I was crossing the road. I phoned the police who said I had to go to Catford Police Station to report it... |
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18-11-2014, 12:31 AM |
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Thread: Junction of London Road and Honor Oak Road
Post: RE: London Road Junction with Honor Oak Road
| I saw FOUR cars turn through the no-entry sign on Manor Mount, this evening in the space of about 5 minutes. One nearly hit a motor-cyclist turning right from Waldenshaw Road who wasn't expecting a ca... |
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14-11-2014, 08:29 PM |
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Thread: Traffic lights Dartmouth Road/London Road
Post: RE: Traffic lights Dartmouth Road/London Road
| The car parking is a problem in Dartmouth Road and so is pavement parking. For the past several weeks every time I have walked down Dartmouth Road there are cars parked on the pavement, presumably bec... |
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kipya |
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12-11-2013, 01:00 PM |
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Thread: Bicycle for Sale: Men's Sirrus Pro £250
Post: Bicycle for Sale: Men's Sirrus Pro £250
| I got this bike for commuting but in the end I have not used it all that frequently (I have changed to a Brompton so I can catch the train, probably a sign of age.) It is a hybrid based on a road bike... |
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kipya |
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08-11-2013, 03:23 PM |
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Thread: Traffic lights Dartmouth Road/London Road
Post: RE: Traffic lights Dartmouth Road/London Road
| [quote]This afternoon, traffic was brought to a standstill for several minutes because one of the local traders (shan't name which!) had parked their van outside their shop. It was mostly on the pavem... |
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kipya |
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05-10-2013, 10:04 AM |
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Thread: Parking on Devonshire Road
Post: RE: Parking on Devonshire Road
| Hm, I am not convinced about the condition of Devonshire Road. I have seen cars parked on the pavement again in the last fortnight, so it seems that there is a little resurgence of this. |
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05-10-2013, 09:57 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| My question was, who is the presumed reader of the 'refrain from' text? It appears to me that it is not a woman nor an over-60 swimmer, which in turn suggests why it is that these groups might have so... |
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13-08-2013, 10:21 AM |
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Thread: MOT Test Centres
Post: RE: MOT Test Centres
| Rodney Garages
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kipya |
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12-08-2013, 10:34 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Hm. I wonder to whom the 'please refrain from' sign [see Admin 31-07-13] is addressed? Or to put it another way, why might we think that there are women's only, 60+ and family sessions? These might be... |
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kipya |
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12-08-2013, 10:25 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| ABC says: ...frankly I'd rather find somewhere else!
So where would that be? East Dulwich? Run by Fusion. The Bridge? Run by... er Fusion. The only other nearby place would appear to be Beckenham w... |
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kipya |
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29-07-2013, 03:19 PM |
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Thread: Japanese Knotweed
Post: Japanese Knotweed
| [i][Moved from [url=http://www.se23.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=8333]here[/url] -admin][/i]
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Talking about Japanese Knotweed there appears to be a house in Devonshire Road ... |
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04-07-2013, 02:27 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| At Beckenham Pool, which I think is not too bad and used to use during the FHP debacle, you have to wear blue overshoes and the loos and changing rooms are cleaned regularly.
During busy times the... |
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14-05-2013, 01:30 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I had a look at the feedback on the Fusion website. It offers simple Likert-scale type responses to their questions and then a whole load of personal details about the respondent. I gave up at that po... |
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kipya |
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14-05-2013, 09:09 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I just wanted to reiterate how irritating it is to have reminders about the pools closing [i]before[/i] 6:00pm from three quarters of an hour beforehand. The time I can get there on a weekend is about... |
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06-05-2013, 02:56 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I've noticed this sort of thing at FH Pools too. Perhaps phone calls or, better, letters to fusion-lifestyle making the point is the thing to do. It is a management issue.
The Manger
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12-02-2013, 12:34 PM |
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Thread: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
Post: RE: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
| ... and I meant "their replies" |
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12-02-2013, 11:40 AM |
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Thread: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
Post: RE: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
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12-02-2013, 11:23 AM |
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Thread: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
Post: RE: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
| RHS - I contacted Lewisham who put me through to Skanska. The person tasked with fending off enquires is marc.zahra@skanska.co.uk
However there replies are badly written and intone 'energy efficien... |
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12-02-2013, 11:22 AM |
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Thread: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
Post: RE: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
| yeah, and there has been so much rain since they announced the drought last Spring. Let's hope they don't announce another one before Easter.
Street furniture and paving make such a big impact on t... |
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11-02-2013, 07:40 PM |
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Thread: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
Post: RE: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
| The council resurfaced and repaved our road so that it looks really wonderful. Prior to that the pavement had been pock marked with splodges of black tarmac which looked really ugly. The tarmac only w... |
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11-02-2013, 06:13 PM |
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Thread: Robbery honor oak park - be alert
Post: RE: Robbery honor oak park - be alert
| I don't like the new lights. I was quite happy with the old ones, which always seemed bright enough to me. My house now has every room lit throughout the night with a lamppost at the front and another... |
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14-01-2013, 12:21 AM |
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Thread: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
Post: RE: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
| I don't like the new lamp posts much either, and the sharper focusing of the light gives a more patchy and less holistic feel to streets. Still, I'm sure they will be cheaper to run, which I guess is ... |
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14-01-2013, 12:08 AM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Park station staff
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park station staff
| I think that many of the staff at the station are there to signal the trains are able to leave. Since longer trains have been introduced there must either be a visual system for the train driver to se... |
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12-01-2013, 06:24 PM |
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Thread: Robbery honor oak park - be alert
Post: RE: Robbery honor oak park - be alert
| I have to say that this is pretty unnerving - I walk up from the station at all times in the evening. I have also noticed that there are no lights on the west side of Devonshire Road between Honor Oak... |
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12-01-2013, 06:13 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| It looks like Lewisham are taking the opening seriously offering an opportunity for people to [i]watch[/i] others demonstrating and showing off the facilities. However nice all this jolly stuff is, it... |
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01-09-2012, 07:41 PM |
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Thread: Occupational Pensions
Post: RE: Occupational Pensions
| The point about elections is that the 'winner' is based on who actually votes, not who could vote. If the 50% rule applied to local government elelctions then in the main no councils could be elected.... |
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04-11-2011, 07:34 PM |
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Thread: Parking on Devonshire Road
Post: RE: Parking on Devonshire Road
| [quote] Like it or not, we now have far more cars and far fewer pedestrians - so long as there are pedestrian facilities, let's not unnecessarily obstruct cars.[/quote]
This is not quite the case, is... |
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04-11-2011, 01:00 AM |
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Thread: Occupational Pensions
Post: RE: Occupational Pensions
| There's nothing like making it up as you go along, eh?
Brian quotes £250m for bombing using old data - or just making it up?
Andrewr says "The fact is that the private sector has recognised that... |
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04-11-2011, 12:35 AM |
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Thread: Occupational Pensions
Post: RE: Occupational Pensions
| confusion all round, but not helped by commentators in the press who want to suggest that the cause/cure of the current crisis in the public sector.
The application of 'gold plated' to pensions was... |
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02-11-2011, 12:48 AM |
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Thread: Parking on Devonshire Road
Post: RE: Parking on Devonshire Road
| ... and while I'm at it, on bin days the pavements are all but impassable. Another picture here showing not a lot of walking space. I've no idea how people with push chairs, or anyone with mobility pr... |
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02-11-2011, 12:28 AM |
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Thread: Parking on Devonshire Road
Post: RE: Parking on Devonshire Road
| The parking on Devonshire Road is awful and, now that the roadside is full up with cars, moving completely onto the pavements is the obvious next course of action. Here is a photo taken the other day.... |
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02-11-2011, 12:14 AM |
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Thread: Occupational Pensions
Post: RE: Occupational Pensions
| What is "the state gold plated pension"?
The "state pension" usually refers to what people draw at 60-65 resulting from the NI contribution system.
What does "gold plated" mean? The repetition ... |
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28-10-2011, 10:01 AM |
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Thread: Occupational Pensions
Post: RE: Occupational Pensions
| Reduced pensions, higher university fees, cuts to schools, the breaking up of the national health service and so on are fundamentally about an ideological stance which asserts that markets are better ... |
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26-10-2011, 12:22 AM |
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Thread: Occupational Pensions
Post: RE: Occupational Pensions
| What has "Labour" got to do with the issue?
I agree with Brian that "We must expect to save ourselves for old age". There is nothing to be gained from dying beforehand. However, having gone throug... |
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21-10-2011, 02:28 PM |
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Thread: Occupational Pensions
Post: RE: Occupational Pensions
| the argument seems to have become somewhat confused. In terms of economics it makes no difference whether a service is provided by the public or private sector. Production takes place and and a cost a... |
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20-10-2011, 03:44 PM |
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Thread: Clever cat of the Shipman/Siddons/PerryVale/Woolstone rd square
Post: RE: Clever cat of the Shipman/Siddons/PerryVale/Wo...
| Have you considered that it might be a squirrel? Even worse than ratsncats. |
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24-01-2011, 11:56 PM |
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Thread: Devonshire Road - residents parking
Post: RE: Devonshire Road - residents parking
| Returning to the original post by devonshoreroad then parking in Devonshire Road (HOP end) is a real problem. It doesn't stop there, of course, but spreads into Boveney Road and Hengrave Road (and I d... |
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11-01-2011, 11:17 AM |
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Thread: Clever cat of the Shipman/Siddons/PerryVale/Woolstone rd square
Post: RE: Clever cat of the Shipman/Siddons/PerryVale/Wo...
| Ah the cat burglar (see thread 'Burglaries'). The cure, it would appear, would be to catch the cat and punish severely - with the cat? (pace Brian). Some would simply have the cat left to rot in a whe... |
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01-01-2011, 12:25 PM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Park Station Forecourt
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park Station Forecourt
| This is a seriously good idea. The twin lanes over the bridges are clearly not needed since either side of the bridges the traffic is squeezed into one lane or less (going up Honor Oak Park is often h... |
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01-01-2011, 12:11 PM |
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Thread: Has the P4 bus been running?
Post: RE: Has the P4 bus been running today?
| There were lots of P4s yesterday, and some had a party at the top of Honor Oak Park [attachment=473] |
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02-12-2010, 08:01 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| At the risk of muddying the waters, I have recently received a form from Lewisham Hospital which declares it is recording patient diversity. It asks you to choose from 70 different "ethnic" options.
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10-08-2010, 06:26 PM |
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Thread: What's happening on building site by HOP station?
Post: RE: What's happening on building site by HOP stati...
| That sounds like an excellent idea.
The cult of the dead seems to be a growing phenomenon with this extension to the necropolis being one further example. The proliferation of benches in memorium ... |
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10-08-2010, 04:45 PM |
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Thread: What's happening on building site by HOP station?
Post: RE: What's happening on building site by HOP stati...
| It's clearly a brownfield site (it looks pretty brown to me). It's not a back garden so ... an ideal spot for some tower blocks. It would be in keeping with Tyson Gardens development. |
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10-08-2010, 03:57 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...
| Hanging around is precisely the problem. I travel frequently in the winter from Waterloo to HOP in the evening 8:00-9:00pm and it is easy and pleasant to aim at one of the two trains an hour from Char... |
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28-08-2009, 01:42 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill 20 MPH Zone
Post: RE: Forest Hill 20 MPH Zone
| I think that 20mph would be a very sensible limit in residential roads. Oddly the maximum throughput of traffic through a single lane and keeping safe distances is achieved at just under 20mph. That m... |
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28-08-2009, 12:26 PM |
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