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  Thread: Havelock House water leak
Post: Havelock House water leak

Honor Oak Road is running with water from a leak in Havelock House. Does anyone know the contact details of the Housing Association which runs the 3 houses? Thames Water and Lewisham Council claim n...
junegapi SE23 Topics 1 4,183 29-09-2016, 05:39 PM
  Thread: Junction of London Road and Honor Oak Road
Post: Junction of London Road and Honor Oak Road

The contractors appear to have left the site. New Traffic Lights have been installed and are working. BUT they have not finished the job. Traffic islands remain un-made-up. There are red traffic c...
junegapi SE23 Topics 58 53,796 23-06-2015, 01:51 PM
  Thread: Street Lighting - just how bad is it?
Post: RE: Street Lighting - just how bad is it?

Does anybody know when Skanska will finish the job they started in Honor Oak Road? I have had a yellow board covering a hole outside my front door for at least one month. I have called the 'Hot' lin...
junegapi SE23 Topics 16 14,238 23-06-2015, 01:43 PM
  Thread: Pavement closed on London Road by Honor Oak Rd risk
Post: RE: Pavement closed on London Road by Honor Oak Rd...

[b]Does anybody know when the pavement will re-open?[/b] It seems to be taking a very long time to re-pave. Probably the only good result is that we may have the full width of the pavement to use, ...
junegapi SE23 Topics 8 10,254 15-04-2015, 11:51 AM
  Thread: Honor Oak Park station staff
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park station staff

I complain to http:/www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/contact/default.asp?type=tfl if I have problems at HOP or anywhere else on the London transport system. I always receive a reply.
junegapi SE23 Topics 21 25,957 14-01-2013, 08:32 AM
  Thread: Jubilee Eastbound - Change at London Bridge or Canada Water?
Post: RE: Jubilee Eastbound - Change at London Bridge or...

Both Eastbound and Westbound, or is it Northbound and Southbound, the interchange at Canada Water is easier and quicker than at London Bridge. The queue for the down escalator at Canada Water can be ...
junegapi Wider Topics 23 28,041 27-05-2012, 09:15 AM
  Thread: Horniman Licence Application
Post: RE: Horniman Licence Application

If what Jane2 writes is correct, it does not make any sense at all for the Horniman to need an alcohol licence for more that 100 people, absolute max. Why does it need one for more than 10,000??
junegapi SE23 Topics 114 89,074 09-04-2012, 09:36 AM
  Thread: Horniman Licence Application
Post: RE: Horniman Licence Application

I have just read the reply of the Horniman management to the FH Society's request for information about the licencing application. I am dismayed that it is planning at least 3 events with a minimum a...
junegapi SE23 Topics 114 89,074 28-03-2012, 08:28 AM
  Thread: Is SE23 ready for snow this time?
Post: RE: Is SE23 ready for snow this time?

Robinorton, Why not ask your kind neighbour. He might remember, unless he suffers from CRAFT, the name of the shovel and where he bought it!
junegapi SE23 Topics 17 14,748 06-02-2012, 02:36 PM
  Thread: Planning Application: 51-53 Canonbie Road
Post: RE: Planning application: 51-53 Canonbie Road

Even looking at the 3D plans submitted to LBC, on the LBC website, it looks as if Canonbie Road has just a gentle slope, not the steep hill that it really has.
junegapi SE23 Topics 88 118,230 30-10-2011, 01:57 PM
  Thread: Planning Application: 51-53 Canonbie Road
Post: RE: Planning application: 51-53 Canonbie Road

I've just checkd the website of the architects. Has Canonbie Road been flattened out? Or is the drawing designed to bamboozle LBC into agreeing to this over-the-top scheme?
junegapi SE23 Topics 88 118,230 30-10-2011, 10:11 AM
  Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: RE: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade

A good example of the poor management of the installation of Broadband is the amount of work it is taking and re-taking several times is in Honor oak Road at the junction with Manor Mount. BT or its ...
junegapi Wider Topics 163 200,988 11-10-2011, 12:46 PM
  Thread: Burst Water Main
Post: RE: Burst Water Main

London Road and Honor Oak Road are open again. So there'll be no need to break the law and enter Manor Mount from Honor Oak Road - pigs'll fly first!
junegapi SE23 Topics 23 26,716 09-10-2011, 04:18 PM
  Thread: Burst Water Main
Post: RE: Burst Water Main

The closure of the London Road/Honor Oak Road junction has caused me a considerable amount of amusement. It is all about the stupidity of drivers, particularly of coaches and heavy lorries. They don...
junegapi SE23 Topics 23 26,716 08-10-2011, 11:05 AM
  Thread: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and Westbourne Drive
Post: RE: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and West...

Most users of the Forum know who Jeff Lowe, Michael and several others are. But who are you Yves? What information do you have that entitles you to write such a cheap message. If you have any c...
junegapi SE23 Topics 124 136,741 29-03-2011, 11:50 PM
  Thread: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and Westbourne Drive
Post: RE: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and West...

This looks like the first bit of imaginative architecture that has been proposed for Forest Hill, for some considerable time. It is so much better than the ugly, boring buildings that have been built...
junegapi SE23 Topics 124 136,741 11-03-2011, 11:01 AM
  Thread: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington
Post: RE: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington

This is a risk, but bring on the thread! We tend to shout 'We 'ate Tottenham' when there's nothing else going on, whoever the opponents are! Arsenal does not get a mention as that club wins nothin...
junegapi SE23 Topics 82 70,833 01-03-2011, 09:39 AM
  Thread: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington
Post: RE: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington

Only when they lose games they should have won with ease. Maybe Wenger was as myopic as usual and saw only a 'brilliant' side lose unluckily. The old maxim that Goals Win Games is as true today as i...
junegapi SE23 Topics 82 70,833 28-02-2011, 03:15 PM
  Thread: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington
Post: RE: Direct ELL trains to Highbury start next month

Thank you for the tip. The interchange is as good or better as anywhere on the ELL. It's a long walk at Dalston Junction to Dalston Kingsway, although that may be cancelled by the interchange at Hig...
junegapi SE23 Topics 82 70,833 25-02-2011, 08:06 PM
  Thread: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington
Post: RE: Direct ELL trains to Highbury start next month

Will we ever be able to take the OverGround to Imperial Wharf or West Brompton, without a long change at Clapham Junction? Without an over- or under-pass probably never. So the route to Stamford Bri...
junegapi SE23 Topics 82 70,833 24-02-2011, 10:30 AM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park

Howden, why not get on an Overground train (8 tph from HOP) and get out and walk from one of the Eastern or Northern City stations. They are only crowded as far as Canada Water.
junegapi SE23 Topics 1,398 1,241,795 12-02-2011, 10:25 AM
  Thread: Early hours car horn in Tewkesbury Ave
Post: RE: Early hours car horn in Tewkesbury Ave

Much worse was an ambulance blaring its siren in an empty Honor Oak Road at approx 0245 this morning. Why do they do it? Perhaps the driver had the perverse pleasure in waking up all the sleepers in...
junegapi SE23 Topics 9 8,601 31-01-2011, 09:02 PM
  Thread: Apple and Pear trees
Post: RE: Apple and Pear trees

Perry Vale is not the only place in the Forest Hill area that has/had fruit trees. There are still quite a lot of apple and pear trees in the Honor Oak Road area, on the hill that used to have a fore...
junegapi SE23 Topics 7 7,713 29-11-2010, 10:27 AM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park

I could find neither Sydenham nor Forest Hill stations on the Thameslink 2000/2018 map. Does this mean that Thameslink trains will not be stoppin[/u]g at our stations??
junegapi SE23 Topics 1,398 1,241,795 25-11-2010, 05:32 PM
  Thread: Strategic Planning for Lewisham
Post: RE: Strategic Planning for Lewisham

If this means that the area around FH station will be 'beautified', I'm all in favour. But the mini cab offices and carpark are useful. It would be much better for all if a new entrance is opened fr...
junegapi SE23 Topics 5 7,513 25-11-2010, 03:10 PM
  Thread: Sydenham School BSF
Post: RE: Sydenham School BSF

Let's hope that nobody is able to prevent the re-build of this school. It would be a pity if some other part of the school building is thought to be of suitable significance to be listed and thereby ...
junegapi SE23 Topics 1 3,843 23-11-2010, 04:05 PM
  Thread: Plane noise over Canonbie Road
Post: RE: Plane noise over Canonbie Road

The aircraft noise in Forest Hill is very slight when compared to Inner London boroughs such as Hammersmith, Fulham and Chelsea because the altitude of the planes is much higher here. Sometimes aircr...
junegapi SE23 Topics 5 11,421 14-11-2010, 04:45 AM
  Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent

The sound of young children enjoying themselves on the way to play-school in the morning and returning hone in the afternoon is so much better than yobbos leaving a pub/bar at closing time. Also it s...
junegapi SE23 Topics 666 531,085 04-11-2010, 10:41 AM
  Thread: South Circular closed
Post: RE: South Circular closed

And pigs will fly. Diverting the 185 and 176 to go up Sydenham Hill, down Kirkdale and round the houses to Perry Rise etc is a splendid idea in theory. But I expect that there'd be an outcry from ...
junegapi SE23 Topics 128 127,098 11-10-2010, 05:52 PM
  Thread: Lewisham's cuts 'forum'
Post: RE: Lewisham's cuts 'forum'

Alex, Do we know how many chauffeured limos LBL uses and also how many cars does LBL have? Let's get rid of all bar one, the Mayor's official car, but even that could be hired for the evening or when...
junegapi Wider Topics 16 16,290 05-10-2010, 05:25 PM
  Thread: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & Bovill
Post: RE: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & ...

It must be the Silly Season! 3 pages on some doggy do should be all over and done, instead of do, even in August.
junegapi SE23 Topics 68 56,420 18-08-2010, 03:54 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools

I agree with NeverModern. Let's not make a mountain out of a non-existant molehill.
junegapi SE23 Topics 2,074 2,031,928 09-08-2010, 01:29 PM
  Thread: Warning to Residents on Honor Oak Road
Post: RE: Warning to Residents on Honor Oak Road

I'm not sure which end of Honor Oak Road Katherine Court is. But the bench on the large pavement area at the junction of HOR and Westward Park is another area where teenagers gather at dusk. They ne...
junegapi SE23 Topics 8 12,090 09-08-2010, 12:36 PM
  Thread: Tyson Road building work
Post: RE: Tyson Road building work

Maybe the crane will be pulling trees out of the ground??
junegapi SE23 Topics 6 8,357 07-08-2010, 07:41 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill School - Performing Arts Survey
Post: RE: Forest Hill School - Performing Arts Survey

I was lucky enough to have been given a guided tour by the Headmaster a few years ago. I was very impressed by the large number of facilities available to all pupils, both academic and performing art...
junegapi SE23 Topics 10 15,676 06-08-2010, 03:21 PM
  Thread: Dog barking on Marler Road and driving me mad!!!
Post: RE: Dog barking and driving me mad!!!

How about getting a machine that automatically miaows loudly 10 minutes after the dogs start barking ?
junegapi SE23 Topics 36 37,857 01-08-2010, 01:08 PM
  Thread: Church signage on Manor Mount
Post: RE: Church signage on Manor Mount

Looks like an opportunity for more cars to disobey the No Entry signs at the top of Manor Mount, from Honor Oak Road.
junegapi SE23 Topics 65 67,162 01-08-2010, 12:56 PM
  Thread: Dog barking on Marler Road and driving me mad!!!
Post: RE: Dog barking and driving me mad!!!

You could try ringing the dog owner early in the morning or late at night. The dog owner would soon realise what a nuisance his dogs have become to neighbours.
junegapi SE23 Topics 36 37,857 31-07-2010, 06:04 PM
  Thread: Why is it called overground?
Post: RE: Why is it called overground?

What about SNELL, but it will probably run langsam
junegapi Wider Topics 28 26,568 31-07-2010, 06:01 PM
  Thread: Why is it called overground?
Post: RE: Why is it called overground?

What about SELL, the South East London Line?
junegapi Wider Topics 28 26,568 27-07-2010, 01:34 PM
  Thread: Parking Devonshire Road
Post: RE: Parking Devonshire Road

An alternative would be to make bits of Devonshire Road One Way and then change the One Way direction every 500 yds. This would not satisfy everybody, particularly those living in the streets up to H...
junegapi SE23 Topics 37 34,957 27-07-2010, 01:32 PM
  Thread: Ridiculous Doctors Catchment areas
Post: RE: Ridiculous Doctors Catchment areas

I moved into the area 24 years ago. We live in Honor Oak Road and had no difficulties registering with Forest Hill Group Practice at 1 Forest Hill Road. The family is 2 adults and 2 children. The Pr...
junegapi SE23 Topics 32 36,714 27-07-2010, 01:27 PM
  Thread: Why is it called overground?
Post: RE: Why is it called overground?

Presumably it gets its name because it does not go underground except to reach the other side of the Thames. But it would be much easier for everybody, Londoners all the way through to foreign visito...
junegapi Wider Topics 28 26,568 21-07-2010, 05:44 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park

Probably because there is only space for 30% to push their way on to the LB bound trains?
junegapi SE23 Topics 1,398 1,241,795 12-07-2010, 10:19 AM
  Thread: More Lies
Post: RE: More Lies

Michael, where are you? We are waiting for you to 'pop up'[/size][/font]
junegapi Wider Topics 43 35,162 06-07-2010, 10:02 AM
  Thread: More Lies
Post: RE: More Lies

I live in Honor Oak Road, so I'm a HOR. I do spend a lot of time waiting for the P4, at the bus stop. But as I'm over 65 only the bus stops for me. I've read most of the rubbish posted by Ex FH Pa...
junegapi Wider Topics 43 35,162 02-07-2010, 07:15 PM
  Thread: Flight Paths over SE23
Post: RE: Flight Paths over SE23

The noise from the air, City Airport or LHR, is considerably quieter than the heavy lorries full of mud or the lorries carrying empty skips that bounce over the 'speed' bumps in Honor Oak Road. They ...
junegapi SE23 Topics 72 69,996 26-06-2010, 02:49 PM
  Thread: Oyster Cards and FH Station
Post: RE: Oyster Cards and FH Station

Maybe Southern is dragging its feet because it has been forced to adapt it's machines to use Oyster and it hasn't bothered to train the Booking Office staff yet. It could also be LOROL who is being i...
junegapi SE23 Topics 114 108,786 12-03-2010, 03:42 PM
  Thread: London Road Restaurants
Post: RE: London Road Restaurants

Yes, for London Road read Lordship Lane. London Road leads in to Lordship Lane somewhere between the Harvester and Goose Grenn
junegapi Wider Topics 9 10,129 28-02-2010, 12:32 AM
  Thread: London Road Restaurants
Post: London Road Restaurants

I had dinner last night in Tandoori Nights, almost next door to the Cheese Block, in London Road. The food and service were excellent. The best Indian restaurant in the area, since Cafe Lah changed ...
junegapi Wider Topics 9 10,129 27-02-2010, 06:09 PM
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