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  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Overcrowding on Trains to London Bridge

Thankfully I no longer have to use these trains on any regular basis though I have done the HOP to London Bridge daily cattle truck at various times in the last 20 years. However, and maybe I am be...
billham SE23 Topics 1,398 1,250,419 23-01-2008, 04:55 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Overcrowding on Trains to London Bridge

Maybe I can be the first to say...sophisticated weighing system my ****!! Perhaps they should send staff to occasionally try and board one of their trains in rush hour (or increasingly out of rush ...
billham SE23 Topics 1,398 1,250,419 30-01-2008, 01:31 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Overcrowding on Trains to London Bridge

Love the poster BarCar. :) Now maybe a few of those should be printed and discretely placed around the stations and trains involved. Legal disclaimer. The above was just a random thought and...
billham SE23 Topics 1,398 1,250,419 30-01-2008, 02:03 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Overcrowding on Trains to London Bridge

What a lovely example of a lot of verbiage to add precisely nothing!! It could have come from a 'Yes, Minister' script. It also seems that they regard paragraphs a bit like they do carriages...some...
billham SE23 Topics 1,398 1,250,419 01-02-2008, 10:24 AM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Overcrowding on Trains to London Bridge

This thread is taking on a fishy twist with herring now joining the sardines! It is just a pity that the 'sardines' seem to have less rights than the pigeons. Then again the pigeons rarely catch th...
billham SE23 Topics 1,398 1,250,419 21-02-2008, 10:30 AM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...

Jimmy? Maybe that is the way forward, giving all the trains names instead of times. Be just like Thomas the Tank Engine! Ah, here he comes now that loveable old rogue Jimmy, always late but you ...
billham SE23 Topics 1,398 1,250,419 21-11-2008, 02:06 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...

Two carriages on a train out of London Bridge at that time of night is just taking the &^*%!!
billham SE23 Topics 1,398 1,250,419 25-11-2008, 07:55 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...

The link in the previous post has a rogue full stop. This should work... http://londonreconnections.blogspot.com/2009/07/official-launch-of-new-overground.html
billham SE23 Topics 1,398 1,250,419 14-07-2009, 11:54 AM
  Thread: Perry Vale - Road Issues
Post: RE: Perry Vale - Road Issues

To be pedantic, pedestrians only have right of way if they have started crossing (per highway code 170) 170 Take extra care at junctions. You should......... watch out for pedestrians crossing...
billham SE23 Topics 348 293,886 19-04-2009, 08:56 PM
  Thread: Perry Vale - Road Issues
Post: RE: Perry Vale - Road Issues

Who'd have though there could be a 60 page catalogue of benches! Looks uncomfortable to me...not even sure whether you are meant to sit in the crest or the trough!! :laugh:
billham SE23 Topics 348 293,886 11-05-2009, 09:46 PM
  Thread: Perry Vale - Road Issues
Post: RE: Perry Vale - Road Issues

or more correctly ON the crest.....
billham SE23 Topics 348 293,886 11-05-2009, 09:48 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Central
Post: RE: Forest Hill Central

Interesting that the Old Bank Italian Restaurant (presumably the one in Honor Oak) is included as a 'local' restaurant. There must be at least 20 restaurants nearer if not more. Do I smell some 'produ...
billham SE23 Topics 289 274,085 11-07-2008, 04:49 PM
  Thread: WH Smith & Post Office, Forest Hill
Post: RE: Forest Hill Post Office

And of course there is a posting box inside the post office, to the right as you face the counter...
billham SE23 Topics 157 174,818 17-09-2008, 04:01 PM
  Thread: Horniman Triangle Play Park
Post: RE: Horniman Triangle Play Park SE23

I think that the link is slightly wrong. Try this [url=http://se23streets.blogspot.com/2007/04/up-eliot-bank.html]Up Eliot Bank[/url]
billham SE23 Topics 163 171,723 23-06-2008, 12:44 PM
  Thread: Manor Mount - Abuse of One-Way System
Post: RE: Manor Mount - drivers still at it

I don't think it is only you Roz. I think most people treat that section as one-way, probably because it logically looks like it should be! I suspect the reason that it isn't is down to the location o...
billham SE23 Topics 143 128,606 24-10-2008, 10:32 AM
  Thread: Manor Mount - Abuse of One-Way System
Post: RE: Manor Mount - drivers still at it

I assume we are talking purely about the section between the two ends of Pearcefield so Sainsbury's traffic is not involved since it would enter the end of Pearcefield nearest Davids Road and exit ont...
billham SE23 Topics 143 128,606 24-10-2008, 12:20 PM
  Thread: Manor Mount - Abuse of One-Way System
Post: RE: Manor Mount - Abuse of One-Way System

Maybe what we should do is move the Big Issue sellers from Sainsbury's to the narrow bit at the top of Manor Mount. Wouldn't solve either problem but think of the length of the thread we would have...
billham SE23 Topics 143 128,606 17-06-2009, 03:12 PM
  Thread: Planning Application: 51-53 Canonbie Road
Post: RE: Planning application: 51-53 Canonbie Road

As a resident of Sydmons Court I have only just found out about this. I can confirm that the access road to Sydmons Court is a private road forming part of the freehold to the property. This freehold ...
billham SE23 Topics 88 119,301 19-10-2011, 09:43 PM
  Thread: Planning Application: 51-53 Canonbie Road
Post: RE: Planning application: 51-53 Canonbie Road

While Monday is the target date I can see no indication that a decision will be reached then. Have you had a communication to this effect, or are you just going by the target date? Lewisham's site...
billham SE23 Topics 88 119,301 26-11-2011, 08:07 PM
  Thread: Planning Application: 51-53 Canonbie Road
Post: RE: Planning application: 51-53 Canonbie Road

It is clear that the developers have got the message that there is no realistic possibility of access via Sydmons Court. :) From feedback received from Lewisham I think they were intending to try to m...
billham SE23 Topics 88 119,301 26-10-2011, 07:20 PM
  Thread: Planning Application: 51-53 Canonbie Road
Post: RE: Planning application: 51-53 Canonbie Road

Not according to the Lewisham website Triangle: [b]Who decides applications Small-scale developments that comply with Council policy where up to two or no letters of objection have been receive...
billham SE23 Topics 88 119,301 28-11-2011, 12:10 PM
  Thread: Planning Application: 51-53 Canonbie Road
Post: RE: Planning application: 51-53 Canonbie Road

I agree that it is not entirely clear that this means there would be a formal meeting where public representation could be made. I was surprised to note that even if such a meeting took place that obj...
billham SE23 Topics 88 119,301 28-11-2011, 01:06 PM
  Thread: Planning Application: 51-53 Canonbie Road
Post: RE: Planning application: 51-53 Canonbie Road

Excellent news for us all but especially for you! I am sure all the hard work that you put into canvassing helped massively. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Can we assume that the rejection of t...
billham SE23 Topics 88 119,301 26-05-2012, 08:34 PM
  Thread: Planning Application: 51-53 Canonbie Road
Post: RE: Planning Application: 51-53 Canonbie Road

I agree that the new plans seem much better than the old. The parking (1 car per property) appears inadequate though for such large houses. I wouldn't be surprised if the two houses were looking to pa...
billham SE23 Topics 88 119,301 19-09-2013, 11:01 AM
  Thread: Forest Hill Library
Post: RE: Forest Hill Library

Being in my early 50s, I too grew up in the pre-computer age. However, I am certainly no technophobe and have been employed in IT for 25 years. However, on my one visit to this library I really fel...
billham SE23 Topics 105 112,404 25-10-2008, 02:56 PM
  Thread: Oyster Cards and FH Station
Post: RE: Oyster Cards and FH Station

On further thought, I think that the statement that your 'travel card must be valid on all the zones you travel through' is designed to cover the fact that a journey may start and end in say zone 4, b...
billham SE23 Topics 114 109,708 17-01-2010, 06:52 PM
  Thread: Oyster Cards and FH Station
Post: RE: Oyster Cards and FH Station

I guess I will be more knowledgeable in future but I am a sporadic user of Oyster though that will increase a bit because I can now use it on the train. I just checked my account and noticed that ...
billham SE23 Topics 114 109,708 12-01-2010, 06:49 PM
  Thread: Oyster Cards and FH Station
Post: RE: Oyster Cards and FH Station

I think your zone card is fine if your journeys are regular. However mine are not, and if you don't have Oyster the fares on bus and tube are ridiculous, presumably deliberately so to encourage use of...
billham SE23 Topics 114 109,708 13-01-2010, 06:53 PM
  Thread: Oyster Cards and FH Station
Post: RE: Oyster Cards and FH Station

I was browsing on the tfl website because it seems to me you would need a month's training to understand the options and likely charges with Oyster. I noticed the following under Travelcards: "Trav...
billham SE23 Topics 114 109,708 17-01-2010, 03:29 PM
  Thread: Oyster Cards and FH Station
Post: RE: Oyster Cards and FH Station

A bit more than poor sub-editing I'd say. It is just plain inconsistent. Even on the link you kindly attached it first says the travelcard covers: "Bus services within the entire Greater London are...
billham SE23 Topics 114 109,708 17-01-2010, 06:39 PM
  Thread: Snow!!!
Post: RE: Snow!!!

How ridiculous that Horniman is closed for 'Health and Safety' reasons! Clearly it is a lot safer for children to sledge down roads. :confused: I know the reason is probably to do with the risk of...
billham Wider Topics 119 101,925 02-02-2009, 06:09 PM
  Thread: Water Supply Problems
Post: RE: White tap water

Well I don't know about events at the weekend but I live off Netherby Road and our water has been cloudy for quite some time. In fact I was surprised not to see comments in here much earlier than they...
billham SE23 Topics 96 95,312 16-05-2008, 11:25 PM
  Thread: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
Post: RE: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?

I live near the junction of Canonbie/Netherby and have always said Forest Hill, which I am sure is the official address. I can only remember one neighbour (long gone) who always used Honor Oak as he s...
billham SE23 Topics 75 79,135 05-07-2010, 02:21 PM
  Thread: Flight Paths over SE23
Post: RE: Flight Paths over SE23

Tonight I was sat on my balcony and we seemed to be getting flights coming across for both Heathrow and City. Gets really irritating when it is like that.:thumbdown::thumbdown:
billham SE23 Topics 72 70,446 25-06-2010, 08:31 PM
  Thread: Devonshire Road - residents parking
Post: RE: Devonshire Road - residents parking

I noticed that hole on Manor Mount today. It had been crudely filled with bitumen. I hope that this was some attempt at a (very) temporary fix since I was worried about my car going over it, let alone...
billham SE23 Topics 62 62,895 15-03-2011, 12:20 AM
  Thread: Electricity Supply Problems
Post: RE: Driving during the power cut

It didn't seem particularly calm when I walked through the Horniman and out onto the South Circ at about 4.30. The lights were off at the pedestrian crossing and where traffic was coming down from Syd...
billham SE23 Topics 59 58,317 10-06-2008, 11:56 AM
  Thread: Forest Hill's Xmas Tree
Post: RE: Forest Hill's xmas tree

Most likely it means you have just staggered out of the Hob.... :)
billham SE23 Topics 50 51,764 17-12-2008, 05:15 PM
  Thread: Housing market
Post: RE: Forest Hill Central

I wouldn't describe predicting a drop in the housing market for 'over 10 years' as scaremongering. It does however smack of backing the inevitable. Housing markets always suffer downturns - the art li...
billham Wider Topics 45 50,233 01-09-2008, 10:30 AM
  Thread: Shooting on Forest Hill Road 3rd Nov 2011
Post: RE: Shooting on Forest Hill Road

It is frightening to have such an event occur in broad daylight on a road that you frequently walk down. If it hadn't been for the fact that it started raining heavily around that time I would probabl...
billham SE23 Topics 37 46,339 04-11-2011, 10:04 AM
  Thread: Noisy neighbours
Post: RE: noisey neighbours!

You have my sympathy babaloo - nothing worse than that irritating beat. Can't see why anyone would want to listen to it in the first place but each to their own I suppose. However it doesn't excuse th...
billham Wider Topics 41 41,450 20-09-2010, 06:17 PM
  Thread: Right-turn camera at Wickes/Halfords
Post: RE: Right-turn camera at Wickes/Halfords

Well I had no idea that it was illegal to turn right there and I certainly did it in mid March and then again recently. It's hard enough to keep your eye on the traffic at that corner let alone being ...
billham Wider Topics 40 40,530 06-07-2008, 01:22 AM
  Thread: Right-turn camera at Wickes/Halfords
Post: RE: Right-turn camera at Wickes/Halfords

I think you are quite right about the amount of signange. There is simply no way of taking in all the signs that are out there. How anyone without an intimate knowledge of the South Circ ever successf...
billham Wider Topics 40 40,530 07-07-2008, 01:15 PM
  Thread: Is it snowing heavily in FH/Sydenham
Post: RE: Is it snowing heavily in FH/Sydenham

From what I have just seen out walking I wouldn't venture near Canonbie or Netherby in a car. I didn't see the steepest hill side of Canonbie, the Netherby Road side looked bad enough to me. Even a co...
billham SE23 Topics 42 37,391 30-11-2010, 06:25 PM
  Thread: Doorstep scam or fraud
Post: RE: Doorstep scam or fraud in HOP area

Hi Jane Sorry to hear about your problem. I sincerely hope it is not too serious for you - it sounds like they used your address to order the parcel. Hopefully it is only your address they have use...
billham SE23 Topics 31 37,238 08-06-2008, 12:23 PM
  Thread: Devonshire Road- vehicle damage
Post: RE: Devonshire Road- vehicle damage

Glad to hear you at least got your car repaired Ann but it sounds like Devonshire Road is a dangerous place to live and park! I must admit that I hate driving along it. I don't like to cast assertions...
billham SE23 Topics 38 35,692 29-09-2010, 06:49 PM
  Thread: Fire!
Post: RE: Fire!

Probably pretty pointless since most people will be offline but here's the story from the BBC. Looks pretty serious and if it started at 7.21 power has already been down 4 hours...how come this never ...
billham SE23 Topics 40 35,428 08-06-2008, 11:17 AM
  Thread: Camille Pissarro's Paintings of Forest Hill
Post: RE: Camille Pissarro's paintings of Forest Hill

or here http://www.art.co.uk/asp/sp-asp/_/Aff--CONF/CTID--861164771/RFID--457103/TKID--15039121/pd--10023210/posters.htm
billham SE23 Topics 21 35,197 20-12-2008, 03:59 PM
  Thread: Canonbie road
Post: RE: Canonbie road!!

Interesting to see that the 1879 map spells the word Honour in the English way. Does anyone know how the word came to be spelled in the American manner?
billham SE23 Topics 22 34,268 31-07-2010, 09:16 PM
  Thread: Canonbie road
Post: RE: Canonbie road

To largely reiterate what others have said I don't think you have anything at all to worry about. Nowhere is completely safe, but after living near where you mention for close to 25 years I can't say ...
billham SE23 Topics 22 34,268 22-08-2010, 12:15 AM
  Thread: Canonbie road
Post: RE: Canonbie road!!

To add to what Ann said, the nearest bus on the north side of the hill is the 63/363. The 63 runs from Old Camberwell Cemetry to Kings Cross via Elephant & Castle/Blackfriars. The 363 starts at Crysta...
billham SE23 Topics 22 34,268 04-07-2010, 09:00 AM
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