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  Thread: Weather = Some ladies wearing very litlle
Post: RE: Weather = Some ladies wearing very litlle

Interesting theory, Andrew1976. I'd understood it was to prevent suicide - prisoners are not allowed to wear belts, hence sagging trousers. Whichever it is, the fashion is ridiculous.
Tomcat Wider Topics 22 18,823 26-07-2015, 12:48 PM
  Thread: African Restaurant opposite FH station
Post: RE: African Restaurant opposite FH station

If it's still to be from the Crooked Well stable I look forward to it - their Camberwell place is great
Tomcat SE23 Topics 41 45,348 19-02-2015, 04:20 PM
  Thread: moving south of Stanstead road
Post: RE: moving south of Stanstead road

Looks like 11.15 to me, Jane2 !
Tomcat SE23 Topics 20 25,295 27-09-2014, 07:40 PM
  Thread: moving south of Stanstead road
Post: RE: moving south of Stanstead road

Good effort, Jane2 but I think Hoona was just doing some post pub trolling
Tomcat SE23 Topics 20 25,295 27-09-2014, 01:34 PM
  Thread: Evening Standard availability in Forest Hill
Post: RE: Evening Standard availability in Forest Hill

Small mercy, if you ask me
Tomcat SE23 Topics 8 10,531 24-09-2014, 07:15 PM
  Thread: moving south of Stanstead road
Post: RE: moving south of Stanstead road

We live on Siddons road, very close to those 3 roads. Been here since 2007, have 3 young kids, busy lives and the area really works for us. Nice neighbourhood, little to none of the sundry irritations...
Tomcat SE23 Topics 20 25,295 24-09-2014, 07:14 PM
  Thread: Nurseries
Post: RE: Nurseries

Our eldest (three and a half y.o.) goes to Perrymount nursery on Sunderland Road. We're very happy with it - so is he. OFSTED outstanding, if thats what motivates you (it doesnt us). Welcoming and hom...
Tomcat SE23 Topics 6 7,637 17-07-2014, 01:31 PM
  Thread: Ferfect
Post: RE: Ferfect

Re the development next to Wetherpoons, I reckon it's to allow delivery of building materials to the site behind the run of shops adjacent. No access from the rear so my guess delivery from the South ...
Tomcat SE23 Topics 15 17,645 18-06-2014, 12:37 PM
  Thread: How do I type a tick?
Post: RE: How do I type a tick?

Depends what Word you have. I have 2010. If you have: On your toolbar select Insert, then Symbol, then in font 'wingdings'. The tick is at 252.
Tomcat Wider Topics 3 4,355 27-01-2014, 08:26 PM
  Thread: Poor dog. Siddons Road.
Post: RE: Poor dog. Siddons Road.

I live on Siddons Road and don't recognise them from the description. Will keep my eyes peeled though.
Tomcat SE23 Topics 7 9,323 24-01-2014, 10:06 PM
  Thread: tables and chairs for sale
Post: RE: tables and chairs for sale

Hi, are the chairs still available ? I'm interested in these. Thanks.
Tomcat Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 3 4,698 18-01-2014, 02:17 PM
  Thread: New cafe
Post: New cafe

Walking down Dartmouth Road over the weekend and noticed a sign in the window of a unit a couple of doors down from Sugar Mountain. Where the Polish cafe used to be. Said "new cafe and pizzeria" to op...
Tomcat SE23 Topics 0 2,395 13-01-2014, 09:10 PM
  Thread: New coffee shop in Forest Hill
Post: RE: New coffee shop in Forest Hill

Unfortunately I would give the cafe 6 months only - walk past it every day and it's always empty. Agreed that it looks stark and uninviting. The coffee shops on the other side of the railway line have...
Tomcat SE23 Topics 23 28,328 13-01-2014, 09:07 PM
  Thread: Wanted - a Moses basket (with stand)
Post: RE: Wanted - a Moses basket (with stand)

Hi, good timing, we have a moses basket, bedding and stand that today we decided we didnt need any more. You'll need to buy a new mattress. PM me if you would like.
Tomcat Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 1 3,368 14-12-2013, 07:20 PM
  Thread: Lolos Patisserie closed
Post: RE: Lolos Patisserie closed

My view would be that (sadly) a chicken shop may well survive, despite Sabah's fish bar being across the road, owing to the business from the school kids at Forest Hill High. Doesn't bear thinking abo...
Tomcat SE23 Topics 12 13,786 16-11-2013, 04:31 PM
  Thread: Free - extra large metal fire guard
Post: RE: Free - extra large metal fire guard

Hi, we'd like this please and could collect tomorrow ?
Tomcat Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 3 4,681 09-11-2013, 10:18 PM
  Thread: Le Querce, Brockley rise
Post: RE: Le Querce, Brockley rise

It's good, occasionally very good, sometimes distinctly ordinary. But some of the finest in the UK ?? I love this area and am the first to talk up its bars and restaurants etc. But that smacks of jour...
Tomcat SE23 Topics 29 27,302 07-11-2013, 07:38 PM
  Thread: Farmers' market in the Horniman Gardens
Post: RE: Farmers' market in the Horniman Gardens

Great post, Bluesuperted. As the father of a 3 y.o boy and twins under 6 months - I agree with your post in its entirety.
Tomcat SE23 Topics 218 181,743 06-11-2013, 10:18 PM
  Thread: New Shops on Perry Vale
Post: RE: New Shops on Perry Vale

we'll soon see
Tomcat SE23 Topics 4 7,242 04-11-2013, 07:39 PM
  Thread: Lolos Patisserie closed
Post: RE: Lolos Patisserie closed

Makes sense with the layout that the chemist was a post office. Apparently there was a fishmonger somewhere on the parade back in the mists of time. Wow.... just imagine
Tomcat SE23 Topics 12 13,786 04-11-2013, 06:16 PM
  Thread: New Shops on Perry Vale
Post: RE: New Shops on Perry Vale

The restaurant is going to be Mauritian, so says Mrs Finch
Tomcat SE23 Topics 4 7,242 04-11-2013, 06:14 PM
  Thread: Lolos Patisserie closed
Post: RE: Lolos Patisserie closed

I'm sure you're right AMFM about it never being a post office - the layout didnt feel like a post office to me. I also agree that the bread was a bit ordinary. The owner probably went too far toward b...
Tomcat SE23 Topics 12 13,786 04-11-2013, 11:37 AM
  Thread: Lolos Patisserie closed
Post: RE: Lolos Patisserie closed

I live on Siddons Road. Lolos closed about a month ago. The word from the traders on the parade is that it was an "overnight" closure. The owner didnt indicate to anyone why she was closing or that sh...
Tomcat SE23 Topics 12 13,786 03-11-2013, 10:49 AM
  Thread: Loxton Rd
Post: RE: Loxton rd

I echo the comments of Belle and Bluesuperted above. We live on Siddons Road, a stone's throw from Loxton. We've been here since 2008 and have even in this short time seen in the surrounding area sign...
Tomcat SE23 Topics 10 9,106 31-10-2013, 12:42 PM
  Thread: Further crime in SE23
Post: RE: Further crime in SE23

Police with dogs out tonight on Siddons Road
Tomcat SE23 Topics 14 12,543 24-10-2013, 10:54 PM
  Thread: The Butchery on the Telly
Post: RE: The Butchery on the Telly

Twas him I should say. Next stop Jamie ?
Tomcat Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 1 2,367 08-09-2013, 04:07 PM
  Thread: Any Birthday Party Venue Ideas?
Post: RE: Any Birthday Party Venue Ideas?

Hi, friends of mine recently hired the gallery to the rear of Canvas and Cream for a 40th. It was very good - champagne was bought in but the staff assisted with serving etc.
Tomcat Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 9 9,871 15-08-2013, 01:01 PM
  Thread: The retail units in the flats by Forest Hill station exit: any idea what the plan is?
Post: RE: The retail units in the flats by Forest Hill s...

Hell, I'd settle for a Budgens
Tomcat SE23 Topics 11 15,118 12-08-2013, 02:29 PM
  Thread: The retail units in the flats by Forest Hill station exit: any idea what the plan is?
Post: RE: The retail units in the flats by Forest Hill s...

Much as I love it to be too, the closest we're going to get to Waitrose is the wagons driving through FH on the south circ.
Tomcat SE23 Topics 11 15,118 09-08-2013, 04:27 PM
  Thread: The retail units in the flats by Forest Hill station exit: any idea what the plan is?
Post: RE: The retail units in the flats by Forest Hill s...

Ta, FHSoc.
Tomcat SE23 Topics 11 15,118 14-07-2013, 12:01 PM
  Thread: The retail units in the flats by Forest Hill station exit: any idea what the plan is?
Post: RE: The retail units in the flats by Forest Hill s...

The one in the block of new flats is some kind of off licencey type store. I'm intrigued myself by the building work in the property between Finches and the flats.... what do we think that is going t...
Tomcat SE23 Topics 11 15,118 12-07-2013, 06:18 PM
  Thread: Planning: 2-4 London Road FH (Launderette)
Post: RE: Planning: 2-4 London Road FH (Launderette)

FHSoc - there is no confusion it seems to me (and perhaps to many other users of this site). It was a mistake to retain the launderette there, and in its current dilapidated state. I do hope I don't d...
Tomcat SE23 Topics 156 138,118 02-07-2013, 08:26 AM
  Thread: Planning: 2-4 London Road FH (Launderette)
Post: RE: Planning: 2-4 London Road FH (Launderette)

The fact that FH has so obviously improved over recent years throws into relief the folly of retaining the launderette. The positive arguments about the unit remaining A1 are based on the view that so...
Tomcat SE23 Topics 156 138,118 21-06-2013, 03:58 PM
  Thread: Planning: 2-4 London Road FH (Launderette)
Post: RE: Planning: 2-4 London Road FH (Launderette)

Well Perryman I take your point. But the South Circ will be forever the South Circ - no changes there - and the same applies to our station, we'll never get our grand Victorian edifice back. The key i...
Tomcat SE23 Topics 156 138,118 21-06-2013, 11:06 AM
  Thread: Planning: 2-4 London Road FH (Launderette)
Post: RE: Planning: 2-4 London Road FH (Launderette)

Agree with gbrownings. Step out into the 'new and improved' FH and see, well, err, a launderette. Doubt most of FH will ever step inside it.
Tomcat SE23 Topics 156 138,118 21-06-2013, 06:48 AM
  Thread: Maxi Cosi Peddle 0-9mths car seat and isofix base
Post: RE: Maxi Cosi Peddle 0-9mths car seat and isofix b...

Hi, is this still for sale ? Thanks
Tomcat Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 1 3,403 02-06-2013, 08:39 PM
  Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: RE: Location x3

Excellent stuff, Michael. Thanks for posting. A few weeks ago I saw Ronnie O'Sullivan hopping out of his huge Merc SUV to nip into Parris cues. As he did so a white van rolled down its windows and I h...
Tomcat Wider Topics 301 213,459 14-05-2013, 01:35 PM
  Thread: Perrymount nursery
Post: Perrymount nursery

Hi, I am very interested in hearing from anybody who has sent their child to Perrymount nursery. I am aware there is a thread similar to this already but it's over 18 months old and talked more about ...
Tomcat Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 1 3,193 09-05-2013, 06:19 PM
  Thread: Violence etc in F Hill
Post: RE: Violence etc in F Hill

Wow, Anotherjohn, what a rum place FH was ! Been here for 5 years - never seen a sniff of trouble. Happy to bring my family up here. Moved in from one of the nicer bits of Peckham. I know where I'd ra...
Tomcat SE23 Topics 28 25,942 06-05-2013, 03:22 PM
  Thread: Shops, pubs, restaurants, etc
Post: Retail units on Perry Vale

I see a notice has been put up on one of the empty units in the development opposite the station. Some form of off-licence. Anyone know any further details ?
Tomcat Wider Topics 301 213,459 28-04-2013, 06:16 PM
  Thread: Let's move to Forest Hill
Post: RE: Let's move to Forest Hill

A quick look at the Guardian Online's archive "Let's move to" feature shows this is often a problem. Most of the comments posted contain complaints about the journalist never visiting. On this occasio...
Tomcat SE23 Topics 40 42,465 06-04-2013, 04:02 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Station Subway
Post: RE: Forest Hill Station Subway

Ha, fair enough shz1400 - I was thinking of George Jackson of Brookside "fame". Shurely you remember him ? As wiki has it - George, his wife Marie, and their twin sons Gary and Little George ....
Tomcat SE23 Topics 195 189,646 02-04-2013, 09:48 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Station Subway
Post: RE: Forest Hill Station Subway

Wasn't it George Jackson ?
Tomcat SE23 Topics 195 189,646 02-04-2013, 07:55 PM
  Thread: Normanton Street part of Perry Vale
Post: RE: Normonton street part of perry vale

Hi FireSnake, sorry for the delay with this post, tried to post on the day you first posted but my message went to drafts, inadvertently. I live on Siddons Road, which runs parallel to Normanton down ...
Tomcat SE23 Topics 13 12,733 02-04-2013, 04:23 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Station Subway
Post: RE: Forest Hill Station Subway

Yes, I walked through the underpass this morning and noted the unwelcome but predictable addition (s). Ho-hum. A petty urban irritation, I suppose. But, sheesh, what a dull, bland, way of going about ...
Tomcat SE23 Topics 195 189,646 02-04-2013, 04:12 PM
  Thread: Planning: 2-4 London Road FH (Launderette)
Post: RE: Launderette closing

Perry Dry Cleaners on Perry Vale, to which I regularly take my shirts for laundering, charges £1.50 per shirt. Bargain. Life is too short to wash, dry and then (grrr) iron work shirts.
Tomcat SE23 Topics 156 138,118 23-03-2013, 08:41 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Station Subway
Post: RE: Forest Hill Station Subway

I really hope it doesn't get tagged by the more artistic in our community. Although Im not holding my breath.
Tomcat SE23 Topics 195 189,646 19-03-2013, 08:33 PM
  Thread: Location x3
Post: RE: Location x3

Always a good sign when places near Forest Hill are called "Forest Hill Borders", as was the property in Catford.
Tomcat SE23 Topics 10 13,353 27-01-2013, 12:55 PM
  Thread: Location Location Location
Post: RE: Location Location Location

Hi Nottinghillbilly, there is a great little bakers/patisserie on the parade of shops along Perry Vale (near the old fire station). Its called Lolo's. Get there early for bread though as it quickly se...
Tomcat SE23 Topics 14 15,385 07-01-2013, 02:12 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Station Subway
Post: RE: Forest Hill Station Subway

Maybe a certain fellow poster may want to read my last sentence again - once he's had a brief lie down to recompose himself - I endorse the start of the works !
Tomcat SE23 Topics 195 189,646 07-11-2012, 11:35 PM
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