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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 ? |
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28-04-2013, 06:16 PM |
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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... |
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Tomcat |
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14-05-2013, 01:35 PM |
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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 ! |
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07-11-2012, 11:35 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Station Subway
Post: RE: Forest Hill Station Subway
| I went through the foot tunnel at approx 1pm. Two blokes and one water power jet. Cable for jet along the floor of the tunnel and up the steps at the south circ end. Large generator at top of steps. T... |
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06-11-2012, 09:17 PM |
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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. |
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Tomcat |
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19-03-2013, 08:33 PM |
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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 ... |
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02-04-2013, 04:12 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Station Subway
Post: RE: Forest Hill Station Subway
| Wasn't it George Jackson ? |
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02-04-2013, 07:55 PM |
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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 .... |
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Tomcat |
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02-04-2013, 09:48 PM |
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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. |
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Tomcat |
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06-11-2013, 10:18 PM |
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Thread: Planning: 2-4 London Road FH (Launderette)
Post: RE: Launderette closing
| I'm afraid other than the sad predicament in which the launderette's closure leaves its staff, there really can be no strong argument for it to remain as it is, certainly in its current form/condition... |
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Tomcat |
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23-09-2012, 05:34 PM |
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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. |
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23-03-2013, 08:41 PM |
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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. |
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21-06-2013, 06:48 AM |
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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... |
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21-06-2013, 11:06 AM |
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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... |
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Tomcat |
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21-06-2013, 03:58 PM |
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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... |
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Tomcat |
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02-07-2013, 08:26 AM |
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Thread: Perry Vale old fire station to be redeveloped
Post: RE: Perry Vale old fire station to be redeveloped
| Had a look at the plans. Crazyhorse, definitely intriguing in that staff changing areas are planned-in. You may well be right in thinking it could be a sainsbury's or Tesco type operation. My money is... |
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22-04-2012, 07:36 PM |
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Thread: Perry Vale old fire station to be redeveloped
Post: RE: Perry Vale old fire station to be redeveloped
| strange decision that and a disappointing one. Surely the disruption caused by a car repair outfit will be greater than from a shop. Pollution, engines revving, heavy tools etc not to mention the obli... |
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30-05-2012, 01:24 PM |
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Thread: Perry Vale old fire station to be redeveloped
Post: RE: Perry Vale old fire station to be redeveloped
| Thanks FHS for your very prompt response to this matter. I guess we await final confirmation of who/what will open on the site. Stefan, glad your research was inaccurate ! |
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30-05-2012, 04:17 PM |
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Thread: Anti-social behaviour in Trilby Road area
Post: RE: Anti-social behaviour in Trilby Road area
| Just posted on your other thread about difficulties in the cut-through. We all know who we're talking about in relation to the young houdlums from Vestris. Whilst the young man - the ringleader - stil... |
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Tomcat |
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10-10-2012, 09:53 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill and Sydenham Portas Bid
Post: RE: Forest Hill and Sydenham Portas Bid
| This is indeed excellent news. What now is the sequence - how will the bid success translate to change on the ground ? |
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Tomcat |
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25-07-2012, 09:18 PM |
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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 |
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Tomcat |
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19-02-2015, 04:20 PM |
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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... |
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Tomcat |
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06-04-2013, 04:02 PM |
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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... |
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Tomcat |
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13-01-2014, 09:07 PM |
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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... |
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Tomcat |
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07-11-2013, 07:38 PM |
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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... |
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06-05-2013, 03:22 PM |
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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... |
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24-09-2014, 07:14 PM |
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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 |
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27-09-2014, 01:34 PM |
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Thread: moving south of Stanstead road
Post: RE: moving south of Stanstead road
| Looks like 11.15 to me, Jane2 ! |
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27-09-2014, 07:40 PM |
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Thread: Water pressure - Lower Perry Vale area
Post: RE: Water pressure - Lower Perry Vale area
| Agreed. Annoying now. We're on Siddons Road and are now starting to think, ugh, Monday morning and back to work but with no consolatory shower... Have stocked up on bottled water from Hannells with wh... |
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22-07-2012, 07:47 PM |
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Thread: Water pressure - Lower Perry Vale area
Post: RE: Water pressure - Lower Perry Vale area
| Fair enough, Elizabeth25. We've been away for the weekend and only returned at about 4.30pm. I can imagine that if you've been putting up with it for the entire afternoon it's thoroughly inconvenient ... |
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22-07-2012, 07:57 PM |
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Thread: Water pressure - Lower Perry Vale area
Post: RE: Water pressure - Lower Perry Vale area
| No way. That's outrageous. |
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22-07-2012, 08:47 PM |
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Thread: Water pressure - Lower Perry Vale area
Post: RE: Water pressure - Lower Perry Vale area
| Ahem. Never in doubt. Hope the clowns that pilfered all the bottled water don't manage to flog it on. |
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22-07-2012, 09:09 PM |
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Thread: Departure board at Forest Hill station
Post: RE: Departure board at Forest Hill station
| Fabulously existential post, Michael |
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20-07-2012, 04:10 PM |
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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. |
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26-07-2015, 12:48 PM |
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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 ... |
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18-06-2014, 12:37 PM |
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Thread: Shed broken into and bike stolen
Post: RE: Shed broken into and bike stolen
| I also live on Siddons Road and by the sound of your description Andy on the same side of the road as you. I have noticed that a group of youths has begun to congregate on the private land at the bott... |
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Tomcat |
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19-04-2012, 10:18 PM |
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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... |
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07-01-2013, 02:12 PM |
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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... |
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12-07-2013, 06:18 PM |
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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...
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14-07-2013, 12:01 PM |
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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. |
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09-08-2013, 04:27 PM |
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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 |
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12-08-2013, 02:29 PM |
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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... |
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16-11-2013, 04:31 PM |
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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 |
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04-11-2013, 06:16 PM |
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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... |
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03-11-2013, 10:49 AM |
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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... |
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04-11-2013, 11:37 AM |
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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. |
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Tomcat |
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27-01-2013, 12:55 PM |
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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 ... |
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02-04-2013, 04:23 PM |
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Thread: Further crime in SE23
Post: RE: Further crime in SE23
| Police with dogs out tonight on Siddons Road |
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Tomcat |
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24-10-2013, 10:54 PM |
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Thread: Evening Standard availability in Forest Hill
Post: RE: Evening Standard availability in Forest Hill
| Small mercy, if you ask me |
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24-09-2014, 07:15 PM |
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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. |
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Tomcat |
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