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Thread: 8:24 to London Bridge from HOP
Post: RE: 8:24 to London Bridge from HOP
| This particular service has always been liable to have / cause problems, for as long ad I can remember. The one before is usually OK but as you say it tends to bugga up subsequent services and you hav... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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12-11-2007, 01:09 PM |
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Thread: 8:24 to London Bridge from HOP
Post: RE: 8:24 to London Bridge from HOP
| [quote=davidl]I just feel sorry for people trying to board at Brockley. They must feel incredibly hard done-by.
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I don't pity them. They should live somewhere more sensible.
It is gener... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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12-11-2007, 06:11 PM |
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Thread: 8:24 to London Bridge from HOP
Post: RE: 8:24 to London Bridge from HOP
| [quote=Baboonery]
Tell me, at which platform does the FH 0821/HOP 0824 normally arrive?! When it's on time, that is. Platform 8, you say? The lowest possible? Why, that can't be right?!
As far as ... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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12-11-2007, 09:13 PM |
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Thread: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
Post: RE: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
| There's about as much chance of that becoming the next East Dulwich Deli or Green & Blue as [insert own phrase, e.g. 'our town centre manager doing something visible to earn her salary'] |
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hilltopgeneral |
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12-11-2007, 09:19 PM |
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Thread: Fifty grand for us to spend on improvements
Post: RE: Fifty grand for us to spend on improvements
| We do still have a town centre manager, I believe, but share with other areas.
Quite what she does is anyone's guess. Apart from building up a decent final salary pension. |
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hilltopgeneral |
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20-10-2007, 11:22 AM |
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Thread: Linda Barker and Other Celeb Types in the Area
Post: RE: Linda Barker and other celeb types in the area
| I know Forest Hill isn't exactly totty central, but I worry about some of you people |
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hilltopgeneral |
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26-10-2007, 09:42 AM |
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Thread: SE23.com welcome picture
Post: RE: se23.com welcome picture
| If I remember correctly then (many years ago) there was a different pic and I among others asked if we could have a nicer one. Not sure this is what caused the change so I hesitate to claim credit, th... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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15-11-2007, 04:03 PM |
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Thread: Moving House
Post: RE: Moving House
| [quote=millesens]
Excactly, let s stop perpetuating this myth simply based on some geographical borders ( yes yes you are close to Dulwich and we are close to Catford, so what about Peckham ?). On "m... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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20-10-2007, 11:19 AM |
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Thread: Class divisions in FH
Post: RE: Class divisions in FH
| Well, apart from numbers 3, 10, 11, 21 and 24. |
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hilltopgeneral |
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16-11-2007, 01:02 PM |
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Thread: Which is your Favourite Pub in SE23?
Post: RE: Which is your favourite pub in SE23?
| Not a single vote for 'local pub for local people', the Forest Hill Hotel?
Come to think of it, I'm not sure I've ever seen it mentioned on this forum. |
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hilltopgeneral |
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10-12-2007, 10:46 AM |
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Thread: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
Post: RE: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
| Wot, no high-end deli? Some grotty ironing shop on Perry Vale, the Marylebone High Street of the South? |
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hilltopgeneral |
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12-12-2007, 11:06 AM |
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Thread: Merry Christmas Sir Steve!
Post: RE: Merry Christmas Sir Steve!
| Don't drop one through the door of that really shabby house on Tyson, then... isn't that a certain politician's mum's, bought in the expectation of making a profit from getting it knocked down to enab... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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13-12-2007, 01:19 PM |
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Thread: Merry Christmas Sir Steve!
Post: RE: Merry Christmas Sir Steve!
| Great idea but I wouldn't be all that optimistic.
Lewisham is notable for a consistent lack of leadership and imagination when it comes to regeneration.
Forest Hill will always remain right at t... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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13-12-2007, 12:30 PM |
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Thread: Thinking of moving to the area
Post: RE: Thinking of moving to the area
| There's more to do in Crystal Palace, and some better architecture, but you have to balance that with being that bit further out with poorer transport links. It's also a bit rougher (albeit no downtow... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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13-12-2007, 12:57 PM |
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Thread: Merry Christmas Sir Steve!
Post: RE: Merry Christmas Sir Steve!
| [quote=Ian]If that fails, vote them out at the next election.....easy ![/quote]
You try getting Generalissimo B"u"llock out... 38% of the vote on a 34% turnout - what a mandate. As long as there ar... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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13-12-2007, 02:49 PM |
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Thread: Electricity Supply Problems
Post: RE: Localised power cut Sunday 30th December- OUTR...
| Good Lord, I wasn't aware that one could freeze sevruga or foie gras. |
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hilltopgeneral |
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31-12-2007, 12:47 AM |
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Thread: Electricity Supply Problems
Post: RE: Localised power cut Sunday 30th December- OUTR...
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hilltopgeneral |
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31-12-2007, 05:10 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: timetable at Forest Hill station
| Perhaps it's part of persuading you that we have a "turn up and go", "Metro" service?
I suppose this is almost the case at peak times - it's not really critical to turn up for a particular train.
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hilltopgeneral |
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04-01-2008, 03:27 PM |
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Thread: Electricity Supply Problems
Post: RE: Localised power cut Sunday 30th December- OUTR...
| I can appreciate that it was very frustrating, but unless you have electric heating (?) then you could conceivably have stayed in, and if you don't have a gas hob got some sandwiches or a take-away or... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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31-12-2007, 12:20 PM |
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Thread: So what's so special about us?
Post: RE: So what's so special about us?
| I think there is a reasonably healthy Brockley one. The Sydenham forum also seems quite popular. I suspect that the 'East Dulwich Forum' is busier than this one, and there is also a longstanding 'Virt... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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08-01-2008, 10:57 AM |
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Thread: Planning Application: 1 Manor Mount
Post: RE: House on Honor Oak Road & Manor Mount
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hilltopgeneral |
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08-01-2008, 01:17 PM |
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Thread: Cannabis Factory Found on Perry Vale
Post: RE: Perry Vale Cannabis Factory
| The reason for the large number of farms in SE23 is - apparently - property prices. Houses are rented for this specific purpose by certain gangs (I won't suggest they might often be from a specific re... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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15-01-2008, 05:30 PM |
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Thread: Threat to Conservation Area
Post: RE: Threat to Conservation Area
| Let me guess.. you live in 1 1/2 Manor Mount? |
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hilltopgeneral |
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16-01-2008, 03:18 PM |
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Thread: Known shoplifters in FH
Post: RE: Known shoplifters in FH
| Loca, I'm sorry to hear they have shouted obesities at you, but perhaps they are trying to tell you something? Many of us overindulge over the festive period, but come the New Year it's time for a res... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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18-01-2008, 09:03 PM |
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Thread: town centre manager
Post: RE: town centre manager
| Generating such bumf is a stock-in-trade.
The meeting was a year ago.
What have the elusive Sutch or the Lewisham apparatchiks actually done? Apart from developing "strategies" and writing "plan... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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21-01-2008, 04:59 PM |
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Thread: town centre manager
Post: RE: town centre manager
| A leaflet for each area? Wow, that's some output for a full-time post. |
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hilltopgeneral |
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22-01-2008, 10:46 AM |
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Thread: Train Attack in November
Post: RE: Train Attack in November
| Shows how vigorously they pursue such matters when they haven't even bothered putting the pictures up... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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23-01-2008, 11:00 PM |
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Thread: Electricity Supply Problems
Post: RE: another power cut...
| Roz, you may be surprised that I am concerned for your welfare, but I wouldn't recommend cooking on a camping stove indoors. I presume your hob is electric? |
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hilltopgeneral |
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31-01-2008, 10:52 AM |
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Thread: any helpfull hints for someone looking to move to SE23?
Post: RE: any helpfull hints for someone looking to move...
| I think you'd be better off around the Forest Hill end of Dartmouth or Honor Oak Roads, or Taymount Rise. That way you have the N176 handy, and the P4, 176 and 185 during the day. You would be near th... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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23-01-2008, 12:09 AM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Overcrowding on Trains to London Bridge
| As we found out last year, the reason why season ticket discounts for p. poor performance were no longer applicable was because trains were - apparently - no longer late, despite no noticeable improve... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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23-01-2008, 03:23 PM |
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Thread: Train Attack in November
Post: RE: Train Attack in November
| [quote=roz]A group of kids- I say kids, they were blokes around 15-17 years of age, wearing the same gear as these guys boarded a P4 at Stondon Park at October half term ,very aggressively and made it... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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23-01-2008, 11:04 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Overcrowding on Trains to London Bridge
| [quote=michael]
[quote=roz]
how are they faring on their official performance indicators at the minute?
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See attachment for the performance figures for December (not meeting targets)
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hilltopgeneral |
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05-02-2008, 11:11 AM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Overcrowding on Trains to London Bridge
| Get planning then people!
- Get a group together - say 10 people
- Buy the sardines
- Forum photoshop artiste make some labels for the tins
- Alert SLP & Standard
- Present tins to managers |
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hilltopgeneral |
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06-02-2008, 01:13 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pool
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool
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hilltopgeneral |
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07-02-2008, 10:47 AM |
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Thread: old macdonalds
Post: RE: old macdonalds
| Ah yes, Clapham and Turnham Green. Those areas notoriously untouched by gentrification, streets of limited footfall where the limited local population needs only a bookie, a pawnbroker, a cheque cashi... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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12-02-2008, 12:01 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pool
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool
| It would be for the rational and competent person or organisation taking a long-term view on the most effective way of making sure their valuable assets stay in good working order (as you would your c... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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12-02-2008, 12:28 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pool
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool
| This whole matter is a total farce.
The council puts in place a contract to run - but not maintain - the pools.
It then acts surprised when as a result of its neglect (both during the period of ... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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12-02-2008, 11:55 AM |
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Thread: Car Thieves
Post: RE: Car Thieves
| I always thought Waldenshaw Rd was a bit vulnerable to car crime (you do sometimes see broken glass) and there is also the 'graffiti wall' at the end - both I think due to the fact that much of it is ... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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14-02-2008, 11:03 AM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Overcrowding on Trains to London Bridge
| [quote=Honor Oaker]
Southern is acquiring additional trains, but my understanding is they are for the Brighton main line and there is no intention to provide extra capacity on the South London Metro ... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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20-02-2008, 09:09 PM |
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Thread: Perystreete
Post: RE: Perystreete
| Deliberate errors and what you migth call 'quirks' have long been included on maps by the cartographers and publishers to prevent others copying them.
If you think that's bad, have a look at this m... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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25-02-2008, 11:43 AM |
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Thread: Flight Paths over SE23
Post: RE: Proposed City Airport Flight Paths over SE23
| Some time ago I suggested you all chip in for a barrage balloon, to be tethered on Horniman Drive. It seemed like a more cost effective, not to say civil, option than working some contacts with cousin... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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25-02-2008, 11:53 AM |
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Thread: Dacres Road parking problems
Post: RE: Dacres Road parking problems
| Or perhaps if that unless they take the line that 'everywhere that is not forbidden is permitted', there won't actually be anywhere to park? |
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hilltopgeneral |
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07-03-2008, 03:09 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Pool pragmatism
| You might not think the same way after researching how decisions are made at Lewisham now that we have a Mayor, and the percentage of the electorate who actually voted for him. |
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hilltopgeneral |
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19-03-2008, 06:53 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Pool pragmatism
| I think it's interesting how it now appears to be a foregone conclusion that the pools should be demolished. Rather than 'discuss what's on the table", many people probably wonder whether that should ... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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19-03-2008, 04:55 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Pool pragmatism
| [quote=Baboonery]
But of course the suggestion that any new pool will most certainly be 'a featureless/anodyne box' isn't arrogantly dismissive in any way at all, oh no no no.
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Are you wi... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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19-03-2008, 06:33 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Pool pragmatism
| [quote=thenutfield]
nice try Roz, but I fear the professional arguers of SE23 dont have pragmatism very high on thier agendas.
I think they must all be scared of water. Personally, I would rather... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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20-03-2008, 11:31 AM |
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Thread: Save Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Save Forest Hill Pools
| [quote=steveb]
Can't see why a new building has to be bad. SE london developments have twice been voted building of the year recently - Peckham Library and the Laban Dance studio in Deptford.
Re-d... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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20-03-2008, 12:09 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Pool pragmatism
| All these views were expressed by Roz after her Damascene conversion on Tyson Road, when the Angel Steve appeared to her from behind a bin with his beard a-flame. Asking to see her Party card, He remi... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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23-03-2008, 07:47 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Pool pragmatism
| Good work FHB.
Nice to live in a democracy isn't it.
Looks like Bullock is a prime practitioner of the classic Leftist 'we know what know what's best for you'. Amazing how the misinformation cam... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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21-03-2008, 11:56 PM |
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Thread: Save Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Save Forest Hill Pools
| I also wonder if anyone has put 2 and 2 together and ascertained whether the water loss is attributable to the arrangement at Forest Hill whereby overspill into the scum channels (the slots you find a... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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22-03-2008, 12:06 AM |
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