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by alywin
17 Aug 2012 23:17
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: BAN ESTATE AGENTS BOARDS from the High Street.
Replies: 38
Views: 25815

Re: BAN ESTATE AGENTS BOARDS from the High Street.

Often too they cause real damage to buildings. The people who put up these signs on behalf of agents use six inch nails, hammered in with no care and (if the signs are ever removed) just wrenched out. [snip] Our brick garden wall has been virtually destroyed by a series of agents advertising the ho...
by alywin
19 Jun 2012 23:12
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Gorgeous new garden centre in Parish Lane
Replies: 28
Views: 18434

Re: Gorgeous new garden centre in Parish Lane

Eagle wrote:I assumed the first couple of posts were from the owners but maybe is worth visiting.
Eagle, do you usually query everyone's identity when they've told you they're not associated with something? :)

It certainly is worth visiting: very nice.
by alywin
19 Jun 2012 23:08
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: CONVERTING EMPTY SHOPS TO FLATS
Replies: 9
Views: 5476

Re: CONVERTING EMPTY SHOPS TO FLATS

I'm afraid it's not only Lewisham: Bromley seems to be doing the same thing. Almost a case of "if it moves, convert it into a house" (well, you know what I mean!). Not just shops, but minor industrial premises and anything else they can think of. Not to mention building existing storeys on...
by alywin
8 Jun 2012 23:23
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: No early trains on Sunday ...
Replies: 3
Views: 2250

Re: No early trains on Sunday ...

Are Southern running? They have been sometimes when the ELL hasn't.

Alternatively, get up to the District Line somehow (depending on where you live) and change at Mile End for Stratford. At least there are various options now.
by alywin
21 May 2012 23:33
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Begging in Sydenham Road
Replies: 76
Views: 41102

Re: Begging in Sydenham Road

I should think with the advent of Oyster cards there are far fewer paper tickets to pass around. No, you just pass the Oyster around instead. That *is* permitted, provided it's a general Oystercard and not a season, and that not more than one of you is trying to use it at a time. Because things got...
by alywin
5 May 2012 21:29
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Rebranding Lower Sydenham
Replies: 56
Views: 29305

Re: Rebranding Lower Sydenham

And Bromley High Street (upper end) has pretty much become a no-go area at night since it's been pedestrianised. Not necessarily no-go as in "don't walk down there or you'll get attacked", but certainly as in there's really nowhere to go down there, barring the theatre (and library on late...
by alywin
5 May 2012 21:19
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: WHAT IF PENGE
Replies: 2
Views: 2191

Re: WHAT IF PENGE

That Wordpress site isn't working for me, Lee (mind you, it's Wordpress, and I haven't been able to get on any of theirs in months - not that I try that often. If I use Internet Explorer, I just get a blank page, but if I use Firefox I think it does give some indication as to precisely what's wrong).
by alywin
5 May 2012 21:16
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Gorgeous new garden centre in Parish Lane
Replies: 28
Views: 18434

Re: Gorgeous new garden centre in Parish Lane

The nurseries website isn't working yet, but the cottages one is:
http://www.alexandracottages.co.uk/
It looks as though that little area of Penge is developing its own mini town forum!

I looked in briefly today, and it looks very nice.
by alywin
20 Apr 2012 00:31
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Tonight's trasmitter light show
Replies: 8
Views: 5955

Re: Tonight's trasmitter light show

Andwar wrote:A big event like this which could be seen from most of London and not a squeek on the evening news.
Well, I couldn't see it from about a mile down the hill. Too close, I guess :(
by alywin
6 Apr 2012 16:55
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Closure of London Bridge (upper station) in 2015
Replies: 15
Views: 12789

Re: Closure of London Bridge (upper station) in 2015

rshdunlop wrote:True. As any Londoner knows, there's more than one way to skin a cat, and at least half a dozen ways to get to where you are going.
Most of them costing rather more - and probably taking longer - than the original route, though, I suspect.
by alywin
6 Apr 2012 16:50
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Evading the fares at the station
Replies: 16
Views: 12058

Re: Evading the fares at the station

I have it in writing (well, printing) that all Overground stations were going to be manned at all hours when the trains were operating ...
by alywin
3 Apr 2012 23:22
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Closure of London Bridge (upper station) in 2015
Replies: 15
Views: 12789

Re: Closure of London Bridge (upper station) in 2015

But may I point out, for the sake of completeness, that a perfectly acceptable and easy way to get from Sydenham to Charing Cross is to go from Lower Sydenham station: a fact that often seems to get neglected on this website. Yes, and the Hayes line is already quite crowded enough without loads of ...
by alywin
30 Mar 2012 23:44
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Is that buzzing ever going to stop?
Replies: 1
Views: 1776

Is that buzzing ever going to stop?

I want to go to sleep, and that helicopter has been circling for what seems like hours :(. Think it must be going up and down the railway line or something.
by alywin
30 Mar 2012 23:42
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: TRAINS THIS WEEKEND - WOOHOO!
Replies: 18
Views: 12354

Re: TRAINS THIS WEEKEND - WOOHOO!

Great. Just the one time I was actually intending to use my zone 1-6 day Travelcard from Sydders to EC ...
by alywin
28 Mar 2012 00:01
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: TRAINS THIS WEEKEND - WOOHOO!
Replies: 18
Views: 12354

Re: TRAINS THIS WEEKEND - WOOHOO!

Did some research and discovered that walking to Penge East and getting the train to Victoria (then on to the dreaded Underground to work) was quicker than Overground from Sydenham. So in a way I'm grateful for all this weekend engineering work because if it hadn't been for that I wouldn't have dis...
by alywin
27 Mar 2012 23:58
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Evading the fares at the station
Replies: 16
Views: 12058

Re: Evading the fares at the station

On a slightly different note, has anyone else found a problem with the ink on season tickets fading quite quickly. I've got through 4 replacement season tickets that have simply faded. I'm wondering if it's a new kind of printer they use or else maybe the ticket machines are scraping the ink as the...
by alywin
6 Mar 2012 22:56
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: TRAINS THIS WEEKEND - WOOHOO!
Replies: 18
Views: 12354

Re: TRAINS THIS WEEKEND - WOOHOO!

As far as I can see from the engineering works posters, I don't think there'll be any trains again between London Bridge and West Croydon this Sunday. Add to that nothing between Herne Hill and Victoria on the Penge East line, and some of us are going to be a bit scuppered.
by alywin
6 Mar 2012 22:53
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Evading the fares at the station
Replies: 16
Views: 12058

Re: Evading the fares at the station

I always thought if the gates were in use an employee of the railway company had to be there , but I guess as usual I was wrong. So did I. After all, health and safety prohibits the gates from being closed when there's nobody to staff them in case it's necessary to evacuate the station. Yet I've se...
by alywin
3 Mar 2012 20:44
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Begging in Sydenham Road
Replies: 76
Views: 41102

Re: Begging in Sydenham Road

rshdunlop wrote:I should think with the advent of Oyster cards there are far fewer paper tickets to pass around.
No, you just pass the Oyster around instead. That *is* permitted, provided it's a general Oystercard and not a season, and that not more than one of you is trying to use it at a time.
by alywin
3 Mar 2012 20:39
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Begging in Sydenham Road
Replies: 76
Views: 41102

Re: Begging in Sydenham Road

I've just had a re-read of the conditions of carriage (that everyone agrees to when they buy a railway ticket) and I can't find anything to suggest that Travelcards are any different to any other kind of ticket (i.e. non transferrable - see condition 6). "It may not be resold or passed on to a...