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by gone
21 Apr 2008 21:30
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: The Crystal Palace Pneumatic Railway
Replies: 76
Views: 148451

"*I was surprised how much of that side of the park has gone...."


Give Bromley Council half a chance and it will cover the park with houses.

Probably the last rotten borough in existance, I could tll some stories about vested interests there....
by gone
21 Apr 2008 21:20
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: London Mayor Election
Replies: 43
Views: 38530

sending picaninnies up chimneys is a dreadful idea, how would you find them up there?






(that was meant in a humorous manner but I bet it gets someone uptight]
by gone
21 Apr 2008 19:14
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: London Mayor Election
Replies: 43
Views: 38530

so, almost a point of balance then? Boris is flaky And so is Red Ken In short a throughly undesirable pair all together. Ken is ruining London and Boris will finish the job? I remember a famous quote of Ken from years back, about the only thing hes ever said I agree with. "If voting changed any...
by gone
21 Apr 2008 12:32
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: London Mayor Election
Replies: 43
Views: 38530

Harare???? ah yes Mugabe, another Marxist liberator,and friend of the people. yep him and Ken subscribe to the same ideals dont they? An awful lot of Mugabes citizens since freed by the hand of Marxisms finest probably wish they had Rhodesia back in place perhaps? Distortion, dont make me laugh, whe...
by gone
21 Apr 2008 11:14
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: London Mayor Election
Replies: 43
Views: 38530

With his barmy ideas about motorised vehicles, [well he hates them[, and with his cock-eyed notions about them, he has, at a stroke ruled out from getting any work on, for instance, the Olympics, by the small builder or tradesman who cannot afford to uprate his diesel van/truck/lorry because Red Ken...
by gone
21 Apr 2008 08:25
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: London Mayor Election
Replies: 43
Views: 38530

Thank you Oberon for that additional info and to Stone Penge for pointing out that the war criminals Blair is only partly responsible for the unnecessary slaughter in in Iraq/ However it is an undeniable fact that most of the deaths and horrors inflicted on the Iraqi people have been inflicted by ot...
by gone
19 Apr 2008 18:12
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: London Mayor Election
Replies: 43
Views: 38530

OH perleeeeese.......

The Tribune :roll: The Sunday Sport for the militant tendancy

At least quote a champagne socialist rag like here

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... columnists

They must be scared of Boris, bring him on
by gone
19 Apr 2008 16:22
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: London Mayor Election
Replies: 43
Views: 38530

Cant find fault with any of that,the man is dyed in the wool politician


Sounds exactly the man for the job to me.

Is is a pinko forum then?

I thought it was Sydenham, not bloody Hampsted
by gone
19 Apr 2008 12:11
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: London Mayor Election
Replies: 43
Views: 38530

I knew Red Ken when he was causing no end of trouble at Brixton town hall, Now he is a pillock, a complete and utter tosser who has never done a days work in his life. About the only thing he has ever done I agree with is banning the giving out of goldfish as fairground prizes. Good for Boris I say,...
by gone
18 Apr 2008 17:46
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Peckarmans Wood - subsidence??
Replies: 26
Views: 35635

I`m not negative, I`m just wary, And as such I`m used to being sneered at by the "worldly wise" with their snappy little homilies. Nothing wrong with living in Peckermans Wood, I played in those woods before it was built. A nice spot to be with still, I imagine, unless all the trees have g...
by gone
18 Apr 2008 15:49
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Peckarmans Wood - subsidence??
Replies: 26
Views: 35635

nothing like taking a long term view then? :D
by gone
18 Apr 2008 14:42
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Peckarmans Wood - subsidence??
Replies: 26
Views: 35635

the evil cynic writes Have they given you a price for the freehold yet? I seem to remember in my dealing with buying leaseholds that you had to fulfil certain conditions first, such as living there for a certain number of years., and then it was at the discretion of the landowner to set the price. I...
by gone
18 Apr 2008 12:59
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Peckarmans Wood - subsidence??
Replies: 26
Views: 35635

hmmm A timber framed house too.... Am I right in thinking his house is leasehold still? If you must be nuts getting a mortgage on a house that will never be yours, nor, if it falls down will you have even the land it stands on as recompense. From what I remember the trustees of the Dulwich college e...
by gone
18 Apr 2008 09:18
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Peckarmans Wood - subsidence??
Replies: 26
Views: 35635

Peckermans Wood?
late 60s/70s speculative built
built on a clayslope
over a derelict railway tunnel?

you sure you want to live there?
by gone
17 Apr 2008 11:39
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Early Penge Buildings (Part 2)
Replies: 48
Views: 69864

The Porcupine field and Pub were about were the Lennard road frontage of the Alex rec is now. The Hardings lane toll gate was on or about the site of that row of 3 1950s houses built where a bomb fell. The stick of bombs that left this gap also hit Parish lane Edward road,where the garages are,Thesi...
by gone
16 Apr 2008 19:43
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Planning Applications
Replies: 2
Views: 5028

You are about 50 years too late Mary. I knew that whole area off Kirkdale back then, from Sydenham hill down From the top of Panmure road you could see wheat fields. The bird life was amazing, swallows and house martins, owls all sorts hedgehogs everywhere, grass snakes in the gardens. Its fallen fo...
by gone
15 Apr 2008 21:17
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: forest hill boys school
Replies: 7
Views: 13623

Formerly known as Dacres road school? spent 5 miserable years of my life there,& hated it When I last passed by it the huge sign outside said it was "specialising in the Performing Arts" :roll: If you can't teach them to read and write,at least you can teach them to dance and play the ...
by gone
13 Apr 2008 10:48
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Barnard's Farm and Penge Place Lodge
Replies: 8
Views: 10260

Well Falkor, if the people who could give the interest you require and who are interested in the subject and hold info on the subject get removed from the site for expressing an opinion thats just a loss to the site isnt it?