Fire on Perry Vale. Spectacular drone footage suggests it started behind Finches Bike Emporium around 6.30 pm. LFB say the whole shops is engulfed and maybe spreading.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY5SpIx62X0

https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/incidents/2025/october/fire-at-shop-forest-hill/ […]

Huge fire guts Poundland Penge. 176/197 buses terminating at Sydenham.

https://metro.co.uk/2025/10/09/huge-fire-south-east-london-shop-sends-smoke-billowing-sky-24378995/?ito=article.mweb.share.top.native

#Sydenham #penge #se20 #lfb

Some wonderful photos of Forest Hill Station: https://tubemapper.com/forest-hill-station/

#foresthill #se23 #overground #tfl

Accidental or a complete knock-off?

You decide. Morley's in Sydenham Road and Metro's in Stanstead Road Forest Hill. Pix from Google Streetmap.

#Sydenham #foresthill

A two-year-old boy has died after falling from height in south east London.

The child was rushed to hospital but despite the efforts medics, he sadly passed away.

Emergency crews responded to a call from an address Wynell Road, Forest Hill.

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A photographer from Forest Hill smuggled £2.4kg of cocaine into the country in a light aircraft.

Local man Errol McCardo Weir worked with qualified pilot Anastasios Balian in an attempt to bring 30kg of cocaine into the country.

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Fancy a free pint? Here are the Forest Hill pub in the scheme:

* The Hill, 45-47 Dartmouth Road, London, SE23 3HN

This is London wide so there are a lot more pubs you could crawl. Details:
https://www.timeout.com/london/news/all-the-london-pubs-you-can-get-a-free-pint-in-this-week-051325 […]

Forest Hill to get a new Lidl?

Story: https://www.timeout.com/london/news/lidl-is-spending-half-a-billion-pounds-expanding-in-the-uk-these-235-london-neighbourhoods-could-soon-get-a-new-budget-supermarket-042825

#foresthill #se23

There will be no trains between Victoria & London Bridge Easter holiday April 18/21st. Southeastern trains at Penge East/Sydenham Hill will not run to Victoria but will be diverted to other London terminals.

#Sydenham #se26 #foresthill #se23 #honoroak #southernrailway #southeastern

#foresthill #se23 #foresthillsociety

"Over the last few weeks the Forest Hill Society has been looking for a suitable body of water to rename the Gulf of Forest Hill. After careful consideration we have chosen to honour the body of water between Devon and Wales – previously referred to as the […]

Sydenham Society are protesting at the imposition of parking charges on Sydenham Road and elsewhere. This is supposed to be from March 31st and is borough wide. First I have heard of it.

No consultation from Lewisham or SydSoc on decisions for and against.

This is SydSoc's take […]

The Segal self-build method is a model of how housing could be. Not the badly built boxes that the property behemoths build today, but to scale and which the occupant has a real involvement.

Made famous by the developments in Forest Hill/Honor Oak

#foresthill /honoroak #se23 #lewisham #london […]

Did you know you were living in a property hotspot? A survey of national home price increases since 2000 has:

Lewisham West & Penge, 12th place 491%
Dulwich & West Norwood, 14th place 481%

Delford, Camberwell & Peckham also feature making pretty much of Lewisham and Southwark combined […]

#southernrailway #tfl #Sydenham #foresthill

No Overground (Windrush) today. Insted of 10 trains/hour we got 2 Southern. They reduced the service to just 4 carriages per train. Predictable pandemonium.

The doors wouldn't open at first at LBG becsuse of […]

[Original post on social.brainsys.com]

#Sydenham #bellgreen #lewisham

Think if those bombs had exploded when the gas holders and works were there:
https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/24865911.bell-green-retail-park-sydenham-wwii-bombs-found-recap/

#lewisham #london #metpolice

Met Police challenged on claim Live Facial Recognition cameras are supported by ‘majority of Lewisham residents’.

There are five in the borough watching you now.

When Computer Weekly did a Freedom of Information request on the consultation - the claim appears to […]

#foresthill #se23

Another day, another Thames Water hole being dug on the South Circular in
#SE23

If you can, it really is best to try and avoid driving on the A205 through Forest Hill for the foreseeable future. Current works are expected to last until at least 9th December.

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