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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Hurrican St Jude visits Thamesmead
I’m stranded at home today due to storms. The local train line, Southeastern, likes to make itself very unaccountable when there’s a threat of bad weather, and it just shuts down its services all together until further notice. This meant … Continue reading
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Needless nannying
There’s clearly not much news about in the Thamesmead region right now, since this little tale has made the pages of Newsshopper: Thamesmead shopper finds ‘deadly’ bleach among wine and cider in Abbey Wood supermarket The story can be summarised … Continue reading
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Tagged abbey wood, alcohol, bleach, lidl, nanny state, news, newspapers, shopping, supermarkets, thamesmead
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A positive review of Thamesmead
Just spotted this blog post from some recent visitors to Thamesmead. There are some nice photographs accompanying it, too: https://hollisart.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/thamesmead/
Thamesmead South Regeneration Neighbourhood Group
This picture shows the results of an icebreaker from the Thamesmead South Regeneration Neighbourhood Group (hereafter referred to as the Neighbourhood Group to save typing!). The quality isn’t fantastic, but it does the trick. We were each asked to stand … Continue reading
Swanning around
The swans around Thamesmead north would appear to have become something of a menace. This short video shows a few people being harrassed by some of the wildlife along a cyclepath. Meanwhile, a bigger write up with pictures was posted … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, birds, horses, nature, spiders, swans, wildlife
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South Thamesmead Regeneration Neighbourhood Group
I’m just back from the church where the Gallions meeting with local residents and stakeholders took place. I had a good time meeting a lot of locals and I’ve got quite a few notes to type up, but that will … Continue reading
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Parkview Hub
The start of the Parkview Hub work. Due to end next spring. This is along Yarnton Way.
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South Thamesmead Neighbourhood Group
Something interesting happened to me yesterday. I was invited to join the South Thamesmead Neighbourhood Group, an invitation that I have happily accepted. The group is being set up by Gallions and according to Lesley Edwards who invited me: The … Continue reading
Meet the Guvnors!
An interesting letter dropped through my door last night, warning me that a film is being made in the local area. Residents were being warned that there may be some disruption while filming took place, but it shouldn’t run too … Continue reading
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Tagged clockwork orange, events, filming in thamesmead, meet the guvnor
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