{"id":588,"date":"2015-05-05T22:21:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T22:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/?p=588"},"modified":"2016-03-28T14:11:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T14:11:48","slug":"our-neighbours-in-abbey-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/about-the-area\/our-neighbours-in-abbey-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Our neighbours in Abbey Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been an active Facebook group for Thamesmead for some time, and despite referring to stage 3 in the title, it covers the goings on and memories of Thamesmead for all areas. You can find that here:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/ThamesmeadSE28\/<\/p>\n<p>Recently, though, a new group has been started for Abbey Wood:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/868026976568842<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d already spotted it, but since I was asked via Twitter to spread the word it seemed well worth posting here &#8211; especially considering how hardly anyone knows quite where the boundary between Abbey Wood and Thamesmead actually lies &#8211; for the local paper it seems quite simple: If it&#8217;s a nice story about the emergency services arriving in the nick of time, it&#8217;s Abbey Wood, but if it&#8217;s currently unsolved crime then the same road is described as being in Thamesmead&#8230; But enough snideness.<\/p>\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.39 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad1\" id=\"quads-ad1\" style=\"float:none;margin:5px;\">\n\n <!-- WP QUADS - Quick AdSense Reloaded v.2.0.39 Content AdSense async --> \n\n\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" >\nvar quads_screen_width = document.body.clientWidth;\nif ( quads_screen_width >= 1140 ) {document.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"pub-5465671415307957\" data-ad-slot=\"5861226924\" ><\/ins>');\r\n            (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n            }if ( quads_screen_width >= 1024  && quads_screen_width < 1140 ) {document.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"pub-5465671415307957\" data-ad-slot=\"5861226924\" ><\/ins>');\r\n            (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n            }if ( quads_screen_width >= 768  && quads_screen_width < 1024 ) {document.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"pub-5465671415307957\" data-ad-slot=\"5861226924\" ><\/ins>');\r\n            (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n            }if ( quads_screen_width < 768 ) {document.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"pub-5465671415307957\" data-ad-slot=\"5861226924\" ><\/ins>');\r\n            (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n            }\n<\/script>\n\n <!-- end WP QUADS --> \n\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>One of the forthcoming items of interest in the area is the new Sainsbury store which I established today will be opening on 29th July. Hopefully long before then they&#8217;ll finish off the roundabout that is to serve it, and remove the temporary lights that are causing massive tailbacks. Over on<a href=\"https:\/\/fromthemurkydepths.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/02\/sainsburys-expansion-in-se-london\/\"> The Murky Depths<\/a> there are some links to jobs that the new store is now advertising along with a number of photographs of the development, but I&#8217;ll end with one I took myself:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawkida.com\/thamesmead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6008-1024x768-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-644\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-644\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawkida.com\/thamesmead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6008-1024x768-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6008-1024x768\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6008-1024x768-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6008-1024x768-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6008-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been an active Facebook group for Thamesmead for some time, and despite referring to stage 3 in the title, it covers the goings on and memories of Thamesmead for all areas. You can find that here: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/ThamesmeadSE28\/ Recently, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/about-the-area\/our-neighbours-in-abbey-wood\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,10,11,14,17],"tags":[21,64,85,188,193,195,236,237],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}