Burst water main?
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Hope not. That wouldn’t do the public toilets much good.
It would help with the cleaning though.
Now we’re talking.
Vietnamese baguettes might soon become a new lunchtime favourite.
What else does Forest Hill need? An airport.
I noticed that our National Rail station code, FOH, has not yet been assigned as an IATA code to any airport in the world. Therefore, in order to ensure that our TLA isn’t grabbed by Forest Hill, Kentucky, or Forest Hill, Newfoundland, or any of the 33 places in the world called Forest Hill that are outside of SE23, we need to build an airport and get IATA to tag it FOH.
[Is that the end of the sherry? Already?]
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Hurrah.
Though I suspect they’d try to give it an L prefix so LFH. Is that available?
We’re safe there. All Canadian airports have the prefix Y.
Its because of the Forest Hill, a district of Toronto that I get exclamation of ‘oooh lucky’ and 'get ‘er’ when I tell my Canadian friends where I live.
http://www.torontoneighbourhoods.net/neighbourhoods/midtown/forest-hill
I’ve a great bottle of pedro ximenez.
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Crikey, you’re an even bigger aviation nerd than I am!
LFH is still available. It would put us just above LFI, which is Langley Air Force Base, beside the CIA HQ if I’m not mistaken.
Sadly what was “Best of Both Boutique” is now becoming an accountants office - so no shop offering 
I had a look around yesterday & the upstairs is massive - I think it would be perfect for a restaurant!
The narrower section when you enter the ground floor could make a great bar area & the wider section at the back would be perfect for a restaurant & could probably fit in around 30 tables.
Then downstairs toilets have been fitted to the front area & are tucked away & the main section (to the rear & the wider section) has been fitted with a new extraction unit & would be perfect for a kitchen to be put in.
I think an evening restaurant offering something different to what we have already would be fab 
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I have been here since 2001 and dont ever remember that area being open. When was it actually last used?
About 20ish years ago it was a bakers.
A car crashed into the shop front back then & it never reopened as a bakers or anything else.
How about the education recruitment shop and the coffee shop?
I think the next coffee shop to open should include a tourist office for Forest Hill. We could even allow it to admit to the existence of Dulwich and other parts of South London.
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Heresy Michael!! Out with the pitch forks and flaming torches!!! 
WITCH!
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Now this is a mega-topic of 200+ posts I wonder if it’s worth closing it to new posts and continuing it via a “What does Forest Hill need [2017]” topic? (containing a link to the closed 2016 topic)
Worth noting - new forum members start at post #1 when they click on a topic, and the software estimates a read time of 15 mins on this topic as it stands.
- Close topic to new posts, and start a new one for 2017
- Leave as-is
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By the way, congrats to @starman for seeding a good discussion of 208 replies and 5200 views!
Start a new one with an admin post with a list of things suggested here.
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Absolutely with @RachaelDunlop on this one. I too think a new topic for 2017 would be a great way to invigorate the discussion, but would love to see a summary of the suggestions made in 2016.
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Agreed.
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