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/

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

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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.

More: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/met-police-boy-dies-falling-height-london-wynell-road-forest-hill-b1228740.html

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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.

More: https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/25168606.forest-hill-photographer-2-4-million-cocaine-plot/

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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

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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

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"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 Bristol Channel."

More: https://www.foresthillsociety.com/post/introducing-the-gulf-of-forest-hill

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.
https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/road-council-houses-south-london-30956652?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target

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