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Minibus explodes in Forest Hill

AddicksAddict
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Happened yesterday outside The Hill pub on Dartmouth Road.  Fortunately, so I’ve heard, no one died. 

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  • Neil_Heaney
    Neil_Heaney Posts: 368
    Heard some rumours about this being a revenge attack on the owner of the pub who had a row with and/or sacked a load of staff... Might be BS though. 
  • johnnybev1987
    johnnybev1987 Posts: 11,410
    Insurance jobbie.... if noone was hurt/died surely 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    johnnybev1987 said:
    Insurance jobbie.... if noone was hurt/died surely 

    Supposedly there were people in it at the time so I don't think it's an insurance job.
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,961
    exploded, or simply caught fire?
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,563
    Wow!
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    IdleHans said:
    exploded, or simply caught fire?
    I heard it blew up. Whether that was the cause of the fire or the fire got to the fuel, I don’t know. 
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,961
    Doesn't look as if it broke any windows
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    IdleHans said:
    Doesn't look as if it broke any windows
    Quite a lot of the windows in the pub were missing the next morning.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    That’s a pub I never went in.  I’ve been in The Signal, The Dartmouth Arms, The Sylvan Post and the one a bit further up on the corner toward crystal palace, but never that one and one quite close to it, The Bird and Feathers - I think.  Those two looked like dives.  
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,225
    Bird in Hand.
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  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,150
    The Bird in Hand was a decent pub at one time, Tim Spall used to drink in there.   
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,225
    cabbles said:
    That’s a pub I never went in.  I’ve been in The Signal, The Dartmouth Arms, The Sylvan Post and the one a bit further up on the corner toward crystal palace, but never that one and one quite close to it, The Bird and Feathers - I think.  Those two looked like dives.  
    The one further up the road, Bricklayers Arms opposite the police station or the Woodman a bit further on KIrkdale.

    Didn't Nicky Bailey have something to do with the Bricklayers, run by his family?

  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,697
    reminds me of an IRA attack. Outside a pub an all. 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    Algarveaddick said:
    The Bird in Hand was a decent pub at one time, Tim Spall used to drink in there.   
    The Bird in Hand used to do real ale, don't know if it still does, but it does show the football.  Also, they do a charity book sale once a year, so not quite the dive it looks.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    cabbles said:
    That’s a pub I never went in.  I’ve been in The Signal, The Dartmouth Arms, The Sylvan Post and the one a bit further up on the corner toward crystal palace, but never that one and one quite close to it, The Bird and Feathers - I think.  Those two looked like dives.  
    The Dartmouth Arms is now a MeatLiquor.

    The tall, good looking bloke with the full beard behind the bar at The Sylvan Post is AAjr.  I can't for the life of me imagine who he's inherited his looks from.
  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,405
    That pub and mini bus look horrendous. 
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    iaitch said:
    cabbles said:
    That’s a pub I never went in.  I’ve been in The Signal, The Dartmouth Arms, The Sylvan Post and the one a bit further up on the corner toward crystal palace, but never that one and one quite close to it, The Bird and Feathers - I think.  Those two looked like dives.  
    The one further up the road, Bricklayers Arms opposite the police station or the Woodman a bit further on KIrkdale.

    Didn't Nicky Bailey have something to do with the Bricklayers, run by his family?

    I think the Woodman is cafe now.  I’ve been in the Bricklayers arms.  That’s similar in clientele to the Bird in Hand.  Quite good those type of pubs still exist in that part of the world really.  I grew up down the road in Brockley.  It’s changed so much - go down Brockley high street from the station all the way through to Crofton Park, it’s coffee shop central with a few upmarket bars and restaurants.  


  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,150
    AddicksAddict said:
    Algarveaddick said:
    The Bird in Hand was a decent pub at one time, Tim Spall used to drink in there.   
    The Bird in Hand used to do real ale, don't know if it still does, but it does show the football.  Also, they do a charity book sale once a year, so not quite the dive it looks.
    The ale was the reason I used to drink in there, AA.  :)

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