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Sarah Felstead · 5/22/2008 6:01:00 PM

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Jennifer Long ● 5789d

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Jennifer Long ● 5790d

Jim - I had to ask my son if the pictures could be seen on the thread - and the first thing he said was wow, a video, Mum! :-) All due to photobucket, of course.I drove along Northumberland Avenue today and saw a worker type man in a yellow vest walking with his nose to the ground.If you observe any normal walkers this is the bent hunched backed walk they assume in order to carefully position their feet amongst the cracked slabs. They haven't taken to wearing yellow high vis vests (yet) so I suspect somebody has despatched him to check out the street. Some major money will now be spent out and the pavement will be damaged within weeks.Crackers!

Sarah Felstead ● 5890d

Wow Sarah, You are introducing new technologies!! Bravo!

Jim Lawes ● 5891d

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Jim Lawes ● 5892d

Well done - could you post this on TW8 under Phil packers thread, for me?Thanks!

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Hugh Telford ● 5893d

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Jim Lawes ● 5924d

Clever stuff Hugh. I smiled noisily when I saw your Lucozade posting :0)We’re off to Brentford…. Wizzbike in the High Streethttp://www.wizzbike.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=12&chapter=425

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Careful with those nurses Hugh!

Jim Lawes ● 5926d

Keep at it Jim,I'm of to bed! going to Hospital today with the foot.

Hugh Telford ● 5926d

Trying toget this piccie to open!

Jim Lawes ● 5926d

Feeling hunger, think i will see what i have in the fridge..

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Jim Lawes ● 5928d

I'm trying out photobucket for the first time to store moving images.Audrey. I'm wondering which Brentford picture that was... not the field of Osterley Park? Where did I post it..date & time?Gerry has been in touch and yes it was those horrible remarks etc etc. He did so muchto get several Forums underway.

Jim Lawes ● 5928d

The forums have got very vicious lately. Gerry appears to have left us because of the horrible remarks that have been made. I want to go back to the days when you talked of your forum drinks and the history of your area

Jean Gilmore ● 5929d

Hi Jim - please will you tell me about that Brentford picture you've posted recently. It is bothering me that I can't place it! The buildings in the front look like a station. As Jean said, you have livened things up with your pictures here and elsewhere.

Audrey Walton ● 5929d

Hi Jean, Good to see that you are on the forums and in good spirits. Wonderful that Springtime is here again..with all the colours of Nature. we must thank the creator.So I'm back from my 14 month break..enforced knuckling down to work etc...and am slowly trying to remember how to do all thse things we used to do.Hugh has written to me recommending a few website that contain "moving images". I chuckled at this one..if it works!!

Jim Lawes ● 5929d

You've brought the Wandsworth site to life again Jim. Once again welcome back

Jean Gilmore ● 5929d

It has been dreadful losing all those pictures and "Movingimages" when that FREEIMAGEHOSTING website went down. Perhaps the originals ar lurking on my disks or in the depths of MY PICTURES.Put them all on disk a friend at the cafe said.. Just imagine if Flickr or Photobucket or fotopic/x went down.So: testing again.

Jim Lawes ● 5929d

Thanks for the tips my friends.I'll have ago with photobucket.Where does one go to hid one's collection and only bring them out one at a time...for example my little "skipping ewe"s was hidden away from public viewing on FREEIMAGEHOSTING and I brought him out of hiding when Cllr David Hughes appeared on the Brentford Forum>Testing: I'm struggling to post this on the W4 Forum.Speaking of the “High Street” tag for CHR…how come this old street sign still survives? It’s near Youngs Corner. It’s an oddity isn’t it? Let’s hope for oddity sake..it survives longer! Ooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Jim Lawes ● 5930d

and you can do things like this.

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Hugh Telford ● 5930d

Jim i find it very quick to down load to from My Pictures,and Resize if needed.

Hugh Telford ● 5930d

OK Jim, can't place where that large picture was taken - looks like St. Paul's church and the police station but what is all that new building in the foreground? So much I couldn't recognise there.

Audrey Walton ● 5931d

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Jim Lawes ● 5931d

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Brentford_skyline.JPGI expect this wll be huge!

Jim Lawes ● 5931d

If i may Jim...

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Jim Lawes ● 5933d

Hugh,I haven't plugged my speakers in yet!! Must do that in the morning.Now, I've got to learn all those posting codes! img's wasn't it ;0)

Jim Lawes ● 5933d

Hello Audrey, Jean and Hugh and all.Yes, I'm back in cyberspace..after a 15 month enforced abstention!! Great to hear from you.I did write to you all last night..and to many other of our Forum friends ...to explain what happened....but none of the emails seemed to have be delivered to you.I had used the Forum "post Box" above your names on this thread! If you send me a "hello again" message to:jimlawes@hotmail.comwe can exchange greetings and I'll have lift off! ;0))

Jim Lawes ● 5933d

Wee will all have to meet at my Favourite Hotel..Hugh..

Hugh Telford ● 5933d

Good to see our two young Ladies posting also...

Hugh Telford ● 5933d

Good to see you BACK JIM,After our conversation the other night... ***********************I Must be honest i thought you were kidding me when you saidyou would start Positing again!!!..... ****************************
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Hugh Telford ● 5933d

Jim are you back to stay? We have missed you

Jean Gilmore ● 5934d

Good to see you back Jim! It hasn't been nearly as much fun without you. It has been pretty grim on Ealing and Chiswick of late.

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Jim Lawes ● 5934d

http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/presenters/media/new3_pub1.jpgnope don't know how to do pix

Sara Nathan ● 5937d

i dont know what your testing. no one ever goes on this forum. Its such a shame. i work in wandsworth and love all the news updates and interesting items. Any one got any ideas on how to busy this website up ??

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Ann Williams ● 6033d

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Dave Jervis ● 6100d

Meet Clive. He was sent out by LBH in response to calls that a hole had appeared in the road surface. To an untrained person it looked as if the hole was quite deep. Clive thought so too, then said he would apply a ‘technical’ test.Clive said the only H&S consideration of this test was that he had to take care his chin did not hit the road surface when he put the broom handle into the hole.The result was road closure and the opportunity for us to hold a very successful street party.Taking a leaf out Clive’s training manual I decided to apply my own technical test to CHR and the marked up hole, long forgotten by the person who marked it up as LBH’s responsibility.There are agreed intervention times and measurements, which should be challenged. Intervention levels ought to be discussed too as seemingly it is women who fall more often than men, maybe because they have smaller feet. Intervention levels were set at a time in History when you could walk across most cracks and place your foot firmly on a safe slab. Nowadays people negotiate their way across crazy paving and often find difficulty in finding a safe place to put a foot down.Conversations with officials – lets face it they know all this anyway – experience and the proof in these photos shows they don’t work.My untrained understanding of a busy High road requiring intervention more quickly than a less busy road lies in the ‘use’ of the pavement and definition of ‘busy’. A larger variety of uses might mean more chance of somebody falling over on damage to the surface. Here is a current example.When I went to take the above photo there was a workers van parked in the slip road (perfectly reasonable short term offloading) but it meant that pedestrians were walking towards the edge of the pavement and being directed towards the hole. One of the builders said he had already tripped down the hole. The following demonstrates exactly what was happening and is not staged.

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Sarah Felstead ● 6109d

“lessoning the odds of an after dusk accident” … LOL well, I am sure there is a lesson in the odds but it would be beneficial to study lessening them too!A point discussed with street officials was that often an area is marked up for intervention and the labouring team go straight past, leaving the area as a hazard. Frequently we have seen the white lines disappear over time and the ‘assessed hazard’ by the trained individual is left. I wonder what happened to the paper work to leave an assessed hazard ready for a pedestrian to fall on? Can the Council argue that a defect was not there on their last legal inspection, when it appears it does not follow these standards through?From random photographs which some time later become gems (proof) in their own rightTaken March 2007Taken 23.10.08 – white lines have goneThe white lines had long started to fade when I took this one so goodness knows how long the job card had been mislaid.Taken 27.04 07Same area taken 24.10.08. The only thing obvious is the deterioration with more smashed slabs and the pavement being pressed down.Taken 27.04 07 – further along the kerb from the last hazardSame area taken 24.10.08.

Sarah Felstead ● 6116d

s.If someone were checking how this all works for the pedestrians safety, it would be worthwhile exploring how areas established as requiring intervention, are marked up and whom the marking is for.Hopefully the idea of a partnership and liability is to lesson the odds of an accident for the pedestrian, so once a hazard has been notified to the street people, and they have surveyed the area how are other pedestrians warned? At present it appears they are not a part of this consideration and are left to take their chances? The mark up appears to give directions from the engineer to the labourers, and not much else. Is the pedestrian at the forefront of the ‘trained persons’ mind?Once an area is marked up the odds on some ‘untrained’ public-spirited person calling the job in, also lesson as everyone thinks it is being dealt with (take the kerb stone outside the bank for instance). Surely it could be argued that the trained person and Council takes on greater responsibility for dealing with it and making sure paper work is turned into a job card and that the job card actually produces the work for which it is intended and to time, before somebody falls under a car or simply breaks an ankle?What the pedestrian might see last SaturdayWhat the trained person/PA/street cleaner using the street would see, again last SaturdaySome marking up has gone on here during the week the 10 inch hole couldn’t be considered very urgent as this was last Saturday and weeks busiest shopping day.I think the white line will show up in the dark lessoning the odds of an after dusk accident.What will the pedestrian out for a stroll see here? What do you see here? The guy in the cycling jacket?You didn’t spot these marked up rockers then?Still there last SaturdayA £2 coin gives some perspective

Sarah Felstead ● 6116d

There are two holes here – both filled with leaves, which could be mistaken for solid ground. The one not fully covered is above a void so to the naked, untrained eye looks as if it goes down about 10 inches.As a part of the quality of workmanship it may be a good idea to lay slabs on a firm surface, not loose sand that moves as soon as the rain washes the sand away or a car goes over them. All this has been discussed with LBH officials by untrained observers, as a friendly observation, just in case they hadn’t thought of this. Many of the newly replaced slabs, when damaged again become some of the most dangerous as the soft bedding leaves more damage. I will come back to the weeds later.This is still outside WH Smith – how many PA’s and street cleaners have walked past this in the last week?From the other side – to demonstrate the movement

Sarah Felstead ● 6122d

Dear Chris - you believe? Are you stating this as a fact having seen the area, or are you relying on what you have been told (from verbal or written records) hoping this is true?Amongst the number of issues discussed ‘on tour’ was the standard of workmanship – both from utility companies, builders and the Councils own contractors. One of my neighbours described work he had witnessed being done by LBH, as making two jobs out of one.When Satbir Gill and David Palmer came out I took them to some very substandard work as an example and one piece was so bad Satbir had to phone somebody to come out and rectify the work immediately. Not only did we hold conversations about it – and I had photographs – but I could also show them new sub standard work. Who is responsible for quality control? Who, knowing there are/were issues with some work follows the issue through to make sure it doesn’t happen again?Back to this particular scenario.1.10.2008You can see the dip which probably caused the accident?5.10.2008The area is still marked up as needing attention. A puddle has formed covering the hazard.Where does the Councils responsibility lie having identified a severe hazard where an accident has occurred?The area is one of the most urgent response areas on CHR – main road and extra H&S potential to throw a pedestrian into the path of oncoming traffic. It is still not closed off – in this photo - who has the report/documentation/admin responsibility?Is this marked up area an assessment of the situation and allocation of funds to work on the area made by a trained individual? Are they called street engineers? Is this a title or a specific requirement of training to be called this? What is LBH’s expectation of a street ‘engineer’? The person who marked the site up should have taken photos? So a discussion could have been held with a trained individual to agree urgency.Whoever marked the hazard up – missed a bit.11.10.08A week later a busy Saturday morning. The path was closed to protect the cement but as it was dry by now – arrangements could have been made to remove it before the shopping day?

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Hugh Telford ● 6145d

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Richard Jennings ● 6157d

“It's not bias that stops me responding to other forum users in this way; it's the fact that they don't rant on in the same way.”You find this, although perhaps not a rant as such, but a sensible contribution nonetheless? ”in a warzone many soldiers choose to shoot to miss. This is called being a human”.Or“Partly my fault for lighting the blue touch paper and suggesting you may not have been a very good soldier in jest”.

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Audrey,Sarah,Jean, Good to see you all posting again.Thank you for your Greeting,s..Sorry to hear you have sprained your Foot Sarah.Audrey trust you have been keeping well and Ray,and all the Family to. I Have had a trouble some time with a Broken Foot, ( Shark Break ) is whatthey call it.Been in Hospital for 5 week,s and now at Home,but still under the Hospital.Had to have two Op,s on the Foot, One for Wiring the Toe,s together and a Pindrilled in, but unfortunately the Wound turned Septic.Second Op had the Big bone, behind the big toe removed,this hopefully will save the foot,as they said it might have to come off.So you can see why i have not been posting lately.but it seams to be improving.This is a Long Script for me. That,s all for now,take Care All of You,Dear Friend,sHugh. PS.I Also Miss Jim,s Posting,s They Added So Much To The Forum,s. Hey Jim..

Hugh Telford ● 6157d

Sarah and Audrey we dont see enough of you these days and Jim has dissappeared altogether

Jean Gilmore ● 6158d

Hope you are well on the mend. I took 'the band' for a gig in Brighton - had a lovely walk along the sea front which was quite special as I can't walk around here because of the pavements - and promptly fell down a hole in a grass verge and very badly spraining my ankle. It looks like somebody has taken out a post and forgotten to fill the hole in and the mowing man has just mown over the top so I couldn't see it....one of my neighbours said why did you go to Brighton to fall down a hole when we have enough around here? I am fast going off walking. :-(

Sarah Felstead ● 6158d

Did they land safely on the next attempt?

Sarah Felstead ● 6158d

built at the end of a garden (under permitted delvelopment?). This one a neighbour told me is apparently a store room so that is how to 'get away with it'...?It looks over somebodys garden and out into the street scene behind. Google earth Redesdale gardens TW7 and pan along the GT West road - going West - from the corner. It is in the back garden of a house a couple of doors away from the church.

Sarah Felstead ● 6158d

Good to see you back in good form Hugh!

Audrey Walton ● 6159d

Hugh Telford ● 6159d

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Hugh Telford ● 6159d

Hugh Telford ● 6160d

Thank you Jean, and it feel,s Good..

Hugh Telford ● 6161d

Looks as though you are back on form Hugh

Jean Gilmore ● 6161d

New hosting site, look,s ok..

Hugh Telford ● 6161d

Hugh Telford ● 6166d

Thank,s Richard and Audrey..working on it..

Hugh Telford ● 6166d

Hi Hugh, well done for persevering. I think the URL on those last two posts may be one for the whole web page rather than just the image.You were using http://www.4freeimagehost.com/show.php?i=803e31a25b35.gifbut I think it will work if you use http://www.4freeimagehost.com/uploads/803e31a25b35.gif

Richard Jennings ● 6167d

Try again,God im rustey...

Hugh Telford ● 6167d

Trying to get fit again..

Hugh Telford ● 6167d

Sorry to hear you've been having foot problems. You've been missed that's for sure. Take care of yourself. I look forward to more of your "funnies"! All the best, Audrey

Audrey Walton ● 6168d

You rang, sir?Try this:<img src="http://www.4freeimagehost.com/uploads/3e9eb2bba33a.gif">Or if you want the image to be clickable, it's something like:<a href="http://...."><img src="http://...."></a>where the first URL (http://...) is the link that a click takes you to, and the second URL is the image that is displayed in the message.(Hope I've got that right. It's tricky coding these so that they show you the code instead of the picture.)Hugh, sorry to hear that you've been (or are still) in hospital. Very best wishes for your recovery. You've been missed on ChiswickW4.comCheers, Richard

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Hugh Telford ● 6169d

Sorry cant seem to get the Code right,been away to long..You there Richard???

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Sarah Felstead ● 6244d

Typical pavement for an 80 +++++ (I think she said she is 89) year old to negotiateLouise out on a walk with me on Friday

Sarah Felstead ● 6244d

Well it won't let me reduce the size of her knee ...

Sarah Felstead ● 6244d

These testing threads must be very testing so whilst I play - you might like to know that this knee belongs to Louise, a lady in her late 80's who is another victim of falling on damaged paving slabs and is now severely disabled.After a tour with Cllrs and MP and prospective MP for Hounslow I stopped photographing and recently came across her son out photographing slabs. They know the continuing story of many broken areas and we all know that nothing has been done to make the pavements safe for pedestrians. If you don't have slabs like ours yet - you can bet they will be coming to your street soon! :-(

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