Sue Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 What are banging noises in North Cross Road area (and possibly wider)?Doesn't sound like thunder.Fireworks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solar Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 I heard them near Goodrich School. Sounded like fireworks but couldn't see them. Seem to have stopped now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siousxiesue Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Heard them faintly Melbourne Grove/LL end. weird as quite prolonged but late too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted June 16, 2017 Author Share Posted June 16, 2017 Apparently fireworks somewhere near Old Street according to friend on Facebook.Glad someone has found something to celebrate this week :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elphinstone's Army Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Somerset House, for a private birthday party, in a city mourning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigello Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Oh, come on: this is a city of several million people. Perhaps if it had been on the night after the fire or the next night, a cancellation or muting would have been appropriate, but going into a kind of mawkish hibernation is the very opposite of what London (and life) is about. We don't live real-life enactments of Twitter feeds or tabloid headlines! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inbetweener Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Happened to be on a train out of Charing Cross last night as they were starting. Set off from a barge near Waterloo Bridge, so does sound like that Somerset House thing. More money than sense...but we're no in a period of national mourning or anything, so if that's how they choose to waste their money... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rendelharris Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Life goes on...I see the press have tried to make a big deal of it; as we were cycling along Lower Ground on Saturday there was an earsplitting roar very close overhead and I must admit for a second I did think 9/11...turned out to be the Red Arrows heading for the palace to wish Her Maj happy birthday, haven't seen any outcry over that celebration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbboy Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Expect free fireworks tonight on Peckham Rye with the fair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeckhamRose Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 They were great! Sorry to all animals scared out of their fur. But still love fireworks. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncleglen Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 More bloody fireworks- bit insensitive given today's events imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted September 15, 2017 Author Share Posted September 15, 2017 Yes just heard several loud bangs.Are you sure it was fireworks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncleglen Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 It probably was as there were no sirens afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidKruger Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 "More bloody fireworks- bit insensitive given today's events imo"Come on man, most people with a party planned in ED won't park it / not set off their fireworks 'out of respect' for a failed bomb attempt in Parsons Green ?!I'm not sure people are being insensitive (to whom ?) by 'carrying on'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rendelharris Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 Seconded. If "we are not afraid" then let's act like it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilolil Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 Could see them Barry Road way. I'm in Hindmans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnL Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 More people out last night than normal on a Friday.Saw a lot of people in celebration mode for some reason:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rendelharris Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 More birthdays in September than any other month of the year - September 26th the most common. Christmas drinks have a lot to answer for! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckhamgatecrasher Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Twas Battle of Britain Day yesterday. Maybe a commemoration do?ps, v. interesting account of it here: http://www.battleofbritain1940.net/0042.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncleglen Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 I suppose it could have been a salute by cannons then as there were only 2 bangs that I heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted September 16, 2017 Author Share Posted September 16, 2017 uncleglen Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> I suppose it could have been a salute by cannons> then as there were only 2 bangs that I heard.I heard more than that.But there was a brief flash of light before (or possibly after, I can't remember now) each one, which was weird. And they weren't very close together.I thought it was thunder/lightning at first.I looked out of the window but couldn't see any sign of fireworks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilolil Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 I saw them as previously mentioned. Fireworks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vik Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 KidKruger Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> "More bloody fireworks- bit insensitive given> today's events imo"> > Come on man, most people with a party planned in> ED won't park it / not set off their fireworks> 'out of respect' for a failed bomb attempt in> Parsons Green ?!> I'm not sure people are being insensitive (to whom> ?) by 'carrying on'.My first reaction to that post was exactly the same as yours... Then I realised this thread was started a couple of days after the Grenfell fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidKruger Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Yeah but uncleglens post yesterday at 7:57pm wasn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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