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Daily Mail Property on Sunday 15th May 2005 - Paul Robinson (15th May 2005 - 10:47:57) So much for all the knockers and scoffers who chided the journalist on this site when she asked for a commuter to help her with a feature on Liphook. What we got was a pretty fair description of the community and its facilities and, given the negative postings that followed her request, better than we deserve. Well done Finchie for standing up to be counted. Sometimes it takes an incomer to point out just how fortunate we are to live where we do Paul Robinson

Re: Daily Mail Property on Sunday 15th May 2005 - Eneida Nelson (15th May 2005 - 15:30:05) Don't quite understand your post Paul - I would have thought it was pretty obvious that all the answers to Tracey's original request on this website were tongue-in-cheeck!! However, if you took it seriously and were offended I apologise for my part. Obviously, I think Liphook is a great place to live or I wouldn't have spent thousands of pounds buying a house here :)

Re: Daily Mail Property on Sunday 15th May 2005 - Finchie (16th May 2005 - 14:01:46) I've got to say that I've lived in a fair few towns in the South of England, also in a handful of countries - With a young family, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else ! What has made the difference is the people - and it doesn't matter how long people have lived here there is no them/us syndrome - long may it continue... And the marvels of digital photography, that photo was taken in an ally near Smithfield market with me leaning on a "London City" post - the photographer wanting to contrast the bustling Smithfield market with sleepy Liphook ! I guess Tracy wanted to convey something different ! - I wonder how long it took them to airbrush out the cars in the centre of Liphook ! - and as per my request, they forgot to airbrush down my belly to give a chisseled look !!! Cheers, Finchie

Re: Daily Mail Property on Sunday 15th May 2005 - Geoff Carter (17th May 2005 - 20:35:58) Features in the Mail on Sunday, a Tory MP, a local book club and smugness all round ...yeah, that's Liphook in a nutshell Geoff (Whitehill resident) ps - why no mention of the Kebab house?

Re: Daily Mail Property on Sunday 15th May 2005 - Eneida (18th May 2005 - 07:53:09) Blimey Finchie, Geoff from Whitehill obviously thinks your're James Arbuthnot!! (you're not are you??)

Re: Daily Mail Property on Sunday 15th May 2005 - Steve Read (18th May 2005 - 17:58:10) Nah! Didn't mention the kebab shop sent them over to Whitehill for 2 Chinese Take aways, 1 Pizza, a motorbike, a bottle of calor gas, a tattoo and a burnt down club.

Re: Daily Mail Property on Sunday 15th May 2005 - Finchie (18th May 2005 - 23:26:48) ... and a website ! Struggled to find whitehill.co.uk, found whitehall.co.uk but was put off by the detail about Preparation H ! But welcome and keep posting ...

Re: Daily Mail Property on Sunday 15th May 2005 - Geoff Carter (20th May 2005 - 05:23:06) Paul I didn't suggest that Whitehill was perfect in anyway, and with family in Liphook, as well as attending school in Liphook, i feel i am entitled to look at this site as well as enter discussions such as this one. All i ment was, that the article was very "fur coat and no knickers" - Liphook is not the quaint rural retreat you all like to think it is. The community shops are dissapearing, the Sainsbury's dominates the village (town really) and still has issues common to most towns in this part of Hampshire: grafitti, yobs, litter in the street and so on: Just stop living in the dream world that this website so clearly enhances. Just because Whitehill doesen't have a website doesen't make it a worse place, also shows how childish some people living in Liphook can be. I personally live between Passfield and Whitehill, but that's not the issue here. Get real and stop acting like Jerry and Margo from the good life! Face facts - Liphook is as bad as ever and no amount of gloss from the Mail on Sunday can disguise that. Geoff

Re: Daily Mail Property on Sunday 15th May 2005 - Chris (20th May 2005 - 12:47:38) ...you make Liphook sound like some inner-London dump which it clearly isn't.

Re: Daily Mail Property on Sunday 15th May 2005 - Liphook Book Club (20th May 2005 - 14:16:58) Sounds like a touch of the Green Eyed Monster, Geoff....

Re: Daily Mail Property on Sunday 15th May 2005 - Mike Grimes (21st May 2005 - 00:11:21) Have others noticed that those that criticise Liphook are very rarely those that contribute much to the village. One other rant that I have heard ad nauseum is that Sainsburys somehow ruined the village. It is not Sainsbury's fault that villagers ceased to shop in small village businesses. It is the fact that the villagers chose Sainsbury's to do their shopping. If there were quality bakers, butchers, fishmongers and greengrocers in Liphook, I would gladly use them, it would save me a lot of travelling and internet trawling.

Re: Daily Mail Property on Sunday 15th May 2005 - Paul Robinson (21st May 2005 - 07:27:00) Geoff, Nobody said that Liphook was Shangri la. I believe there is much that could and should be done to improve things like getting rid of litter and yobs. But by the same token mention should be made of the work that is being done year round, nearly all of it voluntary and unpaid, to make Liphook a better place to live in. I refer, among others, to Liphook in Bloom Group and the Liphook Preservation Society who battle ceaselessly against the rising tide of litter and broken glass. We need more litter bins and a more effective street cleaning service in addition to the infrequent visit of the council gutter sweeper lorry that sometimes creeps around every leap year without fail. As to the yob element it should be noted that Liphhook has become known as the 'in' place to be and kids from as far away as Grayshott and, dare I say it, Whitehill migrate to the town to forgather and raise a foaming can of Export Could it be the number of shops selling alcohol that attracts them? Paul

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