Sydenham Town Forum

Hi

I sent an old photo of Mount Ash Rd and a comment in to the email address shown on 22nd Aug but never got a reply. I also filled in the disclaimer. How do I know if it was received?

Malcolm

This is really interetseting & makes sense of what my Grandmother used to say. Born in 1889 she said she remembered walking down Dartmouth Rd as a small girl & being frighthened by a flock of sheep in the road. At the time I didn't think it possible that there had been fields in Sydenham as ...

We lived off Newlands Park from 1963-1974 and the shop was till there when we left. It was all separate counters then with bacon/cold meats on one side and cheese/dairy on the other. All the food sat on huge white marble slabs with curved plastic covers over the whole counter. It was not a supermark...

Oh yes I remember these! In the days when ALL the shops in Sydenham Rd had shut by 7pm on a weekday I was often sent down to the Express Dairy shop near Woolworths to get milk from the machine there. I used to love the satisfying thud it made when it dropped into the huge cold drawer at the bottom. ...

Steve's map is great and clearly shows the black area (worst damage?) when a rocket fell in Panmure Rd in the latter part of the war. It caused huge damage in Mount Ash Rd (where my family lived) and brought down ceilings and chimneys etc. For years afterwards it was really easy to accidentally crac...

I think the laundry Squibbs is referring to maybe the Invicta Laundry which was near the Woodman pub and was on the site, I think, of where the Costcutter shop now is. My Grandmother and her sisters worked there in the early 1900s and she told me it was a big employer for the area, doing the fancy l...

Sorry, forgot to tick the "public" box on the FLICKR site, should be OK now........

And here's a seasonal extra pic of the inside of Cobbs. My sister and Father visiting Santa's Grotto at Cobbs in 1956!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37095452@N00/2081159714/

And the oddest thing about the demolition of this lovely cinema was that the outside had just been repaired! A small piece of the frontage had fallen down about a year before (luckily no-one was hurt) so they put scaffolding all around it and repaired the frontage. A short while later a brief notice...

Oh yes, Cobbs dept store! It had a shoe dept, ladies & gents fashions, haberdashery, furniture, Xmas Santa and lots more. There was a big restaurant in the basement where I had my 21st back in the 1970s! My mother was forever getting my feet X-rayed in a huge machine in the children's shoe dept....

Wonderful history lesson Falkor! I have fond memories of the last station before the current shoebox was built. The centre platform was still being used in the 1960s from time to time but was always very chilly and exposed! The old Down platform ticket office and yard shown in your pic ended its day...

I remember going into the s/h furniture shop in the 1990s and it stretched back miles. You could also see there was false ceiling (covered in cobwebs) that had been put in at some stage.

Not sure when the furniture shop went west......

Hi again I don't remember Fir St (just a few years younger than Kenny B) but my Dad was an air raid warden for the area around Wells Park Rd in the early part of the war as he had grown up in Bradford Rd & knew the streets well. He did tell me that the house there were tiny old cottages and a co...

Mount Ash Rd kids rough? How very dare you?! In fact we thought the kids from Panmure were very dodgy and I never walked down it in all the time I lived there. Like Kenny B I remember Sydenham then (late 1950s/early1960s) as feeling almost rural, blackberrying on the old Crystal Palace Railway Line,...

I can remember this too! I had a friend who lived in Thorpewood Avenue in the 1960s and you could see it from the upstairs rooms at the back of her house. It looked really strange as it only the spire showed above the fences. We imagined it that the rest of the church was buried underneath! Found ou...

Great advert...and our neighbour when we were at no 30 was a Mrs Goodall too! As promised amother couple of pics of no 30. This is a close up of the front door: http://www.flickr.com/photos/37095452@N00/306708541/ And this is the top front bedroom, complete with gaslamp...and both of these pics were...

Dear BingBong I don't know who moved in to no 30 after us, the landlord gave my parents money to move out as he was keen to sell it or re-let it and the family had been there a long time. I have a copy of the 1962 census for M. A Rd and a lot of the houses had 6/7 adults listed in them, as well as c...

Hi Bingbong Don't want the sock back, but I did lose some toys in the garden in the early 60s! When my Grandmother moved there in 1938 from Bradford Rd she was actually working as a cleaner for people in one of the big houses at the very top of Sydenham Hill so what you say makes sense. She only ren...

Dear all Thanks for getting the pic onto the site and the instructions on how to do it properly. I have some old photos of the inside of no 30 (taken in the early 1950s) and I will try to get them onto my pc and load them up here later. As all the windows of no 30 were blown out by the V2 the glass ...

Liberty I have uploaded the picture here

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/37095452@N ... otostream/]

Am not sure how to get the picture into this page of the Forum. Any suggestions from anyone else please?

Malcolm