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- 5 Nov 2007 20:41
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Some interesting postcards I picked up recently...
- Replies: 13
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- 5 Nov 2007 10:19
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Some interesting postcards I picked up recently...
- Replies: 13
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Falkor, I`m a keen postard collector of parts of France. I use a site Delcampe, based in Belgium which is much better than ebay. I`m logged into the french side of it, and there are, on the french site some 57 cards of the Crystal Palace, some of the fairgrounds etc. rom about 2 euros Get into Delca...
- 4 Nov 2007 18:33
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Some interesting postcards I picked up recently...
- Replies: 13
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- 3 Nov 2007 14:09
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Sydenham's connection with Penge
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6652
- 3 Nov 2007 13:37
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Some interesting postcards I picked up recently...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12182
- 2 Nov 2007 18:04
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: random recall on Sydenham hill 1950-------
- Replies: 36
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- 31 Oct 2007 21:32
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Sydenham Rail Engineering Works
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5777
Its a penalty of living by a railway line, you get used to it. When I was first in Penge I was driven nuts by the tinkling sound I kept hearing some nights, it was guys walking the line and tapping the rails to test them. Always sounded like breaking glass to me. you'd be amazed at what happens on r...
- 28 Oct 2007 22:28
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Sydenham's connection with Penge
- Replies: 4
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Poor old Penge!!!! always had a hard time. smashed to pieces in the war,more flying bombs on it than any where else in London. Penge Lane is about the oldest road in Penge; Hardings Lane, across the railway was were I used to live, named after a previous Farm I heard. I saw a map somewhere on here I...
- 21 Oct 2007 21:50
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Penge East station incident
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3703
There has always been a crime problem in Penge since the late 1970's when Bromley council decided to turn it into a ghetto for all the boroughs rubbish and problem tenants. Its the reason I left in 1988, I had a shop there which lost a £1000 worth of plate glass window twice in three days; Penge pol...
- 21 Oct 2007 21:36
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: Fox & Hounds
- Replies: 12
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- 21 Oct 2007 21:21
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: CINEMAS IN SYDENHAM
- Replies: 25
- Views: 31596
yep, could be that one, has been a car sales/workshop for many years. Wish I could eat Palm toffee now, used to like the bar with the banana flavour running through it. Another treat was from the little sweet shop just up the road before Sydenham Park, you went down steps into it, theres a photo of ...
- 21 Oct 2007 11:35
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: CINEMAS IN SYDENHAM
- Replies: 25
- Views: 31596
HOP The WAG............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought I was the only one left that remembered that term I was a champ at hopping off, three weeks was the longest I managed in one hit, they could never find me because I holed up in the Horniman Museum reading room, reading all day. the others used to get...
- 12 Oct 2007 09:15
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Aircraft Noise - How do you sleep at night ?
- Replies: 9
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You are not that far from the railway are you? noise travels in a peculiar manner at night. I used to live near the railway at Penge East, every now and again we were disturbed about that time of the morning by long rumbling noise, used to make the building shake. It turned out was trains carrying n...
- 8 Oct 2007 21:27
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Sydenham Hill Estate, Springfield Rise etc
- Replies: 27
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Memory is difficult after so many years away from the area, but the community building, its adjacent adjacent to the road, Sydenham Hill. its still there or its replacement is much altered. Why put a bit of wall there for no reason?, well, piece work/ apprentice training, just filling up time. work ...
- 7 Oct 2007 14:59
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Sydenham Hill Estate, Springfield Rise etc
- Replies: 27
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I seem to remember my father building a ragstone wall as part of a some kind of communal building nearer the road, its now gone/altered. this may well be some more of his handiwork If you had seen that area under construction and the vast amount of earth moving that went on you'd realise there would...
- 29 Sep 2007 19:23
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: Road Accidents
- Replies: 30
- Views: 32108
glad Rebelmc has experienced the same conditions. One has to travel in the night time say between midnight and dawn to get the real feel of a motorway given over to entirely HGV traffic of that kind. But getting back to the discussion re hazards on the roads of Se London the point I was trying to ma...
- 27 Sep 2007 10:39
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: CINEMAS IN SYDENHAM
- Replies: 25
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The cinema was on the Somerfiled site, remeber it well, a frequent visitor in my youth, just one of many that disapeared in the race to destroy any kind of local focal point, also disapeared, Penge and Crystal Palace cinemas, Forest hill ABC, now the usual bingo hall, amazed to see that the Beckenha...
- 22 Sep 2007 11:16
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: Road Accidents
- Replies: 30
- Views: 32108
This will probably upset some people as its an unpalatable truth. I`m afraid the deterioration in driving standards that you speak of is down to the increasing numbers of drivers who have taken no driving test or a test in some far flung corner of the EU or elsewhere. Its noticeable even as far as t...
- 17 Sep 2007 20:42
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: books on offer
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3683
books on offer
I have two books on offer, not exactly Sydenham, but SE London local history as I see some of you live outside of SE 26 #1 Vol 2 only of 2 vols of a privately printed history of Charlton, by JG Smith circa 1975, covers bomb damage, transport, lots churches history, trams, etc Hardback about A5 size,...
- 2 Aug 2007 19:42
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: German Embassy in Sydenham?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 60167
Its really rum how this rumours persist. This story about the house with the eagle was told to me around 1962, by a woman councillor who lived in Longton Grove, and who was herself regarded as something of a local historian. One of the interesting things I find on this site is how much of what I had...