Sydenham Town Forum

As a small child in the 1950s I well remember the old Sainsbury's in Sydenham Road. I was taken in in my pram and, later on, walking next to my mum. We had to queue at different counters for cheese, bacon, etc, and the ladies who served us wore white turbans. I always hated the cheesey/bacony smell ...

There was, and still is, a bombsite in Adamsrill Road, a little past no 47 or 49. I used to play on there sometimes when I was a child and it also gave access to the allotments behind the houses (which are now overgrown and home to much wildlife). Of course, some people dumped stuff there, old chair...

I have a vague recollection of them.

School meals may consist of more junk food nowadays but I would not go back to the school dinners I was served up at Sydenham High School in the sixties. Mince ladelled onto your plate that looked like diarrhoea, boiled cabbage that smelled dreadful, mashed potatoes with lumps and black bits. We use...

nork1 wrote:A decent jerk chicken place and a pub like The Hob in Forest Hill or the Gipsy Hill Tavern.

There is a jerk chicken place in Sydenham Road, roughly opposite Home Park.

I know All Saints Church very well, several of my relatives married there (including my parents). Is it no longer operating as a church?

Hi, I was brought up in Sydenham and went to St Winifride's school in Mayow Road (Forest Hill) until I was eleven. Wonder if there are any others on here who used to go there.