Sydenham Town Forum

Bob Wines Sydenham is awesome! Popped in on way home from work, open till 9pm, fantastic array of wines, beers and champagnes! Wonderful chap running the place too. Highly recommend it. No-one in Sydenham should now need to buy wine or (good) beer from the supermarkets now! Support your HighStreet!...

It appears that the above has gone into liquidation. Such a shame as I will miss their chicken Dhansak a couple of nights each week. Spose I will have to revert to plan B and get a delivery from the Greedy chef in dartmouth road. I would definitely recommend the Dhansak from the Barakah as a replac...

[However, we have so many cats around us that we have no birds at all - we also have a lot of foul smelling cr*p that needs removing which is a ghastly job. I assume the person committing these very warped crimes are offended by feline sh*t appearing in their garden. That would be highly illogical,...

parker wrote:

Sydenham Syd wrote: I assume the person committing these very warped crimes are offended by feline sh*t appearing in their garden.

OR... they're just a complete nutter...

Probably a decent diagnosis

However how many birds get killed by cats. . Not nearly enough and good that cats keep the numbers down, I am fed up with them invariably messing all over my nice clean car after I've only just had it washed. There's a particularly large one frequently visits this forum and dumps on numerous thread...

On the 'cleansing' point, Sydenham is changing, and whether that is in your pretty strong opinion for the better or worse, it is happening. You can try and resist it all you like, but I fear your crusade may flounder. Let's not upgrade this, Syd, it's really not a crusade, just a difference of opin...

I'm not sure what the demand for a badminton court is amongst the lower earners in this country, but I am really talking about the cost of letting your child go swimming or perhaps wanting to go to the gym. Bottom line, that place has to improve or it simply withers on the vine. It appears they hav...

I am only happy to pay because I can - never a truer word spoken. If you can't afford it, then they should be subsidised. I'm not being elitist or trying to stop people using it, on the contrary. There is no facility that I know of at the moment that allows those that cannot afford it to get a disc...

I believe we deserve a better standard of leisure centre, and if that means more cash, then I am happy to pay the extra. ...because you can. But there are many in Lower Sydenham who couldn't handle a considerable price hike; and one look around the streets suggest that the obesity epidemic is very ...

But it almost seems like they just take the cash at the door, instead of the council having to do it. Or, as has happened on several occasions, not even asking for payment when booking a badminton court because they can't be bothered to get the card machine. It's staffed by mostly bored teenagers a...

Rachael wrote:

leenewham wrote:They did mine, very pleased with it.

Thanks for that info, Lee.

I wouldn't go near the place in Forest Hill - dreadful.

I would recommend Ryan Smith - 07962 385294

He's done a lot of work on our street - traditional Victorian door fronts.

Anyone know what this is going to be? The old mobile phone shop appears to have a planning notice for a restaurant and takeaway....hopefully not another fried chicken shop?

Anything doing here anyone know? Still looks totally deserted and is just grim looking.

syd wrote:Hey thanks for the feedback. I'll check it out

Agree with everything here - Hibagon has gone down v well in our house. Very much recommend as the best Sushi in the area - far better than the one in Crystal Palace

I hammer wrote:I think it'll be renamed '2 little sphinxes.'

Haha - I think those tipping out of the Zanzibar are bound to have some fun with the Sphinxes.

The Met have got themselves in a bit of a mess. There was an incident last year where the Police gave chase to some yoots on mopeds and one of them fell off and was killed. As a result, London wide, the advice to Police officers is to not engage and, whatever you do, don't give chase. After all the...

There were quite a few motorbike sounds coming over my to my garden from Cator Rd yesterday. I am not sure what can be done - the police don't seem to care or are hamstrung in some way. I was waiting in some traffic at the Mayow/S High St junction, and a guy came up the inside on a scooter thing, th...

There is not high on the planning portal, so I presume that this is on hold for now. Nope still going ahead - I believe they are due to break ground at the close of the school for the summer holiday. I am on one of the parish committees and we meet next week so will see if I can get someone to put ...

I live on Fairlawn Park, and am very worried about these developments. Given the problems caused by parents double parking at the moment, it was dissappointing at the public planning event to see that no thought had gone into this issue. Doubling the number of children by bringing the infants to th...

As far as I know, they are planning to demolish what is there and build a new, larger school that will concentrate the two separate halves of the school on that one site (next to the church). I haven't heard where the temporary school will be whilst the building work in going on though. The new pla...