Sydenham Town Forum

Goldsmiths in Penge every first Thursday and Bridge House in Penge every first Tuesday. I've been to latter a few times and the quality of acts is pretty high.

Bill Wyman was brought up by his aunt in Penge. His autobiography makes much of the formation of the group and the bonding (or otherwise) between members. If he was aware of a Penge connection with Mick I would have thought he would have mentioned it. But I don't remember any mention. Mind you its ...

According to this month's Mojo magazine article about Brian Jones and the Stones' earliest period, a schoolboy Mick Jagger spent a year rehearsing with his very first band in a house in Alexandra Road! I can't find anything about this on the web. Anybody know anything more about the Alexandra Road ...

And obviously there will be people on a Newbury forum, based on views gleaned from Google Maps, saying just how awful Newbury is compared with the good old days when the likes of Milton moved there...

Penge and Sydenham should be seen as a single area. Few people know where the boundary lies. Then again half the people in Penge state they live in Beckenham! (Kent House Road for example). Your figures do, however, confirm my point. Crime in Sydenham is above average. Given the difficulty reportin...

alywin wrote: ↑

16 Feb 2019 22:55

Bovine Juice wrote: ↑

16 Feb 2019 15:23

The Standard hasn't covered Penge in its Homes & Property supplement for 5 years

I could have sworn it had - are you sure?

https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/area ... 32929.html

last article

The Standard hasn't covered Penge in its Homes & Property supplement for 5 years (if you exclud pilfering of the Alexandra Cottages for Sydenham and the dinosaurs for Palace features) . The area has changed significantly since the last time.

The Penge Food Hub ( https://twitter.com/penge_food ) are worth checking out in short term while you're waiting for a more local presence. You order the farmer's and local artisan foods on their site then pick up (and have a pint) down the Goldsmiths on a Thursday night.

This doesn't apply so much to Penge Tourist Board, because it's a Facebook group, so we know who if anyone is making any money from it, but I doubt if we'll ever know how, and how much. But the Admins will be entirely voluntary, motivated by the same community spirit as the Admins here. The PTB is ...

I occasionally use the Penge, CP and Bell Green sainos and they all frequently suffer from empty shelf syndrome and the BG and CP ones often have ridiculously long queues. As a company they seem to have lost the plot.

Talking about moribund forums, has anyone been on Virtual Norwood recently? :-( That was a great forum. I don't even live in CP but I met a few others via that and as a result formed a neighbouring community group, the PTB. The owner of VN made some terrible decisions though in his efforts to make ...

Er, I'm guessing that should be 9am not 9pm

The coffee and flowers shop is very good. Open a bit later on Friday and sells beer, well, lager and wine too

Probably not linked but Natalie Dormer was drinking in the Bridge House in Penge last night.

Goldsmiths in Penge

The land is increasingly reverting to a messy eyesore, and people have started to use it as a parking place which means, unless they have a tiny Smart car, that they end up blocking our rear gate and preventing us from using our car. Regards Chris Is it worth putting a polite notice "Gates in const...

Waiting for the Bakerloo is a major long term ambition, surely. Isn't it only coming to Lewisham by 2030 and no guarantees beyond that.

Best of luck fella. You were always an interesting and insightful poster and very supportive of my town, Penge.

It reopened a few weeks ago. It's great, 2-3 times the size, more seating, good lighting and bigger range of beers.

Ian and Judy at Designer Drapes in Penge are local legends. Involved in everything, run the Penge Traders Association and are always at fundraisers. Really lovely people too.