Sydenham Town Forum

A college at work was nosing around the web for some image of Catford, where he was originally born and came across this interesting photo website called Derelict London. http://www.derelictlondon.com/home_page.htm Sydenham has a few entries with the Greyhound Pub http://www.derelictlondon.com/south...

Well that solves the mystery of what had happened on my way to the train station this morning?! Either a stolen car or someone desperate not to have to report it and cough up money to the council plus the possibility of getting reported to the police. As you said multisync, good job no one was in th...

At least it's not burnt out!

Hi all, Felt the pangs of being a late 30 something today when I shuddered at the thought of more snow on the way to London tomorrow! Train delays, free ice skating on the pavements and having to set fire to the bed in the morning to ensure leaving it to go to work. Still, the BBC have published a u...

Thought this was worth bumping, as I tried to renew my Oyster again this morning, but they still cant do this at Sydenham station. 'Some time next year' was the response to my question of 'When?' Ho hum Stay calm fishcox, Oyster PAYG and renewing/activating monthly cards will be happening at Sydenh...

Hurraah for finally being able to activate my monthly Oyster Card at Sydenham station on the 2nd Jan! :D Has really got on my nerves that I currently have to do this at Charing Cross tube station on my journey into work. Next step, repair the leaking sieve of a roof on Platform 2 and actually provid...