Sydenham Town Forum

I don't smoke and I have zero interest in vaping shops, but I've noticed quite a few popping up all over the place, e.g. Clock House, Bromley, etc. Seems to be the in thing!

I guess St Philip Neri school wasn't used so as not to cancel the school day. Makes sense!

Some weeks back there was a discussion about proposed cuts to the 176 bus service. TFL have just announced that from 3 June " to better match how often buses run with demand for them, we have changed the frequency - Mon to Sat daytime buses will run every 10 minutes (with additional peak time e...

Is the first public visit in June, on the 1st Sunday?

Looks like it was a pub, the Crown and Anchor. Looks like it closed 1934. See
http://pubshistory.com/KentPubs/Sydenha ... chor.shtml

http://www.dover-kent.com/2017-project/ ... enham.html

http://www.pubology.co.uk/pubs/11875.html

Ah yes, the paint shop. Don't know if this link will work to the photo on google street https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4269569,-0.0409173,3a,37.5y,23.17h,93.62t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1suYSEp9xl_tdMmlyCcwKSqQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DuYSEp9xl_tdMmlyCcwKSqQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_...

Yes I noticed this. It looks great, and so nice that the new owner (?) is restoring it. It's where the Bob Porecha BMW specialist was,
Wonder if anyone here knows the history of the place......?

A postcode in Westwood hill came up on today's Free Postcode Lottery stackpot..... check it if you are registered on FPL and live in Westwood Hill!!!

Would be good to see something positive happen to those 3 shops.
I see the shop at the end of that block on the corner of Watlington Grove has been done up and looks as if it might be occupied again.

Dickp....... yes you can book appointments online, but generally they are for dates 2-3 weeks ahead. If you are lucky and try during the morning, you might find you can get a slot for that afternoon, though that is quite rare.

It used to be such a good surgery, but in the last year it is now really awful. It is madness to release all the appointments at 8am and expect people to phone for them because of course you can't get through. And if you do eventually get through, all the appointments have gone. Why can't they let p...

Robin, can they also cut their own fur into nice designs?

http://www.itv.com/news/london/2017-04-12/armed-robber-threatens-shopkeeper-with-large-kitchen-knife/ 12 April 2017 at 10:21am Armed robber threatens shopkeeper with large kitchen knife Footage of an armed robber threatening a shopkeeper with a large kitchen knife has been released by police hunting...

Sydenham's historic gasometers facing demolition to make room for new Aldi supermarket

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/15217 ... permarket/

I see there is a new dog grooming shop and next to it a new (?) general "sweet shop" in Lower Sydenham, across from the library and down on the next block. And the new flats on the next block seem nearly ready, so things are happening in that neck of the woods.

I've also been searching online to see what happened. When I got caught up in the traffic jam outside McDs, there were 9 police cars and vans and another on its way, then the emergency medical car arrived. I was told by Greggs staff that they had been told it was a stabbing inside McDs. But the medi...

Another raid in Rushey Green.........
http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/15157 ... e_punters/

Sometimes the 176s are quite frequent, other times you wait forever. The one good thing about them is they are 24 hour, so at least you can get back to Kirkdale late night.

At least the library is still open in Sydenham