Sydenham Town Forum

I think that the card of Newlands Park is wrongly titled as it is of the bend in Venner Road I`m sure

thanks Falkor, I`m getting a bit better with this technology thing, a real silver surfer type nurd I have a few others, that I have seen here but coloured versions, ie Sydenham hill/kirkdale junction which are atmospheric if nowt else. also a dozen or so of Rushey green, and Peter Pans pool, but can...

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thanks Falkor, I`ll have a go later,and then if they are of no interest they can be wiped off,and help give my wheezy old computor a break

I have some postcarsd of old bits of sydenham etc that may be of interest, [or not,[ I have them stored in photobucket and cant find out the links which will set them on here in picture form I need to clear out my machines images as its struggling for memory space, I did not realise that when I clea...

My late Mum was a cook at Sydenham girls school in the late 1960`s and early 70`s, and as my sister ate there, there was nowt wrong with the grub as I recall. Can`t get any fussier than her. The school dinners at Dacres road were Ok too, at least, I always went back for seconds. Mind you, as a child...

Well, at the risk of being misunderstood, regarding your last line I am used to it, and I don't. The "multicultural society" so beloved by the PC brigade is an oxymoron. It does not and cannot exist. As I got out into the world of work in South London, because of my trade, I met and worked...

Agreed, why should it be spooky? It was 1953, life was a lot different,and in many ways better even tho it was a lot harder. I went to Dacres Road school late 1950s-63, I think there was only one black lad there even then out of around 1200 of us. Now I see it is a school "specialising in the p...

actually there is no worn bit, its my bad eyes; Also I think that the pipe is nothing more than a land drain, judging by the socketed ends

Myself I don`t think they look anything like part of a railway. What ever the top item is it looks as if it has been well worn buy something running over it, perhaps rope? There is so much junk buried under years of disturbance at the Palace grounds this could be absolutely anything. heres an Illust...

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Indeed they do rebel, thanks for putting up that link; However there should be a health warning on that site, as you can lose yourself in it for hours!! As a confirmed conspiracy theorist it has always seemed to me to be more than coincidential that Beeching's [spit spit] savage massacre of our Rail...

It was on the opposite side of the road where the bus rank is, all houses there now I believe, the tunnel that led to it is there but blocked up. to the left of the bridge that is at the west end there was a turn table where the steam engines where turned round. Big old canopy over it, knocked about...

This story always generates mirth, but I can asure you there are more about than you'd think. In this part of Wiltshire sightings of them are regular, I have seen one close up myself at 3 in the afternoon, I actually went up to the blooming thing as it was having a pee thinking it was my employers L...

Some few years back, almost at the top of that long walk up from Sydenham hill station which comes out opposite the Wood House pub a guy commited suicide by putting a shotgun cartride into a bit of pipe, putting one end to his head and whacking the other end with a hammer, crude but messily effectiv...

I think this photo turns up regulary on ebay as a postcard, its not actually Sydenham town, but Sydenham [surname] coaches somewhere on the coast;
its what was called a charabanc

That 1860 map is very confusing, I can`t relate the london chatham railway line to the present position of the brighton railway, or the old canal to the line of Penge lane at all, More like where its Green Lane would be today, the railway position is all wrong surely? It says as far as I can make ou...

blimey Falkor !!!!talk about information overload..... I am sure my source re Penge lane was off this site somewhere. as was the location of the toll gate in Hardings lane, also shown on one off your other maps. My conjecture is that Penge lane perhaps turned right at the Billet where it met Penge C...

For what its worth, The Penge lane here cannot be the present Penge Lane, as its been pointed out here that the road from Beckenham was called that previously, which adds to the confusion. The Porcupine has always intrigued me, as I used to live more or less where its marked on the old maps, I recko...