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by perryman
21 Jan 2012 22:32
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Festival of Empire 1911 by "ROTARY."
Replies: 19
Views: 34706

Re: Festival of Empire 1911 by "ROTARY."

Simon, on this thread http://sydenham.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1253&p=22691&hilit=cup#p22691 , there is a picture of the 1905 cup final. http://billsportsmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/crystal_palace_old.gif The 2 covered stands in the photo are angled just like the stands ...
by perryman
22 Jun 2011 10:11
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Flower beds in Mayo Park?
Replies: 28
Views: 18535

Re: Flower beds in Mayo Park?

Not exactly flower bed related, but at long long last it seems they are repairing some of the paths in Mayow park. They've started on the paths by the playground - those ripped up by the machinery used to create Susan Wise's cricket square. Good news, but I just hope they are not replaced with more ...
by perryman
2 Apr 2011 13:18
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: 2 muggings at knife point in Silverdale
Replies: 21
Views: 15655

Re: 2 muggings at knife point in Silverdale

If this has become a problem area, why cant the police place a camera or 2 at key points? Unless the mugger is 100% professional, then he will give clues away to his identity however well he hides his face - plus they could link the footage to cameras on the high street. Incidents like this are very...
by perryman
17 Mar 2011 21:48
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Community garden hit by burglars
Replies: 15
Views: 8334

Re: Community garden hit by burglars

Hunt them down, my beauties!
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by perryman
27 Jan 2011 23:54
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Crystal Palace stadium re-development?
Replies: 194
Views: 136774

Re: Crystal Palace stadium re-development?

who on earth would approve the knocking down of the Olympic facilities? Well, that was the original olympic plan: The upper tier is designed to be dismantled after the games, and is only a temporary structure. Then British athletics would have had their maintainable 25k legacy stadium, except they ...
by perryman
20 Jan 2011 02:04
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Crystal Palace stadium re-development?
Replies: 194
Views: 136774

Re: Crystal Palace stadium re-development?

I think it would be nice in theory if CPFC could return to their roots at the park. Also it would be nice to see football return to a site famous for hosting the FA Cup finals from 1893 to 1914 - funnily enough Tottenham played there in 1901 as an amateur team, winning the cup after a replay. But he...
by perryman
17 Jan 2011 19:45
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Why is the Pool River a tributary of the Ravensbourne
Replies: 3
Views: 5248

Re: Why is the Pool River a tributary of the Ravensbourne

Ravensbourne may be named after the old English for boundary stream.
So maybe, for some reason, the boundary and therefore name followed the smaller tributary and beyond rather than the larger river pool.

Not sure what this boundary might have been separating though.
by perryman
17 Jan 2011 18:55
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Crystal Palace stadium re-development?
Replies: 194
Views: 136774

Re: Crystal Palace stadium re-development?

Rumour today is that Crystal Palace FC are reaching agreement with Bromley to return to the site of the national athletics stadium! This might be subject to Tottenham refurbishing the current stadium. Alternatively this may have been the missing detail in the original masterplan. Or it is all intern...
by perryman
13 Jan 2011 11:08
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Crystal Palace stadium re-development?
Replies: 194
Views: 136774

Crystal Palace stadium re-development?

13/1/11: "Tottenham/AEG have offered to pay for an upgrade of the Crystal Palace athletics stadium, providing 9,500 extra permanent seats to raise its capacity to 25,000 with the option of adding a further 15,000 seats to stage a World Championship. " Daily Telegraph story Background: As p...
by perryman
21 Aug 2010 21:03
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Work in Mayow Park cricket square starting Aug 25
Replies: 6
Views: 5117

Re: Work in Mayow Park cricket square starting Aug 25

thanks for your reply mummycat. You say restoring Mayow Park to it's original use of a Recreation (ie cricket) Ground is quite a feat! I'm sure you are right, but do the local community want this? I must have missed this debate. This park is in the Perry Vale ward and there are no other open spaces ...
by perryman
17 Aug 2010 13:39
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Work in Mayow Park cricket square starting Aug 25
Replies: 6
Views: 5117

Re: Work in Mayow Park cricket square starting Aug 25

Just how much space is this thing going to take up? This is a busy and popular park. And worse still, when a game is played, will the whole of this field be out of bounds for ordinary families - for 4/5 hours? - on a weekend? This is (now) a densely populated area and there are plenty of cricket fac...
by perryman
3 Jul 2010 02:20
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Events in Mayow Park
Replies: 22
Views: 15090

Hmm, well I better post here instead then. My main concern, is that we will lose the pavilion. The decision of the bowling club to take a short term and selfish view, and use their windfall grants to drag some ugly steel boxes into the park rather than repair the pavilion has made me reassess the ol...
by perryman
11 Jun 2010 12:14
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Events in Mayow Park
Replies: 22
Views: 15090

OK thanks.
Clicking the image, then clicking again allows the text to be read.

I'll save any comments until I've read the reasoning behind the changes.
by perryman
10 Jun 2010 13:32
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Events in Mayow Park
Replies: 22
Views: 15090

Where/when can we see this master plan document?

(I can't read the labels on the photo on the mayow pk blog.)
by perryman
21 May 2010 16:39
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: A SYMBOL FOR SYDENHAM
Replies: 136
Views: 122375

Cipp(a) means a beam or a structure built of logs.
Cippenham means Cippa's (once a common name) homestead.
Sydenham is just misspelt.

If we assume that our Cippa actually lived in a log house, which is not unreasonable given this was all woodland, then a log house should be our symbol.
by perryman
9 Jan 2010 22:40
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Mayow Park Winter Newsletter
Replies: 10
Views: 9778

Maintenance is an ongoing duty for the council. It is their duty to maintain a drinking fountain, a toilet, the paths, the shrubs trees, fencing, grounds, pavilion, tennis courts and playground. That means repairing and replacing things as they wear out. This is not a project as the main definition ...
by perryman
26 May 2009 12:16
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Brenchley Gardens Railway Bridge...and area
Replies: 13
Views: 12332

What a great read - the text version is a little scrambled but the (large) pdf version is fine. I had not realised how old Wood Vale was - I knew it was amongst the oldest roads leading into the area - but the romans using it in battle is a great surprise. If there was a significant path at the top ...
by perryman
26 May 2009 01:44
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Brenchley Gardens Railway Bridge...and area
Replies: 13
Views: 12332

thanks will - some old friends there!
I've pretty much convinced myself that such an old boundary running through a forest (before it was cleared for farms and houses) would have been marked by a road.

I'm beyond hard facts now.
by perryman
24 May 2009 00:45
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Brenchley Gardens Railway Bridge...and area
Replies: 13
Views: 12332

The last of Will's maps is interesting. It seems to show an overlay of an old road following the kent surrey boundary. An extension of what is now the straight part of Horniman drive, cutting across Canonbie Rd, crossing Honor Oak Pk and up past the actual tree of honor, has merit. Perhaps it met up...
by perryman
30 Dec 2008 21:17
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Crystal Palace Park development
Replies: 12
Views: 12271

Parks need constant maintenance - part of the council tax pays for this. If the park is going to be sold bit by bit to keep the remainder in good repair, then there are 2 obvious questions: Where is the money going that is set aside for the upkeep the park? If a chunk is sold every 5 years, how much...