Sydenham Town Forum

Did you log in to delcampe.fr not delcampe uk?

Falkor, I`m a keen postard collector of parts of France. I use a site Delcampe, based in Belgium which is much better than ebay. I`m logged into the french side of it, and there are, on the french site some 57 cards of the Crystal Palace, some of the fairgrounds etc. rom about 2 euros Get into Delca...

Falkor, do you use Delcampe for postcards?

I've just found on the mcleanmuir post re Beckenham photos a reference to the TollGate in Hardings Lane being demolished in 1899.
chances are there may be a photo somewhere?

Crooked Billet?
never seen a view like that before

hi msrulb. what do you mean by "half houses"? is it that little terrace of about 4 by the school facing that triangle thing? opposite Champion Grove. I used to live in one of those, Yes Steve that was the house. It was a superb house and a crime to have demlished it. I went in for a look a...

Its a penalty of living by a railway line, you get used to it. When I was first in Penge I was driven nuts by the tinkling sound I kept hearing some nights, it was guys walking the line and tapping the rails to test them. Always sounded like breaking glass to me. you'd be amazed at what happens on r...

Poor old Penge!!!! always had a hard time. smashed to pieces in the war,more flying bombs on it than any where else in London. Penge Lane is about the oldest road in Penge; Hardings Lane, across the railway was were I used to live, named after a previous Farm I heard. I saw a map somewhere on here I...

There has always been a crime problem in Penge since the late 1970's when Bromley council decided to turn it into a ghetto for all the boroughs rubbish and problem tenants. Its the reason I left in 1988, I had a shop there which lost a £1000 worth of plate glass window twice in three days; Penge pol...

I never ever ever ever thought I would hear the words "wealthy professional" or even just "wealth" associated with Mount Ash road, or even Charleville Circus. :? Mount Ash was just plain rough when I was a kid. Charleville circus of my memory late 1960's was a rather gloomy and d...

yep, could be that one, has been a car sales/workshop for many years. Wish I could eat Palm toffee now, used to like the bar with the banana flavour running through it. Another treat was from the little sweet shop just up the road before Sydenham Park, you went down steps into it, theres a photo of ...

HOP The WAG............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought I was the only one left that remembered that term I was a champ at hopping off, three weeks was the longest I managed in one hit, they could never find me because I holed up in the Horniman Museum reading room, reading all day. the others used to get...

You are not that far from the railway are you? noise travels in a peculiar manner at night. I used to live near the railway at Penge East, every now and again we were disturbed about that time of the morning by long rumbling noise, used to make the building shake. It turned out was trains carrying n...

Memory is difficult after so many years away from the area, but the community building, its adjacent adjacent to the road, Sydenham Hill. its still there or its replacement is much altered. Why put a bit of wall there for no reason?, well, piece work/ apprentice training, just filling up time. work ...

I seem to remember my father building a ragstone wall as part of a some kind of communal building nearer the road, its now gone/altered. this may well be some more of his handiwork If you had seen that area under construction and the vast amount of earth moving that went on you'd realise there would...

glad Rebelmc has experienced the same conditions. One has to travel in the night time say between midnight and dawn to get the real feel of a motorway given over to entirely HGV traffic of that kind. But getting back to the discussion re hazards on the roads of Se London the point I was trying to ma...

The cinema was on the Somerfiled site, remeber it well, a frequent visitor in my youth, just one of many that disapeared in the race to destroy any kind of local focal point, also disapeared, Penge and Crystal Palace cinemas, Forest hill ABC, now the usual bingo hall, amazed to see that the Beckenha...

This will probably upset some people as its an unpalatable truth. I`m afraid the deterioration in driving standards that you speak of is down to the increasing numbers of drivers who have taken no driving test or a test in some far flung corner of the EU or elsewhere. Its noticeable even as far as t...

I have two books on offer, not exactly Sydenham, but SE London local history as I see some of you live outside of SE 26 #1 Vol 2 only of 2 vols of a privately printed history of Charlton, by JG Smith circa 1975, covers bomb damage, transport, lots churches history, trams, etc Hardback about A5 size,...

Its really rum how this rumours persist. This story about the house with the eagle was told to me around 1962, by a woman councillor who lived in Longton Grove, and who was herself regarded as something of a local historian. One of the interesting things I find on this site is how much of what I had...