Sydenham Town Forum

This is supposedly a remnant of the Great North Wood; you can see it's very overgrown and natural looking with lot's of trees. However, there was once houses inside this wood, tennis courts(?), and a railway line with trains running through it! Therefore, I doubt it would have looked very wooded bet...

Sorry guys... My old web space provider lost all my files, so I'm now hosted on a new server, but my previous backup was before the time I had posted the pics. To put them back up, I'll have to go through the process of finding and resizing them again..... but I think the regulars, if not most peopl...

I'll check out what I got for the centre of sydenham later on, but I definitely don't have anything on Venner Road unfortunately; I mainly collect photos of Upper Sydenham and Crystal Palace areas. However, I did also live in Lower Sydenham for a couple of years, and once knew a babysitter in Venner...

Check this out... The timber cottages on the right of the first photo with all the bushes was called Springfield Gardens, which no longer exists at the top of Springfield Rise; one of the Sydenham Hill Estate blocks was built right next to the site, behind the 3 houses at the top of Oaksford Avenue....

I used to live right opposite Home Park (30 second walk away; nearest house to the main entrance), and managed to catch the adventure playground during it's last days of life, but it's always been a boring sort of park--at least as long as I've known it. They used to have a children's social club wi...

Those Sydenham Hill Estate Flats were only built in the mid 1950s, but I must admit the whole of Sydenham is quickly becoming very rundown looking. That estate was only built 50 years ago, and now they're already thinking about knocking it down!? I did notice it's built, for the most part, on a very...

I spoke to an old friend still living in Sydenham Hill estate, who told me her block of flats may be knocked down, and that she may end up living with her daughter. Does anyone have anymore details about this??

I remember this long alleyway about 15 years ago! I think it actually starts before Sydenham Park, somewhere in Lower Sydenham; I know I walked to WH Smiths from Home Park, mostly via that alleyway. No idea of it's name or history though... Next time I go down Lewisham Local studies centre, I'll enq...

Doubt these are quite as old as 30s-40s, but are some photos I saw in the Lewisham Local Studies centre... I think the 2 main books have better photos...

Does anyone have any old photographs of Upper Sydenham? I'm mainly looking for pictures of Wells Park Road (and any roads off this) up until 1980...

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The Admin has removed the splendid old photos whilst copyright issues are clarified. Apologies for the inconvenience.