Sydenham Town Forum

Funny all these remarks about Kennedys sausages; I was brought up on them, especially the beef variety from Penge, my mum would not buy any thing else. When I moved out of Penge in 1988 I had stopped buying them as the quality had deteriorated markedly, all paste and gristle. either they bucked up a...

Another tip. If you have expensive electrical items bought for xmas, DO NOT put the empty boxes outside for the dustman in full view, you are just advertising the fact you have all that new gear availiable for nicking. If you let the cardboard get nice and damp somewhere it will squash up really sma...

Best thing that could be done for any high st is to provide a society that removes the need for shops that are shuttered or meshed all night and half the day,
Not a pleasent experience to walk down a high st late at night thats a wall of steel shutters covered in graffiti

Theres noting troubling me Falkor, it was meant to have an element of humour. Like you I have a certain disdain for the workings of our "masters", so i always refer to my family as being of Kent, not the London borough of Bromley or where ever. I know what I think has a better ring to it. ...

On my birth certificate it says Bromley Kent My mother lived in Downham, Kent My father in Charlton, Kent I later lived in Beckenham , Kent , quite near Kent House what moved? Bloody Ken Livingstone, is there no end to his territorial ambitions? next you know it'll be Tonbridge Wells, SE 112

I take it then Falkor that should you ever, after years of hard work and research ,publish a book or similar, that I can copy it all out and flog it off as my own work, or use it for my own ends ? The notion that I live by my laws and not yours is exactly the problem caused by the claims of muslim n...

Wel, that book of views of C PaLace I posted the ebay link to claims to show photos of the courts.among others

Back in the late 50`s there was a shop in Sydenham Rd selling secondhand furniture, on the right, just past Trewsbury road, next to the church called...

Ibizit and Izellit.

it caused great mirth among my pals how long it took for the penny to drop with me.

Martin, That was not so much a vault, as a building sunk well into the ground; I remember it well and have mentioned it somewhere here. Very damp and overgrown I had to be hoisted up on a pals shoulders to lookin .Full of statues in far better condition than those shown This would have been about 19...

Bit of a nit picker, I`ve spent some time reading the road traffic acts; No one has a "right" to park anywhere the highway. Even when paid for its strictly a concession. There are some quite tricky rules for what you can and cant do on the highway in the strict letter of the law, And by th...

Fantastic, thanks Interesting that that map shows a railway entrance, would this be the elusive tunnel? Fantastic pics I`m going to download them onto cd. I'm really sorry that I never thought to collect any of this sort of stuff years ago, I had no idea what was about, the biggest trophy back then ...

On the subject of statues, many of them were stored in a rundown brick building, in a dell, behind what is now that music stage thing by the little lake, About the mid 60`s they were all put up for auction along with the flower vases on the terrace, Another act of vandalism, from the LCC as it was t...

A truly magnificent structure, and a building of beauty indeed

What ever the ifs and buts of this pic, every time I see anything like it, I am convinced that the biggest criminal act of govt authority of the 20th century was the failure to rebuild the Crystal Palace.

What an asset it would be,and what a better project than that rubbish Dome.

access barred it seems.
Cobbs Santas grotto was quite a good one if I remember correctly

I'm old but not ancient young Falkor........ The bomb crater that is now under that playground is the site of one of my first escapades, It was huge hole after all the rubble had been cleared, probably a basement area, like all bomb sites it was rapidly colonised by Buddleia bushes, I had managed to...

I can`t remember where I got that Sydenham oldest house from, probably ebay, I collected a random lot off ebay and others to show my Late Mum, to give her some memories, so no particular order in the set

Now thats AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
some of those bring back some memories,
Wouldn`t South London have been an amazing place to live these days without Hitler and property developers [ and I use them both in the same sentance on purpose]

Peter Pans pool, who remembers that? the little railway and a go on the boats was our Alton Towers back then, A walk back home to Upper Sydenham, and a stop at the Tigers Head, for Mum and Dad; me and my brother stuck outside with a glass of orange juice and an arrowroot biscuit. spoilt rotten. Don`...