Sydenham Town Forum

I just could'nt resist it, I had to say I went to St. Barts school from 1945-1951 and I used to walk home alone to wiverton road it was very safe or ignorance was bliss I don't know. We would always go to the bombed out St. Barts vicarage after school and try and finish what hitler started! We would...

As a teenager in about 1953 I worked saturday mornings in the shoe repairers cleaning the machines which would be covered with oil and shoe leather, the fellow who owned it was mr Burton, he was a super chap lived in Studland Road as I remember. On the other corner of Newlands Park was an off licenc...

I would fill my motorbike up there in 1956 at 4s and 6p per gallon, what's that now 22.5 pence per gallon. The small garage Brian is referring to was originally a Ford main dealership called Dagenham Motors which met it's demise around 1971. It was then vacant until 1973-4 when Volkspares took on th...

Thanks for the information, brings back smashing memories. How I remember Boags the hardware store was as a kid my mother would send me to buy a pint of vinegar loose, not really loose but in your own bottle, if you see what I mean. Now as a 10 year old I had a penchant for vinegar and would swig mo...

Just a very quick thank you for getting my brain going overtime, I lived in wiverton road in the forties and fifties and it's been lovely remembering about Alexandra Park etc., uote="MartinH"]The path, although oval in shape, was never an athletic track. Football was played regularly with ...

The Neighbourhood Cinema was in Sydenham Road opposite Queensthorpe Road but destroyed by enemy action and the State Cinema was in Sydenham Road on the corner of Girton Road. Were there two cinemas? The old cinema was where Somerfield now is and was knocked down to build that stunning piece of moder...

I lived at 106 wiverton road during the war. The house suffered bomb damage to windows, doors and the roof. it was about 1948 before the repairs were completed! The houses in Newlands Park opposite Tredown Road were demolished by enemy action, I can remember playing there as a kid before they were r...

Anyone remember or know what happened to the following:- St. Brelades Cafe in Kirkdale, Cobbs departmental store, Wymans the newsagent and Buicks the jewellers in Sydenham Road opp Newlands Park, State Cinema corner of Girton Road, Nicks the Italian hairdresser opp Mayow Road, the Shoe Repairers and...

I remember The Children's Hospital very well, opposite Home(?) Park. I was in there for two weeks with a broken leg when I was 13 in 1953. I fell in love with my nurse I'd better not say her name but I have remembered it fot the last 55 years! It was a lovely hospital with balconies to the front whe...

Hello I lived in Sydenham from 1942 until 1958 and remember Crystal Palace motor racing circuit very well. The best races were the ones with the Cooper racing cars which had 500cc Norton motorcycle engines, the machines were all faily standard so the race depended purely on the capability of the dri...