Local Heroes?

[The Clown]

I didn't know that Jason Statham was from Sydenham until I saw this:

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/lewis ... est_roles/

More playing a hero on screen than a true hero but still...

wonder what others there are / have been - any rising stars?

[somerandombloke]

Bill Wyman grew up in Sydenham.

[Mayowthorpe]

The great WG Grace is my favourite hero. Infamously, Rolf Harris was also a former resident of Sydenham.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydenham#Famous_residents

[somerandombloke]

I know a real horror story about Rolf Harris. But I aint gonna tell you here.

[owlwise]

Did you know that Sir James Dyson live in Sydenham many years ago? Well he did.

[Tim Lund]

Someone recently told me he was at Adamsrill with Peter Frampton

[Eagle]

No one seems to have mentioned Ernest Shackleton. Lived adjacent to St Bart's.

[mosy]

I mentioned René Lalique a while back, being a famous French glass designer who just happened to make a car hood ornament of a greyhound and who some say studied in Sydenham. It's not absolutely verified(*), but as our Greyhound is a rising star, then one or the other has a place here

(*) https://sydenham.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4272