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- 27 Jan 2016 23:01
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: Farewell to the World of Richard Bishop
- Replies: 11
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Re: Farewell to the World of Richard Bishop
It was a public hanging, Robin.Bishop was, according to this site http://tinyurl.com/gpyajqk, "the last man to be hanged in public [at Maidstone Gaol]... on Thursday, the 30th of April 1868." Also, several local papers described "a small crowd assembled on the occasion, but their deme...
- 26 Jan 2016 18:59
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: Farewell to the World of Richard Bishop
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9750
Re: Farewell to the World of Richard Bishop
The Swiss Cottage was, as Pat says, a pub on the corner of Wastdale Road and Stanstead Road. Alfred Cartwright lived in Wastdale Road and his parents Henry, a shoemaker, and Matilda lived round the corner in Malham Road. Approaching midnight on 2 April 1868 Alfred and his parents left the Swiss Cott...
- 16 Mar 2010 22:06
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: Re: Spire from St. Antholin Church
- Replies: 9
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- 16 Mar 2010 21:38
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: where's this?
- Replies: 15
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- 28 Feb 2010 01:17
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Sydenham's Children's Hospital
- Replies: 72
- Views: 162182
- 27 Feb 2010 16:57
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: HOME PARK MANSION
- Replies: 4
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- 28 Jan 2010 15:36
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Sydenham Hill In Old Photos
- Replies: 23
- Views: 59036
- 25 Jan 2010 10:52
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Sydenham Hill In Old Photos
- Replies: 23
- Views: 59036
It seems sensible to start a new thread to deal with Roman remains...
- 25 Jan 2010 10:47
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Roman remains in Sydenham
- Replies: 10
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Roman remains in Sydenham
On another thread Falkor wrote: …Sydenham Hill is an ancient boundary between the parishes of Lewisham and Camberwell. When was it first formed? Does it have a Roman origin? … the Romans did at least walk across Sydenham Common (included most of Upper Sydenham), as a major Roman artefact was discove...
- 19 Jan 2010 20:02
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: Family Tree
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3956
Hi, I believe we communicated on this some years ago. The Lurcucks are fairly easy and I’m sure you know far more about the family than I do. William (probably born in Rodmersham, Kent in about 1865) was living at 59 Coombe Road in 1894. By 1898 he had moved to 39 Mount Ash Road where he appears in ...
- 13 Jan 2010 14:01
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Reg O'Neil
- Replies: 11
- Views: 11643
I would also like to add my congratulations, Reg. Your memories of life in Sydenham during the inter-war years and beyond are absolutely priceless. Books and documents offer an accurate but often dry and even dull record of the past. Memories such as yours bring these dry facts to life. Even more im...
- 13 Jan 2010 13:51
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Shoe Repairers, Kirkdale, mid 1900s
- Replies: 1
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Not much information to go on, Chris. One possibility is William Edwin Usher. He was a bootmaker/shoe repairer at 141 Kirkdale from about 1931 to 1958. The shop was just past Willow Way, on the site of Tesco's. In this picture (taken in 1956) it is between Packman and Mann's: http://farm3.static.fli...
- 29 Dec 2009 22:01
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: Sydenham Art College and Rene Lalique
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10373
The story that Lalique attended “Sydenham College” was told to me twelve or more years ago by someone who had heard it from somebody else. I treated it then, as now, with some suspicion. Many dozens of websites say that he was at “Sydenham College”, “Sydenham College of Art” or even “an art school i...
- 21 Dec 2009 22:03
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: Beltwood House
- Replies: 16
- Views: 24818
That would have been of some interest, SydenhamHillAndy, if the original owner had been Edward Stanton. In fact it was Edward Saxton (I'm sure I've written about this elsewhere on this site). Saxton lived at Beltwood from 1851, when he had the house built, until his death in 1911. This is an extract...
- 24 Nov 2009 10:46
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: Crownbrook, Mayow Road, Christmas 1904
- Replies: 2
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Mark, Crownbrook was at 25 Mayow Road. The house was demolished and replaced by a housing estate, probably in the 1970s. Andre Rieder and his family were only there for a short time as by 1906 Kellys directory has him at Branscombe, 75 Mayow Road. That house does survive, opposite Mayow Park. I don’...
- 22 Nov 2009 20:58
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Around Steve Grindlay's boundaries...
- Replies: 25
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Parochial? Me? Not at all! It's not my fault that that so many influential and important people of the past two centuries had Sydenham connections. The Crystal Palace may have played a part, but many who visited either stayed in or passed through Sydenham, and recorded the experience. Why only a few...
- 13 Nov 2009 19:48
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Consultation on change of name for the Naborhood Centre
- Replies: 46
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- 13 Nov 2009 09:11
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: WHAT IF: no1 THE NABOURHOOD CENTRE
- Replies: 84
- Views: 62438
- 11 Nov 2009 20:19
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: Sydenham Avenue - Pictures
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4896
Marion, I don't have the PC from the 1950s you mention. These are the only pictures I have of Sydenham Avenue, both taken about 1905-1910: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2537/4095585367_cc953dee27_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2696/4096344516_74c8af7cec_b.jpg If you want to download them , go...
- 3 Oct 2009 18:43
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Beachgrove, 111 Sydenham Hill
- Replies: 12
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This is the only picture I know of of Beechgrove. It shows the back of the house: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2424/3977801704_878d084824.jpg Beechgrove, 111 Sydenham Hill, was built in the early 1860s. It was a private home perhaps until the end of WW2. Lionel George Logue lived there from before...