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- 21 Sep 2009 18:26
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Kirkdale/Dartmouth Road New builds
- Replies: 69
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Regards the plans for 105 i think these modernise the building and split the shop acomodation apart from the flat making it more attractive to residents. You're quite right, bag lady. When I first saw this application the documentation wasn't available. It looks better better than I feared and may,...
- 16 Sep 2009 17:52
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Kirkdale/Dartmouth Road New builds
- Replies: 69
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- 15 Sep 2009 19:30
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: CHURCH HAS APPLIED FOR CHANGE FO USE OF CP CINEMA
- Replies: 41
- Views: 33893
That's curious, there are certainly some who believe there was a cinema on the site:leaf wrote:There is no crystal palace cinema to change into a church
http://cinematreasures.org/theater/28989/
- 11 Sep 2009 12:48
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: Help wanted locating the Champion family history
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8641
I can’t really help you with your request for information on the Champions, Ironman. Although I’ve information on a couple of dozen of them they seem to have moved around a lot and it’s hard to sort out who belongs to which family and whether, for example, the Stephen living at one address was the s...
- 11 Sep 2009 10:57
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Kirkdale/Dartmouth Road New builds
- Replies: 69
- Views: 61396
Just because it is old doesn't mean it is worth saving I assume that as you quoted my whole post you were attributing that remark to me. I neither said it, not do I believe it. What I do strongly believe is that no building should be demolished unless something better is going to replace it. If som...
- 10 Sep 2009 09:14
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Kirkdale/Dartmouth Road New builds
- Replies: 69
- Views: 61396
This shows the group of shops some years ago when still fairly intact. They were part of what was Sydenham (and Forest hill's) original shopping centre, laid out in the 1830s and known until the 1930s as the High Street. Olwen Carthew and the PO are the two shops the developers want to demolish. So ...
- 16 Aug 2009 18:11
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Tewksbury Lodge.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3542
Reg, the folly was built in about 1880 at the highest point of the garden of Tewkesbury Lodge, a large house on Honor Oak Road, obviously to take advantage of the spectacular views. The folly is now in the back garden of a house in Liphook Crescent, and listed grade II. http://farm4.static.flickr.co...
- 16 Aug 2009 15:44
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: German Embassy in Sydenham?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 59964
That’s brilliant, Chris. I do think it’s helped crack the German Ambassador story. Hermann Johannes lived at 73 Crystal Palace Park Road from about 1908-1912. From what you say he was back in Germany by 1914. The 1911 census confirms that he was the “German consul general”. Kelly’s Handbook (1912) a...
- 16 Aug 2009 12:29
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: John Sutton 1795
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3744
- 15 Aug 2009 20:56
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: German Embassy in Sydenham?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 59964
To answer your last question first, Chris, Lambourne House School no longer exists. It was founded in Lambourne House, 84 Honor Oak Road, in about 1901 and was described as “a German High School”. Sometime after WW1 the school moved round the corner to Manor Mount where it continued until the outbre...
- 27 Jul 2009 10:03
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: 19th century shops
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2907
There were few, if any, shops in the area around the railway bridge in the mid-1840s. By about 1848 only the pair of shops between the Railway Tavern and The Greyhound (321 and 323 Kirkdale) had been built. At this time most of the shops in Sydenham were clustered round the junction of Kirkdale and ...
- 25 Jul 2009 14:39
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: 43 Sydenham Hill
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4846
This is not very good, Melvyn, but it is the best I can do: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2446/3754313429_1fef50e14e_o.jpg It is enlarged from a poor quality postcard and shows 43 Sydenham Hill (also known as Woodlands) beyond the junction with Crescent Wood Road (hidden by the horse and carriage)....
- 23 Jul 2009 21:16
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: The Windmill that used to stand in Mill Gardens
- Replies: 28
- Views: 47797
Sorry for the delay in replying, Rob, I’ve been caught up with other things; holidays, talks, walks and so on. The photograph of the mill looking across the Costcutter site is one of mine. It is a photocopy and “V5-29” in the top right corner is supposed to tell me where my copy of the original is f...
- 22 Jul 2009 16:51
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: NO TO THE MOSAIC ON THE NABORHOOD CENTRE
- Replies: 50
- Views: 34585
I too think the mosaic is an excellent idea. It is a well thought out, carefully planned proposal. The people behind it are experienced; one of them has worked with Oliver Budd , who may well be involved with this project. I should also declare an interest as I have given information and images to h...
- 15 Jul 2009 20:29
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Forest Hill Pools consultation
- Replies: 88
- Views: 102306
- 14 Jul 2009 19:39
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Where Are The Crystal Palace Statues Now ?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16477
tulse hill terry mentions the Thames statue at Lechlade here where he also mentions this statue of Pacific, which is in Dacres Road:
Edited: thanks, Terry, I've put the correct link in now.
Edited: thanks, Terry, I've put the correct link in now.
- 13 Jul 2009 09:36
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Pictures of the Croydon Canal
- Replies: 86
- Views: 120018
This is David's painting (uploaded with permission): http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3287/3716472350_f4353ee17d_b.jpg The artist, Henry Gastineau, lived in Cold Harbour Lane, Camberwell from the early 1820s until his death in 1876 so knew the area well. The date of the painting (1836) is significant....
- 7 Jul 2009 12:44
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: The Windmill that used to stand in Mill Gardens
- Replies: 28
- Views: 47797
Rob, I'm sure you're right about the anomaly of a post mill being built during the 1830s. On the other hand, I still have difficulty accepting that it was built before the late 1820s. In a recent book John Coulter suggests that the mill might have been established by William Atherfold about 1837. Al...
- 4 Jul 2009 21:14
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: The Windmill that used to stand in Mill Gardens
- Replies: 28
- Views: 47797
A fascinating article, Rob, thanks. I do have a couple of comments. You say that in 1851 the Brigdens resided at “50 Mill Road”. This is not so, they were living in Mill Lane, later Mill Gardens, which in 1843 had just five houses. “50” is the householder’s schedule number. Each householder was give...
- 3 Jul 2009 16:34
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Old views of Sydenham Hill
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3129
Re: Old views of Sydenham Hill
The Baby Hospital seems a particularly sad loss... Actually, the "Babies' Hospital" is still there. It is Beltwood, next to the Dulwich Wood House. It was a babies hospital from about 1949 to 1962. I was told by an elderly resident that it was for "naughty girls", ie unmarried m...