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- 7 Dec 2004 09:00
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: A good name for Sydenham?
- Replies: 5
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- 2 Dec 2004 09:35
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Recycling in Sydenham
- Replies: 5
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- 29 Nov 2004 09:34
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: sydenham gas light and coke company
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6816
Are you referring to the Sydenham Gas and Coke Company? If so, it was opened in 1851 off Westow Hill, Upper Norwood and taken over by the Crystal Palace District Gas Company, at Bell Green, Lower Sydenham, in 1854. Records of this short-lived company are held at the London Metropolitan Archive. The ...
- 13 Nov 2004 09:05
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: Photo of Sub Lieutenant Warren Barclay
- Replies: 3
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Unfortunately, I have no knowledge of any pictures of Warren Barclay but I do have some information on him. His parents, Henry James and Mary, lived in Wapella, Byne Road, Sydenham in the early 1890s. By 1894 they had moved to 61 Silverdale and they were still there in 1899. The 1901 census shows He...
- 20 Oct 2004 15:12
- Forum: Town Asylum
- Topic: Subject line
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6290
Subject line
A small point, but I imagine when someone posts a new topic what they put in the subject line becomes the name of that topic. However, when somebody posts a reply within a topic, they are again offered a blank subject line. Some fill it in (with what they think the topic was) , some don't, and it do...
- 18 Oct 2004 18:08
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: New Zebra Crossing on Railway Bridge
- Replies: 46
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- 14 Oct 2004 19:47
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: New Zebra Crossing on Railway Bridge
- Replies: 46
- Views: 99668
It was good to see coverage of the concerns about this crossing in the current Newsshopper at http://tinyurl.com/5md5l
- 13 Oct 2004 14:35
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: New Zebra Crossing on Railway Bridge
- Replies: 46
- Views: 99668
Sorry, the link I gave to SI 2400 was to only part of it. The whole SI can be viewed here:
http://tinyurl.com/5ehwu
http://tinyurl.com/5ehwu
- 13 Oct 2004 14:28
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: New Zebra Crossing on Railway Bridge
- Replies: 46
- Views: 99668
I don't have a day job so ... this link gives you the document on the DfT site that deals with zebra crossings: http://tinyurl.com/5n6s4 This gives the Statutory Instrument (SI 2400) that is referred to in the above document: http://tinyurl.com/57urt I leave it to others to make sense of the legalese.
- 9 Oct 2004 09:22
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: Lawrie Park Road history - please help
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7591
Lewisham Local History Centre (in the main library at Lewisham) has a wonderful set of records called Drainage Applications. Whenever a building was connected to the main drainage system, detailed plans had to be submitted to the local authority for approval. However, they give far more than just dr...
- 4 Oct 2004 05:19
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: Granada Cinema info please
- Replies: 9
- Views: 12933
Granada Cinema
The State/Granada was opened in 1931 and closed and demolished in 1971. The best account of the cinema, with some pictures, is in The Big Five: Lewisham's Super Cinemas by Ken George. You can see, and perhaps buy, a copy at Lewisham Local Studies Centre (http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/localStudies/) or ...