Sydenham Town Forum

JGD, you make a good point, not getting too close to your heroes. I recall an excellent 'Morse' along those lines where our eponymous inspector idolizes an opera singer, only to be disillusioned when he gets to know her

Perhaps the machinery I describe in Chestnut Place is a pumping installation associated with the underground conduits that the former reservoir was presumably connected to. Might be nothing more than that. It doesn't help that Thames Water is paranoid about its installations, witness the serious ...

My bad in the curious woodland post. Indeed Farquhar Road and its history of decline in the article you linked is Dulwich Upper Wood. I incorrectly said to the west of the Parade, I've now corrected to read to the east. It is the patch bordering the east of the Parade I am describing, literally on ...

Hiya RJM, the feel of the site - and you can only clamber up from Sydenham Hill to have a nose, there is no access from either side or the back - is that indeed it has the built-up retaining-wall-feel of an urban reservoir. There is no roof to it now, that much is obvious, but yes it is the remains ...

And I've got another curio. Chestnut Place, a private, gated development runs west off Sydenham Hill. In the works area adjacent to the houses, directly to their east, is a large, very expensive-looking and immaculately maintained electrical generator, the sort I imagine used to cope at a hospital ...

I wonder if people could help with this one. There is a patch of woodland directly on the east edge of Crystal Palace Parade, between, to the south, what was the original entrance to the Palace, with its still-standing low, rounded walls along the pavement's edge, and the Arqiva Tower site to the ...