Sydenham Town Forum

I remember the scrapyard, and now that you've reminded me the name of Wilson rings a bell.
Like your mother, mine would sell woollens there and dad, who did plumbing on the side, collected brass, lead and copper and offloaded that there.
Toyland, now that does bring back memories , but like Wilson's ...

I expect all kids that lived in Sydenham had cause to visit this hospital at one time or another, I was no exception.
My sister was treated there as an in patient for some years having been born with a brain tumour and blind and having a children's hospital nearby would have eased the worry for my ...

Hi Rabird.
Yes we must have just passed other by a few months or so.
We'd have left, well told to leave really as there wasn't anything wrong with the prefab itself, some time around 1957.
The prefabs would of course have occupied the site of 128.
Fairlawn Park seems to have been bombed more than ...

The Livesey Hall photo I am not sure of the year but my father worked in the gas house retorts around 1950, he left, after a bad blow back from the furnace, around 1951.

Highly likely that both our fathers knew one another by sight if not more formally, he was a machine attendant or greaser, and ...

I also have a pictures of a Xmas kids party in Livesey Hall for the children of the gas workers, Dad worked there for a while,similarly his father and grandfather. Anyone having any snippets from this area?


Any idea when the image of the kid's party at Livesey Hall was taken?
I went to quite a ...

I enjoyed reading this thank you

No problem, and it's only re-reading that mistakes spring to mind.
The man who owned the grocery shop in Sydenham Road was named Morris and not Wilson, the Wilsons lived in one of the six prefabs on our plot.
One prefab next to ours was lived in by an irish family ...

For anyone who might be ineterested.
My name is David Jackaman and I lived at 126 Fairlawn Park from about 1948 to about 1956.
126 Fairlawn Park was an Acom prefab, one of six erected presumably on a bomb site half way along the east side of the loop.
I believe a second group were erected on the ...