Sydenham Town Forum

This enquiry originated on another forum where the company was subsequently found in Berrymans Lane:- Dimmers (1926) Ltd , L H Williams (Lillian Harriet, née Winter), Electrical Engineers, [Kelly's Sydenham & Forest Hill Directories, 1937-35, no mention there before 1937] and Lowa Dimmers Ltd ...

Another one in the same shop: A LARGE coloured, framed, and glazed print of Pissarro's view down Lawrie Park Avenue to St Bartholomew's Church. Must be getting on for 1m wide including matte. £10.

Presumably all sold, as no longer in the window. Cobb's corner went first.

Four glazed and framed photos in the window of Aldlife shop opposite Sainsbury's at the Beckenham end of Penge High Street. Picture size a bit over A4, matted into A3-ish frames Views circa 1900 I guess. Nothing unusual, but nice photos:- Cobb's Corner Sydenham Road Silverdale Kirkdale showing ...

For completeness: I've now found another map and directories which add a pair of semi-detached houses at 32 and 34 (unnamed) after Westbourne Road. A 1933 map shows a large number of buildings alongside the park in the back garden of Newlands, presumably the factories, A 1916 directory confirms that ...

Early directories and maps show 4 large houses:- Westbourne Road 36 Charlton 38 Claremont 40 Cambridge Lodge 42 Newlands Park Studland Road The first three formed a terrace filling just over half the length and Newlands (Park) stood in its own grounds with several outbuildings. Pre-WW2 directories ...

The right-hand one is listed in Leslie Allen's "Coincraft" catalogue as SY-1911/040 but without any more information than is written on it. He categorises it as "Very rare, very difficult to find". I think I was outbid on one on eBay a few months ago. He doesn't list the left-hand one, at least not ...

Nice shop photo currently on eBay. Expensive to buy, but no charge for looking.

Not answering the question, but fitting the header ... four old postcards of the Bell Green area have just appeared on Delcampe. But they aren't cheap Click on an image to enlarge.

You're welcome. But whoops. I failed to look carefully enough at Kent directories, where Forest Hill is to be found in earlier years. He is at Stanstead Rd in 1874 and 1882, and in Sunderland Rd in 1891. No number is given in Stanstead Rd -- maybe it wasn't numbered at that time. If Steve Grindley ...

London Southern Suburbs street directories online at http://www.historicaldirectories.org/ show him at 1 Sunderland Road from 1896 to 1902. He's been replaced by W Roberts by 1904. There are no earlier directories online to locate him before 1896, but they are available at many inner London Local ...

Maureen's Willow Way in Sydenham is still there according to the map (and called Way, not Walk). But from the family's entry on the 1901 census which I see larmat has already seen and annotated on Ancestry, Ada was indeed at the one I described in Catford. Next time I'm at Lewisham Local Studies, I ...

There's a picture just over half way down here which says it closed around 2001.

From maps and directories to hand, it was there until at least 1972, renamed Milford Road some time between WW1 and WW2. By 1981, Winslade Way Shopping Precinct had been built over it.

I don't know of any house (in Penge) itself called "Penge" at that time -- Penge Place was long gone -- but who knows about such a house elsewhere, let alone Penges elsewhere in the world? However, I think it more likely that the village is meant. Your best starting point would be the 1891 census ...

From a 1902 directory, which shows Mrs G H Penney, 8 West Hill (now Westwood Hill) was in the middle of a terrace of 3 houses next to St Bartholomew's Church on the east. The terrace has been replaced by a modern block of flats. Google street view

Short answer for now: The park is named after the house "Winsford" on the right of the Garden Road entrance, whose garden it once formed. It was built around 1936 by a Mr Stephen Gee, said to be a millionaire. Before that, the area was part of a large estate owned by "Chesham Park", 71 Croydon Rd ...

Sympathies from me too. My cards came form te same seller in a new jiffy bag sealed with its own seal plus a piece of wide tape, and would not have fallen open, though I've had things before that clearly got jammed in a machine. If it was an accident, look out for reports in the press of "Royal Mail ...

Thanks for pointing this out. The squarish building on the right with horizontal lines (dwarf walls?) across is in the position of the pavillion shown on the 1894 map; the one to its left is the new larger pavillion on the 1933 map.

If it's the one, a copy has just appeared on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FESTIVAL-EMPIRE-IMPERIAL-EXHIBITION-CRYSTAL-PALACE-/260740300350?pt=UK_Collectables_Paper_RL&hash=item3cb5553e3e One a week or so ago sold for £65. If you can't run to that, I have a copy (which I wouldn't have paid anywhere ...