Sydenham Town Forum

Hi Gemma, Sadly I dont recall the surname Mason, although I walked through Rosamunde Street every day in the 1950s on my way to Junior school..As children we just used Christian names when we were playing ...and only used surnames when addressing adults (if we knew them) out of courtesy.
it was also ...

Hi there Mark, I was also puzzled by this address as I was also looking at the census return in 1871 as the subject of my research Th0mas Joseph Butler was living in Taylors Lane at the time with his Aunt and Uncle Samuel Randle.Their address was The Warwick Arms..(as Samuel described himself as a ...

Hi Julia, I am so sad to hear that Terry has died and that Mrs Field has passed away too,they were a really nice family.
I remember Terry and Mrs Field, as they lived opposite my Nanny and Grandad and nextdoor to my friend Brenda Langridge,.
Its nice that you have photographs of Terry and his chums ...

I am saddened to hear of the death of Muriel Brannan.I remember her from Priospect Road and the London City Mission at the top of Bradford Road a very sweet lady...part of a lovely family.
Elmers End Cemetary is a beautiful place,she will rest at peace there.My mother Mollie Dale is there along with ...

Hi David...Although my mother knew Olive, she was a toddler in 1925 and has never made reference to the incidents recalled.
My grandfather Horace Myerson was strict teetotal after his experience with his father and the way it spoilt his life and I know that my mother had signed'The Pledge' vowing to ...

Hi David, I beleive Terry Field daughter contacted the forum a while back looking for information on his childhood, as you maybe saw...I had no knowledge of his family after they moved away.I hope they lived happily in Brockley.
In Bradford road they lived opposite my Nan and Grandad...Kate and ...

Yes I know what you mean.....I struggle with most things...seems repitition is my way forward , and hope it sinks in.
I looked at some of the old photos, but although an Olive is pictured the surname was Tarrant,not Smith.I will keep looking through the other photos I have, mostly they are very ...

Hi David, it seems they were quite a group, all living to such a grand age.My lovely mum Mollie died aged 89 in 2011, she was bright, cheerful and positive all her life, and often spoke of her friends from her childhood.Eva still has a great recall of people and events....she has been the family ...

Hello there Mr Wallis,
Your post struck a cord with me as you will imagine.Although the Smith family that you refer to are familiar names to me because of conversations between my Mum Mollie and her sisters who you mention, the Smith family I was actually referring to lived at the lower end of ...

Hi there Julia.
Your dad Terry lived opposite my Nan and Grandad(no 11 Bradford Rd).I remember him well, although as he was a boy !!! we didnt play together. I remember him as a quiet slim and dark haired boy with a bike...quite something in our road at that time.He lived nextdoor to Brenda ...

Hi James, I just spoke to Auntie Jean...She worked for Brannans in Havelock Walk(near the old Ghinns shop) in Forest Hill.
She went there from school in 1942 and worked there until she married 15years later in 1957.She worked at Dalmain breifly, but found it rather big and a bit daunting.However ...

Dear Brannan
I have had a chance to speak to a few of my relatives and read them the touching tribute to your Uncle Leslie Tripp.Everyone of them remembers him fondly and his mother who was a very sweet lady.
My sister Eileen remembers going to the house each week for Bible studies with Mrs Tripp, I ...

Hello there Pauline,Your name is very familiar to me.
I lived at 33 Bradford Road a few doors up from the Chandler family...Raymond was the brother you couldnt remember.
my maiden name was Maureen Myles and I had 6 brothers and sisters.my brother Michael, sister Eileen had the same surname, but ...

Dear Brannan,
What a lovely tribute to Leslie.I am so sad to hear of his death.
I remember him so well from the Sunday school when he was probably in his later teens, taking bible studies for Mr Bulpitt.
His recollection of life in Prospect Road,and his description of his home brought a lump to my ...

Hello There Your news cuttings are most interesting and really tragic.
As I recall the Brannans and the Tripps were Sunday school teachers with Mr Bulpitt at the London City Mission Hall at the top of Bradford Road during the 1950's.Is this the same family?
Lesley Tripp lived at the top of Prospect ...

Hi there,
It was lovely to see your photo.I have been studying the background buildings and I dont think it was taken from a garden in Coombe Road because at the top of Coombe was the Talma and on the other side St Phillips school.The bottom of the road was residential until it curved right into ...

Thanks for the message.
I do not know how to load pics on the forum set up, hence my request for an e-mail address...I can do it via an attachment that way.
The picture I referred to in particular was taken in the 1950's a rather misty looking pict ure that was taken at the top of Bradford Road and ...

Hello there, my mothers family were called Myerson and lived in Bradford Road at numbers 5. 7 11 and 33, also coombe Rd no 3 and Dallas 32.Her mother Kate Moorlen lived in Dallas Road with her mother and father and siblings at the turn of the century until her marriage.I remember the Tripp family in ...

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I remember Ron and Olive Ford who ran the bicycle shop at the top of Bradford Road.
We used to go there to get our radio batteries topped up, and gas mantles, Valves(not sure whether these were for the radio) and of course bicycle inner tubes, puncture repairs etc.it was a ...

Hello there Alan, it was lovely to hear from you.
I remember your Mum and the Lambert family.I think they grew up alongside my grandparents, and my Mum and her siblings. I was a bridesmaid at Joyce Dale and Alf Barclays wedding.They later moved next door to us at no 35 Bradford with her Mum Clara ...