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by Malcolm
24 Sep 2012 18:30
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: WANTED: IMAGES FOR GREYHOUND MURAL
Replies: 5
Views: 5538

Re: WANTED: IMAGES FOR GREYHOUND MURAL

Hi

I sent an old photo of Mount Ash Rd and a comment in to the email address shown on 22nd Aug but never got a reply. I also filled in the disclaimer. How do I know if it was received?

Malcolm
by Malcolm
24 Jan 2012 19:10
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: The last field of Sydenham and Forest Hill
Replies: 4
Views: 6496

Re: The last field of Sydenham and Forest Hill

This is really interetseting & makes sense of what my Grandmother used to say. Born in 1889 she said she remembered walking down Dartmouth Rd as a small girl & being frighthened by a flock of sheep in the road. At the time I didn't think it possible that there had been fields in Sydenham as late as ...
by Malcolm
23 May 2009 11:18
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: SAINSBURY'S IN SYDENHAM ROAD?
Replies: 19
Views: 27439

Sainsburys shop

We lived off Newlands Park from 1963-1974 and the shop was till there when we left. It was all separate counters then with bacon/cold meats on one side and cheese/dairy on the other. All the food sat on huge white marble slabs with curved plastic covers over the whole counter. It was not a ...
by Malcolm
28 Aug 2008 21:05
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Milk Machines
Replies: 23
Views: 46955

Milk Machines

Oh yes I remember these! In the days when ALL the shops in Sydenham Rd had shut by 7pm on a weekday I was often sent down to the Express Dairy shop near Woolworths to get milk from the machine there. I used to love the satisfying thud it made when it dropped into the huge cold drawer at the bottom ...
by Malcolm
18 Jun 2008 19:46
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Sydenham/Forest Hill bomb damage
Replies: 26
Views: 31603

Sydenham Bomb Damage

Steve's map is great and clearly shows the black area (worst damage?) when a rocket fell in Panmure Rd in the latter part of the war. It caused huge damage in Mount Ash Rd (where my family lived) and brought down ceilings and chimneys etc. For years afterwards it was really easy to accidentally ...
by Malcolm
17 Feb 2008 20:21
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Searching Dallas Rd
Replies: 15
Views: 15254

I think the laundry Squibbs is referring to maybe the Invicta Laundry which was near the Woodman pub and was on the site, I think, of where the Costcutter shop now is. My Grandmother and her sisters worked there in the early 1900s and she told me it was a big employer for the area, doing the fancy ...
by Malcolm
2 Dec 2007 18:02
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Domed building on Cobbs Corner
Replies: 14
Views: 22836

Cobbs santa

Sorry, forgot to tick the "public" box on the FLICKR site, should be OK now........
by Malcolm
2 Dec 2007 16:17
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Domed building on Cobbs Corner
Replies: 14
Views: 22836

Cobbs Dept Store

And here's a seasonal extra pic of the inside of Cobbs. My sister and Father visiting Santa's Grotto at Cobbs in 1956!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37095452@N00/2081159714/
by Malcolm
29 Sep 2007 11:54
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: CINEMAS IN SYDENHAM
Replies: 25
Views: 32609

And the oddest thing about the demolition of this lovely cinema was that the outside had just been repaired! A small piece of the frontage had fallen down about a year before (luckily no-one was hurt) so they put scaffolding all around it and repaired the frontage. A short while later a brief notice ...
by Malcolm
22 Sep 2007 22:39
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Domed building on Cobbs Corner
Replies: 14
Views: 22836

Cobbs Store

Oh yes, Cobbs dept store! It had a shoe dept, ladies & gents fashions, haberdashery, furniture, Xmas Santa and lots more. There was a big restaurant in the basement where I had my 21st back in the 1970s! My mother was forever getting my feet X-rayed in a huge machine in the children's shoe dept. You ...
by Malcolm
11 May 2007 14:28
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: The Evolution Of Forest Hill Station (WIP)
Replies: 7
Views: 16867

Forest Hill Station

Wonderful history lesson Falkor! I have fond memories of the last station before the current shoebox was built. The centre platform was still being used in the 1960s from time to time but was always very chilly and exposed! The old Down platform ticket office and yard shown in your pic ended its ...
by Malcolm
3 Dec 2006 15:39
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Empire Picture Theatre
Replies: 3
Views: 8208

Empire Theatre

I remember going into the s/h furniture shop in the 1990s and it stretched back miles. You could also see there was false ceiling (covered in cobwebs) that had been put in at some stage.

Not sure when the furniture shop went west......
by Malcolm
1 Dec 2006 20:05
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Sydenham in WWII (areas bombed during the war)
Replies: 24
Views: 46666

Fir St

Hi again I don't remember Fir St (just a few years younger than Kenny B) but my Dad was an air raid warden for the area around Wells Park Rd in the early part of the war as he had grown up in Bradford Rd & knew the streets well. He did tell me that the house there were tiny old cottages and a couple ...
by Malcolm
1 Dec 2006 19:58
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Mount Ash Road
Replies: 43
Views: 63577

Mount Ash Rd

Mount Ash Rd kids rough? How very dare you?! In fact we thought the kids from Panmure were very dodgy and I never walked down it in all the time I lived there. Like Kenny B I remember Sydenham then (late 1950s/early1960s) as feeling almost rural, blackberrying on the old Crystal Palace Railway Line ...
by Malcolm
1 Dec 2006 19:49
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: random recall on Sydenham hill 1950-------
Replies: 36
Views: 87172

Church Spire in Round Hill

I can remember this too! I had a friend who lived in Thorpewood Avenue in the 1960s and you could see it from the upstairs rooms at the back of her house. It looked really strange as it only the spire showed above the fences. We imagined it that the rest of the church was buried underneath! Found ...
by Malcolm
26 Nov 2006 20:16
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Mount Ash Road
Replies: 43
Views: 63577

Mount Ash Rd

Great advert...and our neighbour when we were at no 30 was a Mrs Goodall too! As promised amother couple of pics of no 30. This is a close up of the front door: http://www.flickr.com/photos/37095452@N00/306708541/ And this is the top front bedroom, complete with gaslamp...and both of these pics were ...
by Malcolm
22 Nov 2006 19:48
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Mount Ash Road
Replies: 43
Views: 63577

Mount Ash Rd

Dear BingBong I don't know who moved in to no 30 after us, the landlord gave my parents money to move out as he was keen to sell it or re-let it and the family had been there a long time. I have a copy of the 1962 census for M. A Rd and a lot of the houses had 6/7 adults listed in them, as well as ...
by Malcolm
20 Nov 2006 16:43
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Mount Ash Road
Replies: 43
Views: 63577

Mount Ash Rd

Hi Bingbong Don't want the sock back, but I did lose some toys in the garden in the early 60s! When my Grandmother moved there in 1938 from Bradford Rd she was actually working as a cleaner for people in one of the big houses at the very top of Sydenham Hill so what you say makes sense. She only ...
by Malcolm
19 Nov 2006 14:36
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Mount Ash Road
Replies: 43
Views: 63577

Mount Ash Rd

Dear all Thanks for getting the pic onto the site and the instructions on how to do it properly. I have some old photos of the inside of no 30 (taken in the early 1950s) and I will try to get them onto my pc and load them up here later. As all the windows of no 30 were blown out by the V2 the glass ...
by Malcolm
18 Nov 2006 15:06
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Mount Ash Road
Replies: 43
Views: 63577

Mount Ash Rd

Liberty I have uploaded the picture here

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/37095452@N ... otostream/]

Am not sure how to get the picture into this page of the Forum. Any suggestions from anyone else please?

Malcolm