Sydenham Town Forum

Thanks so much for your efforts at solving this mystery for me (and for my cousin Tony in Adelaide :wink: ). From the census returns of the period I had pinpointed the location to be between 79 and 81 High Street or maybe as you suggest behind "The Rock and Fountain Beer Shop" at #81. The family ...

I am researching my family line in the Forest Hill/Sydenham area. In 1881 the family resided in "Rock and Fountain Yard". It seems from the Census record that this Yard, which appears in the Victorian London Street directory, must have been situated off Sydenham High Street as it was then. The entry ...