Sydenham Town Forum

I would venture to suggst that is not a millstone but a whetstone. Used for sharpening knives, axes and so on. Mostly ran in an iron trough of water,
very common article in victorian era, and came in various sizes.
I have two sitting in the garden right now! Interestingt that Bouchers was ...

Evening all and hello Malcom ex neighbour!I`m reading thru a lot of older posts as its apparent I`ve been covering some stuff thats well known already.
If no- one objects I`d like to set down some views of life in Sydenham as I recall it, albeit randomly, if it`d interest, I`ve really quite enjoyed ...

i`m near Marlboro, not too far from Lacock but not walking distance.
I`d love to come up one day when the days are longer, bit of a drag for me tho`, My mum gets chauffeur driven down by my sis so have not been back for quite a while.
Nice place wiltshire , but sometimes a bit too quiet for a south ...

thanks for those kind remarks, flattery will get you even more ramblings!
I`l put my thinking cap on.
Have any of you spotted the Church spire in Round hill? When I knew it it was very over grown and hidden in scrub,
my self and a friend "discovered " one day, it was full of dirt and when stamping ...

Leaf did you get my answer to your PM ?
had bit of trouble loading things last night.
Juwlz, be some time before I could get up there again, but am thinking I ought to revist one day.
If those allotments are still there, turn in the gate sharp left and walk towards Kirkdale, there is a a little ...

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Some of my memories of Sydenham hill in the 1950`s and early 60`s. a bit haphazard in places I expect.Probably a bit repetetive for which I apologise.
There used to be a horse trough at the Elliot bank end, before you went down to Lordship lane, which is where I`ll start, the green triangular ...

marvellous pic. Packman was the short sighted grocer that still nags my conscience for the tricks I played on him, The dairy was at the far corner, on the right, Express dairy depot,now home to my brother in laws catering business

Yes they are quite old, surprised they are still standing, Lewisham council could get quite keen on knocking things down at one time.I seem to have heard that there was once a windmill in Halifax street, supposedly parts remained.

Now spooky stories about that estate I`ve not heard.... mind you in later years it gave me the creeps.....
Thers a house mentioned here at the top of Panmure rd,which I presume is the one at a right angle angle at the very top on the left? Thats the house were a friend of mine lived, his father hung ...

Thats very interesting, never seen those, but the pictures of the tall trees seem to be what I remember.
the blocks are not like those cross markers , they may not even be in the place they originally were, I`m sure of that.
what I recall is that those bodies that were under 100 years old, had to be ...

Back in the 1950`s it was such a busy and varied little set of shops.
At the corner of Fransfield was a cafe, frequented by the local teddy boys at night!, then the next or next but one was a really old fashioned grocer, then a sweet and cigs owned by mr daniels who had another further down on the ...

hi leaf,
those blocks of stone are grave markers!!
If I remember their location correctly, they are in the bank by or near the last blocks of flats toward Crystal palace.
Evidently the whole of that site from the hill to wells park was an abanoed monastry or the like; My father worked for Rush and ...

Very much a building, and not a pretty one!

I`ll be back with more on these woods, one time gardens, or I`ll be up all night, what a fascinating forum!
I knew them when they were houses and lived in.

and before that it was halfway down Jews walk, on the lefthand side, one Dr kingsbury if I remember

As someone who grew up in sydenham from birth in 1947 you`ll find it hard to comprehend the scale of bomb damage in south east london, not for nothing was it called bomb alley.
A VI engine lay on the railway embankment at Clock House station till the late 60`s
As for the developement around Wells ...

that was the back end of the large laundry, I remember it blowing up, I was at Kelvin Grove school, the biggest bang I`ve ever heard.
back in the 1950`s a large hole suddenly appeared in the road outside the Woodman pub, or at least a bit further down by what ued to be Bouchers grocers shop on the ...

hi, I interesting to see that bomb damage map of Panmure Road.
I lived at number 16 panmure from when it was built, circa 1950, to the 1960`s, then we moved over the road to number 15 on the site of the destroyed methodist church.
I can remember them building the houses on the lower side of Panmure ...