Sydenham Town Forum

Cheers Monkey,

thanks for the advice. Re username, yes, I'm a Machen devotee, as well as most things old and weird. It's not often that someone recognises the name.

Best, Carl

BTW, I should probably post something about myself: I'm 51 years old, I work as a records officer at a central London university (that's mainly shifting boxes from site to site, for the uninitiated, but also working closely with the College archives service). I live in Hackney (originally from Essex ...

I'm from Hackney - north of the river... I'm researching a famous son of Sydenham, Skip Martin (born as Alec Horowitz, aka Alec Goodhead, in 1928, died in 1984). Skip lived all his life in Lewisham, born in Knighton Park Road, and lived variously in Dukesthorpe Road, Kirtley Road, Larkbere Road and ...