Sydenham on Derelict London

[Search East]

A college at work was nosing around the web for some image of Catford, where he was originally born and came across this interesting photo website called Derelict London.

http://www.derelictlondon.com/home_page.htm

Sydenham has a few entries with the Greyhound Pub http://www.derelictlondon.com/southands ... onpubs.htm and the old railway tunnel (now a bat roost) http://www.derelictlondon.com/id65.htm.

A little bit of history with each pic, enjoy the decay!

[Ulysses]

I [sort of] enjoyed that site Search East. Thank you for that.

Bizarrely enough I realised I've drunk in most of them at some point or another! Well, perhaps not all but I lived in Greenwich for about 5 years and when I first came to London in '94 I landed in Woolwich.

There are a lot of entries for Woolwich but the one that isn't there is probably the biggest loss. There was a pub called The Pullman which was right by Woolwich train station. A beautiful old thing it was...think it was a former railway hotel. Anyway it was pulled down to make way for Woolwich Arsenal DLR.

My heart dropped to think of what a beauty was lost but I suppose that's the name of progress?

[bensonby]

thanks for that, I've just wasted far too much time poring over the photos there!

The other shame about woolwich is the loss of the little railway museum; its replacement doesn't appear to have come into fruition...

[rolyevans]

I [sort of] enjoyed that site Search East. Thank you for that.

There was a pub called The Pullman which was right by Woolwich train station. A beautiful old thing it was...think it was a former railway hotel. Anyway it was pulled down to make way for Woolwich Arsenal DLR.

My heart dropped to think of what a beauty was lost but I suppose that's the name of progress?

It was the Royal Oak in my day back in the 60's