Sydenham Town Forum

Cheers sir for your reply. :D Mr Pugh was a painter and decorator, and i used to be mates with his son Billy who was a bit of a local tearaway. Billy`s sister susan committed suicide a number of years ago, apparantly, and i don`t know what happened to the parents. PM sent regarding my name and thank...

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Was Whites pet shop on the corner of Girton Road? I remember they used to have a slab of Horse meat on the counter which used to make me gag when i went into the shop with my Nan.

Cheers Ulysses for the post, i used to walk up Berrymans Lane on my way to school at Adamsrill and used to pick up the little silver tins of dye spilt on the road and get my hands all stained from the ones that had split! :>

How many people on here used to live in one of these roads? I used to live at No 4 Elvino Rd and my Nan and Grandad used to live at No 41 Broseley Grove. This is going back to 1963/1972 as a rough figure and what families do you remember? Just a bit of a trip down memory lane for me i guess. :D Litt...

It's still there budwesier. It's a short cut through that goes between Mayow Road and Sydenham Road. Sort of runs paralell to the Hazel Grove Estate. You may know what was on that road previous? On Berrymans Lane there is now a fairly smart new development. When I moved here at the turn of the Mill...

Where abouts was Berrymans lane mate? The name rings a bell, as do a lot of place names mentioned on this forum, been out of Sydenham for 37 years now.

I think both doctors must have been there together in about 1965/66 so i would have been 4 or 5 years old then. I remember going in for the polio vaccination which was put onto a sugar lump but i vomited it up so had to have the injection!

The Surgery still there and from outside looks like it peobably did 35 years ago. Hope better in side. Do not think one of Sydenham's most popular surgeries That is my surgery and Dr Dhanji (i think) was my Dr. Followed by Dr Ahmad who, I heard, was deported ! They started out in Tannsfeld Rd. And ...

As you came down sydenham hill from the station, didn`t Woolworths used to be on the left hand side?
I remember the pick n mix counter and the wooden floorboards.

Hi Sean, I know its a bit of a bump! but what number in Broseley Grove did you live at as my Nan and Grandad lived at No 41.

Fabulous pics mate, some i`ve not seen before. Thanks for those.

OK Brian, in order, I've taken a picture of the following: Dye works (right aspect) - Dye works (left aspect) - Criterion Ice - Michelin*** restaurants - Jeep showrooms - old Cutts garage - Your newsagents? - Smart new office block - Mears & Co. I've uploaded them to Flickr (see link below). Fo...

It always was a dump inside and out Eagle! I remember the Doctor smoking in the surgery, try and get away with that now!

I remember that the shoe dept used to have an X-ray machine that you could put your foot in and see through a green light, all the bones in your foot! Played on that until a floor walker told me off and that it wasn`t a toy!.

Cheers for the photo Steve, I spent a few times in there in the late 60`s getting stitched up for one thing or another. It was opposite Home Park wasn`t it? Another place i spent many hours in playing in the adventure playground at the top end on the rope slide and making fires in the ground which w...

Budweiswer it was The Granada. ABC was the ABC Capitol now Wetherspoons Capitol in FH Odeon was where the Wetherspoon Penge is now. The Granada! Christ, that was so long ago and you`re completely right. :) So, did you live in Sydenham at the same time as me then? 1962-1973? I used to go to Saturday...

I have been here 59 years. Many changes. Used be be only two cafe's . Cobbs dept had up market tea chop and Criterion Ice Cream Parlour also a coffee shop. I think , possibly excluding any fish and chip shops , were only cafe's. People used to all eat at home . Also of course many greengrocers, gro...

It is strange about there not being a decent fish & chip shop in Sydenham. I ten to use the Blue Dolphin in Penge which is quite good. Fish shops - there's Moxon's in Lordship Lane (East Dulwich) which is obviously closer than Borough market. I know it's pure nostalgia and it won't solve the cu...

Hi Nannyjacks, My aunt Sue used to manage Jones the Florists in the late sixties early seventies, Mr Jones was a miserable old sod she used to say.! :D That was back when i used to live in Elvino Road, I lived there between 1962 and 1973, used to love the place and had quite a few mates there then. ...