Sydenham Town Forum

It was always temporary housing of the hostel sort for homeless families.

It always was a sh1thole

My mum knew a woman over 20 yrs ago who had the misfortune of being placed there and it was appaling then, time doesnt seem to have improve it.

Excellent - and we can pop in and have a cup of coffee and a pastry safe in the knowledge that: 1. We wont be bumping into those who have made a declaration on this site to boycott it. 2. We will be supporting a small business trying to make a go of it in a very uncertain economic climate. That's w...

It was, my mum told me there used to be one, but i dont nor she know when it was closed.

Im with Annie I think it is wrong to take ans post publicly pictures of people without their permission. A person may simply not want their picture taken...they may not want their pic taken when they are not 'at their best' so to speak and an unposed pic of a mature lady in a wheelchair would fit th...

Coll However, a friend suggested we leaflet the area. I’m willing to contribute to the cost of printing and will put some time aside to distribute them if someone will create a document. I would suggest a pic of the old and the new and a brief description of why this business should be boycotted, or...

I think this transformation is indicating that the shop could look far more tasteful if all the crappy plastic boxes werent outside it, i think that was partly why it looked cheap and this shows how shops can remain selling pretty much the same goods but from a desireable looking shop in a clean cu...

Hi Lee I like your ideas for syd rd.... Re Mustis [ or as my children always called it...'The Piggy shop!!] , dont forget that he displays a lot of stock outside the shop so most of the window writing would be out of view while he is open. I love Mustis too, i used to go there for my insense even wh...

Thanks Eagle, i know what you mean..i still find it hard to leave food on my plate, we werent allowed to leave the table until our plates were empty! waste not want not !! i know what you mean about pandered children, i find children that are fussy about food very difficult! i think too much choice ...

:D Oh leaf one more thing------------do you pay for 1 meal or 2? I ask because you seem to expect seconds for nothing? If you want to pay for extra i am sure that could be arranged. I pay for one meal of course. My oldest child is at secondary school so i have experience of school dinners going bac...

Good old fashioned food???!!!!!! well i remember old style school dinners which i loved, i have tasted current offerings and they do NOT compare!! Current school dinners are devoid of flavouring as they are not allowed to use salt etc etc etc Dont get me started on the pathetic miniscule portions th...

What exactly is 'chavvy' about having a BBQ ????!!!! People should be considerate and remove and dispose of their rubbish and clean up after themselves of course, most people that ive seen in CP park having BBQs use those travel metal ones anyway which have legs they stand on. Not everyone has a gar...

Apart from the rubbish issues....the rest just sounds like people enjoying the open space!

I cant believe anyone would object to families having BBQs in the park??

Live and let live i say

"In many of the drink and drug rehabilitation programmes provided by the state for such a purpose perhaps?" The number of rehab places is woefully inadequate....there are of course private rehabs but at a cost that puts them out of the reach of your average drink/drugs abuser. Its a big p...

'In fact, the annual statistics of stop-and-search figures not only suggest the fears of the minority population in the UK are wholly founded but they reveal just how vast the scale of stop-and-search operations are. About 1 million people a year are stopped—equivalent to 2 percent of the adult pop...

of course it isn't. Are you implying people are stopped and searched because they are black? If you have experienced this then why don't you make a complaint? Or could you provide any evidence that this happens aside from your dubious assertions? Are you serious? have you been living under a rock??...

Eagle

you'll find lots of things in 99p shop that you would find in any supermarket...boots....superdrug etc etc no way is it all foreign produce

At this time as with any other time...why pay more than you need to?

Ronski, i love the mayow park pic-'in a mood', really great shot.

Just be careful if you have a cat, we had a tree in a pot years ago and the cat peed in the pot!

Rebelmc also can't remember it being a Budgens, which it certainly was for a while after it was a 7-11. Are you on the right forum mate? - there's another Sydenham in the state of Victoria, Australia. :lol: There's another one in NSW, also in Belfast, and in many other parts of the World; and as fo...