Sydenham Town Forum

Looking forward to it Ironic that the meeting is being held in one of the high street's biggest eyesores. As a symbolic gesture of the new dawn can someone take down the grotty net curtains in the Naborhood Centre windows during the meeting and ceremonially burn them? That would improve the high str...

There have been very good documentaries highlighting the risks of using private companies to run schools, most concentrating on the way the religious beliefs of the businessmen owners can be shoehorned into the curriculum in return for a few quid for a new building, like Sir Peter Vardy who insists ...

What utter bastards. I say let's ask Glendale who installed this playground equipment over the weekend and let's string them up.

A branch of HSBC

I have some cheques from Christmas to pay in

If you can pay £2000 to have a kerb lowered and hence permanently reserve a section of road as wide as a car, the most logical thing for Lewisham to do would be to allow everyone to buy the parking space outside their home for the same money but marked only by simple white markings and a discreet ho...

After reading on this forum about Home Park Butchers I tried it yesterday and was delighted. Two friendly, knowledgeable butchers, Craig and Hugh, with free range meat properly sourced. I had some beautiful free range sirloin steaks and a selection of sausages. They were getting their Christmas orde...

Completely disagree. We used to use Jays but the optician was rather abrupt in his manner, although the receptionists were very nice. The worst and last time was when my wife lost her contact lenses on holiday and had to try to get lenses at a local optician. They phoned up and Jays refused to help ...

It's shop workers who take up a lot of spaces in Earlsthorpe Road and they're there all day. Shoppers are only a temporary annoyance and there's a high turnover of spaces. School runs clog up roads but only involve five minutes of parking, so living near a school doesn't seem to be a reason to pave ...

Beautiful. Is that a private garden where The Two Half's now squats? On another thread I said how I wished we could have a small town square in this spot. Your postcard shows how easily it might have become reality. I think we need another blitz and to get it right this time. Come friendly bombs and...

sarahc there is no defence

Lots of us have children, some of us care more about the neighbourhood. Load up a buggy with shopping and baby or leave the baby in car seat or cot for five mins - it's not a crime.

There, now you can put the garden back

Strange that the owner could afford to miss out on £150,000 in rent
(I suppose they're not too fussed because the property itself was making more)

But even getting half that would have made more sense, and been much better for the high street

The traders need to communicate this information to the residents who want to hear it. In successful high streets they put blackboards outside and on counters highlighting new products. They stay open a bit later for commuters. They have notices and websites saying what's coming into season, even re...

Whatever the food is like, we could see the arrival of a Mexican restaurant as an omen that Sydenham High Street is following Lordship Lane.

A good omen or bad omen depending on your point of view.

I wouldn't say my nose is hypersensitive anymore than Londis is now a hypermarket

The reason I went in there was because it was such a lovely traditional building (and the only one that looked even vaguely welcoming). The reason I stopped going in there is because it smells of damp and beer slops. The Dolphin feels much more cared for and so I assume that I as a customer and my b...

Shops I am thankful for: The banks (with free cash machines) Boots, the pharmacy and Superdrug The bookshop The barbers & OTT (good with kids) The ink shop The stationers The newsagents for travelcards and any magazine you ever wanted Cinderella office services Snappy Snaps The Turkish shop opp...

I hope the Sydenham Society's answer to the town centre manager was: 'Well, duh, improve your shops.' Slagging off the hypermarket (even the cowardly and unamusing personal abuse by tongue in cheek) wouldn't put off prospective businesses. If it did they are either a) thinking off opening something ...

There was a sign in the garden saying no children after 8pm, so it may be the same inside

I think it's perfectly acceptable - and expected - to judge books by their covers. Otherwise we'd keep getting thrown out of the bookshop for treating it like a library. One alternative is to read reviews first. So I think people should feel free to give their honest opinions anonymously on this sit...

Took the family for Sunday lunch today and the food was delicious. It looks worryingly like a Brewer's Fayre from the outside but it's much better when you get in. Nice mix of locals. Service was very friendly, including a French (waiter/manager?) who quickly sorted any problems and menaced the kitc...