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by jackieboo
31 Dec 2009 22:14
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Milk Machines
Replies: 23
Views: 45273

Re: The Criterion

I remember the Criterion from the 60s.... For me it was a great treat to be taken there for a knickerbocker glory - which had to be consumed with the special knickerbocker glory spoon as no common or garden spoon was long enough or narrow enough to reach the bottom of the glass. The thing I will al...
by jackieboo
13 Dec 2009 17:38
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Sydenham Road in old photos
Replies: 20
Views: 43286

Wow

Thanks for these............I too remember things from the late 60's onward and have seen the decline.. As for one of the first photos of "Steemsons", I went to school with a Vanessa Steemson in the early 70's. ooerr. I used the up platform a lot at the station and remember the huge clock ...
by jackieboo
29 Jul 2009 08:00
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: storm
Replies: 28
Views: 19438

My neighbour works there monitoring CCTV screens in Syd.
by jackieboo
28 Jul 2009 21:58
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: storm
Replies: 28
Views: 19438

It was the brightest loudest lightening strike I've ever seen, and I've seen a few I think the strike may have hit the tall Poplar trees that line Alexander Park next to the secret Police facility. Or maybe the Met used the cover of a lightening storm to test out a new crowd control device. The tru...
by jackieboo
2 Jun 2009 17:09
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: The 109 bus from Penge
Replies: 4
Views: 5825

This,again, fascinating stuff.

Off on a tangent slightly, and aplogies for a small hijacking here, I remember the early days of the 194 bus when you could buy a Red Bus Rover Ticket (early 70's)and go on the 194 from what was a pet shop in Forest Hill at the turnaround near the back of the station, and go all the way out to Purle...
by jackieboo
2 Jun 2009 17:03
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Sydenham in the twenties, part 2.
Replies: 14
Views: 11606

Yes so fascinating.

If only there was a fine for spitting still. :x
by jackieboo
2 Jun 2009 16:52
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Sydenham Road Now and Then
Replies: 5
Views: 7810

This is fantastic!

Thanks a lot. I remember Buik's, had my ears pierced there in 1973, I had to wait for my 16th birthday and the day couldn't come quickly enough. I also remember a double glass fronted women's clothes shop up near there where as a young lady you would get fitted for clothes. *************sigh********...
by jackieboo
2 Jun 2009 16:43
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: SAINSBURY'S IN SYDENHAM ROAD?
Replies: 19
Views: 25892

There also used to be

a great supermarket called Wallis' next door to The Golden Lion for many years, as well as the Sainsbury's then the Safeway came after the pictures were demolished. The highlight of the week was going up the hill to the Wimpy for a friday night out -
by jackieboo
2 Jun 2009 16:39
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: side gate at station open?
Replies: 67
Views: 39833

Why they had to change the old platform & entrance

in the first place. There was the entrance on the other side of the road (well before some penpusher decided to install a lethal zebra crossing on a blind summit), with ticket office etc and platform further along to where it is now. I remember the lovely big clock and chocolate dispenser machine. W...
by jackieboo
2 Jun 2009 16:35
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Dumping rubbish around Sydenham.
Replies: 21
Views: 14124

Near me....is nothing sacred?

Some scroat has tipped a lorryload, i.e. sinks, rubble,you name it, near where I live in a country lane by the entrance to a farm gate & Church -it dates back to 11th century and is still used for funerals,weddings etc. It's nice and tucked away you see. They can't be arsed to go to a tip and pa...
by jackieboo
1 Jun 2009 13:52
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Some People
Replies: 58
Views: 33618

Sadly it's happening everywhere.

Spitting is the norm nowadays with most illiterates, male and female, and considerate behaviour towards cyclists has just diminished. Although...I say although...in some areas some people are ok. And it's the same with attitudes towards motorists by cyclists and pedestrians. Maybe it's something to ...
by jackieboo
9 Oct 2008 19:39
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: The 'German' bridge
Replies: 15
Views: 12315

We used to walk over the "wooden bridge" or "German Bridge" on the way to Sydenham Girls School when we'd walked through Mayow park in the 70's. We were "flashed" by a man in the church doorway on our way home once, of course being innocent at 14 we didn't know what he ...
by jackieboo
9 Oct 2008 19:36
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: SYDENHAM ROAD BEFORE & AFTER
Replies: 17
Views: 19386

I remember Sydenham looking quite grand when we moved there from Brockley in 1970.

The difference being that people took care and maintained their own shop fronts and bit of pavement. Actually sweeping them and cleaning the windows......imagine that nowadays.
by jackieboo
9 Oct 2008 19:31
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Milk Machines
Replies: 23
Views: 45273

I remember the milk machine near the United Dairies in Brockley. It was just outside St Cyprians by the launderette. You could also get "Chocolate Micky" in a carton too. A real luxury in those days. Don't remember a bakers opposite the Criterion, I worked in the criterion in the late 70's...
by jackieboo
9 Oct 2008 13:21
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Fleas!
Replies: 10
Views: 8102

Yes Frontline or anything you buy from shops is useless. I buy Advocate from the vets and have 2 cats and a dog and have never had a problem. We have a mixture of laminate and carpet. Be aware the eggs can live under things for years, they just need a decent heat source to thrive. Especially under b...
by jackieboo
6 Oct 2008 16:50
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Banning drinking in public
Replies: 100
Views: 46799

There used to be

a whole group of what used to be called "dossers" sitting drinking on the brick circular seat in front of Home Park in the 70's. A regular sight. The toilets were their 2nd home and they were just part of the furniture. There was just a tiny willow tree in the centre of the seating, opposi...
by jackieboo
2 Oct 2008 08:31
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Mice in Sydenham?!
Replies: 39
Views: 26231

more people

are putting out nuts and balls of fat , seeds etc for birds etc and they are thriving on the bits that get dropped.

Also we are being less tidy in our gardens to encourage wildlife and composting = ergo more mice!
by jackieboo
22 Sep 2008 16:13
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Banning drinking in public
Replies: 100
Views: 46799

we have these zones in Sutton and Croydon.

They still do it though by using a coke or fanta can full of lager or other spirit so you can't stop it. "Gentrification of Sydenham"???? bit late for that, it was like it up to the 50's but downhill from then on. Just somewhere to drive - I mean crawl - through now. (past resident with ha...
by jackieboo
19 Sep 2008 17:11
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Car Key Fishing
Replies: 8
Views: 7538

Yes it's called "hooking".

And it happened to us some years ago with 2 14 year olds using our son's fishing net from the shed. They took car, TV & Video, not much else though. Caused a lot of damage to walls etc quite far away - which we had to pay for. At least the police noticed 14 year olds bombing around in a Carlton ...
by jackieboo
30 Apr 2008 09:14
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Forest Hill Baths
Replies: 6
Views: 7874

I notice the library was cleaned and spruced up. I wonder how much that cost? Aren't they the same age?

I'd better get some photos pronto before the demolition begins.

What will happen to the natural spring that runs behind the baths I wonder.