That's hardly novel; Matthews the Hermit was doing it two centuries ago.ALIB wrote:I know there is at least one guy who sleeps in Sydenham Hill Woods...
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- 3 Jul 2009 10:27
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: Colourful characters of south London
- Replies: 10
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- 2 Jul 2009 20:50
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: WHAT WAS HOUSE OF CURTAINS BEFORE IT WAS HOUSE OF CURTAINS
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- 30 Jun 2009 16:21
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: shops in kirkdale in 1970s
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- 29 Jun 2009 21:49
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Sydenham Community Radio launches on Monday
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- 27 Jun 2009 16:39
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Sydenham's Children's Hospital
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- 27 Jun 2009 14:18
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Sydenham's Children's Hospital
- Replies: 72
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With regard to the date, Reg, your guess is as good as mine - perhaps 1920s? Three of the pictures show Champion House (built about 1860) from the front, facing Sydenham Road. The house was used as the Children's Hospital from 1885. The large extension (which dominates the 1970s picture above) was a...
- 26 Jun 2009 09:05
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Sydenham's Children's Hospital
- Replies: 72
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Here's a picture of the Children's Hospital. I've uploaded a couple more pictures here:
- 13 Jun 2009 09:19
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Sydenham Sainsbury on reality TV
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- 1 Jun 2009 10:50
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Sydenham Hill Road 1861
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- 1 Jun 2009 08:38
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: Looking for descendants of Dan Alston (1882-1964)
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There appear to have been at least three separate Alston families in Sydenham during the 19th/early 20th century. The wealthiest was Thomas Rowland Alston, a goldsmith, who lived in Crescent Wood Road from about 1868 until after 1881. Some of his children (his sons all went to Dulwich College) and g...
- 27 May 2009 08:08
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: The Wood.........one for the historians?
- Replies: 22
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Very interesting. This might well be the source of the unsubstantiated claims that The Beatles visited Beltwood mentioned elsewhere on this site.jonathan wrote:... The Beatles company Apple had their (1st?) birthday party there and I met George and Paul which was about as good as it got that year...
- 26 May 2009 17:36
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Brenchley Gardens Railway Bridge...and area
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12414
On a personal note, I can't resist mentioning that the author of this booklet was my great grand-father, John Nisbet. He was a Camberwell councillor, and one of the leaders of the campaign to keep One Tree Hill an open public space. He is mentioned on the plaque at the foot of the oak tree that he h...
- 25 May 2009 17:47
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Sydenham Road Now and Then
- Replies: 5
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Sydenham Road Now and Then
Following a suggestion on this thread here are extracts from Kelly's Directory of Sydenham, listing all the shops in Sydenham Road in 1939: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3050/3562884423_c79b29d343_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3658/3563703276_35422446cd_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3...
- 25 May 2009 17:46
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: SAINSBURY'S IN SYDENHAM ROAD?
- Replies: 19
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Your wish, Reg...regoneil wrote:...I wonder if any one out there has a “Kelly’s street directory” of the road for say 1938/9... It would be interesting to re-identify the shops...
I've opened a new topic, "Sydenham Road Now and Then" with extracts from Kelly's 1939 directory as a starting point.
- 24 May 2009 12:50
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: The Wood.........one for the historians?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 26686
Dannyp As you suggest I don't imagine Jonathan is watching this thread too closely, and he is obviously the one to answer your question. In the meantime I can confirm that The Wood was occupied by A J C Lyddon between 1959 and 1967. Two of the pictures above show the music room, where I imagine the ...
- 22 May 2009 09:45
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: SAINSBURY'S IN SYDENHAM ROAD?
- Replies: 19
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- 12 May 2009 20:05
- Forum: Town Asylum
- Topic: MysteryHouse?
- Replies: 2
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I was partly responsible for the thread being locked so perhaps I should explain, as I've already done to Annie and bigbadwolf. There is no mystery about the house. It is two doors away from mine, and I know the owners. They are just normal, friendly people (of about my age) going about their own bu...
- 27 Apr 2009 18:41
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: what is the house?
- Replies: 5
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I think you mean 215 Sydenham Road. If so, it was built about 1870 by a local potato merchant when it was called York House. The same family lived there until the late 1890s. By the early 1900s it became a doctor's surgery, and remained so until the 1960s when Lewisham Council bought it and turned i...
- 20 Apr 2009 14:55
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Silverdale Postal Sorting Office - Original purpose please?
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- 15 Apr 2009 09:25
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Electoral Roll in 1930's and 40's
- Replies: 16
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The collection is now safely housed in Greenwich, at Trinity College of Music, in the Old Royal Naval College: http://tinyurl.com/dkzch5