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by marymck
3 Mar 2008 12:41
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Mount [Ash] Villas
Replies: 14
Views: 15068

Correction to my last posting!

Just noticed that on my last posting I said No. 26 Kirkdale was going to be converted to flats. In fact that was a typo: I meant No. 24. No. 24 is that house that was probably the original Omega Cottage.
by marymck
28 Feb 2008 20:26
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Mount Gardens collapse
Replies: 7
Views: 12060

Thank you Falkor and Steve. I'm looking through a file at the Lewisham local studies centre which shows photocopies of the collapsed road. It was really quite dramatic and looks as though it knocked down the front garden wall of our next door neighbour as well as doing considerable damage in Mount A...
by marymck
28 Feb 2008 20:21
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Mount [Ash] Villas
Replies: 14
Views: 15068

Falkor: the house with the green paint trim in your photo is indeed very old. John Coulter told me he thinks it's Omega Cottage, probably the first house to be built on the Common. Sadly No. 26 Kirkdale (as it's now known) is also about undergo building work. It too is being converted to a block of ...
by marymck
28 Feb 2008 20:17
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Mount [Ash] Villas
Replies: 14
Views: 15068

Thanks everyone for your help and interest. Very exciting about the Abstract of Title, Steve. How did you come by it? I will be really on tenterhooks till you get a chance to transcribe it. Yes the pictures Steve posted are Mount Villas. Mine is the yellow house (shortly to be painted blue!) We move...
by marymck
27 Feb 2008 20:02
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Airship over Sydenham?
Replies: 12
Views: 10983

The R33 was based in Croydon for a while in the early 1920s. Same sort of shape - influenced by a captured Zeppelin.

Sorry I don't know how to post pictures.
by marymck
27 Feb 2008 17:37
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Airship over Sydenham?
Replies: 12
Views: 10983

Nope - sorry for being misleading it's not the Nulli Secundus. She had stripes! Nulli Secundus' envelope was approx. 122 ft long, brown with 4 silk bands each 4 feet wide. The gondola was about 35 feet long. The Farnborough-London flight took place on 5 Oct 1907. The Crystal Palace landing followed ...
by marymck
27 Feb 2008 17:22
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Airship over Sydenham?
Replies: 12
Views: 10983

Not sure where it is. I know the great S.F. Cody landed his airship the Nulli Secundus at the Crystal Palace in (I think) 1907. He had flown from Farnborough to London and after circling around St Paul's tried to make the return run to Farnborough but was forced down at Crystal Palace because of str...
by marymck
27 Feb 2008 16:50
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Mount Gardens collapse
Replies: 7
Views: 12060

Mount Gardens collapse

Can anyone tell me anything about the collapse of the Mount Gardens roadway in approx. 1984?

Any pix would also be greatly appreciated.
by marymck
27 Feb 2008 16:48
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Mount [Ash] Villas
Replies: 14
Views: 15068

Mount [Ash] Villas

I'm trying to find out information and if possible pictures of Mount Villas aka Mount Ash Villas. Please can anyone out there help me? These are two terraces each of four houses either side of the end of Mount Ash Road where it joins Kirkdale (previously Sydenham Hill Road/Sydenham Common). In 1868,...
by marymck
9 Feb 2008 16:36
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Turning Right under Catford Bridge
Replies: 37
Views: 42183

The problem with the sign written on the tarmac is that there are always cars obscuring it. It would seem to make far more sense to have a sign on a post at the Wickes entrance. However, I didn't know you were allowed to turn right into the Halford's entrance. Whilst that's good news, I can't see th...