Sydenham Town Forum

I was beginning to think no one could answer, possibly then it was allotments on land owned by Baxter due to his having a a large house nearby? Might have been a horse paddock...I just looked at Round Hill on street view, my god how its changed..... I knew it well as it was often part of my route ho...

Maybe next time you'll get a longer sentence and vanish for years................................

Possibly because it appears to be drowning in the opinions of Lund and Orton.?
Especially Lund opinions.

I have not met either gentleman but their posts seem to dominate the board.

As a long term reader, but recent poster I have also come to the conclusion it is somewhat intolerant in some areas.

During my little conversazione with Robin Orton in the pub I remembered somewhere on here reading he likes to walk in Baxters fields. That recall threw up so many childhood memories I knew this spot well, living over the Kirkdale bit opp Charlecote st. When I was a small child we used to play in wha...

I have two A4 prints, repro, one of Shortlands, the other of Penge Lane.
nothing special but seems a shame to bin them.
If anyone would like them PM me.

I can assure you from experience that Bombus hypnorum. is quite capable of stinging. However leave it bee [pun intended] and it will ignore you. I have several acres of bee friendly grounds, all planted especially for bees; I get stung but once a year,always my own fault. Try never to get between a ...

well, hmmmmm. I'll take your word for it. When I lived near the Alexander dive I use to drive out to a pub near Cowden 30 miles away for a quiet pint rather than venture into any local. In fact in my teddy boy days me and a mate and considered the Black Raven in Bishopsgate our regular drinking hole...

No wonder then that folk are fleeing South London in droves, what with all these foreigners from north of Watford coming down smothering the world with their pantrys full of eehoops me dook, breaking the silence of a Sydenham dawn as they clatter off to the tram stop in their clogs. What has the wor...

Please excuse me, while I am logged in here, but 'gritty working class' is hardly the term I would use to describe the Lund and Orton road show person as I have read them on here. Pseudo intellectual Guardian-ista poseurs with a deluded view of their influence on world affairs would be a cruel descr...

Butting in here a bit, as an exile,I really cannot understand this fanatical defence of a load of grotty drinking holes. I used to live midway between the Alexandra and the Crooked Billet , and while the Billet was merely a grubby depressing hole, the Alexandra was an absolute pit, hangout of pond l...

With respect, not wanting to insult anyone for I have little to input anywhere other than the museum, for the time I have been reading this site before logging in, it sometimes looks as if its the Lund and Orton show.

Thank you Mary, but you are talking to a fan, or should I say overgrown kid. I have all the books in their original form, all the films and most TV series and tapes. Quite sad isn't it,? I could not, as a child work out how he got into so much mess and trouble without getting the walloping I got for...

William Brown.

Thank you.
I won't get to bed for hours now.

super find

Afraid I cannot give any more info on that area as I only remember it as waste ground. Interesting maps though, especially where little industries are identified. The first map must date from 1950, as the white space at the corner of Kelvin/Kirkdale was a where a prefab school room was built just af...

the Express dairy yard was on the right hand side going to wards the Dartmouth arms,right on the corner; difficult to place it now but I am sure looking at street view its now occupied by hallmark. I can't comment on the parachute mine but do not underestimate the effects of blast from the V2 on Pan...

I cannot add much of help but I knew that area as one of our street urchin playgrounds. all the buildings in the middle had gone,just derelict ground in the 50's and 60's, but the Express Dairy had its depot in the yard at the corner,some kind of caterer now I think. I can remember the last of those...

hello again mary. I have just spotted the pics of the abandoned salvation army site,is this the one thats at the top of Panmure? A shame if that big house were to be demolished.Lewisham council were always too fond of the demolition crew. Stag beetles... now there's a memory brought back....there us...

Hello marymck, I lived in Panmure road as a child from 5yrs old. Those roads around Springfield were my playground as they were demolished! I cannot remember any footway between top of Panmure and Mount Gardens, although I think I remember an unofficial one between the top of Panmure and the Syd hil...