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(part 1 tomorrow)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 04.01.26 - 12:00 a.m. | #
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17. Recall this case and am glad to see the forced rebuild has been effected and looks good. Let’s hope the crooked bastards who burned the Crooked House at Himley are compelled to rebuild.
David B | 04.01.26 - 7:29 a.m. | #
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Where is part 1 ?
Randy Jones | 04.01.26 - 7:34 a.m. | #
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The church spire has knocked me sideways!
I lived in Sydenham for a couple of years (occasionally going to work on the same train as Kate Bush) and had no idea it was there!
Chris | 04.01.26 - 10:08 a.m. | #
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22. Anything in the UK named "Piazza" is immediately doomed to failure.
Scott | Homepage | 04.01.26 - 10:14 a.m. | #
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I note that Paro International Food Store has the ubiquitous pile of bottled water stacked outside the front of the shop.
[email protected] | 04.01.26 - 10:50 a.m. | #
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I remember Sydenham station as in the 1970s it still had two entrances, Up on the road bridge, probably an original, and Down at the present building on Westerley Cresent. It was not possible to change platforms without leaving the station and crossing the road bridge which happened to me twice. As there was no gateline then and both entrances were staffed it was never a problem although probably unusual in London. I doubt if it was unique.
I was told the Down line platform was moved to make way for the connection to the flyover to Crystal Palace Low Level which would have put it in the 1850‘s. The original station and platforms would have been built for the Atmospheric Railway which was in the mid 1840s.
Keith the Kraut | 04.01.26 - 11:32 a.m. | #
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Where is Westerly Crescent? No such Road exists today on a map that I can find.
David | 04.01.26 - 1:31 p.m. | #
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apologies, an old mans memory playing tricks on him. I think it is Lowers Sydenham that is on Westerley Cresent. According to the map the ˋnew´ station is in on Sydenham Station Approach.
keith the kraut | 04.01.26 - 1:45 p.m. | #
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Although the Overground is welcome, a roundel with Sydenham on it (or most of the other names from the Network Southeast era) will never look right to me.
25 - those are artificial reefs.
Still Anon | 04.01.26 - 2:16 p.m. | #
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I know SE26 quite well as I spent most of 2020 and 2021 traipsing up and down the area trying to get on the property ladder, making multiple offers on properties in Kirkdale, Westwood Hill, and round the corner from Bell Green. That Sainsbury's is now my local big store after a lifetime of using Whitechapel and Beckton, having finally moved to the area in 2021/22.
Love the info about A-ha, one of my favourite 80s songs/bands, will be sharing that far and wide. Looking forward to part 1 and finding out more of what I missed out in my research of the area back then.
Anon | 04.01.26 - 2:16 p.m. | #
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Starting at part 2 had me looking for ages before looking to see if there was anything about it in the comments!
14. LOVE THIS!!!
15. Didn't know the first video existed so got a bit lost in A-ha heaven for a while! Still a great song & video.
Cornish Cockney | 04.01.26 - 3:10 p.m. | #
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Publishing part 2 before part 1 made me question my sanity.
Louise | 04.01.26 - 10:04 p.m. | #
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You can also check out the Corky-Fruited Water Dropwort which has a special protected area in the council estate and information sign at the eastern end of Crescent Wood Road. It’s a great name and quite pretty in the summer!
Ed | 05.01.26 - 8:28 a.m. | #
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15. Do you mean the A&R (artists and repertoire) people at Warner Bros records?
dg writes: no
Ian | 05.01.26 - 9:00 a.m. | #
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I lived at the now demolished 26 Longton Avenue between 1987 and 1990. The house was subsequently demolished and along with its next door neighbour, and made into a nature reserve. It was, of course, adjacent to Wells Park. Indeed, there was even a well in our back garden (then as now, capped up). It was a magical place.
Yes, you can't visit where Bill Wyman lived, but you can visit 13 Longton Avenue - where Susan Ballion grew up, after being born on 27th May 1957 in Guys Hospital. That's Siouxsie, the famous singer of Siouxsie & the Banshees. As an old Bromley punk l always wondered where she was born and assumed it was Woodside Avenue in Chislehurst where she lived when punk emerged (l used to see her on the 227). But no, l found her birth certificate online a few years back and when her father Marc registered her birth, he gave the family address as 13 Longton Avenue, which blew me away. So, as a baby, and perhaps as a young child, Wells Park is where Siouxsie used to play. Its a magical place, perhaps the last surviving part of Sydenham Common (also known as Westwood Common) before it was enclosed (c. 1800).
Le Ver | 05.01.26 - 10:08 a.m. | #
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Ps. I must add this fact about Sydenham Well Park
At the back of Longton Avenue, to the rear of where Siouxsie grew up, is of course Sydenham Hill. It was here that George Harrison hung out with the Hare Krishna movement in 1969- at The Wood, 16 Sydenham Hill, with its huge back garden. I thought this was where he made the video of his track My Sweet Lord (1970), but l could be wrong. See a pic of him in the garden in Sydenham here here.
Le Ver | 05.01.26 - 10:20 a.m. | #
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