sydenham Archives - Brockley SE4

Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

Sydenham Garden

Oct

2024

I stumbled across Sydenham Garden (Wynell Road SE23) last month for the first time, a community well being space with various mental health, dementia and other projects .The day I went it was participating in the Sydenham Artists Trail, including displaying some of the banners made at the garden for their participation in the 2024 ...

Opposing the Iraq War in South London

Mar

2023

The Iraq War started on 20 March 2003 with a massive American-led 'shock and awe' bombing campaign, followed by a land invasion of US, British and other troops. Over the next eight years more than 100,000 civilians were killed.Early protestsThere was a long build up to the war, with sanctions against Iraq dating back to ...

Red Stage: the 1930s Workers Theatre Movement in South London

Aug

2017

Some interesting material in the University of Warwick's digital archive on British Political Theatre 1930s to 1950s, including some newsletters from the 1930s from the Workers Theatre Movement, associated with the Communist Party. As mentioned here before, South London was a focus for this kind of theatre, with performances of agitational sketches and songs given ...

Jonathan Coe in Sydenham

Jun

2017

Jonathan Jo Has a mouth like an "O,"But this is what makes him so funny:If you give him a smile, Only once in a while,Then he never expects any money!- AA MilneThe author of The Rotters Club and What a Carve Up is coming to Sydenham. The Kirkdale Bookshop team write:On Friday 30th June, to ...

Adventures in the Anthropecene – talk in Sydenham

Jan

2016

Tomorrow night (Wednesday 27th January 2016, 7:30 pm), Gaia Vince - author of Adventures in the Anthropocene - is giving a reading at Sydenham's fine Kirkdale Books. The book, which won the 2015Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, looks at 'Growing evidence from around the globe... that we are living in a permanently changed ...

Althea Gyles, poet and artist: ‘A Strange Red Haired Girl’

Oct

2015

Althea Gyles (right) with Irish revolutionist Constance MarkiewiczThe Irish poet and artist Althea Gyles (1868-1949) was born in County Waterford and moved to London in 1892. She knew Oscar Wilde, W B Yeats (who described her as "a strange red-haired girl, all whose thoughts were set upon painting and poetry"), Constance Markiewicz, Aleister Crowley (with ...

Recent Sydenham Street Art

May

2015

Some recent Sydenham street art.This is off Sydenham Road (by the car park near the Co-op/Lidl)The kingfisher and fox are on hoardings on Sydenham Road, replacing the lemurs that used to be there.

Gibbons investigation confined to one school

Feb

2015

Following the news that Grinling Gibbons' recent exam results have been stricken from their permanent record by the DfE as a result of "maladministration" at the school, a number of parents at Sydenham's Adamsrill primary school, with which Gringling Gibbons is paired, expressed fears that their school might be affected too.Lewisham Council, which must remain tight-lipped until ...

Ishiguro in Sydenham

Dec

2014

There was an article in the Guardian last week about the author Kazuo Ishiguro in which he recalled writing his 1989 novel The Remains of the Day (later filmed starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson) while living in Sydenham. Kazuo Ishiguro: how I wrote The Remains of the Day 'I was then 32 years old, and we’d ...

A South London Street Art Bestiary

Nov

2014

Fox in Burgess Park (New Church Road, SE5)Kingfisher in East Dulwich (Frogley Road, SE22)Lemur in Sydenham Road, SE26The other Lemur in Sydenham Road.Lion in the car park of the Golden Lion, Sydenham (Daniel Morgan RIP)Panther off Sydenham Road.Ram in Sydenham Road (opposte Golden Lion)Seahorses in Forest Hill (Devonshire Road, SE23)Squirrel on Bellingham Green SE6