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Telegrope readers incoming. Guardinistas guard your beer.
Sydenham has one of Britain’s best taprooms:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/features/best-taprooms-finest-beers/
One of south London’s most famed modernist houses is for sale with The Modern House for £3.275 million.
Six Pillars, in Sydenham, is a white, minimalist concrete structure named after the six cylindrical pillars which support its overhanging first floor.
Transforming the Cake Shop at 111 Sydenham Road, an elegant Edwardian corner building into new homes.
A pensioner was left in A&E after a horror hit-and-run. The crash happened on Sydenham Road at around 10am this morning (Tuesday, January 13).
More: https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/woman-80-rushed-hospital-after-33223238
Sydenham: Where south east London charm meets historic streets
A very generous review from:
https://www.london-now.co.uk/news/25747015.sydenham-south-east-london-charm-meets-historic-streets/
Water supply disruption now in its third day and work continues into a fourth.
Affected postcodes: #SE21, #SE22, #SE23 and #SE26
https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/25748113.thames-water-se21---se26-water-outage-hits-third-day/
Thousands of homes have been left without water after a burst main forced supplies to be cut in parts of south east London.
#SE21, #SE22, #SE23, and #SE26 have been affected by the incident, which began on the evening of January 5.
The water main burst on Lordship Lane.
https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/25742517.thames-water-se21-se22-se23-se26-burst-main/
On the Hoof Bistro to close as reported in SydSocs's latest newsletter.
"After 12 years of trading the Bistro will be closing its doors at 23 Sydenham Road for the last time on Sunday 14th December"
Farewell drink tonight 5pm to 8pm.
End of the year will mean the end of Zipcars bordering the Bromley border. The heavily loss making shared electric car company is ceasing operations.
CityAM speculates the ceasing of EV exemption to the Congestion charge dealt the final blow. However, a bad blow for the EV car movement.
Zipcar is now owned by Avis.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/zipcar-uk-to-shut-operations-ahead-of-new-london-ev-congestion-charge/ar-AA1RuS6f
Discover a really cool Wordpress Plugin for building timelines. So we have started building a history timeline for Sydenham. Suggestions for inclusion welcome:
https://se26.org.uk/history-timeline/
Our friends in Catford had a speed problem in their street. Council did nothing. So some bright spark put up a fake speed camera. Pretty convincing and it worked.
Council removed it within 48 hours because it "could be dangerous". Speeding is dangerous. Funny how inaction leads to swift action to maintain the status quo.
Pick of Guardian comments on night buses:
The N2 night bus from Trafalgar Square to Crystal Palace that I used to get home after a 2am shift at work used to be an eye opener, I once gut mugged on it, another time I watched in horror as a drunken young woman spilled what remained of her chips onto the floor and proceeded to pick them up and eat them, finishing by squirting the ketchup sachet directly into her mouth.
There were bad bits, too.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/nov/15/samuel-ojo-cartoon-night-bus
"I ventured outdoors, on to Sydenham high street, and persistently giggled – so Lorna told me – at the fact that the street was built on a slope, so that people coming down it were stumbling over themselves, while those going up were panting and staggering effortfully."
Kazuo Ishiguro - the Shogun of Sydenham wrote his novel 'The Remains of the Day' while living here in 1987. Later made into an award winning film starring Antony Hopkins.
The restoration of the iconic dinosaur models, a staple of the park since the Victorian era, is now underway with specialist steam cleaning and repair work revealing their original look.
Scaffolding has been erected around larger models on Dinosaur Island to allow targeted work on their upper sections.
This restoration is part of a wider park regeneration plan, co-delivered by Bromley Council and Crystal Palace Park Trust
More: https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/25598207.crystal-palace-park-dinosaurs-part-multi-million-plan/