Crystal Palace/Sydenham/Penge Chitter Chatter

[flypanam]

Apparently the scaffolding on Church Rd has come down.

I don't know the details, but I heard it was closures in Croydon Borough affecting streets in Bromley.

Oh yeah they are, more so than Croydon but it's created havoc in and around church road especially if you live in Auckland Road and you need a car to get to Sainsbury's as you have to go up Anerley Hill round the triangle instead of just Stambourne Way or Fox Hill. As for Buses the 432 or 249 for instance don't always make it to Anerley station.

 

[ice-is-forming]

Crystal Palace garden party 1975 with Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel and Steeleye Span.

 

[flypanam]

I see boards have gone up by the green space by fox hill on church road. I wonder if the council sold it off for development?

 

[haushoch]

I see boards have gone up by the green space by fox hill on church road. I wonder if the council sold it off for development?

That’s a private piece of land, it’s got planning permission for a dwelling (two flats) some years ago. I guess they’re finally building it.

 

[hash tag]

I see the dinosaurs are getting a bridge
Crystal Palace gets a Dinosaur bridge

 

[Maggot]

Brilliant film of Penge in 1964.

Watch Portrait of Penge - BFI Player

This colour film about the town of Penge is a visual treat for fans of the 1960s - featuring local personalities, housing, shopping, traffic and the Penge formation dancers.

player.bfi.org.uk

 

[Maggot]

There's a fundraiser to get the stage in Crystal Palace Park (the rusty laptop) up and running again.

A new stage for Crystal Palace Bowl

#BackTheBowl and help renew the iconic stage at the Crystal Palace Bowl, to create a new community focussed space in the park and enable live music and performance to return.

www.spacehive.com

 

[hash tag]

The dinosaurs are also desperately in need of cash.
Today's market, and cafe were packed, we stayed away. There are some magnificent bits of the old palace, lying around, rotting.

 

[Maggot]

There's a fundraiser to get the stage in Crystal Palace Park (the rusty laptop) up and running again.

A new stage for Crystal Palace Bowl

#BackTheBowl and help renew the iconic stage at the Crystal Palace Bowl, to create a new community focussed space in the park and enable live music and performance to return.

www.spacehive.com

Although the stage won't be ready in time, there's some concerts at the Bowl in August on a temporary stage. Acts include Dizzee Rascal, The Streets and Supergrass (got tickets for that one). Plus some free stuff during the week.

South Facing Festival 2025

South Facing Festival 2025. A series of open-air concerts taking place in summer 2025 at Crystal Palace Bowl, in London.

southfacingfestival.com

 

[hash tag]

My boys got tickets for one of those, not sure which though.

 

[brogdale]

Crystopolis you should be proud.

 

[hash tag]

There is a little work being done in the park but it is desperate for much much more, especially the sports centre and its facilities.

 

[oryx]

Went there the other day for my state-sanctioned exercise a walk with a friend. It's definitely one of my favourite parks in London and I've been grateful to have it fairly nearby during lockdown. The cafe is ridiculously expensive, though.

 

[hash tag]

We got to the park for about 10.15, we queued for the caff (Mrs Tags birthday treat). The queue was massive when we left about 12.30. it's a great park but needs 10 of millions spending on it. The model car track looked good but the rest, not good. The dinosaurs are being done because they are grade 1 listed and have to be done. Conservation work and latest improvements to the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
Hopefully, something will be done to the tunnels under the parade to the station which are magnificent. It's a shame as it's all so well used.

 

[editor]

Today! This weekend – vinyl record fair in Haynes Lane, Crystal Palace, 8th/9th May 2021

 

[editor]

It was splendid too

 

[editor]

This such a great space

Photo feature: Vinyl Record Fair at Free The Gallery, Crystal Palace

 

[ska invita]

 

[spanglechick]

Heh. A bit of that was opposite my house. Also, about eighteen months ago someone broke open one of the tunnel gates. I walked about halfway down to the Sydenham woods end, but it was mostly just dark and full of bird poo. The holes at the top of the tunnels though - I think they are for bats. We definitely have bats in the woods.

 

[oryx]

Thanks for that. My OH used to live on the estate which was built on the site of Honor Oak station and always wondered if it went over the main road via a bridge or tunnel - that video provides the answer (a bridge).

 

[ska invita]

Thanks for that. My OH used to live on the estate which was built on the site of Honor Oak station and always wondered if it went over the main road via a bridge or tunnel - that video provides the answer (a bridge).

Yeah that end was the bit I found particularly interesting... Brenchley Gardens! Who knew... Makes sense now, unusual place for a park I think

 

[editor]

This weekend

Vintage clothes, DJs and cocktails at Free The Gallery, SE19, this weekend, 5th-6th June 2021

There’s DJs, an outside cocktail bar and vintage clothes on offer at Free The Gallery in Crystal Palace this weekend.

www.brixtonbuzz.com

 

[not-bono-ever]

no motorsport at the palace park this year

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Saturday July 10 - Open City walking tour (socially distanced - requires smart phone and zoom rather than being in a huddle to hear what someone is saying) - Forest Hill and Sydenham architecture. (paid for event)

Forest Hill and Sydenham Architecture Walking Tour — Open City

Join Open City for a socially distanced walking tour discovering the extraordinary public architecture of Sydenham

open-city.org.uk

 

[Maggot]

The free concerts at the Bowl are on Thursdays.

Next Thursday the Soothsayers are playing.

Crystal Palace Festival – Music Sessions | South Facing – South Facing

South Facing Festival is a month-long series of open-air concerts taking place at Crystal Palace Bowl in South London

southfacingfestival.com

 

[spanglechick]

Ok. So. Wireless.

I live a couple of hundred metres from the park, and although there’s noise from gigs and festivals, what there isn’t usually is someone burbling over the PA/soundchecking the mics for 90 minutes and counting, starting at 10am on a Saturday (the first night was last night. Is there much still to check?)
Also there was gridlock from yesterday afternoon until who knows when (I came home around 6pm) and huge red signs on every side road saying “no event parking”. Is Wireless a much bigger deal than the other festivals a we had this summer?

I mean, I don’t particularly mind. I didn’t like the music last night but I could still hear the telly and it finished at a reasonable hour. There have been a couple of parties on my estate that have been louder, went on much longer and had guests shouting and shrieking drunkenly outside my window all night. By comparison this is no inconvenience at all. But it does seem bigger than other festivals and gigs.

Also - where in the park is it? Last time I went to a gig in CPP it was on the stage behind the lake. But I gather this is a scaffold-built thing these days.
Also occurs to me that the athletics arena would make a good outdoor concert venue. Amazed they don’t use it.

The noisy burbling has finished now, btw. If they do it again tomorrow morning I shall be a bit peeved.

 

[Guineveretoo]

Ok. So. Wireless.

I live a couple of hundred metres from the park, and although there’s noise from gigs and festivals, what there isn’t usually is someone burbling over the PA/soundchecking the mics for 90 minutes and counting, starting at 10am on a Saturday (the first night was last night. Is there much still to check?)
Also there was gridlock from yesterday afternoon until who knows when (I came home around 6pm) and huge red signs on every side road saying “no event parking”. Is Wireless a much bigger deal than the other festivals a we had this summer?

I mean, I don’t particularly mind. I didn’t like the music last night but I could still hear the telly and it finished at a reasonable hour. There have been a couple of parties on my estate that have been louder, went on much longer and had guests shouting and shrieking drunkenly outside my window all night. By comparison this is no inconvenience at all. But it does seem bigger than other festivals and gigs.

Also - where in the park is it? Last time I went to a gig in CPP it was on the stage behind the lake. But I gather this is a scaffold-built thing these days.
Also occurs to me that the athletics arena would make a good outdoor concert venue. Amazed they don’t use it.

The noisy burbling has finished now, btw. If they do it again tomorrow morning I shall be a bit peeved.

The South Facing Festival was on a stage built in front of the "rusty laptop" (which is the stage next to that little lake) and made use of the natural auditorium of the "bowl".

This festival, though, is using a LOT more of the park, and the stage itself is on the terrace up by the Parade.

And, apparently, it is on during the day as well as the evenings.

 

[spanglechick]

The South Facing Festival was on a stage built in front of the "rusty laptop" (which is the stage next to that little lake) and made use of the natural auditorium of the "bowl".

This festival, though, is using a LOT more of the park, and the stage itself is on the terrace up by the Parade.

And, apparently, it is on during the day as well as the evenings.

Oh right. Yes, I suppose the bowl is quite small. So the stage is on the site of the palace? Or just in front? I guess the park slopes away down to the car park from there, but that must make it acoustically challenging. Kind of a reverse bowl effect.

I might have to look for some pictures to visualise it.

 

[Guineveretoo]

Oh right. Yes, I suppose the bowl is quite small. So the stage is on the site of the palace? Or just in front? I guess the park slopes away down to the car park from there, but that must make it acoustically challenging. Kind of a reverse bowl effect.

I might have to look for some pictures to visualise it.

I can’t really visualise it myself. My daughter went to the royal philharmonic concert that was on that stage on Thursday and tried to describe it to me, but I don’t really get it.

 

[spanglechick]

Ok. So this annoyingly low-res map shows positioning, but the dotted perimeter seems to include places beyond the roadway. Or does it? I can’t work out where the sports arena is on this map.