Tag: penge

• A Tragedy at Chartwell

  

  Sometimes stories pop out at you and this one (indirectly) involved one of our greatest statesmen. I was with Mark in Beckenham Cemetery recently and as we were looking over the graves infront of us, one inscription caught my eye. Headstones that state the cause of death show a remarkable frankness and public demonstration of […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  August 30, 2019

  Biography, Estate, History

  Baden-Powell, beckenham cemetery, Chartwell, Drowning, Forgotten, MP, penge, Politician, scouts, Story, Weald, Winston Churchill

• Penge: The Town at the ‘Edge of Wood’ and Its Memorial

  by Christina Most people who live in Penge, south east London who know anything about it’s history have learned it from the walls of the Moon & Stars pub, located on the high street next to Sainsbury’s. There, as well as an impressive selection of real ales and craft beers, you can find a veritable […]

  irismacro

  October 20, 2014

  Memorial, Uncategorized, War

  local history, penge, SE20, South London, war memorial, ww2

• The Crystal Palace

  

  By Christina On the night of 30th November 1936, thousands of people gathered around Upper Norwood in south London to watch an iron and plate glass building known as The Crystal Palace burn to the ground. Many came because they had seen a strange orange glow in the sky, and they brought their families and […]

  irismacro

  September 22, 2014

  Derelict, London, Urban

  architecture, Crystal Palace, crystal palace park, dinosaurs, great exhibition, joseph paxton, London, penge, prince albert, sphinxes, sydenham hill, upper norwood, victorian