Just a start. We will be adding entries regularly. 1720 ### First Greyhound Inn Joseph Hyde was the first recorded landlord, mentioned in 1726, and the inn is first referred to as The Greyhound in 1727 Read More _(in new tab)_ 1733 ### First Dolphin Inn It is likely that the building occupied by Richard Peake was a farmhouse, the centre of a farm that extended towards Perry Vale. Read More _(in new tab)_ 1809 ### Croydon Canal Opens The Croydon Canal 15km from Croydon, via Sydenham and Forest Hill, to the Grand Surrey Canal at New Cross. More in Wikipedia _(in new tab)_ 1810 ### Sydenham Common Enclosure Sydenham Common was a 500-acre plot of common land. It was enclosed between 1810 and 1819 and most of it was then built upon. Read More _(in new tab)_ 1836 ### Croydon Canal Closes The canal was never a success and closed in 1836, the first canal to be abandoned by an act of Parliament. 1839 ### Sydenham Station Opens In its first conception, the line was to follow the bed of the Croydon Canal for much of the route.. More in Wikipedia _(in new tab)_ 1855 ### Crystal Palace Opens The Hyde Park Great Exhibition reebuilt and enlarged by Josepth Paxton in Sydenham. Read More _(in new tab)_ 1871 ### The Avenue, Sydenham One of 12 pictures that Pissarro painted while in self-imposed exile in London from 1870 to 1871 during the Franco-Prussian war. Read More _(in new tab)_ 1872 ### Sydenham Children’s Hospital Founded as the Home and Infirmary for Sick Children and South London Dispensary for Women. Read More _(in new tab)_ 1884 ### Upper Sydenham Station Opens On the Crystal Palace and South London Junction Railway linking Crystal Palace to London Victoria via Peckham Rye. Wikipedia _(in new tab)_ 1898 ### Eleanor Marx Died Daughter of Karl who lived and died in Jews Walk. Or was she murdered? Read More _(in new tab)_ 1902 ### Cobb’s Department Store Opens For 70 years or more Cobb’s was perhaps the most prestigious department store in SE London. Read More _(in new tab)_ 1920 ### Livesey Hall War Memorial commemorates the fallen of World War I and World War II who had been employed by the South Suburban Gas Company of London. Wikipedia _(in new tab)_ 1936 ### Crystal Palace Burns Down 1954 ### Upper Sydenham Station Closes Closed on 20 September 1954, the first permanent closure of a Southern Electric line. Wikipedia _(in new tab)_ 1967 ### St Christopher’s Hospice The first patient was admitted on 13 July 1967 and the official opening followed shortly after on 24 July 1967. Read More _(in new tab)_ 1981 ### Cobb’s Department Store Closes Opened in 1902, bombed in 1940 and rebuilt. . Read More (in new tab) 1987 ### The Great Sydenham Storm Watch video here 2008 ### Sydenham Power Station Fire Watch video here

Around 100 firefighters are at the scene of the fire in a two-storey terraced building on Penge High Street in south east London.

Lucky Sydenham.

A new spot that blends work and play under one roof has opened in Sydenham.