Re: Old Street Scenes
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:19 pm
Another one from the Facebook group - Cobb's Corner probably around the late 70's. This is the top end of Sydenham. Left hand fork goes up to Crystal Palace, middle fork heads off to Dulwich if you take the South Circular and the right hand fork used to go down to works originating from the days when the Croydon canal system was there in the 1820's-1830's.
I think Cobb's originally used to be a local department store that went by the way some time in the early 1980's. As far back as I can remember it was always a bridal shop in the corner plot there. On the other side was a camera shop which went back donkey's years and finally succumbed to the modern economy in the late 2000's. Pretty much every old Sydenham resident was sad to see them go. I guess the digital camera era and the likes of the big online electronics outlets killed them eventually and it was even sadder to see it turn into another damn estate agents. The traffic island on the right is now a busy roundabout and the 12 bus has been replaced by the 122 and 176 routes.
I think Cobb's originally used to be a local department store that went by the way some time in the early 1980's. As far back as I can remember it was always a bridal shop in the corner plot there. On the other side was a camera shop which went back donkey's years and finally succumbed to the modern economy in the late 2000's. Pretty much every old Sydenham resident was sad to see them go. I guess the digital camera era and the likes of the big online electronics outlets killed them eventually and it was even sadder to see it turn into another damn estate agents. The traffic island on the right is now a busy roundabout and the 12 bus has been replaced by the 122 and 176 routes.