PSA Crystal Palace Subway Open Day

This Sunday and another few dates next year, for anyone living in easy access of CP and who might be interested.

It sounds fairly unique.

https://www.crystalpalaceparktrust.org/pages/how-to-visit-the-crystal-palace-subway

fairly unique?

C’mon ernie we expect more from you

😉

Is disappoint. Was expecting a diatribe against horrible sandwiches… ;-(

They have done a nice job of the renovations (I can see it from my flat once the leaves are off the trees) but yet to finish the landscaping up top, just hope it gets used for things in the community beyond just looking at the fancy brickwork.
There will be Xmas films shown there but I think I’ll stick to the local Everyman with the comfy sofas, table service for booze n snacks plus not being freezing cold,

Last time I went through there was about 50 years ago, it was used to access a fireworks display.

One of the urns that used to grace a parapet near there now resides in my brothers garden.  My dad bought it when they were auctioning off a load of stuff in the ’50s.  Well actually he had bought a smaller one but the lots got mixed up.  Broke the axle on a mate’s van getting it the couple of miles down the hill to Anerley where we lived (according to family legend).

Anyone else here go to the motor racing they used to have?

I’m a local resident, might actually go and see this. Thanks for the heads up.

We moved here in 2007 so missed the heydey of the motor racing but they ran a hill climb type event for classic cars a couple of times and I went to one of those many years ago. I’ve got a load of photos somewhere.

Also aiming to get to the Everyman this weekend 🙂

I spent a lot of time in that park as a child, I heard the motor racing but never saw it. I was generally in the adventure playground or round by the dinosaurs/lakes. I’d like to take a wander round, maybe i’ll go next time I visit my Mum

Same here @ sweepy.  There were trees you could climb to watch the racing, but dad did take us there officially a few times.

Last time I visited the athletics stadium it was looking  very sorry for itself.  I remember it seeming so modern (or should that be Modern) when it was built, last time I visited it was looking very sorry for itself, reminiscent of so much former Soviet stuff you see in Eastern Europe.  Apparently it remains in a state of managed decay, so sad..  I ran a 58.9s 400h there and watched Brendan Foster run in his pomp (and red socks).

Will try and get up to there. Never saw the car racing but did the Tuesday crits there about 40 years ago.

If your after another south London history location, the tfl tour of the Clapham south tube bomb shelter is excellent if a little expensive

If your after another south London history location, the tfl tour of the Clapham south tube bomb shelter is excellent if a little expensive

Ah, I grew up very close to that and as a child the structure, which is clearly huge, was a source of some mystery to me and my friends.

We were told that it was built during the war but never actually used as a bomb shelter during the war which always seemed weird to me as Clapham South tube station definitely was. In hindsight I now realise that it was was presumably built after the London blitz.

I know that it was used as a processing centre for migrants from the West Indies during the time of the Windrush generation, apparently the nearest labour exchange to it was Brixton which explains why so many West Indians settled there.

I didn’t know that it is now connected to TfL or that they now have tours so thanks for that.

I was born in a side-street across the road from it but we moved down the northern line when I was still an infant

It was finished too late for the blitz but then used when the V rockets started.

It sells out quite quickly when it is advertised so it’s handy to register in advance to get early warning, Google tfl hidden London iirc