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17 unusual facts about Sydenham


Alexander Grant MacKay

Alexander Grant MacKay was born in Sydenham, Ontario in Grey County on March 7, 1860 to parents Hugh MacKay and Katherine McInnis.

Alfred de Glehn

Their home in Sydenham, London was the rendezvous of artistic, literary and musical people: George Grove, Arthur Sullivan, Jenny Lind and J. R. Green.

Amandeep Singh

He attends Lincoln University and plays club cricket for Sydenham.

Christchurch South by-election, 1939

Macfarlane could increase the Labour vote at one polling booth only (Antigua Street in Sydenham).

Crystal Palace Glaziers

They first competed in the Southern League in 1929 and were based at Crystal Palace Exhibition Grounds, Sydenham, South London.

Crystal Palace School

Crystal Palace School of Art, Science, and Literature which opened in 1854 was set up by the Crystal Palace Company as a new enterprise to occupy part of its buildings when it re-erected the Crystal Palace in suburban Sydenham in 1853.

Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck

Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck (December 22, 1891 – June 1, 1951) was a leading Manhattan surgeon at Sydenham and Harlem Hospital.

Negretti and Zambra

When the Crystal Palace was re-erected in Sydenham in 1854, Negretti and Zambra became the official photographers of the Crystal Palace Company, which allowed them to photograph the interior and grounds of the new building.

South African Class 19B 4-8-2

A couple were also allocated to Sydenham in Port Elizabeth and occasionally worked on the Grahamstown branch.

Susan Laird

Susan began swimming at age 14 on the advice of a physician after developing St. Vitus Dance.

Sydenham High School, Ontario

Sydenham High School is located about 20 minutes north of Kingston, Ontario in the village of Sydenham, Ontario.

Sydenham, New Zealand

Sydenham is separated from the central city by the South Island Main Trunk Railway and Moorhouse Avenue.

Sydenham has a number of heritage buildings registered by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, with some already lost or to be lost due to the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake.

Sydenham, Victoria

Education facilities in the area include Catholic Regional College Sydenham, a coeducational Catholic senior high school and shares some of its grounds with Emmaus Catholic Primary School.

Watergardens Town Centre

The station and railway serves as the separation between the suburbs of Sydenham and Taylors Lakes, with the shopping centre entirely located in Taylors Lakes.

William Edward Addis

He left the Oratory, and became priest in charge of Lower Sydenham.

William James Asselstine

He was born in Renfrew, Ontario, the son of Samuel Asselstine and Jessie Wilson, and was educated in Verona and Sydenham.


Charles Hilton Fagge

He translated the first volume of Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra's work on cutaneous diseases into English for the New Sydenham Society, and classified and catalogued the models of skin diseases in the museum of Guy's Hospital.

Christ Church, Gipsy Hill

The opening of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham in 1854 and of Gipsy Hill railway station two years later was followed by considerable residential development in the vicinity.

Crystal Palace Park

In 1864, Thomas Webster Rammell experimented with a 600-yard pneumatic railway in the tunnel between the Sydenham and Penge gates to the park.

John Sydenham

Saints lost out 7-5 to Manchester United on aggregate but Sydenham's lasting memory of the cup adventure was of Manchester United manager Matt Busby going into the Old Trafford dressing room and congratulating them on their performance.

Ladywell Fields

There is a café on site, and the park is part of the Waterlink Way cycling and walking route that extends from the River Thames at Creekside, Deptford to Sydenham.

Lansdown, Bath

Lansdown Cricket Club, founded in 1825 and the oldest club in Somerset, originally played at a ground called "Cricket Down" next to the original racecourse on the top of Lansdown Hill and close to Beckford's Tower (the current Bath Racecourse is about a mile to the west); later the club moved into Bath at the Sydenham Field, and when that was built over by the Midland Railway in 1869 it moved to its current ground at Combe Park, which is in Lower Weston.

Orchard Wyndham

Sir John Wyndham (died c. 1580), second son of Sir Thomas Wyndham (d.1521) by his first wife Eleanor Scrope, daughter and heiress of Richard Scrope of Upsall Castle, Yorkshire, inherited Orchard from his wife Elizabeth Sydenham (d.1/1/1571), daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Sydenham of Orchard, Somerset.

Priory Preparatory School

The Priory School was founded in 1921 within Sydenham, County of London by Charles S. Poole and was called as such because it occupied an old building that had been a priory.

Roger Jupp

Between Oxford and commencing his training for ministry he worked as a nursing auxiliary at St Christopher's Hospice in Sydenham.

Short Sturgeon

The contract was re-assigned fom Short Brothers to Short Brothers & Harland and the incomplete aircraft were moved to Belfast where the second prototype, RK791, flew from Sydenham, Belfast on 18 May 1948.

Sydenham Edwards

Edwards was born in 1768 in Usk, Monmouthshire, the son of Lloyd Pittell Edwards, a schoolmaster and organist, and his wife, Mary Reese, who had been married on 26 September 1765 at Llantilio Crossenny Church and where Sydenham was christened in 1768.

Victoria Park, Belfast

Today the Victoria Park can be accessed from Sydenham.