Sydenham


 
 
Sydenham

Sydenham is a place, for the most part, in the London Borough of Lewisham; though some streets towards Crystal Palace Park and Penge are in the London Borough of Bromley, and some streets off Sydenham Hill are in the London Borough of Southwark.

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Sydenham is most famous as the location where the Crystal Palace from the Great Exhibition was relocated. Famous people who have lived here include Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer; George Grove of musical dictionary fame; John Logie Baird, the television inventor; and Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement.

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The Beast of Sydenham, as of 25 March 2005, is a large, panther-like black animal which has been spotted around the area, and attacked a man. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4370893.stm (BBC Article) , http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1443798,00.html (from The Guardian)

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