Earl Aelfheah Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 Anyone got any interesting Local or London sights, points of interest, or little known histories they?d like to share? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/283839-london-ed-oddities/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuncanW Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 Nice idea.Many will know this already, but the residential development on the corner of Crystal Palace Road and Upland Road was previously a police station that housed a notorious elite police squad who were involved in some serious Line of Duty style police corruption in the 1990s.A total of five officers operating as part of the subsequently disbanded South East Regional Crime Squad were jailed for selling drugs seized from dealers and traffickers to rival gangs.One of them was also linked to corruption around the Stephen Lawrence case, and the murder of Daniel Morgan, a private detective who was said to be close to exposing police corruption. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/283839-london-ed-oddities/#findComment-1509274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Aelfheah Posted May 5, 2021 Author Share Posted May 5, 2021 Wow, I didn?t know that. ThankA pretty widely known bit of local history this one, but Bon Scott of AC/DC passed away outside 67 Overhill Road. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/283839-london-ed-oddities/#findComment-1509305 Share on other sites More sharing options...
malumbu Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Robert Elm's notes and queries is the place to go. Also get hold of one of the various secret London books.eg today two blue plaques in Catford https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=secret+london+books&adgrpid=103176427425&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqaKs8bmy8AIVC5ftCh29ogOkEAAYASAAEgLY-vD_BwE&hvadid=446239367660&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9045879&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=1196498406437400623&hvtargid=kwd-846396957586&hydadcr=24405_1816066&tag=googhydr-21&ref=pd_sl_1b3cbwyyy1_e_p50Reference to Amazon for info only - use your local bookshop and/or independent on line trader! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/283839-london-ed-oddities/#findComment-1509367 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigello Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Boris Karloff was born on Forest Hill Road, on or around where the CoOp is. There?s a blue plaque. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/283839-london-ed-oddities/#findComment-1509370 Share on other sites More sharing options...
another annie Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 The lady who invented the London A to Z lived in Court Lane Gardens, there's a plaque on the front of the house. Apparently she walked the streets to gather the information (no Google earth then...). Robert Elms came to unveil the plaque around ten years ago. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/283839-london-ed-oddities/#findComment-1509397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
malumbu Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 No he didn't Robert Elms has never come further SE than the Elephant. I've invited him few times and he disintegrates into dust just at the thought. Although I think his son is in Peckham so he has a special tunnel to get there. Hope you are watching Robert!Shackleton lived on Underhill or Wood Vale.Joe Orton's film Entertaining Mr Sloane was in part filmed in Camberwell Old Cemetery. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/283839-london-ed-oddities/#findComment-1509409 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnL Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 DuncanW Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Nice idea.> > Many will know this already, but the residential> development on the corner of Crystal Palace Road> and Upland Road was previously a police station> that housed a notorious elite police squad who> were involved in some serious Line of Duty style> police corruption in the 1990s.> A total of five officers operating as part of the> subsequently disbanded South East Regional Crime> Squad were jailed for selling drugs seized from> dealers and traffickers to rival gangs.> One of them was also linked to corruption around> the Stephen Lawrence case, and the murder of> Daniel Morgan, a private detective who was said to> be close to exposing police corruption.It's all very Line of Duty indeedhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/05/drugsandalcohol.nickhopkinsand thenhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/oct/19/met-police-detectives-cleared-retrial"H" you see, Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/283839-london-ed-oddities/#findComment-1509415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiddles Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Malumbo once again you are incorrect - Robert elms broadcasted from the horniman museum a few years ago. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/283839-london-ed-oddities/#findComment-1509471 Share on other sites More sharing options...
malumbu Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 It was a facetious comment, although he has admitted himself that he is not that familiar with SE London. In the old days this would have been called teasing. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/283839-london-ed-oddities/#findComment-1509488 Share on other sites More sharing options...
malumbu Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Just down the way some interesting history of Sydenham and Forest Hill - a few oddities therehttp://sydenhamforesthillhistory.blogspot.com/ Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/283839-london-ed-oddities/#findComment-1509499 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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