Sydenham, Sydenham,
lend me your ear!
I am currently researching and trying to verify information concerning Jimmy Savile and possible visits to Sydenham and would be grateful for your help ...
lend me your ear!
I am currently researching and trying to verify information concerning Jimmy Savile and possible visits to Sydenham and would be grateful for your help ...
I am particularly interested in sightings of Savile showing off his new cars to friends at a garage in an industrial park in Sydenham.
Also of interest is a camera and film processing shop called Snappy Snaps.
We are talking late-Seventies here ...
We are talking late-Seventies here ...
Also of interest is Slatter's Cake Shop and any links between that business and the garage with an inspection pit mentioned earlier.
Slatters were cakemakers to Royalty and even featured on Jim'll Fix It and the Generation Game
Slatters were cakemakers to Royalty and even featured on Jim'll Fix It and the Generation Game
Rude Cakes is a spin-off from the successful London shop and website, The Cake Store, owned by the Slatter brothers.
Interestingl, Kate Middleton's brother James was also into rude cakes for a while ...
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…
Interestingl, Kate Middleton's brother James was also into rude cakes for a while ...
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…
Rolf Harris lived in Sydenham in two houses he knocked together in Border Road during the 60s and 70s before moving to Bray in Berkshire. That property was raided months before he was arrested after a plumber reported he had found child porn under the floorboards in the 70s.
In 1987, a private investigator called Daniel Morgan was found with an axe embedded in his head in the carpark of a Sydenham pub he had just visited ...
bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
As @craftymuvva describes in the thread below, 1987 was a seriously busy year.
It is interesting that two events in that timeline appeared back to back in a CrimeWatch programme (starts at around 30') ...
It is interesting that two events in that timeline appeared back to back in a CrimeWatch programme (starts at around 30') ...
Seemingly unrelated, there are however interesting links between the case of Jonathan Denby, cousin of the disgraced barrister Barbara Hewson, on the run after police were held up at gunpoint, and that of the private detective Daniel Morgan in Sydenham ...
Denby was of the same far-right ilk as Harvey Proctor. Indeed both friends served as aides to the racist and paedophile Enoch Powell. Denby, a shipping lawyer, even acted for Proctor in a libel case against Panorama following a programme entitled ‘Maggie’s Militant Tendancy’.
Daniel Morgan's brother Alastair is convinced Daniel was working with the BBC on the libel case brought by Neil Hamilton, close friend of Proctor and Denby.
