Kingsley Street – Formerly part of Third Street. The streets south of, and parallel to, Moorhouse Avenue were named in numerical order. Re-named Kingsley Street. Named after Charles Kingsley (1819-1875). Third Street is first mentioned in the Star in 1873. Does not appear in street directories, only maps. On a 1879 map it is shown running from Harper Street (later Orbell Street) to Gasworks Road (later Waltham Road). From Hawford Street to Gasworks Road was renamed Kingsley Street. One of the “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council on 19 January 1880. Kingsley was the author of The Water Babies, Westward Ho etc. Kingsley Street first appears in street directories in 1887.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. I checked Papers Past but didn’t find anything extra.Another street in Sydenham that used to be residential but is now a street full of businesses.The usual mixture of new and old buildings.
There was one business that had appeared on a TV show called Renters. The business called Escape appealed to me but then we know how much I like travelling.. I couldn’t see the vans properly but they were painted in bright colours. I actually wouldn’t like to hire these vans as it makes it too obvious that you are a tourist and you are then targeted by the wrong people.
Can I just say that I have stayed in Westward Ho.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 