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Lower Sydenham is in the East of the area.

It has the same postcode and is in the London Borough of Lewisham and a small part in the London Borough of Bromley.

The Crystal Palace District Gas Company was founded in Lower Sydenham in 1854, supplied with coal by newly opened railway.

The Company supplied gas to the relocated Crystal Palace and defined Lower Sydenham as a working class area.

Gas production stopped in 1969, but the South Eastern Gas Board continued to be based there and gas holders still remain.

Most of the site was redeveloped in 1996 as a Savacentre ( as this was its original name ) by locals, Sainsburys ' Sydenham ' is one of the largest Sainsbury's store in the UK.

Lower Sydenham has its own railway station Lower Sydenham which links to Hayes, Lewisham, Catford, London Bridge and Charing Cross.

It also has Home Park which boasts an Adventure playground and is situated next to Sydenham Library, funded by Andrew Carnegie in 1904.

Further down towards Bell Green is The Old Bathhouse ( now an antiques reclamation yard ).

The area is served by bus routes 181, 194, 202, 352, 356 & 450.