A study was done by 'Living Streets' on Sydenham High Street. Not sure what happened to this but I am sure it came up with making the Cobbs corner, Greyhound, a feature and perhaps even diverting the road (don't know how they would achieve this),

When BD was a lot younger lots of dodgy geezers hung around the car park in the Greyhound doing up their old cars - a Mecca. And you'd get the odd fight on a Friday night - having said that it was not particularly rough then.

Cobbs was covered under an older posting - this was also used in the 1986 book the Penge Papers; confessions of an unwaged metropolitan househusband