Sydenham is a suburb of

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. It is located in Region E of the

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. The suburb is surrounded by the area of

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and other smaller suburbs.

History

The suburb was surveyed for housing in 1905. The suburb's name comes from the name of the farm which originated sometime before the mid-1890s. In 1910, Sydenham was still quite rural and on 26 February of that year, the land was used by Frenchman

Albert Kimmerling Albert Kimmerling, (22 June 1882 Saint-Rambert-l'Île-Barbe – 9 June 1912, Mourmelon, France) was a pioneer aviator who made the first airplane flight in Africa, taking off at the Nahoon Racetrack at East London, Eastern Cape. on 28 December 1 ...

to fly a Voisin biplane a few hundred yards and proved that aircraft could be flown at a high altitude of .

References

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