Queens Gardens – Old Homeopathy hospital
Welcome to Bromley Palace Park and it’s historic features! This location is the second stop on the heritage and biodiversity trail (around the historic parks in Bromley Town Centre) in Queen’s Gardens.
This park used to carry on, under where the Glades are now, all the way to Market Square (so the Cedar trees used to be central).
Where the flats are to the east, used to be the Homeopathic Hospital. Bromley was a centre for Homeopathy medicine from its early days in the 1800s, originally in the former White Hart Inn on the high street (unfortunately this fine coaching inn was demolished for an Owen Luder building in the 1970s).
Fun Fact
Josiah Oldfield (there’s an Oldfield road named after him) founded the large Lady Margaret homeopathic hospital on London Road. He promoted the Fruitarian diet and was very evangelical about both the diet and abstinence from alcoholic drinks.
Queens Gardens
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The White Hart was a historic coaching Inn on the High Street; at various times it hosted the early local fire-engines, various Magistrate court hearings, a local library, and a homeopathic medicine practise.
The whole of the Bromley Town Park Heritage and Biodiversity trail can be found here.
There is more information on Queens Gardens at the entry on this park in the Bromley Civic Society site, here.
To continue the Heritage Trail, walk through the Glades shopping centre, then in Market Square, turn left down the High Street until you reach the Churchill Theatre, just past there turn under the arch into Library Gardens.
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