Queens Gardens – Former White Hart Field
Welcome to College Green. This location is a stop on the heritage and biodiversity trail around the historic parks in Bromley Town Centre.
This post is a work in progress.
The park was formerly a plant nursery. In the Victorian era it supplied both vegetables and bedding plants to the town. Originally it supplied vegetables and fruit for the college residents. The house on the alleyway is the Seedsman’s Cottage, where the gardener lived.
Fun Fact
perhaps HG Wells snobbish description of the boys of the National School
On the opposite side of the road, where the Methodist Church now is, was the Parish School, designed by, sudden demolition
Phonebox is K2 model, the earliest distributed, as K1 was a concrete prototype.
All the stops in the Bromley Town Centre Parks Heritage & Biodiversity trail can be found on the page about it here.
To continue the Heritage Trail, cross the road and go down leafy North Street. At the end, go past the Railway Tavern and turn down East Street. In another 100 meters turn left up South Street, then right down Court Street. Cross the street diagonally and go down next to the car park, this emerges into Queens Gardens. Turn left here, and continue to the edge of the park by the crossing.
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