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Save our Town Centre
from being dominated by tower blocks: Look here and email our ward councillors about:
* High rises in the Local Plan
* housing and a hotel on the civic centre (old palace)
and
* 16+ high rises from the draft Master Plan down the Lower High Street
* and there's others...
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The Lord of the Manor’s Folly
The Lord of the Manor’s Folly Continue reading
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Tagged C18 Folly, Palace Park, Pulham
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Queens Gardens and formerly White Hart Field
In 1897 the lord of the manor, Charles Cole-Childs, gave the field known as White Hart Field, to the people. This became Queens Gardens. Before the Glades was built it stretched between Market Square and the Bishops Palace (the Bishops … Continue reading
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Join BCS (and calling all existing members!)
If you care about Bromley and its heritage and green spaces, please support us by joining the Society. Membership per household is only £10 per year. Continue reading
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West Street No. 01 Former Electric Company – Heritage Buildings
This distinctive building on the corner of East Street and West Street is a good example of ‘Streaky Bacon’ style of the Arts and Crafts movement Continue reading
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Bromley South Station
The railway station of Bromley South. The original town rail station was at Shortlands.
High Street No. 217, 1700s house and former bookshop – Heritage Buildings
The tattooist (No. 217), and the next door shop, occupy an 18th century house, worthy of mention as it was the premises of two Bromley notable historians and printers, each producing from this shop an invaluable histories of Bromley – … Continue reading
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Tagged C18 Kent Vernacular, Heritage Buildings, High Street (North)
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High Street No. 232 – Heritage Building
This shop was the site of Morley’s Academy, which was on the upper floors, where the author HG Wells went to school, after he had graduated from the Dame school on south street. It was demolished in 1902 and replaced … Continue reading
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High Street 189-191 Former Cottages
The Funeral Directors , News Agents and dry cleaners shop occupy two 18th century cottages, part of a terrace originally of five. They are typical Kentish vernacular style with the characteristic double pitched roofs clad with Kentish clay peg tiles.
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Palace Park – 1732 Lead Cistern
This lead cistern says that it was installed by Bishop of Rochester, Joseph Wilcocks. He carried out renovations and improvements to the palace. Thanks to Bromley Borough Local History. The whereabouts of the cistern is not now know, it was … Continue reading
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High Street – Bromley Zoo Mural – Heritage Buildings
Bromley Zoo Mural by artist Bruce Williams, in 2001, was to lead shoppers from the Hill Car … unfortunately most of it has been lost Continue reading
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