HISTORIC BUILDINGS
OLD PHOTOS
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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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2020 Online ‘Easter’ Hunt!
Do the 2020 Bromley Civic Society Website Easter Egg Hunt! Continue reading
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Simpsons Moat
Simpsons Moat, or Palace, was a moated, crenellated manor house at the bottom of Ringers Road. Most of the building had been of Tudor age, dominated by a large chimney. Henry VIII was reputed to have visited. It was later … Continue reading
Answers to online Family Heritage Treasure Trail
Answers to online edition: Charles Darwin The author H.G. Wells The Old Town Pump Drapers shop (sold cloth by the yard) 1888 (the year Covell & Harris ‘s shop) 1866 (HG Wells was born) ‘Old English’ Arts and Crafts style, … Continue reading
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Family Heritage Treasure Trail
Bromley Civic society has produced a family treasure hunt in the town centre! It’s reported that even adults enjoy it – you might find that there’s more to see above the shops than you had previously noticed. Both routes are … Continue reading
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The Old Bromley Oak
This veteran oak tree (Quercus robur) was reprieved, when the Glades was being built, and still proudly stands at the side of Kentish Way. Originally it grew on the corner of the grounds of the house “Bromley Lodge” and Love … Continue reading
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Ice-well and Summer-house and Boat-store.
The ice-house features on our Bromley Town Centre Parks trail, as stop 5, here. This elegant Arts & Crafts porch was the Victorian ‘pimping-up’ of the existing, and functioning, ice-well. Before there were refrigerators, there was still a fashion for … Continue reading
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Bromley Palace Park – St Blaise’s Well.
See also the entry for The Bromley Town Centre Park Trail, for the well, here. St Blaise’s well was rediscovered in 1754 (by the Bishop’s domestic chaplain, a Rev Mr Hardwick); a worker showed him a spring, seeping into the … Continue reading
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The Lord of the Manor’s Folly
The Lord of the Manor’s Folly Continue reading
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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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