HISTORIC BUILDINGS
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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...
Category Archives: Historic_Buildings
High Street No. 201-203 High Street (former Zodiac Toys) – Heritage Building Profile
This beautiful Art Deco building is thought to have been built in 1885, when it is recorded as the shop for H.J. Luker, a ‘Silk Mercer’. Unfortunately there is an application to turn this into a plain block of flats … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Deco, Heritage Buildings, High Street (North)
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The Curious Case of The Table
In May we were contacted by a friend-of-a-friend in the South of France, about a rather stylish antique table. When they bought it, and got it home, they found a note inside:
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Tagged H.G. Wells
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High Street No. 135 Fox House and the Olde Sweet Shoppe – Heritage Building
Fox House is a lovely 1890s building in the terrace just below Market Square. This building is fancifully decorated, with a gable end and a dome on the roof, though it is not visible when standing in front of the … Continue reading
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East Street No. 41, former Southern Suburban Co-operative Society
Though this striking Arts & Crafts building is now several shops, originally it was a large Co-Op store, with a meeting hall above, built in 1888. Bromley Little Theatre is housed in two linked buildings at the back – they … Continue reading
Posted in Arts And Crafts, the Cage Field triangle streets, named after compass points
Tagged Arts And Crafts Movement, Bromley Little Theatre, East Street, Heritage Buildings, Southern Suburban Co-operative Society
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North St: The National School or The Parish School on North Street – Lost Heritage
The Parish school, then known as the National School, was built on the corner of North Street and College Road, in 1854. The building was especially designed for it, by the eminent architect James Piers St Aubyn, who also designed … Continue reading
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Widmore Road Demolished – Homeopathy Hospital
Homeopathy was a popular treatment in Bromley, starting in 1865 when part of the White Hart Inn was opened as a homeopathic dispensary, and when it outgrew this accommodation, Bromley’s first homeopathic hospital opened in 1889 at 19 Widmore Road. … Continue reading
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High Street No. 111 – Heritage Building
Number 111 is Tweed cottage. This modest 2-storey building marked the southern most end of the High street until the railway came, in 1858. Since then, this Georgian building has been Barclays Bank, before becoming Tiger shop, selling arts and … 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
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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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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Tagged palace-park, Self-Guided Heritage Walk, St Blaises Well, town-centre-park-trail
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