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Category Archives: High St North
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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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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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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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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High Street No. 232, former Grete House lodge
This is one of a pair of early 18th century lodges at the entrance to the driveway to the Grete House, a Tudor mansion and its lands. Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Grinstead, Grete House, High Street (North)
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High Street No. 206 Diners Inn formerly George Weeks ironmongery
The Diner Inn occupies George Weeks’ 1890s extension to his original shop next door. Its grand Arts & Crafts, Dutch influenced architecture, displays both his personal success and civic pride. Continue reading
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High Street No. 181 Hunters Jewellers – Victorian Shop front
Hunters the Practical Jewellers has the finest surviving Victorian Shopfront in Bromley. Continue reading
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High Street No. 179-183 William Hill formerly Martins Bank – Heritage Building
Designed by the Arts and Crafts architect Ernest Newton (see our page here). The Martins Bank website provides some more pictures of the interior of the building, with an interesting note on the occasion: “For our Bromley Branch features, we … Continue reading
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High Street No. 242, Picture House Cinema – Heritage Buildings
Opened on the 21st December 1936, it is one of Odeon’s original “Oscar Deutsch Odeon” cinemas, in Art Deco style, by George Coles. It seated 1,492 in the main auditorium; with 1,018 in the stalls and 474 in the circle. … Continue reading
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