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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: Local History
Number 8 South Street – HG Wells Dame school
No. 8 South Street is where Mrs Knotts dame school was attended by a young H.G. Wells between 1871 and 1874. In his autobiography, he describes it as “off with my brother Freddy (who was on no account to let … Continue reading
Posted in HG Wells locations, Local History, the Cage Field triangle streets, named after compass points
Tagged Heritage Buildings, HG Wells, LBB-Bromley-North-Trail, South Street
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College Slip, K2 Telephone Box & College Green Pocket Park – Heritage
College Slip is the passageway which follows the old college wall. In the latter part of the 19th century it was still a country lane leading to open fields. Continue reading
Posted in Green Space, High St North
Tagged Heritage Buildings, LBB-Bromley-North-Trail
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