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Category Archives: Historic_Buildings
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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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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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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