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Bromleag the Newsletter of the Bromley Borough Local History Society Bromleag The newsletter of the Bromley Borough Local History Society June 2003 Farewell to Bromley Hospital P6/7 Orpington Priory in Society joins the middle ages P8/9 the web P11 Bromley Borough Local History Society Registered Charity No 273963 About the Society Contents Bromley Borough Local History Society was formed in 1974 so that anyone June 2003 with an interest in any part of the borough could meet to exchange information and learn more about Bromley’s history. News: Local studies History is continually being made and at the same time destroyed, buildings and museum P3 are altered or demolished, memories fade and people pass away, records get destroyed or thrown in the bin. We aim, in co-operation with the local history library, museums and other relevant organisations, to make sure at least School Logbooks P4 some of this history is preserved for future generations. We hold regular meetings and produce a newsletter and occasional AGM report P5 publications where members can publish their research. Chairman and Membership Secretary Feature: Dr Anthony Allnut Bromley Hospital Woodside, Old Perry Street, Chislehurst, BR7 6PP 020 8467 3820 memorial boards [email protected] and history P6/7 Secretary Feature: Mrs Patricia Knowlden 62 Harvest Bank Road, West Wickham, BR4 9DJ Medieval records of 020 8462 5002 Orpington Priory P8/9 Bromleag Feature: This newsletter is published four times a year. The editor welcomes articles of Hanly Blyton P10 between 100 and 1,000 words, along with illustrations and photographs. These can be in paper copy, disk or e-mailed. Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope if you wish material to be News: Website returned. Items remain the copyright of the authors and do not necessarily Victorian picnic P11 reflect Society views. Each contributor is responsible for the content of their article. Reminiscences: Articles are not always used immediately as we try to maintain a balance Chislehurst P12 between research, reminiscences and articles about different subjects and parts of the borough. Editor Feature: Christine Hellicar Lord Auckland P13 150 Worlds End Lane, Chelsfield, Kent BR6 6AS 01689 857214 News: ODAS P14 Email chrisandpathellicar @talk21.com Research Queries P15 Croydon Subscription Rates Local History P15 Yearly subscription from 1 January Individual £8.50; couple £10. Senior citizens pay a re- All copy for the September duced rate of £6 per person or £8 for a couple. edition of Bromleag must Members joining after 30 June pay half rates. reach the editor by Monday 18 August. 2 Bromleag June 2003 News Tapping into post-war memories L ocal history month in Bromley focused on the post Paying the bills in Petts Wood World War II history of the borough. Local studies librarian Simon Finch set up 15 reminiscence sessions A successful pilot, carried out earlier in the year in in all the borough’s libraries, throughout May, on the Petts Wood, helped the library staff to select the theme “What did you do after the war”. questions for the reminiscence sessions. But it also He wants to build up an archive of material on the showed how differently east and west Petts Wood, crucial years 1945 – 1960 when major social changes either side of the railway, were viewed by the local had a big impact on the communities of Bromley. Older shopkeepers. residents were invited to initial sessions in the libraries East has always been the ‘posh’ side of the tracks so and then several were asked to make longer recordings Simon was surprised to find one anecdote that recurred that will be kept as part of the local studies archives. several times. Shopkeepers always insisted that people There were set questions for people to answer, such in the east paid their bills straight away whereas on the as when did you get your first car or your first TV ,which west side they could pay on deliver. Clearly those in the will build up a pattern of how life changed after the war. east had been able to afford the more expensive But Simon is also looking for reminiscences that show houses because they were a bit more canny with their the distinctive character of an area. money! Do you have memories to share? If readers want to contribute to the recordings it is not be too late. A second set of reminiscence sessions will be held later in the summer. Contact Simon Finch at Bromley local studies library on 0208 461 7170. Local history at the Mottingham festival New curator for museum Adrian Green has been appointed undergraduate degree in Mottingham – a community as the new curator of Bromley archaeology from UCL and an MA in that straddles the A20 and is Museum at the Priory in Orpington. Museum Studies from Leicester partly in Bromley and partly in Adrian formerly worked at the University. Greenwich - is holding its bi- annual festival from 21 – 29 Museum of London where he was Adrian has only been in Bromley a June on the theme Travel an assistant curator in the short time, but already he has plans through the ages. Department of Early London History for the development of the Museum Events include: and Collections. In the four and a Service. He says: “In the short-term I John Kennett giving an half years that he was there he was aim to develop an exciting and illustrated talk Looking at closely involved with the vigorous exhibition and events development of the new London Mottingham and its programme. before London prehistory gallery history at 10am in Dorset that opened last October. He also “The Museum contains hundreds Road Infants School on successfully started the Museum’s of exciting objects in storage, many Wednesday 25 June. National Archaeology Days events of which have never been on An historical walk around and undertook other exhibition display. The Priory is also located in Mottingham. work, including projects with surroundings that are ideal for large The Eltham Society will be community groups. summer events. In the long term I staging their Eltham aim to extend the Museum service, Palace display at the Prior to that Adrian was a curator perhaps with other branches in the of archaeology at Peterborough library on Saturday 21 Bromley area.” Museum where he organised, June. amongst other things, a successful Adrian lives in North London with Details and tickets can be exhibition and series of events on his wife, Becky, and his new baby obtained nearer the time from the Romans. He has an son, Thomas. Mottingham Library on 020 8857 5406. June 2003 Bromleag 3 Home again for Society meeting Holwood One of the borough’s most important buildings, the Grade I School days revealed listed Holwood House in Keston, is to become a family home once more. Built in 1825, in the Grecian D r Ron Cox revealed some of the happy, and not so happy, schooldays of style to designs by Decimus Burton, 19th and 20th century schoolchildren in his fascinating and entertaining talk the property, which was the home of The Happiest Days? – life as seen through school logbooks, which he gave Lord Derby up to the 1940s, has at the AGM meeting in April. been in business use for many Ron, who was a teacher, has drawn his material from some West years as offices for Seismograph. Wickham school logbooks but mainly from 687 Croydon logbooks six of which have continuous runs from 1867 or earlier. Books that he was personally responsible for rescuing from school cupboards, and even school boiler rooms, when he went to work for the borough’s Department of Education in the 1970s. The material, much of which was on the verge of being lost forever, is now in the Croydon archives. Part of the delight of the entries in the logbooks is what they leave to the imagination. In the 1890s in Fanny Plant’s school, The National School in West Wickham, - which was attended by Ron’s mother - the assistants, who only ever lasted about two years, included Miss Ward, who was: “impertinent and refused to take the infants” and Miss Mason whose Holwood at the turn of the 19th century “conduct out of school has been very unsatisfactory.” While Miss Barratt: “finds the village too dull for her to think of spending the winter here.” Miss Plant was equally uncomplimentary about her pupils: “In one class Bromley Council planners say , in there are a number of dunces. There are several dull children who seem to their newsletter Rabbit, that a me that no amount of instruction will do them any good.” carefully considered conversion of His anecdotes revealed not only some heads whose attitudes and the mansion will be carried out comments would be viewed today as ‘politically incorrect’ but also that, which will allow a number of whether it was the late 19th century or the 20th century, good teachers and previously lost original features to head-teachers make for good schools. be reinstated including the double height salon. Addington Village School blossomed in 1886 under the headship of John Venables, “progress remarkable”, “highly satisfactory” peppered the HMI There will also be a new housing report. But when Mr Venables moved on the subsequent report said: “the development on the estate and the school has lost an excellent master since my last visit and has had to learn way is now open for the proper the ways and wishes of a new one…” management of the wider estate including the scheduled ancient In all schools, and at all times, some children were, of course, naughty . monument, Caesar’s Fort. Their crimes included throwing manure at one of the infants, writing dirty words in the lavatories, forging absence notes and, one of those comments that leaves you guessing, “deliberately causing confusion on a school Take-off for outing.” From 1852 head-teachers were required to keep a daily log.
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