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Newsletter – January 2015
Newsletter – January 2015 Introduction Hello All, You are receiving this newsletter because you have shown an interest or exchanged correspondence with the Orpington History Organisation in the past. If you do not wish to receive any further newsletters then please reply and we will take your contact information off the distribution list. Phil’s Update: A New Year has begun. I trust you and your families have had a great festive break and are looking forward to 2015 as much as we all are. Above and beyond all, the Orpington History Organisation or ‘OHO’ as we are being referred to more and more has had a very positive year. We are in a strange but not unwelcomed situation where if we want to take things to the next level in our activities we need more help and assistance. We have had people come forward this year, which is great, but need more. We need volunteers to come forward to get involved in the following: Document and Image Scanning; Guidance on approach and control methods regarding cataloguing historic items; Assistance with drafting and editing sections or the entire quarterly newsletter; Monitoring and responding to emails (enquiries and requests) that come to the OHO; Event coordination. The OHO is not run or governed by committee (it may well be sometime in the future) but for now is led by me and I am supported by a team of about 20 regular dedicated volunteers. We have never made a bad decision and have always agreed. Finance control is quite simple. Any donations made and any profits from my book ‘Around Orpington Through Time’ are added to a bank account that is used to pay for expenses and materials. -
Vol. 115 2012 Vol
Vol. 115 2012 Vol. 115 2012 Olavian Editor: David Craig Old Olavian Editor: John Brown Assistant Editor: Peter Leigh Design: William Dalton 450 Years The modern school hall Front Cover: Opening of the Orpington school, 1968 Contents Contents 3 Headmaster’s Introduction 4 Editor’s Notes 5 School Notes 6 Staff 2012 12 Creative Work 19 Prize Day 30 Sixth Form News 39 Leavers 2012 44 Clubs and Societies 49 Maths & ICT 57 Science 63 English & Drama 71 The Library 79 Music 81 Modern Foreign Languages 87 Humanities 97 Sports 111 Art & Design Technology 119 450th Anniversary Supplement 127 Old Olavian 139 From the Headmaster he theme of my second year as Headmaster of St Olave’s Grammar School was dominated by theT celebrations to commemorate 450 years as one of England’s oldest schools. Our tributes to Henry Leeke, Queen Elizabeth I and other founders included a fine performance of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the formation of the 450 Parent Choir, a splendid Easter Anniversary Concert, the special Commemoration Service in Southwark Cathedral, and culminated with the fascinating exhibition, including Dr Carrington’s canes which stirred a few memories! The year also concluded with the best public examination results in the school’s history at A level, AS level and GCSE, and a running total of nearly 90 Oxbridge successes over the last 3 years. It was pleasing, if not surprising, that we were ranked as the country’s No. 1 State school with mixed 6th Form at Advanced level, and the 2nd best Boys’ school at GCSE, by The Times and The Telegraph newspaper league tables. -
Kent Portrait Survey the Society Is Looking for Someone Who Will Take on the Buildings (Commonly Shown in the Background)
THE NEWSLETTER OF THE LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY FOR THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY Vol 7 No 4 May 1984 PRICE 10p Free to Members Kent Portrait Survey The Society is looking for someone who will take on the buildings (commonly shown in the background). The work of local portrait recorder. Since 1967 members of national collections are all thoroughly catalogued but there other local history societies throughout Kent have underta is known to be a vastly greater number of portraits in pri ken the surveying and recording of publicly and privately vate possession. Recording is not restricted to “important” owned portraits for the Archive and Research Section of people or “important” artists; neither is artistic merit or the National Portrait Gallery. This survey is carried out value, or any concern. The Survey regards all portraits as under the auspices of the Kent County Local History Com equally important and valuable. mittee (of which this Society if a member). To date 2,800 The work involved is the locating of portraits in private rtraits have been recorded. possession, and the completion of a simple form in respect — The National Portrait Gallery have said how useful the of each one, and the attachment of a gummed label, bear Kent Committee’s contribution to its resources has been. ing a date and serial number, to the back of the frame. Portraits are a valuable source of material for historical and If any member is willing to undertake this task, he or she biographical research giving not only information about is asked to contact the Secretary. -
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March 2020 No 386 Our Next Meeting Tuesday 3rd March Dr Vanessa Jenkins The Pharmacy from the Amazonian Rain Forest Vanessa is a doctor, medical adviser and lecturer who has travelled widely and brings us insights following a visit to the Amazon Also a TRAIDCRAFT STALL 7.30pm The Friends Meeting House, Ravensbourne Road, Bromley Everyone welcome In this issue: Diary Dates 2 GCBB Event 8 Copy Date 3 Corrected Accounts 2019 9 February Meeting Report 3 Planning Meeting Notes 10 Fairtrade Fortnight 5 Campaigns 10 Miller’s Mutterings 5 E-Facts 16 Salad Crop Shortages 6 Green Supplies 17 Brief Story of a Tree 7 Your Newsletter 18 List of Roles 19 www.bromleyfoe.co.uk NEWSLETTER Diary Dates 24th Feb - 8th Mar Fairtrade Fortnight 27th Feb (Thursday) Friends of Jubilee Park. Ashley Leiman, who founded the Orangutan Foundation in 1990, will speak about orangutans and the work of the foundation. 2pm Garden Room, St. Augustine’s Church, Southborough Lane, Brom- ley BR2 8AT. Refreshments available. Entry is free but a donation of £3 would be welcomed 3rd Mar (Tuesday) Bromley FoE’s monthly meeting 7.30pm Dr Vanessa Jenkins - The Pharmacy from the Amazonian Rain Forest. Vanessa is a doctor, medical advis- er and lecturer who has travelled widely and brings us insights following a visit to the Amazon. Also TRAIDCRAFT STALL 11th Mar (Wednesday) Bromley RSPB Talk 7pm Bromley United Reformed Church (Verrall Hall), 20 Widmore Road, Bromley BR1 1RY. In 2016 the RSPB's Laurence Rose journeyed from the Mediterranean to Arctic Scandinavia, keeping pace with spring's arrival and the two billion birds that migrate north. -
Shortlands House and Estate 14Th – 21St Century K. M. Baldwin
Shortlands House and Estate 14th – 21st Century K. M. Baldwin Introduction There is a general acceptance that Shortlands House, as it became known, was built about 1702 (Len Hevey). There is also speculation that it had its beginnings as a roadside refreshment house. However, like Mr Robinson, then headmaster of Bishop Challoner School, I can find no corroborative evidence for this idea (Bromleage Dec 1995). Given its proximity to Bromley Town and Beckenham village it seems unlikely. In earlier times this area of Beckenham parish was known as Clay Hill, presumably because it is an outcrop of London Clay. Clay Hill appears to cover the area from Chancery Lane, Beckenham as far as Shortlands House, present day Bromley Road. The individual properties do not appear to have been named or numbered until the early 19th century and the name Shortlands House is first seen in Greenwoods Epitome of County History of 1838. In 14th and 15th centuries legal documents relating to land called “Walcy” in Beckenham have been found. An early estate map of 1723 appears to show a property on the site of Shortlands House, which at this time seems to have been known as “Woolsey Farm”. The landowner was Peter Burrell (1692-1756) of nearby Kelsey Park who owned a lot of land locally, though not all in the same locale (more on this later). This map probably relates to his marriage settlement in respect of Amy Raymond, daughter of Hugh Raymond of Saling Hall, Essex. They married at St Mary Somerset, London on 14th March 1722. Peter Burrell Esq (an ancestor of the later owners) purchased Kelsey Manor in 1688 from Sir John Brograve II (1664-1691), great grandson of Sir John Brograve I.