London Borough of Bromley Official Guide
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SALES SERVICE PARTS UNIPART MASONS HILL, BROMLEY, KENT 01-460 4693 & 1817 WICKHAM ROAD, BECKENHAM, KENT 01-650 7276 The Bromley Motor Works (Kent) Ltd* Authorised Dealer Masons Hill Bromley, Kent BR2 9HB Telephone : 01 -460 4693/181 7 VOLKSWAGEN A u ò i CHAPMAN ENVELOPES LIMITED GOOD Envelope Makers since 1898 Your Local VW - Audi Dealer Chapman House Farwig Lane Bromley Kent BRI 3QS Service & Parts Telephone: (01)-464 6566 Telex: 8951667 1 ANTIQUES WANTED Paintings a Speciality Grandfather Clocks Clocks Furniture Silver Ivories Old Gold Wtklty Jlanor Hotel Broken Jewellery THORNET WOOD ROAD, BICKLEY Bronzes Situated in the heart of the Garden of England, Bickley Manor, with its eight acres of delightful wooded grounds and gardens, offers all the amenities of modern living in the Individual items or peace and seclusion of an old English country mansion. Telephone: 01-467 3851 and 01-467 1461 complete homes Lunch a La Carte — International Menu purchased 7 Days a week, 12 noon to 3 p.m. Bar open to Non-Residents During Licensing Hours Top London prices paid DINNER & DANCE Distance no object Every FRIDAY & SATURDAY from 8 p.m. to 1.30 a.m. A La Carte Dinner by Candlelight 6.00 p.m.—12 midnight Wedding Receptions, 21 st Birthday Parties, Conferences & Private Parties from 20-150 people 01-658 6633 50 Bedrooms with bath and toilet - Honeymoon Suites ready now 1929 WHITE ROLLS-ROYCE OR EVENINGS AND SUNDAYS FOR YOUR USE - FREE OF CHARGE if you book your wedding now (Ask for details) 01-777 5042 SWIMMING — TENNIS Under the same Management The Gallipoli Restaurant Europe’s only Authentic Turkish Restaurant CURIO’S ANTIQUES BISHOPSGATE CHURCHYARD off Old Broad Street, London E.C.2 (Round the corner from Liverpool Street) Cabaret twice nightly at 10.30 p.m. and 1 a.m. 81 Upper Elmers End Road, Beckenham, Kent Telephone: 01-588 1922 and 1923 2 3 THE LONDON BOROUGH B R O M L E Y + OF DISTRICT BROMLEY ESTATE AGENTS ASSOCIATION Members of this Association adhere to a Code of Conduct framed to assure the public of professional standards of service. Assoc. Membership Cards displayed in Members' Offices David Baxter 76 High Street, West Wickham. [ 01-777 2381 278 High Street, Beckenham. 01 -068 3821 Linay & Shipp 168/170 High Street, Penge. 01 -469 1 638 338 High Street, Orpington. ORP 25678 Baxter Payne and Lepper Macey Branch & Law Ltd. 19 East Street, Bromley. 01-464 1181 3 Brittenden Parade, High Street, Farnborough Station Square, Petts Wood. ORP 20363 Green St. Green, Orpington Kent. 50136 2 Southend Road, Beckenham. 01 -650 3461 Alan de Maid & Co. 263 High Street, Orpington. ORP 23301 4 Belmont Parade, Green Lane, 134 Main Road, Biggin Hill. Biggin Hill 71181 Chislehurst, BR7 6AP. 01 -467 5606 C. A. Brightman and Co. 399/401 Crofton Road, Farnborough 80 Beckenham Lane, Shortlands. 01 -464 1171 Locks Bottom, BR6 8NL. 56811 Colin Gray and Co. 32 Station Square, Petts Wood. ORP 24312 375Crofton Road, Farnborough Farnborough 57878 44 East Street, Bromley. 01 -460 9255 3 High Street, Chislehurst. 01-467 2205 20I Southborough Lane, Bickley 01-467 6245 Colin Gray and Partners 3 High Street, Chistlehurst. 01-467 5681 Martin & Coppard OFFICIAL GUIDE John P. Dickins & Sons 187 Widmore Road, 40 East Street, Bromley, Bromley Kent. 01-464 7224 KentBRI 10U 01-464 7531 Mullock & Gower 1 High Street, West Wickham. 01-777 1145 161 High Street, Orpington ORP 25681 Dyer Son & Cressey Station Square, Petts Wood. ORP 23444 41 High Street, Chislehurst. 01-467 1184 John Pelling Associates 58 East Street, Bromley. 01-460 2217 41 East Street, Bromley. 01-464 0627 Published by authority of the Council Gilbert & Casewell George Proctor and Partners 252 High Street, Beckenham. 01-658 0262 Station Buildings, Southborough of the G oodw in H. T. H. Road, Bickley, BR1 1 LX 01-467 2252 13 The Drive, Orpington. ORP 20482 318 Pickhurst Lane, West Wickham. 01-460 7252 LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY Hicklin & Hicklin 102 High Street, Beckenham. 01 -650 3454 233/5 High Street, Beckenham. 01-650 0011 Bromley South Station Approach, ] Hornors High Street, Bromley, BR1 1 LX 01-464 9031 137 Croydon Road, 01-650 0011 Arthur Ray & Co. Beckenham 01-658 5831 Station Approach, Crofton Side, ORP 24305 Inniss & Co. Orpington, BR6 0SU ORP 21244 305 High Street, Orpington. ORP 21076 Eric Rogers Jollye & Wood 358 Crofton Road, Locks Bottom, Farnborough 4 The Broadway. Farnborough, BR6 8NN 50111 420 Croydon Road, Beckenham. 01-658 6062 Shefford, Sedgwick & Dacombe K irkaldie C. 198 High Street, Bromley, BR1 1 PY 01-460 9277 42 Plaistow Lane, Bromley. 01-460 3172 1 Beckenham Road, Stewart Kiltz & Co. West Wickham, BR4 0PX. 01-777 1081 100 High Street, West Wickham. 01-777 2281 57 Station Approach Hayes. 01-462 1161 W. Levens Fox & Sons Station Buildings, Bickley, Kent. 01-476 7555 Station Approach, Orpington. ORP 20152 Sleep & Taylor 67 Queensway, Petts Wood. ORP 36321 79 Station Road, Levens West Wickham BR4 0PX 01-777 6669 50 High Street, Beckenham. 01-650 8268 Veryard & Yates 1a High Street, Bromley. 01 -460 6066 24 High Street, Bromley 01-460 8731 2 East Street, Bromley. 01 -460 0147 Waring & Nicholson 55 Chislehurst Road, Chislehurst. 01-467 3028 22 Church Road, Bromley 01-460 0143 4 Station Buildings, Hayes. 01 -462 2246 Designed and Published by THE BRITISH PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED GLOUCESTER Copyright 4 5 Contents TOYOTA SEWING & KNITTING MACHINES 'HE BOROUGH ARMS 9 Elmers End & Eden Park 41 Farnborough MEMBERS OFTHE COUNCIL 61 AND WARDS 11 Green Street Green 61 Hayes & Keston 43 :ACTS AND FIGURES 13 Mottingham 49 )FFICERS OF THE COUNCIL 15 Orpington 59 Penge & Anerley 37 MEMBERS OF GREATER LONDON COUNCIL 19 Petts Wood 53 St. Mary Cray 55 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT 19 St. Paul’s Cray 55 NTRODUCING THE Shortlands . 31 BOROUGH 21 Sundridge Park & Elmstead Wood 45 v TOUR OF THE BOROUGH 27 West Wickham 41 Beckenham 31 Biggin Hill , 65 COUNCIL SERVICES 67 Bromley 27 INDUSTRYINTHE BOROUGH Bromley Common & Bickley 45 93 Chelsfield 61 GENERAL INFORMATION . 101 Chislehurst . 49 Crystal Palace 37 ADVERTISERS' INDEX 111 Cudham 63 TRANSPORT AND OUTLINE AISIN (UK) LÎIVIÎTED Downe 63 STREET MAPS facing 112 34 HIGH STREET . BROMLEY . KENT Telephone 01-460 8866 Continuous Demonstrations also Knitting Academy 7 THE SMALL HOTEL with the The Borough Arms BIG WELCOME! Dexter The right-hand side of a shield (on the left to JASMINE VILLA HOTEL the spectator) ★ NEAR the stations Sinister The left-hand side of a shield (on the right to ★ NEAR the buses the spectator) ★ NEAR shops and ALL AMENITIES ★ WITH Central Heating THE SYMBOLISM OF ELEMENTS IN ★ WITH Private car park THE ARMS ★ WITH NEW Sun Lounge/Diner The London Borough of Bromley ★ IN peaceful garden surroundings was formed under the London Govern ★ WE cater carefully for your comfort ment Act 1963, from the amalgama tion of the former Boroughs of Beckenham and Bromley and the Urban Districts of Orpington, Penge 60 HAYES ROAD, BROMLEY THE BLAZON (the full heraldic des and part of Chislehurst and Sidcup. Telephone: 01-460 6821 cription of the arms). The Arms of the new Borough, Vert a pierced Cinquefoil Argent within designed by the College of Arms, an orle of Acorns Or And for the Crest have three main features—the union On a Wreath of the Colours Two of the five local government areas; Swords in saltire Gules ensigned by links with the County of Kent; links an Escallop Or. with London. Learn to Drive the Right Way Supporters: On the dexter side a The cinquefoil in the centre of the AT AN R.A.C. REGISTERED SCHOOL Dragon and on the sinister side a shield is a heraldic device based on a Horse both Argent. five-petalled flower or leaf denoting (ESTABLISHED IN 1953) the unification of the five areas. The W ith Instructors who are R.A.C. Registered in addition Glossary of Heraldic Terms used in acorns refer to the Kentish oaks— the Blazon characteristic flora of the County— to D. of E., approved. All have vast experience in teaching and also represent the seed of the over many years. Vert Green newly created Borough. Argent Silver (¿g. In the crest the crossed swords The narrow border of a refer to London, and the escallop shell RAC shield charged upon the is from the Arms of the Dioceses of REGISTERfO field of a larger shield Rochester. MOTOR SCHOOL but detached from the The supporters are the famous CALL or PHONE edge White Horse of Kent on the one side, Or Gold and on the other a dragon, a heraldic Elwyn Reed School of Motoring Saltire In the form of a cross link with London and similiar to the from thefigure known supporters in the Arms of the City of B RO M LEY—01-460 2424; 1791 as St. Andrew's Cross London. W E S T W IC K H A M —01-777 3624 Gules Red ORPINGTON—28958 Ensigned Distinguished or orna THE MOTTO B E C K E N H A M —01-650 9292 mented The motto, Servire Populo, means Escallop The shell of a sea fish to serve the people. 8 9 The Borough Council 1978-82 The Council consists of 60 Councillors. The Councillors represent the 26 wards into which the borough is divided and are elected by the Burgesses (those whose names are entered on the register of electors).