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Bromleag the Newsletter of Bromley Borough Local History Society June 2008 Bromleag The newsletter of Bromley Borough Local History Society June 2008 In this issue Ripping up a storm in ‘58 Last post for Bromley landmark Destruction in the heart of Beckenham Bromleag The newsletter of the Bromley Borough Local History Society Society officers Chairman and Membership Secretary Tony Allnutt Woodside, Old Perry Street, Chislehurst, BR7 6PP 020 8467 3842 [email protected] Secretary Patricia Knowlden 62 Harvest Bank Road, West Wickham, BR4 9DJ 020 8462 5002 Treasurer Brian Reynolds 2 The Limes, Oakley Road, Bromley, BR2 8HH 020 8462 9526 [email protected].,uk Publications Peter Leigh 29 Woodland Way West Wickham BR4 9LR 0208 777 9244 [email protected] Publicity and website Max Batten 5 South view Bromley BR13DR 020 8460 1284 [email protected] BBLHS website http://bblhs.website.orange.co.uk/ Bromleag is published four times a year. The editor welcomes articles along with illustrations and photographs. These can be in paper copy, disk or e-mailed. Items remain the copyright of the authors and do not necessarily reflect Society views. Each contributor is responsible for the content of their article. Articles may be edited to meet the constraints of the newsletter. Articles are not always used immediately as we try to maintain a balance between research, reminiscences and news and features about different subjects and parts of the borough. Editor Christine Hellicar 150 Worlds End Lane, Chelsfield, Kent BR6 6AS 01689 857214 [email protected] Next newsletter deadline — 15 January 2008 2 Bromleag December 2008 News Contents A little help from the taxman with Gift Aid News P 3 — 5 With this issue comes the Society meetings subscription renewal form and I think Members’ evening you will agree that our rates — printed P 6 — 7 on the back of the magazine — are very reasonable as we have managed Mottingham village to keep them unchanged for several P7— 9 years. Letters P 10 — 11 Since the year 2000 we have enjoyed claiming back from the Inland Revenue Book reviews 28p for every £1 paid by the many Beckenham Green members who have signed the 'gift aid' P14 — 16 forms. This year our bank account has Features benefited by nearly £600.00, which oils Bromley Post Office the wheels of your society quite a bit. P12 — 13 For anyone who has not signed the Gift The Great Storm of 1958 Aid Declaration, and is paying the Inland Revenue more tax than their P17 — 23 subscription, could we please ask you to Chislehurst Caves sign the declaration when you pay your P24 — 28 subs this year. As they say "Every little bit helps" And it Index costs YOU NOTHING. 2005 — 2008 Brian Reynolds, Treasurer P29 — 31 Keeping in touch We are aware that many members now have email addresses and we would like to include them on our membership database . If you have an email address, please add the details to your subscription renewal form. Email will not replace our usual postal forms of communication. 3 Bromleag December 2008 News BBLHS plans new publications After a break of some years we have decided to expand our publications output in a range of different ways. Our first new publication will be supporting Bromley Local Studies Library in the producing a history of Cockmannings House, Orpington, which Simon Finch at the library is working on with the house’s current owner Marie Reeves. We hope in future to work closely with the library on joint projects allowing researchers to publish small booklets on very specialised topics. But, we also intend developing a series of books bringing together articles on specific topics. In the past our series on Industry in Bromley and Bromley at the turn of the century have proved very successful so our new publications will also be theme based. Our existing publications are now on sale on CD and this too has been successful and our new range of publications will be produced both in print and on CD. Are you interested in transport history? Our first publication will focus on transport history. We will be drawing on some of the substantial articles published in Bromleag in the past, but will also include new material. We know – from our recent questionnaire – that this is a subject that many members are interested in and some are already carrying out research. If you have an interest in air, rail, road, horse or any other form of transport, and would like to contribute to any new publication, please get in touch initially with Christine Hellicar 01689 857214 or [email protected]. The project is at an early stage so no need to put pen to paper at present. But, we really would like to know who might be able to contribute later on, either finished articles or research notes. We will have a publication editor who will be happy to give any help to authors who might feel reticent about turning their research into an article. Now is your chance to share your knowledge and help us move into an exciting new era of local history publications for Bromley. 4 Bromleag December 2008 News Meetings and events January — April 2009 Meetings are held at 7.45 pm on the first Tuesday of the month, from September to July, in the Methodist Church Hall, North Street, Bromley. The hall has free off-street parking, good public transport links and facilities for the disabled. Non-members are welcome at the society’s meetings for a nominal charge of £1. 6 January The History of Bethlem — Caroline Smith 3 February How to research the history of your local area — Michael Rawcliffe 3 March A journey from Blanford the Hayes: the lives and times of William Pitt and his son, Pitt the Younger — Anne Manning Bromley Library Exhibition An exhibition celebrating the 300th anniversary, this year, of the birth of Pitt the Elder and the 250th anniversary, next year, of Pitt the Younger will be in Bromley Libraries next spring. The Library is also publishing a book by Anne Manning entitled The Journey from Blanford to Hayes, in January. Darwin celebrations Bromley Council’s Heritage and Urban Design team are planning a series of events during 2008 to celebrate the birth of Charles Darwin, we will have details in the March 2008 issue but also look for announcements in the local press. New BBLHS website address Max Batten, has added several new features to our website, which now has a new address so do take a look and make a note of the new address. http://bblhs.website.orange.co.uk/ 5 Bromleag December 2008 Society meeting Licences, postcards, war time evacuation and a long gone house I am sure that some of you looked at the programme for our September meeting and thought a ‘members evening, I’ll give that a miss and watch television.’ You missed a very good evening. There were five tables with presenters covering a wide range of subjects. Our vice chairman, Mike Rawcliffe, brought along a wide variety of post cards showing local scenes of the Bromley area. He explained the difference of purpose over the decades, from advertising the locality to eventually holidaymakers communicating with their relatives and showing what a lovely place Bromley was. The quality and the number of different scenes captured on the cards was amazing. On the second table David Johnson made a plea for anyone who had memories of wartime evacuation to contact him. David himself had been evacuated during the early part of the war and he is compiling stories of other evacuees for a future publication. Patricia Knowlden had a very varied selection of receipts dating from 1909, mainly from the Penge area. She also had a house contents valuation, which was extremely interesting in its detail and the value of things. The fourth participant was Len Smith who gave a presentation on Rookery House, which, alas, is no longer on Bromley Common having been demolished when Bromley College of Further Education was built. His main emphasis was on the library, which housed some very valuable books. So much so that during the war, when the Rookery was taken over by the air force, a false wall was constructed to hide them. As some of you will know, after the war there was a disastrous fire, which gutted the centre of the house, and many of the books were destroyed. His display brought the old house to life again. He went on to show how dangerous Bromley Common was in the past, a rather desolate place and a good hunting ground for highwaymen. He related an interesting story about one ‘Gentleman of the Road’, who after a hold up passed through the tollgate at Pratts Bottom, which was reported to the police. He then apparently turned around and came back hoping the police would think he had gone on to Croydon. A highwayman was later caught and 6 Bromleag December 2008 Society meeting hanged in Bromley and Len wondered if this was the same man? For the fifth table our chairman, Tony Allnutt, brought along several Licences and explained that we may not be aware what many activities require, or did require a licence. The variety on show was extensive and in some cases nostalgic. A very entertaining evening, which I am glad I didn’t miss. Brian Reynolds Discovering the history of Mottingham Sitting astride Bromley and Greenwich and divided by the busy A20 it is easy to pass through Mottingham without realising that it, like other parts of the borough, has its own rich history.
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