Bromley Borough Local History Society
Registered Charity
No. 273 963
Bromley Borough Local History Society
Local History Booklet Collection
After its foundation in 1974, the Society undertook to publish a series of articles often around a central theme which were then collected into small booklets, ten in all, which were published between 1976 and 2000.
The books enjoyed considerable success and copies can still be found for sale, at inflated prices, on the internet. In 2001 a CD was issued containing all the booklets which were specially scanned for the purpose. But after more than twenty years since the last of this series of publications was issued in paper-back form, and with the change in technology which have occurred since, it has been decided to make these booklets available on the BBLHS website using the original CD scanned files.
The booklets and articles which you can download and study are as they were written and printed at the time. Nevertheless, they remain as relevant and informative as when they first appeared and can now be enjoyed by a wider audience. We hope you will find them of great interest. They are searchable using Control or Command F.
1. The Holwood Estate, Keston - M.C. Watts
2. The Lady Margaret Hospital, Bromley - Mrs. M.K Batten & H.J.O. Marshall
3. The history of transport in Bromley and District - Charles F. Klapper FCIT, FRGS
4. Problems in the Cray and Ravensbourne Valleys 1830 - Miss M. Hughes BA
5. William Farr MD, FRS, DCL, CB - Miss G.C. Sinclair
6. The house that was on Camden Close, Chislehurst and its people - Mrs. E. Myatt
7. Sources of information - A.H. Watkins
1. Village into suburb - Patricia Knowlden
2. Reminiscences of J.R. Pocock 1834-1909
3. The Norman family of Bromley Common - J.L Filmer
4. Roman coins of Roman Bromley - Gordon Wright
5. William Baxter: Bromley antiquary - A.H. Watkins
6. The Sandersons of Bullers Wood - Susan P. Bunnett
7. St. Mary Cray and the Anti-Corn Law League - Miss M.H. Hughes
1. John Till of Hayes - Mrs. Hester Wells
2. The School of Science and Art - Miss M.H. Hughes
3. The story of Farnborugh Hospital - Fred Whyler
4. The genisis of Horsburgh's "Bromley Kent" - A.H. Watkins
5. The Roman occupation of West Wickham - Gordon Wright
6. Bromley College pillars - Rev. F.J. McBride
7. The growth of shops in Beckenham 1885-1915 - G. Collins
8. The Old Anchor and Hope inn, Orpington - John Edwards
9. The James Frazer Tent of the Independent Orderof Rechabites - Frank Scott
1. The Parish Chest and its contents, with particular reference to local churches - Muriel Hughes
2, Sundridge Park, Bromley and the history of the Scott family who lived there - J.L. Filmer
3. The British Red Cross in the Bromley area 1910-1919 - Joyce Walker
4. A history of Orpington hospital - F.J. Whyler
5. Anglo-Saxon charters of Bromley, Kent - M.C. Watts
6. James Scott, the famous surgeon of Bromley - A.H. Watkins
7. Bromley Fire Brigade 1867-1904 - D.E. Edwards
8. The windmills of Keston - M.C. Watts
9. The emancipation of West Wickham 862-1928 - Patricia Knowlden
1. Memories of Bromley 1897-1916 - Mrs. K.E. Payne
2. By rail to Biggin Hill: a railway that never was - John Edwards
3. "Bromley gets switched on": a history of electricity in Bromley - L.J. Downes
4. Very early West Wickham - Harry Walden
5. The Bromley Palace and Coles Child, Lord of the Manor of Bromley 1846-1873 - J.L. Filmer
6. Trustees fo the New Cross Turnpike Trust 1718-1830 - Patricia Knowlden
1. The Southern Heights Light Railway - John Edwards
2. Viola House School - Patricial Knowlden
3. St. Luke's Church, Bromley Common - H.E.M. Icely
4. "An old farming family": Hook Farm, Bromley and the Westbrooks in the C18th - Jennifer Scherr
5. West Wickham and the First World War - Joyce Walker
6. Bromley and the Bishops of Rochester in the Stuart period - Vera Gotts
1. St. Mary Cray 1885 - Christine Hellicar
2. Downe in the 1880s - Very Gotts
3. Farnborough-Green St. Green-Locks Bottom - Fred Whyler
4. Orpington 100 years ago - John Edwards
5. Hayes 100 years ago - Jean Wilson
6. Beckenham in 1885 - Doris E. Pullen
7. A year in the life of West Wickham - Joyce Walker
8. Keston - J.L. Filmer
9. "All that part of the parish of Cudham" - Patricia Knowlden
10. Chislehurst 1885 - A.J. Allnutt
1. Bromley Town - Patricia Knowlden
2. How the town was run - Alex Freeman
3. Transport: from carts to buses - John Edwards
4. New Bromley - Brenda Innes
5. Matters of health - Joyce Walker
6. Growing outskirts
7. Record and Journal - Doris E. Pullen
8. Church and Chapel - Elaine Baker and Margaret Arnold
9. Bromley Common, the parish of Holy Trinity - John L. Filmer
10. Changes in education - Jean Wilson
11. Plaistow and the Endowment Lands - Geoffrey L. Eames
12. Leisure activities in Bromley 1888 - Anthony J. Allnutt
1. Percy Cox's Steam Bicycle - James C. Clarke
2. Thomas Graham Farish: Bromley Entrepreneur Extraordinary - Eric Inman
3. F. Medhurst Ltd. - Leslie Stevens
4. Alexander Muirhead, the boy who asked too many questions - Patricia Knowlden
5. Two early craftsmen - Jean Wilson
6. Western Motor Works in Perry Street - Peter Bacon
7. St. Mary Cray paper mills - Peter Heinecke
8. The Farnborough Aviation Works - John Edwards
9. The people who made Penge - Doris E. Pullen
10. "His motto was Stagnation": James Staat Forbes, London, Chatham & Dover Railway - Patricia Knowlden
11. Gustav Mellin, baby food manufacturer - Elaine Baker
12. Fox's Brewery at Green St. Green - Bill Morton
13. The Orpington Cat - John Edwards
1. Bromley Market Square and High Street in 1900 - Michael Rawcliffe
2. Beckenham: towards township - Doris Pullen
3. Chelsfield around the turn of the century - Geoffrey Copus
4. Chislehurst 1899-1900 - A.J. Alnutt
5. Cudham before Biggin Hill - Patricia Knowlden
6. Downe: a pleasant village still - Vera Gotts
7. Farnborough: continuity and change - Fred Whyler and Alan Robinson
8. Hayes in 1900 - Jean Wilson
9. Keston at the end of the Victorian era - J.L. Filmer and Ted Williams
10. Orpington around 100 years ago - John Edwards
11. Mottingham on the threshold of the 20th century - Winifred Parkinson
12. St. Paul's Cray: memories of the early 1900s - Sandra Vemau
13. Penge: the 20th century and a new beginning - David Johnson
14. St. Mary Cray 1900: the village that disappeared behind a retail park - Christine Hellicar
15. West Wickham: a diary of 1899-1901 - Joyce Walker