Bromley

Here is a link to all of the objects from Bromley 

With 59 square miles within its boundaries, Bromley is the largest of all the London boroughs. It is situated to the southeast of London and was formed in 1965 from the former districts of Beckenham and Bromley, Orpington and Penge plus part of Chislehurst and Sidcup. It stretches from Penge southwards to the ridge of the North Downs.

Population change

1966: 301,680 people
1998: 297,600 people

The areas that make up Bromley largely developed as Victorian railway suburbs. Until the 19th century the land was mostly open countryside, woods and hills. Much of the countryside in the southeast of the borough is still open land, and more than 35 square miles are now protected as part of London’s Green Belt. There are many 1920s and 30s housing estates, including the large Mottingham estate, a London County Council ‘out county’ cottage estate.

Some of the better-known historic attractions in the borough of Bromley are Down House, the former home of Charles Darwin, and Crystal Palace Park. Crystal Palace was the large glass structure built for the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was dismantled from its original site in Hyde Park and rebuilt in Penge as the centrepiece of a sort of theme park. The palace and surrounding parkland attracted many visitors until a large fire destroyed it in 1936. Some remains can be seen in the park, which is still open to the public.

Crystal Palace Park includes the National Sports Centre, built in the 1960s as Britain’s flagship sports centre. By the end of the 20th century Bromley’s sporting facilities included two dry ski slopes, two Olympic-standard athletic tracks and an Olympic-standard swimming pool. Other 20th-century developments in Bromley include Biggin Hill aerodrome, built in the early 1930s, and the main aerodrome for R.A.F. fighter pilots during the Battle of Britain.

Places in Bromley:

Local government wards: Bickley, Biggin Hill, Bromley Common and Keston, Bromley Town, Chelsfield and Pratts Bottom, Chislehurst, Clock House, Copers Cope, Cray Valley East, Cray Valley West, Crystal Palace, Darwin, Farnborough and Crofton, Hayes and Coney Hall, Kelsey and Eden Park, Mottingham and Chislehurst North, Orpington, Penge and Cator, Petts Wood and Knoll, Plaistow and Sundridge, Shortlands and West Wickham.

Railway stations: Beckenham Junction, Bickley, Birkbeck, Bromley South, Bromley North, Chelsfield, Clock House, Crystal Palace, Eden Park, Elmers End, Grove Park, Hayes, Kent House Station, Knockholt, New Beckenham, Orpington, Penge East, Penge West, Petts Wood, Ravensbourne, St Mary Cray, Sanderstead and West Wickham.