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To order by post please contact:John Barnes Esq. Sandilands CrescentHayes, BR2 7DR

1. Aspects of the history of the community in the London Borough of Bromley, First Series.Contents:The Holwood Estate, Keston.The Lady Margaret Hospital, Bromley.The history of transport in Bromley & District.The Wells Family of Deptford and Bickley.Problems in the Cray & Ravensbourne Valleys 1830.William Farr, MD, FRS, DCL, CB.The house that was on Camden Close, Chislehurst.This is a re-print and sells for £2 plus 50p postage & packing.

2. Aspects of the history of the community in the London Borough of Bromley, Second Series.Contents:Village into Suburb.Reminiscences of J.R. Pocock, 1834-1909The Norman family of Bromley Common.Roman coins of Roman Bromley.William Baxter: Bromley Antiquary.The Sandersons of Bullers Wood.St. Mary Cray & The Anti-Corn Law League.This is a re-print and sells for £2 plus 50p postage & packing.

3. Aspects of the history of the community in the London Borough of Bromley, Third Series.Contents:John Till, Rector of Hayes, 1777-1827.The Bromley School of Science and Art.The Story of Farnborough Hospital.The Genesis of Horsburgh?s ?Bromley, Kent?.The Roman occupation of West Wickham.Bromley College Pillars.The growth of shops in Beckenham, 1885-1915.The old Anchor and Hope Inn, Orpington.The James Frazer Tent of the Independent Order of Rechabiles.Original printing and sells for £1 plus 50p postage & packing.

4. Aspects of the history of the community in the London Borough of Bromley, Fourth Series.Contents:The Parish Chest and Its Contents - with particular reference to the Chests of Local Churches.Sundridge Park, Bromley and the history of the Scott family who lived there.The British Red Cross in the Bromley Area 1910-1919The History of Bromley Hospital.Anglo-Saxon Charters of Bromley, Kent.James Scott, the famous Surgeon of Bromley.Bromley Fire brigade 1867-1904The Windmills of Keston.The Emancipation of West Wickham 862-1928 Original printing and sells for £1 plus 50p postage & packing.

5. Aspects of the history of the community in the London Borough of Bromley, Fifth Series.Contents: Memories of Bromley 1897-1916, Mrs. K.E. Payne.By Rail to Biggin Hill. A Railway that never was."Bromley Gets Switched On". A History of Electricity in Bromley.Very Early West Wickham.The Bromley Palace and Coles Child. Lord of the Manor of Bromley. 1846-1873Trustees of the New Cross Turnpike Trust. 1718-1830Original printing and sells for £1 plus 50p postage & packing.

6. Aspects of the history of the community in the London Borough of Bromley, Sixth Series.Contents:The Southern Heights Light Railway.Viola House School.St. Luke?s Church, Bromley Common.?An Old farming Family?; Hook Farm, Bromley, and the Westbrooks in the Eighteenth Century.West Wickham and the First World War.Bromley and the Bishops of Rochester in the Stuart period.Original printing and sells for £1 plus 50p postage & packing.

7. Around Bromley a Century Ago.Contents:St. Mary Cray, 1885Farnborough-Green Street Green-Locks Bottom.Orpington 100 Years Ago.Beckenham in 1885KestonThe Parish of Chelsfield.Downe in the 1880?s.Hayes 100 Years Ago.A Year in the Life of West Wickham.?All that part of the Parish of Cudham?.Chislehurst ? 1885.THE ABOVE IS OUT OF PRINT BUT HAS BEEN REVISED AND UPDATED BY NO.10.

8. The Town of Bromley a Century Ago.Contents:Bromley TownHow the Town was Run.Transport: from carts to buses.New Bromley.Matters of health.Growing Outskirts.Record and Journal.Church and Chapel.Bromley Common, the parish of Holy Trinity.Changes in Education.Plaistow and the Endowment Lands.Leisure Activities in Bromley 1888.Original printing and sells for £1 plus 50p postage & packing.

The following ten local history booklets have been published by the society:

9. Industry and Enterprise.Contents: Percy Cox?s Steam Bicycle.Thomas Graham Farish: Bromley Entrepreneur Extraordinary.F. Medhurst Ltd.Alexander Muirhead, the boy who asked too many questions.Two Early Craftsmen.Western Motor Works in Perry Street.St. Mary Cray Paper Mills.The Farnborough Aviation Works.The people who made Penge.?His motto was stagnation?: James Staats Forbes of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway.Gustav Mellin, baby food manufacturer.Fox?s Brewery at Green-Street-Green.The Orpington Car.Original printing and sells for £1 plus 50p postage & packing.

10. In and Around Bromley at the turn of the Century.Contents:Bromley Market Square and High Street in 1900.Beckenham: Towards township.Chelsfield around the turn of the century.Chislehurst.Cudham before Biggin Hill.Downe: a pleasant village still.Farnborough: continuity and change.Hayes in 1900.Keston at the end of the Victorian era.Orpington around 100 years ago.Mottingham on the threshold of the 20th century.St. Paul?s Cray: memories of the early1900?s.Penge: the 20th century and a new beginning.St. Mary Cray 1900: the village that disappeared behind a retail park.West Wickham: a diary of 1899-1901This is a new printing and sells for £3.50 plus 50p postage & packing.

We have also produced an excellent CD of ALL TEN of our books which can be read on a PC using ?Acrobat Reader?. The price of this is £10 for members and £12 for non-members.Postage and packing is £1 for UK deliveries, £1.50 for Europe and £2 for all other countries.

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Bromleage 25th Anniversary Edition of our journal. Published March 1999. 24 pages Cost £1 plus 50p postage & packingContents include:Joseph Wells, father of HG. Crofton Chapel - an "entire myth"Thomas Burr, a cricket-loving old fogey. The first twenty-five years of the Local History SocietyThe Early Years of the Local Studies library Andrew Carnegie in BromleyBromley's First Public library Planning for a new library 1904Marsh Brothers of College Road Tom Thornton - the man who saved Kelsey ParkChoir of Christ Church Beckenham 1950 Cray Dissenters

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