Edward Paul and Co. Ltd. -- a local business that literally moved with the times. Horse-drawn buses pass each other in the Brockley Road....

Crofton Park’s history is the history of the growth of the suburbs across the whole of the UK. The introduction of compulsory education...

The memorial cross at St Hilda's commemorates 145 men and one woman of Crofton Park who died serving in WW1 There are several local...

How trams and the Second World War changed a long stretch of the Brockley Road We recently picked up this postcard of a part of the...

Crofton Park has had a Labour MP for many years -- but that wasn't always so. Crofton Park has an interesting past, electorally speaking....

A look at the history of one of Crofton Park's oldest roads. We’ll start with a bit of proof-reading: the spelling of this road’s name...

If you are in the Brockley Road near Hazeldon Road, look out for a glimpse one of Crofton Park's oldest shops. The shop signs above the...

A gap in a map and how a modern development got its name. In 1880 the Land Development Association, a mutual housing project, began...

The local canal that came and went in a generation -- and what followed. The first big change which affected the rural settlement then...

New insights from an old postcard, by Mike Brown We recently bought this postcard, showing the view looking south from near the top of...

The war memorial at St Hilda's church in Crofton Park On November 11 each year we remember those who died in war. War memorials...

Recent celebrations marking the centenary of the BBC remind us of a local connection. The BBC began life as the British Broadcasting...

Working from home is nothing new in Crofton Park. The Standen family and, next door to them, Freeman Brothers were doing just that over...

The Coldstream Guards at the Battle of the Alma -- painting by Orlando Norie In 1902, the Oxford Times reported on the death of a former...

For centuries before the creation of Crofton Park, the London suburb we know and love, this area was a patchwork of fields and farms...

The whalebone which was previously on show at the Brockley Jack (see previous post) has been found, and is with the family of the late...

Mike Brown on the Brockley Jack's whalebone sign, which has been removed from public view. The whalebone displayed -- until very recently...

Before the latest lockdown, Father Bates of St Hilda’s church kindly lent us a box of old church magazines and other items. Among them...

The Crofton Park Picture Palace in 1913. Sketch by Mike Brown. As the nineteenth century became the twentieth, the new and exciting form...

How well do you know Crofton Park? Here is a picture quiz of local signs and decorations you probably pass by regularly. How many can you...