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Mike Brown
- Aug 22
- 2 min
Lost in Transformation
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...
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Carol Harris
- Jul 4
- 4 min
From Right to Left
Crofton Park has had a Labour MP for many years -- but that wasn't always so. Crofton Park has an interesting past, electorally speaking....
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Carol Harris
- Nov 29, 2023
- 3 min
The Streets Where We Live: Merritt Road
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...
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Carol Harris
- Oct 30, 2023
- 1 min
New sighting of an old sign
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...
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Mike Brown
- Sep 26, 2023
- 3 min
Advantage Crofton Park
A gap in a map and how a modern development got its name. In 1880 the Land Development Association, a mutual housing project, began...
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Carol Harris
- Jun 24, 2023
- 2 min
Seemed like a good idea at the time...
The local canal that came and went in a generation -- and what followed. The first big change which affected the rural settlement then...
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Mike Brown
- Mar 1, 2023
- 2 min
A View From the Hill
New insights from an old postcard, by Mike Brown We recently bought this postcard, showing the view looking south from near the top of...
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Carol Harris
- Nov 13, 2022
- 2 min
War casualties and commemoration
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...
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Carol Harris
- Nov 8, 2022
- 2 min
BBC beginnings and Crofton Park
Recent celebrations marking the centenary of the BBC remind us of a local connection. The BBC began life as the British Broadcasting...
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Carol Harris
- Jun 29, 2022
- 2 min
Cats Meat of Merritt
Working from home is nothing new in Crofton Park. The Standen family and, next door to them, Freeman Brothers were doing just that over...
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Carol Harris
- Mar 31, 2022
- 2 min
Crimean Connection
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...
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Carol Harris
- Feb 28, 2022
- 2 min
Fields of Old
For centuries before the creation of Crofton Park, the London suburb we know and love, this area was a patchwork of fields and farms...
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Carol Harris
- Feb 22, 2022
- 1 min
Lost...and found!
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...
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Mike Brown
- Feb 13, 2022
- 4 min
Missing: Crofton Park's oldest artefact
Mike Brown on the Brockley Jack's whalebone sign, which has been removed from public view. The whalebone displayed -- until very recently...
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Mike Brown
- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
Sign of the times at Brockley Grove
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...
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Mike Brown
- Dec 19, 2020
- 4 min
Changing fortunes of the Crofton Park Picture Palace
The Crofton Park Picture Palace in 1913. Sketch by Mike Brown. As the nineteenth century became the twentieth, the new and exciting form...
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Mike Brown
- Sep 25, 2020
- 1 min
Children's History Quiz -- for under-12s
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...
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Carol Harris
- Sep 25, 2020
- 1 min
The Writing on the Walls
How well do you know the area? Here are features which can be seen from the streets around Crofton Park. How many can you identify? Email...
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Mike Brown
- Aug 16, 2020
- 2 min
Double-Name Roads on the Bridge House Farm Estate
A while back, we mentioned the double-name roads in Mike’s blog, ‘The Names of the Roads’. Here is some more about their origins: This...
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Carol Harris
- May 15, 2020
- 3 min
A Question of Numbers
Another question we have been asked-- and one that we have puzzled over ourselves -- is why the strange numbering of the houses in...
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