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Carol Harris
Apr 18, 20203 min
Brockley's Big House
One of the oldest features of what is now Crofton Park was the local ‘big house’, Brockley Hall, or, as it was known before 1850,...
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Carol Harris
Mar 26, 20202 min
The Brockley Road Board Schools
The original school, where Beecroft Gardens School stands today. In October 1885 the School Board for London announced plans to build...
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Carol Harris
Dec 17, 20193 min
The Names of the Roads
Brockley Green from the 1746 map by John Roque In medieval times, main highways were often known by where they led to. The part of a...
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Carol Harris
Jul 1, 20192 min
A Hospital on Breakspears Road
Cigarette cards, royal benefactors and the babies of Brockley This tiny picture from a cigarette card album, found by Tim Lund, shows...
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Carol Harris
May 7, 20193 min
Bricks in Brockley
In recent years, many houses in Crofton Park and Brockley have had a ‘facelift’. With the dirt and grime of a century removed, gleaming...
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Carol Harris
Jan 4, 20192 min
Forest to Farm
In Tudor times, the woods which had for centuries dominated the local landscape were still thriving and supplying timber for, among...
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Carol Harris
Dec 3, 20182 min
Crofton Park in old postcards
From the 1880s, as the fields of Brockley made way for the suburb of Crofton Park, local photographers were capturing the new London...
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Carol Harris
Oct 24, 20182 min
Telephones on the Titanic
Read all about 'The Motor Horn Which Warns But Does Not Worry', the latest radio speakers and other delights made at the St Andrew's...
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Carol Harris
Jun 8, 20181 min
Crofton Park Banks
The row of four Brockley Road shops between Merritt Road and the cemetery were known by 1899 as Bank Parade. Despite this, there has...
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Mike Brown
Jun 8, 20181 min
Brockley ancient and modern
For centuries, the area now known as Crofton Park was the centre of Brockley, a hamlet on the road between Lewisham and Croydon. The...
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Mike Brown
Apr 16, 20181 min
Crofton Park and the Railways
Crofton Park station opened in 1892, as part of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway. It was the last of six local stations to open –...
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