25 YEARS AGO: Comedian and actor Frankie Howerd, who lived at Arbroath Road, Eltham, was invited by the Rev John Neal to open the reonovated church hall of St Barnabas at Well Hall on the Progress estate in Eltham.
I wonder if a reader can tell me anything about this cottage that stood on Mason’s Hill, Bromley long before most of us were born.
It is a little more than 100 years ago that the shocking news was relayed to the people of Sidcup.
25 YEARS AGO: Ten young musician soldiers were killed when a pre-timed package exploded at the Royal Marines School of Music at Deal.
My thanks to Bill Reader of Bexleyheath, who has sent me a copy of the Services Newspaper of South East Asia Command, dated October 6, 1944 – 70 years ago.
I found this photograph in Bromley library some years ago. It shows George Walter of Rose Cottage, Pickhurst Green on his daily trek from the nearby well with two buckets of water.
It was 210 years ago this month that Richard Trevithick of Dartford introduced the first steam locomotive to be employed on a permanent track railway.
Ten years ago this week a rebellion was brewing in the county of Kent, which was almost identical in its objective to the uprising led by Dartford’s Wat Tyler in the 14th century.
Older devotees of the Biggin Hill air fair, an event now sadly confined to history, may remember the tragic occasion when the pilot of a Second World War Douglas Invader bomber frantically attempted to pull out of a barrel roll and crashed in the valley, killing four British passengers, two American servicemen and the pilot.
BOB OGLEY reflects on his recent visit to First World War sites in Flanders
