Local history
Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre holds a variety of sources for local historians and people researching the history of a building.
They include:
- Voters lists and electoral registers, 1833 – to date
- Bexley street and trade directories, 1870-1938
- Rate books, 18th-20th centuries
- Ordnance Survey maps from the 1860s to modern day
- School records, including admission registers, 19th - 20th centuries
- Telephone directories, 1926 – to date
- Local newspapers 1874 – (indexed on Library Catalogue, select Local Newspaper Index from drop down list)
- Local council plans - these are held at the centre dating from about 1890 up until the 1940
- Photographic collections
- Aerial photographs
Local Studies notes on towns, people, places, schools, hospitals, transport, estates and industry in the London Borough of Bexley are available. Research guides produced by the Centre give specific research advice to help you use the Bexley Archives' Online catalogue
