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Local History Information Sheets

Local Studies have produced a number of information sheets sheets on a range of subjects relating to the history of the London Borough of Bexley: General Local Histories; Towns & Area Histories; Historic Buildings; People; Businesses and Industries; Leisure; Schools; Transport; Hospitals; Country Estates

These information sheets are available to download as pdf files

General Local Histories

• The Bexley Area in the Doomsday Book (81KB, pdf file)
• The Victorian Era in Bexley (81KB, pdf file)
• Victorian Chronology (38KB, pdf file)
• London Borough of Bexley (44KB, pdf file)
• Mayors of Bexley (42KB, pdf file)
• Origins of Street and Place Names in Bexley (238KB, pdf file)

Towns & Area Histories

• Barnehurst (73KB, pdf file)
• The Early History of Bexleyheath (48KB, pdf file)
• Bexleyheath (69KB, pdf file)
• Belvedere (31KB, pdf file)
• Blendon (32KB, pdf file)
• Crayford (34KB, pdf file)
• Erith (41KB, pdf file)
• Falconwood (79KB, pdf file)
• Lamorbey (35KB, pdf file)
• Northumberland Heath (30KB, pdf file)
• North Cray (66KB, pdf file)
• Sidcup (70KB, pdf file)
• Thamesmead (67KB, pdf file)

Historic Buildings

• Baugh House (21KB, pdf file)
• Crossness (82KB, pdf file)
• The Crook Log Public House (26KB, pdf file)
• East Wickham Hutments (30KB, pdf file)
• Hall Place (60KB, pdf file)
• Hall Place Gardens Before 1945 (25KB, pdf file)
• Halcot (29KB, pdf file)
• High Street House Bexley and John Thorpe (27KB, pdf file)
• Hogs Hole Cottages (98KB, pdf file)
• Nos. 57-59 High Street, Bexley (27KB, pdf file)
• May Place Crayford (52KB, pdf file)
• Lesnes Abbey (79KB, pdf file)
• The Poor House at Bexley (26KB, pdf file)
• The Site of Erith Police Station (58KB, pdf file)
• The Royal Oak Hotel - Polly Cleanstairs (28KB, pdf file)
• Sidcup Manor House (71KB, pdf file)
• Sidcup Place (25KB, pdf file)
• West Heath House (33KB, pdf file)

People

• The Calverts of Bexley (29KB, pdf file)
• John Dann of Bexley 1778-1832 (21KB, pdf file)
• The Heath Family of Erith and Crayford (29KB, pdf file)
• Hiram Maxim (22KB, pdf file)
• Two Local Inventors Hiram Maxim and Edward Butler (27KB, pdf file)
• Samuel Strickland and his Windmills (26KB, pdf file)
• Sir William Anderson 1834-1898 (44KB, pdf file)
• William Morris and The Red House (74KB, pdf file)
• George Pepple - Black and Asian People in Victorian Bexley (90KB, pdf file)
• Kingeast T. Seng - Black and Asian People in Victorian Bexley (111KB, pdf file)
• Su Lois - Black and Asian People in Victorian Bexley (130KB, pdf file)
• Villier Pereira - Black and Asian People in Victorian Bexley (93KB, pdf file)

Businesses and Industries

• Brickmaking in Bexley (24KB, pdf file)
• A Crayford Industry Silk Printing (22KB, pdf file)
• Early Industry in Bexley (25KB, pdf file)
• Erith Ballast Wharf (21KB, pdf file)
• Four Generations of Water Millers (49KB, pdf file)
• Historical References to Erith Market (27KB, pdf file)
• Hop Picking in Bexley (24KB, pdf file)
• Hurst Place and Hurst Farm (27KB, pdf file)
• Vickers Ltd of Crayford 1888-1979 (25KB, pdf file)

Leisure

• Cinemas in Bexley (67KB, pdf file)
• Recreation on the Thames (284KB, pdf file)

Schools

• Some of Bexley's old Private Schools (27KB, pdf file)

Transport

• The North Kent Railway (67KB, pdf file)
• The Dartford Loop Railway (30KB, pdf file)
• The Bexleyheath Railway (537KB, pdf file)
• History of Bexley's Roads (29KB, pdf file)
• River Transport (26KB, pdf file)
• The Erith Tramways (30KB, pdf file)
• The Bexley Tramways (32KB, pdf file)

Hospitals

• Bexley Cottage Hospital 1884-1978 (33KB, pdf file)
• Erith Hospital (30KB, pdf file)
• Hainault Maternity Hospital 1920-1974 (21KB, pdf file)
• Queen Mary's Hospital 1915-1971 (76KB, pdf file)
• Sidcup Cottage Hospital 1882-1977 (23KB, pdf file)

Country Estates

• John Boyd's Danson Esate (42KB, pdf file)
• Danson House (74KB, pdf file)
• Frognal (57KB, pdf file)
• Foots Cray Place (41KB, pdf file)
• The Hollies, Halfway Street (27KB, pdf file)
• Martens Grove and Oakwood (23KB, pdf file)
• Oak House (25KB, pdf file)
• Oakwood (28KB, pdf file)
• Wheatley Housekeepers accounts 1792-1817 (45KB, pdf file)