What's new?
Do you want to make the High Street a nicer place?
Ben Hamilton-Baillie talked to members at a meeting at the Bull's Head Hotel in September about why changing traffic management on the High Street is essential to the health of our village. For more information, click here.
Bromley Budget Meetings
Bromley has announced a number of public meetings at which it will outline options for cutting costs in 2012/13. Click here.
The Mix 2011 - Talking Change
Students from nine of our schools took part in a special debating session at St Peter and St Paul School in June. Read about it and see the students at work here.
Vote now to secure funds for youth projects in Chislehurst
Chislehurst Youth Forum has applied for funding for a number of projects for young people in Chislehurst. Check out the detail here, and register your vote.
Chislehurst Road Bridge Closure
The bridge over the railway on Chislehurst Road will be closed for 12 months from 7 November. Click here for more information.
Rush Pond
Dry again! Despite the sinking of a bore hole last year, Rush Pond is dry again. This is apparently due to a fault in the pump, which is proving difficult to fix. Watch out for more news.
Chislehurst Cricket Club - 115 year old pavilion repairs
The pavilion at the Cricket Ground was built in the 1890s in a pronounced rustic style using timber from the Common. Weather and vandalism have required regular and expensive repairs and maintenance, but it has become clear in recent years that more substantial work was needed to some external parts of the pavilion. The Chislehurst & West Kent Cricket Club asked The Chislehurst Society for financial support to enable this work to be done, and the Society was pleased to be abe to help maintain this historic and familiar landmark. The work has commenced and should be completed by early April 2011.
Recent researchers' enquiries
Yeside Linney wrote to us some time ago asking if anyone could remember Greatwood College in Yester Road. Her note was seen by Corrine Brown in Tasmania, who put Yeside in contact with Edna Gosling, who ran the College with her husband George. A note about Greatwood can be found here.
The details can be found on our researchers' page
Annual Report for the Society for 2010
We have completed our Annual Report for 2010 and submitted it to the Charity Commissioners. Click here for a copy.
Bromley Neighbourhood Watch Association
Clifford Longley has been appointed the chair of Bromley Neighbourhood Watch, and has written to us with his thoughts on its importance. You can read about it here.
Clean up morning
Information about the latest clean up morning, and details of the next. Click here.
Chislehurst Hall of Fame
We have started a series of articles about people who lived in Chislehurst. Click here to see our first entries.
The latest planning applications made to Bromley Council, and the latest decisions on previous applications are available on Bromley's planning portal.