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* Penge Congregational Church, built 1912 to designs by P. Morley Horder with passage aisles and clerestory.
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* St. John the Evangelist's Church, Penge, Beckenham Road, built 1850 to designs by Edwin Nash & J. N. Round
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* There are many Victorian almshouses in Penge, the oldest being the Royal Watermen's Almshouses, built around 1840 by the Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the City of London for retired company Freemen and their widows.
* The London and Croydon Canal was built across Penge Common along what is now the line of the railway through Penge West railway station, deviating to the south before Anerley railway station.
After the London, Chatham and Dover Railway was built, Penge Lane crossed the line by level crossing.
The Penge & District Trade Union & Labour Social Club ( CIU ) built by local tradesmen in 1922, the former Liberal Club closed in 2005.
* King William Naval Asylum, now known as the Queen Adelaide Almshouses, St. John ’ s Road, Penge ( founded 1847 ), built 1848 to his designs at the request and expense of Queen Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, the widow of King William IV, to provide shelter for twelve widows or orphan daughters of naval officers.
It was built by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway and originally known as Penge ( LCDR ) or Penge Lane, and was renamed Penge East on 9 July 1923.
When the line was built a level crossing was built where the line crossed the old alignment of Penge Lane ( now Newlands Park Rd and St John's Rd ).
Penge and by
The South Gate of the Park is accessible by rail via Penge West by Southern trains from London Bridge.
The green was bounded to the north by Penge Lane, the west by Beckenham Road and the southeast by the Crooked Billet.
The Crooked Billet is by far the oldest and arguably the most famous public house in Penge.
Penge is served by London buses routes N3, 75, 157, 176, 194, 197, 227, 249, 354, 356. and 358.
The bus station at Crystal Palace lies within the area historically occupied by Penge.
When the details of the trial were later documented by Mortimer in the novel Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders in 2002, he moved the events to the early 1950s.
Bowie juxtaposes the ordinariness of Penge with America by singing " You can walk around in New York while you sleep in Penge ".
* Henry Howse, a very early film actor with the Lumière brothers, moved to Penge by 1911 by which time he had become a cinematographer.
Unlike neighbouring Orpington constituency, a strong Lib Dem challenge could never succeed by squeezing out Labour votes here because of the presence of so many traditional Labour voters in Penge, which are quite inner-London in character.
The two parts of the parish were assigned to different districts by the act establishing the MBW: Battersea was included in the area of the Wandsworth District Board of Works and the hamlet of Penge in that of Lewisham District Board of Works.
Penge was gained from Surrey by the London Government Act 1899.
The original Penge station was opened by the London and Croydon Railway in 1839, probably more for logistical reasons than anything else: the railway crossed the nearby High Street by a level crossing, and the station would have provided a place for trains to wait while the crossing gates were opened for them.
The two stations were renamed Penge West, and Penge East by the Southern Railway on 9 July 1923.
Penge and .
" The Borough " to the south of Waterloo, London and Tower Bridge were also considered Cockney before redevelopment all but extinguished the local working class areas, and now Bermondsey is the only Cockney area south of the Thames, although Pearly Kings and Queens can be found as far out as Peckham and Penge.
After the exhibition, the building was rebuilt in an enlarged form on Penge Common next to Sydenham Hill, an affluent South London suburb full of large villas.
It is contiguous with Anerley, Dulwich Wood, Gipsy Hill, Penge, South Norwood, Sydenham and Upper Norwood.
Following the success of the exhibition, the palace was moved and reconstructed in 1854 in a modified and enlarged form in the grounds of the Penge Place estate at Sydenham Hill.
Dulwich, consisting of East Dulwich, West Dulwich and Dulwich Village lies in a valley between the neighbouring districts of Camberwell, Crystal Palace, Denmark Hill, Forest Hill, Gipsy Hill, Knights Hill, Herne Hill, Honor Oak, Peckham, Penge, Sydenham Hill, Tulse Hill and West Norwood.
Penge is a suburb of London in the London Borough of Bromley.
Penge was once a small town, which was recorded under the name Penceat in a Saxon deed dating from 957.
Penge formed a part of the parish of Battersea, with the historic county boundary between Kent and Surrey forming its eastern boundary.
In 1855 both parts of the parish were included in the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works, with Penge Hamlet Vestry electing six members to the Lewisham District Board of Works.
However the London Government Act 1899 subsequently made provision for Penge to be removed from the County of London and annexed to either Surrey or Kent.
Accordingly, an Order in Council transferred the hamlet to Kent in 1900, constituting it as Penge Urban District.
With the creation of the Penge Urban District, Penge New Road ( formerly the part of Beckenham Road north of Kent House Road ) was renamed Penge High Street.
From 1885 the Hamlet of Penge was part of the Dulwich parliamentary constituency, which was then in Surrey, and remained in that seat until 1918 when it was transferred to the new Bromley constituency.
Since the 2010 general election Penge has formed part of the Lewisham West and Penge constituency.
In the Victorian era Penge developed into a fashionable suburb because of its proximity to the relocated Crystal Palace.
By 1862 Stanford's map of London shows large homes had been constructed along Penge New Road ( now Crystal Palace Park Road, Sydenham and Penge High Street ), Thick Wood ( now Thicket ) Road and Anerley Road.
This all came to an end with the notorious Penge Murders of 1877.
It is the most prominent building in Penge, Kent.
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Penge was an inconspicuous area with few residents before the arrival of the railways.
A traveller passing through Penge would have noticed the large green with a small inn on its boundary.
The London Overground East London Railway brought services from West Croydon to the Docklands and Shoreditch through Penge West to connect with the North London Line in summer 2010.
* Radio 4 series Old Harry's Game references Penge several times throughout the first five series, including the replacement of the Archbishop of Canterbury with the Bishop of Penge as the ' supply ' Archbishop.
Maurice's unfulfilled emotional longings come closer to being resolved when he is invited to stay at Penge with the Durhams '.
He taught in Belfast before moving on to Beckenham and Penge County School for Boys, near London, where he taught with his close friend from university, Harry Rée, who was also to join SOE.
Penge West station is a short walk away, with services to London Bridge.
Provision was made for Penge to be combined with either the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell or the Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham in the County of London, or to form an urban district in the counties of Surrey or Kent.
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