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Penge was once a small town, which was recorded under the name Penceat in a Saxon deed dating from 957.
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Penge and was
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.
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.
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.
Primary School, was originally part of the Old Penge Chapel which opened in 1837.
* 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.
Penge was an inconspicuous area with few residents before the arrival of the railways.
The green was bounded to the north by Penge Lane, the west by Beckenham Road and the southeast by the Crooked Billet.
Penge Lane was the road from Penge to Sydenham which is now named St John's Road and Newlands Park Road.
There was also an old footpath crossing the Green leading to Sydenham that was known as Old Penge Lane.
After the London, Chatham and Dover Railway was built, Penge Lane crossed the line by level crossing.
When this crossing was closed Penge Lane was renamed and Old Penge Lane became the present day Penge Lane.
Penge and small
A traveller passing through Penge would have noticed the large green with a small inn on its boundary.
On a modern map that area is very small but the modern day Penge Lane and Crooked Billet are not in their original locations and Beckenham Road would have been little more than a cart track following the property line on the west side of Penge High Street.
A small Post Office in east Penge was the location for Part 2 of The Stolen Policeman ( series 8, ep. 11 ) and Series 8 episode 13 opens:
Penge and town
The story is set in the fairly drab fictional town of Croynge ( sometimes spelled Crunge ), which is apparently a south London borough-the name is derived from Croydon and Penge.
However, visually the location often resembles an industrial Northern town and may have its roots in how Croydon, Penge and the towns between them appeared in the 1950s.
It is located in the Anerley area between the town centres of Crystal Palace and Penge.
It does, however, have regular bus services operating from the town centre also serving urban hotspots in and around the borough including Orpington, Lewisham, Penge, Bexleyheath and Croydon.
Penge and which
This earlier location was on the eastward side of Penge Green, which disappeared as a result of The Penge Enclosure Act, 1827 which enclosed the whole Green.
The 354 buses now use the terminus, as do so short running buses on route 194 which carry the destination ' Penge High Street '.
Music Hall comedians were in the habit of making fun of the locale in which they appeared and consequently Penge became the butt of many jokes.
" Author John Mortimer's original chronology was incorrect, as the Penge bungalows were prefabricated houses which replaced homes destroyed during World War II, long after the date of Rumpole's claimed triumph.
* The Meaning of Liff defines a Penge as ' the slotted wooden arm on which a cuckoo emerges from a cuckoo clock '.
* Henry Howse, a very early film actor with the Lumière brothers, moved to Penge by 1911 by which time he had become a cinematographer.
The main railway station is called Sydenham which links to Croydon, Penge, Forest Hill, New Cross, Shoreditch, Dalston and the major terminii London Bridge and London Victoria.
It comprised the former area of the Municipal Borough of Bromley, the Municipal Borough of Beckenham, Penge Urban District, Orpington Urban District and the Chislehurst part of Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District, which was transferred from Kent to Greater London.
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.
This resulted in the creation of a new cross-boundary seat of Lewisham West and Penge which takes electoral wards from both Boroughs.
It moved from Penge to its present location in Eden Park, Beckenham, in January 1969, at which point it adopted its current name.
** Crystal Palace Park, the grounds to which the Crystal Palace was relocated ; a remnant of Penge Common
A wide road from the corner of Oakfield Road and Penge High Street provided access to these buildings and sidings which served a coal yard and timber yard on the site of the old brickfield.
Following their review of parliamentary representation in South London, the Boundary Commission for England created a new cross-border constituency Lewisham West and Penge, which meant consequential changes to other existing Lewisham seats.
There he painted his masterly, life-size " En Amagerkone, der tæller sine Penge efter " (" A Woman from Amager Counting Her Money "), which was exhibited in 1852, and was purchased by the National Collection.
Penge and under
The school went through a variety of name changes in its early days: the Technical Day School, Beckenham ; Beckenham Secondary School ; Beckenham County School for Boys ; Beckenham and Penge County School for Boys ; in 1944 it was the Beckenham and Penge County Grammar School under headmaster L. W.
Penge and name
Kent House railway station serves an area between Penge and Beckenham in the London Borough of Bromley in south London: it takes its name from Kent House farm nearby, historically the first house in Kent after crossing the Surrey border.
Penge and from
The South Gate of the Park is accessible by rail via Penge West by Southern trains from London Bridge.
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.
Southern trains to London Bridge and East Croydon or West Croydon run from Penge West railway station ( originally named Penge ).
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.
Southeastern services between London Victoria and Orpington operate from Penge East railway station ( originally named Penge Lane but renamed after the portion of Penge Lane in proximity to the station was itself renamed.
* In the ' far-fetched fiction ' of Robert Rankin, characters from Brentford refer to Penge as a far-flung outpost of civilisation and often say that they ' hear it's very nice, but I've never been there myself '.
On one occasion the anti-heroes Pooley and Omally took so long to walk home from Penge that they grew beards on the way.
* A scene from The Buddha of Suburbia was filmed around Penge East station, and showed the offices of Tomei & Sons.
* Penge was the childhood home of Bill Wyman ( b. 1936 William George Perks ) bassist from The Rolling Stones
The addition, from the Bromley and Chislehurst seat, of Bromley Common and Keston ward, as well as that part of Hayes & Coney Hall ward that lay outside the constituency before the boundary review, and the removal of the Penge and Cator, Clockhouse and Crystal Palace wards, were predicted to make Beckenham the safest Conservative seat in the country.
Clock House ward, Crystal Palace ward, and Penge and Cator ward were transferred from Beckenham to help create the new constituency of Lewisham West and Penge.
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