Until the 20th century, Foots Cray dominated the nearby, less ancient hill-top hamlet of Sidcup.

In 1960, when Richards, on his way to class at Sidcup Art College, and Jagger, on his way to class at London School of Economics, met at Dartford train station, the Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records Jagger carried revealed a mutual interest, leading to the re-establishment of their friendship and the formation of a band with Dick Taylor ( later of Pretty Things ).

Sidcup went on to form part of the London Borough of Bexley in Greater London and Chislehurst formed part of the London Borough of Bromley.

It is also reputed that it was on the platform of Sidcup railway station that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards first agreed to form a band, which later became the Rolling Stones.

Sidcup Sports Cub in Sydney Road, home to Sidcup Rugby Club grounds, Sidcup Cricket Club grounds and practice nets, Tennis Courts and coaching, Martial Arts, Slimming World every Tuesday 7pm www. slimmingworld. com, gym, changing room, showers, function room, bar, free parking in large on site car park.

* at North Woolwich passengers could cross the Thames via the Woolwich foot tunnel or the free ferry to Woolwich Arsenal station for connections on the North Kent line to Medway Towns, Gravesend, Dartford, Sidcup, Abbey Wood, Blackheath, Lewisham, Greenwich and Central London

Having played on fields in Lee, Shooter's Hill and Sidcup, it currently operates from a sports ground in Orpington.

Bexley railway station is on the Sidcup line with trains going to Charing Cross, Cannon Street and Dartford.

This excessive soppiness is wedded to an impressive degree of self-centered idealism, which for nearly the entire course of the saga keeps her from being wedded to anyone else ; at the end of Jeeves and the Tie that Binds she is re-engaged to Roderick Spode and may be presumed to be on her way to becoming the next Countess of Sidcup, as long as he does not make the error of relinquishing his title or speaking ill of Winnie the Pooh.

Lee station is a suburban railway station on Burnt Ash Hill in Lee in south-east London, England, between Hither Green and Mottingham on the Dartford loop ( also known as the Sidcup line ).

The " London LOOP " walk passes through Foots Cray Meadows on its way from Old Bexley to Sidcup Place and Petts Wood.

Its route from the Sports Grounds on the A20 to Holly Oak Park, takes it past Dulverton Primary School, under the Dartford to London via Sidcup railway line, the Old Farm Avenue allotments and under Halfway Street.

Brons was born in Hackney, East London, spending his early childhood in Sidcup, on the outskirts of London, before his family moved to Harrogate when he was 11.

Meanwhile, after listening to a broadcast in which her husband's bravery was mentioned, Mrs. Cairns, who lives at Sidcup, approached her M. P., Mr. G. D. Wallace, who made representations to the War Office on her behalf.

51 to Orpington Station via Bexley and Sidcup stopping outside the station on Central Avenue

Sidcup railway station is a railway station located in Sidcup in the London Borough of Bexley in south-east London on the Dartford Loop Line, now usually known as the Sidcup Line.

The station is situated on Jubilee Way in Sidcup.

He is the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Old Bexley and Sidcup and Minister for Security at the Home Office that grants him a seat on the National Security Council.

The 229 bus contracted by TfL runs between Queen Mary's hospital Sidcup and Thamesmead Town Centre ; The 229 has a frequency of 10 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime, and in the evenings and on Sundays a frequency of 15 minutes.

A water tower used to straddle the road from Chislehurst to Bromley until it was demolished in 1963 as one of the last acts of the Chislehurst and Sidcup UDC.

The principal roads through the Borough include the A2 trunk road ; the A20 ( Sidcup By-Pass ) which generally marks its southern boundary ; the A207, which is the route of the erstwhile Watling Street ; the A206 which takes traffic from Woolwich and Dartford ; and the latter's newer counterpart, the A2016 through Thamesmead.

Heath continued to serve as a back bench MP for the London constituency of Old Bexley and Sidcup and was, from 1992, the longest-serving MP (" Father of the House ") and the oldest British MP.

Lamorbey House, Sidcup The name is thought to be derived from Cetecopp meaning ' seat shaped or flat topped hill '; it had its earliest recorded use in 1254.

Sidcup parish formed the Sidcup Urban District of Kent from 1908.

Sidcup bus garage used to be located in Foots Cray High Street ; it was opened by the London General Omnibus Company in June 1924, then operated by London Transport from 1933 until its closure in January 1988.

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.

The London Borough of Bexley was formed in 1965, under the London Government Act 1963 from the Municipal Boroughs of Bexley and Erith ; Crayford Urban District: and part of Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District.

There is further ridge of less higher ground from the west terminating at Sidcup.

Ian Davenport was born in Sidcup in London, and studied art at the Northwich College of Art and Design in Cheshire before going to Goldsmiths College from where he graduated in 1988.

Category: People from Sidcup

Category: People from Sidcup

Category: People from Sidcup

Evening and Sundays trains operate to / from instead of Cannon Street, with Bexleyheath Line services extended to and Sidcup Line services extended to.

Category: People from Sidcup

Stoate was a junior hospital doctor from 1977 – 81, then a general practitioner in Bexleyheath from 1982, and a GP tutor at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup from 1989.

Prior to the launch, an article in The Grocer trade magazine had mentioned that the source of the Dasani brand water was in fact treated tap water from Sidcup, a suburban development in London.

Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District was a local government district and civil parish in north west Kent, England from 1934 to 1965.

It was formed in 1934 from the former area of Chislehurst Urban District, Sidcup Urban District and part of Bromley Rural District.

* Sidcup ( Southeast London )

In 1934 it became part of the Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District, which was split in 1965 between the London boroughs of Bromley and Bexley.

The 492 contracted by Transport for London runs between Sidcup and Bluewater Shopping Centre.

Sidcup ward ( dark green ) in the Old Bexley and Sidcup ( UK Parliament constituency ) | Old Bexley and Sidcup constituency ( light green ) within the London Borough of Bexley ( yellow )

Sidcup is a district in South East London in the London Borough of Bexley and small parts of the district in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Located south east of Charing Cross, Sidcup is bordered by the London Boroughs of Greenwich and Bromley and Kent County Council, and whilst now part of Greater London, was once referred to as the gateway to Kent.

Sidcup retains Kent as its county reference, ( much like most of Outer London with the other Home counties, although small parts of Sidcup correspond with the London postal address such as SE9.

Other connections of Sidcup to the world of entertainment and show business include the Rose Bruford College of drama and Bird College, both of which have many well known and famous alumni ; regular large-scale concerts are given by Sidcup Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James Ross, which also serves the wider London Borough of Bexley.