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Bromley

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Bromley

Outer borough of southeast Greater London

features Crystal Palace, re-erected at Sydenham in 1854 and burned down in 1936, site now partly occupied by the National Sports Centre; Crystal Palace Museum, housed within the former Palace School of Engineering (1872), the only building to survive the fire in 1936; 13th-century parish church of St Peter and St Paul; 17th-century Bromley College; chalk caves and tunnels at Chislehurst; Keston Common has a Roman cemetery and traces of a Roman villa; Holwood Park contains ‘Caesar's Camp’, the site of a British encampment with earthworks dating from c. 200 BC - the best surviving field monument in Greater London; Bromley Central Library, contains the H G Wells collection

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H G Wells

population (1997 est) 297,600.

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Crystal Palace and Cray Valley, are benefitting from Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) funding. In addition, a £150 million regeneration scheme for the Crystal Palace area, involving public-private partnership, aims to restore Crystal Palace Park, to build a new Crystal Palace, and to modernize the National Sports Centre.
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There was Major Sholto, Captain Morstan, and Lieutenant Bromley Brown, who were in command of the native troops, and there was the surgeon himself, and two or three prison-officials, crafty old hands who played a nice sly safe game.
Sign of the Four by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
You don't find 'ardly a man, you won't find nothing but dogs and cats after the rats until you get round by Bromley and Beckenham, and there you find the Kentish men herding swine.
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