Post by Mal Mitchell on Sept 8, 2017 14:13:25 GMT 1
Hi Ian, as part of our research into Beckenham Place Park and surrounds, we've found information not in the main content of your site or contradicting some earlier assumptions.
I know its a labour of love and as Rob Copeland and Robert Borrowman said, we are at the mercy of available information.
However, do you have a mechanism for receiving and updating information.
We have several images from maps in the British Library and information drawn from them. Rob Copeland must have seen them as a copy of one is in Bromley Local studies but in monochrome photo form.
We have reproduced some extracts on our beckenhamplaceparkfriends.org.uk website but there are some images of the Burrell estates of Langley Park, Eden Park etc of 1780. The maps and other material make it possible to take some of your entries back a bit further. One page mentions a 1623 map which I believe to be the Beckenham Manor map redrawn in about 1770.
The landowners like Style, Bolingbroke, Burrell's, Raymonds, Cators all interacted and exchanged property. Hasted's history of Kent illustrates a lot of the chain of ownership but is not in itself error or misprint free and has one of the mistaken dates for the building of Beckenham Place in my opinion.
I'm happy to share the material we have as its 'public domain' and in the interest of detail and accuracy.
As I manage our website I'm aware of how compex webdesign can be but also can be quite simple in some respects.
I applaud your endeavors to digitize Beckenham History and would hopefully be aiding and adding to the overall picture.
Best wishes, Mal.
I know its a labour of love and as Rob Copeland and Robert Borrowman said, we are at the mercy of available information.
However, do you have a mechanism for receiving and updating information.
We have several images from maps in the British Library and information drawn from them. Rob Copeland must have seen them as a copy of one is in Bromley Local studies but in monochrome photo form.
We have reproduced some extracts on our beckenhamplaceparkfriends.org.uk website but there are some images of the Burrell estates of Langley Park, Eden Park etc of 1780. The maps and other material make it possible to take some of your entries back a bit further. One page mentions a 1623 map which I believe to be the Beckenham Manor map redrawn in about 1770.
The landowners like Style, Bolingbroke, Burrell's, Raymonds, Cators all interacted and exchanged property. Hasted's history of Kent illustrates a lot of the chain of ownership but is not in itself error or misprint free and has one of the mistaken dates for the building of Beckenham Place in my opinion.
I'm happy to share the material we have as its 'public domain' and in the interest of detail and accuracy.
As I manage our website I'm aware of how compex webdesign can be but also can be quite simple in some respects.
I applaud your endeavors to digitize Beckenham History and would hopefully be aiding and adding to the overall picture.
Best wishes, Mal.
