Erection date: 2002
Thornton's Corner
Beckenham Journal, 1881 - 1965
First British Airmail Post Office, 9th August 1902.
Bromley & Beckenham Philatelic Society 2002
BR3, Beckenham High Street, 102 - 104
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thornton's Corner
At this time post offices were 10-a-penny (cheaper than the stamps they sold,...
Newspaper. Started as a 24 page monthly publication costing 1d (about 0.5p). ...
A retail business established by Tom William Thornton and run by his family f...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Thornton's Corner
Plaque 1 incorrectly states that there were 64 people killed in this incident. The Wandsworth Guardian carries the story of how it was di...
At some point between the 60s and 80s the memorial was moved to the company's Cambridgeshire site. When the business was sold Jonathan My...
British History Online describe the 1960s Peachey Edwards House as containing "20 flats for old people" but we cannot find an image of it.
From Michael Rank: "Dorset Street was renamed Dove Road (Dove Bros builders named on the plaque) in 1935."
The text is inscribed on the reverse of the relief.
April 2016: Our colleague Alan Patient reports that this plaque is now lost, or, at the very least hidden, behind the large "White Space...
July 2015 The Mirror reported that 4 of these plaques (Benny Hill, Tommy Cooper, Sid James and Irene Handl) were stolen just prior to the...
The library is the northern building, pools to the south. The Library plaque is below the bay window. The Baths plaque is on the white s...
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
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