Bromley Parish Church has played a significant role in the life of Bromley for over 800 years. The church was destroyed by a bomb on the night of 16 April 1941. Doubly unique Institution and Induction Ceremony on ruins of Parish Church. Impressive procession of Clergy and Laity. Task ahead: Rebuilding the Church. For the first time in the history of the Church of England a Vicar has been instituted in a Methodist building and inducted on the ruins of his Parish Church. Source: Bromley & District Times, 14th November…
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“Doodle Bugs” – Goebbels has been having a field day
Written by the Vicar of Bromley, this report appeared in the Bromley & District Times on 30th June 1944 “Doodle Bugs” Goebbels has been having a field day. The description of London under a pall of smoke with the arterial roads packed with crowds of refugees, and the life of the city disrupted, has proved a welcome diversion to a war-weary people whose eyes reluctantly were being compelled to look more towards Cherbourg. But actually in one respect his claims are not entirely wide of the mark, for we, too,…