Old Newspapers are a wonderful source of information. I have been working with the Bromley and District Times during World War 1 and its aftermath collecting and listing the names of military personnel who have featured in it for my Military Ancestors project.
Through this research I have also gathered fascinating stories, articles and adverts from the time. These I can now bring to you through my website Footsteps to the Past – stories written about the people of the time: by the people of the time.
I hope you enjoy reading them too.
Pam
Latest Extracts
Is this the Ideal Summer Beverage?
Would an advert like this, as featured in the Bromley & District Times in July 1918, made you ...
Don’t run any risk with Allotment cuts & brusies – Use Zam-Buk
The popularity of allotments at this time meant many could be liable to small scratches and cuts, which ...
Canadians & Americans bring their national game to Bromley
Ensuring that the oversea visitors felt at home, a game of Baseball was arrange at the Spartan Athletic ...
Every Man Who Is Fit to Fight is Fit to Pension – Demand for Justice
The National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers (NADSS) was a British veterans' organisation. Founded in early 1917 ...
Lady Librarian initiates a very practical improvement at Bromley Public Library, 1918
According to this article, which was published in the Bromley & District Times, 1918, it took a female ...
Inmates of the ‘Grim Grey House” given a holiday… stories from the Workhouse
Workhouses, like the one in Bromley (now the PRU hospital), often organised holiday outings for the inmates. This ...
Sergeant Albert Ludlow, Bromley
Albert Ludlow was one of three brothers, and had lived at The Cottage, Cowper Road in Bromley Common. He ...
Private William Bray
William Bray was an old boy of Ragland Road Boy's School in Bromley. He was the eldest son ...
Leading Seaman William B Bumstead
Leading Seaman William B Bumstead , son of Mr C H Bumstead of Addison Road, Bromley, was one of ...
Cyril Percival Thatcher
Cyril Percival Thatcher was the son of Mr & Mrs J Thatcher of Great Elms Road, Bromley, and one ...
Sharing Piggies in St Mary Cray, 1918
St Mary Cray Pig-Keeping Society Nearly 800 shares Applied for A meeting of the committee of the newly-formed ...
