Tony Johns's Shrapnel collection made during WW2                    (from Beckenham The Home Front)

Great news! Beckenham is to have its sign THIS year. It will be on Beckenham Green and look like the arms beneath this letter.   "The Cators of Beckenham and Woodbastwick" is still available from Pat  for £9.95 + p&p (£1.20 in UK, £3.20 overseas), the Publishers Authors Online and Amazon. 'The Road names of Beckenham Tell their Tales,' 'Thoughts on Beckenham's Rivers' and the 'Memorials of St George's church'  are now only  available from Bromley libraries, but hopefully next year will appear as a Beckenham Trilogy. The book  'Monks Orchard & Eden Park' by Pat and Ian Muir contains a full page picture of the young DAVID BOWIE playing in the bandstand of Croydon Rd Recreation ground. Available from the publishers Halsgrove (www.halsgrove.co.uk) or W H Smith's, details from Pat. 'Beckenham's Glorious Years 1935-1965,' when Beckenham was a borough on its own is now available at £11.99+ £2.50 p&p also at W H Smiths, West Wickham with a chapter by the BBC sports commentator ROB BONNET and 'Beckenham the Home Front 1939-1945' an illustrated compilation of Beckenham's war written with Cliff Watkins at £8.00 +£2.00 p&p A family history book 'In Pursuit of the Perfects' is available now. If you are Perfect or know someone who is, please email me for details. Calling all Adremians from Beckenham Grammar / Langley Park Girls School for contributions for 90th anniversary book. See message board. Thanks Pat           .                    .

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The River Beck in High Broom Wood Beckenham