How Orpington Kent has changed - Church Hill the most historic road with listed buildings

How Orpington, Kent has changed since the early 1980s
In the early 1980s I was very concerned about the number of old buildings disappearing so I photographed parts of Orpington, Kent and London to create a record, I am mainly focusing on listed and locally listed ones as well as anything else that was interesting
I have come back over the years to photograph and more recently video, Church Hill in this case. So what has changed in the last 40 years?
Please stay to the end to see all the detail about the most historic road in Orpington!
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Church Hill and the close area contains all the officially listed buildings in central Orpington, The Church, All Saints, the Priory and outbuildings all Grade II* and then Barn Hawe which is a Grade II building. And they are all central to the Priory Conservation area
I will prepare another video on the Priory, old library and Priory Gardens later on, as there is so much to cover, but in this video I will just focus on Church Hill.
I have made a series of videos on how the High Street has changed over the last 40 years, click here for the first video in the sequence
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Links to more videos on how Kent and London has changed can be seen at the end
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Includes:
All Saints Church
All Saints Church Hall - old and new
The Old Vicarage, Probation Service
Priory Outbuildings
Barn Hawe and development
Bruce Grove
Church Hill Garage
White Hart Pub
Old National Westminster Bank
Old Barclays Bank
Sources:
London Borough of Bromley website
Historic England website - historicengland.org.uk/
National Libraries of Scotland website for old Ordnance Survey maps - maps.nls.uk/
Book - Around Orpington Through Time by Phil Waller
The Book of Orpington by Dorothy Cox

[@ineshamdane608]

Loved this video, seeing how Orpington has changed from 1982 to 2023 ❤😮

[@pauldixon8870]

great video ! I was a milkman who drove his battery milk float every day for 12 years from 1983 until 1995 in and out of the old Unigate depot

[@cvtsboy]

Very good.

[@stevetaylor8446]

Love reminiscing with the footage you're showing here....I remember the gas station back then and rhe Priory was always a great place to visit. After being made redundant from Courage Breweries in London after 26 years, my dad got a job at Unigate dairies, only to be made redundant again, before it vanished. You have delved into the history here very well indeed....captured changes many overlook. Great video yet again

[@eclecticexperience1]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it

[@keith800]

The restored wooden white building used to be a coach house and stables where horse's and coach's used to stop over night on the way up to London from the coast.

[@bellaboop1]

I've been looking for content like this.
Thank you for taking the time to do research and media. I grew up here and haven't spent it in over 30 years, miss it very much!

[@eclecticexperience1]

Thanks, glad you liked it

[@jas5473]

Great video 👍

[@eclecticexperience1]

Thanks!

[@johnc3548]

Great video as always. Did you go to Darrick Wood school by any chance?

[@eclecticexperience1]

Thanks, I am afraid I did not got to Darrick Wood

[@TheTragicMagicMaker]

V cool! where can i find a copy of the 1880 map?

[@eclecticexperience1]

Hi, the old Ordnance Survey maps are held by the National Library of Scotland. This is the link to the main page where you can then search from. maps.nls.uk/ Hope this helps

[@TheTragicMagicMaker]

thank you so much!!!!

[@jca111]

Orpigton hastn't been in Kent for nearly 60 years