Remembrance Sunday 11 November road closures and bus diversions

Posted on November 8, 2018 by | Comments Off on Remembrance Sunday 11 November road closures and bus diversions

The Annual Remembrance Day Service and Parade will take place on 11 November with the main ceremony taking place at Beckenham War Memorial. The Royal British Legion will gather at St George’s Road when they will be marshalled via the High Street under Police guidance and holds up to the War Memorial roundabout.

The figure in front of the Memorial has been provided by Beckenham Business Association and Beckenham Together, the Beckenham Business Improvement District (BID) .

At 10.50am there will be a ceremony at Beckenham War Memorial in High Street, Beckenham, lasting about 45 minutes and a parade will follow the service.  Those attending this service are asked to arrive at the War Memorial by 10.15am.

The High Street will be closed to traffic for a few hours on Sunday 11 November. Vehicles will be unable to get anywhere near the High Street between 9.45 and 11.45.

The following roads will be closed:

Albemarle Road

St. Georges Road

High Street

Church Avenue

The Drive

The Crescent

Rectory Road

There will be no access to the War Memorial roundabout whatsoever, or the ends of the roads leading into it, ie Beckenham Road & Croydon Road. Traffic will be held at Village Way, Manor Road, Bromley Road, and Southend Road.

There will be extensive bus diversions.

Route 54: will terminate at Catford Bus Garage on Bromley Road.

Route 162 towards Beckenham Junction: buses will terminate at Hayes Lane stop PT & stand (before Chinese Garage).

Route 162 towards Eltham Station: from Hayes Lane, buses will circumnavigate the roundabout – Hayes Lane and then go back to their usual route.

Route 194 towards Beckenham: from Sydenham Road at Newlands Park, buses will travel ahead via Sydenham Road, Westwood Hill, then turn left onto Crystal Palace Parade, then travel ahead via Crystal Palace Parade turning left onto Anerley Hill. They will then travel ahead via Anerley Road, Elmers End Road turning left onto Croydon Road; and then turn right onto Upper Elmers End Road, and finally go back to their usual route.

Route 194 towards Lower Sydenham: from Upper Elmers End Road, buses will turn left onto Croydon Road, then turn right onto Elmers End Road travelling ahead via Elmers End Road, Anerley Road and Anerley Hill. Buses will then turn right onto Crystal Palace Parade traveling ahead via Crystal Palace Parade, and then turn right onto Westwood Hill. They will then travel ahead via Westwood Hill, Sydenham Road and finally go back to their usual route.

Route 227 towards Beckenham: from Crystal Palace Parade, buses will turn left onto Anerley Hill travelling ahead via Anerley Road and Elmers End Road. They will then turn left onto Croydon Road traveling ahead via Croydon Road, turning right onto Eden Park Avenue and then going ahead via Crossways Road, Stone Park Avenue, at Chinese Roundabout onto Hayes Lane. Buses will then travel ahead via Hayes Lane, turn left onto Shortlands Road travelling ahead via Shortlands Road, onto Bromley Road by turning right and then travel ahead via Beckenham Lane to go back to their usual route.

Route 227 towards Penge: from Bromley Road at Shortlands Road, buses will turn left onto Shortlands Road, travel ahead via Shortlands Road, turn right onto Hayes Lane, and travel ahead via Hayes Lane, Stone Park Avenue, Crossways Road & Eden Park Avenue. Buses will then left onto Croydon Road, at Elmers End roundabout going ahead into Croydon Road, turning right onto Elmers End Road; they will then travel ahead via Elmers End Road, Anerley Road & Anerley Hill. Buses will then turn right onto Crystal Palace Parade travelling ahead via Crystal Palace Parade, circumnavigating the roundabout to go ahead in order to go back to their usual route.

Route 352 towards Bromley North: from Worsley Bridge Road at Brackley Road, buses will turn left onto Brackley Road, turn right onto Southend Road, and then turn left onto Foxgrove Road. They will then turn right onto Downs Hill, turn left onto Ravensbourne Avenue, turn right onto Farnaby Road, turn right onto Beckenham Lane going ahead to turn right onto Downs Hill. Buses will then turn left onto Ravensbourne Avenue, turn right onto Farnaby Road, turn right onto Beckenham Lane going ahead via Bromley Road to turn left onto Shortlands Road. They will then turn right onto Hayes Lane, travel ahead via Hayes Lane and turn left onto Wickham Way to go back to their usual route.

Route 352 towards Sydenham: from Wickham Way at Chinese roundabout, buses will take fourth exit right into Hayes Lane, go ahead Hayes Lane, turn left onto Shortlands Road, and then travel ahead via Shortlands Road. They will then turn right onto Bromley Road, travel ahead via Beckenham Lane, turn left onto Farnaby Road, and then travel ahead via Farnaby Road. Buses will then turn left onto Ravensbourne Avenue, travel ahead via Ravensbourne Avenue, turn right onto Downs Hill, travel ahead via Downs Hill, and turn left onto Foxgrove Road. They will then travel ahead via Foxgrove Road, turn right onto Southend Road, turn left onto Brackley Road, turn right onto Worsley Bridge Road and finally go back to their usual route.

Route 354 towards Bromley: from Sydenham Avenue at Crystal Palace Park Road, buses will turn left onto Crystal Palace Park Road, turn right onto Anerley Park, travel ahead via Aerley Park, and then turn left onto Anerley Road. They will then travel ahead via Anerley Road, Elmers End Road, Elmers End Road at Churchfields Road, Elmers End Road, and then turn left onto Croydon Road. Buses will then travel ahead via Croydon Road, turn right onto Eden Park Avenue, travel ahead via Crossways Road, Stone Park Avenue, at Chinese Roundabout onto Hayes Lane. They will then turn left onto Shortland Road, travel ahead via Shortlands Road, turn right onto Bromley Road, travel ahead via Beckenham Lane to go back to their usual route.

Route 354 towards Penge: from Beckenham Lane at Farnaby Road, buses will travel ahead via Beckenham Lane & Bromley Road, turn left onto Shortlands Road travelling ahead via Shortlands Road, and then turn right onto Hayes Lane. They will then travel ahead via Hayes Lane, Stone Park Avenue, Crossways Road, Eden Park Avenue turning left onto Croydon Road. Buses will then travel ahead at Elmers End Green onto Croydon Road, turn right onto Elmers End Road, travel ahead via Elmers End Road and Anerley Road. They will then turn right onto Anerley Park as their usual route but from Thicket Road at Crystal Palace Park Road, they will turn left onto Crystal Palace Park Road. Buses will then travel ahead via Crystal Palace Park Road, turn right onto Sydenham Avenue, circumnavigate the roundabout to stand in Sydenham Avenue.

 Route 356 towards Monks Orchard: from Sydenham Road at Kent House Road, buses will travel ahead via Sydenham Road, Westwood Hill, then turn left onto Crystal Palace Parade, turn left onto Anerley Hill, travel ahead via Anerley Road, and turn right onto Croydon Road to go back to their usual route.

Route 356 Towards Lower Sydenham: from Croydon Road at Anerley Road, buses will left onto Anerley Road, travel ahead via Anerley Hill, turn right onto Crystal Palace Parade, and then travel ahead via Crystal Palace Parade. They will then turn right onto Westwood Hill, travel ahead via Westwood Hill & Sydenham Road to go back to their usual route.

Route 358 towards Bromley: from Anerley Road, buses will travel ahead via Elmers End Road, turn left onto Croydon Road, turn right at Elmers End roundabout onto Upper Elmers End Road and then go back to their usual route.

Route 358 towards Crystal Palace: from Uppers Elmers End Road at roundabout, buse will turn left onto Croydon Road, turn right onto Elmers End Road, travel ahead via Anerley Road to go back to their usual route.

 Route 367 towards Bromley: from Crossways Road at Village way, buses will travel ahead via Stone Park Avenue, Hayes Lane, and then turn left onto Scotts Lane to go back to their usual route.

Route 367 towards Croydon: from Scotts Lane at Oakwood Avenue, buses will travel ahead via Scotts Lane, turn right onto Hayes Lane, then travel ahead via Hayes Lane, Stone Park Avenue, Crossways Road and finally go back to their usual route.

Bus drivers have been instructed to serve bus stops on diversion routes if requested and safe to do so.

 

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Remembrance Day Parade Road Closures

Posted on October 22, 2018 by | Comments Off on Remembrance Day Parade Road Closures
The annual Remembrance Day Parade will close the High Street to traffic for a few hours on Sunday 11 November. While the Police do make efforts to publicise the closures and TfL are obviously made aware, there are always big road traffic problems as vehicles are unable to get anywhere near the High Street for a couple of hours. 
 
The Parade starts around 10am, so road closures will go in just before this, and roads remain closed probably up until midday-ish.
 
The closures cover the following roads:
 
Albemarle Road
St. Georges Road
High Street
Church Avenue
The Drive
The Crescent
Rectory Road
 
There will be no access to the War Memorial roundabout whatsoever, or the ends of the roads leading into it, ie Beckenham Road & Croydon Road.
 

Traffic will be held at Village Way, Manor Road, Bromley Road, and Southend Road. Buses will no doubt be on diversion but we have no details.

 

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CLOCK HOUSE CELEBRATES AUTUMN

Posted on October 16, 2018 by | Comments Off on CLOCK HOUSE CELEBRATES AUTUMN

 

On 5 October a new outdoor event was held in the early evening in the area between the Library, The Spa and Venue 28 – which is beginning to be known as the Clock House Hub. Hopefully it will be the first of many.

It’s great to see the Parade come back to life recently with new shops taking over empty properties. Sponsored by Purple Flag and WBRA, this event owes huge thanks to Matt Walden of Three Hounds, Debbie Hoyte of Venue 28 and Zara Green of Link Asset Services for doing the organising and providing the stalls with all the supporting equipment.

The event was a great success with lots of children arriving from school in the early part of the proceedings to hear local author Glenn Lawrence read from his book for small children “Lauren Koala” and there was also PiCatso Drawing at the Library.

There was live music, craft stalls and lots to eat and drink. As the evening wore on and darkness came, people stayed for the bars and food stalls until the event closed at 8pm.

HISTORY OF CLOCK HOUSE PARADE

At the Clock House Celebrates Autumn event, WBRA presented a window plaque, and photo of Clock House Parade in 1919, to Hannah of Love My Hound at No 55 Clock House Parade. Hannah’s stall was packed with colourful, amusing and practical doggy accessories.

This plaque shows the first occupants of ‘Love My Hound’, between 1906 and 1938, were a chemist and dentist, and between 1910 and 1917, No 55 also housed one of the first public call offices of the fledgling national telephone network – the forerunner of street phone boxes where people who did not have a phone could make calls.

 

 The Parade was built by local builders Syme and Duncan in 1906. Some of the Duncan family still live in Beckenham. The Parade cost around £11,500 to build and included building a bridge over Chaffinch Brook which flows below the road at this point. The west side of Queens Road was also built at this time – house numbers 2 to 34, at a cost of £11,300, meaning they cost £665 each!

 Purple Flag had a table at the event

WBRA have produced these plaques for all 13 shops on the Parade – please take a look at the plaques when you pass, and do go in and support our enterprising traders.

 

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Beckenham High Street Improvements Update Bus Stop Closure

Posted on October 12, 2018 by | Comments Off on Beckenham High Street Improvements Update Bus Stop Closure
WBRA have complained to TfL about the lack of information and advance warning about bus stop closures. So it is good to have this warning of another closure at St George’s Church .
 
When resurfacing starts around the War Memorial, bus stops S (outside Mind) and T (outside Tesco) will be closed in the evening – probably from 8pm onwards. There may be more traffic diversions.
From LB Bromley and Conway
Work is nearing completion on the High Street, but local people have asked for a few additional pieces of work that were not in the original plans. The first of these is extending the new pavement along Bromley Road to outside the alms houses.
 
F M Conway will be carrying out this work in Bromley Road throughout the coming week beginning 15th October. 
 
This work will consist of new kerbs and paving being laid in keeping with the scheme already completed in Bromley Road. It will commence from the end of the newly laid paving adjacent to St Georges Church and run along The Bromley Road and finish at the junction with St Georges Road.
 
Inline image
 
To facilitate this phase of the work some traffic management will be in place. Bus Stop E just before the junction with St Georges Road will be temporarily closed. TfL will endeavour to relocate a temporary stop within a short distance of the stop.
 
 

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CLOCK HOUSE CELEBRATES AUTUMN!

Posted on September 21, 2018 by | Comments Off on CLOCK HOUSE CELEBRATES AUTUMN!

West Beckenham RA has joined with Purple Flag and local businesses to put on an autumn celebration of Clock House.

located between the spa, the library and venue 28, it highlights traders from clock house parade as well as further afield.

Starting at 4pm to encourage families, there will be children’s book reading at the Library, live music, and lots to eat and drink!

 

 

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