What happens to a suburban street? Orpington Homefield Rise 100 years of change

Homefield Rise - over 100 years of change in a suburban street in Orpington, once Kent now in Greater London This video aims to show through the use of maps and photos how a suburban street develops from fields, and in this case to houses, shops, college, police station, for a while, then to flats. The late 19th and early 20th century was a period of rapid change across the country . This started in Orpington in 1868 when the railway station opened in what was still a very rural area, but close to London. The 1779 milestone on Tubbenden Lane shows the distance as XV or 15 miles to London Bridge 1910 Ordnance survey map of Orpington - Homefield Rise was just fields. By the 1933 Map the road had been built and houses lined both sides of it. The two significant farms, Gravel Pit and Court Lodge, are now gone though the names live on as local road - Gravel Pit Way and Court Road. Buildings - NatWest bank (previously the Old London and County Westminster Bank), Barclays, Main Stop supermarket then Marks and Spencer then Sainsbury's / Argos, Orpington Police Station, Orpington College I hope you have enjoyed this video, please like and subscribe Thank you for watching Eclectic Experience. Change seen through images The Black and White photos are curtesy of Bromley Historic Collections and can be viewed a Bromley Library using the references below The post card of Homefield Rise is P8/86 The picture of London and County Westminster Bank is P8/0962 Sources: Bromley Historic Collections - Bromley Library London Borough of Bromley website Historic England website - https://historicengland.org.uk/ National Libraries of Scotland website for old Ordnance Survey maps - https://maps.nls.uk/ Book - Around Orpington Through Time by Phil Waller The Book of Orpington by Dorothy Cox