26-710: Anerley Town Hall is a municipal building in Anerley Road, Anerley , London. It is a locally listed building . The building was commissioned by the Parish of St Paul's Church, Anerley as their vestry hall. The area chosen for the new building was part of a 56 acres (23 ha) site occupied by the North Surrey District School. The town hall was designed by George Elkington in the Italianate style and built by J & C Bowyer, builders, at
52-431: A Scottish silk and wine merchant originally from Galashiels named William Sanderson bought land at the auction of the former Penge Common and built the first house in the area, which he named "Anerly" (later Anerley Lodge), a Scottish Borders and Northern English dialect word meaning "solitary" or "only", and the road subsequently became known as Anerley Road, also giving the name to the surrounding area. Sanderson's name
78-413: A cost of £4,341; it was officially opened on 30 April 1879. The original design involved three bays with a central doorway on the ground floor; there were two windows above the doorway and three windows in each of the other bays on the first floor; a copper -clad clock-tower was erected on the roof. The assembly hall was set to the southeast of the main building and featured an unusual hammerbeam roof with
104-530: A government report by Sir Edwin Herbert , the short-lived Penge Urban District Council was abolished and Anerley and Penge were incorporated into the new London Borough of Bromley . With the demise of local government Crystal Palace & Anerley became a ward in the London Borough of Bromley. Nowadays Anerley Town Hall is still in use as a community centre run by Crystal Palace Community Trust ,
130-599: A series of fully furnished commercial offices in November 2003. The library moved out of the town hall into dedicated facilities in Green Lane in September 2014; This allowed the former library area to be used as a play area for children. Crystal Palace Community Trust, a local charity, obtained a 40-year lease over the building with the intention of managing it as a community asset from August 2017. Items of interest in
156-641: Is the first to appear in the first rate book, dated 18 June 1827, now held in the London Borough of Bromley archives. The Croydon Canal was opened on 22 October 1809, and passed through Anerley. The canal was a financial failure and lasted only 27 years, being sold to the London and Croydon Railway Company for £40,250. The London and Croydon Railway used most of the former canal for the new railway line, but two remnants are still visible in Betts Park , Anerley and Dacres Wood, Sydenham . The railway deviated from
182-581: The A2 or Hammersmith flyover London section today), would have seen a lot of destruction of property in Anerley and a great increase in noise pollution. After much consultation and Government dithering the various London Ringway projects were cancelled, including the A214 section. In the era of street trams, a tramway ran down Anerley Road, turning into Croydon Road. It joined the main tram network at West Croydon . In
208-647: The Anerley Arms is still serving beverages in a traditional saloon bar, and a segment of the Croydon Canal remains in Betts Park . The name Anerley is mainly applied to the district around the western half of the SE20 postcode in the proximity of Anerley railway station , to the north around Anerley Hill and Crystal Palace railway station in the SE19 postcode, and to the south as far as Birkbeck station (near
234-524: The Parish of St Paul's, forming in 1861. Anerley Vestry Hall (later Anerley Town Hall ) was built in 1878 for the sum of £4,341, to conduct public business for the exclave Hamlet of Penge in the Parish of Battersea. It became a Town Hall in 1900 as a result of the London Government Act 1899 , when Anerley became part of the new Penge Urban District in Kent . The Hall was enlarged in 1911 for
260-408: The beams connected by wrought iron rods. The building became the headquarters of the new Penge Urban District formed in 1900, and was significantly extended by the creation of three extra bays to the northwest at a cost of £3,229 to incorporate a council chamber and committee rooms in 1911. Further changes were made to create a courtroom for petty sessions in 1925. The town hall continued to be
286-454: The canal course entering a new cutting near what is now Anerley railway station (opened on 5 June 1839 and named initially as Annerley Bridge Station). William Sanderson made land available in return for the creation of the railway station adjacent to his house "Anerly". Isambard Kingdom Brunel built an atmospheric railway along this course in 1845, but it was short-lived. The inability to include points on an atmospheric railway resulted in
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#1732790871748312-527: The construction of flyovers one of which runs through Anerley between Crystal Palace railway station and Sydenham railway station . A train collision occurred at Anerley on 5 October 1844 - 24 people were injured, although no fatalities occurred. The driver was found to be at fault, along with a lack of tail lights. The report stated the following: "The second train passed the Jolly Sailor Station (now Norwood Junction) about three minutes after
338-443: The early days a stationary engine was needed to haul trams up the steepest part of Anerley Hill. Later models were able to climb unassisted, but special gearing was designed exclusively for this route. The tramway was replaced by trolley buses on route 654 which operated until 1959. TFL had proposed the extension of Tramlink services from Harrington Road tram stop to the bus station on Crystal Palace Parade via Anerley Road, with
364-469: The first, the green light being then exhibited there as a signal to go on with caution; and on approaching the Anerley Station, the engineman of this train observed a red light on the signal post, which was the signal to stop at that station; but not seeing the red light that ought to have been exhibited in the rear of the preceding train, he considered it was gone. and just as it was slowly quitting
390-403: The headquarters of the urban council for much of the 20th century but ceased to be the local seat of government when the enlarged London Borough of Bromley was formed in 1965. It was extended with a new structure at the rear to accommodate a public library and also to create additional space for Bromley Council's housing and social services departments in 1987. The main building was converted into
416-690: The junction of Anerley Road. Two people were killed and the damage to property were three houses destroyed with a further 20 houses severely damaged. On 11 July 1944 the third V1 Rocket strike to hit Anerley landed on Anerley Road at the Junction with Crystal Palace railway station. People had heard the rocket cut out and ran for cover, with many failing to find any, resulting in 11 deaths. The shops on Crystal Palace Station Road were totally destroyed, and on Anerley Road 18 shops were demolished, eight shops and seven houses severely damaged and 84 houses suffered minor damage. The Paxton Arms public house on Anerley Hill
442-656: The nearby Crystal Palace. After the closure of the gardens, The Anerley Arms, a hotel built in the Swiss-style which had catered to visitors, was expanded and rebuilt in Victorian classical style, this building still stands next to the station. The present day Anerley Arms is referred to in the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Norwood Builder and celebrates its connection with the story. As
468-558: The railway station on Anerley Station Road. Two A roads , the A213 and A214 pass through the area. During the late 1960s and 1970s the A214 was to be part of the London Ringways project. The A214 was to become Ringway 2 and it would have passed through much of Anerley, and have followed the railway line from Birkbeck station and travelled north. The construction of the A214 into the planned London Motorways network (much like
494-434: The result of a gas explosion in 1978 the ground floor was destroyed but no-one was injured. The badly damaged pub was sold by Charrington Brewery to Samuel Smith 's in 1979. Restoration work was undertaken using traditional materials to restore the interior back to its Victorian appearance. From the 1860s the residential area rapidly developed, grand Victorian houses were built along Anerley Road, and Anerley became part of
520-495: The south of Upper Norwood , west of Penge , north of Elmers End and east of South Norwood . The northern edge of Anerley contains part of the area commonly known as Crystal Palace , and the site of the ancient Vicar's Oak where the London boroughs of Bromley , Croydon , Lambeth and Southwark meet, with Lewisham 800 yards (740m) away. Anerley began as a "new town" within the ancient hamlet of Penge. Prior to enclosure in 1827, what would later become known as Anerley,
546-468: The station he ran into it, but with diminished speed" Anerley Gardens opened in 1841, and provided entertainment to the growing 19th century leisure industry . With the new medium of rail travel and boasting its own station, Anerley become a desirable social venue, with regular dances, a boating lake, a Swiss cottage and a maze. The old Croydon Canal was also a popular destination for anglers . The pleasure gardens closed in 1868, due to competition from
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#1732790871748572-562: The sum of £3,229 and contained offices, a public hall, the council chamber, committee rooms, and a petty sessional court which opened in 1925. During World War II Anerley suffered extensive bomb damage, with five V1 rockets landing; a further six landed in Crystal Palace Park and a total of 23 in the whole SE20 district. On 18 June 1944 it was reported a V1 Rocket was being chased by a Spitfire , and then shot down by AA gun fire. The shot down V1 fell upon Anerley Park near
598-491: The town hall include the first-rate book dated 18 June 1827 which records the first-rate payment by William Sanderson, a resident at "Anerley House", the first house to be built on the former Penge Common . Anerley Anerley ( / ˈ æ n ər l i / ) is suburb of south east London , England, within the London Borough of Bromley . It is located 7 miles (11 km) south south-east of Charing Cross , to
624-488: The traditional Kent-Surrey boundary). The SE20 postcode district was officially named Anerley but covered Anerley, Penge and parts of Beckenham . In 2024 the Heart of Anerley obelisk was erected in Betts Park in advance of the bicentenary celebrations in 2027. Anerley is served by London buses routes N3 , 75 , 157 , 197 , 249 , 354 , 358 432 and bus 356. The 432 and 249 now terminate at Anerley Bus stand, behind
650-411: Was also partially destroyed and would not re-open until 1955. The last rocket would strike Anerley 24 August 1944. By the beginning of the 20th century, Anerley's heyday was over, with much of the grand Victorian houses being converted into flats. In the 1960s and 1970s housing estates were constructed on former bombs sites and "slum clearances" to ease the post-war housing shortages. In 1965, following
676-507: Was an unoccupied part of Penge Common , that did not fully develop until the 1850s following the relocation of the Crystal Palace to Penge Place at the top of Sydenham Hill. A government Enclosure Act of 1827 to divide and inclose a parcel of waste land called Penge Common stipulated that a 50 feet (15 metres) wide, new road, was to be set out from Clay Lane (now Elmers End Road) to Church Road, Upper Norwood . In October 1827,
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