Bexley Archives is teaming up with the Live Well, Age Well hub at Sidcup Storyteller to give A Stroll around Victorian Sidcup on 28 July at 10.30am. On our walk we will see churches, schools and the site of the cottage hospital. For more details and to book your place see shorturl.at/0LYTf

Guided Walk: A Stroll around Victorian Sidcup

with Bexley Local Studies & Archives

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Here at #BexleyArchives we are delighted to be hosting Dr James Wright on 7 November at 2.30pm as part of his book tour. To hear him talk about The Buildings Archaeologist please book your place by emailing archives@bexley.gov.uk or by visiting the Local Studies Centre.

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We launched The Buildings Archaeologist book tour late last week. Here's all the shows for 2026! Tickets are now available: triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/the-building... More dates to come in 2027!

Interested in researching your family history but need a bit of help? Look no further. Super Jes, as we like to call her, will be here at #BexleyArchives on occasional Mondays/Tuesdays, so get in touch so we can arrange a session for you. #familyhistory #genealogy

Interested in researching your family history but need a bit of help? Look no further. Super Jes, as we like to call her, will be here at #BexleyArchives on occasional Mondays/Tuesdays, so get in touch so we can arrange a session for you. See also the latest additions to our book collection.

Please note that our guided walk of 'Sidcup in the 60s' due to take place at 10.30am on 23 June has been cancelled due to the hot weather. Instead we offer some cooling pictures of swimming pools from Bexley in the past: Danson, Lamorbey, Martens Grove and Crook Log.

An exhibition here at #BexleyArchives commemorates the Old Bexley United Football Club. The highlight of 1966 was when the official switching on of the new floodlights coincided with playing West Ham United! #FIFAWorldCup

We have a new exhibition here at #BexleyArchives commemorating the Old Bexley United Football Club which was wound up 50 years ago in June 1976. Presented by www.thelifeandtimesofbexleyunitedfc.co.uk, the display takes us through the highs and lows of the club from its beginnings in the 1920s.

Today is #WorldBeeDay and we remember Alfred Dewey who opened a Music Warehouse in #Sidcup. He was a piano tuner, violin teacher, photographer (examples shown) and local council chairman. As a beekeeper he helped to form the Kent Bee Keepers' Association in 1917. Oh and he was a ventriloquist too!

On Saturday a group enjoyed a guided walk with Archives Officer Penny Duggan looking at the impact of the 1926 General Strike on the town of Erith. Workers lost wages, transport stopped, coal supply was restricted and the beer was running out. #GeneralStrike100

Archives Officer Penny Duggan has partnered with Bexley Buddies in an initiative to enhance health and wellbeing at GP surgeries through reminiscence. At Bursted Wood Surgery we were next door to the former Bexley Maternity Hospital which was built in 1937 and stimulated some childbirth memories!

Join Archives Officer Penny Duggan for a guided walk of Sidcup on Tuesday 26 May 10.30am-12 at #SidcupStoryteller Ageing Well Hub. For Sidcup/Bexley residents aged over 50. No need to book, just drop in. #LiveWellAgeWell

Erith in 1926 was a busy industrial town but that all stopped on 4 May when the General Strike began. Find out more on a guided walk with Archives Officer Penny Duggan on 16 May 2.30pm. Tickets £5. To book your place email archives@bexley.gov.uk #GeneralStrike100

A super day sharing #localhistory at Bursted Wood for Bexley Buddies, an initiative that addresses non-medical needs within GP surgeries. I’m determined to get #BexleyArchives out and about! A perfect place for reminiscing about the former Maternity Hospital next door which is to be redeveloped.

Join us on 20 June 2.30-4pm for A Walk Around Welling, with Archives Officer Penny Duggan. From hamlet to bustling high street, what events have had an impact on its history? Tickets £5. To book your place please visit us or email archives@bexley.gov.uk

Join our walk on 16 May 2.30-4pm – 'The General Strike in Erith' with Archives Officer Penny Duggan. How did the 9-day strike in 1926 affect workers and what impact did it have on residents in Erith? Tickets £5. To book your place please visit us or email archives@bexley.gov.uk #GeneralStrike100

Do you have Irish ancestry? Today is an exciting day if you do, with the release of the 1926 census for Ireland. Here at Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre we have a large collection of family history books to assist with your #familyhistory. #1926census

Join us for a Rebellious Ramble through the Loyalist Land with Community Archivist Oliver Wooller – a guided walk from Danson to Hall Place marking 250 years since American Declaration of Independence. Tickets £5. Contact us to book your place at archives@bexley.gov.uk.

Join us on 20 June 2.30-4pm for A Walk Around Welling, with Archives Officer Penny Duggan. From a hamlet on Watling Street to a bustling high street, what events have had an impact on its history? Tickets £5. To book your place please visit us or email archives@bexley.gov.uk

Join our walk on 16 May 2.30-4pm – 'The General Strike in Erith' with Archives Officer Penny Duggan. How did the 9-day strike in 1926 affect workers and what impact did it have on residents in Erith? Tickets £5. To book your place please visit us or email archives@bexley.gov.uk

#BexleyArchives guided walks coming soon: 16 May: The General Strike in Erith 20 June: A Walk Around Welling 18 July: A Rebellious Ramble through the Loyalist Land, from Danson to Hall Place We are now taking a break and will re-open on 7 April. We wish you a Happy Easter.

Join Archives Officer Penny Duggan for 'Memories of School Days', a reminiscence-style interactive session talking about where we live. 24 March 10.30am-12 at #Sidcup Storyteller Ageing Well Hub for Sidcup/Bexley residents aged over 50. No need to book, just drop in. #LiveWellAgeWell

Join Archives Officer Penny Duggan for 'Memories of School Days', a reminiscence-style interactive session talking about where we live. 24 March 10.30am-12 at #Sidcup Storyteller Ageing Well Hub for Sidcup/Bexley residents aged over 50. No need to book, just drop in. #LiveWellAgeWell

Today is World Sleep Day and we hope you will stay awake long enough to look at these impressive beds at Hall Place from the time Lady Limerick was in residence. These photographs date from c1938. #WorldSleepDay #Bexley

Join Archives Officer Penny Duggan for 'Memories of Sidcup', a reminiscence-style interactive session talking about where we live. 24 Feb 10.30am-12 at Sidcup Storyteller Ageing Well Hub for Bexley residents aged over 50. No need to book, just drop in. arena.yourlondonlibrary.net/web/bexley/w...

Join Archives Officer Penny Duggan for 'Memories of Sidcup', a reminiscence-style interactive session talking about where we live. 24 Feb 10.30am-12 at Sidcup Storyteller Ageing Well Hub for Bexley residents aged over 50. No need to book, just drop in. arena.yourlondonlibrary.net/web/bexley/w...

On #WomenAndGirlsInScienceDay we wonder what became of these girls from Lessness Heath School, Erith in October 1970.

On Saturday March 2.30pm, mudlarker Sean Clarke will give a talk here at Bexley Archives, Small Change in Muddy Waters - stories of trade tokens. Tickets £5 To book your place please call 020 3045 3369, email archives@bexley.gov.uk or visit the centre (open 9.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Thursday).

On Saturday 14 February 2.30pm to 4pm we have a talk by Chris Hawkins on 'Lesnes Abbey - Dissolution and the Years After'. Why was it one of the first to be dissolved and how were the ruins saved? Tickets £5, location Central Library Bexleyheath - contact us to book your place!

Thanks to @jpaprice.bsky.social who gave an excellent talk at #BexleyArchives on Deptford Ragged School which later provided education to working people. Here in Bexley evening classes in arithmetic, dressmaking and leatherwork (1928) had expanded to car maintenance and Tourist French by 1963.

Still a handful of tickets left for our talk on 17 January at 2.30pm by Dr John Price - Educating Deptford: The Deptford Ragged School and its Place in the Community. Tickets £5, location Central Library Bexleyheath - contact us to book your place!