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Belmont Parade - Do the side streets have right royal names and find out about Adolphus Slade and the road named after him in this 'beautiful mountain' suitable for roller skating! Featuring Joanna Friel, Heritage Rep for the Chislehurst Society and filmed by Clare...

Mead Road - find out which Chislehurst School has a link with Claridges and see how much you think it has changed over the years. Featuring Joanna Friel, Heritage Rep for the Chislehurst Society and filmed by Clare...

Farringtons School - Get locked into the history of Farringtons School, learn about its links with Chubb Lock and Safe Company.  The chapel doors are securely in place even though they've come all the way from Australia!  Queen Mary visited in 1925, see the pictures...

Babington House School: learn about the links with Elmstead Woods Station gardens and about the Zeppelin raids seen from the large windows in 1915. Featuring Joanna Friel, Heritage Rep for the Chislehurst Society and filmed by Clare...

The Cockpit: A red white and blue look at our village green today. Find out about Chislehurst's unique feature, The Cockpit and how the former scene of a barbaric sport is now one of community gathering. Featuring Joanna Friel, Heritage Rep for the Chislehurst Society...

St Mary's Church - Find out about the little Catholic Church in the epicentre of Chislehurst's Imperial legacy, with an empty Napoleonic tomb and the final resting place of the founder of Great Ormond Street Hospital. Featuring Joanna Friel, Heritage Rep for the...

St Nicholas Church - Discover how the patron saint of travellers guards so many famous names - the man of whom Syndey Australia is named, the original 'Speed King' and a time traveller of sorts! There's infamy too in the form of not one, but two double murders!...

Friel on Friday... Western Motor Works - Learn about the first ever purpose built car service station in the country, right here in Chislehurst and see the 'Old Lady' Panhard car out in the vintage rally. Vintage Friel, this one, epic fail on the name of Ferdinand...

Visit a charming backwater of Chislehurst; learn about its fruity name and a pub that's changed it's name. From schools to singers, with banana in between, there's a little bit of everything down Old Perry Street! With Joanna Friel, Heritage Rep for the Chislehurst...

Friel on Friday... Chislehurst School for Girls; a school that has had many reincarnations but survived wartime bombing to retain its place as an educator of young women - kept firmly apart from the boys over in Sidcup! With Joanna Friel, Heritage Rep for...

Friel on Friday... Chislehurst Cemetery is the final resting place of an artist friend of Dickens and a recipient of the VC in The Great War. The chapel, designed by the same architect who planned The Dorchester Hotel is a tranquil place - unlike the background noise...

Friel on Friday... Lord Ted Willis In Shepherd's Green there is a connection between Black Beauty and Yardbirds.... Learn about this seeming connection with nature with a story of a blue plaque and a blue lamp! Featuring Joanna Friel, Heritage Rep for the Chislehurst...