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Ash Close, ORPINGTON, BR5 1LQ

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The box has the remains of a "post office direction" sign holder. The location of this postbox is shown in Image

Opened in December 1935, and built in a mock Tudor style to fit in with the surroundings of Station Square, to a design of Sydney Clarke. It included a large ballroom/banqueting hall with stage, and served as a venue for public meetings/amateur dramatics/dinners. In its early years it was also a hotel with 13 bedrooms. The name refers to the campaign by William Willett, who lived in nearby Chislehurst, and whose campaigning at the start of the 20th century had led to the eventual introduction of summer time. It was while horse riding in Petts Wood (the wood itself, pre development) that the idea of daylight saving came to him. Other than this pub, he is commemorated in various ways in Petts Wood, with a road and a recreation ground named after him, as well as a memorial in Petts Wood (see Image).

The line was opened in 1868, when the South Eastern Railway opened its cut-off line between Chislehurst and Tonbridge. Previously, trains between London and Tunbridge Wells had taken a circuitous route via Redhill. This view looks up the line in the direction of Petts Wood station from the footbridge which links Towncourt Lane with Beaumont Road. Petts Wood station was not opened until 1928, and the community now surrounding it developed from that date.

See Image and Image The BBC Domesday Reloaded site http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-544000-165000/page/9 says that “The inn sign explains daylight saving. There is a picture of the sun and at either side there is a clock. One of the clocks says twelve o'clock and the other says one o'clock. There are two arrows near the edge to show that in spring the clocks are put forward and in autumn the clocks are put back.” But it looks to me as though both clocks say 12 o'clock. So do those on Image