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Cloonmore Avenue
Interwar semis. The school sign is for Warren Road School, one of whose entrances is off this road.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 16 Mar 2010
0.05 miles
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Cloonmore Avenue
Interwar semis. The school zigzags on the road is for Warren Road School, one of whose entrances is off this road. In the background is Borkwood Park on Sevenoaks Road, with Southfleet Road behind.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 16 Mar 2010
0.06 miles
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Cloonmore Avenue, Orpington
Image: © Chris Whippet
Taken: 27 Oct 2015
0.08 miles
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Orpington Hospital
During the First World War, Orpington was the home of what was first known as the Ontario Military Hospital, before becoming No 16 Canadian General Hospital in September 1917. At the time it was said to be one of the largest and most up to date military hospitals in the world. The hospital ceased to be a specific military hospital in September 1919, but was developed into the current Orpington Hospital.
This building, called the Canada Wing in commemoration of the site's history, was completed in 1982 as part of the proposed redevelopment of the entire 39 acre site into a modern district general hospital, providing full services, including A&E. However, revised plans in the 1990s were for a new central hospital to be built in Bromley covering the whole of the district. Despite vigorous campaigning by the then local MP, Ivor Stanbrook, further development of the Orpington Hospital site ceased and most of the site has now been built on with housing. The hospital now covers only a limited range of services, with no A&E, for example.
Ironically, further changes of plans meant that the Bromley Hospital development never came to fruition - instead Farnborough Hospital was redeveloped into the Princess Royal University Hospital, opened in 2003 and funded by through a PFI and various sales of land, including no doubt part of this site.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 12 Feb 2009
0.08 miles
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Orpington Hospital
During the First World War, Orpington was the home of what was first known as the Ontario Military Hospital, before becoming No 16 Canadian General Hospital in September 1917. At the time it was said to be one of the largest and most up to date military hospitals in the world. The hospital ceased to be a specific military hospital in September 1919, but was developed into the current Orpington Hospital.
This building, called the Canada Wing in commemoration of the site's history, was completed in 1982 as part of the proposed redevelopment of the entire 39 acre site into a modern district general hospital, providing full services, including A&E. However, revised plans in the 1990s were for a new central hospital to be built in Bromley covering the whole of the district. Despite vigorous campaigning by the then local MP, Ivor Stanbrook, further development of the Orpington Hospital site ceased and most of the site has now been built on with housing. The hospital now covers only a limited range of services, with no A&E, for example.
Ironically, further changes of plans meant that the Bromley Hospital development never came to fruition - instead Farnborough Hospital was redeveloped into the Princess Royal University Hospital, opened in 2003 and funded through a PFI and various sales of land, including no doubt part of this site.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 12 Feb 2009
0.10 miles
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Cloonmore Avenue
Interwar semis. The roundabout is purely ornamental.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 16 Mar 2010
0.10 miles
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Porthallow Close
Part of the development of much of the Orpington Hospital site (see
Image), the majority of road names having a Cornish theme.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 12 Feb 2009
0.12 miles
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Sevenoaks Road, Cloonmore Avenue bus stop
Served by routes 358, 654, R5, R8, R10 and R11.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 27 Sep 2011
0.12 miles
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Borkwood Park
1960s flats on Sevenoaks Road.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 21 Apr 2009
0.13 miles
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Flooding, Borkwood Court
Although Orpington is in a dry valley, the current source of the River Cray being the pond in Priory Gardens at the north end of High Street, high water table levels can lead to flooding further south. After exceptionally high rainfall in early 2014, this is the fate that befell Borkwood Court, a block of flats in Sevenoaks Road. Here water is being pumped out of the flooded ground floor flats.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 27 Mar 2014
0.14 miles