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Bromley

Bromley town centre developed rapidly after the railway arrived in 1858, and the High Street area mixes surviving Victorian buildings with post-war rebuilding around St Peter and St Paul Church, whose medieval tower survived the Blitz. Shortlands, just west of the centre, was mostly built up as a village of Victorian villas after 1876. Bickley, to the east, was developed from the 1860s by George Wythes with large detached houses by architects including Norman Shaw and Ernest Newton, and remains a wealthy, low-density area of big Victorian and Edwardian homes. Bromley Common has a more mixed pattern of inter-war and later housing.

In the Victorian terraces and villas across Bromley town, Shortlands and Bickley, it's common to find original lead or galvanised supply pipe and gravity hot water systems fed from a loft tank, both worth checking before any bathroom or boiler work. The larger Bickley houses, often with more than one bathroom, tend to suit a system boiler or unvented cylinder better than a single combi.

Hard water is an issue across this part of south east London too, leaving limescale in boilers, showers and taps that's worth checking during any service.