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While the greater part of the residents' lives were spent in the City or the West End, there was little need for suburban banks. Their emergence was a sign of maturity in Blackheath. The North Kent Bank was founded by local men, using local capital, in 1864 and prospered until the manager absconded with more than £20,000 in 1878. The business was transferred to the London & Provincial Bank which, in 1917, merged with the South Western and in 1921 became a part of Barclays Bank. The bank was rebuilt in its present in 1888-1889.

Black and White photo of Baring Road showing the Baring Hall Hotel, c.late 1890s

Beckenham Place, Beckenham In 1821 From A Print

Bellingham Bridge & Bellingham Farm

Front view of farmhouse

Bellingham Farm East Side 1930

Samuel Sheppard was the tenant of Bellingham Farm, which was sometimes known by his name. The Bellingham Estate was built over these fields between 1920 and 1923, but the actual farm buildings were not demolished until the 1930s, when Allerford Road was built on the site. The second photograph is a view of the farmhouse from the east. Bellingham Farm lay on either side of the railway, south of Bellingham Station.

Bellingham Farm.

Bellingham Farm. View at Southend, Lewisham.

Benjamin Aislabie

Blackheath Village From Lee Road Before 1882

Bomb damage in Harland Road, Lee, during World War Two. Two men standing on top of the destruction caused by bombing raids.