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This year the following local authorities in
London are supporting OpenHouseLondon: Barking and Dagenham, Bexley, Brent, Camden,
City of London, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and
Fulham, Haringey, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington and
Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond, Southwark, Sutton,
Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth, City of Westminster.
And who’s in the four that aren’t supporting?
Bromley!
Refusal by Bromley Council to part-sponsor
the annual OpenHouseLondon event means the public will be denied the chance for
free entry to many unique buildings this September. But two regular participants in the Bromley borough
have decided to open despite not appearing in the official programme.
St George’s RAF Chapel of
Remembrance and a wartime dispersal area at Biggin Hill airport will be open
for tours through the efforts of Chapel staff and South London Air Scouts.
In 2007 The Sunday Times
listed the tours of ‘front line’ buildings at Biggin Hill
Airport as one of 20
‘hidden gems’ amongst the sites open during the London Open House event.
Scouts’ Air Adviser Ian Piper
said, “Sadly Bromley were not able to find money to allow properties in the
Borough to appear in the programme this time.
But from previous years we know that hundreds of Bromley residents enjoy
these tours and attend whatever the weather.
So despite lack of official sponsorship, we are determined to give the
public what they want.
On Sunday 22nd September the tours will help
bring wartime ‘Biggin on the Bump’ back to life, when visitors can see the remaining
‘front line’ wartime structures at the Airport. We are delighted that the ‘RAF at War’ living history group will be on
hand in authentic uniforms and vehicles, and it is hoped that 1940s vintage
aircraft will also be on show".
St George’s RAF Chapel in the old RAF headquarters site on
the Main Road, Biggin Hill will be open on both Saturday 21st September (10.00am-3.30pm)
and on Sunday 22nd
For more information contact Ian Piper at Ianp@pbmail.co.uk
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