Penny Duggan
@pennyduggan.bsky.social
Archives | Local History | Family History
Bexley, Blackfen, Kent, London, Ireland
Archives Officer @BexleyArchives
Chair of Lamorbey and Sidcup Local History Society
http://blackfenpastandpresent.com
Bexley, Blackfen, Kent, London, Ireland
Archives Officer @BexleyArchives
Chair of Lamorbey and Sidcup Local History Society
http://blackfenpastandpresent.com
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Does your church, faith group or club have a regular newsletter? At #BexleyArchives Centre newsletters are donated to us on a regular basis. Each one provides a fascinating snapshot of community life at a particular moment in time. #LocalHistory
December 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Does your church, faith group or club have a regular newsletter? At #BexleyArchives Centre newsletters are donated to us on a regular basis. Each one provides a fascinating snapshot of community life at a particular moment in time. #LocalHistory
Just a couple of days to go until Christmas Comes to Blackfen on Saturday 29 November. Lots going on at Blackfen Community Library and in the George Staples Car Park. Come along and support your local shops in #Blackfen too!
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Just a couple of days to go until Christmas Comes to Blackfen on Saturday 29 November. Lots going on at Blackfen Community Library and in the George Staples Car Park. Come along and support your local shops in #Blackfen too!
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For #BlackFriday we have some amazing #Christmas2025 deals here at #BexleyArchives
⭐️Bargains on our books, plus 3 for the price of 2 on our Old Ordnance Survey maps.
⭐️And if you aren’t able to visit us to make your purchase, we are offering free postage to UK addresses until 18 December.
⭐️Bargains on our books, plus 3 for the price of 2 on our Old Ordnance Survey maps.
⭐️And if you aren’t able to visit us to make your purchase, we are offering free postage to UK addresses until 18 December.
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
For #BlackFriday we have some amazing #Christmas2025 deals here at #BexleyArchives
⭐️Bargains on our books, plus 3 for the price of 2 on our Old Ordnance Survey maps.
⭐️And if you aren’t able to visit us to make your purchase, we are offering free postage to UK addresses until 18 December.
⭐️Bargains on our books, plus 3 for the price of 2 on our Old Ordnance Survey maps.
⭐️And if you aren’t able to visit us to make your purchase, we are offering free postage to UK addresses until 18 December.
It was an honour today to take part in the Remembrance Sunday parade to St John’s Church and the wreath-laying at Sidcup War Memorial on behalf of Lamorbey and Sidcup Local History Society.
The sacrifices made must not be forgotten.
The sacrifices made must not be forgotten.
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It was an honour today to take part in the Remembrance Sunday parade to St John’s Church and the wreath-laying at Sidcup War Memorial on behalf of Lamorbey and Sidcup Local History Society.
The sacrifices made must not be forgotten.
The sacrifices made must not be forgotten.
I loved spending time with the members of this group. I learnt a lot from them, not least that Fela Kuti is a musician I really should have known about earlier!
Earlier this week Archives Officer Penny Duggan attended the 'Capturing Black History in Bexley' event at Titmuss Avenue Baptist Church. Seniors in Touch group members shared experiences of living in #Thamesmead and how it has changed over the years. #BlackHistoryMonth #oralhistory
October 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I loved spending time with the members of this group. I learnt a lot from them, not least that Fela Kuti is a musician I really should have known about earlier!
A great weekend lined up with the Erith Made Festival (including ‘Pleasure Garden’ at the Exchange) on Sat 13 Sept and Woodland Festival at Lesnes Abbey on Sun 14 Sept. I’ll be on a stall at both with @bexleyarchives.bsky.social so come and say hello! #CelebratingBexley
September 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
A great weekend lined up with the Erith Made Festival (including ‘Pleasure Garden’ at the Exchange) on Sat 13 Sept and Woodland Festival at Lesnes Abbey on Sun 14 Sept. I’ll be on a stall at both with @bexleyarchives.bsky.social so come and say hello! #CelebratingBexley
A Very Victorian Day Out at Crossness Pumping Station celebrating 160 years of sewage disposal. A fabulous combination of engineering, music, history, ice-cream and beer.
September 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Very Victorian Day Out at Crossness Pumping Station celebrating 160 years of sewage disposal. A fabulous combination of engineering, music, history, ice-cream and beer.
A day in #Londonium - a fantastic mudlarking exhibition at the Roman amphitheatre underneath London’s Guildhall, with so many incredible stories unearthed from the tiniest objects that have been found beside the Thames. Part of Totally Thames Festival 2025
September 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A day in #Londonium - a fantastic mudlarking exhibition at the Roman amphitheatre underneath London’s Guildhall, with so many incredible stories unearthed from the tiniest objects that have been found beside the Thames. Part of Totally Thames Festival 2025
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A double bill here at #BexleyArchives on 20 September!
10am-1pm: free drop-in session with North West Kent Family History Society.
2.30-4pm: talk by Peter Daniel, The Blitz Over Bexley. Tickets £5
Plus see this new book now on our shelves! #familyhistory #WWII
10am-1pm: free drop-in session with North West Kent Family History Society.
2.30-4pm: talk by Peter Daniel, The Blitz Over Bexley. Tickets £5
Plus see this new book now on our shelves! #familyhistory #WWII
September 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A double bill here at #BexleyArchives on 20 September!
10am-1pm: free drop-in session with North West Kent Family History Society.
2.30-4pm: talk by Peter Daniel, The Blitz Over Bexley. Tickets £5
Plus see this new book now on our shelves! #familyhistory #WWII
10am-1pm: free drop-in session with North West Kent Family History Society.
2.30-4pm: talk by Peter Daniel, The Blitz Over Bexley. Tickets £5
Plus see this new book now on our shelves! #familyhistory #WWII
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Interested in #FamilyHistory? At #BexleyArchives you can search census and parish records on Ancestry for free, browse local newspapers and family history books.
On 20 Sept. 10am-1pm North West Kent Family History Society is holding a free drop-in session here. All welcome. @nwkfhs.bsky.social
On 20 Sept. 10am-1pm North West Kent Family History Society is holding a free drop-in session here. All welcome. @nwkfhs.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Interested in #FamilyHistory? At #BexleyArchives you can search census and parish records on Ancestry for free, browse local newspapers and family history books.
On 20 Sept. 10am-1pm North West Kent Family History Society is holding a free drop-in session here. All welcome. @nwkfhs.bsky.social
On 20 Sept. 10am-1pm North West Kent Family History Society is holding a free drop-in session here. All welcome. @nwkfhs.bsky.social
Back at work today @bexleyarchives.bsky.social with my impressive stash of Ancestry goodies and full of bright ideas from the Archives and Records Association Conference @araukie.bsky.social #ARA2025
September 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Back at work today @bexleyarchives.bsky.social with my impressive stash of Ancestry goodies and full of bright ideas from the Archives and Records Association Conference @araukie.bsky.social #ARA2025
My first ARA conference and I am incredibly thankful for the Ancestry bursary that allowed me to be here. A fantastic learning opportunity and archivists are all such lovely people! #ARA2025
August 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
My first ARA conference and I am incredibly thankful for the Ancestry bursary that allowed me to be here. A fantastic learning opportunity and archivists are all such lovely people! #ARA2025
A perfect day in Bristol: a second hand book shop, a castle and ‘the oldest pub in Bristol’.
August 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
A perfect day in Bristol: a second hand book shop, a castle and ‘the oldest pub in Bristol’.
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Historian Peter Daniel will give a talk here at #BexleyArchives on 20 September 2.30pm ‘The Blitz Over Bexley’ exploring this period of intensive bombing raids which disrupted life and caused death and injury to civilians in the Bexley area. Tickets: £5.
August 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Historian Peter Daniel will give a talk here at #BexleyArchives on 20 September 2.30pm ‘The Blitz Over Bexley’ exploring this period of intensive bombing raids which disrupted life and caused death and injury to civilians in the Bexley area. Tickets: £5.
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The #BexleyArchives autumn events programme begins 20 Sept. with a North West Kent Family History Society pop-in session 10am-1pm at Local Studies Centre on 1st floor of Central Library Bexleyheath. Everyone is welcome, no pre-booking required. #genealogy #familyhistory @nwkfhs.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The #BexleyArchives autumn events programme begins 20 Sept. with a North West Kent Family History Society pop-in session 10am-1pm at Local Studies Centre on 1st floor of Central Library Bexleyheath. Everyone is welcome, no pre-booking required. #genealogy #familyhistory @nwkfhs.bsky.social
What an inspiring exhibition of creativity from Centrepieces in ‘Reflections on Where We Live’ showing what a profound impact our surroundings have on our memories and experience. In the Stables Gallery at Hall Place #Bexley until 12 August. #CelebratingBexley #LocalHistory #art
August 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
What an inspiring exhibition of creativity from Centrepieces in ‘Reflections on Where We Live’ showing what a profound impact our surroundings have on our memories and experience. In the Stables Gallery at Hall Place #Bexley until 12 August. #CelebratingBexley #LocalHistory #art
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We have a great selection of local sport books on our shelves at #BexleyArchives. Our newest acquisition is ‘A Pictorial History of Kent Football’ written by Richard Ralph, a fantastic collection of photographs of Kent #football cup competitions. #sport #localhistory
July 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
We have a great selection of local sport books on our shelves at #BexleyArchives. Our newest acquisition is ‘A Pictorial History of Kent Football’ written by Richard Ralph, a fantastic collection of photographs of Kent #football cup competitions. #sport #localhistory
Inspiring messages at the beautifully decorated Sidcup Library. ‘Reading is dreaming with open eyes’. #books #reading #libraries #summerreadingchallenge
July 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Inspiring messages at the beautifully decorated Sidcup Library. ‘Reading is dreaming with open eyes’. #books #reading #libraries #summerreadingchallenge
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'Then and Now' photography is a great way to see what has changed over the years - as well as what hasn't changed!
Now on display at Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre, covering a variety of places across the borough of Bexley.
#LocalHistory #CelebratingBexley
Now on display at Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre, covering a variety of places across the borough of Bexley.
#LocalHistory #CelebratingBexley
June 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
'Then and Now' photography is a great way to see what has changed over the years - as well as what hasn't changed!
Now on display at Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre, covering a variety of places across the borough of Bexley.
#LocalHistory #CelebratingBexley
Now on display at Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre, covering a variety of places across the borough of Bexley.
#LocalHistory #CelebratingBexley
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Need an idea for a Father’s Day gift? How about a local history map or book? We have a great selection to choose from!
Our full list is at arena.yourlondonlibrary.net/web/bexley/b...
#LocalHistory #Books #Maps #FathersDay
Our full list is at arena.yourlondonlibrary.net/web/bexley/b...
#LocalHistory #Books #Maps #FathersDay
June 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Need an idea for a Father’s Day gift? How about a local history map or book? We have a great selection to choose from!
Our full list is at arena.yourlondonlibrary.net/web/bexley/b...
#LocalHistory #Books #Maps #FathersDay
Our full list is at arena.yourlondonlibrary.net/web/bexley/b...
#LocalHistory #Books #Maps #FathersDay
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It was a pleasure to work with the team at the Holiday Inn Bexley on the history display for their open day. The Black Prince - a well-known landmark on the A2 junction - holds many memories: jazz music, weddings and people who have worked there over the years.
June 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It was a pleasure to work with the team at the Holiday Inn Bexley on the history display for their open day. The Black Prince - a well-known landmark on the A2 junction - holds many memories: jazz music, weddings and people who have worked there over the years.
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It's Friday night and where else would you go in 1962 but the Crayford Town Hall with its amazing glitter ball? On Friday 18 May it was Rock 'n' Twist night, and if that wasn't enough, on Saturday 19 May there was non-stop dancing until 11.30pm!
#LocalHistory #dancing
#LocalHistory #dancing
June 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It's Friday night and where else would you go in 1962 but the Crayford Town Hall with its amazing glitter ball? On Friday 18 May it was Rock 'n' Twist night, and if that wasn't enough, on Saturday 19 May there was non-stop dancing until 11.30pm!
#LocalHistory #dancing
#LocalHistory #dancing
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We have recently celebrated the 100th anniversary of the opening of #DansonPark but it wasn't until June 1952 that Hall Place Gardens opened to the public, when the Duchess of Kent was received by local dignitaries and large crowds. #CelebratingBexley
June 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
We have recently celebrated the 100th anniversary of the opening of #DansonPark but it wasn't until June 1952 that Hall Place Gardens opened to the public, when the Duchess of Kent was received by local dignitaries and large crowds. #CelebratingBexley
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This Saturday's 'Ten Decades of Danson Park' guided walk is now sold out! But there are still tickets left for Lesnes to Lessness on 21 June, and for Lamorbey and Halfway Street on 12 July, 2.30pm. Tickets are £5. Get in touch to book your place! #CelebratingBexley
May 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This Saturday's 'Ten Decades of Danson Park' guided walk is now sold out! But there are still tickets left for Lesnes to Lessness on 21 June, and for Lamorbey and Halfway Street on 12 July, 2.30pm. Tickets are £5. Get in touch to book your place! #CelebratingBexley