From KentOnline: “A Debate Which Splits Young and Old: is Bromley a Part of Kent?” (Same with Many Others)

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Personally...I’d say Dartford is given a stay of execution in Kent but anything West should just be given an SE postcode and told to fuck off up to London HittingBday

That said, give it 20 years and we may be having the same argument about Gravesend.
 
Yes.

I live there. My local cricket team play in the Kent league. Beckenham is a Kent county ground. Even as far west as Catford was Kent's county ground a century ago.

Given half of the Gills support comes from outside Medway and a lot from up here I'd advise against telling us to f### off. Half of Medway is London rejects.
 
As in all things I would say follow the money, do they pay rates to KCC or London. If as I believe it's London then that is your answer.
 
Bromley is in Kent, Dartford is in Kent. How much of the county are you prepared to cede for heavens sake. I don't care about their administrative crap. London will control transport for miles around the way things are going but what does that prove. I suspect that post Brexit resentment of London will grow, we need something to rail against after all.

If you enjoy eavesdropping on conversations then listen to the young on trains and you will here them talking as if they are way out in the sticks metropolis when entering and leaving Gravesend and Dartford.
 
Bromley is a greater London Borough; it`s no more in Kent than Romford is in Essex. As already alluded to, residents pay their council tax for London Borough services and towards the Metropolitan Police, London Ambulance Service, London Fire Brigade. TFL benefits & its member/s on the Greater London Authority, etc., etc., etc. I used to live in London and I can understand why many people would rather identify with Kent than London but, fact is, Bromley is in London, as I`m sure estate agents mention when "justifying" outrageous property prices.
 
London has gradually gobbled up much of the home counties and made claim to a good few airports after initially just one at Heathrow, now it is London Gatwick, London Luton, London Southend, London Lydd and even London Manston when it existed.
I can certainly remember being invited to the Ilford Palais back in the early sixties when on leave and Ilford was definitely in Essex in those days.
 
Whitstabletangerine said:
I can certainly remember being invited to the Ilford Palais back in the early sixties when on leave and Ilford was definitely in Essex in those days.
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Never went to the Ilford Palais Whitstable but, who remembers the Room At The Top night club in Ilford ? It was a very lively place back in the seventies...
 
I live in Bromley, and on balance it feels more Kentish than Londonish.

Yes you've got Oyster cards, red london buses and zone 5 stations, but you've also got greenery everywhere, with plenty of places for fresh air and kids to run around. It feels more like Sevenoaks or Tonbridge than it does Lewisham or Streatham for instance.

Probably fairest to call it what it is - part of the historic county of Kent, that is now on the edges of the mega-conurbation that is London, and falling under the jurisdiction of a London Borough.

Check out how the London sprawl stops in Bromley borough for instance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_London_Built-up_Area
 
But MM, despite the greenery, which Buckingham Palace and Hyde Park have in abundance (;)) , Bromley became part of London 55 years ago. Of course, it doesn`t stop anyone feeling that they are in Kent but, truth is, it is what it is, Bromley`s in London.
 
All these places are the wrong side of the river.

You can argue qbout whether or not you are Kentish Men but you'll never be Men of Kent. ;)

It's almost as funny as the South Wales No Borders lot.
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RainhamGill said:
Geographical location is one thing, but I guess another factor could be whether the people of Bromley identify as London or Kent.

Perhaps there should be a local referendum to determine whether Bromley should separate from London.

You could it 'Broxit'.
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But would it be a Broxit or a Brentry?
 
I grew up in Bexleyheath (Crayford end) and will always consider myself from Kent, despite that being within a London Borough.

However, my parents are both from Medway (and are back there now), so if it wasn’t for them and The Gills then maybe I’d see it differently.
 
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