Welcome to the online catalogue for Bromley Historic Collections’ archives and museum services.
Bromley Historic Collections is the combined Archives, Local Studies Library, and Museum services for the London Borough of Bromley. We collect, preserve and make accessible the historic record of the Borough,
its communities, institutions and people, as well as published local history resources and objects of local and historic importance.
From this site you can search for records and objects from our Archives and Museum collections, as well as seeing brief descriptions of what we hold. To access the catalogue for our Local Studies Library please click here.
If you would like to view any of our records in our public searchroom, or enquire about scans and copies, then please contact us at:historic.collections@gll.org or phone us on: 020 3931 0907.
For information regarding our open hours, please follow this Link.
This catalogue contains over 40,000 archive entries and 20,000 museum objects including:
- Historical records of the London Borough of Bromley and its predecessor
authorities;
- Parish records, including registers;
- Bromley schools' archives;
- Business records;
- Estate papers;
- Papers of local groups and societies;
- Personal papers.
- Archaeological finds
- Ethnographic collections, including the Lubbock Collection
- Natural history collections
- Decorative Arts
- Fine Arts
- Numismatics (medals and coins)
- Social history collection
For further information about the collections please visit the Bromley Local
Studies, Archives and Museum
homepage.