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Penge and District Trade Union Social Club
85 Royston Rd
London, SE20 7QW
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London's entertainment is focused around Leicester Square, where London and world film premieres are held, and Piccadilly Circus, with its giant electronic advertisements. London's theatre district is here, as are many cinemas, bars, clubs and restaurants, including the city's Chinatown district, and just to the east is Covent Garden, an area housing specialty shops. London offers a great variety of cuisine as a result of its ethnically diverse population. Gastronomic centres include the Bangladeshi restaurants of Brick Lane and the Chinese food restaurants of Chinatown. Soho's variety of restaurants includes Italian- and Greek-influenced establishments among others, as well as all manner of novelties and oddities. There are a variety of regular annual events. The Caribbean-descended community in Notting Hill in West London organizes the colourful Notting Hill Carnival, Europe's biggest street carnival, every summer. What's on in London
Social Clubs in Penge |
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| Bromley Catholic Social Club 83 Plaistow Lane Bromley Kent BR1 3JE Tel: 020 8402 4863 |
Farnborough Kent Social Club 6 Pleasant View Place Orpington Kent BR6 7BL Tel: 01689 852408 |
| Orpington Conservative Club 4 Sevenoaks Road Orpington Kent BR6 9JJ Tel: 01689 828830 |
Penge Social Club 54 High Street London SE20 7HB Tel: 020 8402 9602 |
| Sundridge Park Working Mens Club & Institute 134 Burnt Ash Lane Bromley Kent BR1 5AF Tel: 020 8460 6348 |
Beckenham Working Mens Club 89-91 Churchfields Road Beckenham Kent BR3 4QQ Tel: 020 8650 1463 |
| Bromley Ambulance Sports & Social Club Bromley Ambulance Station Crown Lane Bromley Kent BR2 9PW Tel: 020 8460 6278 |
Bromley Labour Club H G Wells Centre St Marks Road Bromley Kent BR2 9HG Tel: 020 8460 7409 |
| Hsbc Sports & Social Club Lennard Road Beckenham Kent BR3 1QW Tel: 020 8778 7434 |
Penge & District Trade Union &
Social Club 85 Royston Road London SE20 7QW Tel: 020 8778 5534 |
| Rosecroft Social Club 269 High Street St Mary Cray Kent BR5 4AR Tel: 01689 876808 |
Swanley Junction Working Mens Club 18 High Street Swanley Kent BR8 8BG Tel: 01322 662102 |
Penge was once a small town, which was recorded under the name Penceat in a Saxon deed dating from 957. Most historians believe the name of the town is derived from the Celtic word "Penceat" which means "edge of wood" and refers to the fact that the surrounding area was once covered in a dense forest. The original Celtic words of which the name was composed referred to "pen", "head", as in the Welsh "pen" (used in Penarth) and "ceat", "wood", similar to the Welsh "coed" (used in Llangoedmor). Penge formed a part of the parish of Battersea, with the historic county boundary between Kent and Surrey forming its eastern boundary. In 1855 both parts of the parish were included in the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works, with Penge Hamlet Vestry electing six members to the Lewisham District Board of Works. The Local Government Act 1888 abolished the Metropolitan Board, with its area becoming the County of London. However the London Government Act 1899 subsequently made provision for Penge to be removed from the County of London and annexed to either Surrey or Kent. Accordingly, an order in council transferred the hamlet to Kent in 1900, constituting it as Penge Urban District. The urban district was abolished in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963, and its former area merged with that of other districts to form the London Borough of Bromley. With the creation of the Penge Urban District, Penge New Road (formerly the part of Beckenham Road north of Kent House Road) was renamed Penge High Street. From 1885 the Hamlet of Penge was a ward of the Dulwich (UK Parliament constituency)(then in Surrey) and remained in that electorate until 1950 when it was transferred to the new Beckenham (UK Parliament constituency). In future elections Penge will become part of Lewisham West and Penge (UK Parliament constituency) In the Victorian era Penge developed into a fashionable suburb because of its proximity to the relocated Crystal Palace. By 1862 Stanford's map of London shows large homes had been constructed along Penge New Road (now Crystal Palace Park Road and Penge High Street), Thick Wood (now Thicket) Road and Anerley Road. This all came to an end with the notorious Penge Murders of 1877. More on Penge