Committee News

Summary of Committee Meeting held on 27th May 2026

Eight members of the Committee having assembled and apologies recorded, the minutes of the previous meeting were approved. New member Clare was welcomed by all present.

Following on previous actions required, consideration was given to ways of capturing reminiscences of the Borough to create an oral history resource within our archive at the new Orpington store, when completed. The possibility of having a permanent on-line archive was suggested and will be further investigated.

One issue of concern was attracting new and ideally younger members, possibly by working with other organisations and focusing on more recent and more relevant local history. This also related to membership of the Committee some of whose members are looking to hand over their responsibilities to younger members. Meetings and visits will be taken over  by Nicholas at the end of the year but the magazine editor’s plans to pass on the role had unfortunately had to be cancelled.

The website manager is also looking for a replacement. He reported that he averaged about one query a week, some of which were quite complex to investigate and the closure of the Bromley Library archive (for the present) made this more difficult.

A donation to the new David Bowie house in Sundridge Park was agreed.

The next meeting will be on Wednesday 5^th Augusts 2026.