Editing Penge (section)

==Landmarks==
*There are several Victorian [[almshouse]]s in Penge, the oldest being the [[Free Watermen and Lightermen's Almshouses]] (also known as the Royal Watermen's Almshouses),<ref>[http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/bromley/penge/royal-watermans.htm http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/bromley/penge/royal-watermans.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421113607/http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/bromley/penge/royal-watermans.htm |date=21 April 2009 }} ''ideal-homes.org.uk''</ref> built in 1840–1841 on Beckenham Road, to designs by [[George Porter (architect)|George Porter]] by the [[Company of Watermen and Lightermen]] of the [[City of London]], for retired company freemen and their widows.<ref name=WKent433>John Newman. ''West Kent and the Weald.'' The "Buildings of England" Series, First Edition, Sir [[Nikolaus Pevsner]] and Judy Nairn, eds. (London: Penguin, 1969), p.433.</ref> The residents were moved in 1973 to a new site in Hastings and the original buildings were converted into private homes.
*The Queen Adelaide Almshouses, also known as the King William Naval Asylum, St. John's Road, founded in 1847 and built in 1848 to designs by [[Philip Hardwick]] at the request and expense of Queen [[Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen]], the widow of [[William IV of the United Kingdom|King William IV]], to provide shelter for twelve widows or orphan daughters of naval officers. Again, the almshouses are now private residences.<ref name=WKent433/>
*St. John's Cottages on Maple Road were built as almshouses in 1863, designed by the architect Edwin Nash. As with their predecessors, the cottages are now privately owned homes. On New Year's Day 1959, No.8 was destroyed by a gas explosion, killing one person.<ref>Housewife dies in Maple Road blast, ''''Beckenham and Penge Advertiser'''', 8 January 1959, p1.</ref> The cottage was rebuilt to closely resemble the original.
*The police station at the corner of the High Street and Green Lane is believed to have been London's oldest working police station<ref>[http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/bromley/penge/police-station.htm http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/bromley/penge/police-station.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031019124257/http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/bromley/penge/police-station.htm |date=19 October 2003 }} ''ideal-homes.org.uk''</ref> when it was closed in 2010.
*When completed in 1956 the [[Crystal Palace Transmitter]] was the tallest structure in the UK, a record it lost to the [[Anglia Television]] transmitter at Belmont, Lincolnshire in 1959. It remained the tallest structure in the London area until 1991.

===Gallery===
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Royal Waterman`s Almhouses, Penge.jpg|Waterman's Square Almhouses in 1890
Waterman's Square Penge.jpg|Waterman's Square Almshouses in 2017
Penge former Police Station.jpg|Former Police Station in Penge
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