giles
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Post by giles on Jun 5, 2011 20:18:13 GMT
BROMPTON VILLIAGE This is were my problem begins, l come form a very old Brompton family originally Bobbins then Giles and my Brompton roots go back as far as the 1830s, Why do they now insist on calling Brompton a village it is like calling London a Town Brompton hasn't been a village in atleast 150 years and there are very few people alive who can remember the true old Brompton and in the next twenty years they will all be gone it seems that to reference of village is a estate agents selling dream and modern arty fartyness which it never was there are not many villages were soldiers and saliors had fist fights a turnng out times and prostitues sold their wears up the side of the two sawyers, l would like to hear othe peoples views thanks   |
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Post by trendofriendo on Jun 6, 2011 8:24:39 GMT
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Post by Leofwine on Jun 14, 2011 23:26:10 GMT
You are not the first person with this view giles, and there is no simple answer to it, but if I may direct you to this page on the website, it gives some of the reasoning: www.bromptonvillage.co.uk/community.htmlThe problem is, if not 'village', what term should describe Brompton. It is hardly a town these days (perhaps that term could have been more rightly used in the mid 19th century when the High Street was the bustling centre of commerce for the Gillingham parish.) The 'hamlet of Brompton'? I think that would really be stretching it (although in his 1838 Topography Wright referred to Bromton as hamlet, village and town at different points in his writing, suggesting that even that long ago it's urban status was uncertain!) In a traditional sense a village is seen as a small comunity seperated from others by a barrier of fields and countryside (although recent sociological studies have suggested that even large parts the industialised Midlands can be seen in terms of a series of inter-related and adjoining villages, rather than unified towns.) Brompton is not seperated from it's neighbours by fields and countryside, but it is cut off from neighbouring communities just as thoroughly by Military Institutions (the barracks, Lines, etc) which does make it a community 'isolated' from the surrounding towns. And you are right, there are many old Brompton families - the Greens, the Bensteads, the Crowhursts, etc, and there have been many other newer families moving in throughout the 300 years the village has been here. I'm sure that some families who could trace their roots back to the earliest parts of Brompton's history thought or themselves as the 'real' Brompton families and saw those arriving in the early 1800s as outsiders and newcomers who were not part of the 'true' Old Brompton. That's the nature of society! People come and go from any community over the years. Of course, Brompton did undergo a radical social change in the 1950s (and to a lesser extent 1930s) with the council sponsored vandalism that masqueraded as 'slum clearance' when many of the residents were forced (and I'm sure sometimes voluntarily) to move to the new developments at Twydall, Wigmore and other areas, effectively destroying, or at least severely weakening a once thriving community. But because all that happened 60 years ago does that mean the current residents, both those whose families have lived here for generations, and more recent arrivals, should give up any sense of community too? Brompton has a proud history and heritage, but that does not mean it should be boxed away as a museum piece! It still is a community, perhaps not as close knit as it was 100 years ago, but where is nowadays? On the subject of fistfights between soldiers and sailors, and prostitution, illicit gambling, drinking etc, those things were never limited entirely to towns and cities, although in an area with such a large military presence as the Medway Towns had it was surely more rife here than some other places! So to sum up, why Brompton Village? Simply put, why not? Until our language introduces more versatile words it seems a community has the option of being considered a hamlet, village, town or city, and of these, it seems that 'village' is the best fit. The population is smaller than many country villages. There is a certain sense of community here revolving around those old social centres the pubs and clubs, even thoght such institutions are now sadly decimated. There are social gatherings and events for, and organized by, the community, with such events getting larger and more widespread as time goes by. It seems a shame that people should seem to prefrer to pour negativity on to the attempts to create and strengthen community bonds rather than to get involved in maintaining and increasing that sense of community. And as a footnote, I miss the days of getting free entertainment on a Saturday night when the various soldiers, sailors and marines turned out of the pubs and the mod-plod did their best to keep things under control! I guess that we have to blame on successive governments making so many cuts to the military. |
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