[2] A distinctive town hall with a tall clock tower, which was designed by Lanchester, Lucas and Lodge in the Neo-Georgian style,[3] was built in the High Street and completed in 1932.

[5] In 1935 the urban district council successfully petitioned for a charter of incorporation, and became a municipal borough.

[7] Its former area was combined with that of other districts to form the present-day London Borough of Bromley.

John Cator was lord of the manor from 1773 and developed Beckenham from a village into a town.

These stood for Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, who received the manor of Beckenham at the time of the Norman Conquest.