BEXLEY Local Studies and Archive Centre is inviting people to learn more about one of the borough's most historic buildings.
Archivist Oliver Wooler will be giving a talk on Hall Place in the 20th Century.
Since the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Hall Place has been a home to a mistress of King Edward VII, a lord and an Irish countess.
Bexley Council took over the building in 1935 and it has had many uses since then, from a secret American military base to part of a girls' school.
The talk, on February 8 at 7.30pm, will be illustrated with previously unpublished slides, which may back up the many wild rumours and unconfirmed facts which surround the building.
These include the Austrian baron, a past resident suspected of planning to build a tunnel under the English Channel at a time when German spies were rife in England and the ghost of a butler which is said to haunt the staircase.
The tickets, which cost £4, are available from Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre, Central Library, Townley Road, Bexleyheath, or by calling 020 8836 7470.
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