Aerial View of Bromley
from a Tom Dryer post on Facebook

 

Aerial View of Bromley, c. 1914	Bromley Shinny Club, c. 1914	Pike Street, East from Harris Street  (now Tanner), c. 1914

 

Bromley Public School, c. 1914	Bromley School. 1948

 

The Trolley Turn-Around in Bromley

 

Bromley Service
From a Facebook post by Kathy Luck Keri

 

Main and Pike from a Facebook post by Tom Dryer	The Bromley Ferry	On Bromley/Crescent Springs Road from a Facebook post by Tom Dryer	Mueller's Drug Store from a Facebook post by Tom Dryer

 

	Three Bromley houses have an application to be on the National Register of Historic Places. Each is full of pictures and history. All are pdf's.
	Prettyman Merry House	Pleasant Run House 1	Pleasant Run House 2

 

Charles E. Maegly Grocery “Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries, Provisions, &c.” northwest corner of Main and Shelby, Bromley, Kentucky Grocery operated from c. 1902-1930	Fred Folz, General Blacksmithing and Horse Shoeing, from a Facebook post by Steve Kottmyer, of his Grandfather (on the left)

 

Bridge between Bromley and Ludlow		Remembering the toll bridge. From a Facebook post by Paula Smith

Gas Station of Lawson Brown. (Where the Vet's Memorial is now) From a Facebook post by Barbara Brown Cook	Bromley, c. 1955 from a Facebook post by Michael L. Green

 

Represented to us as Bromley

 

Three Wheel Inn
17 Pike Street

 

George Hackstadt lived in Bromley, and ran businesses in Ludlow and Covington.

Big fire at historic building owned by Hackstadt's.

 

Fire at Kerl's. The news story.
From a Facebook post by Kathy Luck Kerl

 

Christian Church on Kenton  Street, c. 1914.	1913 Flood from a Facebook post by Gary Hellebush.

 

German Church, Bromley, c. 1914, on the n.w. corner of Boone and Harris (Tanner)	First German Reformed Church, later, the Immanuel Reformed Church of Bromley
These are the same place. The church was first organized on March 11, 1894 and this building was dedicated on July 7, 1918. The name was changed due to the anti-German hysteria of the WWI era.

 

Bromley Jr. Order - Flag Raising, September, 1915	Damage from the 1915 Tornado. More NKY damage from this one, here.

  

          

These are the stores of Mrs. Christiana Kaye, widow of Charles M Kaye.
  That's her confectionery at 116 Pike Street in Bromley and her Notions store
next door at 118 Pike.  We assume, but don't know, that that's her in the pictures.  

Pike Street, Bromley, in the 1913 Flood	While you don't hear as much about it, 1933 also saw a terrible flood.  This is March 22, 1933.

 

Bromley-Crescent Springs Road, 1937 Flood
From a Facebook post by Nathan Workman

 

Bromley Ball Filed, 1937	Bromley in the 1937 Flood
	1937 Flood aftermath	Rohman
Short Street
Harris (Tanner) and Shelby	Similar but different aerials of 37 Bromley Flood

 

1937 Flood, Main and Boone
From a Facebook post by Casey Head

The story of Bromley and the 1937 Flood. Another item on Bromley and the '37 flood is here.

 

At the end of the Ludlow Car Line	Pleasant & Shelby,	326 Hayward Avenue	Shelby and Pleasant Streets
Bromley Scenes from the 1937 Flood

   
Kentucky Post, April 19, 1907

 

Catholic Telegraph, July 26, 1928

Flood Scenes, 1997
From a Facebook post by Misty Thomas

 

The day after the blizzard on the day after Thanksgiving, 1950	Scene from Pleasant Run, 1930

 

Bromley Fire Department 1941	Bromley VFD, 1953	Bromley Fire Truck	Henry Haberle at the wheel in 1915	c. 1925

Want to see LOTS of Bromley Fire Department pictures? Their scrapbook (pdf) courtesy of the Kenton County Public Library.

The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, May 4, 1849

 

          

Bromley, 1883

 

View of Bold Face Creek in the Ohio River Valley, Henry Lovie, 1858
Bold Face Creek empties into the Ohio River on the Ohio side of Bromley.
The painting is looking toward the Kentucky side.

Thanks! to Steve Cohen for some of the images on this page.

Bromley's Harris Street became Steve Tanner Street.  Details here and here.	A list of Bromley merchants as listed in the 1912-13 city directory is here.
F. A. Voelker's History of Bromley	Murder in Bromley
John Burns' History of Bromley (pdf)	Hundreds evacuated in Bromley, 1944.
The Bromley marble champions.	Bromley becomes official.
“The prize fish story of the season originated in Bromley, Ky., Wednesday, when Harry Wonderly caught a buffalo that weighed just a few ounces less  than 100 pounds.  The fish was caught in a set net with a lot of other fishes.”	“Our Bromley correspondent informs us that there is good sleighing in that classic little village, but that nothing else of note has happened on account of all the whiskey freezing solid.”  undated newspaper clipping
Ludlow proposes to annex Bromley, and make it a part of Ludlow.
The attempted elopement of Mamie Turner and Bill Syrup, here. An angry papa got involved. . .	Bromley was incorporated as a city on May 23, 1890.
The steamer General Pike was charged with distributing relief supplies at the height of the 1884 flood.  On reaching Bromley, they reported: “Bromley, a small Kentucky town composed of gardeners, was passed.  It is entirely submerged and appeared depopulated.”	“Last Monday Mr. James Moore, of this county, was arrested and fine ten dollars and costs - the full extent of the law - before Esquire Kennedy for evading the turnpike - that is, traveling along the full extent of the road, and then leaving it at Bromley without passing through the gate.  The President of the road informs us there are others who are deserving of like treatment.”
“It has been the custom, for many years past, for persons in Bromley and vicinity to inter their dead on the farm of David Harris, without the usual formality of asking permission.  No objection has been made up to this time, but parties on the Ohio side of the river having begun to exercise the same privilege, Mr. Harris deems it his duty to interfere to prevent it; and while he will not compel the disinterment of bodies already buried there, he positively refuses to allow any further use of his premises for cemetery purposes.”
A little below Bromley, about a mile upriver from the Anderson Ferry, was the McCullum Riffle.  You can read about a steamboat incident there from 1851, here.	Railroad ruffians in 1875 in Bromley, here.

“Let's prepare people's food in a former sewer treatment plant!
What could possibly go wrong?”