Aerial View of
Bromley, c. 1914

Bromley Shinny Club, c. 1914
(Don't know what Shinny is?  Try here.)

Pike Street, East
from Harris Street
 (now Tanner), c. 1914

 

Bromley Public School, c. 1914
On the north side of Shelby, between
 Rohman & Harris, (now Steve Tanner)

Bromley School. 1948

 

 

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

 

Christian Church on Kenton
 Street, c. 1914.  		German Church, Bromley, c. 1914, on the n.w. corner of Boone and Harris (Tanner)

  

Bromley, after the July 7, 1915 Tornado 

 

                  

These are the stores of Mrs. Christiana Kaye, widow of Charles M Kaye.
  That's her confectionary at 116 Pike Street in Bromley and her Notions store
next door at 118 Pike.  I 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.
 

At the end of the Ludlow Car Line Pleasant & Shelby,
from a Facebook post by Jackie Farris		 326 Hayward Avenue Shelby and Pleasant Streets
Bromley Scenes from the 1937 Flood

   

Bromley Fire
Department 1941

Bromley VFD, 1953

Scene from Pleasant Run, 1930

 

                

Bromley, 1883

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

Bromley's Harris Street became Steve Tanner Street.  Details here.

A list of Bromley merchants as listed in the 1912-12 city directory is here.

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."
 from the Maysville Daily Public Ledger, September 5, 1912

"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."  The Ludlow Reporter, February 13, 1875
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.”
 From the Cincinnati Enquirer, February 18, 1884.		 "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." - from the Ludlow Reporter, September 26. 1874.
"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."  from the Ludlow Reporter, October 10, 1874.

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.

  

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

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