Why is it called Kent House?

This adds a little context behind why when I lived in Bromley I was always told to write "Kent" on post, even though I wasn't in Kent. Apparently it was indeed fully in Kent at some point.

It feels rather odd to see a local place on HN. On a tangent, Diamond Geezer posted about their 15,000,000th visitor[1]. HN came in 4th for referrals and was noted “Hacker News are an American aggregator portal who've only sent people here a dozen times but in such huge numbers that they're fourth”.

[1] https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/05/fifteen-million.h...

Always glad to see south London get the love it needs.

Many stations along that line (Clockhouse, Elmers End, Ladywell) have interesting histories

Very random to see a post about my local station appear on the front page of HN.

If anyone wants a free iPhone app to check train times from Kent House (other stations are available, but may not be featured on HN), here's one Claude and I wrote:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/traintrack-uk/id6504205950

I only remember that station because of the weird road