Ravensbourne (formerly Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication) is a higher education college in East London, specialising in design and broadcasting. It has a reputation as one of the country's best digital design colleges and is highly regarded for its fashion courses; it won River Island Gold Award during Graduate Fashion week 2008. Ravensbourne was formerly Bromley Technical College, formed in 1959 by the amalgamation of the Bromley School of Art and the Department of Furniture Design of the Beckenham School of Art. It occupied sites in Bromley Common and Chislehurst before moving to a new campus on the Greenwich Peninsula in September 2010. The Bromley School of Art opened in 1878 in Tweedy Road, Bromley. In 1959 it merged with the Department of Furniture Design of the Beckenham School of Art and in 1965 moved to purpose-built accommodation on Rookery Lane, Bromley Common. The site had originally housed the Rookery, an 18th century house that had been burnt out while in military occupation in 1946. As the college expanded it was unable to develop the Rookery Lane site any further, as it was part of the Metropolitan Green Belt.