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Exploring the history of a Kent market town

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Welcome!

This website records the history of the town of Westerham, Kent in the UK.  Here you can browse through our collection of local historical material, which includes photos, old documents and the memories of local people. Find out more about us or get in touch.

This website was launched by Westerham Society members on February 5th 2018 with over 1000 images and will for some time be work in progress – to date we are about half populated and new stories are being added daily. We thank the team who have been involved to date – well done all, it only took four years from the day when someone suggested it! Our grateful thanks to Peter Finch, John Hooker, Geoff Hoath and all the others who had the foresight to collect documents, postcards and photographs over so many years.

We hope you enjoy your visit and tell your friends about ‘Westerham Heritage’!

A selection of pictures and stories were on display on the Westerham Society Stand at the ‘Country Fayre on the Green’ on Sat 18th September 2021, an example of which is shown below:

For information on the 2021 Virtual Fair Poster Quiz, click here.

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    Pubs past and present

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    Notable People

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    Welcome to Covid-safe entertainment on the Westerham Heritage Website. We hope you have found all of the posters around the town, ...
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    • Bill Curtis on The John Groom Children’s Home at Pilgrim HouseHi Ray, thanks for that information, it looks like you were brothers? kind regards, Bill
    • Raymond James on The John Groom Children’s Home at Pilgrim HouseRay and Alex James To black boys were there between 1956 to 1961 Ray
    • Bill Curtis on The Creative Energy of the other Mr. HookerThanks for your memories Rob, and glad you enjoyed the site! Bill
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Thanks to the generous support of The National Lottery Heritage Fund and National Lottery players, this website was launched by Westerham Society members in 2018 for the enjoyment of visitors to the site throughout the world.
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