Charles Aubrey Botley's nursery shop at the bottom of Vicarage Hill
Being the proprietor of ‘Darenth Nursery’ adjacent to Quebec House, Charles Aubrey Botley and his wife Marjorie Hope, sold vegetables they grew on the nursery site behind their shop. The little shop at the bottom of Vicarage Hill can still be recognised today, though it has for many years been a private residence.
Botley’s shop stirred fond memories for those living nearby in the late 1950s and early 60s. Gwen Smith was one of them “…I remember Mr and Mrs Botley’s nursery at the bottom of Vicarage Hill with the shop at the front – there was a little desk and the shop was all white inside with big brass scales for weighing the vegetables. That went on a long time because they were still there when we were living at number three Red Cottages on Vicarage Hill after we got married in 1960…”
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