Joe Jenner by his office, Kings Arms yard
Frank Lewis Jenner was born in Westerham in 1902, the third son of six surviving children. His parents Edward and Sarah lived at Valence Lodge, where his father was a domestic coachman and later chauffeur for the Watney family.
During Ernest Blackton’s time in the late 1920s, Wolfe Garage had run a taxi service from the Kings Arms yard. Whether this was a ‘buy-out’ of Meadows business, a collaboration, or the retirement of Meadows, aged sixty years, is not clear, but Len Skinner working at Wolfe Garage at that time, remembers the young Frank Jenner joining the garage around 1925 as a taxi driver alongside Ron Wells.
When Harry Bond took over the proprietorship of Wolfe Garage in 1929 some changes were made, and the taxi service was shut down. Frank ‘Joe’ Jenner raised some backing to continue the business as his own, along with his brother Arthur. There was clearly demand for the work, as he was still running the service some forty years later.
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