Essential services in London Road, The Post Office and Fire Station 1920s

Seen in this photograph taken circa 1920, two essential services, the purpose-built Westerham Post Office and the Fire Engine House, bearing a notice saying “Keys are kept with A. Maude Esq, Winterton House, C.Hooker ‘Glenholm’ Westbury Terrace, J. Hoath Supt. 3, South Bank”.  Apart from Dr. Maude, who had his medical practice at home, all a bit of an assumption that fires only broke out after the working day had finished…