Could you ever imagine walking to the bottom of Hosey Hill to go to the Cinema? Several older townsfolk remember ...
This was one of several events held to raise money towards the construction of Brasted open-air bathing pool on the site where Brasted recreational ground now stands. The pool was sited where the children’s playground sits now, and was fed by an underground stream with an overflow into the river Darent just north of the ...
Reference: WH0844
Twenty three years before the formation of the town’s Senior Youth Club, young people associated with St. Mary’s Church were already coming together as a group to provide entertainment with music and plays. This programme from 1930 is typical of those events. Some interesting points that have surfaced are that there was a distinct ‘HOBA’ ...
Reference: WH0853
The Town Band played on The Green to respect the occasion as the congregation left the church following the United Memorial Service for King Edward VII who had died on May 6th 1910.
Reference: WH0858
Westerham’s Town Band’s ‘Serpent’ dates from the earliest days of the Town Band in 1892 when the ‘First March of the Volunteer Brass Band’ was witnessed under the conductorship of Mr Thomas Hardes. The design of the instrument is much older than that and the Serpent may have been nothing more than a ‘mascot’ for the ...
Reference: WH0862
In 1926 the Westerham Women’s Institute staged a performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar at Squerryes Court. The play, in five acts, was produced by Mrs Granville Streatfeild with incidental music composed and conducted by Miss H. Lubbock. Some key roles were as follows Julius Caesar, Mrs Strolger Calpurnia, Mrs Grace Mark Anthony, Mrs Streatfeild Brutus, Mrs Brown Cassius, Mrs Bowles Metellus Cimber ...
Reference: WH0322