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 ...
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Originally land belonging to the Grange Estate, including ‘Firs Cottage’ seen on the left in the background, now at the eastern-end of where Rysted Lane meets South Bank, at the bottom of Churchill School drive. The Paddock was the site of football matches for both the Saturday team and Westerham Wednesday team for many years ...
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This solid Victorian drinking establishment owned by the Watney Brewery and the barbers shop next door was pulled down in the late 1930s to be replaced by a ‘Faux Tudor’ style pub owned by Watney Combe Reid. This ‘new’ pub was itself closed and demolished in the late 1990s and was replaced by a row ...
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