The road with two names 1 When builder Thomas Henry Weller built his showcase terrace as Westbury Terrace there was nothing but a dirt footpath in front of the houses before what became an unruly hedge bordering Farley Nursery. When the Nursery closed the land was purchased by the local Council for social housing between 1925 ...
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The Westerham Fanciers Association was founded in 1912, as one of a few Associations and Societies devoted to smallholdings including the Cottagers’ and Allotments Association. The 1921 catalogue was for an Open Show, so not just for Association members. On 30th April 1924, a letter was returned from Clarice Fisher (Chartwell staff) to G S H ...
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Alongside his ‘day-job’ running the Herald Steam Printing Works, printing Hookers Almanack and the Westerham Herald newspaper, Charles Hooker was Secretary of the Westerham Gas and Coke Company who ran the gas works. This would provide added income but along with that would go added responsibility. However, for all businesses at the turn of the ...
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In 1941 the Red Cross and St. John Ambulance took over the big house at Combe Bank rent-free from the ‘Society of Holy Child Jesus’ for ‘the duration of hostilities’ as a RAF convalescent hospital. They also took over a big house near Swanley which became the Parkwood Auxiliary Hospital and Convalescent Home for convalescent servicemen, especially ...
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The Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor (Y.P.S.C.E.) was formed as an interdenominational Christian youth society which provided a structure for church youth to work together to know God in Jesus Christ. Started in Portland, Maine in the U.S. in 1882 the Society spread throughout the British Empire and beyond by the early 1890s. Christian Endeavor is ...
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