Fred Johnson was the owner of Wolfe garage from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Here he is giving a few minor tweaks to Joe Jenner’s 1921 Sunbeam 24HP 4.5 litre saloon prior to a hire as a bridal car. This very car was recently sold at auction for £110,000…
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Following Sir Winston’s death on January 24 1965, his chauffeur for over forty years, Mr Jenner appeared in the January 29 Evening Standard in an article titled ‘All of Us’ ‘Under that bluff manner, there was the greatest kindness and sympathy for people’ said Mr Jenner ‘I like to remember Sir Winston not for the great things ...
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Hollingworth’s fruit and vegetable shop was the one with the rather tatty blind next door to Edwin Catt’s drapery store. Mr Hollingworth had his nursery down beside the market field in what became the eastern end of the Quebec Avenue development. His nursery was known by the youngsters of the day as ‘Hollybob’s Ranch’ but ...
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It appears that Joe Jenner gained an introduction to Churchill as early as 1922, when the Churchill’s were temporarily living at Hosey Rigge, awaiting the finishing of structural alterations to Chartwell, their recently purchased home. Jenner was summoned to the house where Churchill asked if he could be driven to London. Only too pleased to ...
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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 ...
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A London Evening Standard edition for June 1949 ran an article: ‘Sergeant Joe waits for Mr Churchill’ Mr Winston Churchill was presenting long-service medals to fifty special constables at Westerham (pop 3700), two miles from Chartwell Manor, his country home in Kent. In Saint Mary’s 200-seat Church Hall were ‘specials’ who enrolled during the IRA troubles in 1939 ...
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Frank ‘Joe’ Jenner ran his taxi and chauffeur business from some old stables and a tiny office in the yard of The Kings Arms Hotel. Standing here beside one of his prestige vintage steeds, a 1921 Sunbeam saloon. During Ernest Blackton’s time in the late 1920s, Wolfe Garage had run a taxi service from the Kings ...
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