The lads are standing in what had originally been ‘Newton’s Nursery’ which was on the north side of London Road stretching down to South Bank. This was the first of the towns’ nurseries to be closed around the time of the first World War.
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Armistice Day is commemorated every year on November 11th to remember the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany for the cessation of hostilities at the Western Front of WWI. This took effect at eleven o’clock in the morning, signified by ‘…the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918’ Westerham has always ...
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Peter Finch “My dad wasn’t a rich man but he looked after his pennies. He worked for the two Doctors, Hay and Cotton. He split his week between them, as a gardener for Dr Hay and a groom for Dr Cotton. He only got labourer’s wages, about two pounds a week, but he’d put something ...
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Alongside being Dr. Hay’s gardener, Arthur Finch appears to have become his chauffeur as well, probably in the early 1930s when Dr. Cotton retired. Here he is standing on the front drive of Dr. Hay’s house, then called ‘Borde Hill’ on Vicarage Hill (now renamed as ‘Old Mill Leat’). Rosemary Pearson recalls “…Doctor Hay’s daughter Jean moved ...
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Arthur Waterhouse “…I went home and got my kit and my mother said ‘I’m coming with you’ but I said ‘oh no you’re not, you just stay here at home’. I went down to the Drill Hall and they were all turning up – they’d had their papers too, lots of them…” Mons Bell “…in 1939 ...
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During the war, Australia raised an all volunteer force for overseas service, known as the Australian Imperial Force, which subsequently served in several theatres, including the Gallipoli Campaign, the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and on the Western Front in both France and Belgium.
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The only person identified in this photograph is Reginald Ellis Bushell (nephew of Benjamin Bushell) at the back on the right wearing a trilby hat.
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Back row all unknown Middle row Reginald Ellis Bushell, unknown, Topper Richardson, Bill Sales Front row unknown, Bill Richardson, Bernard Chilman, Frank Cosgrove
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Some people have been identified (20 Feb 2018) Back row unknown, Thomas Rushson, 2x unknown, Tom Webb, Reginald Bushell Middle row Fred Anscombe, Frank Cosgrove, unknown, Peter Richardson Front row Bill ‘Beazle’ Richardson, Bernard Chilman, Benny Barnes
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An annual occasion for the men’s section of the RBL branch.
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