This booking form dating from between the wars, gives some account of the facilities on offer to the traveller in a less regulated and more primitive era with no central heating and a charge for hot water, garaging and servants.
Reference: WH0106
After a very long stint as the ‘brewery tap’ and then a small ‘tied-house’ the General Wolfe pub sadly closed in 2017. As the Royal British Legion clubhouse in Mill Lane has also closed and the ‘Warde Arms’ in the High Street closed as a pub in the 1970s, it is a long walk to ...
Reference: 0025
Like its neighbour the George & Dragon in Market Square, the Grasshopper on the Green was a tied house owned by the Croydon brewery Nalder & Collyer. As the advertising board on the pub roof displays, the brewers would often promote themselves through ‘Nalder & Collyer Entire’ where ‘Entire’ was a strong dark triple-blended beer ...
Reference: 0058
Note the ‘Hotel Department’, alongside accommodation, were offering well appointed Coffee, Billiard and Smoking Rooms, while the ‘Commercial Department’ advertised Hot & Cold Water Baths – quite a novelty for the day! At that time, the Hotel had its own coachhouses and stabling in the rear yard.
Reference: WH0104
This ‘Carte de Visite’ would have been handed out to visitors of Barclay and Perkins’ Kings Arms to advertise the establishment in the days before the arrival of the Westerham Herald. The front of the ‘Carte’ proudly states ‘Omnibuses daily to Caterham’ while on the back (next photograph) are details of all services provided by ...
Reference: WH0105
The address of the Kings Arms in the 1900s was ‘High Street’ as that was the title given to what is now called Market Square. At that time, the Green was known as ‘Market Place’.
Reference: WH0107
This photograph taken circa 1891 shows the two ‘Darenth Cottages’ attached to the Old House Inn on the edge of Quebec Square. Photographic evidence has these cottages still extant after the first World War, but gone by the early 1930s when the resultant vacant land was absorbed by Harry Langridge’s ‘Darenth Nursery’
Reference: WH0098