Some sort of costume drama is in full swing outside the Women’s Institute hall, with ‘players’ from the W.I. No-one can remember what it was or when, but a few people have said they thought it happened on a Carnival day. It appeared to draw a fair-sized crowd, any suggestions?
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Begun in 1872, Westerham Horticultural Society was popular amongst the community who would look forward to the annual summer exhibition each year. It was for many years hosted by the Warde family in Surrey Park at the bottom of Goodley Stock, west of Squerryes Court, where big marquees would be erected to house the displays. ...
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Edward A. Newall was an electrical and mechanical engineer from Battersea, London where he had served an apprenticeship under his father, Alexander Newall who had his own electrical and mechanical engineering business.
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Frank Couchman was a motorcycle engineer from Lenham in Kent. He would go on to join forces with Edward Newall in a partnership business in Westerham
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Nothing is known about this chapel, other than it is believed to have stood on the corner of Hosey Hill and today’s A25 heading east, the site where ‘West Lodge’ was built in 1862. The photograph is therefore amongst Westerham’s oldest, probably dating from the mid-to-late 1850s. It would likely be attributable to Joseph Henry ...
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This doesn’t sound like a fun lot by today’s standards, but in the late 1800s there was a strong temperance movement in Westerham, linked with non-conformist religion practised at both the Congregational Church and the Gospel Chapel in the High Street. In advertising the evening, the poster uses the letters ‘D.V’ which in Brethren parlance ...
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In 1939 this centenary souvenir booklet was produced and sold by the Congregational Church to celebrate 100 years as a place of worship. The history of the chapel on this site is recorded in the pages that follow.
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