Being the proprietor of ‘Darenth Nursery’ adjacent to Quebec House, Charles Aubrey Botley and his wife Marjorie Hope, sold vegetables they grew on the nursery site behind their shop. The little shop at the bottom of Vicarage Hill can still be recognised today, though it has for many years been a private residence. Botley’s shop stirred fond ...
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A ticket for entry to the twenty-seventh annual summer fete of the Chevening Habitation August 6th 1890 was the date of the fifth annual summer fete of the Chevening Habitation of the Primrose League. The parishes represented in the Habitation at that time were Westerham, Chevening, Brasted, Sundridge, Halstead, and Knockholt. The Primrose League was first ...
Reference: WH0677
In 1856 sixty year-old Chimney Sweep John Newman lived in this house with his wife Mary. Working from horse and cart, there was a stable and cart-shed in the back yard. On the 1871 Census, now 76, John was still working as a sweep, but was then employing his 20 year-old grandson John in the ...
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Twenty three years before the formation of the town’s Senior Youth Club, young people associated with St. Mary’s Church were already coming together as a group to provide entertainment with music and plays. This programme from 1930 is typical of those events. Some interesting points that have surfaced are that there was a distinct ‘HOBA’ ...
Reference: WH0853
