This 1917 advertisement not only has Hubble selling bicycles and spares, but also dealing in builders materials as well. Having sold his Westerham garage interests to Edward Newall, it would appear he has consolidated what remained at his old stomping ground in Brasted.
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Edward Newall was an electrical and mechanical engineer from Battersea in London. It appears that he bought the business interests off Henry Hubble around 1916. No adverts for a garage in what was at that time known as ‘Market square’ are found in the war-time newspapers until this announcement appeared in the Herald on May 17 ...
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By 1919 Edward Newall had joined the Employers and Employees Discharged Soldiers scheme in which he would have received government subsidies in return for employing returning soldiers. What was Market Square has become The Green, and Newall not only has his business where Hubble was, but has a second business premises in Stratton Yard.
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Parking was clearly not a big problem in the 1920s
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This purpose-built motor dray from commercial vehicle manufacturers Hallfords of Dartford was registered on 2nd June 1916 as KT 8164. The company was actually J & E Hall who between 1906 and 1926 produced London and country buses, haulage vehicles and lorries deployed with the British Army during WWI. The name ‘Hallfords’ was coined from ...
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Albert Harold Octavius Streatfeild was one of the strong cricketers in the family. Known by his friends as Harold Streatfeild, he was known within the family by the younger members as ‘Uncle Poodle.’ As the Estate manager at Squerryes, he married Dorothy Warde in 1911, thus creating family ties between the Wardes and the Streatfeilds. He ...
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Always ready to adapt to new technology. Where else in Westerham would you be able to buy a wireless? The BBC only started broacasting in1922.
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On the left of the group, members of the Webb family from Mill Street including Fred Webb senior on the end and Grandad Webb, third from the left.
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