L-R Angela Gartshore, Neville Wells, Anne Quirke, Jack Bates and Harold Peacock In 1960 WADS gave a reprise performance of ‘Five Birds in a Cage,’ a one-act play they had first staged in April 1929. Written by Gertrude Jennings in 1915, the play was billed as ‘an exuberant social satire’ concerning five characters caught in a ...
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WADS production of ‘The Edwardians’ in the WI Hall in 1970 seated in white hat Rosemary Pearson seated centre Joan Bramwell standing in hat Katherine Calvocoressi
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This concert was quite an early event, the poster being printed by Wm. Bridger, a printer in Tonbridge who was obviously unfamiliar with the title of the Warde Arms and the representation of the local family, hence the spelling.
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This photograph taken by Joseph Jewell shows the second of the two triumphal arches that had been erected in the town to honour and bless the wedding of Lt.-Col Charles Arthur Madan Warde and the Hon. Anastasia Kathleen Lucia O’Brien. Note the Scottish flag hanging from the window of Kirkgate House – a curious touch as Charles was ...
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This photograph of the bridesmaids is taken beside the main door of St. Mary’s Church, but the porch was a different construction at that time.
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This photograph is believed to have been taken outside St Mary’s school for girls and infants in London Road. ‘Welcome’ was presumably directed towards the Hon. Anastasia who would become a Westerham resident that day.
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An assembly of dignitaries and workers from the Estate gather together, possibly on the Toll, in what looks to be fairly foul weather. They probably kept the speeches short…
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English Flag Day is a day when money is collected in public places for a charity, in this case in 1916, for the Red Cross V.A.D. Hospital at Dunsdale which received no funding outside that of public donations.
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With the onset of war, several of the clubs and societies had been suspended ‘for the duration of hostilities’, often because the number of men had dwindled, or because activities were deemed ‘inappropriate.’ But the Gardening Society battled on and became quite pivotal with the increased demand on produce from the land. They had ...
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