It was agreed to proceed with the annual occasion of the Westerham Hill Horse Show on August 25th, on the basis that money made would be collected in aid of the British Red Cross. The show was held under favourable weather conditions, and proved a great success. At a meeting to follow held at the ...
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Peter Finch “…The army erected two big water tanks – just an iron frame supporting a canvas liner – and they put one on the Green and the other beside the new fire station in Croydon Road. The fire engine could fill-up rapidly from these water tanks, but to us boys, the fire station tank ...
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The advert for Wireless concerts comes from the 1923 edition of the Westerham Herald
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1915 would appear to be the year when Edward Evenden sold the ‘West Kent Works’ in order to retire. The business and goodwill was purchased by a consortium consisting of George Taylor, Ernest Horton and James Franklin with a working capital of £10,000.
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The 2nd West Lancs Royal Army Medical Corps were billeted at Sundridge, Combe Bank and Dunsdale between October 1914 and the time of their departure for The Front on June 1st 1915. The 2nd West Lancs Royal Field Artillery were billeted at Squerryes Court. This photograph shows West Lancs RAMC at Dunsdale Farm early in ...
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The road with two names 1 When builder Thomas Henry Weller built his showcase terrace as Westbury Terrace there was nothing but a dirt footpath in front of the houses before what became an unruly hedge bordering Farley Nursery. When the Nursery closed the land was purchased by the local Council for social housing between 1925 ...
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The Westerham Fanciers Association was founded in 1912, as one of a few Associations and Societies devoted to smallholdings including the Cottagers’ and Allotments Association. The 1921 catalogue was for an Open Show, so not just for Association members. On 30th April 1924, a letter was returned from Clarice Fisher (Chartwell staff) to G S H ...
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June Ingram reflected on her families involvement with the Gasworks “…around 1950 when I was about six, my parents moved from Granville Road into the Gasworks Cottage. Mr and Mrs Herbert had been there for some years as he was manager of the works. Westerham was by then on a piped supply of town-gas from ...
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Alongside his ‘day-job’ running the Herald Steam Printing Works, printing Hookers Almanack and the Westerham Herald newspaper, Charles Hooker was Secretary of the Westerham Gas and Coke Company who ran the gas works. This would provide added income but along with that would go added responsibility. However, for all businesses at the turn of the ...
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Retained as a convenient place for the bus to stop off the road, this is the site of the station forecourt, as shown on the adjacent 1896 map. L.B. denotes a letterbox which is still there albeit of modern design.
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Bill Curtis: “…I travelled with my father on the Westerham branch in the summer of 1959 and as we were the only passengers boarding the empty train at Dunton Green, we were invited by the driver to accompany him and his fireman in the cab for the journey – what a treat! Suffice it to ...
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All looking rather gloomy and unloved, the goods shed, crane and station building opposite the Crown Hotel. The railway lasted eighty years, while the Crown just about made its centenary before it too, was closed and pulled down. June Ingram “…there was a long bus strike in the late 1950s and I was at the Tech ...
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King Edward VII had died of a heart attack on May 6th 1910. In Sevenoaks the decision was made to “…erect a Hospital worthy of the late King’s memory” capitalised by grants, fund-raising events and public subscription, and to that effect on April 15th 1911, the Westerham Town Band were approached to deliver an open-air ...
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Early on in the war, the Ministry of Food and the Ministry of Supply formed reserve or ‘buffer’ depots from within Command to feed the civilian population, and it often became necessary to share railheads, such as at Westerham, where the Ministry of Supply built a large ‘buffer’ food supply depot, alongside where 6 AA ...
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Back row L-R: Ernie Terry, Bob Taylor, Reg. Goldsmid, Wm. Streatfeild, Cyril Fuller, ?, Jim Charman, Ben Holman, ? Front row: Dick Taylor, Tom Godfrey, Bernard Chilman, Bill Richardson, Bill Godfrey
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