This and the following five photographs depict the closed brach-line at Westerham between 1962 and 1964. A rather dismal scene.
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Peter Finch “…I don’t know whether they suspected another war was coming, but there was lots of building going on just before the war – the fire station was resited at the top of Croydon Road in a smart new building, with a mortuary to the side of it. Outside the mortuary window they erected ...
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Peace Celebration Saturday July 19th 1919 Country-wide cities, towns and villages all celebrated peace on the same day in July 1919. In Westerham a victory procession moves round Green with the Town Band led by a Town Crier behind whom walked two young ladies in hooded cloaks carrying a banner that proclaimed ‘This is the Town ...
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Peace Celebration Saturday July 19th 1919 The front banner proclaimed ‘This is the Town of Westerham’. The next banner simply said ‘These are the Men who manage the Town of Westerham.’ The following banner said ‘These are the Women who manage the Men who manage the Town of Westerham’ and the final banner said ‘These are the Children ...
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The procession marched to Squerryes cricket ground where tea was provided for the children. They were afterwards, along with all the other children of the town, presented with medals, commemorative of the day, by the Honourable Mrs. Warde, Lieutenant John Warde and Miss Warde.
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In 1941 the Red Cross and St. John Ambulance took over the big house at Combe Bank rent-free from the ‘Society of Holy Child Jesus’ for ‘the duration of hostilities’ as a RAF convalescent hospital. They also took over a big house near Swanley which became the Parkwood Auxiliary Hospital and Convalescent Home for convalescent servicemen, especially ...
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June Heath “…At the end of the war the community feeling here was terrific, there were parties at Charlie Sharp’s garage and in all the Pubs, everywhere was alive and, everyone was very friendly – the community feeling was something that I felt or noticed that I hadn’t so much through the war years…and it ...
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The Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor (Y.P.S.C.E.) was formed as an interdenominational Christian youth society which provided a structure for church youth to work together to know God in Jesus Christ. Started in Portland, Maine in the U.S. in 1882 the Society spread throughout the British Empire and beyond by the early 1890s. Christian Endeavor is ...
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