Now the premises of Deli di Luca and Zebra Zebra (2018), in the 1900s this was one of two large ...
This little general store seemed miles away from any other shops, but would have been very well patronised by residents ...
Parking was clearly not a big problem in the 1920s
Reference: 0054
This booking form dating from between the wars, gives some account of the facilities on offer to the traveller in a less regulated and more primitive era with no central heating and a charge for hot water, garaging and servants.
Reference: WH0106
This photograph dates from the late 1920s or early ’30s and shows that the two ‘Darenth Cottages’ attached to the Old House at Home had been pulled down by that time.
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Frank ‘Joe’ Jenner ran his taxi and chauffeur business from some old stables and a tiny office in the yard of The Kings Arms Hotel. Standing here beside one of his prestige vintage steeds, a 1921 Sunbeam saloon. During Ernest Blackton’s time in the late 1920s, Wolfe Garage had run a taxi service from the Kings ...
Reference: 0022
The Gardens of Hosey date back to 1815 when ‘commons waste’ was mapped-out and ‘allotted’ to the families of the poor of the district, the menfolk of whom had fought for Britain in the Napoleonic wars – penniless men came home to starving families. Enclosure of commons waste was being established in rural areas throughout the country at ...
Reference: WH0445
This 1934 O.S. map shows the northern half of the ‘Kennedy Garden’ allotments, being plots 27 at the south end and 41 at the north, behind the school. Between the two divided sections of the Gardens can be seen the haul road for movement of ragstone excavated from the Hosey mines in the nineteenth century.
Reference: WH0429
Allotments under threat. Following the second World War local planning was well under way for the development of much needed social housing to expand on that first built on Nursery Site in 1927 and at the Paddock. Some allotment sites were put under threat by these development plans and to that end Westerham Allotment Holders ...
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This solid Victorian drinking establishment owned by the Watney Brewery and the barbers shop next door was pulled down in the late 1930s to be replaced by a ‘Faux Tudor’ style pub owned by Watney Combe Reid. This ‘new’ pub was itself closed and demolished in the late 1990s and was replaced by a row ...
Reference: 0024
This section of the old High Street has seen a fair amount of change over the years. Originally the site of a little row of shops, these were razed to the ground in the 1880s to accommodate a new public house owned by the Watney brewery company, called The Rifleman. This in turn was knocked-down ...
Reference: WH0078
After a very long stint as the ‘brewery tap’ and then a small ‘tied-house’ the General Wolfe pub sadly closed in 2017. As the Royal British Legion clubhouse in Mill Lane has also closed and the ‘Warde Arms’ in the High Street closed as a pub in the 1970s, it is a long walk to ...
Reference: 0025
Known in the 1890s as the ‘Old House Inn’, this photograph shows the pub completely devoid of advertising apart from a name on the lamp above the door. It was unusual at that time for the Brewery not to promote themselves with large hoardings on the roof or adorning the front of the building. Originally ...
Reference: 0023
This photograph taken circa 1891 shows the two ‘Darenth Cottages’ attached to the Old House Inn on the edge of Quebec Square. Photographic evidence has these cottages still extant after the first World War, but gone by the early 1930s when the resultant vacant land was absorbed by Harry Langridge’s ‘Darenth Nursery’
Reference: WH0098
Like its neighbour the George & Dragon in Market Square, the Grasshopper on the Green was a tied house owned by the Croydon brewery Nalder & Collyer. As the advertising board on the pub roof displays, the brewers would often promote themselves through ‘Nalder & Collyer Entire’ where ‘Entire’ was a strong dark triple-blended beer ...
Reference: 0058
It was to Tonbridge Technical Institute that Kent Education Committee steered Hosey School headmaster ‘Dick’ Forsey when teaching staff in the School requested to start a programme of evening classes in the mid 1920s to provide further education for the senior boys. These proved very popular and were soon opened to the younger boys as ...
Reference: 0046
The Horticultural Society took themselves very seriously in 1909, and stated that “…the judges will not award prizes to such productions as may not be deemed worthy”. Prizes were always cash and at that time of Five Shillings and upwards.
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