The Town Band played on The Green to respect the occasion as the congregation left the church following the United Memorial Service for King Edward VII who had died on May 6th 1910.
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Westerham’s Town Band’s ‘Serpent’ dates from the earliest days of the Town Band in 1892 when the ‘First March of the Volunteer Brass Band’ was witnessed under the conductorship of Mr Thomas Hardes. The design of the instrument is much older than that and the Serpent may have been nothing more than a ‘mascot’ for the ...
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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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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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From the Westerham Herald for 1934: All roads led to “Franks Hall” near Dartford on Wednesday where a vast audience of nearly three thousand people assembled to witness performances of Shakespeare’s great pageant play “King Henry VIII” which, together with a series of short plays, was presented at the Drama Festival organised by Mrs. Granville ...
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An account from the Secretary Miss Gosling herself that same year ‘…in 1921 it became necessary to have a home of our own, as we had met since our formation in 1918 in the Drill Hall, which was no longer available when the soldiers came back. The matter was warmly discussed at a meeting and it ...
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Westerham Country Dance Society was started by Mr and Mrs Granville Streatfeild. Minute books have yet to surface for the society, so at this time (2018) it is not known who they competed against. Seated in the centre front-row left to right are Lucy Streatfeild, her husband Granville Streatfeild and the then President of the ...
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In 1926 the Westerham Women’s Institute staged a performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar at Squerryes Court. The play, in five acts, was produced by Mrs Granville Streatfeild with incidental music composed and conducted by Miss H. Lubbock. Some key roles were as follows Julius Caesar, Mrs Strolger Calpurnia, Mrs Grace Mark Anthony, Mrs Streatfeild Brutus, Mrs Brown Cassius, Mrs Bowles Metellus Cimber ...
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