This photograph taken from Thomas Weller’s builders yard in 1902 shows bunting strung across the road to celebrate the Coronation of Edward VII. The photograph is probably attributable to Weller’s neighbour, Frederick Benson.
Reference: WH1053
To the south of the town, at the top of Hosey Hill and shown here in the foreground could be found ‘Little Squerryes Guest, Luncheon and Tea House’. In the late 1920s this gentle-paced establishment run by Miss Bowles, offered an overnight stay if required and a chance to linger and enjoy a walk on ...
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A quiet corner of Westerham that has not seen a lot of change since this photograph was taken in the mid-1930s. There were, however, fewer cars around at that time, so Lodge Lane seems less cluttered than it does today.
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This view looking north down the London Road was taken circa 1912 and shows, on the right, the white-painted Corn Store on the corner of Madan Road. In the foreground three Victorian houses are ‘Haldon’ ‘Providence Villa’ and ‘Dettingen’ and beyond the Corn Store, the large house is ‘Fairlight’. This section of London Road was ...
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The building just in frame on the left that houses today’s (2018) ‘Touchline Physio’ was in the early 1900s the site of Stanley Vaus’ plumbing, painting and decorating business. The advertising hoarding erected next door on vacant land promotes ‘Cannock Chase Coal’ for sale by Benjamin Horton from his coal and timber yard to be ...
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Goodbye to the Nurseries Bob Combley “…in South Bank there were no houses on the left side there, just the little stream. That area was completely empty – we used to play in there and you could see there had been rows of shrubs and rows of bushes – we always called it ‘Newtons’ and I was ...
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Unmistakeable in the background of this photograph is the white-painted Pitt’s Cottage. Moving towards the camera we have Great Moreton, which in 1900 was all one house and was occupied by the family of the Reverend Carr G. Acworth, Clerk in Holy Orders. In the foreground of the shot is Park View, so named because ...
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The top building on the left of Vicarage Hill is Colthurst Almshouses. The gap beyond led to ‘Church Alley’ – undeniably the towns’ poorest housing area – tiny back-to-back cottages with few windows, and towards the end, corrugated tin roofs on some of them. The next row of cottages bordering the road were ‘Red Cottages’. ...
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Between the wars there were two shops either end of Quebec Cottages at the bottom of Vicarage Hill. The one nearest the camera was ‘Quebec Stores’ a little gloomy general store and tobacconist. The other was William Dove’s pork butcher’s shop where the meat would hang outside, backed by the whitewashed wall.
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This photograph shows Currant Hill Cottage in the foreground with Richard Durtnell’s ‘Jubilee Terrace’ beyond. At that time there was no development on the south side of the road where the river ran. With that in mind, it always seems a little odd that the road was not called ‘Northbank’. As one of the promoters of ...
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Originally land belonging to the Grange Estate, including ‘Firs Cottage’ seen on the left in the background, now at the eastern-end of where Rysted Lane meets South Bank, at the bottom of Churchill School drive. The Paddock was the site of football matches for both the Saturday team and Westerham Wednesday team for many years ...
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The road with two names 2 “…Completion of Westerham’s latest road improvement, the widening is seen in its final stages in the ‘Chronicle’ picture above – creates an amusing anomaly – a single street sharing two names. Divided until recently by a hedge, Westbury Terrace of ten Victorian semi-detached houses and Nursery Site, with twenty post-1918 council ...
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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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Ellen King enjoys the sunshine with her daughters Eva and Ethel outside ‘The Cottage’ next door to ‘Roseville’ in the High Street. All the houses on this section of the High Street were owned by the Black Eagle Brewery in the early 1900s.
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This high angle shot was taken out of an upstairs window at The Grange, then converted into shops. On the ...
Clive Gardiner designed this advert in 1937 for the Green Line Coach Company. In an eye-catching naive but colourful style, it shows Elm View Mill beside the Round Pond in Mill Lane at the west-end of town. For more information, click here
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The south side of Vicarage Hill has seen very little change since the dawn of photography in the 1840s. The ...
The London Road has possibly seen more changes than most other areas around Westerham. In living memory, Costell’s Meadow and ...
Approaching Westerham Hill from the south Westerham Hill, now the A233, the steep bend by ‘Deepdale’ claimed many a victim in ...
The photographs chosen to illustrate this particular walk from the west-end of the High Street into the centre of town ...
This photo-postcard shows the site of the toll-gate leading into Westerham from the east. The charge was 4 pence per horse – so if a wagon and four horses went through the toll was one shilling and fourpence but if they returned the same day they did not have to pay on the return journey. ...
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This view up the track from Elm View Mill dates to around 1900. The two mill cottages on the right were then occupied by William Sage, the mill attendant at what had become the waterworks pumping station, and James Perrin, a local policeman. The house beyond was then known as ‘Roselyn’ but is now (2018) ...
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Photographs of the actual farmhouse at Delegarde are fairly rare and this is the only one we know of with children in the shot. The other thing you almost never see is that the Oast House has a ‘cowl and cap’ on it as in this photograph. Of the number of shots that exist of ...
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