Henry James Hubble started out as a photographer, tobacconist and seller of ‘fancy goods’ in Brasted in 1902, but went on to start a business as a bicycle manufacturer and repairer. In 1906 he and his wife moved the business to the former ‘Fountain Coffee Tavern’ in Westerham, where they provided rudimentary garage repairs for cycles ...
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Edward A. Newall was an electrical and mechanical engineer from Battersea, London where he had served an apprenticeship under his father, Alexander Newall who had his own electrical and mechanical engineering business.
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Frank Couchman was a motorcycle engineer from Lenham in Kent. He would go on to join forces with Edward Newall in a partnership business in Westerham
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in 1908, Mr George Thomas Taylor started a motor car and cycle repair business in the High Street opposite the Warde Arms.
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Evenden works were in Quebec Sq
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Edward Newall was an electrical and mechanical engineer from Battersea in London. It appears that he bought the business interests off Henry Hubble around 1916. No adverts for a garage in what was at that time known as ‘Market square’ are found in the war-time newspapers until this announcement appeared in the Herald on May 17 ...
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This 1917 advertisement not only has Hubble selling bicycles and spares, but also dealing in builders materials as well. Having sold his Westerham garage interests to Edward Newall, it would appear he has consolidated what remained at his old stomping ground in Brasted.
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By 1919 Edward Newall had joined the Employers and Employees Discharged Soldiers scheme in which he would have received government subsidies in return for employing returning soldiers. What was Market Square has become The Green, and Newall not only has his business where Hubble was, but has a second business premises in Stratton Yard.
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Always ready to adapt to new technology. Where else in Westerham would you be able to buy a wireless? The BBC only started broacasting in1922.
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Phil Johnson still has this clock, inherited from Harry Bond who had previously owned the garage
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