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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Henry James Hubble was an entrepreneur who set up business in Brasted under various guises. At one point working as a photographer, at another a bicycle manufacturer and repairer, then a general dealer and finally as a motor engineer. In 1906 Henry Hubble and his wife set up a garage business in Westerham, in the ...
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1915 would appear to be the year when Edward Evenden sold the ‘West Kent Works’ in order to retire. The business and goodwill was purchased by a consortium consisting of George Taylor, Ernest Horton and James Franklin with a working capital of £10,000.
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This advertisement from Benjamin Quittenden in the 1915 edition of Hookers Almanack quotes that John Cattell had established his seed growing business in 1799.
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This steam ‘locomotive’ dray was made by Burrells of Thetford in 1912 as works number 3424, and was the first of two purchased by Bushell Watkins and Smith for deliveries of beer to their tied-houses around west Kent. It would have been slow going at 12 miles an hour, but marginally faster than its horse-drawn ...
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Diversity was still the name of the game in the early years of the twentieth century – if you were a fruiterer, greengrocer and nurseryman you would likely have a horse and cart, so there’s extra money to be made – you could also be a carter!
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Edwin John Hollingworth rented his nursery site beside the Market Field from the Knipe estate, owners of The Grange. He was a fruiterer and florist selling from his shop sited where the Post Office is today (2018) and would be the man to go and talk to for gardening advice between the Wars. Clearly a ...
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Begun in 1872, Westerham Horticultural Society was popular amongst the community who would look forward to the annual summer exhibition each year. It was for many years hosted by the Warde family in Surrey Park at the bottom of Goodley Stock, west of Squerryes Court, where big marquees would be erected to house the displays. ...
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The advert for Wireless concerts comes from the 1923 edition of the Westerham Herald
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The above illustration, from excellent photographs supplied by Mr F. G. Benson, Keswick studio, Westerham, gives an adequate idea of the havoc wrought. In the foreground is the malthouse and it will be observed that the corner of the rear kiln was caught by the flames. From The Herald Saturday July 9 1910 DISASTROUS FIRE AT WESTERHAMEAST ...
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