This was one of several events held to raise money towards the construction of Brasted open-air bathing pool on the site where Brasted recreational ground now stands. The pool was sited where the children’s playground sits now, and was fed by an underground stream with an overflow into the river Darent just north of the ...
Reference: WH0844
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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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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