Phil Johnson still has this clock, inherited from Harry Bond who had previously owned the garage
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This was to be the second-to-last season on the ‘Valence’ bowls green, and it is interesting to reflect on the senior club members at that time. It would be natural that Ronald Vesty would be President as he owned the ground on which they played. Among the Vice-Presidents are four local medical practitioners, Drs. Henry ...
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Frank Edward Woolley (27 May 1887 – 18 October 1978) was an English professional cricketer, one of the finest bowlers and batsmen the game has ever seen. In a career lasting more than thirty years, he scored more first-class runs than anyone but Sir Jack Hobbs, and took over 2,000 wickets at an average of ...
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Back row L-R: Ernie Terry, Bob Taylor, Reg. Goldsmid, Wm. Streatfeild, Cyril Fuller, ?, Jim Charman, Ben Holman, ? Front row: Dick Taylor, Tom Godfrey, Bernard Chilman, Bill Richardson, Bill Godfrey
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Peter Finch “My dad wasn’t a rich man but he looked after his pennies. He worked for the two Doctors, Hay and Cotton. He split his week between them, as a gardener for Dr Hay and a groom for Dr Cotton. He only got labourer’s wages, about two pounds a week, but he’d put something ...
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With the formation of the South Eastern & Chatham Railway Management Committee in 1899, travelling conditions for passengers began to improve on the Westerham branch line. There were new locomotives in lined Brunswick green and new six-wheeled carriages as well. The elderly Cudworth engines previously used on the branch were replaced with James Stirling’s class ...
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Another group assembled with the radiator of a charabanc lurking just in the right hand side of frame. Everyone is sporting a rather large button-hole, so it’s some kind of celebration, but what…?
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…Members were reminded of the ‘red letter’ day of the coming summer, when the West Kent Federation will present the magnificent pageant play of ‘King Henry VIII’. This, perhaps the greatest of Shakespeare’s historical dramas, and certainly the most spectacular, is to be performed by a cast of five-hundred women, so the task which lies ...
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