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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6th Jan 1908, from the Harry Streatfeild collection. Note that today’s Market Square was known as the High Street at that time.
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The little Swan Coffee rooms seen on the edge of this photograph were the subject of swift table-turning performed by William Finnis Watkins in 1882. The Westerham Herald of September 1st 1882 tells of the building of The Crown Hotel opposite the railway station, to be owned by Watkins and Son of Westerham’s Swan Brewery, sited ...
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After a very long stint as the ‘brewery tap’ and then a small ‘tied-house’ the General Wolfe pub sadly closed in 2017. As the Royal British Legion clubhouse in Mill Lane has also closed and the ‘Warde Arms’ in the High Street closed as a pub in the 1970s, it is a long walk to ...
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Like its neighbour the George & Dragon in Market Square, the Grasshopper on the Green was a tied house owned by the Croydon brewery Nalder & Collyer. As the advertising board on the pub roof displays, the brewers would often promote themselves through ‘Nalder & Collyer Entire’ where ‘Entire’ was a strong dark triple-blended beer ...
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The Horticultural Society took themselves very seriously in 1909, and stated that “…the judges will not award prizes to such productions as may not be deemed worthy”. Prizes were always cash and at that time of Five Shillings and upwards.
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The address of the Kings Arms in the 1900s was ‘High Street’ as that was the title given to what is now called Market Square. At that time, the Green was known as ‘Market Place’.
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