Frank Lewis Jenner was born in Westerham in 1902, the third son of six surviving children. His parents Edward and Sarah lived at Valence Lodge, where his father was a domestic coachman and later chauffeur for the Watney family. During Ernest Blackton’s time in the late 1920s, Wolfe Garage had run a taxi service from the ...
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A London Evening Standard edition for June 1949 ran an article: ‘Sergeant Joe waits for Mr Churchill’ Mr Winston Churchill was presenting long-service medals to fifty special constables at Westerham (pop 3700), two miles from Chartwell Manor, his country home in Kent. In Saint Mary’s 200-seat Church Hall were ‘specials’ who enrolled during the IRA troubles in 1939 ...
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