This photograph is believed to have been taken outside St Mary’s school for girls and infants in London Road. ‘Welcome’ was presumably directed towards the Hon. Anastasia who would become a Westerham resident that day.
Reference: WH0657
This photograph taken by Joseph Jewell shows the second of the two triumphal arches that had been erected in the town to honour and bless the wedding of Lt.-Col Charles Arthur Madan Warde and the Hon. Anastasia Kathleen Lucia O’Brien. Note the Scottish flag hanging from the window of Kirkgate House – a curious touch as Charles was ...
Reference: WH0658
This photograph of the bridesmaids is taken beside the main door of St. Mary’s Church, but the porch was a different construction at that time.
Reference: WH0660
This was the occasion of the Wedding of Lt.-Col Charles Arthur Madan Warde, son of Vice-Admiral Charles Warde and the Hon. Anastasia Kathleen Lucia O’Brien daughter of Lucius O’Brien, 13th Baron of Inchiquin and Louisa Finucane which took place in Westerham on 23 October 1879.
Reference: WH0672