Edward A. Newall was an electrical and mechanical engineer from Battersea, London where he had served an apprenticeship under his father, Alexander Newall who had his own electrical and mechanical engineering business.
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Frank Couchman was a motorcycle engineer from Lenham in Kent. He would go on to join forces with Edward Newall in a partnership business in Westerham
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in 1908, Mr George Thomas Taylor started a motor car and cycle repair business in the High Street opposite the Warde Arms.
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Evenden works were in Quebec Sq
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Edward Newall was an electrical and mechanical engineer from Battersea in London. It appears that he bought the business interests off Henry Hubble around 1916. No adverts for a garage in what was at that time known as ‘Market square’ are found in the war-time newspapers until this announcement appeared in the Herald on May 17 ...
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This 1917 advertisement not only has Hubble selling bicycles and spares, but also dealing in builders materials as well. Having sold his Westerham garage interests to Edward Newall, it would appear he has consolidated what remained at his old stomping ground in Brasted.
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By 1919 Edward Newall had joined the Employers and Employees Discharged Soldiers scheme in which he would have received government subsidies in return for employing returning soldiers. What was Market Square has become The Green, and Newall not only has his business where Hubble was, but has a second business premises in Stratton Yard.
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Henry James Hubble was an entrepreneur who set up business in Brasted under various guises. At one point working as a photographer, at another a bicycle manufacturer and repairer, then a general dealer and finally as a motor engineer. In 1906 Henry Hubble and his wife set up a garage business in Westerham, in the ...
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1915 would appear to be the year when Edward Evenden sold the ‘West Kent Works’ in order to retire. The business and goodwill was purchased by a consortium consisting of George Taylor, Ernest Horton and James Franklin with a working capital of £10,000.
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Brasted station master Mr. E.W. Howard poses with two of his staff around 1912. By 1924 Brasted and Westerham had lost their station masters and the whole branch was now managed by the Dunton Green station master Frederick William Brockman.
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This advertisement from Benjamin Quittenden in the 1915 edition of Hookers Almanack quotes that John Cattell had established his seed growing business in 1799.
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Dec 9 1872 saw the opening of a reading room ‘for the free use of working men’ at the Public Hall in the High Street, initiated by the patroness, Mrs Lucy Deane Streatfeild. By the following year, ‘The Westerham Recreation and Sports Club’ was held there most evenings from 7 until 10 whenever the Hall ...
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The Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor (Y.P.S.C.E.) was formed as an interdenominational Christian youth society which provided a structure for church youth to work together to know God in Jesus Christ. Started in Portland, Maine in the U.S. in 1882 the Society spread throughout the British Empire and beyond by the early 1890s. Christian Endeavor is ...
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A man of many talents as a farmer, carting proprietor and publican at the Warde Arms, Townsend kept his horses, carts and carriages in ‘Commodious Stables and Coach-Houses adjoining the railway station’. It was a business that saw him through to his end which was a timely demise, as the motor car was beginning to ...
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Edward VII died on Friday 6th May 1910 at Buckingham Palace in London. He was succeeded by George V who was proclaimed king around the country in the following week. The proclamation in Windsor took place on May 11th. In Westerham the proclamation took place beside the Queen Victoria Jubilee fountain on The Green on Tuesday May ...
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‘The Grange’ was a large estate which included The Paddock and all the land Churchill School now stands on, Fir Cottage at the bottom of the School drive, ‘Knipes Cottages’ next to today’s Castle Antiques, and the little row of cottages leading from them down London Road towards today’s Touchline Physiotherapy business. These were ‘Grange ...
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