This first image circa 1908 shows Verrall’s forge in the centre and Fred Woods’ grocery store on the left. the building to the right of the forge was in the early 1900s a grocers and sweet shop. In the 1920s it became an antiques business which lasted until the 1970s, at which point it was ...
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English’s cafe and sweetshop circa 1960, then called ‘Rowe’s Cafe’ Fred Webb traces his way up his childhood High Street “…next door to Lucas’s sweet shop, opposite New Street was Fullers watch-makers and repairers I remember. If you went on further down the High Street there was Wood’s the greengrocers, then the blacksmith’s forge on Verrall’s ...
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Approaching Westerham on the A25 of yesteryear. The first definitive list of A road numbers was not published until 1923.
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Hubert Verrall breathes new life into some ancient agricultural implement overseen by a fascinated young boy
Verrall’s Corner on today’s A25 – then known as the Limpsfield Road – pictured in June 2020. Noted for the forge (just out of the picture), Brewery Cottages and English’s Tea Shop. Today a cottage has been built behind the brewery cottages named ‘Cooper’s Cottage’, which reminds us of the trade of the man who ...
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