A short history by Christopher Bell The first record we have of regular Masses in Westerham appears in the 1920 Notices Book of the Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury, Sevenoaks, whose priests had been allocated responsibility for Westerham. Mass was said in a variety of local venues over the years, including the former Crown Hotel ...
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November 29 1923 saw a meeting of women voters at St Mary’s Hall, presided over by Mrs Bonham-Carter. Still limiting the right to vote to women over the age of thirty, government policy was changing, suffrage had begun to champion and addresses were given by Lady Edith L. J. Rogers CBE of ‘Whitelands,’ Edenbridge, and ...
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The lady standing in the doorway of number 6 Mill Street is Florence Louisa (nee Paige) Allen, who would have been 52 in 1921. She lived at 2 Mill Street from 1891 and was still there in 1939. The lady in the hat is her daughter Ellen (nee Paige) Whitmore who married Fred Whitmore in ...
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