This view looking north down the London Road was taken circa 1912 and shows, on the right, the white-painted Corn Store on the corner of Madan Road. In the foreground three Victorian houses are ‘Haldon’ ‘Providence Villa’ and ‘Dettingen’ and beyond the Corn Store, the large house is ‘Fairlight’. This section of London Road was ...
Reference: WH1058
A view from circa 1902 shows the houses built on the south side of Madan Road, looking from the London Road end. Two different builders were responsible for this development, one being Thomas H. Weller and the other being Joseph Wintle, who had his builders yard in Madan Road and, like Weller, retained ownership and ...
Reference: WH1060
This view up the track from Elm View Mill dates to around 1900. The two mill cottages on the right were then occupied by William Sage, the mill attendant at what had become the waterworks pumping station, and James Perrin, a local policeman. The house beyond was then known as ‘Roselyn’ but is now (2018) ...
Reference: WH1061
Unmistakeable in the background of this photograph is the white-painted Pitt’s Cottage. Moving towards the camera we have Great Moreton, which in 1900 was all one house and was occupied by the family of the Reverend Carr G. Acworth, Clerk in Holy Orders. In the foreground of the shot is Park View, so named because ...
Reference: WH1064
Goodbye to the Nurseries Bob Combley “…in South Bank there were no houses on the left side there, just the little stream. That area was completely empty – we used to play in there and you could see there had been rows of shrubs and rows of bushes – we always called it ‘Newtons’ and I was ...
Reference: WH1062
A quiet corner of Westerham that has not seen a lot of change since this photograph was taken in the mid-1930s. There were, however, fewer cars around at that time, so Lodge Lane seems less cluttered than it does today.
Reference: WH1056
To the south of the town, at the top of Hosey Hill and shown here in the foreground could be found ‘Little Squerryes Guest, Luncheon and Tea House’. In the late 1920s this gentle-paced establishment run by Miss Bowles, offered an overnight stay if required and a chance to linger and enjoy a walk on ...
Reference: WH1054
Between the wars there were two shops either end of Quebec Cottages at the bottom of Vicarage Hill. The one nearest the camera was ‘Quebec Stores’ a little gloomy general store and tobacconist. The other was William Dove’s pork butcher’s shop where the meat would hang outside, backed by the whitewashed wall.
Reference: WH1066
This section of the 1891 O.S. map shows the North Lodge, Dunsdale Farm and the Victorian gothic mansion itself, built for and occupied by a wealthy industrialist Joseph Kitchin in 1858. In 1880 the estate was sold to William Bryant, but by 1885 had been resold and purchased piece by piece over then next four ...
Reference: WH1045