Westerham Herald Saturday August 21 1920 Westerham Parish Council – Steward of the Manor and The Green A meeting of Westerham Parish Council was held on Monday evening with Mr. C. H. Shawyer presiding. There were also present Mrs. Mackinnon, Miss Bartlett, Messrs. R. E. Bushell, A. A. Deadman, S. W. Hammond and J. Hunt CONDITION OF ...
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In early May through to mid-October 1908, Muriel Matters was ‘Organiser in Charge’ of the first ‘Votes for Women’ caravan that toured the South East counties of England. The caravan tour began in Oxshott and passed through Surrey, Sussex and Kent. The purpose of the tour was to speak about women’s enfranchisement and establish new Women’s ...
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David continues: “…In those houses the water was heated on a back-boiler behind the kitchen fire and that fed a cast-iron hot water tank up in the bathroom cupboard. As theapprentice, it was my job to mix up the powdered asbestos with the correct amount of water in a big wooden barrel. The following day ...
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Having secured his formal Deed of Apprenticeship with builders Stanley Berwick in Cramptons Road Sevenoaks, David started on his first trade position, that as plumbers apprentice working on Hartley Road, Ash Road and Oak Road in 1954-55: “…I started there in September 1954 when I left school, I’d taken a summer holiday from June and ...
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In 2014 Westerham Town Partnership held an event called ‘Westerham remembers the Summer of 1914’ in which the shop windows displayed adverts and artefacts from what they had been at that time, the road was closed for a uniformed procession and a dedicated bunch of volunteers built a WWI trench in the garden of the ...
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