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The 'People's Friend' – on a mission to expose corruption

Sunday, June 07, 2009

THE CURRENT constitutional crisis over the bizarre expense claims by our Members of Parliament has been brought to our attention in an investigation of unprecedented scale by the Daily Telegraph.

As we all know it has led to the resignation of the Speaker and at least...

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A pioneer in Scouting

Saturday, May 23, 2009

SCOUTING came to Sevenoaks in April 1909, just two years after the hero of Mafeking, Robert Baden- Powell, had taken a group of London boys to an...

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Strike by printing staff gives journalists a surprise summer holiday

Saturday, May 23, 2009

MANY of my retired friends who were local newspaper journalists 50 years ago will never forget their surprise holiday in the glorious summer of 1959...

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The shake-up of the old order sparked by a communist

A MAN OF MANY TALENTS: John Pudney

Friday, May 08, 2009

CHRONICLE reader Alan Bullion informs me that a Communist candidate stood for Sevenoaks in the memorable general election of 1945 and polled 676...

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Building likened to 'prison'

OLD OFFICES: The Sevenoaks Urban (later District) Council offices in Argyle Road, circa 1945, which were demolished in 1984

Saturday, May 02, 2009

WE HAVE become rather accustomed to seeing hoardings around building sites in Sevenoaks as the face of the town changes yet again. As I wrote last...

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A cub reporter's memories of endless wedding write-ups

Saturday, May 02, 2009

WHEN I became a cub reporter with the Sevenoaks News in 1955 part of my duty was to call on the parish vicars and write down all the names and...

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What was in the news the year our PM declared the class war obsolete and the sixties swung in?

TAVERN LOST: The Rock and Fountain, in London Road, Sevenoaks, which closed in 1959 and later became a motor car showroom

Saturday, April 25, 2009

WHAT was Sevenoaks like in the last year of the decade before the onset of the notorious 1960s? Like most towns in West Kent it had experienced mild...

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Ancient industry was revived

CHARCOAL MAKING: Historically one of Kent's biggest industries

Saturday, April 25, 2009

SOME months after the Great Storm of October 1987 there was a brief revival of one of our oldest and most popular rural industries – the...

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Stonediggers named by village archiver

Saturday, April 25, 2009

I AM indebted to Henry Gandon for identifying the footballers of Ide Hill (1926-1927). Known as the Stonediggers, they won the Smith's Cup by beating...

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St Julians was an exercise in communal living

CHILDREN OF ST JULIANS: Taken in the mid-50s, this picture shows the children of the founding mothers and fathers. Left to right are Sarah Morgan, Charlotte deSyllas, Maggie Amaral, Tom Morgan and Tina. Among the women who looked after the children was Miss Maggie Watson, with glasses

Saturday, April 18, 2009

MY STORY about the early days of St Julians Club, Underriver, and the disclosure that one of the members, Swedish actress Mai Zetterling, was under...

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