Events

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A staged reading of ‘All By Myself ‘ The performers will be the stars from CHIPS and WADS. We promise it will be a hilarious evening!  

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Bill Curtis has now published four books on Westerham’s social and commercial history of the nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries. In this Talk he gives us some insight into how you might tell stories spanning that period of history. What references exist today? There are minute books from various Societies and Institutions of the time […]

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We look forward to welcoming Society Members to our celebration of Canada Day in the Garden of Quebec House for an evening social. The event will include drinks and canapes and there will be a short talk about General Wolfe. This year we will also be inviting members of the Wolfe Society to join us […]

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We will have a very different presentation. The renowned auctioneer, Paul Viney, will challenge us with an Antiques Quiz. Paul will bring along 10 items and each one will have questions and clues. We plan to have ‘team tables’ to have a chance of discussion before answering the posed question. Members can form their own […]

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We regret that this talk evening has been cancelled due to difficulties securing a speaker for the date.  Apologies.

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Jim Gascoyne, the Kent researcher for the Coleshill Auxillary Research Team (CART), will tell us about Churchill’s Secret Army, commonly known as the ‘Stay Behinds’.  Jim would like to encourage Members to have a look at the link; https//www.staybehinds.com for information about the British Resistance Archive. It should be an interesting and fasinating talk.  

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We are thrilled to announce details of this year’s Westerham Society Churchill Dinner. Our guest of honour is Flt Lt Colin Bell who served in WW2 as a Mosquito Bomber Pilot. During his tour of operations, he carried out 50 bombing raids, all over Germany. For his outstanding service as a Pathfinder pilot, Colin was awarded the DFC. […]

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The annual convivial lunchtime Christmas Social which is open to all Members through advanced ticket sales.

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The speaker is Ed Katz, who will give a presentation about the Wolfe family, in particular General Wolfe and Henrietta Wolfe, and the history of Quebec House. He is a tour guide at Quebec House who has undertaken much research about the history of Quebec House, its owners and inhabitants during his many years of […]

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The presentation will tell the story of how an original set of glass slides from the explorer and spirtualist leader, Sir Francis Younghusband, a former resident of Westerham, came into the hands of the Westerham Society. He is known for his travels in the Far East and Central Asia, especially the 1904 expedition to Tibet […]