Events at Westerham Hall

A Talk by Bob Holt   Bob Holt will tell the story of the cultural change from being brought up in Bethnal Green and marrying into a Venetian Family. It will include some strange and hilarious moments as well as insights into the one of the world’s top tourist destinations. He will also discuss Venice.

Naomi Collick, the curator of Chiddingstone Castle, will talk about Denys Eyre Bower (1905 – 1977) and his collections, with an introduction to the history of the castle.   Naomi’s talk will be followed later in the spring with a visit to the castle.  

On 12th July 2022, Rick Currie left Chartwell South Africa with a group of 3 Land Rovers, a 1956 Series 1 107 Station Wagon, A 1970 Forward Control 110 Series IIB ex-military comms vehicle and a 2000 Defender 110 Td5, to travel to Chartwell House in the UK.   Rick is coming to Westerham to […]

The village of Limpsfield, lying only three miles to the west of Westerham, has long been appreciated for its wealth of historic domestic architecture. However, the identities of the people who owned and lived in its houses before the twentieth century have been largely untraced. The speaker, Nicholas Dixon, will explain how he reconstructed the history of one Limpsfield cottage and […]

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!  

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 […]

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 […]

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

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.  

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 […]