INDEX OF TATSFIELD ARCHIVES
This is the first section of the complete list of archives held by the Tatsfield History Project on behalf of Tatsfield Parish Council. The full list is being developed.
1/1 Deeds held by the Parish Council

1/1/99 Deeds of part of the Haven, Kemsley Road and plans for development. Shows extent of ownership bordering on Beech Avenue.
1/1/100 Licence for a seat near the bridleway leading to Park Wood on the side of Church Hill Road – SCC & TPC 8 Oct 1934. TPC wanted to provide a seat and SCC was willing subject to TPC maintaining it and indemnifying SCC. TPC was to pay SCC one shilling annually.
1/1/101Lease of Westmore Green allotments 1905 from GCG Leveson Gower to TPC approved by the Board of Agriculture. Plan shows two acres of land to the southeast of ‘cottages’ at the southern end of Westmore Green forming part of Tatsfield Park Farm. The lease was subject to the landlord requiring the land for ‘making new roads, erecting cottages and adding gardens, opening stone quarries or for railway or for building or other purposes’. Annual rent was Ł4 for 20 years. (See allotment rent book – 1/2/64)

1/2 Other items held by the Parish Council

1/2/1 Village Hall – The Parish Hall, Tatsfield, Alex R Stenning, Architect’s drawing taken from unknown book. - architect’s drawing taken from unknown book. This appears to be the original design for the hall. The foundation stone was laid in 1909. (see 1/2/11)
1/2/2 Manor Estate – 2nd portion – auction details 16/9/1890 – damaged fragments only. Sale by Henry W Iles of “very desirable freehold building sites on the Manor Estate, Tatsfield, desirably placed on the lofty hills of Kent and Surrey suitable for residential purposes”. Title to the land begins with an Indenture dates 25 October 1860 between George Frederick Clark and Joseph Savory. (See also 2/1/14) The auction was held in a marquee on the estate, near Tatsfield Green.
1/2/3 Coronation 1953 – Tatsfield’s celebrations programme – “Roneoed” two pages of events from 2 until 6 June. Bonfire and fireworks on Westmore Green on Coronation Day, meat tea for over 65s on 4 June, Elizabethan scene, children’s fancy dress, free tea, dance in Church Hall on Saturday 6 June. Coronation Memorial Fund to finance village sign.
1/2/4 Village sign competition rules 1971; John Softley –PC chairman – invited entrants to view the existing sign frame. Designs had to be with Parish Clerk, Ann Dothie; Alison Potts’ explanation of her design; letters to participants.
1/2/5 Letter from PC to SCC complaining about Biggin Hill housing density 10/9/1976. Complaint arose from the planning policy of the London Borough of Bromley which permitted development up to the county boundary. Letter asked Surrey to support limiting the density of development adjacent to the Green Belt with a mile-wide zone of gradually decresing density.
1/2/6 1977 Silver Jubilee programme for 6 June – maypole dance; fancy dress; judo; pram race; gymnastics; tug-of-war; supper, dancing on village green; bonfire; torchlight procession; beacon. (Copy is Ref. 2/2/6) Celebrations ran from 3 p.m. until the lighting of the beacon at 11 p.m.
1/2/7 1977 Silver Jubilee – Queen’s telegram in reply to message from parish council. (copy is Ref. 2/2/7)
1/2/7/1 2002 Death of Queen Mother – Message of sympathy and reply from the Queen Reply from Sir Robin Janvrin at Windsor Castle.
1/2/8 1978 Tatsfield Directory– Tatsfield had 3-figure telephone numbers. This is the earliest surviving example of a directory which has been issued in a similar format for 30 years. (See 1995 Directory)
1/2/9 Letter to new electors – designed to send to people on the voters’ list on achieving 18.
1/2/10 Tatsfield’s surgery – note giving the background and history of the project written by Ian Mitchell (Parish Council chairman) to mark its opening in September 1990. It recalls that the need for an extension to the Village Hall was identified in the 1930s; that the need for proper medical facilities was identified in the 1940s. The Ł200,000 building involved the medical practices serving Tatsfield from Biggin Hill and Westerham, grants from Tandridge DC and Surrey CC. It contains consulting and treatment rooms, a waiting room and facilities for staff, as well as the Parish Room – used for Parish Council meetings - on the first floor with kitchen and toilet. The financing of the project was helped by a substantial increase in parish taxation – in the first year of the Community Charge. It was pointed out that as time went by ‘surplus rent income will be available to reduce the impact of the Charge or to subsidise the provision of other much-needed facilities’. The 15-year borrowing arrangement ended with the loan being paid off in 2005.
1/2/11 History of hall – (illustration at 1/2/1) written by Ian Mitchell to coincide with its re-opening after rebuilding in March 1999. A gospel hall had been built in 1888. Grants and a public subscription led to Granville Charles Leveson Gower selling a plot to the church for ten shillings. His wife laid the foundation stone in May 1909 and the hall was opened by the Bishop of Southwark in September 1909. The Parish Council bought the hall in 1964 for Ł3000 and extended it in the 1970s. Further land was purchased in 1984 and discussions started about further extending the hall and building a surgery. The surgery was opened in 1990 but further fundraising, contributions from Surrey County Council and Tandridge District Council and a National Lottery grant were needed before the Ł269,000 project could be completed in 1999.
1/2/12 VE Day 50th anniversary bonfire notice 8 May 1995 – held at Park Wood Golf Club.
1/2/13 Hall re-opening invitation from the Parish Council and the Village Hall Management Committee, 27 March 1999.
1/2/14 Parish Council websites – Compuserve 1999 and Supanet 2002 – full texts.
1/2/15 Distribution plan for Tatsfield – a way of splitting up the village into 7 areas for leafleting
1/2/16 Tatsfield Directory 1995/6 Tatsfield has six figure telephone numbers. (See 1978 directory)
1/2/17 Tatsfield Walks – five leaflets describing walks around Tatsfield published in March 1995.
1/2/18South East in Bloom 2000 – environmental projects folder
1/2/19Millennium Beacon proposal and costing.
1/2/20 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1923-28
1/2/21 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1929-32
1/2/22 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1932
1/2/23 Parish Council Correspondence file – 19331
/2/24 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1934
1/2/25 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1935
1/2/26 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1936
1/2/27 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1937
1/2/28 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1938
1/2/29 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1939-45
1/2/30 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1940
1/2/31 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1941
1/2/32 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1942
1/2/33 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1943
1/2/34 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1944
1/2/35 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1946-48
1/2/36 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1949
1/2/37 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1950
1/2/38 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1951
1/2/39 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1952/3
1/2/40 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1954
1/2/41 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1955
1/2/42 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1956
1/2/43 Parish Council Correspondence file – 1957/8
1/2/44 Parish Council Lighting Committee file – 1935-46
1/2/45 Parish Council Lighting Committee file – 1946-52
1/2/46 Parish Council Postage and Petty Cash – 1932-53
1/2/47 Parish Council Petty Cash book – 1933-64
1/2/48 Tatsfield Greens Fund Bank Book - 1925-68 (Numbered 1/2/82) Account was with the London County Westminster and Parrs Bank at Westerham. The balance never exceeded Ł49. The account was dormant from 1937 until 1953 and from 1954 to 1967.
1/2/49 Godstone Rural District Council Standing Orders 1926
1/2/50 Bundle of Journals of the Commons, Open Spaces and Footpath Preservation Society 1938
1/2/51 Street Lamp design SL3
1/2/52 Street Lamp design SL4
1/2/53 Footpath Diversion Notice 1902
1/2/54 Southeastern Electricity Consultation Council notice 1947
1/2/55 Parish Council Receipts and Payments Book – 1912-32
1/2/56 Parish Council Receipts and Payments Book – 1933-45
1/2/57 Parish Council Receipts and Payments Book – 1945-66
1/2/58 Parish Council Receipts and Payments Book – 1967-80
1/2/59 Parish Council Receipts and Payments Book – 1980-90
1/2/60 Metropolitan Water Board Book of Reference – 1938/9 - cover
1/2/60/1 Metropolitan Water Board Book of Reference – 1938/9 – plan 1
1/2/60/2 Metropolitan Water Board Book of Reference – 1938/9 – plan 2
1/2/61 Parish Councillor’s Guide – 1970
1/2/62 Surrey County Council Review of Districts Report January 1931
1/2/62/1 Surrey County Council Review of Districts background February 1930
1/2/63 Surrey County Council Review of Districts Report May 1931
1/2/64 Allotment Rent Book – 1909-48
1/2/65 Parish Council Bank Book – 1919-38 (Numbered 1/2/81) Account was with the London County Westminster and Parrs Bank at Westerham. Audited every year, the accounts show Ł10 spent for George V’s Silver Jubilee in 1935, Ł30 for George VI’s coronation in 1937 and Ł4 a year to the Titsey Estate as allotment rental
1/2/66 Workmen’s Insurance Policy – 1918, cancelled 1941 and note
1/2/67 ‘Welcome to Tatsfield’ leaflet from local shops 1997? (?) Issued with the parish magazine. There were four shops, Linda’s newsagents, Brown’s the greengrocers, Maddison the butcher and the Standings at the Post Office stores.
1/2/68 Tatsfield Shopping Week programme 1998? Supported by the Parish Council. Motor Cycle and Motor Racing World Champion, John Surtees, who was born in Tatsfield made a special appearance on 11 May.
1/2/69 Tatsfield House Name Directory 1995/96
1/2/70 Old Lane flooding 1907-1993– list of references to the flooding problems of Old Lane contained in the parish council minutes.
1/2/71 List of duties of ranger of Tatsfield and Westmore Greens 1928– Tatsfield and Westmore Greens were referred to as Tatsfield and Westmore Common.
1/2/72 Tatsfield Greens Committee minutes 22/5/1930– held at Messrs Potters Tea Rooms (now the Bakery restaurant). Committee resolved to spend Ł20 cutting undergrowth on Tatsfield Green. Damage to trees by schoolchildren reported; flints thrown from roadside dumps; clerk to write to schoolmaster.
1/2/73 Script of 1966 Son et Lumiere
1/2/74 Script of 1966 Son et Lumiere
1/2/75 TWEEK-END programme May 2004– a weekend of celebration organized by Eileen Pearce – flower festival, art exhibition, WI open day, band on Westmore Green, classic cars etc.
1/2/76 Bus use promotion leaflet 1995 - highlighting existing services to Biggin Hill, Croydon, Caterha, Oxted, Warlingham, Westerham and Sevenoaks - and correspondence
1/2/77 Programme for 1975 Church Light and Sound– celebrating 900th anniversary of the church and organized by Joyce and Cedric Oliver.
1/2/78 Programme for 1984 Church Son et Lumiere- organized by Joyce and Cedric Oliver with BBC newsreader Peter Donaldson narrating the script.
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1/2/80 The issues of 1952 – extracts from the Parish Council minutes – main drainage proposals; coronation fund; George VI memorial fund..
1/2/81 Bank book 1919-1939
1/2/82 Tatsfield Green Fund bankbook 1925-1968

1/3 Other official documents

1/3/1 Godstone Rural District Council - proposed Houses for the Working Class Class A Type H – May 1926 drawing – produced by Sydney. F. Evershed, chartered architect of Oxted - original design for the Lusted Hall Lane development.
1/3/2 “The Village” Autumn 1939 – National Council of Social Service newsletter to parishes containing eight pages of advice to parish councils about wartime priorities.
1/3/2/1“The Village” February 1944
1/3/3 Letter from Surrey CC on 400 signature speed limit petition of November 1978 calling for 30 mph speed limit on various roads. Letter explains the low priority of speed limit reviews.
1/3/4 1992 attempt at rave on Cheverells Farm – papers relating to successful objection to rave proposal.
1/3/5 “Rural Life – Change or Decay” – NALC leaflet ca 1980 setting out views.
1/3/6 SI 1993/400 boundary changes see 7/8/5 for map.
1/3/7 Press notice announcing appointment of 32 year old Phil Clark as Parish Constable in Febuary 1996. Quotes from Phil Clark, Parish Council Chairman, Ian Mitchell and Surrey Police Inspector Bob Barratt.
1/3/8 Surrey County Council Foot and Mouth Disease poster 2001 closing footpaths.
1/3/9 Surrey County Council Foot and Mouth Disease poster 2001 giving details of restrictions.
1/3/10 Surrey County Council Foot and Mouth Disease poster 2001 with post outbreak advice.
1/3/11 National Non-Domestic Rating List, Tatsfield 1995
1/3/12 National Non-Domestic Rating List, Tatsfield 2000
1/3/13 Damaged Trees: What to do after the Great Storm (Dept of the Environment
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1/3/15 List of Tree Preservation Orders in Tatsfield– 1951-1993.
1/3/16 1977 letter from Tandridge DC on settlement area + map This is the predecessor of the ’settlement area’ of Tatsfield incorporated in the North of the Downs Plan and the 2001 Tandridge District Local Plan. It shows different boundaries from the 2001 version.
1/3/17 Duplicate of 1/2/5
1/3/18 Package of Rates/Community Charge/Council Tax leaflets 1985-2003

1/4 Church material

1/4/1/1 Parish Magazine November 1971 – letter from Stan Doughty suggesting old church buildings need not be retained; reports of plans to extend village hall; list of officials; report of PC meeting including possible extension of main drainage.
1/4/1/2 Parish Magazine January 1972
1/4/1/1/3 Parish Magazine March 1972
1/4/1/4 Parish Magazine April 1972
1/4/1/1/5 Parish Magazine May 1972
1/4/1/1/6 Parish Magazine June 1972
1/4/1/1/7 Parish Magazine July 1972
1/4/1/1/8 Parish Magazine August/ September 1972
1/4/1/1/9 Parish Magazine October 1972
1/4/1/1/10 Parish Magazine November 1972
1/4/1/1/11 Parish Magazine December 1972
1/4/1/1/12 Parish Magazine January 1973
1/4/1/1/13 Parish Magazine February 1973
1/4/1/1/14 Parish Magazine March 1973
1/4/1/1/15 Parish Magazine May 1973
1/4/1/1/16 Parish Magazine June 1973 – reporting ‘restoration debt’ - cost of new roof for church – has been paid off.
1/4/1/1/17 Parish Magazine July 1973
1/4/1/1/18 Parish Magazine August/September 1973
1/4/1/1/19 Parish Magazine October 1973
1/4/1/1/20 Parish Magazine November 1973
1/4/1/1/21 Parish Magazine December 1973
1/4/1/1/22 Parish Magazine January 1974
1/4/1/1/23 Parish Magazine February 1974
1/4/1/1/24 Parish Magazine March 1974
1/4/1/1/25 Parish Magazine April 1974
1/4/1/1/26 Parish Magazine May 1974
1/4/1/1/27 Parish Magazine June 1974
1/4/1/1/28 Parish Magazine July/August 1974
1/4/1/1/29 Parish Magazine September 1974
1/4/1/1/30 Parish Magazine October 1974
1/4/1/1/31Parish Magazine November 1974
1/4/3 St Mary’s Church Guide and History 1974-81
1/4/4 Parish Magazine January 1977 – includes an extract from “Tatsfield – a Surrey Village” by Peter Langford and Anthony Powell – forerunner to later appraisals. Langford and Powell spent nine months at Brasted College and analysed the 25 (out of 50 sent) questionnaires returned. They report a feeling that ‘Tatsfield at the Biggin Hill end was ceasing to be a village’. ‘A nearly classless society … where minor eccentricities flourish’.
1/4/5 St Mary’s Church Guide and History 1982
1/4/6 Church and People Down the Ages – Peter Atkinson 1988 – five sermons from a series of studies in the history of the church.
1/4/7 Churchyard Regulations – late 1980s and 1990 – setting out who can do what and how much is charged. Stresses that the churchyard is a haven for wildlife and includes details of the regulations governing graves and monuments.
1/4/8 St Mary’s Church Guide and History 1990
1/4/9 St Mary’s Church Guide and History 1992
1/4/10 Parish Magazine May 1994 – last “old style” edition.
1/4/11 St Mary’s Church Guide and History 1996 Gives details of gravestones, ornaments etc in the church. Electricity first connected in 1959 when the church first became ‘St Mary’s’.
1/4/12 St Mary’s Church Growth Plan 1998 – sets out priorities for the future. These are concerned largely with spiritual matters, but the plan also refers to the need for ‘communication and publicity’ and points about encouraging and iproving the use and maintenance of the site. (The churchyard hut was replaced by the Millennium Hall a few years after the plan was published).
1/4/13 Description and illustration of Quatrefoil window 2006 (Tatsfield in Bloom board)
1/4/14 Description of Tatsfield Church 2006 (Tatsfield in Bloom board)

1/5 Election material

1/5/1 Election addresses 1987 – District and Parish
1/5/2 Election addresses 1991 – District and Parish – official notices and newsletters
1/5/3 Election addresses 1992 – Parliament
1/5/4 Election addresses 1993 – County
1/5/5 Election addresses 1995 – Parish and District – official notices and newsletters
1/5/6 Election addresses 1997 – Parliament and County
1/5/7 Election addresses 1999 – Parish and District – official notices and newsletters
1/5/8 Election addresses 2000 – District – official notices and newsletters
1/5/9 Election addresses 2001 – Parliament and County
1/5/10 Party newsletters 2002
1/5/11 Election addresses 2003
1/5/12 Summary of parish election results 1987-2003
1/5/13 Summary of county and parliamentary election results 1997-2005
1/5/14 Summary of 2003 Tandridge results
1/5/15 Summary of 2007 election

1/6 Local organisations

1/6/1 Tatsfield Horticultural Society
1/6/1/1 Horticultural society rules and regulations – March 1972
1/6/2 Horticultural society newsletter – February 1972
1/6/1/3 Horticultural society newsletter – September 1972
1/6/1/4 Horticultural society newsletter – November 1973
1/6/1/5 Horticultural society newsletter – June 1974
1/6/1/6 Horticultural society newsletter – September 1974
1/6/1/7 Horticultural society newsletter – November 1974
1/6/1/8 Horticultural society newsletter – April 1975
1/6/1/9 Horticultural society newsletter – September 1976
1/6/1/10 ‘Caring for Tatsfield’s Trees’ – THS leaflet, September 20001/6/2
Other Tatsfield organisations
1/6/2/1 Tatsfield Sports and Social Club – notice from the ‘promoting committee’ of meeting called for 19 Jan 1967 and sent to each existing club or association in the village. With press cuttings.
1/6/2/2 Tatsfield Carnival programme 1975 – contains short history of Tatsfield with photographs as well as an article with photograph about Vern d’Anjou. Includes a caption, stating that the original ‘Old Ship’ was used as a barber’s shop at the time this postcard was published (see 6/132).
1/6/2/3 Tatsfield Cricket Club 1984 fixtures card
1/6/2/4 deleted
1/6/2/5 VE Day dance poster 1995 – Tatsfield Dancing Club
1/6/2/6 1998 Bluegrass concert programme in aid of the Scouts
1/6/2/7 “The Weekend” 1999 drama production programme.
1/6/2/8 Pre-School open morning 2001 leaflet.
1/6/2/9 Tatsfield Vern d’Anjou Cookbook – nearly 60 pages of recipes.
1/6/2/10 Planting an oak tree in Vern – October 2002 – 3 pictures.
1/6/2/11 What is Vern? Who is Vern? Where is Vern – 2003 leaflet
1/6/2/12 Speeches made in 2003 Vern visit to Tatsfield – Tatsfield social services
1/6/2/13 Speech made in 2003 Vern visit to Tatsfield – appraisal
1/6/2/14 ‘Tatsfield Society’ working party report 10/11/1970 suggesting improvements to the pond, and general tidying and cleaning of public areas of the village. It also noted complaints about damage to verges, dumping of cars, over-pruning by SEEBOARD, large numbers of dogs at large, parking in the road when garages are available and the need for street wardens. The working party called for the establishment of a ‘The Tatsfield Society’ with meetings at quarterly intervals.
1/6/2/15 Press coverage of Vern link – January 1975 Meeting on 4 June to discuss setting up a twinning association. Dr Michael Hession, PC chairman, was the only person from Tatsfield to have been to Vern. He spoke of Vern’s excellent facilities, a church with room for 1,000 people. The first Vern visitors were flown to Tatsfield via Biggin Hill by Dr Hession.
1/6/3 1st Tatsfield Scout Group Constitution

1/7 Local people & property

1/7/1 Rumley family items: letter from Godstone RDC allowing Betty to keep a dog, note describing 1927 weather, 16 photos 1927-1957.
1/7/2 Drainage – state of Greenway letter from Tatsfield Pottery, Castleneau draft of a letter after sewer was installed in Greenway and Kemsley Road. Trench had sunk, refuse lorry has become stuck, red clay left on surface, concrete driveways sliced and not repaired. Contractors had used what is now the site of Crossways Court as a base and left it in a poor state. Draft is on notepaper from “Riddell & Cooke Tatsfield Pottery, Castleneau, Ricketts Hill, Tel: 435”. Evelyn Cooke, potter and artist, lived at Greenway Cottage, Greenway. (See obit at )
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1/7/6 Tram extension proposal from internet – Biggin Hill-Tatsfield-Clackett Lane MSA-Westerham.
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1/7/8 Estate agent’s particulars of Colegates 1960s House described as a “delightful period residence dating from the 15th century with fine period features and in first class order in a secluded quiet position” . The house was said to have been “built in about 1432 with an addition about 70 years ago … belonging originally to the Church until the dissolution .. in 1544 granted to Thomas Cawarden … his heir sold it to William Lord Howard of Effingham who in turn sold it to Sir Richard Sackville … his son, Lord Buckhurst, sold it in 1573 to Walter Denby who in 1598 for a figure of Ł690 sold to Thomas Gresham .. eventually the house passed to the Leveson Gower family who were Lord of the Manor in 1801.
1/7/9 Biography of Arthur Boyd. who moved to Tatsfield in 1959 and became a member of the Oxted and Limpsfield Music Club of which Eileen Joyce was President. He organised concerts and formed a musical charity, CODA – (Concerts Originals des Amis) , moving to Tunbridge Wells in 1989 after the death of his wife. (See Charity Commission details).
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1/7/13 Cerullo and Mindham – farriers from the web
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1/7/15 Methuen Rushen’s RN discharge paper – 27 March 1920
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1/7/17 Property prices from Land Registry– entries start Feb 2006.

1/8 Local enterprises

1/8/1 Old Bakery – Pat Johnston’s letter 1978 outlining plans for a restaurant.
1/8/2/1 Tatsfield in porcelain 1997 – souvenir offer.
1/8/2/2 Tatsfield in porcelain 2000 – souvenir offer.
1/8/2/3 21st Century Clock for Tatsfield – souvenir offer
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1/8/4 Old Ship Internet page
1/8/5 Lorraine Maddison – Summerhouse leaflet
1/8/6 Le Chalet website 2001
1/8/7 tHE bakery Internet Page
1/8/8 Beaver Water World history – web page and leaflet
1/8/9 Miscellaneous Post Office documents
1/8/10
1/8/11 Kingscote Farm herd sale notice
1/8/12 Tatsfield Names on internet: Allbutt
1/8/13
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1/8/15 List of dissolved Tatsfield businesses 1999–
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1/8/17 Tatsfield Garage – new owner – September 2002 leaflet.
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1/8/19 Old Ship – development proposals 2004
1/8/20 Peter Warner – artist
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1/8/23 Description of Aerial Lighthouse based on 1929 Encyclopaedia Britannica with later additions. Article says beacons were established from 1922 at Tatsfield, Cranbrook, Lympne and later at Brenchleyt on the Croydon to Paris air route to aid pilots flying at night. Illustration said to be from 21 April 1931. The Tatsfield lighthouse was said to have been in place as late as 1941, some 223ft NW of the BBC Receiving Station. (See Sevenoaks Chronicle 1956, Industrial article, Illustration,

1/9 History Project

1/9/1 Children in hall with organ Photo – original
1/9/2 1992 letter from BBC about upkeep of Kellaway (1920s Postmaster General when BBC was established) Tatsfield grave.
1/9/3 Results of metal detecting on Westmore Green and Tatsfield Green by J.J.Deeks of Petts Wood – includes covering letter dated 1 Jan 1992, photos of coins, including Charles II farthing and RFC/RAF badges etc.,
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1/9/8 Surrey Archaeological Society – Millennium Project blueprint for local groups.
1/9/9 Bourne Society bulletin written by Muriel Huitson November 1974 describing “The Tatsfield Walk”. led by Ray Clarke which took place on 31 Aug 1974, starting at the church and then moving to Park Farm, and via the site of the former Manor House (Court Lodge) to the present Manor House and the remains of ‘a gateway which had once been part of the old Houses of Parliament’.
1/9/10 Source references – Tatsfield bibliography. - from ‘Tatsfield, the first 2000 Years’.

1/10 Publications

1/10/1 Tatsfield & Its Surroundings 1928 This is the first known self-contained history of Tatsfield – compiled by Tatsfield School – under the editorship of the headmaster, Mr B. Hammond (see also 2/10/1). (Westerham Herald report is ref. 3/7/2/24) (Daily Telegraph report 3/7/4/1) Among the information contained is that Colegates was then owned by Sir Henry Theobald, that the present Manor House had been known as Nobrighter in 1561, that Colegates probably initially ‘Selecourt’, then Cold Court and Ken Court and names Colegates by Sir Henry.
1/10/2 Tales of Tatsfield – Doris Geary 1987 Doris Geary lived at Pond Cottages in the later years of her life. Her maiden name was Watson. The Watsons came to Tatsfield during or after the First World War. Doris was the sister of Frank Watson who ran the Tatsfield Garage in Paynesfield Road and of Dick Watson who ran the bakery. She married Charlie Geary, who was Parish Council chairman from 1952 to 1959. Her book is a gold mine of information and stories about Tatsfield. She suggests that Pond Cottages were once used as ‘plague cottages’ and refers to a similar use in the late 19th century.
According to Mrs Geary, some of Tatsfield’s road and house names – Emily, Lousa, Georges and Edgar Roads as well as Florence Villas, Marie Villas, Myrtle Cottage, Tommies Villas and Rose Cottage – were decided by a local builder, Charles Field, who used the first names of family members. (In directories of the relevant period he is described as Grocer, carman, coal and corn merchant).
The book refers to a plot for a chapel being reserved in the 1890s at ‘school corner’ to replace the ‘tin hut’ in Borough Road – the Tatsfield Institute where dances were held and the Tatsfield Band would practise.
Mrs Geary suggests that Greenway – formerly Union Road – was the site of the workhouse – Union House. She also repeats the story of Thomas Bates, one of Guy Fawkes’ fellow conspirators, having passed through Tatsfield.
There are also references to Tangland Castle in Goatsfield Road being known as ‘the Folly’ and being the place where Rutland Boughton composed ‘The Immortal Hour’ and to ‘cremation burials’ being found ‘when the pipeline came through Tatsfield’ by the fir trees between the school and the church where there were the remains on an old garden.
The book contains extracts from Vestry minutes from the second half of the 19th century as well as the story of the restoration by Doris Geary of the grave of the then parish clerk, Timothy Burgess.
There is further material on the Gospel Hall in Paynesfield Road, on the formation of the WI by Mrs Lawrence of Union Road (Greenway) in the 1920s and the later purchase of the chapel next to the then Post Office in Paynesfield Road as the WI Hall.
Other chapters deal with the school, the volunteer fire brigade under the leadership of Doris Geary’s father, Thomas Watson, who had been a London fireman before retiring to Tatsfield in 1919; details of shops at the beginning of the 20th century and references to a brick works in Red House Road, the Gladstone bag factory at the Hermitage in Avenue Road – Factory Bottom – and the manufacture of tennis rackets at the White House. There is also a description of the dedication of the King Edward VII Memorial Garden in 1910; an explanation of a connection with Ruth Ellis and Burgess and Maclean and a reference to ‘Paper Jack’ living in a derelict aeroplane in Ricketts Hill.
The book contains descriptions of the snowy winter of 1926/7, Bottom’s Travelling Fair in the field behind the Parish Hall, the slaughterhouse in Union Road, the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards stationed in Tatsfield during the Second World War and the Sabena air crash.
1/10/2/1 Excerpt from Tales of Tatsfield on Ruth Ellis and Maclean
1/10/3 Titsey Place Guidebook and history of Leveson Gower family and family tree and garden guide
1/10/4 Titsey Place Garden guide
1/10/5 Tatsfield: the first 2000 years – the text of the book published by the Tatsfield History Project in 1999, edited by Eileen Pearce. Its 138 pages are the result of two years of research and writing by the contributors.
1/10/6 Guide to the County of Surrey 1906 (map missing)
1/10/7 “Landmarks” leaflet describing textile panels to mark the Millennium as in Tatsfield Village Hall
1/10/8 By the Field with the Round Corner – Mark Abraham 2001
1/10/9 Tatsfield Road Improvement Project 2000
1/10/10 Images of Tatsfield – leaflet within Parish Magazine 2000
1/10/11 Ball in the Hall programme 31/12/19991/11

Parish Council Minutes see also: (digest)

1/11/1 Parish Council Minutes –1894-1908
1/11/2 Parish Council Minutes –1908-1917
1/11/3 Parish Council Minutes –1917-1922
1/1/4 Parish Council Minutes –1922-1929
1/11/5 Parish Council Minutes –1929-1934
1/11/6 Parish Council Minutes –1934-1948
1/11/7 Parish Council Minutes –1948-1955
1/11/8 Parish Council Minutes –1955-1964
1/11/9 Parish Council Minutes –1964-1974
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