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2/2/1 Commons Registration – Westmore Green etc. – 8 of 39 pages, including duplicates and plans tracing history of the registration of Tatsfield and Westmore Greens as well as Doris Geary’s (Pond Cottages) right to keep six ducks on the P ond. 2/2/2 Land management proposals – 20 pages and plans concerning management of parish land 1989 2/2/3 Land taken into possession by Tatsfield Parish Council between 1984 and 1986. 1 of 20 pages of maps and correspondence – Schedule of plots 2/2/4 Westmore Green – various papers, including Old Bakery use of greens 1978-1989 – 15 pages 2/2/5 Westmore Green and Tatsfield Green Commons Green bye-laws 1908 promulgated by Godstone RDC. 21 paragraphs include ban on games and one giving authority for removal of offending items. 2/2/6 1977 Silver Jubilee programme (provided by Ken Goodchild – original is Ref. 1/2/6) 2/2/7 Silver Jubilee – Queen’s telegram in reply to message 197 (original is 1/2/7)………. 2/2/8 Pope’s telegram 1969 marking ecumenical service, praying for divine blessings and for the cause of complete unity desired by Christ. 2/2/9 Queen’s letter 1969 marking Service of Unity and hoping for the continuance of this valuable association between Anglican and Roman Catholic members of the community 2/2/10 Copy of letter from Mark Abraham to Elizabeth Player 1997 re his father’s design for village hall sign and references to history of Tatsfield (See also Doc. 2/2/16) 2/2/11 Extracts from Parish Council correspondence 1913-1937 – weeded during Second World War Nine items – notices on renaming of Union, Louisa and Emily Roads in March 1928; Sevenoaks & District Electricity Company on likelihood of supply to Tatsfield, December 1928; letter from PC to DC, June 1936, asking for main drainage – and positive response; Letter from SCC, July 1936 in response to annoyance by week-end campers; letter from London Transport reporting that Mr C.D.Strologo is offering a roadside shelter [to commemorate George V] for the coach terminal point in Tatsfield and asking whether the Lord of the Manor approves. 2/2/12 Extracts from Parish Council correspondence 1938-1945 – weeded during Second World War weeded during Second World War – five extracts: April 1939 PC complaints to DC about singing of ribald songs and disgraceful behaviour by campers at Gorsey Down Farm; note from London Transport July 1940 calling for Mr Strologo’s plaque to be removed from bus shelter under the Removal of Direction Signs Order 1940; note from PC to OC Troops, Manor House October 1940 about demolition of seat by army lorry on Tatsfield Common; complaint in 1944 from DC about alleged stopping up of footpath from Kemsley Road to Ricketts Hill and reply denying that it is a right of way. 2/2/13 Godstone Rural District Council Planning Committee minutes extracts - July 1968 – November 1970. – making up of Grove Road; Licence for six caravans at ‘Concord’, Paynesfield Rd; acceptance of offer by Tatsfield Carnival Association to provide playground equipment on Westmore Green; refusal of sign claiming only private right of access over Westmore Green to No 2 Pond Cottages; refusal to accept that Tatsfield needed at least 50 car parking spaces; lack of funds preventing installation pf public toilets; support for full making up of Greenway and Crossways with street lighting; further subsidence in Crossways/Westmore Road sewer trench; two Tatsfield houses subject to measures by the Chief Public Health Inspector had been reconditioned; appointment of clerk of Tatsfield Parochial Lighting Committee; statutory public health notice served on Tatsfield house; TPO at Concord, Paynesfield Road; 29 Corsican pines to be felled in Hil Park Estate; Whitewood Cottages Road to be made up; surface water sewer to be extended along Grove Road; mains water to come to Kemsley and Parkwood Roads; DC objection to commons registration of KEVII Garden (CL 377) and Mrs Geary’s right (CL56); animal boarding lcence for The Pines. 2/2/14 Photos of inscription found in Village Hall during the 1999 works on scrap of floorboard left behind by workers who built the original hall in 1909. – “O yes O yes O yes: This is to give notice that on the 20th day of July 1909 Thomas Arnold and John Hitchcock DiD with malicious intent (as heretofore mentioned) deface and spoil as many boards as they possibly could in the time. God save the King. All ye that read this take heed and learn that = it takes a wise man to make a fool, but any fool cannot drive a nail straight.” (See Kent & Sussex Courier account Ref. 3/7/2/35) 2/2/15 Village Hall – Charity Commission Order – 6 June 1956 copy of 2 page document setting up the charitable status of the Village Hall with the Rochester and Southwark Diocesan Church Trust being the Custodian Trustees of the Charity and the said body corporate in whom the land and buildings … as vested. The Managing Trustees were the Parichial Church Council. 2/2/15/1Charity Commission details for Village Hall 2004- gives Trustees as: Roger Edwardyers, Ann Lydia Jupp, Anthony Frederick Walteryers, Ann Lydia Jupp, Anthony Frederick Walterbes, Carol Elizabeth Jordan, David Roland Bateman, Enid Margaret Garrard, Godfrey Charles Groom, Margaret Francis Dorothy Boadela, Margaret Rose Parsons, Robert |Allan David, Wendy Mary Maddison. Refers to the lease of 15 July 1964. The objects were for the use of the inhabitants of the parish of Tatsfield and in particular for meetings, lectures, classes and other forms of recreation and leisure time occupation with the objects of improving the conditions of life of the said inhabitants. Registered on 18 May 1966. Shows income/expenditure rising from £8/£6k in 1996/7 to £12/£12k in 2002/3. 2/2/16 Letter from Mark Abraham to Mr Foley 28/10/97 – re sending Working Men’s Club a copy of his father’s design for the village sign. Corrects his father’s name in Doris Geary’ book as Sydney Harry Abraham. Says he died in March 1986. (See also Doc. 2/2/10) 2/2/17 Report (7/2/1914) to the Parish Council about “the road connecting Westerham Hill with Croydon and Westerham Contributory road at Titsey Hill. Document says the areas to the south of Croydon and to the south of Bromley are “steadily growing and changing from agricultural to residential districts. It refers to existing bus service between Bromley and Westerham Hill and proposal for another from Croydon to Tatsfield. Proposes road from the “Croydon and Westerham Contributory Road opposite White Lane, via Westmore Green, Ship Hill, Tatsfield Green and Rag Hill” leading to the top of Westerham Hill. Complains of narrowness and many concealed corners in Rag Hill as a source of danger to fast going traffic and to pedestrians. It is suggested that the new road – avoiding the Metropolis – would mean the rateable value of this district would be developed and increased. The road should prove importanth for military purposes. Relevant landowners had apparently signified they would donate land. The road would be taken over by the county counciul and a substantial grant would be available from the Road Board. The report concludes with a draft resolution in favour of scheme to be forwarded to the district council. 2/2/18 Tatsfield brass band instruments background notes taken from Parish Council minutes 1913-1937 The vicar asked the parish council to take over custody of the instruments in July 1913, but by 1918 the Clerk no longer had room for them and it was decided to arrange for their disposal. InJuly 1918 it was agreed that they should be loaned to Capt Andrews at RAF Biggin Hill. They were returned the next year. By the 1930s it was decided they were no longer in a playable condition and they were sold for 5/= in July 1937. 2/2/19 KE VII Memorial Garden background notes taken from Parish Council minutes and other documents 1890-1979. Mystery over whether £100 was donated by Sir Samuel Joyce Thomas in 1922 and, if it was, what happened to it. 2/2/20 2/2/211979 letter from Simon Dothie (TDC member) to Herbert Read who lived at Deepdene, Lusted Hall Lane, about a Bromley road scheme for junction of Ricketts Hill Road and Lusted Hall Lane. The scheme originated in 1967/8, when the Biggin Hill Town Map was approved. At the time it was expected that Tatsfield would develop substantially and that Surrey Councty Council would join the road scheme. This had not happened and Bromley was not willing to go ahead without Surrey’s help. No detail of the scheme is included – reference is believe dto be MH/1513/IE. 2/2/22Photograph of coins recovered in Tatsfield. 2/2/23Letters to Col Stephens from parish council on Southern Heights Light Railway: 14 Dec 1929 asking whether the allotment ground would be needed ‘this year’; 17 Jan 1930 repeating the request since the allotment holders want to know whether to go ahead with planting.2/2/24Letter to Col Stephens on Southern Heights Light Railway Jan 1931 2/2/25Letter to ‘Secretarial Department, 6 Whitehall Gdns’ re Southern Heights Light Railway 12 Jan 1931 expressing disappointment at the continued postponement of construction of the proposed light railway and urging that pressure be brought to bear on the promoters to start without delay or to abandon the scheme. 2/2/26Letter to Godstone RDC 6 Feb 1931 on two recent road accidents at the crossroads on Tatsfield Green and calling for the widening and straightening of the road connecting Ship Hill and the Church to the Schools. 2/2/27Letter to Surrey CC 13 Dec 1930 objecting to proposed transfer of part of Tatsfield to Caterham & Warlingham UDC. 2/2/28Notice of Emily Road name change to Westmore Road 1928. See also 2/2/11
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