This digest is in the form of notes about each meeting of the Parish Council and about each Annual and Special Parish Meeting since the Council was formed in 1894. The notes give the date of each meeting and a serial number to each for future reference.

22/5/1922 PC 231
Further concern about the water rate.
Further concern about the state of Old Lane.
No further widening of School Corner.
Mention of unemployed and “new road” unclear.
Warning sign wanted at the Firs, Ricketts Hill Road.
Straying horses on greens.
Later postal delivery and collection wanted.

10/7/1922 PC 232
Sunday postal collection to be 3 p.m.
Dissatisfaction with road tarring.
Unsanitary houses in Goatsfield Road - magistrates refuse to confirm condemning order.

2/8/1922 PC 233
Caravan obstructing Ninehams Road - police informed.

9/10/1922 PC 234
Police say they have no powers over Ninehams Road - private road.

27/11/1922 PC 235
SJ Thomas willing to hand over King Edward VII Memorial Gardens to the Parish Council.
Letter to Mr Galbraith MP re postal service.

8/1/1923 PC 236
Insanitary caravan in Ninehams Road.

12/2/1923 PC 237
New houses sanctioned by DC.
Frontagers in Paynesfield Road to be asked whether they wish it to be made up.

27/2/1923 PC 238
Making up of Paynesfield Road dropped.

26/3/1923 PC 239
SJ Thomas ready to provide Ł100 for maintenance of King Edward VII Memorial Gardens - income from the investment to provide enough money.
New seats for the greens.
Problems with stiles at Ivy Cottage, Ryland & Beagley’s Field etc.
Mr King’s cattle on Tatsfield Green.

26/3/1923 PM 52
Call for greens to be handed over to the Parish Council.
Suggestion for a “by-pass road linking Tatsfield with the SE of London by way of Biggin Hill Valley” approved.
Bad corner New Road/Westerham Road.
Better road needed from school to Manor House.
Call for secondary education facility.

9/4/1923 PC 240
Bellamy Chairman
Call for signpost on Westmore Green for Biggin Hill or Bromley and Limpsfield or Croydon.
Suggested that Biggin Hill aerodrome authorities be asked who had given them permission to put temporary phone lines on Tatsfield Green and Ricketts Hill Road???
Discussion of making up Maesmaur Road.

23/5/1923 PC 241
One of the roadmen dismissed.

2/7/1923 PC 242
Maesmaur Road making up would be: 6” consolidated flint foundation; 4” consolidated flint surface; 5 x 12 concrete kerbs for footways; 3” consolidated gravel for footpaths. All surfaces to be tar sprayed.
Call to reinstate roadman.
Six seats suggested for greens.

3/9/1923 PC 243
67 potholes in 120 yard stretch of Ricketts Hill Road.
“Disgraceful” condition of Old Lane. Four roads discharging their water into the lane.

15/10/1923 PC 244
Nothing of note.

3/12/1923 PC 245
No money for Old Lane drain this year.
Complaint about the state of the roads in frosty weather.

14/1/1924 PC 246
Roads might be sanded in frosty weather.
Continuing discussion about the possible removal of a tree at the bottom of Church Hill.
Police informed of thefts from allotments.

25/1/1924 PC 247
Police to be asked why there had been no arrest after allotment theft.
Police also asked to take action over cows damaging roads.

24/3/1924 PC 248
Complaints about old tins being discarded.
Offensive smells from cess pools in the middle of the village.
Police say cows on private roads and Mr Kent could prosecute privately over vegetable theft from allotment.

24/3/1924 PM 53
Call for a secondary school.
Plan for road link with Bromley and Croydon had not made progress since previous APM.
Monthly house to house collection of tins considered.
Suggestion for a sign at junction of Ricketts Hill Road and Paynesfield Road: “To Tatsfield Green and Church” and “Paynesfield Road to Kemsley Road and Tatsfield Village (Not Safe for Motors).

7/4/1924 PC 249
G Popham Chairman
Letter to Ministry of Transport in an attempt to get tree at the bottom of Church Hill cut down.
Green damaged by recent auction at the Manor House.
Bellamy resigned and replaced by Mr J S Howell.

19/5/1924 PC 250
Complaints about new telegraph poles being erected.

30/6/1924 PC 251
Biggin Hill authorities had agreed to raise telegraph wires to 20 ft. above the ground.
JS Howell had not appeared at any meeting: Maj. Nornabell co-opted instead.

1/9/1924 PC 252
Pond water draining into Working Men’s Club.
RDC to be asked whether pond should be filled in.
FP in Parkwood Road diverted on land belonging to Mr Geary.
Old Lane drainage promise not kept by RDC.

13/10/1924 PC 253
PC says land between Parish Hall and the allotments suitable for building cottages.
10 m.p.h. speed limit called for.

24/11/1924 PC 254
RDC says no prospect of speed limit.
Police asked to refuse permission for any motor trials through the village.
Broken gully at the end of Old Lane.

12/1/1925 PC 255
Police say they do not give permission for motor trials.

9/2/1925 PC 256
Grumbles that local tradesmen were not being used by RDC on council cottages.

16/31925 PC 257
DC decided to acquire site on the west side of Lusted Lane from the Titsey Estate as a housing site.

16/3/1925 PM 54
Duddy Chairman
14 parishioners present
Elected:
A Hitchcock
G King
B Martin
H Miller
PJ Parker
WF Pierotti
Revd BG Popham
Resolution regretting that PC had no say in allotting tenancies for council houses.
Resolved that the proposed site for council cottages is unsuitable because of the difficulty in securing a water supply, the dangerous and narrow lane and potential drainage problems.

14/4/1925 PC 258
Miller Chairman
Ministry of Health has sanctioned purchase of Lusted Lane land for cottages.
DC to be asked about filling in the pond.

2/6/1925 PC 259
DC says it’s hard to prove that pond water is flooding Working Men’s Club cellar.
Resolved to ask DC to fill in the pond.
Resolved to ask DC to settle the Rag Hill FP issue which Mr Geary says “has been hanging fire for the past 15 years”.
Call for road across Tatsfield Green to “be tarred over its whole width”.

13/7/1925 PC 260
Mr V Richards asked PC to take over two seats at the bottom of Church Hill and end of New Road.

17/8/1925 PC 261
DC says an expensive soakaway would be necessary if pond were to be filled up.
Fresh resolution calling for pond to be filled in.

28/9/1925 PC 262
Resolution on filling in the pond rescinded after representations by Women’s Institute and a Parish Meeting would be held.

9/11/1925 PC 263
Nothing of note.

9/11/1925 PM 55
5 in favour of filling in pond: 15 against.

7/12/1925 PC 264
East Surrey Traction assurance about buses stopping at the seat at the top of Chalk Lane.
Southern Heights Light Railway give an assurance that FP will be kept open. PC suggests that the line, which crosses Westmore Green near the allotments, should run behind the school.
Attention of DC drawn to insanitary cottages and caravans in Ninehams Road.

25/1/1926 PC 265
Meeting on proposed light railway to be held at Orpington on 3 March.
DC to clean out the pond and path along the Parade will be raised to prevent flooding.

25/2/1926 PM 56
Called to discuss proposed railway - 130 attended. Resolved that:
“This Parish Meeting is of the opinion that the proposed railway is urgently needed by the inhabitants of this village for its present requirements and future development and strongly urge the promoters to do all in their power to carry out the scheme as proposed always provided that the rights of the inhabitants are duly protected”. For 127: against 3. H Miller to attend 3 March meeting.

1/3/1926 PC 266
More on insanitary houses (and overcrowding in Goatsfield Road).
DC had conditioned the use of a building to be banned between 1 October and Easter each year.

29/3/1926 PC 267
Nothing of note.

29/3/1926 PM 57
DC reported to be antagonistic to railway scheme. Chairman Miller wanted to lobby DC on the grounds that the railway could “mean a considerable increase in the rateable value and would itself contribute a large share to the rates”. The meeting carried unanimously a resolution to this effect to be passed to the DC and the Ministry of Transport. Drafting committee of Sir H Theobald, Revd Popham, Mr Miller and Mr Hitchcock set up.
No action on new cottages.

19/4/1926 PC 268
Miller Chairman
Rag Hill FP dispute continues with site meeting referring to Mr Geary’s annual blocking of the path.
Question of right of way for vehicles from Red House Road to Lusted Lane.

10/5/1926 PC 269
Called to discuss food supplies during the General Strike. Council appointed itself a “Sub Emergency Committee in conjunction with others (?)”.

14/6/1926 PC 270
Minister of Transport prepared to issue railway order subject to certain conditions. PC to raise with the promoters the question of the route at the back of the schools and of the FP from Ship Hill to the church.
Tenders under consideration for new council houses.
WI suggest site for collection of old tins.
Pierotti resigns - leaving the district.
Gypsy encampment in Ninehams Road said to be insanitary.

26/7/1926 PC 271
Nothing definite settled about the railway. Clerk to pursue routing behind the school.
FG Meakin co-opted.

6/9/1926 PC 272
PC asked if it wants any fire hydrants connected to the water main at the new Westmore Green cottages.
Carts being driven on the footpaths at Borough and Maesmaur Roads

6/10/1926 PC 273
Railway promoters need to take part of Westmore Green.
Petition for street re-naming - passed on to DC. (Letter received with reservation about Johns Road).

15/11/1926 PC 274
DC says “if the consent of two thirds in numbers and value of the ratepayers in the streets concerned viz.:- Emily Road to High Street, Louisa Road to The Crossways and Union Road to Greenway, would apply to the Ministry of Health for orders” under the Public Health Act.
Confusion over whether bus timetable timings refer to Church Hill or Tatsfield Road.
Police attention called to gypsies on the new road through the Westerham Hill Estate and to damage being done by gangs of youths to property in the village.

3.1.1927 PC 275
Half the population of the village said to be using the bus on Clarks Lane, so could East Surrey Traction Coy please clarify the timetable.

21/2/1927 PC 276
Rag Hill FP diversion by Mr Geary now approved.
Road Surveyor’s attention drawn to the inadequacy of the gully in Old Lane.

28/3/1927 PC 277
Nothing of note.

28/3/1927 PM 58
Call for update on railway plans.
Call for Rag Hill to be widened to the county boundary.

20?/4/1927 PC 278
Miller Chairman.

13/6/1927 PC 279
Agreement to 12 new houses being known as “Westmore Cottages”.
DC told central fire station is not necessary.
Mr Kelly (District Councillor) thought the railway would come and informed the parish that new roads were also being considered - “one from Keston through Ninehams Road and the other from Warlingham down the main road to Beagley’s Farm and thence across to the schools and ?????”.

25/7/1927 PC 280
Nothing of note.

12/9/1927 PC 281
Meakin resigned
Capt. JE Packe co-opted.

31/10/1927 PC 282
Westmore Road now suggested as new name for Emily Road.
Modification to railway need for land, but the scheme still said to be on the way.

23/11/1927 PC 283
PC happy with railway land idea.

16/1/1928 PC 284
Nothing of note.

12/3/1928 PC 285
Agreement on allotment land being taken for the railway and the knock-on for Leveson-Gower and PC.
Handbill from DC on supply of eggs and day old chicks.

3/1928 PM 59
34 parishioners attended.
Elected:
AJW Baker
SG Brown
Wm Burrows
GE King
B Martin
T Rosier
Revd BG Popham

13/4/1928 PC 286
Revd Popham Chairman.
Road re-naming proceeding.

4/6/1928 PC 287
PC object to fire hydrant at Broomlands.
Tins accumulating on Tatsfield Green.
Reported that Ivy Cottage was to be pulled down - suggestion made that it should be preserved.

16/7/1928 PC 288
PC asked to suggest names for cottages at Tatsfield Green - Parkside Cottages.
No objection to postman having a partial holiday on Mondays(?)
New road had recently been fenced against gypsies.
Question about “the conditions under which Mr Miles carries out his dairy round”.

3/9/1928 PC 289
Further complaints about sheds and caravans providing overnight accommodation with insufficient water and sanitary facilities. Johns Road mentioned.
Old tins problem unresolved.
Resolved to hold meetings on the first Monday in the month in future.

1/10/1928 PC 290
Removal of old tins still a problem.
Request to DC to tar those parts of Ship and Church Hills not yet dealt with.
Alleged that Mr Geary had encroached in Parkwood Road.

5/11/1928 PC 291
Widening of Ship Hill referred to Highways Committee of DC.
Rubbish collection arrangements called for.
King resigned. AW Milne elected.
South Suburban Gas Company to be asked for a supply to the village from the mains being laid along Biggin Hill.

3/12/1928 PC 292
Revd Popham resigned as Chairman.
S Gordon Brown elected Chairman.
Sevenoaks Electricity Supply Coy to be asked for electric light in Tatsfield.

7/1/1929 PC 293
Southern Heights Railway asked PC for costs of flints.
South Suburban Gas Coy said Tatsfield not in its area.
Further discussion on cost of refuse collection.
Recent accident in the “Tatsfield approach Road” led to a call for footpath on the east side of the road.
Clerk resigned.

4/2/1929 PC 294
Further exchanges on improving Ship Hill and Church Hill.
Surveyor to cost improvement of Ricketts Hill.
Tatsfield Approach Road footpath in works programme.
Call to make up FP from pond across Westmore Green to Lusted Lane.
Revd PH Rogers elected to replace Mr Martin who had left the district.
Minister of Transport had made the order authorising the construction of the light railway.

END OF VOLUME FOUR

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