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Historic maps of Ashurst and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Ashurst maps
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Ashurst area books
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Memories of Langton Green And Rusthall
I was born at 3 Dornden Cottages in June 1942. My father (Charles Harris) was Chauffer to Mr Coombe at Dornden. Unfortunately Mr Coombe died around 1947 and we had to move out of our cottage as it was a tied residence (about 1949). My memories of living there are vague, but I know happy. There used to be an walled, ivy lined path from our garden to the common across which I went down to Rusthall Infant school where Miss Wells was Headmistress. I continued to go to school in Rusthall even when we moved into Tunbridge Wells. Another favourite outing was across the road towards St Paul's Church (I was married there in 1966 - on World Cup Day) to a little area we called Happy Valley where there was a sandy area to dig in. We had many a picnic there. Especially in 1947 which I remember as a very hot summer. My Mother (Edith Harris) was ill and my cousin Joyce came to... Read more
HEAT FAMILY
My great-great-grandfather was a blackmith in Langton Green in 1851, he went to Hampshire for a while and then moved back to the Rusthall area by 1881.
I have all details about the family if you want to know more - other names connected are LENEY and LANGRIDGE
Rowena (nee Heat)
Turner Family Business
My great-grandfather, by the name of Turner, owned a shop in Langton Green in the 1890s.
Does Anyone Remember Us?
I was 10 years old when we lived in Rusthall and all I remember is Lynda at the corner shop where we would pinch penny sweets - sorry! The huge rocks with toad rock, he was amazing and the council estate right behind the lovely ones in your photo - that's where I had most fun. I'm 36 now and living in Manchester and this is where I belong! I wonder if anyone from there remembers my family - here goes...Paul and Linda had Lisa and Catherine and twin baby boys Thomas and James.
Lived There Also, 1966, 1967
Our house was at the end of the private cul-de-sac. "Rustwick".. Lived there until we moved to Brisbane, Australia, in 1967.
I well recall climbing the Rocks, and the Penny Candy Store?.. I recall the sherbet filled wafers "Flying Saucers", ... always a treat!
Great memories, a wonderful place to grow up - safe, yet great for exploring!
Greg,
Long Island, New York
Big House And A Dalek!!
Its 1965 and I'm a 5 year old boy living in Tonbridge. Now, there was or still is a large white house almost opposite a green near to where there used to be a cinema. Can anyone else remember this house, what it was (children's home etc?) and the summer fayre held there? In 1965 I was taken there on the bus and saw the red Dalek from the Peter Cushing 'Dr. Who' movie and rode on a mechanical elephant. Can anyone else remember this or does anyone have any photos of the fayre? Ralph.
Church Street
Generations of my family lived in Cowden, going right back to 1700s. My parents were married in the church, which lies behind the wall you can just see at the front of this photo. I was also baptised here in 1958. The main significance of this photo for me, are the two houses connected to the Old Smithy (facing left towards the church). My grandmother, Winnie Card, and her three little sisters were born in Church Cottages, and this is where their mother tragically died at a young age in 1919. Their next door neighbours were Richard & Emily Pannell; and somewhere I have a photo taken from the same angle, of Emily standing at her front door. Their older son, Charles Frederick married "the little girl next door," Winnie, in 1930.
