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Memories of The Forgotten School
Around 1950 there was a boarding school established in the castle. A great feature for me were the routine supervised strolls around the local countryside including trips to the sugar white sandstone quarry, the subterranean hideaway of Dick Turpin and his horse, hidden in a copse located in a nearby meadow, the chiddingstone itself with metal handcuffs where wayward wives would be left outside for several days to suffer indignities, some apparently even left to die. Also the pheasants and other wildlife and the frequent plainclothed, horseback hunting parties from a nearby US base that charged through the grounds blowing their hunting horns. These are just memories now, except for this they are gone.
The Green Leigh.
I am unsure of the date my sister Grace married Bill Hallett and lived on the Green Leigh Village. My name is Daphne Russell, nee Hooker. My sister also being Grace Hooker before marriage. My nephews still live in the area. I am in Australia and have wonderful memories. We came from Tonbridge. I was a telephone operator at Tunbridge Wells.
Game Keeper
My Grandfather's name was Gerald Arthur Seale, his father was game keeper at Halls Place in the late 1800's and early 1900's and his name was Gerald Walter Seale, I beleive that he lived in the Keeper's Cottage on the estate.
My mother Violet Henson nee Seale remembered visiting Keeper's Cottage when she was young.
Also From Tonbridge
I also came from Tonbridge, went to the Slade in the 1960s and then on to Hugh Christie in the late 1960s and left in 1976. I also live in Australia. During the 1970s I was a Teddyboy, I still am today. I used to go to the teen and twenty, we were always in the Star cafe, we pretty much turned it into a Teddyboy cafe, always good to see others who come from the same town who have also moved to Australia, I'm in Queensland....
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.
