25 Years ago in Tenterden - April 2000
From the Tenterden Archives
Researched by Jack Gillett
April 2000
- An illustrated talk on sailing Around the World the Wrong Way proved the right way to raise £282 for the Hospice on the Hill Appeal in Tenterden
- The Kent & East Sussex Railway celebrated its 100th birthday by opening (or re-opening) the line between Tenterden and Bodiam
- Four French traders travelled from Calais to the Tenterden Market with their produce on 14th and 28th April
- Artist and teacher Rowena McWilliams of Smallhythe Road, Tenterden, has been presented with an award by Lord St John of Fawsley, chairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission
- Thirty staff have lost their jobs and 17 elderly residents will have to be moved after the closure of the private Tenterden Nursing Home, known as Cottleston Pie, in Biddenden Road, St Michaels
- Mothering Sunday was celebrated at St John the Baptist Church, Smallhythe, with posies being presented to all the ladies in the congregation and after the service a Millennium yew tree was planted in the corner of the car park
- More than 100 members and guests of Tenterden Golf Club celebrated the new Millennium with a Grand Ball at Chart Hills
- Hundreds of Tenterden children are likely to have a Millennium street party on the recreation ground
- The new president of Tenterden Chamber of Commerce is Colin Davies, one of the founder partners of Estate Publications
- A plan to build four detached houses on the site of the former Tenterden police station in Oaks Road has been rejected by the town council for the second time
- Tenterden Junior School pupils will be looking out for their sports teacher, Paul Wilmott, in the London Marathon
- Arthur Whitlock, of Tenterden, thought to have been the oldest man in Britain, died in his sleep at his flat at Little Hill, St Michaels
- The Lions Club of Tenterden has held a giant Easter egg charity draw in 19 pubs in the area
- Tenterden and District Local History Society will be welcoming Mr W Tunstall Bates as a guest speaker at their next meeting when he will be speaking on My Life as an Auctioneer
- Tenterden area community librarian Sue Duckworth has been holding IT taster sessions with members of the Women’s Institutes in Tenterden and St Michaels
- Tenterden’s failing youth club must be replaced by a cyber café believes the town’s Methodist minister, the Rev Sylvester Deigh
- Busy doctor’s wife and mother of three, Sheila Cox, of Tenterden, is to become a vicar