25 Years ago in Tenterden - August 1999

08/08/2024
Tenterden News
25 Years ago in Tenterden - August 1999
From the Tenterden Archives
Researched by Jack Gillett
 
  • Hundreds of visitors attended an exhibition in the Town Hall commemorating the 550th anniversary of the granting of the Royal Charter to Tenterden
  • Sir Donald Sinden entertained a sell-out audience at the Barn Theatre at Smallhythe with anecdotes about his stage and film career that has spanned well over half a century
  • Chapel Down Horizon made at Tenterden Vineyard Park has been chosen as their only English wine for the second year running by British Airways
  • A neat row of brick cottages known as Victoria Place in Bridewell Lane, Tenterden, are 150 years old
  • Lord Deedes was presented with a 25 year long service badge at the silver jubilee gala weekend on the Kent and East Sussex steam railway
  • London Beach golfer Steve Green finished an excellent fourth in the south region qualifier for the Maxfli PGA Assistants Championship
  • Nigel Nicholson, of Sissinghurst Castle, will open the Weald of Kent Art Group Summer Exhibition at Tenterden Town Hall from 30 August to 4 September
  • Plans for bollards to stop cars blocking the pavement in Tenterden High Street have been rejected
  • The Gatesdene Players, a company of friends and extended families, united for a second time to present a garden production of An Ideal Husband on three evenings at 1 Elmfield – and thereby raised £550 for the West View Hospital in Tenterden
  • A proposal to start an environmentally friendly bus service to reduce short trips by car to the busy Tenterden town centre has received a broad welcome
  • Signs to replace the controversial yellow banners at Magnums Wine Bar in Tenterden High Street have caused a fresh outcry
  • Canon David Trustram of St Mildred’s, Tenterden, is also a keen amateur astronomer and went to the Lizard Peninsula to see the total solar eclipse
  • Arthur Whitlock, 107, the second oldest man in Britain, listened to an account of the eclipse on the radio
  • A public footpath that crosses the football pitch on Tenterden recreation ground is to be diverted to the side of the pitch
  • Former Mayor of Tenterden Brian Tranter, of Golden Square, has resigned after 11 years on the town council
  • Tenterden Golf Club ladies split their day with a three-ball Texas scramble in the morning and the Past Captains Trophy stableford in the afternoon
  • Tenterden councillors believe people should make up their own minds about attending circuses with performing animals
  • It has been suggested a controversial new entrance to Homewood School will turn residential roads in St Michaels into “rat runs” as motorists bid to avoid traffic jams
  • Full public consultation has been promised on works proposed by Tesco at West Cross, Tenterden
  • Staff at the Tenterden leisure centre have been stunned by a spate of vandalism on all four sides of the building
Jack Gillett
August 2024

 
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