25 Years ago in Tenterden - March 2000
From the Tenterden Archives
Researched by Jack Gillett
March 2000
- A regular customer of the main supermarket in Tenterden is upset over the 100 percent increase in the minimum spend needed for a refund on the parking fee
- The clutter of advertising boards and goods on the pavement outside shops should be removed says Tenterden council
- The captain’s charity Texas Scramble at Tenterden Golf Club attracted the year’s biggest field, 23 teams of four
- Tenterden Town Council wants to extend security camera surveillance to cover the main route through St Michaels
- In the Ashford Saturday Football League Division 1 Tenterden Reserves maintained their hold on top spot with a 1-0 win over Bethersden, with the highly promising Kelvin Hills scoring
- Tenterden Museum has been granted £9,750 by Ashford borough council for an entrance room with access for disabled people
- The new Weald branch of the Men of Kent and Kentish Men held a Wine and Wisdom evening and raised £198 for association bursaries to support two county students
- After more than three decades the Trinity Baptist nursery school in Ashford Road is having to close because of a lack of qualified staff
- Gunner Arthur Whitlock, aged 108, believed to be Britain’s oldest man, was a special guest at the annual meeting of the Tenterden branch of the Royal Artillery Association
- The Mad Hatter’s tea party had nothing on the sequence of events that have become more curious as the date of the children’s Millennium bash draws nearer
- The Tenterden District branch of the National Trust Association was entertained by a talk from the Rev Brian Soper entitled The Land of the Queen of Sheba and Prester John
- Tenterden wants a regular farmers’ market, despite the objection of traders from the Friday stall market
- Tenterden Volunteer Bureau, which does much to aid people needing a little extra help, has sent out its own SOS this week
- Former bank manager Colin Saunders, 52, is the new Tenterden town clerk
- An appeal to save the debt stricken Kent and East Sussex steam railway has netted £55,000 in just three weeks
- County Clothes, the men’s outfitters at East Cross, Tenterden, is celebrating its
- 10th birthday in the town
- Tenterden GP Dr Jonathan Dowling, 44, has been spending many hours on the treadmill lately, but in a couple of weeks time, he will be off and running in the London Marathon
- A record-breaking 340 daffodils were on show at one of the brightest spring shows for years, held by the Tenterden and District Horticultural Society
- A hard-fought 0-0 draw against Dane Court School saw Homewood girls football club become joint county champions