25 Years ago in Tenterden - November 1999
From the Tenterden Archives
Researched by Jack Gillett
November 1999
- The Importance of Being Earnest, about keeping faith with class and etiquette, so brilliantly penned by Oscar Wilde, was splendidly portrayed by the TODS
- Bollards is at the moment an unfortunate word in Tenterden High Street, where new black and gilt metal posts have been set in concrete in the wrong places
- The local scouts will be presenting a bonfire and fireworks spectacular on the Three Fields
- Town councillors have suggested using false kerb stones to prevent vehicles parking with their bumpers overhanging the edge of the pavement outside Tenterden High Street shops, where parking is at right angles to the kerb
- Compassion in World Farming collected £65.32 in Tenterden last month towards its campaign for farm animal welfare
- Everyone will be welcome at an illustrated talk for the Tenterden Trust on Enjoying Old Churches by Jim Tricker in Tenterden Town Hall
- The Rotary Club of Tenterden has presented a cheque for £1000 to the Hospice on the Hill appeal
- Gurkha soldiers were the front line troops entering East Timor as part of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force have been sent letters of support from the Tenterden Infant School
- Developer Berkeley Homes is negotiating to buy the former Tenterden police station in Oaks Road
- A yew tree donated by the borough council to mark the Millennium will be planted at St Michaels Church
- Mike Turner has founded a Weald of Kent Magic Club which will meet at the Vine Inn on the last Monday of each month
- Every dish on the supper menu at the Lemon Tree Restaurant, Tenterden, in aid of the Hospice on the Hill, gave a Taste of Kent
- Teddy Raw, of East Cross, Tenterden, first flew solo in 1938 and now he has come through a retraining programme with flying colours at the Kent Gliding Club at Challock
- A plan by Boots the Chemist at East Cross, Tenterden, to use a first floor flat above the shop as a photo-lab has been recommended for refusal by the town council
- Despite massive local objection against more traffic and its effect on road safety in the Shrubcote area, Ashford councillors have agreed that a development site in Tilden Gill Road, Tenterden, can be included in the Borough Local Plan
- Detailed plans for the Heronden Hall Gatehouse are to come under scrutiny at a site meeting by town councillors.
- Governors and heads of primary schools in Tenterden are to meet to iron out differences over Homewood’s decision to introduce a five year term
- The Tenterden Bowls Club presentation dinner was held after a fine season during which president Geoff Howard won the men’s championship and vice-chairman Angela Goodfellow took the ladies’ award
- The Tenterden Town Millennium Group is taking bids for tables at the Midsummer Party Night
- The Council moved in quickly to remove autumn leaves in Tenterden High Street after two fires were started in one night
Jack Gillett
November 2024