Friday, April 11th, 2025

Nostalgia

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Sevenoaks residents attending the annual service of remembrance on Sunday (10 November) are asked to arrive at the Vine War Memorial in Dartford Road by 10.45am.

History will repeat itself in Bat & Ball on 1 November when town mayor Cllr Nicholas Busvine and Sevenoaks MP Sir Michael Fallon bury a time capsule to commemorate the rebuilding of the Sevenoaks Community Centre.

The route of a major new trunk water main in Sevenoaks is to be announced by South East Water on Thursday 12 September. High Street shopkeepers and business owners are keen to avoid the digging up any of the main roads through Sevenoaks, but talk of an alternative route through Knole Park has also met with opposition.

Residents and their guests strolling through the gardens surounding Wildernesse House in Sevenoaks are taking a walk back through history.

An International Australian Women’s Cricket Team were invited to stay at one of Sevenoaks' historic houses where they practised on a specially made pitch in the 1930s.

Eoin Morgan has gone down in history as the first England captain to win the ICC Cricket World Cup after the exciting last ball drama against New Zealand recently. But did you know a Sevenoaks resident played a part in his rise to success?

Sevenoaks resident Pat Moore, whose heroic efforts in the second world war as a sapper with the Royal Engineers on Juno beach during the Normandy landings led to him being awarded the Légion d'Honneur, passed away on Sunday at the age of 98.

Sevenoaks Town Council has been carrying out work to restore and preserve the Vine Pavilion during the past five years. Part of this work involved the installation of a new ramp which makes the historic building more accessible to all.

TWENTY FIVE years ago three golf legends came to the Sevenoaks area to play each other in a special game.

VOLUNTEERS from Sevenoaks Camera Club have documented on film Sevenoaks Town Council’s Heritage Lottery Fund supported project to transform the previously boarded-up Bat & Ball Station building into a historical community hub in northern Sevenoaks.