Nostalgia

Artist Martin Barraud recently unveiled a poignant tribute as part of the events which are being held this week to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy during the Second World War.

Following Prince Harry and Meghan's decision not to disclose the location of the birth of their first child for now, My Sevenoaks Community Publisher and Editor Frank Baldwin recalls his own brush with the clandestine birth of a royal baby

THE NEW Sevenoaks Town multi-decked Car Park opened on 8 April and is providing 480 long-stay parking spaces to the town. It sits on the former Buckhurst 2 car park site next to the leisure centre, swimming pool and town library. But can you remember what was there before?

MEMBERS of the Sevenoaks community and several town dignitaries were invited to take a tour of the refurbished Wildernesse House – formally Dorton House School for the Blind – on Thursday (28 March).

A MASS POW escape plan was masterminded by Spitfire pilot Roger Bushell who was based for part of the second world war at Biggin Hill. But it is another fact about Bushell that caught the eye of Frank Baldwin, the editor and publisher of the My Sevenoaks Community website.

LOCAL historian, Matthew Ball, has organised a memorial to a Sevenoaks nurse who served throughout the war.

A HOST of local dignitaries, council leaders, guests and a ‘celebrity’ in the form of former MP turned TV presenter Michael Portillo, were given a preview of the renovated Bat & Ball Station this week.

MANY older Sevenoaks residents can remember learning to swim, particularly during their school days, at the former town swimming pool in Eardley Road which first opened in 1914.

YOUNG actors from the Stag Youth Theatre are touring Sevenoaks schools this week, in a new play about the history of World War One, and there’s a special public performance this Saturday 17 November at 7pm, at the Stag Theatre.‘Great Power’ is an action packed and educational history of World War One, telling the story of how the war began, the key battles across land, sea and air - and why it was illegal to hurt a pigeon! This short play is performed by 12 talented members of the Stag Youth Theatre as part of ‘Sevenoaks Remembers’, a Stag Theatre

YOUNG people across Sevenoaks have been invited to send letters to those who served in WW1 as part of this month’s centenary commemoration.