3.1.1940 | Times | Dearer Coal and Electricity (see article) |
5.1.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Three days of childrens' entertainments |
6.1.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Land Girls at Hartley (see article) |
6.1.1940 | Kent Messenger | Christmas 1939 (see article) |
16.2.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | John B Gayes of Hartley Wood Corner - faulty car lights |
17.2.1940 | Daily Mirror | Hartley Comic (see article) |
1.3.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Left Book Club Meeting on "Federal Union" |
8.3.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Hartley Rates up from 10/5 to 11/7 in the pound |
9.3.1940 | Kent Messenger | Cook housekeeper wanted at The Anchorage, Ash Road, annual salary £50 |
9.3.1940 | Kent Messenger | Go ahead for Hartley School Canteen |
15.3.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | ARP - public shelter at junction of Hoselands Hill and Station Road, Longfield; and near Pepper Hill, Southfleet |
15.3.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Hartley House - American Tea for wool to make sailors' comforts |
16.3.1940 | Kent Messenger | Frederick Welch (of Dalesford, Castle Hill) writes letter attacking conscientious objectors |
16.3.1940 | Kent Messenger | 49 attend WI Meeting. Members have knitted 76 items for troops. |
21.3.1940 | The Times | Southern Railway AGM (see article) |
22.3.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Restrictions on certain kinds of cultivation |
29.3.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Parish council complains of "unneccessary" expense of ARP Wardens |
5.4.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Easter Activities for evacuees |
5.4.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Chantry Cottage, Stack Lane - knitting party for sailors' comforts |
12.4.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | To let: Gossy Croft, Hartley Hill - £52 pa |
12.4.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Dudley Sizer of 1 Church Rd - speeding |
12.4.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Newspaper reduced to 8 pages due to newsprint rationing |
10.5.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | WI Preserves Club has applied for 38 cwt of sugar (see also 12/26.7.40) |
10.5.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Elsa Benham's stage show for evacuees' canteen |
18.5.1940 | Kent Messenger | Dozens of Tomato and cucumber plants for sale at Keston, Church Road |
18.5.1940 | Kent Messenger | Marriage of Katherine McDonald of Newbury, Ash Road to Ronald Lynds of Longfield |
24.5.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Obituary of Alice Maud Fitzroy-Mundy of The Bungalow, Church Road (84) |
25.5.1940 | Kent Messenger | Obituary of Elvy William Cooper, blacksmith of Northfleet, son of Elvy Cooper, blacksmith of Hartley |
31.5.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Land Girls - picture of them feeding cattle at a Hartley farm |
31.5.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Mr Langton, evacuees' headmaster, recalled to Eitham by LCC |
7.6.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Dartford RDC - aliens banned from area |
14.6.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Savings Group considered |
14.6.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Obituary of Margaret E Elliott of St Johns Lane (69) |
14.6.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Burglary at Meadow Cottage, home of Col Francis Willes |
15.6.1940 | Kent Messenger | Parish council remove the name of Hartley from signage, agreement to widen St John’s Lane (see article). |
21.6.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Church Bell Ringing Prohibited |
22.6.1940 | Kent Messenger | Land of Len Harris, Stack Lane (?Beulah) is being used as a dump for scrap iron salvage |
28.6.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Treveor, garden party for forces comforts attended by 100 |
5.7.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Experimental Dartford RDC scrap metal dump at Hartley |
5.7.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Soldier killed in motor accident on Hoselands Hill |
2.8.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | H S West - failed to empty cesspool at 1 & 2 Jubilee Parade, Ash Rd |
3.8.1940 | Kent Messenger | H S West fined £2 plus costs for failing to empty cesspools at Jubilee Parade, Ash Road |
16.8.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Obituary of Mrs Faith Temple of Oaklands, Church Rd (56) |
16.8.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | 4-5 tons of scrap metal collected in Hartley |
23.8.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Wedding of Constance E Gillman of Chilton, Church Rd |
20.9.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | WI - lectures on "Feeding and Cooking in Wartime" |
21.9.1940 | Kent Messenger | End of Whiffin Cottage (see article) |
4.10.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Gorse Way man fined for speeding |
4.10.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | All Saints - Sunday services to be in schoolroom |
4.10.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Marriage of Miss J H Fielder of the Stores at Congregational Ch |
5.10.1940 | Kent Messenger | 24 lives lost in bombing of West Hill Hospital, Dartford (see article) |
5.10.1940 | Kent Messenger | Robert Burnsten Wilson of Riverview, Church Road– blackout regulations fine |
5.10.1940 | Kent Messenger | Edward Owen Jones of Elderberry Cottage, Church Road, fined for speeding at Welling |
11.10.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Parish Council - £41 6s 2d raised for Spitfire fund |
12.10.1940 | Kent Messenger | Parish council praises local fire fighters and also discusses widening of St John’s Lane (see article) |
18.10.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | More members of Hartley Home Guard needed |
26.10.1940 | Kent Messenger | Glenelm, Castle Hill to let for duration at 32 shillings per week; owner also put James Auto Cycle for sale - £9 |
15.11.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | William E Barlow of View Point, Merton Ave, victim of assault. |
22.11.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Engagement of Capt Algernon E Orde; |
6.12.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Sub-Committee of Dartford RDC re widening of St Johns Lane (see also 20.12.40) |
20.12.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | 52 collected for .Spitfire Fund |
27.12.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Dora Stokes of Keston and David Grey of Brumleigh Church Road summon each other for assault (see article) |
27.12.1940 | Dartford Chronicle | Obituary of Paul Dennis of Ash Rd (65) |
28.12.1940 | Kent Messenger | Ellerbys Agricultural Contractors advertise for tractor driver |
10.1.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Spitfire fund now £66, £34 of which raised by Country Club |
11.1.1941 | Kent Messenger | Parish Council – Mr Gable coopted in place of A E Edward, who had resigned |
18.1.1941 | Kent Messenger | Former Old Downs school pupil C S Moseley successful in exam for naval cadets special entry (executive and engineering). (in 1945 he was Lieutenant on HMS LIverpool) |
18.1.1941 | Kent Messenger | WI Fruit Preserving Scheme (see article) |
18.1.1941 | Kent Messenger | C S Moseley, former pupil at Old Downs success in Navy Cadet exam |
18.1.1941 | Kent Messenger | Razor blade famine in Kent |
25.1.1941 | Kent Messenger | Adverts: (1) Rooms to let – Mrs Foster, 3 Ash Road; (2) Morris Nine car 1930 for sale £4 – St Anthony’s (now Knoll Cottage), Ash Road |
1.2.1941 | Kent Messenger | WI Fruit Preserving Success (see article) |
1.2.1941 | Kent Messenger | Adverts: (1) Breeding rabbits and hatching eggs for sale – Glebe Cottage, Hoselands Hill; (2) Wagoner seeks situation – Hodges, Gun Station, Church Road |
7.2.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Dr Evelyn Scott of Old Downs made deputy medical officer |
8.2.1941 | Kent Messenger | Robert William Cheesmur, conscientious objector (see article) |
14.2.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Fire Watching: list of section leaders (see article) |
15.2.1941 | Kent Messenger | Dartford A Town of Book Lovers, 25.6% of population borrowed books, compared with 16.9% nationally |
15.2.1941 | Kent Messenger | Parish Council – KCC have withdrawn objections to widening St John’s Lane |
15.2.1941 | Kent Messenger | Issue of phone books to residents suspended |
22.2.1941 | Kent Messenger | WI digs for victory (see article) |
7.3.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | William G Amos of Hartley Green - cycle lamp too bright |
7.3.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | £3,810 invested at Hartley PO during war weapons week |
7.3.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Country Club - auction sale raises £38 to war weapons week |
8.3.1941 | Kent Messenger | War weapons week (see article) |
8.3.1941 | Kent Messenger | Kent Farmers dislike double summer time |
14.3.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Peggy Day of Downs View, Ash Rd - no bicycle rear light |
21.3.1941 | Kent Messenger | Hartley annual parish meeting (see article) |
22.3.1941 | Kent Messenger | Annual Parish Meeting – St John’s Lane, war fundraising (se article) |
22.3..1941 | Kent Messenger | Adverts: (1) Egg sittings – Mrs Stickland, Old Downs; (2) Store pigs for sale – Coney, Hartley Bottom |
5.4.1941 | Kent Messenger | 150 attend dance at Country Club to send cigarettes to local POWs. |
11.4.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Obituary of Air Cadet George N Stickland of Old Downs (18) |
19.4.1941 | Kent Messenger | Golden Wedding of Mr and Mrs George Day of North Ash Farm (see article) |
26.4.1941 | Kent Messenger | Hartley Refugee Association Annual Report (see article) |
2.5.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | WI Drama Group - 3 short plays (also in KM 10.5.1941) |
3.5.1941 | Kent Messenger | Obituary of Miss Clara Hannah Maria Greenwood, 83, of “Pleasant” (now Copthorne), Ash Road, retired teacher |
10.5.1941 | Kent Messenger | Total war savings – Dartford £1.13m, Gravesend £1.12m |
23.5.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Advert for recruits to Kent Emergency Land Corps |
6.6.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Marriage of Thomas Morgan and Dorothy Temple both of Hartley |
7.6.1941 | Kent Messenger | Wedding of T W Morgan of Greycote, Manor Drive and Dorothy Temple of Oaklands, Church Road, they are to live at 2 Rose Cottages, Essex Road, Longfield |
7.6.1941 | Kent Messenger | Adverts: (1) 1933 Wolseley Car for sale £50 – Woodlands, Ash Road; (2) Home Lodge (now The Bex), Ash Road to let – A V Baker, 47 Devonshire Road, Weston super Mare |
4.7.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Achibald W T Dearing of Gwenjonal, Church Rd - speeding |
4.7.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Obituary of chairman of Dartford RDC written by Capt Bignell |
4.7.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Cooperative Fruit Preserving Centre at WI Hall |
11.7.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Will of Miss Frances E C Kirke of Braeside (£6,673) |
18.7.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | John Coulson of Ash Rd - left car unattended and unlocked |
18.7.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Philop N Payne of Windermere, Church Rd - allowed uninsured driver to drive car |
1.8.1941 | Dartford Chronicle, Kent Messenger | Capt C S Bignell to become chairman of Dartford RDC (see article) |
1.8.1941 | Kent Messenger | Sale of Dairy Herd and Equipment at Hartley Manor Farm (see article) |
8.8.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | John Coulson of Newbury, Ash Rd - failed to leave car immobilised |
15.8.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Parish Council - Mr Meddick resigns over winding up of Ash Rural Sanitary Committee |
15.8.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Country Club Whist Drive for Navy Comforts |
5.9.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | All Saints - national day of prayer; collection for Lord Mayor of London's distress fund |
19.9.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Archibald W T Deering of Church Rd denies paternity of child by Miss Edith R Clark (18) |
19.9.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Ratepayers Association founded; chairman DTR Gray; secretary C D Mayley of The Baytrees, Gorse Way |
19.9.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Boy guilty of "abominable cruelty" to dog - discovered by Mr Campkin of Cherry Orchard and Mrs Allkins of The Glebe |
19&27.9.1941 | Daily Mirror | Hartley Home Guard Disbanded (see article) |
19.9.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Rural Youth Movement: first sports meeting includes Hartley |
26.9.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Home Guard to be disbanded due to objections to appointment of Deryck Dallen as 2nd in command (3.10.41 - to be reformed) |
17.10.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Visit of mobile YMCA Canteen |
24.10.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Home Guard: applications for new platoon to Lt J R Stevens, Hazel Lodge, ash Rd |
31.10.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Deryck N Dallen of Hartley Manor Farm - blackout offence (car) |
14.11.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Ratepayers Assn - 60 at meeting, 115 members |
14.11.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Country Club: YMCA & Red Cross Dance - RAF Dance Band Aid for Russia Whist Drive at Country Club (5.12.41) |
14.11.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | No progress on Hartley School Canteen |
14.11.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | WI Drama Group (many named) |
14.11.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Protest meeting about increased rates due to cesspool emptying |
26.12.1941 | Dartford Chronicle | Letter from HT Penney of Windyridge to Dartford RDC |
23.1.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Divorce of Elizabeth EL Constable of Hartley Old Rectory |
31.1.1942 | Kent Messenger | Obituary of William Braybrook (84) see article |
13.2.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Arthur C Strutt of Knoll, Ash Rd - cycled without rear light |
28.2.1942 | Kent Messenger | Obituary of Edwin John Lee (52) of Witzies, Church Road (see article) |
6.3.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Obituary of Flying Officer MJC Harwood DFC, born Hartley 1920 |
6.3.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Pupils of Mrs Appleton's Fairby High School donate £12 to warship week |
13.3.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Maintenance order for child of Church Road man. |
13.3.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Success of Street Salvage Stewards and of funds raised.in warship week |
20.3.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Obituary of Mary Ann Bishop of The Piggotts, Church Rd |
21.3.1942 | Gravesend Reporter | Lively Hartley meeting following sacking of clerk (see article) |
17.4.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Albert S Varnham of Lima, Church Rd - car not immobilized. He said he removed gear lever to immobilise car. Fined 20 shillings and costs |
24.4.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Restrictions on Retail Deliveries in Longfield Area, butchers allowed 2 per week up to 3 miles, others only 1 per week ½ - 3 miles |
1.5.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Dartford British Restaurant has 400 customers per day |
22.5.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | New Ration Books from WI Hall |
22.5.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Marriage of Marjorie Sopp of Hazel Wood,Church Rd |
22.5.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Obituary of Mrs Florence A Cromar of Merton House (75) 29/5 Funeral |
3.7.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Hartley man caught shop lifting in Dartford |
10.7.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Aid For China meeting attended by 40 |
24.7.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Cricket - Hartley Home Guard beaten by Regulars |
7.8.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Lt JC Stickland - MC awarded for defence of Malta |
7.8.1942 | Sevenoaks Chronicle | Obituary of Mrs Mabel ML Green of Riverhead, Dau of Rev Bancks (see article) |
21.8.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Trooper Peter Harle (22) of Dartford, POW in Italy |
21.8.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Obituary of Charles Smith (82) of Black Lion |
21.8.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | WI Festival in Hartley |
21.8.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Cadet CF Evans of Hartley ATC promoted to A/Corporal |
2.10.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | All Saints/Congregational - Harvest gifts given of Rescue Home, Gravesend |
23.10.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | County Court Robert RB Wilson v SE Transport Co for £19 |
13.11.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Cuts to buses - none after 9pm eves, or before lpm Sundays |
20.11.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Rememberence Service led by Brig-gen Andrus |
11.12.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Sale of work for Parish Church funds |
11.12.1942 | Dartford Chronicle | Parish Council - 144 can be accomodated at rest centre |
1.1.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | Social Club - Thrift club shared out £450 |
1.1.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | Obituary of Miss Marjorie Barker (59) of Heort Lea |
12.2.1943 | Kent Messenger | Balance of moneys from wound up Ash and District Sanitary Committee to go to local nursing associations |
19.2.1943 | Kent Messenger | Geese and hatching eggs for sale - Sudds, Applegarth |
12.3.1943 | Kent Messenger | WI raise £20.10.8 for Aid to Russia Fund. |
12.3.1943 | Kent Messenger | Annual meeting of Hartley Folk Song and Dance Society, Miss Parker president, Mrs Keen secretary. Informal dances held first Saturday of month at Longfield Youth Centre Hut. |
12.3.1943 | Kent Messenger | Certificate of Hartley's participation in the adoption of HMS Gloxinia. To be displayed in School, Post Office and WI |
12.3.1943 | Kent Messenger | Donor of war memorial railings has rejected request for them to go for salvage. |
19.3.1943 | Kent Messenger | Complaints at annual parish meeting about Dartford RDC's "spread over" rating plans to replace local items with overall rate. Miss Chisholm said they should look at benefit to whole area, |
26.3.1943 | Kent Messenger | Beehives for sale or whole apiary. Elphick, Ash Road |
2.4.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | Margaret EV Morton of Bayonne, Church Rd - Court permission to marry (see article) |
16.4.1943 | Kent Messenger | Poultry house for sale. MacDonald, Phoenix. Nanny goat for sale - Selworthy. |
14.5.1943 | Kent Messenger | Shed and poultry house for sale. Alexander, Cavan, Church Road. Laying batteries, 24 poultry cages, fowl house. Parkins. |
14.5.1943 | Kent Messenger | Auction notice for Le Stock Farm, 3 bedrooms, 1¾ acres land planted with fruit trees. |
14.5.1943 | Kent Messenger | Plans for parade at Farningham to celebrate 3rd anniversary of 19th battalion that includes Hartley, Longfield etc |
14.5.1943 | Kent Messenger | Hartley exceed £5,000 Wings for Victory target by £365. Includes £165 from mock auction and £11 from two WI Whist Drives. Names of winners of children's drawing competition. |
21.5.1943 | Kent Messenger | Mrs Dorracott prize winner at first wartime Kent County Canine Association Dog show at Maidstone, |
21.5.1943 | Kent Messenger | Child entertainers to visit Southfleet and Hartley (see article) |
4.6.1943 | Kent Messenger | Fruit wanted to buy - Hemesleys (see article) |
18.6.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | Graham H Wood of hatchlands, Hartley Hill - misuse of motor fuel (see article) |
25.6.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | William Lockwood of Le Stocks Farm left money to government (see article) |
16.7.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | Country Club - 483 company of Girls Training Corps dance at Country Club |
16.7.1943 | Kent Messenger | 27 acres of Pescot land in Fawkham and Hartley for sale by personal representatives of Mr H White |
23.7.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | Auction sale of Pescot land, Longfield and Hartley |
23.7.1943 | Kent Messenger | Shorthorn cow and store pigs for sale - Glover, Hartley Bottom |
13.8.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | William H Heale of Ash Rd - inefficent brakes |
13.8.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | Country Club - sports fair for RAF Benevolent'- fund |
20.8.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | Edward A Kitto of Black Lion - speeding at Shorne |
22.8.1943 | Times | Death of Charles Bate MacFarlane of Hartley House, director of William Dunn & Co Ltd |
27.8.1943 | Kent & Sussex Courier | To let: Hartley Manor Farm by War Agricultural Executive (see article) |
3.9.1943 | Kent Messenger | Burglary at Beulah, Stack Lane |
3.9.1943 | Kent Messenger | Case of speeding in blackout against Hubert Gladdish of Stocks Farm, dismissed (see article) |
10.9.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | Erith Schoolboys of Country Club have been working on local farms |
10.9.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | Fr Camise McCarthy to be RC Priest |
10.9.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | Henry J Leiong (20) - burgled Beulah, Stack Lane (see also 22.10.43)) |
17.9.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | Obituary of Mrs Lucy M Weston (86) of Anzac, Church Rd |
8.10.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | Alterations to Route 423 |
15.10.1943 | Kent Messenger | Pescot land and 2 bungalows sold to Mr J Barker for £2,000 |
19.11.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | Dance at Country Club for HMS Gloxinia, corvette adopted by DRDC |
19.11.1943 | Kent Messenger | Advert for CM Ellerby Agricultural Contractor |
19.11.1943 | Kent Messenger | Alsatian pups for sale - Mrs Larkin, Jessern, Ash Road |
26.11.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | Country Club - licence to serve light refreshments |
26.11.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | For Sale: Freehold building plots 50'xl901 for £96 |
10.12.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | Complaint about "unneccessary" works at Ash Rd and St Johns Lane. Same item in Kent Messenger. Related to water collecting at junction. (See article) |
10.12.1943 | Dartford Chronicle | Letter from Commander Gloxinia thanking parish for books & games |
14.1.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Ernest H Constable of Cranmere, Church Rd - speeding |
21.1.1944 | Kent Messenger | Egg incubator for sale - Goodwin, Westfield |
21.1.1944 | Kent Messenger | Footpath from St Johns Lane cleared; several sacks sent in following appeal for salvage |
11.2.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | New Rector Rev JW Henderson - picture and biography |
11.2.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Consulation on proposal to extend from 1944 to 1947 the time limit to build Hartley Pumping Station |
11.2.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Parish council to press for modern buildings for primary school, and in the meantime better sanitation |
12.2.1944 | Gravesend Reporter | Sergeant John Sale of Broomfield, Ash Road, missing in Italy since 19 January (see article) |
25.2.1944 | Kent Messenger | Flying Officer G H Sudds formerly of Applegarth missing after flying operations |
3.3.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Trooper Peter Harle moved to POW camp in Germany |
10.3.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Salute the Soldier Week - £2,700 target aimed at by village |
17.3.1944 | Kent Messenger | Chinese Art Exhibition at WI Hall raised £7 for Aid to China Fund. Long list of people who lent items and children who made model of Chinese home |
17.3.1944 | Kent Messenger | "Vast volume of SR traffic". Southern Railway has transported 10 million troops since war started, freight up 25% since 1938. |
24.3.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Dartford RDC to become protected area again from 1 April |
31.3.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Lt A C Hooper of rescue tug Stormking, story of 600 mile tow of HMS Woodpecker |
31.3.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Mrs Adeline M Cavanagh of St Peter's Stack Lane - fare evasion |
21.4.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Induction of Rev John W Henderson |
5.5.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Salute the Soldier Fun Fair at Hartley Country Club (also 12.5.44)) |
5.5.1944 | Kent Messenger | WI Choir of 130 including women from Hartey and Ash perform at Gravesend Cooperative Hall. |
12.5.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Criticism of state of Hartley School |
12.5.1944 | Kent Messenger | Mr Gomer Davis resigns from the parish council due to ill health. Mr Passmore Bishop coopted. Council to ask Dartford RDC for post war road plans. |
12.5.1944 | Kent Messenger | Salute the soldier savings drive raises £3,619 in Hartley including £643 raised by WI Savings Group house to house sales. |
19.5.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Thomas Graham of Gra-burn, Fairby Lane - breached black out regs |
26.5.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | All Saints - appeal for new chalice and paten (cost £27) |
26.5.1944 | Kent Messenger | Founding of Hartley Young Naturalists Club at Congregational Hall. Rev J W Henderson elected president. Mrs Gates secretary, |
9.6.1944 | Kent Messenger | Vauxhall 14hp Black Saloon for sale - Hartley Manor Farm |
23.6.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Salute the Soldier - £95 raised by Hartley |
30.6.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Hartley Manor- £75 raised in sale for Hartley knitters for Merchant Navy. Meanwhile flag day for Red Cross and St John's Ambulance raises £23 in Hartley (collectors Mrs Clark, Miss S Fuller, Miss Collins, Miss Earley, Miss Collins, C Burguire, Miss Earley |
7.7.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Daisy M Barlow of View Point, Merton Ave - cleared Of assaulting William H Wood of Woodlands, Woodlands Ave |
14.7.1944 | Kent Messenger | Rabbits for sale - Watney, Forge Farm |
28.7.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | James R Webster of Sacheverell, Church Rd - arrears of maintenance |
28.7.1944 | Kent Messenger | Servicemen's canteen opens at Ash Village Hall, Mon, Wed Thurs 6.30 - 10pm |
11.8.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Retirement of Miss Fiddis, 30 years head of School; Miss Dorothy Barnes to be new headmistress (8.9.44) |
11.8.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Day of Prayer: Archdeacon at All Saints |
28.8.1944 | Kent Messenger | Secondhand wedding dress for sale, no coupons required, Mrs White, Stocks Farm |
8.9.1944 | Kent Messenger | Ferrets for sale - Austin, Manor Drive |
14.9.1944 | Times | Margaret J Gates - memories of living in balloon belt (see article) |
22.9.1944 | Kent Messenger | Felsted, Church Road for sale - £1,900 |
6.10.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Flying bombs in Dartford RDC - none at Hartley apparently (see article) |
13.10.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Parish Council has received certificates for Wings for Victory and Salute the Soldier and picture of HMS Gloxinia to go in WI Hall |
10.11.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Maintenance order for Emily MM Gillman of Acacia, Gorse Way |
24.11.1944 | Kent Messenger | 15 attend Young Naturalist talk drawing fro nature by Mrs Jenman |
1.12.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | William Clark - stole from his employer at Hartley House |
1.12.1944 | Kent Messenger | Longfield Young Farmers Club started, Ken Glover chairman, Vera Glover secretary |
8.12.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | WI sale of work for Red Cross (£130) and Forces Comforts (£23) |
15.12.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Home Guard - social evening at country club to mark stand down of 19th Battalion |
15.12.1944 | Kent Messenger | Better bus servies for Hartley area, more double decker buses if trees can be lopped. |
22.12.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Civil Defence: farewell social for those being stood down |
22.12.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Education: Hartley to be in No4 NW Kent District - Gravesend area |
22.12.1944 | Dartford Chronicle | Modern 3 bed bungalow - £795?. |
5.1.1945 | Dartford Chronicle | Edward Shaw of Rosary Cottage, Stack : lane - alleged desertion of wife Peggy |
5.1.1945 | Kent Messenger | Boundary Commission provisionally decides that all of Dartford Rural District should be in Chislehurst parliamentry constituency |
12.1.1945 | Dartford Chronicle | Hartley to remain in Chislehurst Parliamentary Constituency |
26.1.1945 | Dartford Chronicle | Request for sweets to be sent to Country Club for childrens treats |
26.1.1945 | Dartford Chronicle | Obituary to Mrs Bignell (51) of Colyton |
2.2.1945 | Kent Messenger | Chickens and incubator for sale - Morgan, Greycote, Manor Drive |
9.2.1945 | Dartford Chronicle | Garage Fire at Church Rd, building and car destroyed |
9.2.1945 | Kent Messenger | Gunner C L Larkin of Jessern Ash Road mentioned in despatches for Italian campaign |
16.2.1945 | Kent Messenger | New bus stop added in Ash Road, just after junction of St Johns Lane |
23.2.1945 | Dartford Chronicle | Oddfellows: meeting of 4625 lodge at Black Lion |
25.2.1945 | Kent Messenger | 35 attended Junior Naturalist Club, including 9 new members |
2.3.1945 | Dartford Chronicle | Home Guard Dinner for No 3 (Hartley) platoon at Country Club |
9.3.1945 | Kent Messenger | WI social evening includes entertainment by WI Drama Group |
9.3.1945 | Kent Messenger | Hazel Chisholm of Restharrow fined 10 shillings for driving when licence had expired on 5.4.1944 |
16.3.1945 | Kent Messenger | Parish Council - complaints about furring of pipes and hardness of water. Overhanging tree at Homefield, Stack Lane. Housing needs discussed. |
23.3.1945 | Kent Messenger | For sale: iron horse tractor, plough, cultivator etc, £168 - Free, Castle Hill |
23.3.1945 | Kent Messenger | Plots for sale in Gorsewood Road and Gorse Way about 100' x 200', £210 each |
30.3.1945 | Kent Messenger | Three one act plays by WI Drama Group. List of those taking part |
13.4.1945 | Kent Messenger | Corporal Alfred Gordon Stickland, 20 (pictured), killed in action (see article). |
13.4.1945 | Kent Messenger | Parish Council: Mid Kent Water says water here no harder than other chalky districts, council noticeboards at Church Road and Hoselands Hill to be repainted. |
27.4.1945 | Kent Messenger | Sergeant John Sale returns home after being liberated by Americans from POW camp |
11.5.1945 | Kent Messenger | "Caught napping": Hartley, near Gravesend, arranged a meeting for Wednesday night to plan its VE Day celebrations!" (in other words a day after VE Day!) |
18.5.1945 | Kent Messenger | Rabbits and hatching eggs for sale - Townley, Hartley Cottage, Hartley Green |
25.5.1945 | Kent Messenger | First show of Hartley Rabbit Club, list of winners |
8.6.1945 | Kent Messenger | 125 Children attend VE Party at Country Club |
15.6.1945 | Kent Messenger | Daschunds for sale - Brickend |
9.6.1945 | Gravesend Reporter | Children's VE Party at Country Club (see article) |
15.6.1945 | Kent Messenger | Parish Council: Gun pits on Hartley Green to be filled in asap; council complains that no extra rations were allowed for the children's party meaning others had to go short. |
22.6.1945 | Dartford Chronicle | Capt C S Bignell of Colyton awarded MBE for Civil Defence work |
29.6.1945 | Kent Messenger | Distraction burglary at the Gables, Ash Road, owner is an 80 year old deaf widow |
29.6.1945 | Dartford Chronicle | Burglary at The Gables, home of Mrs Newcomb |
29.6.1945 | Dartford Chronicle | Nigel Fisher, Conservative candidate to speak at Country Club |
6.7.1945 | Dartford Chronicle | Local buses to run an hour later |
6.7.1945 | Dartford Chronicle | Summary of war from civil defence viewpoint in Dartford RDC |
6.7.1945 | Dartford Chronicle | Engagement of John L Moncrieff, son of Mr & Mrs Crofton of Spinney Corner |
13.7.1945 | Kent Messenger | Burglary at The Gables - 3 arrested |
13.7.1945 | Kent Messenger | Parish Council - they only spent £24 on VE Fete out of £61 grant from District Council |
20.7.1945 | Kent Messenger | Goat for sale - Glenholm, Ash Road |
7.9.1945 | East Kent Gazette | Roof of "Defoe's Cottage" has fallen in |
2.10.1945 | Daily Mirror | Man accused of shooting Harry Brunt of Manor Drive, in foot |