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Herne Bay Historical Re Erne Bay Historical Records Society Ical Records Society Herne Bay Historical Records Society Founded 1932 Registered Charity No. 1148803 Custodian s of the Town’s Archive Quarterly Newsletter Autumn 2017 Issue No. 7 Welcome Contents Society News HBHRS Members update 1 Heritage Centre Progress The tale of the Chemist’s drawers 2 Our Heritage Centre at number 81 Central Parade Policing in Herne Bay – Part 3 3 has now been open nearly six months. It is The rise and fall of Henry Corbett Jones – Part 1 4 pleasing to see the progress that has taken place Changes in Avenue Road 7 and during this time and so far we have received Pier Diving at Herne Bay 8 many favourable comments. Margaret has headed Image Gallery 10 up a small, but loyal team of volunteers who have Society Contacts 11 ensured that the centre has been open each Society Publications 11 Wednesday and Saturday. So far, we have Ev ents and dates for your diary 12 exceeded 1,000 visitors, far more than we anticipated. Part of the Remembrance window display . We are grateful to Mick Hill s for building a shelf Part of the wall display inside the Heritage Centre. unit in the small front window. This has enabled us It would be great to engage the help of a few more to start using this for topical displays and I hope of our members, so if you are able to spare an that readers will have seen the tasteful War hour or two on a regular basis, please contact Memorial that Margaret has put together for this either Margaret or John. We would especially like important time of year. The windo w display has to appeal for help with sorting, cataloguing and been complemented with a selection of material on scanning parts of our collec tion, as well as creating one of our main display wall s. In the New Year, some additional display boards. Although they we will redesign the larger window and convert would be very welcome, no special skills are this into another display area so that we can show required – just an interest in Herne Bay! more of our extensive collection. 1 The Tale of the Chemist’s So the next port of call was Peter Watson, who Drawers immediately came up with detailed information from Society records - this dwelling and shop was Dick Holness first seen in 1897 as a chemist, when the dwelling was No.6 St Augustine's. The proprietor was J. One of my family likes to acquire items of second- Pemberton. By 1898 it was changed to Oban hand furniture for very little money, sometimes House, or 14 Promenade Central, but with the for nothing, spruces them up to give them a new same proprietor. This was still the case in 1901, lease of life, and sells them on for a little bit more but by 1911 it had changed to H & F Pyman, still a to cover her costs. chemist. At some point the proprietor changed again, to M. Davies, who was still there in 1939, the date of my own directory. Recently she stumbled across an ancient chest of drawers from a local care home that closed down. Via website forums, she was able to date the item from the design of the drawer handles, which were thought to be from about 1900. Mike Bundock then produced a splendid photograph from the records, just to complete As to where it had come from, the big clue was the story, showing Mr. Pyman’s ornate shopfront the labelling inside some of the drawers, which close to the junction with Market Street, the site included various medications and a name and that is so sadly a derelict eyesore at the moment. address – Pyman, 14 Promenade Central, Herne Bay. I have a 1939 street directory, and found listed in there a chemist’s shop with a different name, Davies, at 64 Central Parade. Not only did this sound like the correct location, but also there was only one chemist’s shop shown on the seafront anyway. In the meantime, the drawers have already passed on to another new owner, still in their original condition. 2 Policing Herne Bay in the 1920s seconded by Councillor C. W. Welby and unanimously resolved: "That this Council desires Part 3 John Fishpool On Sunday 1 st July 1928 the town of Herne Bay played host to a large gathering of St. John Ambulance personnel – men and women of the 8th and 11 th Districts covering much of south-east England. A civic reception took place at the Railway Station. This was followed by a luncheon held at the Connaught Hotel, an imposing parade and review of personnel on the seafront, a service in St. John’s Church, a tribute at the War Memorial in the Park and ended with a tea party at the Grand Pier Pavilion for some 2,000 guests. In addition to all the St. John Ambulance personnel, there were also thousands of on- lookers and naturally some disruption to traffic. After the parade, the organiser Lt. Gen. Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston wrote to the Chief Constable congratulating the local constabulary for the excellent arrangements and the efficient manner in which these were carried out. Sergeant Worrall’s handling of the situation was singled out for special mention and a copy of the letter was sent out by Chief Superintendent Ambrose from Police Headquarters at Maidstone for the information of Superintendent Ford and Sergeant Worrall. The author has a copy of this correspondence amongst his memorabilia. A similar congratulatory letter was also received from the Chairman of the Herne Bay Urban District Council. My grandfather, Jack Worrall, retired from the Sergeant Worrall (circa 1928) in charge of police force on 30 th April 1929 having completed policing of Herne Bay. almost 29 years service with the Kent County Constabulary. A proposed promotion to the rank to place on record its high appreciation of the of Inspector would have involved a transfer to valuable services rendered to the town of Herne Snodland, but this move back to the Medway Bay by Police Sergeant John Thomas Worrall apparently did not appeal to my grandfather - the during the period he was in charge of the local family were now well established in the Herne Bay constabulary; and hereby expresses its thanks to area and the Medway towns still retained painful him for the able co-operation he so willingly gave memories - and so instead he opted to take early to the Council at all times during that period; and retirement at the age of 47. My grandfather that this minute under seal be suitably inscribed received a police pension - initially of £195 per and presented to him at the next Meeting of the annum - and was succeeded at Herne Bay by Council. This testimonial was signed by E. Duffett Inspector Goodhew who was transferred from (Chairman) and A.H. Edwards (Clerk) and the Chatham. presentation duly took place in the Council Chamber on 26 th June 1929. Jack Worrall faithfully served three successive monarchs (Victoria, Edward VII & George V) and After his retirement, Jack Worrall continued to was, to my mind, the quintessential Kentish live in Herne Bay - initially at 18A (later ‘bobby’ – an institutional figure which is now, renumbered 76) Spenser Road and subsequently sadly, very much a thing of the past. at 26 Queens Gardens. He joined the Kent County Constabulary ‘Old Comrades Association’ At a Meeting of the Herne Bay Urban District when it was formed in the 1930s and regularly Council held on Wednesday 29 th May 1929, it was attended the Police Sports Meeting held annually proposed by Councillor L.A. Blackbourn, at the police sports ground next to the HQ 3 building at Sutton Road in Maidstone. He died in The rise and fall of July 1962 at the age of 80 and was laid to rest in Henry Corbett Jones – Part 1 Chatham Cemetery next to his beloved wife who had died almost 40 years previously. Stephen Job Henry Corbett Jones was a solicitor who was very active in public life at Herne Bay in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Locally, he is probably best known for his involvement with the Herne Bay Pier Company, an association that led to his dramatic downfall in 1905 and the main reason that the pier became public property with ownership passing to Herne Bay Urban District Council in 1909. On 25 th January 1905, Henry Corbett Jones, the Town Clerk of the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn, walked into Bow Street Police Station and handed the Superintendent a letter. ‘I wish to give myself up for stealing the money mentioned in that letter’, said Jones. Over £12,000 due to the borough had gone missing during previous years, the equivalent of over £1 million today. Testimonial presented to Jack Worrall by Herne Bay Urban District Council upon his retirement in 1929 and in recognition of his service to the town whilst in charge of the local constabulary. Jack Worrall’s world was more akin to the television series ‘Dixon of Dock Green’ than that depicted in ‘The Bill’ and – in an age before the advent of ASBOs (Antisocial Behaviour Orders) – he would often dispense a swift and rudimentary Jones (boxed) pictured at the opening of the third form of summary justice to minor miscreants pier at Easter 1899. which would now probably be decried as ‘police brutality’. It was a time when police officers still Henry Jones was born into a family that was lived in the midst of the community which they already part of the Bloomsbury legal served.
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