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...making weekend pilgrim ages to such officially abandoned routes as the Bluebell ("Nowhere to Nowhere") loop in Sussex. Despite a petition signed by 25,000 rail buffs, the Society for the Reinvigoration of Unremunerative Branch Lines in the United Kingdom (SRUBLUK) failed to keep open the scenic reach between Westerham and Dunton Green in Kent last October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Dr. Beeching's Bitter Pill | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

Born. To Mary Spencer Churchill Soames, 29, youngest daughter of Winston Churchill, and Christopher Soames, 31, Conservative M.P. for Bedford: their third child (and Churchill's eighth grandchild), a son; in Westerham, Kent. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 2, 1952 | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

Youngest of Winston's four surviving children,* Mary Churchill spent many a childhood hour building brick walls with her father at their Westerham country home. She loved to ride, take long country walks; she took charge of all pets. At six she astonished a reporter by demanding: "Are you going to be a Conservative or aren't you? Because if you're not, I shall cross your name off and whenever I pass you I shall say: 'Shame! Shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Chip | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...secret service. Much of the data on the terrific secret strides Germany was making in war preparations with which Mr. Winston Churchill M. P. used to startle the House of Commons from time to time reputedly came from Major Morton, whose home is a cottage near Churchill's Westerham Manor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Democracy in Pawn | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Died. Alice Pleasance Liddell Hargreaves, 82, original of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; in Westerham, Kent, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 26, 1934 | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

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