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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 64 SW 233 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Church Institute, Lower Green Road, Pembury |
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Summary
Church Institute, formerly National School, now Library, Pembury VAD hospital in World War 1
| Grid Reference: | TQ 6297 4142 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ64SW |
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| Parish: | PEMBURY, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- NATIONAL SCHOOL (Post Medieval - 1830 AD to 1880 AD (at some time))
- HOSPITAL (Modern - 1914 AD to 1918 AD (between))
Full description
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Former Church Institute, now Library, used as Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) Hospital run by Kent/18 from Dec 1914 until Dec 1918. The building is still in use.
The building was formerly a National School for boys and girls. It is shown as a school on the 1862-75 map.
Landmark, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 1st edition 1862-1875): Landmark Epoch 1 (Map). SKE30964.
Hazel Basford, 2004, Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War (Unpublished document). SKE31644.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Map: Landmark. Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 1st edition 1862-1875): Landmark Epoch 1. |
| --- | Unpublished document: Hazel Basford. 2004. Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War. |
