This digest is in the form of notes about each meeting of the Parish Council and about each Annual and Special Parish Meeting since the Council was formed in 1894. The notes give the date of each meeting and a serial number to each for future reference.

4/3/1929 PC 295
DC had asked where the PC wanted playing fields. Either:
1. Land near the Parish Hall
2. Nalder & Collyer’s field in Paynesfield Road
3. Land between the allotments and the Grange.
SCC had asked for information about old prints of Tatsfield - referred to Mr Thorpe of Titsey or Mr Hammond (School).

18/3/1929 PM 60
24 electors present.
Site for refuse dump.
Damage at school caused by visitors from London. Mr Hammond “subsequently ascertained that these people occasionally occupied an old railway carriage in Goatsfield Road .... owned by Mr Kettle, The Coffee House, Bethnal Green. The police had the matter in hand”.
Police asked to supply extra policing on Sundays because of repeated rowdyism by visitors.

8/4/1929 PC 296
Gordon Brown Chairman
PC had apparently not paid for the use of the school since 1925.
Sanitary Inspector would be seeing Mr Dyer about a shed in Johns Road.
Obstruction on FP on Mr Geary’s land in Parkwood Road.
Hope that Sevenoaks Electric Light Company might supply the village.

6/5/1929 PC 297
Nothing of note.

3/6/1929 PC 298
Query about when Ship Hill and Church Hill would be widened.
Clackett Green cottages said to be insanitary.

1/7/1929 PC 299
DC had surveyed Ship Hill. Ricketts Hill and Church Hill being done and light railway company being consulted regarding a diversion near the schools.
Electricity supply would be overhead.
Arrangements being finalised for household refuse collection north of the Croydon-Westerham Road.

12/8/1929 PC 300
Nothing of note.

2/9/1929 PC 301
Nothing of note.

7/10/1929 PC 302
DC told of unrated properties:
H Neale, garage, Paynesfield Road
W Yeoell, garage, Paynesfield Road
Caravan, Johns Road
an addition to Whygate, Greenways (Union Road)

4/11/1929 PC 303
Titsey Estate promise to attend to Clackett Green Cottages.
Obstruction in Ninehams Road. Mr Burrows undertook to see Mr Stephen.
Suggested that 3 lengths of hose and a standpipe be purchased and that the DC be asked for a list of hydrants in the parish.

2/12/1929 PC 304
Provision of a Fire Brigade to be left to the Annual Parish Meeting.

6/1/1930 PC 305
Tenders out for Southern Heights Light Railway. Definite reply asked for on whether allotment land would be needed this year.
List of fire hydrants.
Nalder and Collyer’s attention drawn to stiles at Ship Meadow and Ship Wood.
Woodside, Maesmaur Road, being used for babies(?).
Overcrowding alleged at Mrs Harris’s cottage in Old Lane.

3/2/1930 PC 306
Multiple representations about the state of various houses and hedges across the parish - a good source.
Tatsfield Road flooded at Beagley’s Farm.
Southern Heights Light Railway says allotments not needed for at least a year.

3/3/1930 PC 307
DC asks for suggestions in connection with the alteration of parish boundaries under the Local Government Act 1929. Proposed that: “the Godstone RDC be asked to recommend the amalgamation of the Parishes of Tatsfield and Titsey”.

26/3/1930 PM 61
23 parishioners present.
Fire committee formed.
11 for 2 against merger with Titsey.
Telephone kiosks at Tatsfield Green and Westmore Green asked for - especially as fire precaution.

7/4/1930 PC 308
2˝ % Consuls transferred from the Guardians of Godstone Union.
Manor House had been on fire in March.
Fire committee recommended a voluntary brigade with two small hand pumps. Mr Watson asked to enlist 12 volunteers.

15/4/1930 PC 309
AGW Baker Chairman
Sevenoaks Electricity Company had left a mess on Tatsfield Green.
South Suburban Gas Company say it’s impossible to consider supply for Tatsfield.

5/5/1930 PC 310
DC intimated that “copies of the letters from the Tatsfield Parish Council and the Titsey Parish Meeting considering the amalgamation of the two parishes has been sent to the Surrey County Council and that the Rural District Council consider that no case had been made out for any change”.

2/6/1930 PC 311
Nothing of note.

7/7/1930 PC 312
Westminster Bank appointed Treasurer.
Request to put phone box near the school and not at the Post Office.
Continuing discussion on fire brigade.
Suggestion that main drainage be provided using government subsidy to reduce unemployment.

11/8/1930 PC 313
PO say Tatsfield does not justify two phone boxes and that one at the Post Office is the best solution.

2/9/1930 PC 314
East Surrey Traction considering revising bus timings.
Drainage would cost Ł25,000. Suggested Ricketts Hill/Ship Hill from Colleen, Parish Hall, Emily and Paynesfield Roads.

29/9/1930 PC 315
DC had come back with Ł12,500 drainage scheme.

29/9/1930 PM 62
100+ present.
Ł25,000 drainage scheme: For 15; against 44.
Ł12,500 drainage scheme: For 15; against 41.
Not the right time for scheme: For 41; against 14.

3/11/1930 PC 316
Complaint about the state of Mr Potter’s premises.

1/12/1930 PC 317
Proposal mooted to transfer part of the parish to the Urban District Council of Caterham.
Alleged that rats were causing a problem at houses of in Paynesfield Road.

5/12/1930 PC 318
PC protests strongly against proposed transfer of north of parish to Caterham UDC:
1. distance between Tatsfield and Caterham
2. difficulty of a representative finding and easy means of transport between the two
3. the distinctly rural character of Tatsfield compared with Caterham.

5/1/1931 PC 319 (POPULATION 1931 - 925)
Pressure increased to prevent part of Tatsfield being transferred to Caterham.
Question of extension in time and deviation from the original plan of the Southern Heights Light Railway arose. PC to tell the Minister of Transport of the urgency of a time limit being set or the scheme being abandoned.

2/2/1931 PC 320
Cudham Parish Council has objections to railway proposal.
Letter to DC “in view of the recent serious accidents at the cross-roads on Tatsfield Green near the schools, this Council deems it an urgent necessity that the scheme drawn up by Mr Crowther about 18 months ago for widening and straightening of the road connecting Ship Hill and the Church to the Schools be proceeded with without delay”.
Tatsfield Approach Road flooded again.

2/3/1931 PC 321
Telephone kiosk to be erected as soon as possible.

9/3/1931 PM 63
46 parishioners present.
Elected:
AGW Baker
W Burrows
J Charman
W Hey
T Kelly
AW Miller
R Monteith

Enlargement of churchyard discussed.
Motion endorses objection to transfer to Caterham, but “if however the Surrey County Council considers the North Downs as an essential boundary then Tatsfield is prepared to give up that part of the parish south of the Ridge and to receive in exchange that part of Titsey lying north of the Ridge, provided that the new parish of Tatsfield so formed remains in the Rural District of Godstone”.

15/4/1931 PC 322
AGW Baker Chairman
Early morning bus service in time to take children to Oxted asked for.
Schools transferred to Surrey County Council.
Southern Heights Light Railway Company propose to start work early in the summer. Promoters had also asked for public inquiry in Orpington to be postponed.

4/5/1931 PC 323
Clackett Green to be open to the public.
Mr Neale’s land at Ebor Cottages flooded.

1/6/1931 PC 324
Forms for residents of Council cottages who want electric light.

6/7/1931 PC 325
“This Parish Council wishes to place on record their desire for the Southern Heights Light Railway and hope every facility will be given to the promoters to carry out their scheme”.
County report on boundaries recommends no change for Tatsfield.

7/9/1931 PC 326
Prospect of bus connection at Westerham. Mr Hawkins, General Manager of East Surrey Traction had been interviewed by Mr T Kelly and there was a prospect of buses coming to the Ship.

5/10/1931 PC 327
No bus connections at Westerham after all, but East Surrey willing to seek permission for a Green Line service into the village.
Ship Hill widening would cost Ł1,600.

2/11/1931 PC 328
FP at Franklyn obstructed by wire fence.

7/12/1931 PC 329
Green Line bus service to be set up.
Girl Guides asked to clear rubbish from the village.
Petition from the residents of the council cottages asking that the footpath across Westmore Green be made up.

4/1/1932 PC 330
PC asking for details of Green Line bus/coach service.

1/2/1932 PC 331
Complaints that the milk carts of Messrs Miles and Robinson were cutting up Westmore Green.
Green Line bus/coach service to start on February 27th, but then a letter came saying there were last-minute difficulties.
Talk of installing electric light in Council cottages. Effort to get Westerham and Limpsfield to cooperate in trying to get the cost of electricity reduced.

7/3/1932 PC 332
Nothing of note.

23/3/1932 PM 64
10 parishioners present.
Discussion about more council houses.

18/4/1932 PC 333
AGW Baker Chairman
Widening of Ship Hill reduced by Surrey to Ł450.

2/5/1932 PC 334
Nothing of note.

6/6/1932 PC 335
Clerk - James Scott - resigned.

4/7/1932 PC 336
Kelly resigns.
James Scott co-opted.
Kelly appointed Clerk.

5/9/1932 PC 337
Call to remove tree interfering with traffic in Westmore Road.

3/10/1932 PC 338
Tatsfield Welfare Association had written about overcrowding and calling for more Council housing.

7/11/1932 PC 339
Tatsfield Welfare Association had written again about Stonehurst, Maesmaur Road, Alexandra Cottage, Goatsfield Road, Mr Field’s cottage, Redhouse Road.
Four caravans in Ninehams Road.

5/12/1932 PC 340
Nothing of note.

2/1/1933 PC 341
Still no Green Line service. Call for early morning bus service for schoolchildren on way to Oxted and for connections at Westerham for Oxted.

6/2/1933 PC 342
Nothing of note.

6/3/1933 PC 343
DC says snow plough may not be used in private roads such as Old Lane.

22/3/1933 PM 65
16 residents present.
“Obstructed and neglected state of certain footpaths....” (RoW Act 1932).
Call for water mains to be extended in Westmore Road.

10/4/1933 PC 344
AG Baker Chairman.

1/5/1933 PC 345
Nothing of note.

12/6/1933 PC 346
Clerk to search the minutes back to 1894 in connection with the diversion of FP near Franklyn.
Parish boundary query from SCC.

3/7/1933 PC 347
Col Wyatt, Franklyn and Mr Goodall, Firsdale, asked to attend PC re FP diversions.
Hedge at Hitchcock’s Corner (School Corner) alleged to have caused accident.

4/9/1933 PC 348
More on Wyatt and Goodall.

2/10/1933 PC 349
Provisional approval of Firsdale diversion.
Caravans and carts obstructing Ninehams Road.
Clerk’s salary being increased from Ł20 to Ł30 p.a.
Council to walk FPs.

6/11/1933 PC 350
Ground belonging to Beechview, Ricketts Hill Road, said by Revd Rogers to be insanitary.

4/12/1933 PC 351
Parish water supply said to be inadequate grant wanted from DC.
Dangerous building junction of Ship Hill and Ninehams Road.

8/1/1934 PC 352
Detailed work being done on recording FPs.
Two noticeboards to be erected - Westmore Green and Tatsfield Green.

5/2/1934 PC 353
Cost of noticeboards Ł5/5/=

5/3/1934 PM 66
80 residents present.
Elected:
AGW Baker
W Burrows
JS Charman
W Hey
R Monteith
James Scott
Mrs MA Wyatt
Resolved that: “in view of the shortage of houses in this Parish for letting at rents within the means of the lower paid workers, this Annual Meeting of local government electors requests the Rural District Council to build at least twelve Council Houses to let at a rent not to exceed nine shillings per week”.
Mrs Wyatt congratulated on being the first woman to be elected to the Parish Council.

12/3/1934 PC 354
Committee formed for Empire Day cancer fund flag day.

16/4/1934 PC 355
AG Baker Chairman.
Oak seat for Church Hill.

7/5/1934 PC 356
More on Hitchcock’s hedge.

4/6/1934 PC 357
(Cudham now appears to be a ward of Orpington UDC).
Standing Orders adopted.

END OF VOLUME FIVE

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