1 At the meeting in the Youth and Community Centre (St Mary's Road) several photographs of the basket factory in Swanley Lane were passed round. Vehicles piled high with "Woods" baskets were shown standing in front of the two storey building fronting the lane.
The building was destroyed by a bomb during World War 2 and a terrace of houses was erected on the cleared site in the mid-1950s. It is believed the business making baskets was transferred to other premises near the Team Engineering building off Swanley Lane.
2 Casstine's Photographic Studios of Hextable made many postcards of scenes around Hextable and Swanley Village area - from photographs taken by the professional photographer, Christopher Casstine. (CFC lived at Homes for Little Boys School in Hextable as a child.)
It is likely that the many photographs / postcards on sale on the internet come from this former Hextable Photographic Studios.
http://www.swanleyvillage.com/photos/photos.htm
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