Listen to the story of Westerham philanthropist Eleanor Joy Busk who lived here at The Grange.

Eleanor Joy Busk  founded Westerham’s public library here in her own home in 1922 and later financed the building of the present building in London Rd.

Much of the script spoken below is a transcript of her own report to the County Libraries Conference in London in 1924.

Photo circa 1924 shows (L to R) Lucy and Granville Streatfeild and Eleanor Busk at a meeting of the Westerham Country Dance Society.

‘The Grange’ was the building that now houses Ibbett Moseley and The Rendezvous restaurant, and its extensive gardens were all of the land along the north side of the High Street to the border of today’s Croydon Road and all the way down Croydon Road to include today’s Rysted Lane and beyond up to the boundary of today’s Buckham Thorns Road – a sizeable estate in the centre of Westerham.

To learn more about this building, go to

www.westerhamheritage.org.uk/content/category/places/estates