Webbs ofTenterden

William Webb bought the hardware shop on Tenterden High Street in 1919 — it had opened two years earlier under H.E. Kettle — and his grandsons Graham and Nigel run it today with their mother Carol minding the china department at number 45, two doors of one family business. The trade is the full old inventory: ironmongery, tools, Farrow & Ball, a working locksmith, key cutting, engraving, mower mechanics in the back — and the doors open at half past seven on weekdays, which is when tradesmen actually need an ironmonger. A 2013 fire nearly ended it; the centenary in 2019 answered that. A branch in Battle, opened in 2002, is disclosed as the second front.