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Rockdale was set up over 50 years ago with the aim of providing housing and associated amenities for older people in Sevenoaks. Rockdale House, a residential home, was opened in 1953 and provided accommodation for twenty-two people. Six years later eighteen self-contained flats were added to the Rockdale site. This early development was largely the result of the determination of one woman - Miss Beatrice Wilson - a gifted physiotherapist with a vision to improve the care and quality of older people's lives in the town. Born in 1897, she trained as a physiotherapist at Guy's hospital, but showed her commitment to Sevenoaks by opening the town's first physiotherapy centre in South Park in 1937. In 1948 she realised her ambition of improving the care of older people in the town with the founding of the Sevenoaks and District Old People's Housing Association, which purchased Rockdale House.
Today, Rockdale offers 123 fully self-contained flats for older people to rent and a further 28 leasehold apartments in Sevenoaks, and 14 apartments to rent in Tunbridge Wells. The residential home has been improved and extended since first being opened and now offers residential care for up to 32 older people. |
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