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Higham, Kent

Higham photos

Higham photos
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Higham maps

Historic maps of Higham and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Higham maps

Higham map

Historic map of Higham

Kent map

Illustrated Victorian map of Kent

Higham map

Historic Map of any Higham postcode

Higham maps
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Higham books

Displaying 2 of 5 books about Higham and the local area.   View all Higham books

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Margate Town and City Memories
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Cinque Ports and theTwo Ancient Towns Photographic Memories
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Ramsgate Old and New Photographic Memories
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Higham books
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Memories of Higham

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Kent memories

Gads Hill Place School

Adele you are correct, there was (still is?) a tunnel from the main house under the main road to the garden where the "Swiss Chalet" used to be in the garden there. I believe the chalet has long-sice been moved to Rochester Museum as I believe Charles Dickens used it as a summer house writing room. We used to be taken through the tunnel on Nature Study lessons. My memory is of it being quite deep with rusty old iron gates that had to be creaked open to let our crocodile of two's hand in hand to pass through.

Being just post-war, boy's prep schools were few and far between and as a concession, boys with elder sisters attending the school were allowed to attend up until they were about seven years old and could transfer to a big school. Miss Burt was the headmistress and my class teacher was a Miss Hewlitt.

My academic life started as a single lad in a class of 24 girls which I remember as quite normal and happy, the culture shock of being transferred to an ancient and very traditional all-male Public School was a challenge but also is remembered with affection.

Shared on 16 January 2009 by Jerry Furley.

Gads Hill

I can vividly remember this was a school, back in the 1960s, Gads Hill Place, used to fit the children for their uniforms! I was told that there was a tunnel under the road to the other side.. would have to have been deep, as the main road goes past!

Shared on 11 November 2008 by Adele Pentony-Graham.

Name search

I am looking for details of Florence Gammon, formally Dunk from Rye, Sussex. She was married to Herbert Gammon, also from Rye. The children were Arthur Eaton Gammon, 9 and Alice Gammon, 12. Her father was my great great grand uncle, Leaf Temple Dunk, 1834, from Rye.  

Shared on 30 December 2006 by Joe Dunk.

Milk boy

I was a milk boy for Bourne and Hilliers in the 1970s. I would oftern go to the Red Lion after my rounds on pay day for a pint or two and throw some darts - Tom was the landlord of the Red Lion at that time. Where the police warden stands in this picture now sits a round about. The pub and dairy are now long gone.

Shared on 21 March 2009 by Andrew Carter.

Extracts From Higham & Kent books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Higham, inspired by Frith photos.

Chatham & The Medway Towns

The expansion of the dockyard, the building of permanent military installations and the garrisoning of large numbers of troops in the area enabled the population of Chatham to overtake that of Rochester.

This is an extract from Chatham & The Medway Towns.
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Maidstone Photographic Memories

This view looks towards the Gloirette; on the left can be seen the main building. In this picture, the magnificent location of the Castle, surrounded by its enchanting lake, is clearly seen.

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Maidstone Photographic Memories

A superb view of the main building and the Gloirette. Although the Castle appears to be medieval, its turrets and battlements in fact date from a rebuilding in the late 1820s. The lake is part of the river Len.

This is an extract from Maidstone Photographic Memories.
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