Aylesham, Kent
Aylesham photos
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Aylesham maps
Historic maps of Aylesham and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Aylesham maps
Aylesham books
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Memories of Aylesham
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I called on many customers in Adisham village before the popularity of the automatic washing machine affected the laundry trade. I served all the main traders: Hosking Post Office, Best Bakery, Colmans Farm, and numerous private households. The generosity of the customers in providing tea and cakes added pleasant hours to my journey and I sometimes took the Sunday service at... [more]
Shared on 30 August 2008
Great grand parents lived in Barhamn "Black" Mill
my ancestoers richard walter and family lived in Barham mill. The mill is also the "location" for the movie Raising a Riot.
Shared on 11 November 2007
I was born in my Grandparents house - "Wimbourne" - in the valley below the Mill. Many pleasant hours have I spent sitting in the kitchen with my grandmother shelling peas that granddad had grown in the garden. The Mill could be seen from the kitchen window high on the downs. When travelling through Bridge on the Canterbury Road, we would... [more]
Shared on 02 January 2007
My family history reveals that the name of Piddock was once known in Knowlton and the family name linked with the Church. Piddocks were also to be found at Nortbourne in the 1500s - do such facts have interest for anyone?
Shared on 18 December 2008
The Pantomime at the Welfare Hall
My mum was called Jill Drake and my dad was Bob Drake and he worked down the pit. We lived in St Johns Road and I remember that I was about 7 when the Elvington Players was first launched. The Pantomime was Mother Goose and somewhere I have a photo of it which I will try and find it. It was... [more]
Shared on 05 January 2007
I lived in the Rectory for the whole Universty year 1968-1969. There were four of us - male students from the University of Kent. A fantastic place to live. I have revisited the place - now an old people's home, still just about the same. The pub was a pub in the 60s - it is now a posh restaurant.
Shared on 06 October 2008
I used to spend all my summer school holidays with Mr and Mrs Curtis who used to live in the school house in Ickham. He used to play the organ in Wickhambreux church. I was adopted in London, and Mr Curtis was a good friend of my birth mother(I will leave it at that). I always remember the awful day that... [more]
Shared on 07 March 2008
My great uncle Henry Charles Rudd was an India Rubber Manufacturer at Seaton Mill, Ickham, in 1891. He is on the 1891 census. He died there the following year, in 1892. I believe my grandmother, Margaret Hagar Rudd also worked at the Mill. She was married to my grandfather Herbert Edwin Rudd, Henry Charles' brother. They... [more]
Shared on 14 February 2008
Extracts From Aylesham & Kent books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Aylesham, inspired by Frith photos.
Like the Old Canonry, this is another 13th-century building, its medieval vintage being visible both inside and out. it is currently a public house serving real ales and an imaginative menu. We are looking in the opposite direction from photograph W407019, so the Old Canonry is on the left just beyond the inn. the entrance to St Mary's Church is indicated on the right,... [more]
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We have our backs to the Red Lion, and are looking down the A257 Sandwich and Deal road, with Lloyds Bank clearly visible on the right. Some parked cars are in evidence; otherwise the scene is delightfully quiet compared to today.
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this view looks up Preston Hill, with the Sandwich road to the right. the old cottage on the left at the bottom of the hill is now listed as a historic building, and is equally well preserved today.
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