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Barham maps
Historic maps of Barham and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Barham maps
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Illustrated Victorian map of Kent
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Barham books
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Kent Revisited Photographic Memories
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Around the Kent Coast
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Cinque Ports and theTwo Ancient Towns Photographic Memories
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Memories of Barham
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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
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
Kent memories
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
Outbreak of the Second World War
I do believe I had to walk down this lane to the bottom where there was a small department store on the right, and the Abbots Fireside on the left to attend the village school located in the local community hall. We lived in a row of cottages at the top of the lane, Prospect Terrace. Was on holiday at the... [more]
Shared on 30 January 2009
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
My grandfather who I never knew was Albert George Taylor, born in Petham 1886. He was killed in France on Christmas Eve 1914. His father was Frederick and mother Elizabeth Taylor, he had brothers and sisters: Thomas, Frederick, Rosa, Edith.
I currently live in Adelaide, South Australia and would be pleased to hear from anyone who could give me some... [more]
Shared on 25 August 2009
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
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
Extracts From Barham & Kent books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Barham, inspired by Frith photos.
Kent A Century Ago Photographic Memories
The flint and stone cottage, with its neatly clipped box hedge and the workshop of C Knight, the local builder and contractor, attached to its side, stands beside the footbridge and ford across the upper reaches of the River Stour.
This is an extract from Kent A Century Ago Photographic Memories.
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Victorian and Edwardian Kent Photographic Memories
The flint and stone cottage, with its neatly clipped box hedge and the workshop of C Knight, the local builder and contractor, attached to its side, stands beside the footbridge and ford across the upper reaches of the River Stour.
This is an extract from Victorian and Edwardian Kent Photographic Memories.
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Kent A Century Ago Photographic Memories
Many of the sturdy, timber-framed cottages in the centre of this lovely village have been reinforced and decorated with brickwork during the 18th century. The late 13th-century church of St John the Baptist, which forms the focal point of the settlement, had its distinctive green copper spire added during the 19th century, as the result of a gift by a member of the Oxenden... [more]
This is an extract from Kent A Century Ago Photographic Memories.
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