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Barham photos

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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

Barham map

Historic map of Barham

Kent map

Illustrated Victorian map of Kent

Barham map

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Barham books

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Kent Revisited Photographic Memories
Paperback
$28

Around the Kent Coast
Paperback
$28

Cinque Ports and theTwo Ancient Towns Photographic Memories
Paperback
$28

Barham books
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Memories of Barham

Barham memories
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Through the Kitchen window

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 by Mark Whitaker.

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 by Garth Walter.

Kent memories

Lamberts Laundry

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 by Herbert Piddock.

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 by Mary Donnachie.

Skating rink

I lived in Elvington in a small prefab in Sweetbriar Lane. I used to go roller skating in a play area where there were swings etc, the rink had a big crack across the middle which we used to jump over. i went to Aylesham secondary school and used to bunk off and get the train through to Canterbury with friends... [more]

Shared on 12 December 2009 by Shirley Milne.

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 by Frankie Hilary.

childhood

I was born at Yew Tree Cottage Lower Eythorne, opposite the White Horse pub in 1945, and left the village when I was 21.
I remember the fresh fish van, the cricket pitch behind the pub in Upper Eythorne, steamrollers, bubbles in the tar during the summer, collecting car numbers, the number 88 bus to Dover, Sunday School, Elvington School when... [more]

Shared on 09 March 2010 by Gordon Eyles.

The Taylors

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 by George Allen.

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.

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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