Bishopsbourne, Village 1903
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Photo of Bishopsbourne, Village 1903

More about this scene

This village comprises little more than this cluster of charming cottages just off Watling Street, but it has associations with two noted authors. The Elizabethan theologian Richard Hooker wrote his monumental 'Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity' during the five years that he was rector here. He is buried in the local church. In 1919, the former Polish merchant seaman Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski settled here for the last five years of his life. As Joseph Conrad, he was renowned as a master of the English novel, and is buried at Canterbury.

A Selection of Memories from Bishopsbourne

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Bishopsbourne

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I loved school. There was one teacher, Miss Castle, she lived with her sister in a house attached to the school. One day Miss Castle gave us all a small Union Jack flag and told us to stand beside the school wall as someone important was coming by and sure enough along came Winston Churchill, we all waved our flags and he gave us the V for victory sign. The purpose of his visit was to inspect a railway gun (The Bosche Buster) which was housed in an old railway tunnel further up the road.