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Chartham, Kent
Chartham maps
Historic maps of Chartham and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Chartham maps
Historic map of Chartham
Illustrated Victorian map of Kent
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Chartham books
Displaying 3 of 15 books about Chartham and the local area. View all Chartham books
Kent Revisited Photographic Memories
Paperback
$28
Around the Kent Coast
Paperback
$28
Cinque Ports and theTwo Ancient Towns Photographic Memories
Paperback
$28
3 Chartham photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Chartham
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I have good memorys of Chartham. My family used to go hopping every year. We were on a Mr Finn's farm untill the late 1950s when he stopped the hand-picking. I would like to get some photos of the hopping huts we stayed in for 6 weeks. When Mr Finn ceased picking we went down the road to another farm, it... [more]
Shared on 15 June 2009
My ancestor Jecoliah Coleman (nee Roberts) was admitted to the Chartham asylum in the late 1800's, and died here in 1915. She had a husband and 2 sons still alive so I wonder why she needed to be admitted, poor woman.
Shared on 17 January 2009
Beech House was the school attached to St. Augustines,which used to be the County Asylum. I was there from 1964-66. I always found the people of Chartham top be lovely and kind. I remember walks down to the church and mill,and waiting on the station to go home for the holidays. I have only fond memories of Chartham and it's people... [more]
Shared on 28 October 2007
The mill bridge shown in the photograph was washed away in a flood in the 1960's. Unfortunately the mill pond was a favourite place for some children to swim in then. We lost one of the children on the hospital estate by drowning there in the pond, whose name was Billy Johnson, whose parents worked as nurses at St Augustine's in... [more]
Shared on 29 August 2007
Kent memories
The Rev Lawson caught three of us smoking in the graveyard here, he then said he would tell my dad unless we all swept up the leaves around the main church door, which we all did. My dad was the local copper then, and a clout round the ear I would have got!!
Shared on 02 September 2008
Many a beer here I have downed, served by the landlady who was then locally known as Brandy Lil, I can't imagine why though?
Shared on 02 September 2008
No I'm not joking, when we first got married we lived in a flat in Chilham Castle which was at the time above the Battle of Britain museum at the rear of the castle, yes it was cold there in the winter. We were allowed to walk around the lakes and gardens, whenever we wished. My father was the local village... [more]
Shared on 02 September 2008
1st white house on left was the 2nd post office where I had to go every morning to collect and deliver all the Chilham newspapers around the village for the grand sum of £2 per week. Post master then was a Ken Parker, I had to finish by 8am to catch Herbi Arnold's school bus to get to Chartham Secondary School.... [more]
Shared on 02 September 2008
Extracts From Chartham & Kent books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Chartham, inspired by Frith photos.
Villages of Kent Photographic Memories
Chartham occupies a low-lying site about a large green. Here we see the River Stour flowing through the village. The river has at various times proved indispensable to local industry. In 1949 Wiggins Teape reopened a local paper mill here, which specialised in producing tracing paper.
This is an extract from Villages of Kent Photographic Memories.
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Kent A Century Ago Photographic Memories
This village in the valley of the River Stour has, in fact, two greens: a large open space before the church, and behind it, a small triangular green forming the heart of this rural community round which the cottages and old houses cluster. The pub, with its hanging sign, stands at the far end.
This is an extract from Kent A Century Ago Photographic Memories.
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Victorian and Edwardian Kent Photographic Memories
This village in the valley of the River Stour has, in fact, two greens: a large open space before the church, and behind it, a small triangular green forming the heart of this rural community round which the cottages and old houses cluster. The pub, with its hanging sign, stands at the far end.
This is an extract from Victorian and Edwardian Kent Photographic Memories.
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