Cliffe, Kent

The Black Bull Pub

The Black bull pub has sadly been changed into two houses and a house has been built in what was the Black bull car park.

Tina Carrol

Hi Tina. I also have good memories of Cliffe, I can remember going to your house for one of your birthday parties  and I think at one time you were my girlfriend!
I was always down the marshes on old motorbikes and scooters, and I used to hang about with Kevin Edwards, Martin Boardman, Michael Smith, and Paul Musselwhite.
When I... [more]

Longford House

Yes Tina, I, Averil Baillie, remember those days well. Didn't we have a good childhood in Cliffe. I remember your beautiful house and your family.

longford house

Around this time I Tina Corrall lived in Longford House (the Tudor house) and have many happy memories of it. I went to school nearby and every year we had a medieval fancy dress party where all the village were involved. Anyone remember. My close friend from the village was Avril Bailey.

Around the Kent Coast

Once known as 'Coveshoo', Cliffe was a meeting place for the Great Councils of Kent in Saxon times. The ridge top village of Cliffe was constantly in the news during 2003, when the villagers and other local people fought a vigorous campaign against the government's proposed siting of a new airport at Cliffe. They were supported by the RSPB, who said that an airport... [more]

Villages of Kent Photographic Memories

This beautiful scene of blossoms and oast houses was obviously taken in the spring. These oasts are of a slightly different design to those seen at Wateringbury earlier in this chapter.

Chatham and the Medway Towns Photographic Memories

Scenes like this, so typical of rural Kent, became rare after the mid-century decline of hop growing made hundreds of oast houses ripe for conversion. New varieties of fruit trees changed the character of traditional orchards, and a few free-ranging chickens came to be regarded as an uneconomic anachronism.