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Cliffe, Kent
Cliffe maps
Historic maps of Cliffe and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Cliffe maps
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Illustrated Victorian map of Kent
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Cliffe 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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2 Cliffe photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Cliffe
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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.
Shared on 08 September 2006
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]
Shared on 16 June 2009
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.
Shared on 14 March 2009
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.
Shared on 04 March 2008
Kent memories
To the right of the photograph is a driveway into the interior of the original castle that was the entrance to Castle Farm operated by F.Elms & Sons and in particular my uncle Harry Elms.
He bought the Farm in about 1930 having moved down from Bexley/Eltham area where the family farmed an area from Sidcup to Dansen Park. My... [more]
Shared on 17 August 2006
My happy days as a child when I was born in the village
I spent many happy years with my nanny and grandad, Rossa and Phillip Munn of Hill View Cottages, during the long summer school holidays. Over the years since they have both passed away I still drive though the village to look at my nan's house and think of the happy days we spent together, and long for those days to come... [more]
Shared on 14 January 2009
Adele you are correct, there was (still is?) a tunnel from the main house under the main road to the garden where the "Swiss Chalet" used to be in the garden there. I believe the chalet has long-sice been moved to Rochester Museum as I believe Charles Dickens used it as a summer house writing room. We used to be taken... [more]
Shared on 16 January 2009
I can vividly remember this was a school, back in the 1960s, Gads Hill Place, used to fit the children for their uniforms! I was told that there was a tunnel under the road to the other side.. would have to have been deep, as the main road goes past!
Shared on 11 November 2008
Extracts From Cliffe & Kent books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Cliffe, inspired by Frith photos.
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]
This is an extract from Around the Kent Coast.
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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.
This is an extract from Villages of Kent Photographic Memories.
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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.
This is an extract from Chatham and the Medway Towns Photographic Memories.
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