Eastry, Kent

The Toll House

I am looking into my ancestry, and find relatives on the 1861 census living at the Toll House, Eastry, can any one tell me if it still stands today and are there any pictures of it?
Thank-you
Elspeth

'Tewkesbury c.1750'

We are just about to move hopefully into Tewkesbury, Mill Lane, Eastry, it sits in front of the Smock Mill up the lane directly opposite the newer houses. The house itself has a white picket fence around the front it is detached and painted cream with black surround to the front door and windowsills. There is a plaque on the front... [more]

1950s

I have three connections with Eastry - when I worked with Lamberts Laundries we served the Clarks of Eastry. I also visited the chapel as lay-preacher, and a forebear of my family was one time resident shoemaker at The Union.

In the days before washing machines we had numerous customers in Eastry and it was all day round. A... [more]

Clark and Butcher Families

Hi, I'm very interested in Carolle's Ladd family memories as mine are so similar. You see photograph No. 2 of the High Street; the buildings to the left are Clark & Son's shops and the old house between them where my mother, Mabel Clark, was born. (Actually I think this photo was taken a few years earlier - see... [more]

Ladd Family 1878

My grandfather Ernest Ladd, born Eastry 1878, is buried in the churchyard. Although as a child when visiting my grandmother we would tend the grave and put flowers on it, I only have a vague recollection of its location. My mother and father were married at the church in 1938 (at that time the family lived next to the Andrews family... [more]

Bickers The Newsagent

THis was the village newsagent. We lived to the right as you look at the photo, and traded as Premier Garage.

my Dad's childhood

My Dad was a member of the church choir here when he was a child. Gerald Fuller is his name but he left the village around the age of 16. His parents continued to live in Eastry with their other children, Hazel, Brian and Chris. Dad immigrated to Melbourne, Australia were he met my mother and had my sister Amanda and... [more]

Place of birth

From just about where the photograph was taken I was born.  The house was called Forge House obviously because of the Forge which my father used as a shed to house chickens in and then used as a workshop for his carpentry.  He was Foreman carpenter at Tilmanstone colliery. My brother and I were both born in the house which I... [more]

Kent Revisited Photographic Memories

Eastry was home to many miners who worked down the east Kent pits. The mother of the actress Susan Hampshire once lived here too. Susan, meanwhile, has always loved the area, and moved to a Georgian house in nearby historic Sandwich.

Kent Living Memories

Between Canterbury and the sea, and built on a section of the Roman road which ran from Dover to Richborough, Eastry was once the site of a palace of the Kings of Kent, who divided their realm into 'lathes'. Thomas a Becket hid in the village before embarking on his secret flight to France in 1164.

Villages of Kent Photographic Memories

This is a large solid church of Early English design with a Norman tower. Nearby was once the royal palace of the early Saxon kings of Kent. There is also an underground labyrinth of caves. Some say these were dug for lime, others that they were excavations by those searching for the legendary 'golden man'. Thomas Becket was said to have... [more]