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Godmersham maps
Historic maps of Godmersham and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Godmersham maps
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Godmersham books
Displaying 3 of 15 books about Godmersham and the local area. View all Godmersham books
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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Memories of Godmersham
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We visited and stayed at the Post Office, village shop and off licence in 1973. My mother Mrs Oliver had just taken over as Post Mistress. My mother had given up a teaching post in Liverpool to be nearer her own mother who lived in Westgate on Sea. She ran it until 1982 when she retired to Herne Bay and took... [more]
Shared on 20 May 2009
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
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
Extracts From Godmersham & Kent books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Godmersham, inspired by Frith photos.
Kent A Century Ago Photographic Memories
The Church 1906. Amid scenery loved by the author Jane Austen, who was a frequent visitor here when her brother Edward Knight owned the adjoining 560-acre Godmersham Park, the River Stour flows quietly past the churchyard and its aged yew trees. One is hollow, with sufficient room inside to seat six people. The church, whose Norman tower stands on the north side of the building, has an eastern apse constructed through... [more]
This is an extract from Kent A Century Ago Photographic Memories.
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Victorian and Edwardian Kent Photographic Memories
The Church 1906. Amid scenery loved by the author Jane Austen, who was a frequent visitor here when her brother Edward Knight owned the adjoining 560-acre Godmersham Park, the River Stour flows quietly past the churchyard and its aged yew trees. One is hollow, with sufficient room inside to seat six people. The church, whose Norman tower stands on the north side of the building, has an eastern apse constructed through... [more]
This is an extract from Victorian and Edwardian Kent Photographic Memories.
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Villages of Kent Photographic Memories
This village stands alongside the River?Stour, two miles south-west of Chilham. In the main street of the village, we see a nice picket fence and some typically ivy-clad buildings. Just outside the village is the beautiful 560-acre Godmersham Park, the home down the centuries of the Valoigns, Astyns and Broadnaxes. Jane Austen was a frequent visitor here.
This is an extract from Villages of Kent Photographic Memories.
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