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Hoo, Kent
Hoo maps
Historic maps of Hoo and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Hoo maps
Historic map of Hoo
Illustrated Victorian map of Kent
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Hoo books
Displaying 3 of 14 books about Hoo and the local area. View all Hoo books
Kent Revisited Photographic Memories
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Around the Kent Coast
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Kent Photographic Memories
Paperback
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4 Hoo photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Hoo
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Kent memories
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
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
I am looking for details of Florence Gammon, formally Dunk from Rye, Sussex. She was married to Herbert Gammon, also from Rye. The children were Arthur Eaton Gammon, 9 and Alice Gammon, 12. Her father was my great great grand uncle, Leaf Temple Dunk, 1834, from Rye.
Shared on 30 December 2006
I believe that this cinema was called the Odeon before the Embassy. As a boy growing up I had the choice of going to Saturday morning pictures at the Grand in Skinner Street for sixpence (2.5 pence ) or the Odeon for ninepence (4 pence). At the Odeon you got in free on your birthday. Oh, such innocent times.
Shared on 15 July 2009
Extracts From Hoo & Kent books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Hoo, inspired by Frith photos.
Villages of Kent Photographic Memories
Since 1968, this village has been officially known as Hoo St Werburgh; it is named after a Saxon princess who became a nun, and who was buried on the site of the present church. The impressive shingled spire of the parish church rises above the thick yews, and acts as a useful landmark for shipping on the Medway.
This is an extract from Villages of Kent Photographic Memories.
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Chatham and the Medway Towns Photographic Memories
The spire, seen here from the back of the church, has been a landmark for mariners for centuries.
This is an extract from Chatham and the Medway Towns Photographic Memories.
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Chatham and the Medway Towns Photographic Memories
Although since 1968 this place has been Hoo St Werburgh, to distinguish it from other Hoo Peninsula villages, it is still generally known simply as Hoo. In this picture, the camera is looking down Church Street from High Street (renamed Stoke Road in 1959). The Five Bells public house is on the corner of Bells Lane, on the left, and further along, the building... [more]
This is an extract from Chatham and the Medway Towns Photographic Memories.
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