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Leigh Green maps
Historic maps of Leigh Green and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Leigh Green maps
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Leigh Green Cricket Club
Does anyone have any memories of Leigh Green Cricket club? I live on a farm in Leigh Green which was supposedly the cricket green & pavilion & would love to find out more about it.
Kent memories
Clare House
Does anyone know where the name Clare House came from? Is this property in the High Street, north side? I had relations surnamed 'Clare' who lived in a very similar property in the 1930/40s. The front door is different now, and steps went up to it. Any information please?
22 High Street
The building on the left, next to the Town Hall with five windows on the first floor was W H Smith & Sons and my father, Gordon Howard, was the manager. I was born in the flat above the shop in 1955.
W H Smith & Son
The building on the right was W H Smith & Sons. My father, Gordon Howard was the manager and we were living in the flat above the shop from 1955 to 1965. You can see that the shop is closed because the shutters are down. The shop front was painted dark green. The windows upstairs are open so we must have been at home and it must have been fine weather!
W H Smith & Son
My father, Gordon Howard, was manager of W H Smith & Son in 1955, the year I was born. It's amazing looking at these photos taken at the time I was living in Tenterden. It's possible I saw the photos being taken or we might actually appear in one of them.
A 'Wealden' House Converted to 'Continuous Jetty' Type
Interesting photo: this timber-framed building is actually a 'Wealden' converted to 'Continuous Jetty' type.
"Towards the close of the 15th century, an entirely new kind of dwelling appeared in the Weald. Its [the Continuous Jetty type] distribution is wide and more general than that of the 'Wealden' house, and it is extremely common in East Anglia. Whether developed in either of the areas where it is found, or imported as a complete design, it is impossible to say.
It was the first vernacular house type in the region to be constructed with two stories throughout. Although the hall was retained as a principal room it was not open to the roof; it was floored over as part of the initial construction and a chamber fomed above. There can be little doubt that the growing popularity of this house [type] during the first half of the 16th century provided a very strong stimulus towards the flooring-over and conversion of earlier halls.
It tends to be an urban type,... Read more
Summer Holidays
Does anyone remember Woodchurch caravan park? We used to go every year from 1969 until its closure in 1973. My aunt and uncle had a caravan there. If you came up from the village it was past the windmill over the crossroads and then on the left hand side. If my memory serves me right it was owned by a Mr Patrick. After our last visit in 1973 he sold it. I remeber a couple from East London with a son Mark. I remember a family from New Cross. I can't remember what the girls' names were.
I do remember the caravan having gas lamps. The toilets were quite a way away... with lots and lots of spiders. There was also what looked like a swamp near the site. Obviously a car was needed. I think we walked to the village on one occasion... it seemed like miles. Eventually a shower block was put in. ... oh, and you could borrow old books from Mr Patrick. Most of the time... Read more
