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Through the Kitchen window
I was born in my Grandparents house - "Wimbourne" - in the valley below the Mill. Many pleasant hours have I spent sitting in the kitchen with my grandmother shelling peas that granddad had grown in the garden. The Mill could be seen from the kitchen window high on the downs. When travelling through Bridge on the Canterbury Road, we would all try to see who could spot the Mill first, a sure sign that we were home again!
Contributed by Mark Whitaker
Great grand parents lived in Barhamn "Black" Mill
my ancestoers richard walter and family lived in Barham mill. The mill is also the "location" for the movie Raising a Riot.
Contributed by Garth Walter
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Great grand parents lived in Barhamn "Black" Mill
my ancestoers richard walter and family lived in Barham mill. The mill is also the "location" for the movie Raising a Riot.
A memory of Barham contributed by Garth Walter
Through the Kitchen window
I was born in my Grandparents house - "Wimbourne" - in the valley below the Mill. Many pleasant hours have I spent sitting in the kitchen with my grandmother shelling peas that granddad had grown in the garden. The Mill could be seen from the kitchen window high on the downs. When travelling through Bridge on the Canterbury Road, we would all try to see who could spot the Mill first, a sure sign that we were home again!
A memory of Barham contributed by Mark Whitaker
Extracts From Barham & Kent books
The church is close to
the photographer, yet he
is obviously in a rural
location. This shows how
comparatively small
Ashford was a century
ago. Will growth on a
similar scale take place
over the next hundred years?
An extract from from"Hythe, Romney Marsh and Ashford Photographic Memories".
This photograph was
taken a century ago, and
a world away from the
same road today, which
seems at times like a
public motor-racing
circuit - it is now part of
the Ashford ring road.
Again we see attentive
pedestrians, and manure
going to waste in the roof!
An extract from from"Hythe, Romney Marsh and Ashford Photographic Memories".
Smart dress and good
behaviour are to be seen
here in front of the
picturesque Clock House
Pavilion. And there are no
skateboards or litter in
this park scene from a
more orderly age.
An extract from from"Hythe, Romney Marsh and Ashford Photographic Memories".
The second of the two major wars, the dead of which are commemorated in this
memorial, would have still been fresh in the memories of the people sitting here.
This scene remains unchanged today.
An extract from from"Hythe, Romney Marsh and Ashford Photographic Memories".
There is an interesting group
in front of the attractive
church. The man in the
white hat in the background
and the three boys in front
of him are all looking this
way. Are they watching the
girl pushing the pram, or the
photographer? The church
itself was built in 1865, but
congregations dwindled
over the years; it was
demolished in 1990.
An extract from from"Hythe, Romney Marsh and Ashford Photographic Memories".