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Lamberts Laundry
I called on many customers in Adisham village before the popularity of the automatic washing machine affected the laundry trade. I served all the main traders:Hosking Post Office, Best Bakery, Colmans Farm, and numerous private households. The generosity of the customers in providing tea and cakes added pleasant hours to my journey and I sometimes took the Sunday service at the Baptist Chapel.
My Monday round included Aylesham, Nonington, Elvington, Ash, Wingham, Ickham and Wickanbreaux, Littlebourne and stops in between. Adisham had its own charm [apart from the refreshments mainly offered by Mrs Hoskins at Hazlewood Bungalow] and made I several frends in the village. I left the laundry trade in 1964 to join the legal profession - but have fond ...read more here
A memory of Adisham contributed by Herbert Piddock
There are several dating features on both this print and subsequent ones and inspection of the church today that suggest that the photograph is probably correctly dated at 1888. The pews shown were installed in that year, replacing an earlier box version. A memorial tablet on the wall in commemorating the life of a local lady who died in 1888 does not appear although it is present on a photograph of 1902. I would suggest that the photograph was taken in 1888 to show the new pews "in situ."
Marten Rogers
A memory of Canterbury contributed by Marten Rogers
The present day hospital.
St John's Hospital is home to 35 elderly people. 24 live in the older part. There are 6 houses each holding 4 flats. House six can be seen in the photo, it stands alongside the hospital chapel. The chapel is used twice a week by the residents. Beyond the chapel and graveyard are two more modern buildings, St John's House is about 40 years old and comprises of 2 flats, one of which is occupied by the chaplain of he hospital. Alongside St John's House is St Elisabeth House. It has 8 flats and is for the more frail of our residents. It was built in 1999 and took the name of St ...read more here
A memory of Canterbury contributed by Susan Hedges
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
Extracts From Bridge & Kent books
What a tranquil sight greeted the miller every morning a hundred years ago. The dominant feature is the Norman St Peter's Church presiding over this view. In 1853 the church had been restored in Kentish flint. An unusual sculpture of its 16th-century priest, Macobus Kasey, still attracts many visitors to this busy village which has three pubs, a butcher, a baker, a school and a health centre.
An extract from from"Kent Revisited Photographic Memories".
This village stands on Watling Street close by the Little Stour. Years after this photograph was taken, traffic passing through the long, winding main street with its pollarded trees made life unbearable for residents; after a long protest campaign, a bypass was opened in the late 1970s. Nearby Higham Park was once the home of Count Zborowski, whose racing exploits were the inspiration for the book ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ by Ian Fleming. The artist Jansen lived here for some time, the painter of the popular portrait of a lady ‘The Star in the East’.
An extract from from"Villages of Kent Photographic Memories".
This magnificent stone mansion was the new home of the racing driver Count Louis Zborowski; with Captain John Howey, he created the famous Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway. The Count also raced the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car, the subject of a Disney film. Bifrons was the former seat of the Marquess of Conyngham.
An extract from from"Kent Revisited Photographic Memories".
This peaceful view of Minster
shows its pleasant old houses.
Minster has the dubious claim to
fame of being the site of the world’s
first fatal motor-car accident.
An extract from from"Thanet Pocket Album".
The original monastic settlement at Minster was founded in AD670,
overlooking Minster Marshes, then the open Wantsum Channel. This
late Victorian view shows the present buildings; they are of Norman age,
built as a grange of St Augustine’s Abbey in Canterbury.The buildings
have been used as a nunnery since 1930.
An extract from from"Thanet Pocket Album".