Lamberhurst
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Lamberhurst memories
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Land Army memories.
The white weatherboarded house was the farmhouse of the farm where my mother, Joyce Clark, worked along with another 3 girls in the Land Army during the Second World War. It was called Cogger's Farm. She was there whilst the Battle of Britain was fought overhead. They grew hops, wheat, barley, oats and enough vegetables to supply the local school. The oast houses behind the house belonged to the farm. The hops were picked each year by families from the east end of London who came down and made a holiday of it. They slept in stone outhouses in the farmyard on straw pallets. My mother was billeted with Miss Parrot (along with another Land Girl called Lot) in a house ...read more here
Contributed by Anne Allan
Car-number-plate collecting
Brings back memories of hot Sunday afternoons sitting on the bridge with my mates collecting car number-plates. I was nine years old and lived at 1 Workhouse Cottages, in Brewer Street with Miss Mabel Alice Ranger. I was a little tyke with short long trousers. I also remember swinging on the pendulum of the school clock and getting the cane for it. I was not at school often as I tended to play truant. I remember all the shops in the village: Curtis the newsagents, Avards the Bakers and the old hairdressers shop on the corner. There was also a confectioners called Fullers - opposite The Chequers - where I used to get ice-cream and fizzy pop. As lads we would ...read more here
Contributed by Roger Barden
Kent memories
Car-number-plate collecting
Brings back memories of hot Sunday afternoons sitting on the bridge with my mates collecting car number-plates. I was nine years old and lived at 1 Workhouse Cottages, in Brewer Street with Miss Mabel Alice Ranger. I was a little tyke with short long trousers. I also remember swinging on the pendulum of the school clock and getting the cane for it. I was not at school often as I tended to play truant. I remember all the shops in the village: Curtis the newsagents, Avards the Bakers and the old hairdressers shop on the corner. There was also a confectioners called Fullers - opposite The Chequers - where I used to get ice-cream and fizzy pop. As lads we would ...read more here
A memory of Lamberhurst contributed by Roger Barden
Land Army memories.
The white weatherboarded house was the farmhouse of the farm where my mother, Joyce Clark, worked along with another 3 girls in the Land Army during the Second World War. It was called Cogger's Farm. She was there whilst the Battle of Britain was fought overhead. They grew hops, wheat, barley, oats and enough vegetables to supply the local school. The oast houses behind the house belonged to the farm. The hops were picked each year by families from the east end of London who came down and made a holiday of it. They slept in stone outhouses in the farmyard on straw pallets. My mother was billeted with Miss Parrot (along with another Land Girl called Lot) in a house ...read more here
A memory of Lamberhurst contributed by Anne Allan
Extracts From Lamberhurst & Kent books
Lamberhurst was an ironworking centre between the 16th and the 18th centuries. The local industry used charcoal from the great woodlands around the area, and water power from the River Teise on which the village stands. Parts of the railings surrounding St Paul’s Cathedral were made here, and a section of the balustrade still stands outside the village hall.
An extract from from"Kent Living Memories".
Lamberhurst sits in rolling downland in the beautiful Teise valley close to the border with Sussex, surrounded by orchards and hop gardens. The main road is a lot quieter here than it is today. The garage on the left is interesting for its old-style petrol and AA signs.
An extract from from"Villages of Kent Photographic Memories".
This scene shows the delightful variety of sizes and styles of weatherboarded houses in the village. The Horse and Groom pub is now a private house. Once a centre of the Wealden ironworking industry, Lamberhurst is today known for its fine vineyard of 32 acres, for the 770-acre Bewl Water Reservoir, and for the attractive fairytale Scotney Castle, the seat of Archbishop Chicheley. It was rebuilt by Inigo Jones.
An extract from from"Villages of Kent Photographic Memories".
Although deserted when this picture was taken, this attractive village was populated enough to sustain two pubs, the George and Dragon, left, and the Chequers Inn beyond. Nearby is Scotney Castle, owned at this time by one of the Hussey family, historic ironmasters of Kent. By 1975 the future prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her family had moved to a house here known as The Mount.
An extract from from"Kent Revisited Photographic Memories".
In 1933, 70 acres of chalk
downland were acquired by
Chatham and Gillingham
councils to create this
beautiful open countryside
nature reserve between the
two towns. The local wildlife
includes several species of
orchids and butterflies. At
the centre of this picture,
we can see the horses of
travellers whose mobile
homes are among the trees.
An extract from from"Chatham and the Medway Towns Photographic Memories".