Littlebourne
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School holidays
I used to spend all my summer school holidays with Mr and Mrs Curtis who used to live in the school house in Ickham. He used to play the organ in Wickhambreux church. I was adopted in London, and Mr Curtis was a good friend of my birth mother(I will leave it at that). I always remember the awful day that I was put on the coach outside the pub to go back to London (a place I have always disliked). I used to dread that each summer. I remember Mrs Clegg who used to have the sweet shop where I used to buy sherbert powder. I now live in the Peak District but I still have wonderful memories of Ickham.
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A memory of Ickham contributed by John Travis
Seaton Mill, Ickham
My great uncle Henry Charles Rudd was an India Rubber Manufacturer at Seaton Mill, Ickham, in 1891. He is on the 1891 census. He died there the following year, in 1892. I believe my grandmother, Margaret Hagar Rudd also worked at the Mill. She was married to my grandfather Herbert Edwin Rudd, Henry Charles' brother. They were both sons of my great grandmother Sarah Clayden Rudd, who lived at the Green at Wickhambreaux. I would be very interested to learn of any further information about Seaton Mill if anyone has this.
A memory of Ickham contributed by First name Last name
Treasury farm
The building on the right-hand side of the photo in the foreground is in fact the wall of the garage which belonged to Treasury Farm, my home for many years. Many a time I was in the forge with my ponies getting them reshod ... to think this is how it looked just one year before I moved there.
A memory of Ickham contributed by Diane Long
1901 Wickhambreux
Sarah Clayden Rudd nee Wacey and her daughters lived in Wickhambreux. They were listed there at the time of the 1891 census as living 'the green' and in 1901 she and her daughters, Sarah and Rebecca, are living there and recorded as 'lodging house keeper'. Sarah the mother lived there until she died in 1916.
They are distant relatives of mine.
A memory of Wickhambreaux contributed by Mrs L byrne
Extracts From Littlebourne & Kent books
A view of the King William IV public house, one of the four that existed in the village at this time. There were also two butchers, four grocers, a hardware store, a post office, a newsagent, a saddler, a laddermaker, shoe menders, a plumber, a builder/decorator, a forge, a blacksmith, malthouses, hop kilns and breweries. The village was virtually self-sufficient, as were many during the first half of the 20th century.
An extract from from"Villages of Kent Photographic Memories".
Are the village women, right, considering a visit to the Anchor pub for a glass of cider? Perhaps they had already imbibed at the King William IV inn, a drinking house dating back to 1790 at the east side of the Square. Looking after children can be thirsty work.
An extract from from"Kent Revisited Photographic Memories".
A conversation piece in Kingsdown village. With the First World War still rumbling on the Union flag has been
hoisted on its white flagpole, but it hardly stirs in the summer breeze.
An extract from from"Kent Photographic Memories".
Here we see a lovely view of the wide flower-flecked green on what looks like a warm evening. Littlebourne has a long history, and had a closely-knit community in those days. The existence of the village is first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. The manor belonged to the abbey of St Augustine and to an?Italian monastery.
An extract from from"Villages of Kent Photographic Memories".
Littlebourne is one of the charming villages which are scattered throughout the orchard-rich swathe of countryside which reaches between Canterbury and Wingham. Its two public houses, the Anchor and the King William, are at the end of a long street whose buildings present an intriguing mix of architectural styles.
An extract from from"Kent Living Memories".