Ospringe
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Notes from the Frith files.
The trade bicycle centre right of the photo belongs to Friars Bakery. The bakery is set back out of view where the bicycle is parked. It is now converted to a bungalow. The single storey building mid-left, was the Rifle Range. All buildings on the left hand side have now been replaced by housing except for the building with the advertising hoardings.
Contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
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Notes from the Frith files.
The trade bicycle centre right of the photo belongs to Friars Bakery. The bakery is set back out of view where the bicycle is parked. It is now converted to a bungalow. The single storey building mid-left, was the Rifle Range. All buildings on the left hand side have now been replaced by housing except for the building with the advertising hoardings.
A memory of Ospringe contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
living with nanny
I remember well living with my nanny in Neames Forstell, she was Rose Beake, a formidable lady, but oh how I loved her. I remember going to Selling school, and if it rained or snowed being brought home in the police car by Sargeant Onions. I remember going to play "up round the ring", going to find uncle Harold and aunty Edie, oh so many memories. I was happiest staying with nanny, going to play in the garden of the Sondes Arms, feeding the chickens, except when the cockerel bit me, well I did poke my finger through the wire. I never wanted to go home, I loved it at nanny's, even when aunty Dot tried to make me try coffee, ...read more here
A memory of Selling contributed by pam tinsley
Picking fruit!
It was the summer of 2006 and it was the greatest summer for me, my life is not the same boring life. I want only one thing .... I want to return in England, one of the greatest countries in the world.
A memory of Selling contributed by Bozhana Spasova
Extracts From Ospringe & Kent books
In 1695 many had a narrow escape when the bell tower collapsed during an energetic ringing session serenading a visit by William III. The church of St Peter and St Paul is like many churches built in Norman times - it is situated near a spring. This adds 'purity' to the Christian message. In 1866 restoration work saw the completion of the saddleback tower.
An extract from from"Kent Revisited Photographic Memories".
The Romans had a settlement here at Ospringe. On opposite corners of Water Lane are the only two buildings to survive from the Maison Dieu, one of neighbouring Faversham’s three medieval religious foundations. It fulfilled several purposes, serving as hospital, almshouses and pilgrims’ hostel, but the two houses were the homes of chantry priests.
An extract from from"Kent Living Memories".
Here we see the appropriately named Water Lane in the village, which was named after the spring that arises here. Ospringe was once a pilgrims’ stop on the way to Canterbury. The half-timbered house stands on the site of a hospital founded by Henry III in 1234. Roman relics have been found here and authorities in the past believed Ospringe to be the site of the Roman Durolevum.
An extract from from"Villages of Kent 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".
The bus advertises Fremlins’
ales outside the Red Lion,
a Style & Winch house of
flamboyant grandeur, but
now no more, sad to say.
There are now traffic lights
and a great deal more
traffic where this policeman
stands on point duty at the
junction of High Street with
Corporation Street (left) and
Star Hill (right).
An extract from from"Chatham and the Medway Towns Photographic Memories".