Perry Wood
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Perry Wood memories
A very fine pub
A very fine pub, that's if you can find it, in the middle of nowhere, deep inside Perry Wood. It's worth looking for. This used to be the Perry Wood winkle club in the 1960s and 1970s, where you would get your winkle out of your pocket before another club member did, the loser would have to get the drinks in first! No joke, the landlord in the years I first went there was known as Mad John who collected sailors' hats which were displayed around the 2 bars. I sometimes sat in his garage repairing his daughter's motorcycle with the odd drink to keep me going!!
Contributed by nev bishop
Kent memories
A very fine pub
A very fine pub, that's if you can find it, in the middle of nowhere, deep inside Perry Wood. It's worth looking for. This used to be the Perry Wood winkle club in the 1960s and 1970s, where you would get your winkle out of your pocket before another club member did, the loser would have to get the drinks in first! No joke, the landlord in the years I first went there was known as Mad John who collected sailors' hats which were displayed around the 2 bars. I sometimes sat in his garage repairing his daughter's motorcycle with the odd drink to keep me going!!
A memory of Perry Wood contributed by nev bishop
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 Perry Wood & 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".







