Windmill View Tea Rooms

A Memory of West Kingsdown.

Across the A20 from the windmill was the Windmill View Tea Rooms.  Shortly after the Second World War, in the mid 1940s, my aunts would often take me to the Tea Rooms and while they sipped tea I played with my friends in the adjoining gardens.  These gardens later became a caravan park.  In my teenage years my friends and I often cycled to the Tea Rooms and used them as a meeting place.  Following the demise of the owner the tea rooms ceased to operate and eventually the building collapsed and now is totally overgrown.