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Wickhambreaux, Kent
Wickhambreaux maps
Historic maps of Wickhambreaux and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Wickhambreaux maps
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Wickhambreaux books
Displaying 3 of 15 books about Wickhambreaux and the local area. View all Wickhambreaux books
Kent Revisited Photographic Memories
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Around the Kent Coast
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Cinque Ports and theTwo Ancient Towns Photographic Memories
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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.
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Shared on 29 August 2007
I understand my great grandfather worked in this forge. He was born Charles Holness around 1830 and married Ann Marsh in the 1850s. My father's mother Agnes Annie Holness was one of their children. She had an older sister Alice, brothers Fred and Bert and William Henry who died of smallpox in May 1902. He worked on... [more]
Shared on 06 April 2006
Kent memories
I lived in the Rectory for the whole Universty year 1968-1969. There were four of us - male students from the University of Kent. A fantastic place to live. I have revisited the place - now an old people's home, still just about the same. The pub was a pub in the 60s - it is now a posh restaurant.
Shared on 06 October 2008
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... [more]
Shared on 07 March 2008
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... [more]
Shared on 14 February 2008
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.
Shared on 19 March 2007
In the 1851 census William Amos, believed to have been my Great Grandfather, lived with his wife Caroline and children in No.10 High Street, Sturry. He is recorded as being a schoolteacher. In the 1861 census he is recorded as being a Shipping Agent living in Whitsable, address unclear in the register. A rather strange change of occupation.... [more]
Shared on 08 April 2007
Does any one remember the local pub in Sturry, that got blown up in ww2, my dad saved a little boy, but through shock, the young lad later died. Does any one remember the ODELL family who lived in ROOKERY NOCK?
Would love to hear from any one who knew them, my sister was in the Land army, any... [more]
Shared on 01 August 2006
Extracts From Wickhambreaux & Kent books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Wickhambreaux, inspired by Frith photos.
Villages of Kent Photographic Memories
This pretty old Kentish village of Saxon vintage has a lovely green (alas, not now as rural as it looks here) surrounded by lime and chestnut trees, some grand Georgian houses and simpler homes. There is a pleasant rushing stream, swans, and a watermill.
This is an extract from Villages of Kent Photographic Memories.
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Villages of Kent Photographic Memories
This attractive Tudor building is known as The Bell House because in 1525 the then owner decreed that upon his decease the money raised from renting out the building should be used to pay for the ringing of the curfew bell.
This is an extract from Villages of Kent Photographic Memories.
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Kent A Century Ago Photographic Memories
From the Bridge 1899 A town when the Domesday Book was compiled, and a settled place as far back as the 7th century, Fordwich was a flourishing port on the River Stour for Canterbury when the river was still navigable. The thousands of tons of Caen stone for the building of the cathedral were landed here. The twelve rooms of the riverside George and Dragon still offer accommodation.
This is an extract from Kent A Century Ago Photographic Memories.
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