Halling, The School c.1955
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Children cross open fields to the school that was opened in 1876, and where gas lighting was replaced with electricity in 1952. The chalk scars in the landscape beyond are a reminder that this is one of the Medway- side villages that owes much to the 19th-century cement industry.
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A Selection of Memories from Halling
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Halling
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Hi all, remembering more about the young days in Halling. On a Saturday, and holidays we used to go down the paths leading through the marshes to the river, our Mums used to say "if you are not off the marshes by 12 lunchtime the cracks will open up in the paths and swollow us" so we all were off the marsh and home by 12. Now I think how stupid could we be? - but it worked. We also used to take a soapbox ...see more
I visited Halling frequently as a child, as my grandparents, Bill and Ethel King, ran the public house The Plough. I spent hours at the front window over the pub looking at the River Medway as it curved around the bend.
My great-grandmother, Mrs Clara Burr, had the Supply Store in Halling Road for many years from the early 1900s. She had been widowed in 1903 when her two sons, my grandfather Rowland and his brother Norman, were babies.
When Rowland married Nellie Dale of Snodland in 1925, the couple bought a block of land in North Halling and built a bungalow (single story home) on it for 425 pounds. They named the house 'Kalamara', ...see more
Hi all. My name is John Potter. I have found out the last address of my Gran and Grandad Hollands, at 78 High Street, Halling. I remember going across a bridge past the graves in a wood on the right to the allotments to help my grandfather, I remember the Michells and the policeman's son, we played together. I also remember going down to the air raid shelter at the bottom of the garden at nights, also remember a lot more. ...see more
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