Caption For Cliffe, Oast Houses C1955
Scenes like this, so
typical of rural Kent,
became rare after the
mid-century decline
of hop growing
made hundreds of
oast houses ripe for
conversion.
Caption For Allithwaite, Kirkhead Tower C1965
The Beach 1894
Two youngsters are digging for shrimps
in the sands of the beach at Arnside,
where the River Kent enters Morecambe
Bay, while in the background three
adults sit on the seawall.
Caption For Minster In Thanet, The Square C1955
One of the earliest centres of Christianity in Kent, this village, with its main street and small shops running down to the large 12th-century Norman church on the left, was the site of a nunnery founded
Caption For Ash, The Village C1965
Ash is one of the places in Kent rumoured somewhere to conceal a four-feet-tall effigy of a man in solid gold, a treasure that had belonged to one of the early Saxon Kings, according to legend.
Caption For Hythe, Cricket Ground 1899
Surrounded by these majestic trees, and with the west tower of St Leonard's Church, one of the largest and finest
in Kent, rising behind them, a summer game of cricket takes place on this spacious ground
Caption For Eythorne, Chapel Hill C1955
Along with its neighbouring villages of Betteshanger and Tilmanstone, this settlement was a centre of the short-lived Kent coal industry, which began when coal was discovered when borings for a proposed
Caption For Goudhurst, Measuring The Hops 1904
In many villages in Kent are the great gardens and oast-houses devoted to the growing and processing of the hop, which gives beer its taste.