Captions

216 captions found. Showing results 41 to 60.

Caption For Kingswear, Town And River 1925

One of these boats, the 'Kingswear Castle' (which entered service the year before), is preserved and operates in the River Medway area of Kent.

Caption For Loose, Village 1898

Although many more homes have been built here since this picture was taken, it remains famous for its contribution to hop growing in Kent.

Caption For Biddenden, The Village 1901

This is one of the numerous 'dens', or forest clearings, in this part of Kent.

Caption For London, Clerkenwell, St John's Gate C1870

In the late Gothic style and built with rough-faced stone from a Kent quarry, it was erected by Prior Docwra in 1504.

Caption For Bodiam, Oast House C1960

Oast houses are common in the Weald of Sussex as well as in Kent, and indeed wherever hops are grown.

Caption For Eastry, Sandwich Lane C1955

Eastry was home to many miners who worked down the east Kent pits.

Caption For Westwell, The Wheel Inn C1960

Would they be on the jukebox in this historic Kent alehouse?

Caption For Frant, The Post Office C1955

The parish of Frant lies on the forest-ridge approximately 180 metres above sea level, and overlooks landscapes in both Kent and Sussex.

Caption For Goudhurst, Measuring The Hops 1904

Kent is synonymous with the growing of hops.

Caption For Kendal, Looking North 1896

The town of Kendal was founded on the west bank of the River Kent, although the earliest settlement around the castle was on the east bank.

Caption For Ashford, Lower High Street C1965

The broad expanse of what had been Ashford's original market place and a rendezvous for Kent's sheep and cattle farmers had, by the mid 1950s, been bisected by a central traffic reservation and new road

Caption For Biddenden, The Village 1901

This is one of the numerous 'dens', or forest clearings, in this part of Kent.

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.

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 Smarden, The Street C1955

It is known as 'the barn of Kent' because of the width of its aisleless nave and the timber scissor-beam roof.

Caption For Aylesford, Kits Coty House 1898

To the west of the A229 is Kent's most famous Neolithic burial chamber.

Caption For Kents Bank, From Kirkhead 1894

The routes across the sands from Hest Bank and Arnside come here to Kents Bank.

Caption For Milford On Sea, All Saints Church C1955

In the churchyard lies the eminent Victorian biologist William Saville Kent, who died in 1908, his grave covered with an array of fossilised sponges.

Caption For Cranbrook, St David's Bridge 1921

The summer of this year is on record as being suffocatingly hot, and this village, like most in Kent, suffered from a completely rainless June and July.

Caption For Flookburgh, The Village 1897

Flookburgh, a charming and ancient market town between the Kent Estuary and Cartmel Sands, takes its name from Floki, the name of a Norse settler.