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 Chilham, The High Street C1955
Pollarded lime trees line part of the High Street of this village, which can justifiably claim to be one of Kent's prettiest; it duly attracts hordes of visitors during the summer season.
Caption For Maidstone, High Street C1955
As the county and assize town of Kent, as well as its chief agricultural centre, Maidstone is also a busy market and shopping centre, and many of its older buildings are overshadowed by the commercial
Caption For Pegwell, Coastguard Cottages 1907
This row of diminutive, white cottages provided accommodation for the Coastguards maintaining a watch along
this busy stretch of the Kent coastline with its treacherous offshore sandbanks.
Caption For Eastry, High Street C1955
Between Canterbury and the sea, and built on a section of the Roman road which ran from Dover to Richborough, Eastry was once the site of a palace of the Kings of Kent, who divided their realm into 'lathes
Caption For Grays, The Thames C1955
This view captures well the character of much of the Thames estuary: a somewhat bleak, flat shoreline and a smudge of distant chalk hills on the Kent side.