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Oak Bank Open-Air School was the first of its kind in England and opened in 1954 by C. Mitcheson, although the school may date back to the 1930's. I was an inmate in the mid 1950's aged 8. Mrs Hardy was principal ...Read more

A memory of Seal by Laurence Bonner

Reading someone else's comment about Oak Bank School I am fascinated by their memory. I went to what I only remember as an Open Air School in Seal when I was very young. Don't know what for but think I was a sickly child and ...Read more

A memory of Seal by Virginia Haywood

When I was around seven years old I was at a convalescence home called Oak Bank, in Seven Oaks Kent. Is it still there? Carol Harrison

A memory of Sevenoaks in 1950 by Carol Harrison

I was sent to Oak Bank school as a seven year old and stayed for about two years. The Matron was a lovely lady called Miss Bremner, and I remember I stayed in a dorm called Oak, all the dormitories were named after trees. I ...Read more

A memory of Seal in 1951 by Tina Shaheen

I moved to Sandy Lane, opposite Lindsey Smith nurses' accommodation in Virginia Water. There were twelve of us auxillaries from Scotland as far as Kent. We all used to go out to the local ...Read more

A memory of Virginia Water in 1984 by Gillian Weston

Can anyone help? I remember visiting my great aunt in the nursing home in Yardley Park near the Ridgeway, Tonbridge, Kent when I was about 8 years old. She died in 1971. Can anyone remember what it was called? Many thanks, Heather.

A memory of Tonbridge in 1975 by Heather Marchant

Hi, I lived in Hextable from about the age of 9 until I was 17, when I joined the WRAF. We lived in New Road and there was a nursery opposite where we lived and the road was UN made. There was also an agricultural college in College ...Read more

A memory of Hextable by benchar54

My mother was 19 when I was born. We were living above The Wool Shop in Swalecliffe, on the corner, opposite the railway bridge I actually have an uncanny memory of that time. I must have been under 2 years old, as we ...Read more

A memory of Whitstable by daveskye1

For over 36 years from 1844 to after 1881, Sarah Susannah Jell born in Ringwould about 1804 lived in Finglesham as the wife or widow of Thomas Norris, agricultural labourer. He was the son of ...Read more

A memory of Finglesham in 1860

Eastry used to be a very significant part of east Kent. The Norman church was built on the foundations of a previous church, which must have been built over a thousand years ago. It is said, there was a palace here for the ...Read more

A memory of Eastry by Michael Mitchell