Maps

5,497 maps found.

1897-1898, Rainham Ref. RNC812943
1921, Eccles Ref. POP698992
1940, Evington Ref. NPO702243
1946, Hawley Ref. NPO729000
1947, Greenhill Ref. NPO721523
1947, Ham Ref. NPO725891
1940, Highgate Ref. NPO734518
1920, Nash Ref. POP787925
1920, Northwood Ref. POP794527
1921, Oare Ref. POP795720
1920, Offham Ref. POP796030
1920, Maxton Ref. POP775758
1921, Linton Ref. POP756634
1920, Priestwood Ref. POP810892
1946, Doddington Ref. NPO691437
1947, Claypits Ref. NPO669958
1947, Broomhill Ref. NPO652484
1947, Buckland Ref. NPO654731
1946, Chalkwell Ref. NPO666168
1895, Stanford Ref. RNE838229

Books

28 books found. Showing results 73 to 96.

Memories

569 memories found. Showing results 31 to 40.

Ancestral Ties

My 4th Gt grandfather was Michael Breckinridge--he died in a storm at sea c 1808.  He and his son, Michael (married to Elizabeth Shrewsbury---her father and husband both shipwrights), were both Chief, Cinque Ports. Some of the ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs by Sheila Stover

Brimscombe Corner & Burleigh 1910 62690

This photo is taken 100 yards up Brimscombe lane, looking back across the Golden Valley. The lane itself leads back up to Thrupp Lane & Dark lane, which is on its way to Quarhouse and the Lypiatt Manor, (the ...Read more

A memory of Brimscombe by Philip Baker

Four Elms From 1950

The Sandeman Family moved to Four Elms in 1950. We moved from Bexley Kent. Winnie and Richard were my parents my brother Mark had just been born in September. We moved to Wendy's bungalow, just on the corner next to the post ...Read more

A memory of Four Elms by gavin

Sawmills

In the 1950s our family company " T. Smart & Sons (Contractors) Ltd " supplied large pit props to A. E. Johnson at Gorsley Wood who had a sawmill there . The timber was cut up into coverboards that were sent on the Kent Coal Fields.

A memory of Gorsley Wood

Marching On The Green

I used to live in Niton Road, Richmond from 1946-67 until I married and moved to Kent. I joined the Girls Life Brigade when I was 5 years old and left when I was 12. In that time we used to practice our marching ...Read more

A memory of Richmond by Linda (Walden)Bexx Stallon

My Chatham

Born and bred in Grove Road off Luton Road, went to the schools of All Saints and Fort Luton. I found Chatham to be a friendly town with memories of seeing Arther English at the Empire, seaside at the Strand, being a 19th Medway west boy ...Read more

A memory of Chatham by Kenneth Blackman

East Kent Coastal Holidays In The 1950s/60s

As a child the East Kent coast was a regular destination for our 2 week family summer holiday. We usually stayed in Westgate. In the late 1950s the excitement started with the journey from ...Read more

A memory of Westgate on Sea by Peter Leach

Evacuated To Great West Farm

My mother Eileen and her brother Ian Carter were evacuated to Great West Farm, Quethiock in 1940. Here are her memories of that time:- On June 16th 1940 we were evacuated from Marvels Lane School, Grove Park, London SE12 ...Read more

A memory of Quethiock by Mark Lambert

1960’s

I remember Stanford Dingley when the cottages existed opposite Dumbledore on Jennets hill, they used the water pump opposite. A fire destroyed the semi-detached house opposite where Casey Court now stands. There was a post office half ...Read more

A memory of Stanford Dingley

St Alkmund's Churchyard, Whitchurch, Shropshire

In 1973 a new vicarage was built on part of St Alkmund's churchyard burial ground in Whitchurch, Shropshire which entailed the exhumation of a number of coffins from vaults and the removal of their ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch by Michael Beach

Captions

216 captions found. Showing results 73 to 96.

Caption For Chipstead, The Downs C1960

Bordering the wonderful weald of Kent, Chipstead is near the great house of Chevening - a favourite spot for Prince Charles.

Caption For Arnside, Tower And Knott 1894

It was badly damaged by fire in 1602, but still watches over the Kent Estuary beneath the limestone mass of Arnside Knott, seen here rising to the left of the picture.

Caption For Liphook, Royal Anchor Hotel 1924

Lord Nelson had breakfast here, and a young Queen Victoria and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, stayed overnight.

Caption For Bethersden, Forge Hill C1955

Then, the well-to-do of the area used to have their coaches drawn by oxen in order to negotiate safely the boggy roads, which in bad weather were reputed to be the worst in Kent.

Caption For London, Whitehall, The Horse Guards C1960

A little further north is Horse Guards, a fine building by William Kent of the 1750s and one of the earlier surviving government offices.

Caption For Newmarket, High Street C1955

The Rutland Arms Hotel, designed by John Kent, was built in 1815 on the site of the Ram Inn.

Caption For Maidstone, All Saints' Church 1892

This is the largest parish church in Kent, 227 feet long, and dates from 1395 when the original church on the site was completely rebuilt by Archbishop Courtenay.

Caption For Liphook, Royal Anchor Hotel 1924

Lord Nelson had breakfast here, and a young Queen Victoria and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, stayed overnight.

Caption For Ticehurst, From Myskyns 1903

Ticehurst is an old Roman habitation near the Kent border.

Caption For Holmbury St Mary, Post Office Corner 1906

At one time sheep from Romney Marsh in Kent were wintered here on the relatively dry sandy Surrey Hills.

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 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 London, Chelsea Embankment 1890

These old vessels were vital carriers of coal, fruit, vegetables and building materials from Kent, Essex and other east-coast ports.

Caption For Lamberhurst, The Village Bridge And Broadway C1960

Nearby is Scotney Castle, owned at this time by one of the Hussey family, historic ironmasters of Kent.

Caption For Milton Regis, High Street C1955

Indeed, it is known as the Middleton of Alfred the Great, and its flint and stone Holy Trinity Church is the second oldest in Kent. A

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 Biddenden, The Village C1960

Today, Biddenden cider can be enjoyed in most Kent pubs.

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 Paddock Wood, Measuring The Hops C1950

This village was the hop picking 'capital' of Kent.

Caption For Eynsford, The Church 1905

The village of Eynsford was once home to a well known man of Kent, the writer and historian Arthur Mee.

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 Aylesford, Kits Coty House 1898

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

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.