Maps

5,497 maps found.

1895, Ridley Ref. RNE816657
1895, Ware Ref. RNE860690
1895, Weddington Ref. RNE862617
1895, Winterbourne Ref. RNE871605
1895, Upton Ref. RNE858093
1895, Waltham Ref. RNE860140
1921, Sandhurst Ref. POP825082
1920, Seaton Ref. POP827225
1920, River Ref. POP817252
1940, Aldington Ref. NPO621330
1946, Ashurst Ref. NPO627939
1920, Waltham Ref. POP860140
1920, Whitfield Ref. POP869289
1920, Woodland Ref. POP873549
1896, Aldington Ref. HOSM35767
1906, Stanford Ref. HOSM60246
1895 - 1896, Hunton Ref. HOSM49173
1897-1898, Slade Ref. RNC832378
1897-1898, Larkfield Ref. RNC753096
1898-1899, Seaton Ref. RNC827225

Books

28 books found. Showing results 97 to 120.

Memories

568 memories found. Showing results 41 to 50.

My Early Years Spent At Little Pond House

I arrived at Little Pond House just before Chirstmas 1964. My mother had been taken ill and I had to stay at the home until 1968 when I left Tilford Junior School and had to attend a boarding school at ...Read more

A memory of Frensham in 1964 by David Simmons

Memory Lane

I was at Brownrigg from 1963 to 1966, I was in Pennine dorm, Lorna Herron. I remember Bent Toe, he had to be put down at the school, a girl called Diane was really upset about that. I remember gathering bracken on the fells for the ...Read more

A memory of Bellingham in 1965 by Lorna Gowland

My Grandad Humphreys Thomas John1875 1965

Grandad Humphreys, he was a carpenter making and restoring the Lockgates on the Montgomery Canal. Born in Welshpool 1875-1965. I remember the little trains running across Church Street as a boy of 8 ...Read more

A memory of Welshpool in 1954 by Keith Bedford

Living In Rye

Hi, I lived in Rye until I went into the army in 1955. I went to the Primary School in Ferry Road, then to the Rye Secondary Modern. When the Seond World War was on we were living at Cadborough, then we moved to Military Road, a ...Read more

A memory of Hastings in 1940 by Stanley Wilson

Sholden Kent Near Deal Kent. 1810 91 Norris Marsh & Berwick Family

George James Norris and his wife Charlotte, nee Halliday, lived at Alders, Sholden with their 5 children in 1891. Miss Sarah Norrice who was living with her mother Ursula at Sholden in ...Read more

A memory of Deal

My Childhood Garden Part I

My mother has often said to me "You don't appreciate what you've got until you lose it". She is wrong, for I will never forget the wonderful garden of my childhood and write below the memories that I will hold for ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

I Stayed At St Briavels Castle Youth Hostel

In the early 1970's I was a Scout Leader in Riverhead - near Sevenoaks in Kent - and we decided to spend our 1974 summer camp in the West Country or South Wales. I remember my fellow leader, ...Read more

A memory of St Briavels in 1974 by John Howard Norfolk

The Keelings 1940 Evacuees

My sister, Joy, elder brother, Richard and myself, John Keeling, were evacuated to Llanharan in June 1940. After a short time Richard and myself were placed with a lovely old lady at 12 Seymour Avenue, Mrs Surridge. I ...Read more

A memory of Llanharan in 1940 by John Keeling

Goldsmith Mansions

I lived in the mansions from 1951-1960. Does anyone remember them? I went to Leo Street School. And I went to the Regal cinema every Sunday afternoon in the Old Kent Road.

A memory of Peckham in 1951 by Barry Mclean

Dartford

Does anyone know if there was a Marsett Road in Dartford? My 94 year old mother lived in Kent during the war but can only remember Marsett Road!?

A memory of Dartford

Captions

216 captions found. Showing results 97 to 120.

Caption For Ash, New Street C1955

There are two villages called Ash in Kent.

Caption For Chatham, Military Road C1965

The No 142 bus, advertising Kent Life magazine, is bound for Weeds Wood via Huntsman's Corner.

Caption For Ide Hill, The Church C1960

Its architecture is deemed modern compared to many other Kent places of worship that began life in Norman times.

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 Kendal, Stricklandgate 1888

Kendal—the 'Auld Grey Town' on the River Kent—was founded on wealth won from the wool of Lakeland sheep.

Caption For Aylesford, Village From The River C1960

One of Kent's most ancient villages, Aylesford occupies a strategic crossing of the Medway, and dates from the time of the Saxons.

Caption For Hartfield, 1906

We are on the upper River Medway north of the Ashdown Forest, near the Kent border.

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 Sittingbourne, High Street C1960

It is early morning or a summer's evening in this significant mid-Kent town.

Caption For Gravesend, Clifton Marine Parade C1898

We are keeping to the Kent bank of the Thames Estuary as the river reaches Gravesend, beyond the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge at Dartford.

Caption For Margate, Marine Terrace From The Lighthouse C1965

boating pool from the pier.The clock-tower is just to the right of the centre of the picture, and we can see the entrance tower to the Dreamland amusement park.This is the oldest theme park in Kent

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 Kendal, St George's Church And The Weir 1891

The twin Italianate towers of St George's Church dominate this view of Kendal, across the River Kent and its weir.

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 Kendal, Stramongate Bridge 1896

Stramongate Bridge was also known as Miller or Mill Bridge, because it linked the mills on the eastern bank of the River Kent to the 'Auld Grey Town' on the other bank.

Caption For Flookburgh, The Village 1897

Flookburgh is a charming and ancient market town between the Kent Estuary and Cartmel Sands.

Caption For Goudhurst, Measuring The Hops 1904

The newly installed railway connection serving the Weald of Kent had no doubt dropped many of these workers off to start work in the hop fields.

Caption For Tonbridge, High Street 1948

Meanwhile, local schoolboy Michael Colin Cowdrey, 17, made his debut for Kent County Cricket Club in this year.

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 Darlington, Tubwell Row 1903

On the left are the flower-bedecked premises of the seed merchants and nurserymen Kent & Brydon.

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.

Caption For Southampton, The Royal Pier Pavilion 1908

The name comes from the fact that the opening was carried out in 1833 by the Duchess of Kent and Princess, later Queen, Victoria.

Caption For Flimwell, The Village 1903

Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border.

Caption For Cliffe, The View From The Church C1950

Once known as 'Coveshoo', Cliffe was a meeting place for the Great Councils of Kent in Saxon times.