Places
36 places found.
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- Folkestone, Kent
- Canterbury, Kent
- Rochester, Kent
- Broadstairs, Kent
- Hythe, Kent
- Dover, Kent
- Tenterden, Kent
- Ashford, Kent
- Chatham, Kent
- Maidstone, Kent
- Gravesend, Kent
- Tunbridge Wells, Kent
- Margate, Kent
- Tonbridge, Kent
- Deal, Kent
- Sevenoaks, Kent
- Ramsgate, Kent
- Sandwich, Kent
- Faversham, Kent
- Sheerness, Kent
- Gillingham, Kent
- Sittingbourne, Kent
- Herne Bay, Kent
- Whitstable, Kent
- Swanley, Kent
- Northfleet, Kent
- Lydd, Kent
- Shepherdswell, Kent
- New Romney, Kent
- Sibertswold, Kent
- Swanscombe, Kent
- Kents Bank, Cumbria
- Cobham, Kent
- Goudhurst, Kent
- Cranbrook, Kent
- Kingsdown, Kent (near Deal)
Photos
9,751 photos found. Showing results 121 to 140.
Maps
5,497 maps found.
Books
28 books found. Showing results 145 to 168.
Memories
568 memories found. Showing results 61 to 70.
Memories
As a boy i would wander through fields and in water, go fishing, make swings was happy with things: Would roam with the dog slip on Algae green log, smell rain on the grass polish Grans brass: Climb dykes, collect conkers leap ...Read more
A memory of Blairgowrie in 1974 by
My Home Hawkhurst
I grew up in hawkhurst , i lived in gills green in hawkhurst , hawkhurst has a close community everybody knew everybody , most familys that lived there had lived there for years even generations . my dads family had lived there ...Read more
A memory of Hawkhurst in 1982 by
Bellis Cafe
I was born in 5 Lower New Rank, Blaenavon in 1950 and went to the Garn School and left Blaenavon in 1962 for Kent. My dad was born there, Tommy David, does anyone remember us? I used to go to Bellis Cafe at the bottom of town, we though it was real cool.
A memory of Blaenavon in 1950 by
My Short Life In Gillingham Kent
I was born in a naval nursing home called "Canada House" on the 18th November 1954. I was the first child and boy - I was spoilt. I went to school at Byron Road Infants school until I was 6 then we moved to ...Read more
A memory of Gillingham in 1960 by
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
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, ...Read more
A memory of Brimscombe by
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
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
My First School Alby Hill 1944
My mother and her mother were born in my great-grandparents' cottage at Hanworth Common. Richard and Blanche Craske they were. Well dear old Richard was really my step great grandad. The true one was ...Read more
A memory of Aldborough in 1944 by
Chingford Hatch
I remember the Manor pub, it used to have an air raid warning siren on the building. I remember hearing it once, testing it I think as the year was about 1956. I too remember the tea van which had an awning on it in the rain. As ...Read more
A memory of Chingford in 1956 by
Captions
216 captions found. Showing results 145 to 168.
The 13th-century church of St Nicholas is one of several of its kind presiding over the villages of east Kent.
During the Second World War, the Kent-born film director Michael Powell and his Archers production company featured the town and its oak beamed houses in his famous propaganda epic, 'A Canterbury Tale'
Today, the village and its Tudor buildings is one of Kent's largest and busiest on the A20 road to Maidstone and Ashford.
As its name implies, this small town is the westernmost in Kent, almost on the border with Surrey.
This was the year that Coca Cola arrived in Kent and an outbreak of typhoid fever terrified local families.
At the bottom of Maidstone High Street both the Queen's Head public house, on the left, and the Rose and Crown Hotel across the road have gone; the trolleybuses also went in 1966.
Chiddingstone is often claimed to be the most attractive village in Kent.
Medway, and is another contender for the 'most attractive village in Kent' title.
Kent, crossing two rivers over 150 yards.
Beneath a clump of trees near Aylesford, Kent, is a confused group of sarsen stones, some twenty in number, which probably formed a Neolithic burial chamber 5,000 years ago.
Similarly, there is no indication of industrial activity; until the 19th century, this was a dominant feature of Staveley, with bobbin and other mills lining the banks of the River Kent.
Beneath a clump of trees near Aylesford, Kent, is a confused group of sarsen stones, some twenty in number, which probably formed a Neolithic burial chamber 5,000 years ago.
During the first half of the 20th century, whole families from the poorer parts of London travelled down to the hop picking areas of Kent for a week or two's 'holiday' whilst earning money hop picking
One of Kent's oldest townships, Charing was taken from Canterbury by the King of Mercia in 757 and assigned to some of his favourites.
In the 1920s Silverdale village was left high and dry, for the River Kent changed course.
The Town of Kendal Kendal—the 'Auld Grey Town' on the River Kent— was founded on the wealth won from the wool of Lakeland sheep.
This was the largest of three fortresses built by Henry VIII in 1538 to protect this stretch of Kent coast against the threat of invasion by Francois I of France.
Its 18th-century picturesque naturalistic park, designed by Bridgeman, Kent and Capability Brown, is dotted with Georgian temples, columns and garden buildings.
The abbey was founded in AD670 as a nunnery by Sexburga, widow of Ercombert, King of Kent; the original building was burnt by the Danes.
Central Kent
Nearly four hundred feet above sea level, this principal inland resort of Kent owes its popularity to the accidental discovery of a chalybeate spring by Dudley, Lord North in 1606, which led to the fashion
Nearly four hundred feet above sea level, this principal inland resort of Kent owes its popularity to the accidental discovery of a chalybeate spring by Dudley, Lord North in 1606, which led to the fashion
Red Bank is one of the spots from which you can cross the sands over to Kents Bank.
In the early years of the 19th century the impoverished Duke of Kent came to live at Woolbrook Glen.
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