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Caption For Kents Bank, From The Sands 1894

New villas sprang up along the front at Kents Bank on the Kent Estuary as the village became popular as a holiday resort.

Caption For Kendal, Branthwaite Brow 1914

Branthwaite Brow is one of the three streets which meet Kent Street as it leads up the steep hill opposite Miller Bridge.

Caption For Kendal, Highgate, Sandes Hospital Gatehouse 1914

Branthwaite Brow is one of the three streets which meet Kent Street as it leads up the steep hill opposite Miller Bridge.The others are Finkle Street and Stramongate.

Caption For Kendal, Branthwaite Brow 1914

Branthwaite Brow is one of the three streets which meet Kent Street as it leads up the steep hill opposite Miller Bridge.The others are Finkle Street and Stramongate.

Caption For Maidstone, Kent County Library C1965

Kent's central lending library is at Springfields.

Caption For Groombridge, The Green C1960

The Kent-Sussex border divides the village in two, but this area, the older part with tile-hung cottages clustered around a triangular green, is in Kent.

Caption For Benenden, 1901

This pleasant, tucked-away village, three miles from Cranbrook, is open and scattered in structure, like others in this part of Kent.

Caption For Ashford, Station Road C1950

The Kent Arms is now the Fat Fiddler public house.

Caption For Olton, Warwick Road C1965

In 1873 James Kent leased nearly 100 acres of land and started building houses for commuters.

Caption For Kendal, Nether Bridge 1914

Here we see the lower or Nether Bridge across the River Kent.

Caption For Ide Hill, C1965

This small hamlet, with its modest houses clustered around a village green, was known as 'the dome of Kent' from a crown of beech trees surmounting its position high up on the sandstone ridge overlooking

Caption For Kents Bank, From The Sands 1894

The cross sands route from Hest Bank and Arnside comes ashore by Kents Bank station, which is regularly used in summer by those groups of walkers who have been led across Morecambe Bay,

Caption For Kendal, Nether Bridge 1914

Here we see the lower or Nether Bridge across the River Kent.

Caption For Kendal, Noble's Yard, 96, Off Stricklandgate 1914

Here we see the lower or Nether Bridge across the River Kent.

Caption For Brompton, The Gordon Memorial And R E Institute 1894

15Southern England KENT left: CHATHAM, The Gordon Memorial and the Royal Engineers

Caption For Guisborough, The Grammar School 1932

At around the time of this photograph, Guisborough received a visit from Prince George, later Duke of Kent, who lost his life in a mysterious air crash during the Second World War; he went to the Grammar

Caption For Hever, The Bower 1906

This is a charming piece of old Kent.

Caption For Kendal, Nether Bridge 1914

Here we see the lower or Nether Bridge across the River Kent.

Caption For Shoeburyness, West Beach C1955

An evocative view of the seaside, with deckchairs and pleasure craft on this low headland jutting out into the Thames estuary towards Kent.

Caption For Smarden, The Street C1955

Smarden is one of Kent's most beautiful villages; its name derives from the Saxon 'smeredaenne', meaning 'butter valley and pasture'.