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 61 to 80.
Maps
5,497 maps found.
Books
28 books found. Showing results 73 to 96.
Memories
568 memories found. Showing results 31 to 40.
Campsbourne Junior School Around 1960
I attended Campsbourne Junior School between 1958 and 1961. I arrived during the 2nd Year at the age of 8, having moved from St Michael's School in Highgate. I was placed in the top stream and my class teachers were ...Read more
A memory of Hornsey by
Alice Eastwood Nee Colthup
My great aunt Alice was a teacher at Five Ashes village school in the early years of the 20th century. She was born in New Brompton, Kent on 29.8.1879 and died 23.12.1966 and is buried in the village. She married Fred ...Read more
A memory of Five Ashes in 1900 by
The Kent Family
During the 1970s when I was a teenager, I drove my grandmother to Alrewas, Staffs as her family were from this village. We walked around the old church graveyard and found many stones with the name Kent. Inside the church there are ...Read more
A memory of Alrewas in 1860 by
A Great Place To Live
Having been born and brought up in Buckhusrt Hill in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s and now living in Kent, it reminds me what a unique place it once was. My immediate memories are of Lords Bushes and living in Forest ...Read more
A memory of Buckhurst Hill by
James Roberts
I have a photo of a grave in Llangristiolus in Wales and buried in it is James Roberts, died 4th Nov 1844 aged 45 years, and his daughter Susannah, died 28th Nov 1844 aged 4 years. Does anybody know if this grave is still there? ...Read more
A memory of Llangristiolus in 1860 by
Harworth 'old' Village
The large Horse Chestnut tree to the right was very popular when conkers were in season with boys searching the ground and throwing whatever came to hand at the tree to try and dislodge the nuts that were temptingly out of ...Read more
A memory of Harworth in 1964 by
Old School
If you head down Lampits Hill and carry on past Giffords Cross road on your right, you then enter Church Road, the next road on your left is Fobbing Road. Opposite this junction is a building called the Old School House, this was the ...Read more
A memory of Corringham in 1960 by
Where I Was Born
My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more
A memory of Sole Street in 1946
Police Dog Training Usaf
I am looking for any information of the time I was training in U.S.A.F class 7 and my dog Rusty, Oct to Nov 1957. Mr Frickey was my trainer. I had spent two weeks in hospital of my 6 week course. Still came out 1. I do ...Read more
A memory of Netheravon in 1957 by
Teenage Years In Fareham
I lived and worked in Fareham when I moved with my family from Hertfordshire. My father and uncle worked for Fareham District Council. I remember going to the Odeon and Embassy cinemas on many occasions with my fiance. I ...Read more
A memory of Fareham in 1953
Captions
216 captions found. Showing results 73 to 96.
Bordering the wonderful weald of Kent, Chipstead is near the great house of Chevening - a favourite spot for Prince Charles.
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.
Lord Nelson had breakfast here, and a young Queen Victoria and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, stayed overnight.
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.
A little further north is Horse Guards, a fine building by William Kent of the 1750s and one of the earlier surviving government offices.
The Rutland Arms Hotel, designed by John Kent, was built in 1815 on the site of the Ram Inn.
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.
These old vessels were vital carriers of coal, fruit, vegetables and building materials from Kent, Essex and other east-coast ports.
Nearby is Scotney Castle, owned at this time by one of the Hussey family, historic ironmasters of Kent.
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
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.
Lord Nelson had breakfast here, and a young Queen Victoria and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, stayed overnight.
Ticehurst is an old Roman habitation near the Kent border.
At one time sheep from Romney Marsh in Kent were wintered here on the relatively dry sandy Surrey Hills.
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.
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.
Today, Biddenden cider can be enjoyed in most Kent pubs.
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
This village was the hop picking 'capital' of Kent.
The village of Eynsford was once home to a well known man of Kent, the writer and historian Arthur Mee.
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.
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
To the west of the A229 is Kent's most famous Neolithic burial chamber.
Kendal—the 'Auld Grey Town' on the River Kent—was founded on wealth won from the wool of Lakeland sheep.
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