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)
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Waifs And Strays Society
From approximately 1939-1945 the house was taken over by the Waifs and Strays Society becoming a home for 40 boys. They had moved from Chislehurst, Kent. The house was also used as a landmark by German bombers during their attacks on Coventry.
A memory of Warwick in 1940 by
Our Lives In Yapton 1982 2005
My family moved to Yapton, from Folkestone Kent, because my husband had a job there. It was a difficult time but I was expecting a baby and I had a 3 year old son so it was also an exciting time for us. Over the years ...Read more
A memory of Yapton in 1982 by
Tosh And I And Easy Pickings
Tosh and I and easy pickings Hi everyone, It's me again with the continuation of my wee story. I was taken by surprise how many people liked and responded to ...Read more
A memory of Newarthill by
Hendon Paper Mill
John McCue was a Union Rep at Hendon Mill and left c.1910 following a dispute with management. As a result his son, then about two years old, grew up in Kent where the family relocated to work at The Imperial Paper Mills, ...Read more
A memory of Sunderland by
Hop Picking
I used to go to Little Chart Farm, Pluckley as a child, being born in the East End in 1946. My memories are of freedom and adventure, long, happy carefree days spent in the beautiful Kent countryside, for a few weeks each summer. My ...Read more
A memory of Pluckley in 1956 by
Breaking And Entering
My brothers and I lived in Osborne Road in the mid 60s - 72 and we used to climb in to the nursery in Beulah Crescent just to look at the pond! I believe it was in an old horse water trough but I might be wrong. We were ...Read more
A memory of Thornton Heath by
Good Times
I lived at 14 oak street Chapel of Ease. I can remember the two estates being built and the bridge in the photo is also the way I went to school at the west end primary school. The red phone box is still there I believe, in the photo the ...Read more
A memory of Abercarn by
My Boyhood Memories. With My Grandad
I hope that anyone left of my family can read this, as now being 72 , I lost all track of coming to Kent. My home town was Lytham St Annes where my mother lived and dad was in the RAF and met my mother there. My ...Read more
A memory of Faversham by
Elm Cottage
My family used to stay at Elm Cottage on Trewoon Road in Mullion for many of our summer holidays during the 1970's. The cottage belonged to a Mrs Kent, known to us affectionately as Aunty Ellie, who at that time lived in Caerleon in Wales ...Read more
A memory of Mullion
Much Loved Memories.
I have such good memories of Much Hadham. My grandparents, Mr & Mrs Morris lived in a lordship cottages just outside of Much Hadham village - the house went with my grandfather's job which was a gardener for Doctor & ...Read more
A memory of Much Hadham by
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New villas sprang up along the front at Kents Bank on the Kent Estuary as the village became popular as a holiday resort.
Branthwaite Brow is one of the three streets which meet Kent Street as it leads up the steep hill opposite Miller Bridge.
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.
Kent's central lending library is at Springfields.
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.
This pleasant, tucked-away village, three miles from Cranbrook, is open and scattered in structure, like others in this part of Kent.
The Kent Arms is now the Fat Fiddler public house.
In 1873 James Kent leased nearly 100 acres of land and started building houses for commuters.
Here we see the lower or Nether Bridge across the River Kent.
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
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,
Here we see the lower or Nether Bridge across the River Kent.
Here we see the lower or Nether Bridge across the River Kent.
15Southern England KENT left: CHATHAM, The Gordon Memorial and the Royal Engineers
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
This is a charming piece of old Kent.
Here we see the lower or Nether Bridge across the River Kent.
An evocative view of the seaside, with deckchairs and pleasure craft on this low headland jutting out into the Thames estuary towards Kent.
Smarden is one of Kent's most beautiful villages; its name derives from the Saxon 'smeredaenne', meaning 'butter valley and pasture'.
It was at Catterick in AD 625 that Paulinus, first Bishop of York, baptised converts to Christianity, following the marriage of King Edwin of Northumbria to Ethelburga of Kent.
The grounds of Cobtree Manor, at Sandling, close to Maidstone, now house the Museum of Kent Life, Cobtree Manor Golf Course and a 250 acre park.
Like so many little Kent villages, with its cottages and houses clustered around a small green, Saltwood epitomises the rural atmosphere of the county at the turn of the last century.
Elms has developed in recent years, as a result of the spread of the railways into rural Kent and the growth of commuter travel.
Miller Bridge, once known as Mill Bridge because it linked the mills on the east of the river with the town, is one of the chief bridges across the River Kent.
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