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 41 to 60.
Maps
5,497 maps found.
Books
28 books found. Showing results 49 to 72.
Memories
568 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.
Marriage Between Ivy Alice Gillard To Robert Alexander Bent
This date Oct 6th, in 1945, while serving in the RCAF, I was married to Ivy Gillard in this olden church. It was a bright sunny day. Ivy came to Canada with our daughter Barbara in October ...Read more
A memory of Paignton in 1945 by
Hop Picking
Paddock Wood, in particular Beltring, the home of the famous Whitebread Oasts, was the centre of the Hop Gardens of Kent. The Gardens were set out with rows of elevated wire tressles which were supported at intervals by poles. In ...Read more
A memory of Paddock Wood in 1940 by
The Meadow, Chislehurst.
We lived in The Meadow, the road opposite Rush Pond, for 30years. Our house is not there anymore, it was demolished and a much bigger house on the site. We had a dear little cottage, St Anne's. I still belong to the ...Read more
A memory of Chislehurst by
My Memories Of Resolven.
The personal views of Resolven expressed in these pages reflect my own fond memories of Resolven, the Vale of Neath and its people. In 1953 I returned to the valley as a teenager, little did I know it was to become my home. I ...Read more
A memory of Resolven by
Seaford Rd In The 50s And 60s
I was born in 15 Seaford rd. in 1954. Tottenham then was like a village where everyone knew everyone else. I can clearly remember rag and bone men with their horse and carts, ringing their bells yelling "old rags and ...Read more
A memory of Tottenham by
Astrall Hall
We holidayed in Torquay in july 1965 we was a group of kids from The Hollies children's home in sidcup Kent..by what I remember the YMCA hotel was called the castle hotel..would this be the same one or was there more then one YMCA hotels in Torquay in those days
A memory of Torquay by
Church Path, Mitcham And The People That Lived There
I was born in Collierswood Maternity Home, a very short time before it was bombed during the Second World War. The year was 1944. My family being homeless were housed in requisitioned properties in ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1944 by
The Mount
My great aunt Emilly Still lived in the bungalow in the background and we as children spent many happy summer holidays in Fontmell Magna. She and Tom (who I never knew) are buried in the church graveyard. I remember travelling from ...Read more
A memory of Fontmell Magna in 1963 by
Kent Meters
I attended the Luton technical College during the years 1952/55 and elected to take the "engineering" route not really giving much thought as to where I might eventually apply my newly acquired skills. To assist with our journey we were ...Read more
A memory of Luton by
Hamilton House School
I attended Hamilton House school on Florence Road from about 1950 until 1956 when I was sent away to boarding school at Sutton Valence School, Kent. My memories of HH are, like most others, very mixed. The only teacher who was ...Read more
A memory of Ealing by
Captions
216 captions found. Showing results 49 to 72.
Kent is synonymous with the growing of hops.
The broad expanse of what had been Ashford's original market place and a rendezvous for Kent's sheep and cattle farmers had, by the mid 1950s, been bisected by a central traffic reservation and new road
This is one of the numerous 'dens', or forest clearings, in this part of Kent.
The town of Kendal was founded on the west bank of the River Kent, although the earliest settlement around the castle was on the east bank.
In many villages in Kent are the great gardens and oast-houses devoted to the growing and processing of the hop, which gives beer its taste.
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
It is known as 'the barn of Kent' because of the width of its aisleless nave and the timber scissor-beam roof.
To the west of the A229 is Kent's most famous Neolithic burial chamber.
The routes across the sands from Hest Bank and Arnside come here to Kents Bank.
In the churchyard lies the eminent Victorian biologist William Saville Kent, who died in 1908, his grave covered with an array of fossilised sponges.
The summer of this year is on record as being suffocatingly hot, and this village, like most in Kent, suffered from a completely rainless June and July.
Flookburgh, a charming and ancient market town between the Kent Estuary and Cartmel Sands, takes its name from Floki, the name of a Norse settler.
Note the weatherboarded houses, so typical of Kent.
It summons up the essence of the old county of Kent with its hop gardens and orchards.
A typical village of the Kent Weald, with its weatherboarded cottages clustered round its green, Bethersden was once famous for its paludrina marble extracted from the local clay and consisting of the
The west window was given by Queen Victoria in memory of her father the Duke of Kent, who died in Sidmouth in 1820.
The county town of Kent stands on the banks of the River Medway.
The county town of Kent stands on the banks of the River Medway.
Who can fault this lovely view of typical rural Kent?
The George Hotel, right, and the tobacconist and the teashop pictured nearby shared the village with Kent's smallest pub, the Little Gem.
Said to be one of the finest town churches in Kent, the parish church is built of Kentish ragstone and has an impressive interior.
The county runs out here: the roads from Dormansland lead a short way to the border with either Kent or Sussex.
It teems with traffic, and it is the County Town of Kent. A
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.
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