Articles

To give you a taster of all that you can enjoy in Bygone Kent, below is a very small selection of articles published over the past couple of years.  

Celebrating raising samples of coal at Snowdown, c 1912. (Bob Hollingsbee)

If you ask anyone who knows Kent to describe the county and its attributes, the chances are that they will tell you about the beautiful...

Guglielmo Marconi

They stand like sentinels on the Kent coast, overlooking the sea that they made safer for seafarers. Now, apart from still remaining in place,...

A walk on the sands

The Romans called them Lomea and Infera Insula (Low Island), and legend has it that the Earl of Godwin inherited land there until the great sea...

Buchan, Broadstairs and the Thirty-Nine Steps

The beaches were deserted. Only the locals and a few determined holidaymakers remained as war cast its shadow over Europe. The Kaiser's troops had...

Murder in the Marsh

Russell Thorndike was born at Rochester on 6 February 1885, where his father was a Canon at the cathedral. Both he and his sister wanted...

The Final Curtain

Cinemas are like railway stations – once you lose them, they are gone for good. While some are as forgotten as a station after Richard...

St Francis of the hop fields

It is unusual to read an account of hop-pickers from the point of view of the missionaries who tried to help them, but in 1933, a vicar by the...

Darwin's Dangerous Idea

Ask people to name a place associated with Darwin's theory of evolution, and most will probably say the Galapagos Islands. However, they were,...