Inside This Issue: Stories to Surprise, Stir and Delight

Rediffusion, Kent’s TV pioneer: the 1950s broadcasting revolution in Broadstairs, led by men sheds

Peggotty, the Gravesend connection: where was the inspiration for the boat-house, home of a David Copperfield hero?

A Canterbury tale: cinema maestro celebrated

Where’s the playhouse? Thomas Trotter had a fine idea for entertaining Hythe and its garrison. Now only a street sign records its existence

Another crash, another cigarette: huge crowds at Dover welcomed the flamboyant but bedraggled aviator who twice failed to cross the Channel

Plus:

Storm victim gives up her secrets

Chatham’s architectural masterpiece restored

Holiday solution to high conservation costs

From leafy Kent to the mean streets of LA

Why city bookshop refused royal artist