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Naccolt, tile and brickworks 25 646-53 P

Naccolt, tilemaking 21 564

Nachmann, Herbert 41 6:44-45

Nackington, church 3 306 P

Nackington, Diamond Jubilee celebrations 12 560

Nackington, House 3 303

Nader, Professor Hans Georg 29 5:7 P

Naderer, Rev Gordon 39 1:21

Nailbourne, Elham Valley 24 371-2 P

Nailbournes 1 756

Nailbournes 18 41, 344-346 P

Nairne, Edward (lawyer poet) 43 6:14-17 P

Nairne, Edward Greathead 43 6:11-14 P

Nalder and Collyer, brewers 3 681

Nannies and nursemaids 22 282 P, 285

Napleton, Thomas 29 6:29

Napoleon III, Emperor 43 1:28-37 P

Napoleon III, Emperor of France 11 754

Napoleon III, Emperor of France 15 69, 72 P

Napoleon III, Emperor of France 20 447-8

Napoleon III, Emperor of France 30 1:16-17 P

Napoleon III, Emperor of France 9 628-32 P

Napoleon, Prince Louis Eugene 12 37-9

Napoleon, Prince Louis Eugene 9 630, 631

Napoleonic defences 10 196, 278-83 P, 616-22 P, 809-17 P

Napoleonic defences 19 341

Napoleonic defences, Ramsgate 3 305-6

Napoleonic defences, signal stations 11 111-4 P

Napoleonic defences, volunteers 1 183-5, 197 L

Napoleonic mills 12 61

Napoleonic wars 10 487, 11 314 P, 514 P, 587

Napoleonic wars 13 29, 198, 361

Napoleonic wars 8 565 R

Napoleonic wars, peace celebrations 17 77-80

Nascence 19 396 P

Nash family, Farningham 21 283–5 P

Nash, Beau 1 39

Nash, George, 38 1:28-29

Nash, Paul, artist at Dymchurch 26 409

Nash, Richard 2 331 P

Nash, Thomas 31 1:24-25

Nasmith, David 25 469-71 P

Nation, Terry 39 6:37

National Company for Boatbuilding by Machinery 19 277-80 P

National Company for Boatbuilding by Machinery 23 19 P

National Dock Labour Scheme 10 66

National Federation of Women Workers 23 471-2 P

National Fire Brigades Union 17 750-1 P, 754 P

National Fire Service 15 603-4

National Flying Services 12 288-90

National Gallery 20 99

National Health Service 26 390-94 P

National Heritage List for England 34 6:6

National Insurance Act 1911 13 307

National Motor Volunteers 17 722

National Naval Cadet Corps 22 217

National Schools, curriculum 16 671, 673-5, 685

National Schools, fees 16 671

National Schools, inspections 16 684-90

National Schools, physical education 16 687

National Sunday School Union 24 268

National Tithepayers’ Association 24 649-51

National Trust 35 3:13 P, 35 6:38-41 P, 35 6:9

National Trust, Dover 36 5:8 -9 P

National Trust, Knole 38 3:6-7 P

National Trust, Petts Wood 36 5:51

National Trust, Regional Foods 32 6:9

National Trust, Scotney Castle 38 3:4-5 P

National Trust, Stoneacre 38 2:10-15 P

National Trust, Storm damage (1987) 38 5:10-15 P

Nativity plays 14 40

Natural History Museum 43 4:49

Natural history, Malling Valley 6 523-8

Natural history, Malling Valley, woad 6 518-20P

NatWest Bank 39 4:22

Naval Armament Depot, Chattenden 17 211-13

Naval Dockyards Society 19 376

Naval Dockyards Society 21 No 1 IBC L

Naval General Service Medals 19 No 6 IBC L

Naval photographs, Willis Collection 12 443-8 P

Naval volunteers 10 616-22 P

Navigation Act 1651 19 205

Navigation certificates 24 598-604 P

Navigation school 21 193–196 P

Navvies 13 338-40, 396, 397, 500

Navvies 19 564-6

Navvies 26 99

Navy board 20 289-90

Navy Days 16 319-20 P

Navy Days 18 378-382 P

Navy Days 9 580-3 P

Nayland I 16 470-1 P

Nayland II 16 471-3 P

Naylor, Arthur Edward 36 3:13-15

Naylor, Rev Christopher Bramble 16 327

Neal, Cyril (chauffeur) 43 5:47

Neal, Mary 19 721-2

Neal, Thomas (chauffeur) 43 5:47

Neame VC, Captain Philip 10 225-9 P

Neame VC, Sir Philip 36 2:8-9 P

Neame, John 12 135 P

Neame, Percy Beale 36 2:15 R

Neame, Peter 21 610 P, 616

Neame, Sir Thomas 21 744–5

Neate, Percy John 25 77

Negresco Cinema, Edenbridge 30 6:33

Néjib 42 2:48

Nelson, Abraham 17 715-8

Nelson, Admiral Horatio 43 5:16-18

Nelson, Horatio 11 601, 612, 615

Nelson, Horatio 26 359-61

Nelson, Horatio 29 1:32, 29 4:28-30 P

Nelson, Horatio 34 2:26 P

Nelson, Horatio 37 4:28-35 P

Nelson, Horatio 38 1:2-37 P

Nelson, Horatio, Deal 2 245-50 P, 313-7

Nelson, Rev William 37 4:30

Nelson’s Oak, Deal 29 4:30

Nemon, Oscar 39 1:6-7 P

Nennius 19 369, 20 607

Neolithic Burial, Coleman longbarrow, Trottiscliffe 34 5:9

Nervo 17 458-9 P

Nervo 18 300 P, 408

Nervo 21 396

Nesbit, Edith 12 700

Nesbit, Edith 15 323

Nesbit, Edith 2 155-6

Nesbit, Edith 20 351, 737-9 P

Nesbit, Edith 21 248 L

Nesbit, Edith 24 140

Nesbit, Edith 27 132-133

Nesbit, Edith 28 182-184 P

Nesbit, Edith 34 4:20-25 P

Nesbit, Edith 40 6:36

Nesbit, Edith, on Medway 41 3:39

Nesbitt, Cathleen (actress) 43 2:32

Netherlands, royalty and Mozart 36 5:18-19

Nettleshead, Sir John Scott 32 5:10 P

Nettlestead 11 169-72 P

Nettlestead, Ireland, Samuel 41 3:35

Neve family 15 629-32

Nevern Castle, Pembrokeshire 36 3:42

Neves, George 1 123

Nevill family 1 516

Nevison, John (robber) 44 5:51

Nevison, John / William 38 5:50

New Brompton See Gillingham

New Cross Gate 8 662-6 P

New Cross Turnpike Trust 10 682, 684

New Cross Turnpike Trust 18 517

New Cross Turnpike Trust 19 573, 715

New Cross, LCC tram depot 19 720

New Cross, Telegraph Hill, fountain 21 258–64 P

New Dolphin Inn, Herne Bay 9 41-7 P

New Hythe 10 58-66 P

New Hythe 13 72

New Hythe 19 453, 455-7, 545, 548, 695 L

New Hythe, ferry and inn 13 25, 26 P, 16 597

New Hythe, Reed’s paper mill 15 256 P, 259

New Hythe, Reed’s paper mill 35 3:31-34

New Hythe, station 20 255 P, 21 686

New London Steam Packet Company 1 6

New Medway Steam Packet Company 15 241-3, 699-701 P

New Medway Steam Packet Company 16 521-2, 526

New Medway Steam Packet Company 3 599-606 P

New Romney 10 689-95 P, 775, 776

New Romney 24 570-8 P, 673-9 P

New Romney 42 3:46-47

New Romney, Anne Durant, epitaph 32 3:31

New Romney, Benjamin Cobb 37 5:15

New Romney, car accident 1927 34 4:32

New Romney, church barrel organ 17 27

New Romney, churches 10 689, 690, 692 P, 693

New Romney, defences 10 179, 181, 195

New Romney, great storm of 1287 34 1:16-20 P

New Romney, Howey, J.E.P. 35 4:30-31 P

New Romney, Joanna Hunt, epitaph 32 3:32-33

New Romney, Kidder murder 35 4:32-35 P

New Romney, Martello towers, William Cobbett 32 2:48

New Romney, monasteries 2 361-2

New Romney, Parliamentary Representation and Local Government 25 37-43 P

New Romney, prison 20 388 P

New Romney, RAF airfield 1 359, 361-2

New Romney, Rhee Wall 34 1:20 P

New Romney, Southlands School 25 752-4 P

New Romney, Southlands School 27 213-216 P

New Romney, St Nicholas Church 25 38 P

New Romney, St Nicholas Church 28 164 P

New Romney, St Nicholas Church 34 1:16-20 P

New Romney, town band 28 166-167 P

New Romney, town hall 25 40 P, 42 P

New Steam Packet Company 1 6

New Theatre, Canterbury 32 5:20-22 P

New Theatre, Tenterden 31 2:10

New Town on the Cliffs, The 42 6:50-51 P

New Zealand, emigration 37 5:44-51 P

Newchurch 16 155, 312 L

Newchurch, RAF airfield 1 359, 362, 364

Newchurch, windmill 16 152 P, 312 L

Newell, Claudio 43 2:46 P

Newell, Edward 19 477

Newell, Isaac 43 2:40-47 P

Newell, Joseph Savage 43 2:41-42

Newell, Mark 42 1:47

Newell’s Old Boys 43 2:40-47 P

Newenden Castle 30 2:29

Newenham, Fulke de 11 519, 520

Newham, James William 23 555-8 P

Newham, sludge vessel 18 536

Newington  (near Sittingbourne) 43 1:22-23 P

Newington near Hythe 13 31

Newington near Hythe 26 698-710 P

Newington near Hythe 7 392-7 P

Newington near Hythe, animal pound 20 662 P, 666

Newington near Hythe, Diamond Jubilee celebrations 12 559

Newington near Hythe, Pound Farm 26 707-08

Newington near Hythe, St Nicholas Church 26 704-05 P

Newington near Sittingbourne 18 347-348 P

Newington near Sittingbourne 23 757 R

Newington near Sittingbourne, basket-making 1 7-8 P

Newington near Sittingbourne, Cranbrook Wood 22 39

Newington near Sittingbourne, dawdling for charity 21 750

Newington near Sittingbourne, devil’s stone legend 31 1:22

Newington near Sittingbourne, priory 2 361, 11 359, 360

Newington near Sittingbourne, St Mary’s Church 22 37, 40

Newington near Sittingbourne, tunnels 23 502

Newington near Sittingbourne, watercress 13 385-7 P

Newington, Joseph T. 24 285

Newington, Ramsgate 16 483

Newington, Ramsgate, St Christopher’s Church 16 483-6 P

Newington, war memorial 40 5:34-35 P

Newman and Sons (Hythe) Ltd 25 199-200 P

Newman, Arthur 19 257

Newman, Edward, naturalist 11 277-82 P

Newman, L. Hugh 20 589-90, 25 593-4

Newman, Leonard Hugh, butterfly farmer 26 645-50 P, 711-18 P

Newman, Roy and Anne 26 640-43 P

Newnham Court, chalk mine 29 4:20

Newnham, Calico Cottage 22 490 P

Newnham, Calico House 25 422 P

Newnham, castle archaeology 36 3:38-43 P

Newnham, Pimm’s 36 4:49-51 P

Newns, Jesse 16 252-3 P

Newport, George 20 No 2 IBC L

Newsham, Richard 36 3:5

Newspapers 38 6:6-7 P

Newspapers, early 23 751

Newspapers, early local 1 122-4

Newspapers, early local 13 745

Newspapers, early local 14 155

Newspapers, early local 17 169-74

Newspapers, early local 28 115-119 P

Newspapers, early local, Faversham 13 746-52 P

Newspapers, early local, in the British Library 3 187

Newspapers, early, East Kent Critic 23 264-73

Newton, Edward Prebble 37 5:46

Newton, John Henry 37 5:47

Newton, Louisa Elizabeth 13 239-46 P

Niagara 22 87-8

Nicholls family, Brabourne 20 130-6 P, 300 P

Nicholls family, Whitstable 32 5:46-50, 32 6:16-21 P

Nicholls, Edward 32 6:20-21 P

Nicholls, George and Sarah 32 5:46-50, 32 6:16-21 P

Nicholls, Henry 32 5:50, 32 6:16-21 P

Nicholls, Horace (photographer)43 6:4-8 P

Nicholls, Percy 14 537-8

Nicholls, Sidney 32 6:19-21

Nicholls, Thomas 32 6:17-18

Nicholls, William 32 6:16-17

Nichols, Neil and Harriet 39 3:5

Nicholsan, Philip 29 3:43-45

Nickolls, Charles John 34 5:44-45

Nickolls, CJ Ltd, Cheriton 34 5:44-45 P

Nickolls, Sidney 19 339-46 P, 415-22 P

Nicks, Master 38 5:50

Niger 18 307

Nigeria, 38 2:30-33

Nightingale, Florence 39 4:22-23

Nightingale, Florence 41 6:31

Nightingale, Florence 42 3:36-39 P

Nightingale, Florence 43 5:44-45

Nightingale, John 25 269

Niki 17 7-8 P

Nissen huts 39 1:36-45

Nissen, Lieutenant-Colonel Peter, huts 18 632 R

Nivernais, Duc de 15 520-1

Noakes, Myee Maplesden 15 153-6 P

Nobbling of horses 20 495

Noble, Walter 18 643-650 P

Noel, Amelia (artist) 37 6:44-45 P

Noel, John (explorer) 44 6:42-49 P

Noel, Sandra 44 6:45-48

Noel, William and Sarah 40 4:26-33 P

Nonington 28 120, 124

Nonington, Chapel 8 596-602 P

Nonington, Fredville Park 28 124

Nora 22 222, 276

Nora disaster 13 592-9 P, No 11 IBC L

Norden, Gerald 37 3:41

Nordish family, Meopham 14 409

Nordish, Henry, butcher 18 548 P

Nore 13 113, 16 66

Nore light ship 34 1:30-38 P, 34 2:10

Nore mutiny 14 333-7 P

Nore mutiny 16 109-11 P, 378 P

Nore mutiny 17 263-8 P, 501-3 L, 581-8 P, 713-6

Nore mutiny 18 501 R

Norman Conquest 44 1:22-29 P

Norman Cycles 15 No 12 IBC L

Norman Cycles 24 107-14 P

Norman family, Bromley 12 465-8 P

Norman invasion 5 224-8

Norman invasion 7 707-12

Norman, Archibald Cameron 39 2:50

Norman, Carl, photographer 20 257

Norman, Frederick Henry 19 504 L

Norman, George Warde 12 464 P, 466-7

Norman, George Warde 39 2:48-50

Normand, Sara 40 3:38-39 P

Normandy, letters from 32 4:13 R

Norman-Neruda, Madame 22 252-3

Norrington, Henry 37 3:55

Norrington, Mildred 29 2:29

Norris, Richard 37 5:46-47

North and South Metropolitan Junction Railway 20 215

North Cray 18 360-366 P, 21 519

North Downs bus service 43 6:30-35 P

North Downs Way 28 124-125

North East Kent constituency 40 1:20-25

North Foreland 10 157-60

North Foreland 11 111, 114, 589

North Foreland 12 576

North Foreland 31 4:40 P

North Foreland light house 21 708–17 P

North Foreland light house 22 46-54 P, 398 P

North Foreland light house 32 2:18-23 P

North Foreland light house, painting 9 676 P

North Foreland Lighthouse 43 3:4-11 P

North Goodwin, light vessel, 19 216-24 P, 297-306 P, 356 P

North Greenwich / Island Gardens station 22 176

North Kent 5 630-1 R

North Kent Gang 16 455-9 P

North Kent Line 22 108, 485

North Kent Marshes 0 55 R

North Kent Railway 0 13

North Kent Railway 11 343

North Kent Railway 14 7

North Kent Railway 15 609

North Kent Railway 19 572

North Kent Railway 20 10 P, 213

North Kent Railway 36 4:15

North Sand Head 19 301

North Star, figurehead 20 111 P

North West Mounted Police 35 5:34-37 P

North Woolwich 12 660

North Woolwich 14 2-11 P

North Woolwich 24 349-58 P

North Woolwich, policing 24 349-358 P, 463-70 P

North Woolwich, railway 9 636

North Woolwich, Royal Pavilion Gardens 24 350, 438 P

North Woolwich, watermen’s stairs 17 151

North Yantlet Creek 15 259, 261 P

North, Lord (landmine victim) 40 6:37-40 P

North, Lord 12 680, 683

North, sailing ship, wrecked on Goodwins, 186629 3:27-29

Northbourne 5 72 P

Northbourne windmill 1 748-9

Northbourne, 4th Lord 41 3:46-47 P

Northcliffe, Lord 9 554-60 P, 696 L

Northcliffe, Viscount 43 3:4-13 P

Northcott, Henry 37 2:6

Northdown 25 137-40 P, 252-3

Northdown, Margate 10 593-600 P

Northdown, Margate, church 10 593-7 P

Northeast Kent writers 23 55 R

Northend Council School, Crayford 23 559-63

Northend School, Crayford 22 707-11

Northern Belle 15 59-60

Northern Belle 6 110-7 P

Northern Belle memorial, Margate 34 2:32-33 P

Northfleet 12 120 R

Northfleet 19 503 R

Northfleet 21 93-97 P

Northfleet 6 241, 258-64

Northfleet, almshouses 21 95–96

Northfleet, Astoria cinema 30 6:34

Northfleet, Botany Marshes 19 630

Northfleet, bridging site 34 2:10 P

Northfleet, cement works 1 463-7 P, 11 294, 295, 298

Northfleet, cement works 21 718

Northfleet, church 6 260 P, 261-3 P

Northfleet, Church of Our Lady of the Assumption 26 511-14 P

Northfleet, Dockyard 17 436-8 P

Northfleet, Dockyard 21 90-92 P, 95, No 2 BC P

Northfleet, Downs Farm 21 247 L

Northfleet, First Scout Group 30 2:8 P

Northfleet, Huggens College 2 571 R

Northfleet, library 23 66 P

Northfleet, Rosherville Gardens 17 68-73 P

Northfleet, Rosherville Gardens 25 291-4 P

Northfleet, shipwreck 10 605-10 P

Northfleet, SS, sinking 32 1:5

Northfleet, Ye Old Leather Bottel public house 24 No 9 IBC P

Northfleet, Ye Old Leather Bottel public house 6 258 P, 264

Northumberland 5 381, 383, 385

Northwood family gravestone 14 263, 266 P

Northwood, Ramsgate, St Mark’s Church 15 144-8 P

Norton family 10 75, 24 535

Norton Knatchbull School 20 287

Norton, Dick ‘Whisper’ 26 205-11 P

Norton, Joseph Edwin 24 535-40 P

Norton, Provender House 36 2:28-32 P

Notitia Dignitatum 19 367

Nottage, Mary 38 5:51

Nouaille family 3 309-11

Noviomagus 22 189

NSPCC 42 3:28-31

Nubian 14 120 L

Nugent, Sir George and Lady 10 279-83 P

Number One, the Thames 35 6:11 P

Nunn, James 37 4:39-40

Nunnery Fields workhouse 18 662-666 P

Nunnery Fields workhouse 27 166-168 P

Nuns 23 759 L

Nurserymen 12 176-81 P, 228-32 P, 275-80 P, 306, 307, No 8 IBC L

Nurserymen 15 90-95 P

Nursing 35 5:22-27 P

Nursing, Second World War 12 68-70

Nursted 8 250-5 P

Nursted, church 8 253

Nursted, Court 8 252-5 P

Nursted, field names 2 320 R

Nurture, Book of 43 4:42

Nutton, Thomas 32 4:16-23 P