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1970s Allington
I moved to 71 Hildenborough Crescent, Allington, Maidstone, Kent in 1973 aged 10 years old.
In the nine years I lived there I saw many changes. Parts of Allington were still being built. There were no houses built in between the frontage of the Mid Kent shopping centre ... it was just waste land later to become Foyle Close. There were no houses built lower than than Lullistone Road down Castle Road. The Quarry was there but still easily accessable down the path behind Fordwich Close. I collected many fossils there. Before the Community Centre was built during the 70s it was just an orchard we used to play in. I remember the swimming pool being built at Allington County primary ...read more here
A memory of Allington contributed by andrew parker
Teacher Mr Charles Dodd
My grandad was a Mr Charles Robert Dodd who taught woodwork up till 1967 at the school from about 1948 till he died in 1967, can anyone remember him?
A memory of Snodland contributed by alexandria wilson
Where I lived in 1960
We moved into the flat above Snodland station on 9th January 1960 (my 8th birthday) and the extreme left upstairs window was the view from our lounge (or, rather - sitting room). I attended Brook Street CoE Primary school from then until 1963, when I moved to the "top school", known then as Snodland County Secondary School. The name change to Holmesdale was fairly soon after that as I recollect.
The lamps on Snodland station in 1960 were gas lit, with a pole to pull down the chain which in turn fired the gas onto the pilot light. Each lamp had to be lit individually - and took a fair time. My father was the Station Master, so I ...read more here
A memory of Snodland contributed by Geoff Whale
Sad Days
Unfortunately Barming doesn't go down well in my memories, I was only a child but I remember going with my dad and brother to what I thought was a hospital but it wasn't, my mother was locked up there several times and I found out much later she is a manic depressive and it was an asylum she was in called Oakwood, does anyone else remember this place?
A memory of Barming contributed by angela smith
Extracts From Aylesford & Kent books
To the west of the A229 is Kent’s most famous Neolithic burial chamber. The capstone measures 13 feet by 9 feet, and the earthen mound, which covered the stones, was 170 feet long. Legend has it that the burial mound was the tomb of Catigern, a British chief killed fighting the Saxons, although it is actually far older.
An extract from from"Ancient Monuments and Stone Circles Photographic Memories".
The ugly iron railings do little to enhance or exploit this fine dolmen; it is sad that it may well be the price society has to pay for preserving one of the oldest man-made monuments in Britain - it dates from about 5,000 years ago.
An extract from from"Ancient Monuments and Stone Circles Photographic Memories".
There has been much debate about the age and significance of these four giant stones a mile north of the village. The most popular theory is that Kit's Coty - 'coty' means 'house' - was the burial place of Catigern, who is said to have fallen fighting the legendary Anglo-Saxon warriors Hengist and Horsa in the Battle of Aylesford in AD 455.
An extract from from"Kent Revisited Photographic Memories".
In the 1930s, traces of the mound covering the stones could still be traced. In the 17th century William Stukeley published a reconstruction of the stones, which were formed into a D-shaped structure. It is reported that a farmer knocked down the stones in 1690. The trees have now been removed.
An extract from from"Ancient Monuments and Stone Circles Photographic Memories".
Beneath a clump of trees near Aylesford, Kent, is a confused group of sarsen stones, some twenty in number, which probably formed a Neolithic burial chamber 5,000 years ago. Now known as Little Kit’s Coty House, the stones were believed to help barren women to conceive. It was also said that you could never count the stones more than once and come to the same total - hence its name.
An extract from from"Ancient Monuments and Stone Circles Photographic Memories".