I thought we might only be here for 10 years, then would return to the UK. But the longer I live here the more I realize it’s likely I’ll retire and end my days here. Family takes root here, this is the country my daughter is growing up in, the only one she really knows. Y...
Micropubs began life in Kent in the mid-2000s as an alternative to noisy mainstream boozers where the music was too loud, the smell of roasts got up your nostrils and the telly proved too much of a distraction. The first one, the Butcher’s Arms, opened near Canterbury in 2005 and ha...
Ye Olde Watling : Watling street, E.C.4 Watling Street, built by the Romans in perfectly straight sections and the first direct highway from the Kent Coast to North Wales. Watling Street’s route through the City of London is punctuated by St Paul’s Cathedral, which virtually blocks its...
DOVER KENT ARCHIVES This interesting picture of the junction of Priory Place, Worthington Street and Military Road dates from about 1895. In the centre is the milk shop. Here it is pictured when the proprietor was C. Fry who, apart from selling milk products of the Priory Farm dairy, sold ...