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Showing posts with label Cuxton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cuxton. Show all posts
Friday, 23 June 2023

The Lady Harley Memorial...

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Perhaps one of the most striking artefacts in Cuxton’s history is also one of the hardest to find and appreciate. Hidden away on the south-w...
Tuesday, 16 May 2023

Church Hill...

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 The buttercups were out... Panorama form Upper Church Hill.... The above shot took several goes as the area is fenced off and I am too old ...
Sunday, 25 December 2022

Cuxton Station...

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The South Eastern Railway Company received authority to build the railway line from Maidstone to Strood in 1853, with Cuxton Station opening...
Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Cherry blossom, Cuxton library...

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 Cuxton library's cherry tree seldom fails to deliver its Spring cheeriness...
Tuesday, 1 March 2022

What Goes Around...

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Upper Bush in summer, before the vineyard... Events in the Ukraine today seem to mirror those in Czechoslovakia in 1939. After nearly 80 y...
Tuesday, 22 February 2022

Lost Livelihoods: Smelt Fishing...

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Fishing for smelt at Whornes Place, c.1910. The Halling Lime and Cement (Trechman and Weekes)  works is on the left, with the Wickham Cement...
Sunday, 23 January 2022

Vanished Cuxton: Brickhouse Farm...

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Brickhouse Farm, Bush Road, Cuxton, c.1920... The picture above shows Brickhouse Farm it as it was in around 1920, with a front extension fa...
Monday, 20 December 2021

Vanished Cuxton: Canon Shaw's Rectory...

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Today's Cuxton Rectory, pictured in 1965 just after completion The current Cuxton Rectory (pictured above) is a pleasant modern-looking ...