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Classic pictures from Kent towns in the 1970s
28 August 2021Can you spot yourself or someone you know in these amazing photographs taken across the county during the 1970s?
Classic pictures from Kent towns in the 1980s
12 June 2021Can you spot yourself or someone you know in these amazing photographs taken across the county during the 1980s?
Classic pictures from Kent towns in the 1990s
24 April 2021Join us on a stroll down memory lane, looking back at the shops, pubs and famous faces in our towns in the 1990s. Can you spot yourself?
1980s vs 2020s: How things have changed
27 January 2021Advances in technology mean our lives have changed dramatically over the last four decades - here we take a look at some of the biggest differences.
Survivor's remarkable memories of Titanic disaster
19 May 2020A nine-year-old boy found his life forever changed after his family and friends boarded the fateful maiden voyage of the doomed ocean liner.
Margate: boom or bust?
10 March 2020Despite its apparent transformation, business in the town might not be as good as you think
The village in the middle of Bomb Alley
25 June 2019Marden received more than its fair share of doodlebugs during the war.
'I lay on the ground with my parents on top of me'
25 June 2019Graham Elliott was just three when he was caught up in a devastating explosion in Dartford, which claimed 10 lives.
'Four people had been killed'
25 June 2019Harry Pierce and his family had a lucky escape when a doodlebug plunged into a nearby street.
'Dad told me bugs were taking soldiers home'
25 June 2019As a happily naive seven-year-old, Wouldham resident David Doye had no idea about the bleak purpose of a V1s.
'The family next door just disappeared'
25 June 2019Malcolm Hodge was four when he saw a doodlebug which wrecked a street in Frindsbury.
'The milkman scooped us up'
25 June 2019Kent woman Helen Mill remembers having a ringside view of doodlebugs falling on London when she was a girl.
'Woman and child first? Not likely'
25 June 2019"A doodlebug gave me one of my least finest moments," recalls author Alan Bignell.
'When night fell, everything changed'
25 June 2019Pitch black nights, sunny days in the garden and a potty in the night shelter is what Alan Bye remembers of the Doodlebug summer.
'You would pray for it to keep going'
25 June 2019In 1944, at the age of six and not being an evacuee, Brian Goodhew got used to watching the doodlebugs coming over at all times of the day.
'If they got us they got us...'
25 June 2019Patrick Wicker showed no fear when the doodlebugs soared over the Medway Towns.
'The Doodlebug fell - and I ran for my life'
25 June 2019When the doodlebug stopped overhead, little Joy Muggridge ran for her life.
'I found an intact Doodlebug'
25 June 2019When a doodlebug hit the ground, it would blow into smithereens, all too often leaving a trail of destruction.
'All you could see were bottoms sticking in the air'
25 June 2019June Mackenzie remembers having to take shelter beneath her desk during a maths exam bombers flew over Canterbury.
'Look out, the bug has got its a**e on fire'
25 June 2019Bernard Crowhurst was nine during the doodlebug summer and recalls watching flying bombs come over his childhood home.
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