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Public thanks for Victoria Cross hero with poem
03 January 2019How to honour a VC hero was the question circulating Sittingbourne when the town learned of Lieut Donald Dean’s bravery at Christmas, 1918.
Survivors tell of bombing horror
30 December 2018Residents have recalled the death and destruction caused by a lone bomber days before Christmas.
Builder's Grand plan to outdo neighbour
12 December 2018An iconic fixture of the town's coastline, The Grand features in Martin Easdown's recent book Fashionable Folkestone.
'We saw a plane and heard a bang'
11 December 2018Fifteen-year-old Peter Rainer was one of the first on the scene when a bomber crashed near Ashford in the Second World War.
The story of the giant lace panel
11 December 2018It could not be more prominently displayed but how many people stop to look at a lace panel hanging in the reception of Sheppey Healthy Living Centre?
The reality of first post-war Christmas 100 years ago
10 December 2018Three weeks after the euphoria of the Armistice, many families mourned losses as they approached their first Christmas after the First World War.
The last of the family to catch shrimps on the river
10 December 2018A daughter recounts the work of her father, the last of her family to fish a river before the the ancient industry became commercially unviable.
Kent stars from a bygone era
08 December 2018Audrey Hepburn and Peter Cushing are among the stars of black and white films who lived in Kent.
Town that's always changing
05 December 2018A look at a town's streets which have changed beyond recognition in the last few decades.
Changing faces of Halfway House
29 November 2018From a pub to a meze, the wind of change has been blowing through Halfway in recent times.
A walk through Sittingbourne in days gone by
29 November 2018A business man, who spotted society's move from horses to motor cars, has had his writings put into a book.
The changing faces of city centre church
28 November 2018Pictures of a church built in 1853 where a shopping centre now stands.
The changing faces of city centre church
28 November 2018Pictures of a church built in 1853 where a shopping centre now stands.
How town got through the war
27 November 2018It was business as usual for those who lived through the war years, with pride and determination coming as standard against the enemy.
Fishing for a little history
26 November 2018Take a journey back in time to the time with old fishing families on the Medway.
'Breakfast in Deal, lunch and tea in France and then back to Deal for supper!'
23 November 2018The Queen of the Channel was just one of the vessels used to take holidaymakers on a holiday to the continent.
How blaze-hit supermarket looked 30 years ago
22 November 2018This photograph shows a distinctive fire-hit supermarket when it opened as a Safeway superstore in the late 80s.
Medway's memories of the First World War
20 November 2018How Medway counted the cost of all-out war
Remembering the summer camps of the 1970s
20 November 2018Looking back at Sheerness summer fun.
The rise and fall of Abbott's Mill
20 November 2018We look back at Abbott's Mill, which was destroyed in a huge blaze in 1933.
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