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Chilham Castle is a manor house and keep in the village of Chilham

Chilham Castle is a manor house and keep in the village of Chilham, between Ashford and Canterbury in the county of Kent, England
The Norman keep of the Castle, the oldest building in the village, dates from 1174
The Jacobean building, within sight of the "Old Castle", was completed in 1616 for Sir Dudley Digges on a hexagonal plan, with five angled ranges and the sixth left open.
Circa 1935

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This Blackburn Kangaroo biplane - a former WW1 bomber - which was purchased by explorer

This Blackburn Kangaroo biplane - a former WW1 bomber - which was purchased by explorer Captain Wilkins in 1919, later Sir Hubert Wilkins, to compete in an air race sponsored by the Australian Government.
A prize of £10,000 was being offered for the first All-Australian crew to fly from England to Australia. Piloted by Lieutenants Val Rendle and D R Williams, with Wilkins as navigator and Lieutenant Potts the engineer, the aircraft left Hounslow in West London on 21st November 1919 but suffered a serious oil leak on 8th December and returned to Suda Bay, Crete where the flight was abandoned.
The Blackburn Aircraft Company

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Owing to the diminishing coal supplies and bad weather, deliveries of coal to

Owing to the diminishing coal supplies and bad weather, deliveries of coal to the housewife have been slowed down and many are trekking with prams and wheelbarrows to coal wharfs and gas works for coke, (officially being allowed to take away one hundred weight). These pictures were taken at the West Kesington coal dock where housewives and childern are seen every morning taking away coal. January 1951 P017814

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