Oystertown

Dave Lee MBE

admin — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:18:45 +0000

Dave Lee MBE

It was the summer of 1969 when I first met Dave Legge. Dave worked as a washing machine engineer for the same company that my father worked for as a TV engineer. My father, in an effort to increase his income, purchased two ice-cream vans and Dave helped him out as a driver

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Whitstable in 1907

admin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:09:02 +0000

I bought a map and it arrived today. A map of Whitstable from a survey in 1872, with additions to 1906 and printed in 1907. At a scale of 25 inches to one mile it’s a bit on the large size for scanning at around 40 inches by 30 inches so I guess it will

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A new car for the New Year

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:30:28 +0000

We start 2012 off with a Whitstable Times picture from exactly 50 years ago.

Ford Anglia – I bet these guys thought they had reached the pinnacle of their jobs with these.

Fifty years on: Garage gone, Arthur Collar Ltd gone, Rover gone. Residential flats now where this picture was taken – Tankerton Road, to

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Bullet relics from Seasalter mud-flats

admin — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:12:44 +0000

I was fortunate to be able to purchase these from David Rawkins to ensure they stayed in Whitstable. David collected these in his youth between 1947 and 1953. The collection consists of 40 expended bullets of various calibres (30 lead and 10 with other metal jackets) plus 3 lead bullets which have impacted robustly and

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Whitstable Daily Image

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:00:48 +0000

Zero Knots

Some of us get really into photography, learn every aspect of their camera and then use it to create and display the results as an art form. Some of us purely use a camera to record memories of people, place or events for the family album.

I belong to the second group but in

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Another Whitstable Trade – by John Bevan pt.1

admin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:28:39 +0000

Another Whitstable Trade by John Bevan

Today I had the great pleasure of meeting up once again with Dr. John Bevan of the Historical Diving Society. The occasion was the Whitstable launch, at Whitstable Museum, of his new illustrated book of helmet diving history, very appropriately named “Another Whitstable Trade” – the title Charles Dickens

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Oystertown goes Green

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:17:23 +0000

As you explore Whitstable from the past you soon realise that the early industries here, particularly the Oyster fisheries, were extremely efficient in terms of usage of natural resources – so much so that today they would have been regarded as examples of Green management (no pun intended) at its best.

Oysters themselves help purify the

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Oystertown

admin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:50:04 +0000

Welcome to Oystertown – Whitstable and its people.

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