Showing posts with label Kent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kent. Show all posts
30 August 2018

Pebbleart Preston at Ashford, Kent

›
This delightful handpainted pebble originates from Pebbleart Preston, a Facebook site. I found it on a small car park bollard outside th...
31 May 2018

Wasted Rock Rangers in Folkestone, Kent

›
Now, anyone who even considered that Folkestone, Kent, UK, is a dull place deserves a very good talking to. There we were in Folkestone y...
15 August 2016

Derek Jarman's garden, Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, Kent

›
Prospect Cottage near Dungeness power station, which belonged to Derek Jarman (1942–94), and is noted for its bizarre garden. Shingle su...
13 August 2016

Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson at Sissinghurst Castle, Sissinghurst, Kent

›
In 1930 Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) and her husband Harold Nicolson (1886–1968) bought Sissinghurst Castle and its extensive surroundin...
1 comment:
12 August 2016

Literary connections of Romney Marsh, New Romney, Kent

›
'Library Mural Literary Connections of Romney Marsh Artists Paula MacArthur and Alison Stump' The mural at the side ...
11 August 2016

Derek Jarman's grave, Old Romney, Kent

›
Just a simple signature without his dates. Derek Jarman (1942–94) was a film director, gardener (a post on Prospect Cottage to follow s...
10 August 2016

Nicolsons in Sissinghurst Cemetery, Kent

›
Sissinghurst Cemetery isn't obviously  locatable: it's very near to the parish church, but not reachable from it, and there's...
8 August 2016

Simone Weil in Ashford, Kent

›
SIMONE WEIL 3 février 1909 24 ao ût 1943 'IN 1942 SIMONE WEIL JOINED THE PROVISIONAL FRENCH GOVERNMENT IN LONDON ...
7 comments:
4 June 2016

Samuel Peto and H. G. Wells in Folkestone, Kent

›
As non-purpose-built pubs go, the Samuel Peto in Rendezvous Street, Folkestone, Kent, must surely rate as one of the most impressive in th...
18 September 2012

William Morris in Bexleyheath, Kent: London #30

›
 ' RED HOUSE built in 1859–1860 by Philip Webb, architect, for WILLIAM MORRIS poet and artist who lived here 1860–1865'   For Dante ...