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Classic pictures from Kent towns in the 1980s

Classic pictures from Kent towns in the 1980s

12 June 2021

Can you spot yourself or someone you know in these amazing photographs taken across the county during the 1980s?

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Classic pictures from Kent towns in the 1990s

Classic pictures from Kent towns in the 1990s

24 April 2021

Join 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?

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1980s vs 2020s: How things have changed

1980s vs 2020s: How things have changed

27 January 2021

Advances in technology mean our lives have changed dramatically over the last four decades - here we take a look at some of the biggest differences.

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Survivor's remarkable memories of Titanic disaster

Survivor's remarkable memories of Titanic disaster

19 May 2020

A nine-year-old boy found his life forever changed after his family and friends boarded the fateful maiden voyage of the doomed ocean liner.

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Margate: boom or bust?

Margate: boom or bust?

10 March 2020

Despite its apparent transformation, business in the town might not be as good as you think

The village in the middle of Bomb Alley

The village in the middle of Bomb Alley

25 June 2019

Marden received more than its fair share of doodlebugs during the war.

'I lay on the ground with my parents on top of me'

'I lay on the ground with my parents on top of me'

25 June 2019

Graham Elliott was just three when he was caught up in a devastating explosion in Dartford, which claimed 10 lives.

'Four people had been killed'

'Four people had been killed'

25 June 2019

Harry Pierce and his family had a lucky escape when a doodlebug plunged into a nearby street.

'Dad told me bugs were taking soldiers home'

'Dad told me bugs were taking soldiers home'

25 June 2019

As 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'

'The family next door just disappeared'

25 June 2019

Malcolm Hodge was four when he saw a doodlebug which wrecked a street in Frindsbury.

'The milkman scooped us up'

'The milkman scooped us up'

25 June 2019

Kent woman Helen Mill remembers having a ringside view of doodlebugs falling on London when she was a girl.

'Woman and child first? Not likely'

'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'

'When night fell, everything changed'

25 June 2019

Pitch 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'

'You would pray for it to keep going'

25 June 2019

In 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...'

'If they got us they got us...'

25 June 2019

Patrick Wicker showed no fear when the doodlebugs soared over the Medway Towns.

'The Doodlebug fell - and I ran for my life'

'The Doodlebug fell - and I ran for my life'

25 June 2019

When the doodlebug stopped overhead, little Joy Muggridge ran for her life.

'I found an intact Doodlebug'

'I found an intact Doodlebug'

25 June 2019

When 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'

'All you could see were bottoms sticking in the air'

25 June 2019

June 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'

'Look out, the bug has got its a**e on fire'

25 June 2019

Bernard Crowhurst was nine during the doodlebug summer and recalls watching flying bombs come over his childhood home.

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'Uncle Reg dived for cover under the bed!'

'Uncle Reg dived for cover under the bed!'

25 June 2019

Pat Miles recalls how her family had a near miss when the doodlebugs first hit Gravesend.

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