Category: Important Buildings
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Groombridge Place – perfect for children and adults.
A place full of secrets and secrets, where the trees have faces and someone’s eyes look at us from under the pebbles. We went there one morning, hungry for adventure and shade from the hot sun. The weather was great. Groombridge Place is a former manor house, converted into a paradise for children’s imagination.…
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Dancing with the deers in Knole
In 1456, the Archbishop of Canterbury bought a huge estate in southern Kent. He rebuilt the house in the Tudor style at the time, but made it look more like an Oxford University Hall than a residential building. Like this famous university, the manor has two courtyards. The entrance gate leads to the first courtyard…
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Gurudwara, Sikh Temple in Gravesend
Great Britain is a country of multicultural community, people from various parts of the world have been emigrating here for hundreds of years and, many of them, have created here their enclaves, the little substitutes for their countries and cultures. For these people living far away from their families and friends religion became very important…
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AYLESFORD – Fairytale village
Today I was in a fairy tale village, barely a few streets, which comfortably outstretched on the banks of the River Medway, with a beautiful, very old, stone, five spans bridge. In the village, on the main street, some buildings could tell us tales about the times of Elizabeth I. The whole place is dominated…
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Allington Lock
Long time ago I read a book I don’t remember the title anymore, and I don’t even remember what it was about. The only thing left in my memory was that the main character, a teenage boy had to help his family to open locks and the sluices so that the boats could pass. The…
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House Barham in Teston
A young boy hidden behind a tree, quickly pulls the rope in his hand. There is a strange scream, a clatter and the boy triumphantly jumps out of his hiding place. At the other end of the rope is a prey, a medium-sized faky bird. A happy boy grabs him under his arm, but unfortunately…
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