Do you live in Kent?

Hi, I live in Paddock Wood, Kent---a lot of familar names from round here, I have seen. Tunbridge Wells--strangely no tonbridge--Coxheath, Pembury, Yalding. I used to live in West London, then moved to Welling in Kent. But I have been in Paddock Wood for 40 years, apart from 1 year when we moved back to Welling, realised we had made a mistake, so moved back as fast as we could ! I love it here. It is relatively small, but has everything, including trains-50 minutes to London. Easy access to Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone.
But growing all the time. !

Hello! I'm in Westgate on Sea - anyone else around here?

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Thank you Nina. Have only just found your message. Having joined up I'm not sure what to do next.....Not on Facebook or Twitter etc [Confused]

Welcome Bertie I'm in Sheppey.

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I'm in Tunbridge Wells - just joined. It all looks very complicated to the newcomer....

I am in Sittingbourne. Went to school here. Born in Lynsted, not far away, moved with parents to Teynham. Family roots are here and around, so doing Ancestry is interesting

Hi Susan2014, and welcome. You`re right, Deal is a nice little seaside town. We`ve only been once, on a trip out when we stayed at St. Margaret`s Bay, but we really liked it, and there`s a great fish and chip shop not far off the sea front! Liked the shops as well. Wouldn`t mind going back there.
Hello to Pennyh47 as well!

Hi jcdoh. Yes have done a bit of ancestry, have gone back to 1745 I think. It's been sometime since I looked. winter is coming and will be back on the case no doubt.

Don't have any grandchildren yet but have one on the way. Exciting but
they live in Worcestershire, so won't be hands on sadly.

Also love to travel and watch historical progs. Were off to Alaska next May.Can't wait.

Hi, I'm from Deal, nice little seaside town.

I may be the newest member joined about ten minutes ago.

Originally from London have moved about a lot during my sixty odd years
looking forward to more chats.

Lovely to see all these village/town names again. I am an Essex girl who moved to Kent on marriage - we lived in East Malling just for a few weeks, then Borough Green and lastly East Peckham. My dd was born at Pembury Hospital in 1973 and then we had two weeks in the lovely Tunbridge Wells Maternity Home. I feel so sorry for today's mums who go home the day after birth with no advice. We had lessons in bathing baby, changing nappies and lots of bed rest too. Sorry - gone off topic too much but I loved my early years in Kent. The village greens, apple orchards and strawberry picking in fields. We moved to the Isle of Wight in 1975 and still love it here.

Hi all I was born and bred in London then moved to Sidcup when we bought our first house, then to Green St Green near Farnborough Village where I raised my kids and which I loved. However, after my divorce had to move again and ended up in St Pauls Cray near Orpington. Then met my partner over 6 years ago and sold my house, retired and moved in with him in his house in Tunbridge Wells. Love living here and love being retired. Also think we have the best weather in the UK such as it is. Just joined this site

I grew up in Yalding and went to school in East Malling and Wateringbury.....lived in the NW for over 40 years now

hi nanapug and sandra, I too live in Gillingham kent, born Rochester ;
rotten weather here this past year !
I am a gt nan with 1 gt grandson and 9 g/children; eldest D/D lives usa.
me - quite healthy and mobile, but deaf; retired, like travel, and historic progs; midwife on call, Selfridges ; old films from pre 60,s including those Disney ones lol. lets hear more from your lives ?

I would do it if I still lived in Kent. I only left 14 years ago (only!) and I really miss it, especially since my daughter and GCs and very best and oldest friends are there.

I hate the traffic there, though. We have about a tenth as much in Suffolk.

Hello,
I lived near Canterbury for nearly 40 years mainly in Chartham
I worked at Chartham paper mill for about 35 years

sunshine hi I am a Medway citizen, yes born and bred also most of ancestors too; but in 1600/1700s families came from Ireland
grand age of seventy;
do any of you do tracing of ancestors ? it would be fun to make contact in new year --perhaps share an interest?
meet up in some half-way café, garden centre or such ?

I am sure lots of us enjoy looking around new areas. specially now with our bus passes wink brew grin.

though my big problem regards socializing is my deafness ; no phone calls -but text on mobile, and email.

looking forward to sharing more blogs/message with you all

I live very very close to Leeds castle too.

I'm on the Surrey/Kent borders - I live in Shirley, Surrey, but we're minutes away from West Wickham. We sometimes go to West Malling - there's a lovely place there called The Swan and we go to the Bazaar in the barn there when it's on. Love the Weald and often visit the countryside round about. Anyone near Ightham or Penshurst? Or Bromley?

Reviving this thread purely because it was so nice to see all the names again. I was born and brought up in Kent and my daughter moved back there when she left Uni, to Maidstone. I moved around a fair bit while I was there - most of my life was spent in Tunbridge Wells but I also lived in Bromley, Knockholt, Maidstone, Pratt's Bottom (I know...) Leeds, (No not that one) Headcorn, Coxheath, Linton, Chainhurst and all over the country after that. I would love to return, but rarely manage more than a couple of nights a year down there as my house is larger than my daughter's and they all come up here to stay. I would find it hard to pick an area, but I always thought that one day I would retire to either Cranbrook, Tenterden or just over the border into Winchelsea or Rye. My mother lives in Battle and I miss the whole area so much, especially all of my old friends who I rarely get to see. Time and distances have reduced us to birthday cards and Christmas cards and the odd email, with very little time for longer visits and their ill health making me feel very guilty at times for having moved away from the area. I don't think we could afford to live down there again, at least not in such a nice house.

I miss being able to stand in my friend's field and count seven different oast houses as I turn in a circle.

I live in Boston, we were on a few days holiday at St. Margarets-at-Cliff, and drove into Folkestone because we`d been told about the market by friends on Sheppey. Afraid we didn`t rate the place itself very much, but I believe there`s been some re-juvenation since then? Plus it was raining, which didn`t help much.

Yes there is a market on Sunday on the seafront. WE prefer to go to car boots .They are cheaper went to one at Hythe on Sunday Where do you live now

Good afternoon Ladies.
I live at Horn's Cross, between Dartford and Gravesend.
Bluewater Shopping Centre is about 100 yds from our back garden , but we have over a mile to reach there by car!
Stone Castle is nearby and Stone Church is 13th century, built by the builders of Westminster Abbey. It is known as the "Lantern of Kent" as it was used for navigation by river traffic.
The Church recently had a new peal of six bells.(We are still collecting for them, along with a new Church Room!)
If you are interested, the Email addy is [email protected]

Welcome alana2003. Only been to Folkestone once, it was on a Sunday, and there was a great market on the seafront.