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Audio slideshow: Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin (Photo Getty Images)
Darwin wrote most of 'On the Origin of Species' at Down House in Kent. He lived there for 40 years.

28 Palace Street, Canterbury Audio slideshow: the leaning building
At the end of Palace Street in Canterbury is a remarkable building with a rather alarming lean. How is it still standing?

A Roman bust In pictures: Lullingstone Villa
Nestled in the beautiful Darent Valley is Lullingstone one of the most outstanding surviving Roman villas in Britain.


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A bit of the Berlin Wall in Kent
Ironclad: The siege of Rochester
Restored steam traction engines
First to fly across the Channel
Memories of my life as an evacuee
As a nanny Eileen met the famous

The 'People's War' in Maidstone
King Henry VIII's Kentish roots
Canterbury in the 1920s
Did the internet start in Kent?
Stationed at Kingsnorth air base
Day trip to Dymchurch in the 30s

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