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Page last updated at 13:07 GMT, Friday, 13 November 2009

Children in 1940
The 'People's War' in Maidstone
During the Battle of Britain between July and October 1940 there were many air raids in Maidstone. They claimed 53 lives.

Berlin Wall in Kent A bit of the Berlin Wall in Kent
Find out why the Royal Engineers 38 Squadron have part of the Berlin Wall at their museum in Gillingham.

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


MORE HISTORY
Ironclad: The siege of Rochester
Restored steam traction engines
Historic buildings seek new life
First to fly across the Channel
Memories of my life as an evacuee
As a nanny Eileen met the famous

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
Charles Darwin's Kent sanctuary

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KCC Archives
Kent History
Tonbridge Historical Society
Canterbury Cathedral
Dover Castle
RAF Manston History Museum
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