About Gravesend

Hi. Does anyone know what the business was before the KFC in Valley drive parade. If anyone has any photos of that area in the 60's, 70's would love to see them x

I was born in Gravesend in 1944 and lived there until 1962. I attended Shorne School, Higham School, Gordon School, Gravesend Technical School, Wombwell Hall. My grandparents ran the off licence in Bath Street for many years, where I lived after leaving Shorne.

my dad is 100 years of age (july 30th 20011) and he was brought up in singlewell rd where we went as kids to see my grandma and grandad very happy memories about the "garden of england"
and the royal daffodil boat to margate,ramsgate ?

I'd like to hear from anyone who was born around 1962-67 and went to Milton primary school. I grew up around the prospect place area and attended Milton and Gordon high school.
I was in the class of 1979.

Thanks

I created a site on Facebook entitled.
Gravesend yesteryear...There is over 600 photograghs , postcards etc of gravesend
Videos , pathe news reels ....at over 800 members please feel free to take a look and also perhaps join the site and share it with other resdients past and present .....

Hey, great site, love the pictures
regards

Tony

Lived in Gravesend and Istead Rise between '57' and '69',two siblings born in Kent Road. Fond memories of my childhood there and sailing in the shipping lanes off Tilbury with my grandfather in his Mirror '10' dinghy. But some posts suggest that I am better anywhere but Gravesend, and that is so very sad.Still love the pictures of Gravesend in her former glory and can only hope what's left can be retained.

Hi, I came to your website via a post on Kent Chaos about Dutch rescue tugs by a lady called Cora van der Veere. I would like to make contact with her if I can as my uncle then Sub Lt F J Palmer RNVR was the RN Liaison Officer on the "Amsterdam" with Capt Dekoe, my cousin, his son, remembers Capt Dekoe and also Capt Haart or Haars of the "Thames". Also, living at Dungeness I am interested in the loss of the "Roode Zee" 2.2 statute miles SE of Dungeness Point with all her Dutch crew and some RN seaman including her Liaison Officer.

Fascinating website, I'm just starting a university dissertation involving the history of Gravesend over the last 100 years. Your pictures were a nice motivator :) Thanks!

I would just like to say ..i like this site but if you have access to facebook , please take a look at one of my sites about gravesend..theres over 300 old photographs of gravesend as well as old pathe news videos ...
its called...Gravesend Yesteryear