Do you know where these pictures were taken?

Among the 20,000 images in our society's Visual Records Collection are hundreds of glass plate negatives dating back to Victorian times. In many cases no written records have survived to identify the places depicted, or to tell us when and by whom the pictures were taken. We believe most of the photographs show locations in Kent – but where? If you recognize any of the buildings in this selection, please contact us on librarian@kentarchaeology.org.uk or write to KAS Library, Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery, St Faith’s Street, Maidstone ME14 1LH.

  1. A handsome mansion, and a church that has both a spire and a tower.
  2. Gardens to the rear of an elegant house. What could be a shopfront just glimpsed through the railings on the left is numbered 130.
  3. Perhaps the interior of St. Mary’s Church, Dock Road, Chatham pictured early in the 20th century. St Mary’s has a Norman arch, like the one of the left, but is that sufficient evidence?
  4. The weatherboarded building sign says Clyde House Laundry.
  5. A substantial parish church - but where?
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