Slide Collection, Gift to the KAS

The K.A.S. Visual Records Section has been given the collection of photographic slides which belonged to the late George Henry Kent, 1915 - 1993, via the Lamorbey and Sidcup Local History Society. This consists of some 9,000 slides taken around the South, South-East, and South-West Coast of England.

G. H. Kent was born in Fulham but for the greater part of his youth lived at 'The Limes', Bexleyheath. After a career which included that of a Metallurgist at Vickers Armstrong, Crayford, during the war years, he later went on to become a teacher and taught at Westwood School, Welling, and then at Wilmington until his retirement in 1979.

From his days with the scouts, he became a keen walker and walked many miles around the south coast line of England - hence the large slide collection now with the KAS. Iain Foreman, (Visual Records)