coldwetnose (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
4Pawz&More Rescue are desperately seeking foster homes. Here's their appeal: We need to find foster spaces for 12 dogs this week we have so far been asked to help and this is without helping those that have come from local pounds and other rescues needing help. Could you help foster a dog or puppy and help assess, train and love it as one of your own so it can find a forever home of its own ? Do...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Despite a rumoured sighting of Samuel L Jackson in a Herne Bay barbers, it's fair to say that the Kent coast has some way to go before it rivals the Italian Riviera as a tourist destination. Anyone who, like Billericay Dickie, fancied a rendezvous with Janet quite near the Isle of Thanet would hardly be spoilt for choice when it came to boutique hotels and atmospheric local bistros.
Peter Gander Paintings (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
A bit of background to the two latest paintings first. The Maunsell Sea Forts in the Thames and Mersey estuary are a series of small fortified towers built a few miles from shore during World War II to help defend the UK and especially London, during The Blitz. The Thames estuary was seen as a chink in the British armoury as it provided a relatively smooth path to London for the German airforce to...
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Between 1920 and 1959, Croydon Aerodrome was the launch pad for various airborne adventures, including Amy Johnson's 1930 flight from from Croydon to Australia (the first woman to make this flight). Most of the site has been redeveloped, but there are still traces of it. Anarchist Ian Bone is evidently a fan and has a couple of good photos of a recent event there. In 1938 another sometime anarchist...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
From ruined churches to haunted henges, we list Britain's most macabre places to scare yourself this Halloween Dorset: supernatural spirits at Knowlton church The ruin of Knowlton church, a few miles north of Wimborne Minster, is one of the most atmospheric places in Dorset, not to mention reputedly one of the most haunted. Originally constructed in the 12th century within the earthworks of a Bronze...
No Night Flights (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Manston a.k.a. Kent International Airport is an ex-RAF base in north-east Kent, just west of Ramsgate. It passed from the RAF to Wiggins, then PlaneStation, owners of EUJet (a budget passenger airline). EUJet went bust, and in August 2005 the administrators sold Manston to Infratil, a New Zealand-based multi-national infrastructure investor. The airport is mainly used for flying clubs, testing and...
No Night Flights (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
As an antidote to the heavily skewed, unfounded and wishful PR prattle that the ever-supportive Brazier presented to Louise Ellman (chair of the Transport Committee), we sent her the following: Julian Brazier has written to you claiming that there is widespread public support for more use to be made of Manston airport (Kent International Airport). There isn’t. Thanet County Council supports the...
Cryptozoology Online: Daily News (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
The Kent Bat group have recently received a grant of over £5,000 from the Big Lottery Fund to build a Kent Bat Rehabilitation Centre in partnership with Wildwood Trust. The first part of the construction has just started at the discovery park, situated just outside Canterbury, with a piece of woodland being marked out to take the new enclosure. The aim of the rehabilitation centre is to help...
Cryptozoology Online: Daily News (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
A locally important nature reserve and local wildlife site Wraik Hill is being helped by Konik horses. In a partnership between Kent Wildlife Trust who manage the reserve and the Wildwood Trust who run another five herds of wild horses throughout Kent will see the horses grazing areas of the reserve to keep the grass short and allow a wide range of grassland species to grow, which in turn will increase...
nufc1892 blog on Absolute Radio (Free subscription) | 24/08/2009
A teenage girl who got her head stuck between rocks on a beach as the tide came in was rescued by firefighters after a passerby was alerted to her plight by the sight of her pink socks. Derek Champ was walking along Herne Bay seafront with a friend and heard cries for help but he was not able to locate where they were coming from until noticing the pink socks as her legs flailed above the rocks with...
Thanet coast life (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
During the late 1890's up until the first world war our corner of East Kent stretching as far as Herne Bay, Canterbury and Deal supported as many as seventy mineral companies of all sizes supplying the huge number of visitors to the area . As mentioned earlier the Margate mineral water trade was dominated by three families, the Reeve"s, Harlow's and Barrett's. In a previous item I mentioned M.J....
Songline On Sea (Free subscription) | 17/08/2009
I cannot believe how kind the weather has been for some time now. The last wet day was way back at Littlehampton so most of Sussex and all of Kent has been not just dry but hot and sunny as today was. It was the shortest of walks today, less than six miles so we did everything at leisure, beginning with breakfast. Sue and her guide dog joined Jean and I travelling down on the 4A bus from Canterbury...
Heronfield (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Well I am returning to my blogasphere hoping to produce something of interest. I was told by one eminent member of the twitter fraternity blog as if you were talking to a friend. OK you dear friend, whoever you are,are about to get an ear bashing...some of you may know I moved to Herne Bay last December..to prepare for retirement...yeah I know the jokes. I live a constant battle to achieve a work life...
Time for Change: Campaign for an Independent Green... (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
And the people of Ramsgate, Herne Bay, Broadstairs, Deal, Canterbury, Wye, Dover, several villages and the water supply from each flight by Infratil at Manston.A report on the effects of aviation fuel - especially at low level - on the population: worth remembering that Thanet has a - specialist - cancer hospital and an 11 year early death rate.You die at 69 in Thanet but 80 in the rest of Kent:
Whitstable, UK, Sea Views Live Webcam (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
This coming weekend sees the return of Whitstable & Herne Bay Lions Club Regatta held on Tankerton slopes overlooking the sea. The event starts 11o'clock on Saturday and finishes about 5 o'clock on Sunday 9th August. This is a fantastic weekend event with fair ground rides, sailing races, food stalls, a fly past by Team Guinot Wingwalkers and a fireworks display on Saturday evening. Location of...
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