Herne Bay

A little bit off the isle, but only just, today's trip down memory lane is from a glas slide I got at a recent auction (the only Kent one in over 100 slides, sadly...). It shows Herne Bay in the 1880s or 1890s with the Dolphin Hotel in the foreground and the clocktower further back. Boats on the beach, as they are today, and loads of people just, well, standing there...




Amongst the slides were a large collection on Western Australia, mostly gold mining in Kalgoorlie but also some farming life images. Here's my favourite, some well-behaved horses waiting and looking both ways at a railway crossing, because the sign tells them to...

I expect these are all heading for eBay shortly, but they're nice to have and look at even for a short while...