Keywords: Eddington Kent 1907 002.jpg Tinted postcard of Eddington Herne Bay Kent England Postmarked Herne Bay Au 2 07 The picture shows the original village or hamlet long before the area became a suburb of Herne Bay Publisher Milton's Gazette series Most of the buildings in the photo still exist The site is on the east side of the Canterbury Road A299 just north of Priory House at the southern end of Eddington Points of interest The house in the foreground is in the Kentish vernacular style with limewashed weatherboarding but the taller houses are late Victorian There is no footpath There is a working woman in white apron in a doorway a woman standing in the street and a person in the garden behind the white picket gate Further along the street is a cart Note the striped yellow window blinds on the Victorian house The orange-red roofs of the buildings in the foreground are pan-tiled The site is the Canterbury Road looking north Scan of original postcard in my possession 1907 anon out of copyright PD-old-70-1923 Historical images of Eddington Kent Postcards of Kent 1900s postcards |