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Thereafter, he became a regular contributor of articles to the journal and to its successor, 'All the Year Round', using the kind of humorous and graphically detailed style favoured by its editor...

Irving, himself the son of the famous Sir Henry Irving, spent summers and weekends at the windmill on Borstal Hill, after his parents bought it at the beginning of the 1900s...

In one spot, a few yards out at sea, high and dry at low water, were the remains of an old hulk, whose wooden ribs stood out weirdly like the skeleton of some huge sea-beast...

The former route of the ‘Crab and Winkle’ line has now been made into a cycle route linking Canterbury and Whitstable...

He rented Tankerton Tower (later Whitstable Castle) for several weeks in the summer and autumn of 1895, spending his time writing and resting...