EditorialPaper-making by hand at Hollingworth's Turkey Mill, Maidstone. Workers making sheets of rag paper and drying them. Woodblock engraving from the Penny Magazine, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1833.
EditorialTriumphal Arch erected at Maidstone . Triumphal Arch erected at Maidstone in honour of the King, and under which H.M. passed to review the Kent Volunteers at Mote Park, Aug. 1st, 1799. Source: Maps K.Top.17.2.2.o. Language: English.
EditorialMonstrous child. The forme and shape of a Monstrous Child, borne at. Iohn Awdeley: London, 1568. Description of a monstrous child born at Maidstone. Image taken from The forme and shape of a Monstrous Child, borne at Maydstone in Kent, the xxxiiij. of...
Editorial'An emblematical Representation of the Game of Cricket'. New articles of the game of cricket, as settled and revised at the Star and Garter, Pall-Mall, February the 25th, 1774; by a committee of noblemen and gentlemen of Kent, &c. Embellished with a ne...
EditorialOn this occasion 5319 volunteers dined at the tables after having been reviewed by his Majesty on the 1st of Augt, 1799, at his Lordship's Seat near Maidstone. To the Right Honourable Lord Romney, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Kent, &c. &c.. This re...
EditorialMaidstone theatre. Buildings in the town. . The Theatric Tourist. London 1805. Image from The Theatric Tourist; being a genuine collection of views, with brief accounts of all the principal provincial theatres in the United Kingdom. By a Theatric Amate...
EditorialA Distant View of Maidstone, from Lower Bell Inn, Boxley Hill. Date/Period: 1802. Painting. Gouache and watercolor over graphite on medium, cream, moderately textured laid paper. Height: 559 mm (22 in); Width: 775 mm (30.51 in).
EditorialPaper-making by hand at Hollingworth's Turkey Mill, Maidstone. Workers making sheets of rag paper and drying them. Woodblock engraving from the Penny Magazine, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1833.
EditorialAnne Mills, woman who served as a common sailor on board the frigate HMS Maidstone in a sea battle against the French. Depicted holding a cutlass and the severed head of a Frenchman. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Ch...
EditorialOPENING OF THE MAIDSTONE BRANCH RAILWAY, OPENING OF THE BRANCH RAILWAY FROM THE DOVER LINE TO MAIDSTONE, 1844, SEPTEMBER 28; Newton, of Wingham, writing of the "King's town" of Maidstone, in 1741, says, "The country almost every where round the town is...
EditorialCharles Dickens, from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall, 1 December, 1855. . Memoir of Charles Dickens. . The lives of men of genius when happy, are ordinarily uneventful. It may, perhaps, be one of the reaspms for the paucity of materials available for...