Whitstable Harbour

“Living in Whitstable with its pebbled beach, harbour and varied demographic of locals and newcomers always made Pearl question the point of  paying for a summer break elsewhere…”

Photograph © 2017 WDK

Dead Man’s Corner

“The  crowds had now moved on to the large south facing deck  at Dead Man’s Corner which was fulfilling its new purpose as a stage,…”

Photograph © 2017 Jane Bowell

Beach huts on Tankerton Slopes

“…Pearl took the opposite direction, casting her eye over a colony of beach hut whose brightly painted decks and porches pointed straight out to sea….”

Photograph © 2017 WDK

Fish Slappers

“Dolly had once rehearsed there with an eccentric group of women dancers known as the Fish Slappers…….”

Photograph © 2017 Jane Bowell

Starboard Light Alley and the The Favourite

“…she ducked quickly into the darkness of Starboard Light Alley where, at the side of her own cottage, an old oyster yawl sat permanently moored…”

Photograph © 2017 WDK

The Street (of Stones)

“No-one could say for certain how this spit of shingle had sprung into existence: some believed it to be the remains of a Roman road built on land that had subsequently been surrendered to the sea…”

Photograph © 2017 Peter Tarry

The Beach at Seasalter

“Although Seasalter lay only two miles west of Whitstable and boasted a fine Michelin-starred restaurant in an old coastal pub, it always seemed to Pearl to be an isolated spot.”

Photograph © 2017 WDK

The Old Neptune Pub

“The Neppy as it was known locally, stood in defiance of the elements, immortalised in many paintings, its foundations shifting over the years to support a sloping floor on which customers would appear either giants or Lilliputians depending on which end of the bar they happened to stand….”

Photograph © 2017 Simon J Dunn

The Labour Club

“As she walked across the lawn towards Windsor House, the music from the Labour Club faded into the distance…”

The Buttermarket at Canterbury

“The old marketplace in front of the Cathedral had long since lost its former name of the Bullstake….”

Photograph © 2017 WDK

Squeeze Gut Alley

“Squeezegut as the name suggested, sliced a quick and narrow route through to a row of dwellings a stretch of road known as Island Wall….”

Photograph © 2017 WDK

Grotters on Reeves Beach

“…scores of tiny flames glowing in the darkness – festival grotter candles that had been lit at dusk – although the stiffening breeze was causing some to gutter and die…”

Photograph © 2017 June Purkiss

Beacon House

“Beacon House had looked out over the Street for more than a hundred years, having got its name from a signal which had once stood in the garden as a low-water warning to sailors…”

Photograph © 2017 Peter Tarry

Red Sands Fort

Red Sands Fort

Photograph © 2017 Gerry Atkinson

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