PAULCRAMPTON’SCANTERBURY Comings and goings on corner of Rose Lane TOENDPPICLAIMS A DEADLINE IS BEING IMPOSED...

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Today, Rose Lane contains no buildings of pre-war date, and it is easy to assume that The Blitz was responsible for all the destruction. While bombs levelled much of this once narrow, twisting lane, there were a number of old structures that survived into the 1960s, particularly at the lane’s Watling Street end. The first picture features the premises of greengrocers, H.S Brewer & Son, taken in February, 1962 which stood on the western corner of the junction with Watling Street (left). The property’s stuccoed Regency-period façade may have hidden an earlier structure. Indeed, the un-rendered wall, seen on the right, dates from the early 17th century and forms part of the perimeter wall that once encircled a large Jacobean period house fronting Watling Street. This house, once the residence of the Mann family, survives today as a solicitor’s office. Brewer’s corner shop was pulled down in 1962, shortly after the first photo was taken, as part of the widening of Rose Lane. Other old properties perished on the opposite corner of Rose Lane, for the same purpose. The second picture, from the early 1970s, sees a widened Rose Lane from the vantage point of the then-recently completed multi-storey car park. The aforementioned Jacobean house is now much more in evidence and the site of the lost corner shop is occupied by a widened pavement and strip of grass. Note the overgrown back garden of the old house. In the mid 1980s, this would give way to a row of offices and shops, as part of the Marlowe Arcade development.

The Art in Bridge Photographic Exhibition is Saturday-sunday March 30-31, Bridge village hall, High Street. Free entry. Refreshments available (mothers welcome). Anyone living, working or studying within 5 miles of Bridge, in a rural parish, is invited to submit up to three framed photographs. Children and young persons are especially encouraged to exhibit. Entry forms are available from the website artinbridge.org.uk and from our sponsors: The Bourne Gallery, Bekesbourne, preferential rates for exhibitors and from Colebrooke Sturrock & Co., Estate Agents, High Street, Bridge. Full entry requirements are set out on the website. For further information contact John Corfield 01227 830976. W.I: Tuesday March 19, 7.30pm, Bridge village hall, Len Howell will be giving an illustrated talk on the “Cinque Ports” and the competition this month is for an interesting item beginning with the letter ‘O’. Visitors and guests are most welcome. Lent Events: Lunch, Thursday March 14, 1 Riverside Mews (Jean and Alan Barber’s) to support Christian Aid, 12-1.30pm. Contact Jean on 831596. All very welcome. Lectures, The 2nd in a series of talks will take place, 7.30pm, March 14, St Peter’s, Bridge. Nearly New Sale: Come along , bring a friend and find some real bargains among the good quality clothes, (no jumble thanks), home ware items, toys, jewellery for sale, March March 23, 10am-12pm, Bridge village hall, and afterwards, have a coffee and chat. Donations of the above items will be appreciated, and can be dropped off at The Purlins, Meadow Close, 830960; 8A Conyngham Lane, 832084 or Riverside Cottage, Patrixbourne, 830947 or call one of those numbers for collection to be arranged. Donations at the door on entry, and refreshments of coffee/tea and hot cross buns will add to all proceeds of the sale going to Bridge and Patrixbourne Churches. St Patricks’s Day: Sunday March 17, St Mary’s, Patrix-