‘Its waters gush with the speed and power of an arrow…If they lose their passenger, they lose their lives.’ Not much is known about this … Read more

‘I regret to say that we spurned this kindness and continued to brandish the Japanese “real swords”’ Bower started collecting Japanese goods long after it … Read more

‘I wandered from town to town, country to country and sometimes my journey was hard, but it is at just such times that the reward … Read more

Rising up, carried by the wind, day and night, the balloon is a happy nomad, travelling across the landscape, before it meets up with its … Read more

‘I’d much rather be in the White Horse in Sittingbourne with the East Kent Hoodeners’ Sadie Hennessy’s Hooden Horse explores the Kentish folk tradition of … Read more

Paris, Berlin, Moscow… These vital Metropolitan centres recur on New York curator Alfred Barr’s well-known diagram demonstrating the seemingly inevitable development of Modern Art towards … Read more

Open the Mermaid’s phone and listen, shake the bottle and let the Estuary Spirits enchant you, open the pages of the book and let the … Read more

Henry Moore moved to Burcroft, Kent just before the second war. Living in a modern bungalow – rather than his previous cottage – he was … Read more

Introducing the Museum of Imagined Kent! Be prepared to rethink not only everything you thought about Kent, but everything you thought about museums too.  This … Read more