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Post by Les on Aug 20, 2017 3:46:00 GMT
Maidstone I remember it well: LES HUGGINS...Maidstone I remember it well.
Hi David Wilkins The caves you spoke of between Willington Street and Mote Park, were often frequented by "us kids"
They were part of the layer of "ragstone" (limestone) that trails adjacent to the River Len in this particular area. Formed from surface, water percolating through the softer "hassock" (forming voids, very dangerous) towards the River Len.
There was an established quarry at Spot Lane, Bearsted, (Once owned by Hookers)that quarried the materials for roadstone. Often you would hear them blasting. One of the sub-contractors of the time (late fifties-early sixties)(who should remain annonymous) once used too much explosive and smashed half the windows in nearby Shepway and Mote Park Estates!!. Happy Days
Best wishes Les Huggins
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Post by Les on Aug 20, 2017 3:47:34 GMT
Les Swaffer
Yes we also played there first of all there was no stream .Then we had a wet/Snowy winter between 1955/59 then the stream appeared and a lake behind the shops in Willington Street.
Kids would build rafts out of old oil drums and planks and the streams still there mybe it drys out now and again
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