EPW026076 ENGLAND (1929). Brenchley Gardens and Maidstone East Railway Station, Maidstone, 1929

The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph, a First World War memorial dedicated to members of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment and located in Brenchley Gardens, Maidstone, Kent. Unveiled in 1921, the memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens following his design for the Cenotaph on Whitehall in London and is today a grade II* listed building. The towns war memorial is located in The Broadway.

St Faiths Church

Gatehouse to Brenchley Gardens, bombed and subsequently demolished in WWII

Maidstone's main memorial to the fallen of the Great War.

E Mason & Co Ltd, Waterside Brewery. Closed late 1950's and demolished.

See image EAW021788 to see how the station had changed in 20 years, between April 1929 and April 1949.

All of this area containing the locomotive shed, turntable and coaling stage is now the station car park.

Looks like another ex SE&CR birdcage guard's luggage van.

Possibly an old SE&CR 'Birdcage' luggage guards van. See Bluebell Railway - http://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/pics/1601.html

Vehicle looks like a steam roller.

These three oasts were part of the Kent Messenger offices and printing press that was lost in a fire in 1967. This site is now occupied by Brenchley House. The Kent Messenger relocated to its then new offices and press at New Hythe Lane in Larkfield.

Station Road

Week Street

Fremlins brewery.

This appears to be a malthouse with three pyramidal kilns.