Have I had one too many gins or did that haystack just shrink?
In August, I was persuaded to drive along the local lanes of Seasalter marshes towards Blean at some unearthly hour …
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Edward Dando. 360 oysters at one sitting. (Now that’s a good lunch.)
Living so close to the beach and oyster beds of Whitstable, we couldn’t let Edward Dando, the gormandizer, pass by without …
Smuggling guidelines for Ladies 3: Keep your head.
Fashion played a big part in smuggling – especially among women who could conjure up all sorts of imaginative ways …
Smuggling guidelines for Ladies 2: Never trust a “cuckoo” clock maker
Smuggling even the simplest items is fraught with dangers. Here we learn the lessons of preparation and trusting those in …
Smuggling guidelines for Ladies 1: Know your limits
Smugglers showed remarkable creativity and inventiveness in transporting their cargoes inland from the coast. Women were particularly good because they …
‘Hear!’ ‘Hear!’ A heady night with Mr Baldock, the smuggler, at the Grand Conservative Gathering 1838
“At eight o’clock the room was filled, and shortly after that hour the President of the Conservative Club, Dr. Chisholm, …
A very brief history of Blue Anchor Corner
“Near this place once stood the ancient chapel of St Alphege, serving a small settlement called Seasalter Street. In 1481 …
Blue Anchor Corner. Home to one of the most secretive organisations of the 18th – 19th century
In 1740 Dr Isaac Rutton, physician and gentleman of Ashford, leased the Seasalter Parsonage Farm. It was a strange purchase …
Blue Anchor Corner 