He also built Whitstable harbour in Kent in 1832, in connection with the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway with an unusual system for flushing out mud using a tidal reservoir.

* 1829: Charles Anthony Deane and John Deane of Whitstable in Kent in England design the first air-pumped diving helmet for use with a diving suit.

Whitstable in Kent is noted as a source of good quality oysters.

McGuigan currently lives near Whitstable, Kent with his wife and children.

* 1830-The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway opens in Kent, England on 3 May, three months before the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

* Whitstable, Kent, England

While the family is no longer in France they remain in England with members in Wellington, Somerset, Whitstable in Kent, parts of London and elsewhere.

* Herne Bay Musical Society, at the Playhouse Theatre, Whitstable, Kent, England

The SCC in the UK can be traced back to the Kent port of Whitstable where the first of the Naval Lads ' Brigades was established.

The north of Kent has historically been marshland and the part which still survives, stretching from Whitstable to Dartford, has been recognised as one of the most important natural wetlands in northern Europe.

When Sarah Waters was 19 years old, she joined a student house in Whitstable, Kent, sharing a bed and then falling in love with another young woman.

Nancy " Nan " Astley is a sheltered 18-year-old living with her working-class family and helping in their oyster restaurant in Whitstable, Kent.

* East Kent / West Kent ( from 15 Station Road East, Canterbury, and later from Whitstable )

Jack in the Green was revived in Whitstable, Kent in 1976 and continues to lead an annual procession of Morris dancers through the town on the May Bank Holiday.

Whitstable railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in north Kent, England, and serves the town of Whitstable.

Chestfield & Swalecliffe railway station, is a UK railway station on the Chatham Main Line in north Kent, and serves Chestfield and Swalecliffe, villages which are now part of the built-up area between Whitstable and Herne Bay.

The video for the single was directed by Andy Crabb and David Lewis, who later went on to direct a series of backdrop films for Suede as well as the live tour film Introducing The Band and features children from the Kent coastal town of Whitstable.

Reid was born in Whitstable, Kent, England ; her father was a doctor in the British Army.

Born in Whitstable, Kent, Holness attended Chaucer Technology School in Canterbury and read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Having previously lived for several years in Whitstable, Kent, he lived in Fulham, SW London, with his third wife Therese McMurray-Hewlett, by whom he had a son and daughter.

* Whitstable, Kent

* May 3 – Ceremonial opening of the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway in England.

* View of the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway From Over the Tunnel, Taken on the Opening Day, May 3, 1830

In 1936 Joyce lived for a year in Whitstable, where he owned a radio and electrical shop.

He was raised in Whitstable, where his parents were prominent in the sociel life of the town.

Pianist Jools Holland wrote a track called " Jack O The Green " in conjunction with Suggs of Madness after Suggs witnessed the ceremony in Whitstable, mentioned above, where the coming of Spring is celebrated with the Jack in the Green parading through the streets to an old English folk melody.

The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, the world's first passenger railway, was opened in 1830.

The couple also spent time by the sea in Whitstable together, using the beach hut, which she uprooted and turned into art in 1999 with the title The Last Thing I Said to You is Don't Leave Me Here, and which was destroyed in the 2004 Momart warehouse fire.

Whilst not unique to Rochester ( similar sweeps gatherings were held right across southern England, notably in Bristol, Deptford, Whitstable and Hastings ), the Rochester revival was directly inspired by Dickens ' description of the celebration in Sketches by Boz.

During World War II, a sea-fort was built off the coast of Herne Bay and Whitstable, which is still in existence.

Thomas Gann was born in Murrisk Abbey, County Mayo, Ireland, the son of William Gann of Whitstable, and Rose Garvey of Murrisk Abbey.

Glenfield tunnel was only the second tunnel in the World on a passenger railway, having shortly followed the opening of one on the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway.

Four locomotives were acquired from the ' Gravesend and Rochester Railway in 1847, seven from the L & GR in 1848, but the only locomotive ever to work the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway was not added to stock.

Following the successful opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1825 and 1830 respectively, several schemes were put forward for railways in south east England, including the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway of 1830 and the London and Greenwich Railway ( L & GR ), which was constructed between 1833 and 1835.

Radio 390 ( 1965 – 1967 ) was a pirate radio station which operated from Red Sands Fort, ( near Whitstable ), a former Maunsell Fort located on the Red Sands sandbar.

The station was built with two central through tracks and three platforms, one for the Whitstable branch.

The first station on the line to serve the town was called Whitstable Town and was opened in 1860 and was sited about half mile west of the present station in Oxford Street.

It was closed in 1915 when the present station was opened as Whitstable & Tankerton.

In the United Kingdom, the town of Whitstable is noted for oyster farming from beds on the Kentish Flats that have been used since Roman times.

Engineered by George Stephenson, a 5¾ mile line running from Canterbury to the small port and fishing town of Whitstable, approximately 55 miles east of London.

Canterbury constituency comprises the larger part of the City of Canterbury District, containing the City and surrounding villages, together with the coastal town of Whitstable, but excluding the town of Herne Bay which is in the North Thanet constituency.