North Downs Way, West to East, Part 5 of 7, Lenham to Patrixbourne
This series of seven videos is a detailed and authoritative photographic flipbook guide to all 157 miles of the North Downs Way travelling from west to east.
The North Downs Way is a long distance footpath and official National Trail, in easy reach from London, that passes through two designated Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty: the Surrey Hills and the Kent Downs. In doing so it traverses the range of hills stretching from Farnham in western Surrey to Dover in the heel of Kent.
Links to the rest of the NDW west to east series
Part 1 Farnham to Dorking:
Part 2 Dorking to Oxted:
Part 3 Oxted to Snodland:
Part 4 Snodland to Lenham:
Part 6 Patrixbourne to Wye:
Part 7 Wye to Dover:
The National Trail Web Site
Ordinance Survey Maps covering the NDW
1:50000 Map Nos. 178, 179, 186, 187, 188, 189
1:25000 Map Nos. 137, 138, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150
Public Houses and Inns
03:41 The Flying Horse Inn, Boughton Lees:
06:51 The White Horse, Chilham:
07:29 The Star Inn, Old Wives Lees:
09:24 The Chapter Arms, Chartham Hatch:
11:18 The Eight Bells, Canterbury:
11:22 The Monument, Canterbury:
11:29 The Unicorn Inn, Canterbury:
11:34 The Bishops Finger, Canterbury:
11:41 The Cricketers, Canterbury:
Places of Interest
01:42 Charing Village:
02:13 Charing Quarry:
03:17 Eastwell Manor:
03:39 Boughton and Eastwell Cricket Club:
04:34 All Saints Church, Boughton Aluph:
05:53 Godmersham Park:
06:44 Chilham Primary School:
06:47 Chilham Castle:
08:22 Nickle Farm, Chartham:
09:51 No Man’s Orchard, Chartham Hatch:
10:09 The Blean:
10:11 Bigbury Camp Hill Fort:
11:25 St Dunstan’s Church, Canterbury:
11:36 Westgate Gatehouse, Canterbury:
11:47 Canterbury Cathedral:
12:01 St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury:
12:10 HM Prison Canterbury (former):
13:41 St Mary’s Church, Patrixbourne:
Music
Fluidscape Kevin MacLeod (
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
Disclaimer
Visitors who use this guide and rely on any information within it do so at their own risk.
North Downs Way, East to West, Part 3 of 7 - Folkestone to Lenham
This series of seven videos is a detailed and authoritative photographic flipbook guide to all 157 miles of the North Downs Way travelling from east to west.
The North Downs Way is a long distance footpath and official National Trail, in easy reach from London, that passes through two designated Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty: the Kent Downs and the Surrey Hills. In doing so it traverses the range of hills stretching from Dover in the heel of Kent to Farnham in western Surrey.
Links to the rest of the NDW east to west series
Part 1 Dover to Canterbury:
Part 2 Canterbury to Folkestone:
Part 4 Lenham to Trottiscliffe:
Part 5 Trottiscliffe to Oxted:
Part 6 Oxted to Dorking:
Part 7 Dorking to Farnham:
Link to the NDW west to east series
The National Trail Web Site
Ordinance Survey Maps covering the NDW
1:50000 Map Nos. 178, 179, 186, 187, 188, 189
1:25000 Map Nos. 137, 138, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150
Public Houses and Inns
05:05 The Tiger Inn, Stowting:
08:56 The Kings Head, Wye:
09:04 The Tickled Trout, Wye:
10:28 The Flying Horse Inn, Boughton Lees:
Places of Interest
00:30 Folkestone Downs:
00:37 Channel Tunnel:
00:51 Folkestone White Horse:
00:55 WWII Pillbox, nr Peene:
01:01 Peene Quarry:
02:11 Elham Valley Railway:
03:35 Postling Village:
04:11 Farthing Common:
04:19 Stone Street Roman Road:
04:27 Farthing Common Plant Centre:
05:01 Stowting Trout Lake, Water Farm:
07:03 Wye National Nature Reserve:
07:09 Devil’s Kneading Trough:
07:48 Wye Crown Memorials:
08:39 Wye College:
08:49 Church of St Gregory and St Martin, Wye:
08:53 The Wye Historical Society:
09:02 Lady Joanna Thornhill (Endowed) Primary School, Wye:
09:03 Kempe’s Almshouses, Wye:
09:06 Wye Bridge over the Great Stour:
09:08 Wye Train Station:
09:31 Perry Court Farm, Bilting:
10:30 Boughton and Eastwell Cricket Club:
10:47 Eastwell Manor:
11:54 Charing Quarry:
12:14 Charing Village:
13:35 Lenham Chalk Cliffs:
14:01 Lenham War Memorial:
Music
Music for Manatees Kevin MacLeod (
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
Disclaimer
Visitors who use this guide and rely on any information within it do so at their own risk.
North Downs Way, East to West, Part 2 of 7 - Canterbury to Folkestone
This series of seven videos is a detailed and authoritative photographic flipbook guide to all 157 miles of the North Downs Way travelling from east to west.
The North Downs Way is a long distance footpath and official National Trail, in easy reach from London, that passes through two designated Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty: the Kent Downs and the Surrey Hills. In doing so it traverses the range of hills stretching from Dover in the heel of Kent to Farnham in western Surrey.
Links to the rest of the NDW east to west series
Part 1 Dover to Canterbury:
Part 3 Folkestone to Lenham:
Part 4 Lenham to Trottiscliffe:
Part 5 Trottiscliffe to Oxted:
Part 6 Oxted to Dorking:
Part 7 Dorking to Farnham:
Link to the NDW west to east series
The National Trail Web Site
Ordinance Survey Maps covering the NDW
1:50000 Map Nos. 178, 179, 186, 187, 188, 189
1:25000 Map Nos. 137, 138, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150
Public Houses and Inns
02:05 The Chapter Arms, Chartham Hatch:
03:57 The Star Inn, Old Wives Lees:
04:34 The White Horse, Chilham:
07:27 The Port of Call, Dover:
07:32 Duchess, Dover:
10:41 The Lighthouse Inn, Capel-le-Ferne:
11:55 The Valiant Sailor, Folkestone:
Places of Interest
01:17 Bigbury Camp Hill Fort:
01:21 The Blean:
01:35 No Man’s Orchard, Chartham Hatch:
02:31 Nickle Farm, Chartham:
04:37 Chilham Castle:
04:40 Chilham Primary School:
05:29 Godmersham Park:
06:48 All Saints Church, Boughton Aluph:
07:22 Market Square, Dover:
07:48 Dover Harbour:
07:55 Western Heights:
08:00 Drop Redoubt Fort, Western Heights:
09:03 Shakespeare Train Tunnel:
09:28 Samphire Hoe:
09:31 WWII Gun Emplacements above Samphire Hoe:
10:06 Abbots Cliff Acoustic Mirror:
10:13 Abbots Cliff House:
10:51 East Cliff and Warren Country Park:
10:54 Folkestone Warren:
11:26 The Battle of Britain Memorial:
12:03 Folkestone Harbour:
12:19 Creteway Down:
12:49 Round Hill, A20 tunnels and viaduct:
12:54 Folkestone Downs:
13:04 Castle Hill & Caesar’s Camp:
13:33 Cherry Garden Hill:
13:44 Channel Tunnel:
Music
Alfonso Ferrabosco - Lamentations III by The Tudor Consort
Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
Disclaimer
Visitors who use this guide and rely on any information within it do so at their own risk.
The Great Gildersleeve: Selling the Drug Store / The Fortune Teller / Ten Best Dressed
The Great Gildersleeve (1941--1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first introduced on Oct. 3, 1939, ep. #216. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature films released at the height of the show's popularity.
On Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent McGee nemesis. You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee! became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character was given several conflicting first names on Fibber McGee and Molly, and on one episode his middle name was revealed as Philharmonic. Gildy admits as much at the end of Gildersleeve's Diary on the Fibber McGee and Molly series (Oct. 22, 1940).
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.