Rochester Town

On 5 May this year I visited the Medway town of Rochester for the Rochester Sweeps Festival. It was a fun, colourful day of folk music and dance (and the odd beer).

Behind the colour and spectacle there is a struggling Kentish town that has seen better days. Rochester likes to celebrate its wealthier Victorian past and its links to Charles Dickens, but its roots go back further to medieval times and then to the Anglo Saxons.

This is a passing flavour of the historic town of Rochester as I observed it at the beginning of this month.

Things I See in My Garden in May

 

So, the next blog post isn't scheduled until 25th May, but today the sun shone and I went out into my garden and the camera came too.

Rochester Sweeps

Once a year the Medway town of Rochester holds the Rochester Sweeps Festival and the town is filled with Folk Music and dance, along with chimney sweeps, colourful characters, street food and beer. 

I was lucky enough to visit the festival on 5 May this year and spent a lovely (amazingly dry) day enjoying myself and taking way too many photographs. This is a few of them (few being a relative concept).