Saturday 25 May 2024

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.


















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