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The Really Rather Remarkable Henry George Follenfant

War hero, triple gong winner and Victoria Line builder: the life of Henry George Follenfant was anything but ordinary….but where he lived was. His story conclusively proves a house doesn’t have to be grand or old to have incredible stories.

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Graham Birrell Graham Birrell

Churchill, Gandhi and Mr William Nightingale of Canterbury

Winston Churchill officially only met Mahatma Gandhi just once, in November 1906. Unofficially however, there is a chance the two men may have first met nearly seven years earlier, in January 1900, on top of a small, but strategically important hill in South Africa. Also present at this moment in history was Mr William Nightingale of 3 Archer’s Terrace Canterbury.

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The Saviour and the Slaver

The lives of Henry and George Leeves are unusual in their extreme difference – their legacies reveal quite what can happen when you land on the wrong side of history.

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