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There are some posts where I see the link on Twitter and wonder if it’s really worth clicking through. But I should never doubt you, half way through the second paragraph and bang, the fact I will now mention every time Maidstone appears in any context in my life - that coat of arms needs to be seen to be believed.
I lived in Maidstone as a child from 1959 to 1975, but have hardly been back since. I never thought of it as a tourist destination. Interesting to read what has stayed the same and what has changed. My primary school (long since closed) was directly opposite Maidstone East station and my father used to work in County Hall.
What a well spent six hours! The work rate is amazing. But it does show Maidstone as the kind of typical southern English town which it really is.
It would be better spelt Med's Town, from being on the Medway.
The blazon requires “an Iguanodon proper”. Good luck with that!
Thankyou, that has to be the perfect travelogue! My appetite for Maidstone is well and truly whetted.
What’s going on? First you go to my hometown Southampton, now you’ve turned up at my temporary home for April / May, are you perchance going to Chichester next?
Funnily, I was thinking of booking a trip to Maidstone as well, as somewhere to visit I wouldn't normally go to. Indeed not been to the Museum since a Primary School visit!

Will probably still go, but am glad to be prewarned about the lack of sights!
Good gracious, this must be the closest I've ever been to the actual DG - the bus in the first photo is the one I had arrived on but moments earlier.

I'm impressed that you managed to fill six hours - I agree the museum is excellent. However, Maidstone's shopping offer is slowly sliding away, the Marks & Spencer being a recent departure. You are right about it competing retailwise with Tunbridge Wells, but not Rochester - that's just a tourist destination. The other two locations of similar retail ilk are Bluewater and Canterbury - broadly speaking anywhere else is just an also-ran.
Plenty of good gadding about here.

Until I clicked on the photo link, I thought the canopy in the 3 hours paragraph was for performing insects - or at least somehow measuring their level of performance!
How on earth did that ghastly carbuncle on the museum's manor house ever get planning permission?
Agreed with Man of Kent that retail-wise, the competition is mostly Canterbury or Bluewater.

A decade or two ago you might have added Chatham to that list (though not Rochester which really has quite little in the way of proper shopping)
I was just searching your blog to see if you had blogged about Tunbridge Wells, could see that you have in terms of a town trail article, though your visit to Maidstone came up.A town I've often wondered about visiting and now I know how to spend a few hours.










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