by DLiving | Dec 16, 2015 | Local Comment, Where to go locally
In 1955 Pete Seeger wrote the folk- song “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” Today the question is “where are all the bees going?” Since 1980 the number of beekeepers, in the Dartford Area, has declined from 125 members of the Dartford Branch of...
by DLiving | Jun 14, 2015 | Local Comment
On a spring Sunday I found myself in Dartford. I hadn’t planned on being there, but as I made my way into the town I thought I’d take a few photos on my phone. I entered the town from the south, making my way up Lowfield Street. This street was once a busy street,...
by DLiving | May 16, 2015 | Local Comment
So they’ve knocked the Co-Op down. I know it’s been abandoned for several years now but it still feels wrong. I never realised what a great building it was until the whitewashed windows and CLOSED signs made me look skywards.Did you ever notice how big it...
by DLiving | Oct 16, 2014 | Local Comment
By local resident Peter Abbey The nights are drawing in, you can tell because by the time The One Show starts you’ve already pulled your curtains closed and decided that leaving the back door open for the dog is way too chilly. It is nights like these that the...
by DLiving | May 16, 2014 | Local Comment
Mum was eager to finish shopping and start the long walk home up Dartford’s East Hill. My brother was sat on the pavement, struggling with his shoelace. That was the trouble with our butcher’s shop. The sawdust on the red tiled floorneeded to be piled into mounds with...
by DLiving | May 16, 2014 | Dartford News, Local Comment, Uncategorized
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.” I didn’t think of that. Henry Ford, the American industrialist and founder of the Ford Motor Company did. I agree with the first part. “BIKE!” Thinking is very...
