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8vo. 9 x 6.5 inches. 95 + [1] pp. In pictorial wrapper. As new condition. Illustrated throughout in colour and sepia, including maps and plans. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. A new study by local historians, Terry Begent and Eamonn Rooney, which uncovers many little known and fascinating stories from the past of Folkestone. These include the foundation of the first nunnery in England by St. Eanswythe in the seventh century, speculations on the Saxon moot stone, the early water supply, the town's role as a limb of the Cinque Ports, Frontline Folkestone and the town's defences, the visits of Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth in the sixteenth century, some distinguished Folkestonians, including William Harvey and Walter Tull, the Cross Channel ferry port and the Channel Tunnel, the reception of the Belgian refugees in 1914 and the German Gotha air raid of May 1917.