Kent postcards for sale cover seaside towns, cathedral cities and Cinque Ports villages along the county's coastline and countryside.
Folkestone was one of Kent's grandest Edwardian resorts, and postcards of the town reflect that era, from the clifftop promenade of the Leas, laid out to attract wealthy visitors from London, through to the more modest, family-orientated holiday trade of the mid-20th century.
Canterbury Cathedral is another recurring subject in Kent postcards. It became one of the most important pilgrimage sites in medieval Christendom after the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket there in 1170, and it remains the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury today, giving a wide spread of exterior and interior postcard views across different decades.
Kent's coastline gave rise to the historic Cinque Ports, and postcards from towns including Dover, Sandwich and Hythe, three of the original five Cinque Ports, reflect their long history as key defensive harbours, alongside seaside postcards from nearby Ramsgate. Further along the coast, postcards of Margate, Cliftonville and Broadstairs cover the Isle of Thanet's Victorian and Edwardian seaside trade; Broadstairs' clifftop Fort House, where Dickens wrote David Copperfield in the 1850s, was later renamed Bleak House after his novel.
Rochester, Tunbridge Wells, Walmer, Chilham, Sandgate and Tankerton postcards also appear, each contributing their own local landmarks and views to the wider picture of the county. Postcards from Kent's other towns and villages appear here too, and we add new stock regularly.
