From here the route continues across the flat plains of Swale past Kemsley and Iwade, the last villages on the mainland before the Isle of Sheppey.
Kemsley | James Kemsley |
On 6 January, he, William Fry, and P. G. Kemsley teamed up to shoot down and kill Leutnant Harry von Bulow-Bothkamp, himself an ace with 28 victories.
Sub-titled A Comprehensive Guide to the Practice and Principles of Modern Journalism, this featured an introduction by Kemsley and an essay from his Foreign Manager Ian Fleming, later the author of the James Bond novels.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Kemsley was known to children's television audiences as "Skeeter the Paperboy", an on-screen cap-wearing persona (who once said his full name was Amos Skeeter - a play on "a mosquito") that he portrayed as a cast member of The Super Flying Fun Show, and then as host of Skeeter's Cartoon Corner in Sydney and Melbourne, both on the Nine Network.
The line was formerly owned by Bowater, the paper making firm, and was used to carry raw materials and finished products between Ridham Dock and the company's two mills, one at Sittingbourne and the other at Kemsley.