Photograph album
probably Dorothy Edith Johnston (d.1962)
Category
Photographs
Date
1936
Materials
Place of origin
Appledore
Order this imageCollection
Winchelsea, East Sussex
NT 1445799
Summary
Album of 28 B&W photographs of the Royal Military Canal in Appledore, Kent. Black card album with hand-written descriptions in white ink, and typed descriptions towards the back. Paper label on the front cover reads: Canal Bank / more views / mostly 1936 / Some Appledorians identified. This stretch of the Royal Military Canal was purchased by Dorothy Johnston in the mid 1930s when it was sold by the War Office. She considered it to be at risk from development so donated to the National Trust to preserve it.
Makers and roles
probably Dorothy Edith Johnston (d.1962), owner