Whitstable

Despite this, Britain's oyster beds have a long way to go if they are to match the output of the mid-19th century, when companies in Whitstable sent more than 50 million tons of oysters to London.

Oysters Come Back in Vogue Will Lyons 2010

More than any other food they seem to aficionados as a gift from the sea gods, which is why they are celebrated at oyster festivals in towns such as Whitstable and Colchester.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

Kids love the novelty factor of the Fishermen's Huts in Whitstable, Kent.

Summer holidays: 10 best places for under-fives 2011

Whilst dressed in a combat jacket, and seriously dodgy flares, I was tugged by two policemen in Whitstable circa 1975/1976.

Police Search Too Few White People SHOCK!! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

Andrew Belsey Whitstable, KentJonathan Black, head of careers at Oxford University, argued that the government has no long-term strategy for higher education, as dons prepare for a no-confidence vote in the minister, David WillettsBy shifting the burden of debt on to the individual student, the message the government is sending to the youth of today is "you are not worth this country's investment".

Education letters 2011

• The Fishermen's Huts can be booked through the Hotel Continental, Whitstable 01227 280280, hotelcontinental.co.uk; family huts from £115 per night.

Summer holidays: 10 best places for under-fives 2011

Whitstable Mum in Custard Shortage, edited by Joel Rickett Viking, £12.99The most apparently frivolous news is important to someone: so runs the gently humane implication of this miscellany of silly-sounding stories from British local newspapers.

Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction reviews 2011

Billy Childish, artist, photographed in his studio which is located in his mother's house in Whitstable.

A room of my own: Billy Childish 2012

There are two main kinds of oysters found in the British Isles: the flat, or native, oyster (Ostrea edulis), most famously grown among the beds in Whitstable, Colchester and Helford; and the rock, or Pacific, oyster (Crassostrea gigas), which was introduced commercially into Britain in the 1960s.

Oysters Come Back in Vogue Will Lyons 2010

Billy Childish is half-joking when he calls himself a "Sunday painter", but when he arrives each week at the studio in his mother's house in Whitstable, that's exactly what he is.

A room of my own: Billy Childish 2012