Features

Beautiful Belmont
Named for its elevated site above panoramic views of the North Downs, Belmont House – literally ‘Beautiful Mountain’ – is an elegant Georgian home with an interesting history and much to offer visitors inside and out.

Family-owned business celebrates 40 years
One of Kent’s best known food & drink businesses is celebrating its 40th birthday this June.

Forged from Fire
Louise Tomlin went to meet the master metalworkers that create stunning structural steelwork.

Beautiful Mistakes
Louise Tomlin chats with the man who rescues things that have been discarded by society and with skill, care and attention, they become treasured again – it’s a formula that can apply not only to broken chairs but to disadvantaged people too!

Don’t blame it on the Moonlight
Our features writer Louise Tomlin talks to the owner and inventor of stone globe lights, Joanna Wallis

Heavenly Heights
We climb up and inside the roof of Canterbury Cathedral with the carpenters appointed to work on a massive five-year conservation project.

Oyster Festival in the frame
Whitstable’s perennially popular Oyster Festival is back – and so are the acclaimed Whitstable Portraits. We talk to artist Nicola Uldemolins.