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hi  there ,regarding Brackendene farm again ,i would like to know what the place was originally,there is a picture posted that shows the water gardens running through the middle of the park,all the stonework bridge supports are man made, when i was resident there,pathways ran either side with evidence that there were some nice gardens here onetime,however even in my time there,all this had deteriorated,the picture shows much greater decline ,just what was the place in its heyday?does any one know?

i am totally new to this kind of thing, coming into computors later on i n life ,please bear with me.I  noticed someone was enquiring about the caravan park at the foot of Woburn hill called Brackendene farm,I lived there in a caravan for quite few years in the 60s. It was a residential site and at that time ,a bit rough and ready to start with but improved as new management came in.I remember a person called Percy stamp used to run things at first, he was a good chap who would sometimes take some of us youngsters to maidstone and other places just for the company. He was
a genuine good sort of bloke. The caravan park was not a Gypsy site,it was run as a business by someone we never knew,we paid our ground rent for our plot which we kept tidy or a letter was issued as a warning.What happened to the place after we left in the late sixtys ,I don,t know,but if anyone remembers those times on Woburn Park Farm as it was then,i would be interested, especially
if they also went to stepgates secondary modern school at the time    regards Kelty


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