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Home FrontA journey through Folkestone

A photographic journey through Folkestone, where the first season of Home Front is set.

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‘It seems so strange to me how it’s all still there – still going on.’

‘Birds singing, children laughing. I feel it should all just stop.’

  • EXT. BANDSTAND AT THE LEAS
  • SCENE 2 THE LEAS
  • SAM: Kush. Come on boy. Come on. We’re going to the beach.
  • ‘That sound gets inside my head’
  • GABRIEL: On Sunday morning Folkestone woke to find the streets littered with human beings.
  • 'Nobody here at the Town Hall underestimates the strain on local business that the current state of emergency places upon us
  • FX A BELL STARTS TO CLANG HARBOUR SIDE
  • EXT. THE HARBOUR
  • EXT. REGATTA/HARBOUR. PM.
  • EXT. FOLKESTONE HARBOUR STATION
  • The end of Folkestone Harbour
  • CYRIL: Let’s just be glad the sea’s full of fish, shall we
  • 'Can we go on the cliff lift?'
  • SYLVIA: I myself would prefer the Metropole. They have a new Palm Tea Court and an orchestra.
  • ‘The fund raising ball at The Metropole on Saturday. You are attending aren’t you?’
  • ‘It seems so strange to me how it’s all still there – still going on.’
  • Once known as 'Slope Road' the steep path connecting the Leas to Lower Sandgate Road and the harbour was renamed.
  • 'We are gathered here today to remember those who have given their lives for us'
  • The cemetery contains 471 First World War burials. Over 300 of these were for Canadian soldiers.

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