Folkestone Old High Street shopping area (#0323)

When people ask “where did you go in Europe” and I mention Folkestone I get a completely blank stare. One of the things I enjoy doing is visiting the places no one ever thinks of, and discovering that there is more of interest than most tourists would expect.

This is the ‘high street’, the shopping area of probably centuries back and still active – and now actually named “The Old High Street”. The street’s quite steep and narrows quite a bit after the “Epic Shop” sign. Not only is it interesting in its own right, but it is also a good illustration of efforts to preserve the past without making it some sort of sterile ‘museum’.

(Part of a documentation of 2018 exploration/reflection on Brexit and populist movements in Europe, keyword Europe2018)