BACK BOX

ack in the mid-late 1980s, I was a semi-regular attendee at Maidstone Car Auctions – the closest sale to my then home in the Medway Towns. As some of you probably know, the route from Chatham to Maidstone involved a descent from the North Downs into the Kentish Weald via the A229 Bluebell Hill. Like myself, many of the buyers at Maidstone came from Medway, and it was often amusing on the way home after a sale to see how many of that night’s purchases had expired on the hill, and how far