Top secret astronomical telescopes…

… in Bearsted. Searching the skies for aliens, meteors, new planets, galaxies and parallel universes.

The cowls on this collection of oast houses make a great disguise for these modern voyagers.

Truth be told I was looking for items related to 9 to enter this week’s MonoMonday challenge hosted by Skeena. Walking towards them I was convinced there were nine. There are only 8. Shame.

Oasts, or oast houses were used to dry hops for brewing beer. Plenty of hops were grown in Kent and Sussex, now very very few hop gardens remain and most oasts have been converted into houses. The circular nature must make them challenging to furnish