A new book by Kentish Times group editor Melody Ryall has hit the bookshelves.

Kent Revisited is a picture-based hardback with a variety of images of the county from days gone by.

The photographs, mostly from the famous Francis Frith archive, are dated between 1900 and the 1960s.

Melody, (pictured), has written a lengthy introduction to each area of the county pointing out the diversity of local towns and villages.

She said: "Francis Frith was a pioneering Victorian photographer who travelled Britain to record life as he saw it.

"Some of his very early pictures of Kent street scenes and people are included in the book and the others come from sources that are connected with the archive.

"Nostalgia is tremendously popular these days and when it comes to days gone by Kent's got plenty of them!"

This is Melody's second book. Last October Canterbury - A History and Celebration - went on sale.