Museums
The Mower Museum
The mower museum is home to the largest collection of lawnmowers in the south east. A collection of over 50 mowers dating from 1800's. Added to this is a display of garden tools.
One of the most unusual mowers is a sit-on "swan-neck" which was manufactured in Maidstone.
The lawn mower was invented by Edward Budding in 1830. Budding worked in a cotton mill and he designed a machine to trim tufts off cloth, thinking laterally he decided that this could also be used to cut grass and replace the scythes and shears. Neither petrol or chain had been invented so Budding used wood and cast iron to produce a heavy cumbersome implement which only men were strong enough to handle.
A female pig is called a sow, and a male is a boar
Pigs cannot sweat - They love to wallow in the mud to keep cool, and use the mud as sun-tan lotion to stop getting sunburnt
Pigs have an excellent sense of smell, they can sniff out truffles as much as 30cm underground
A Pig is very lazy it sleeps for an average of 13 hours per day