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It was a world ago when the newly established Penguin Books decided to branch out into travel guides. In 1939, they published books on six English counties. Emma Jane Kirby has been driving around England with her first-edition guides, to see how the country has changed since the start of the Second World War. In this episode travelling around Kent, she hears how farmers had to switch from hops to fruit, discovers the biggest Sikh temple in Europe, and meets the county's last surviving coal miner. (Photo: Sandgate, Kent Credit: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½)
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