The photographer and photojournalist around whose work the Topfoto stock library was based was  John Topham, a notable character here in Kent but, as his photographs and this exhibition show, a considerable figure in British photography.

John Topham lived and worked just outside Edenbridge and his large and fascinating collection of work was taken over by Alan Smith as Tophams Photo Library, and is now incorporated into the Topfoto collections.

These photographs, many of them from Kent, inform us about our world and remind us who we were.