Two iconic sights in a single frame: Mermaid Street and the Mermaid Inn.
Mermaid Street earns its name — it looks like it stepped straight off those old-England postcards: a steep cobbled lane, crooked timber-framed houses, roofs that seem to lean out over the road.
And the Mermaid Inn (the white one on the right) — from the outside, a pub and hotel with a flawless 15th-century façade; inside, 12th-century cellars and a reputation as a smugglers' lair. In the 18th century the Hawkhurst Gang hid out here — one of the most notorious and most brutal smuggling gangs in England.
So one half of the picture sells you the pretty packaging, and the other tells you what’s actually behind it.