When you think of the word ‘creek’, how do you picture it?

This was the challenge set by Kent Creative Arts, which urged people to dig out their photographs, paintings or drawings of Faversham Creek made over the years.

The call went out during the summer, and now the responses have been collated for everyone to view at a two-day exhibition this weekend.

There is an open invitation to the Picture the Creek exhibition on Saturday, November 15 and Sunday, November 16, at the Purifier Building in Faversham, where you can view all 232 submissions between 11am and 5pm.

A panel chose three winning images from the vast selection. In third place was a photo taken by Mike Roberts on a May morning.

Mike said: “This photo was taken by the lifting footbridge at the end of Iron Wharf, and is a place I always stop to take a photo before, and sometimes after, a walk out towards Nagden. I call it ‘The Same Place’.”

In second spot is a shot taken by Fran Ward after the December floods in 2013. She said: “I was stuck by the peace and calm of the scene after the devastating tidal surge a night before.”

In first place is a historic picture showing the sideways launch of a boat from a creek-side shipyard in around 1935, submitted by Brian Weaver. Exhibition organiser Nathalie Banaigs of Kent Creative Arts said: “Brian has lived in Faversham all his life and has always worked in the boat industry. He is retired and still goes on out Thames barges, which he loves.”

People will have the opportunity to say what Faversham Creek means to them throughout the weekend’s exhibition; there will be pens and paper to write, draw, create and have fun.

See www.picturethecreek.wordpress.com/exhibition