Tucked away in a quiet side-road are the unassuming offices of H. Goodsell and Son, Builders. From the modest exterior, it would be difficult to guess that the firm has played a key part in shaping Maidstone today and indeed in shaping many other Kent towns over its 100 years of existence. The company was founded in 1924 by Herbert Goodsell, a carpenter, using a workshop in the garden of his parents’ house in Albert Street, Maidstone. Born in 1895, Mr Goodsell left school at 14, and began an apprenticeship at another Maidstone builders, Charles Walter, in Stone Street. In 1914 he went off to F…