Annual Bibliography of Kentish Archaeology and History

ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF KENTISH ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY 2009

Compilers: Ms D. Saunders, Ms E. Finn, Centre for Kentish Studies.

Contributors: Prehistoric – K. Parfitt;

Anglo-Saxon – Dr A. Richardson, CAT; Medieval – Dr C. Insley, CCCU; Early Modern – Prof. J. Eales, CCCU;

Modern – Dr C.W. Chalklin and Prof. D. Killingray.

A bibliography, of books, articles, reports, pamphlets and theses relating specifically to Kent or with significant Kentish content. All entries were published in 2009 unless otherwise stated.

general and multi-period

Bannister, N., and Bartlett, D., ‘An Initial Investigation of an Early Routeway and Boundary, possibly Prehistoric, in Bedgebury Forest’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 295-311.

Black, N., ‘The extraordinary tale of Dartford, the hospital town’, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 102, 521-529.

Boast, E., ‘Dig for a day at Bradstow School Broadstairs’, KAS Newsletter 82, 14-15 [includes references to the discovery of prehistoric and Anglo-Saxon burials]

Boyle, J. (ed. E. Edwards), Portrait of Canterbury (Chichester: Phillimore).

Burnham, P., Lady Joanna Thornhill: her life and times and her school (Wye: Wye Historical Society, 2008) [founder of school at Wye in 1708].

Capon, L., ‘Early Roman features, possibly defensive, and the modern development of the parkland landscape at Ingress Abbey, Greenhithe’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 1-32.

Clancy, J., The Story of Sheppey (Stroud: The History Press).

Clark, P., Rady J., and Sparey-Green, C., Wainscott Northern By-Pass: Archaeo-logical Investigations 1992-199’, CAT Occas. Paper 5.

Draper, G., ‘The education of children in Kent and Sussex: interpreting the Medieval and Tudor ways’, Nottingham Medieval Studies 52 (2008), 213-242.

Hollis, E., The Westwell Chronicles: the history of a village and its people from the Bronze Age to the 21st century (Ashford: Headley Brothers, 2008).

Holyoake, G., Deal: All in the Downs (Seaford: SB Publications, 2008).

Jones, C., By Royal Appointment or Why they call it Royal Tunbridge Wells?: a pictorial record of Royal visitors to the Wells, Royal Tunbridge Wells Civic Society Local History Monograph 10.

Lambert, P. and Thornburgh, Roger, ‘Inside Loose Church: alterations and revelations. Pt 1: Evidence of the old church; Pt 2: Graves and inscriptions’, Loose Threads: Journal of the Loose Area History Society 9, 27-43.

Langridge, E. (ed.), Langton Green through the Ages (Tunbridge Wells: Langton Green Rural Society).

Mallinson, E., Cathedral Curiosities: a guide to the unexpected in Rochester Cathedral (Rochester: Friends of Rochester Cathedral).

Parfitt K. and Sweetinburgh, S., ‘Further Investigation of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Eastry’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 313-333.

Philp, B., Farningham, Kent: Part I. Roman and Saxon Discoveries on the Roman Villa Site at Frank’s. Part II. The Discovery of a Medieval Riverside Site (Dover: KARU).

Pollard, E., The Schools on Benenden Green 1609-2009: Benenden Church of England Primary School and its predecessors (Cranbrook: Ladoga for Benenden Primary School).

Pratt, S., ‘Two ‘New’ Town Gates, Roman Buildings and an Anglo-Saxon Sanctuary at St Mildred’s Tannery, Canterbury’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 225-238.

Rady, J., Excavations at North Lane Canterbury 1993 and 1996, CAT Occas. Paper 6.

Richardson, A., ‘A Prehistoric and Anglo-Saxon cemetery at the Meads, Sittingbourne’, KAS Newsletter 79, 1-3.

prehistoric

Allen, T., ‘Prehistoric Settlement Patterns on the North Kent coast between Seasalter and the Wantsum’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 189-207.

Ansell, R., ‘Two Palaeoliths from the parish of Crouch’, Kent Archaeological Review, 178, 182-184.

Bishop, B.J., and Lyne, M., ‘Mesolithic Occupation and Later Activity at Hillborough, near Reculver’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 388-389.

Butler, C., ‘A Mesolithic Pick from Whitefriars’, Canterbury’s Archaeology 2007-2008, CAT 32nd Annual Report, 60-61.

Gardner, R., and Gibson, C.,‘An Iron Age site at Hartsdown Technology College, Margate’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 382-383.

Haslam, A., ‘A Middle Bronze Age Site at Sittingbourne’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 388.

Lythe, R., ‘An Iron Age Settlement Excavated in advance of the Iwade-Queenborough Road Improvement’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 360-361.

Muthana, A., ‘Benjamin Harrison, the Grocer of Igtham: His contribution to Palaeolithic Archaeology’, KAR, 176, 116-120.

Parfitt, K., ‘A Pre-Historic Pebble Hammer from Wingham Well’, KAR, 175, 97-98.

Parfitt, K., and Corke, B., ‘Ringlemere, Woodnesborough’, Canterbury’s Archaeology 2007-2008, CAT 32nd Annual Report, 25-26.

Parfitt, K., and Halliwell, G., ‘An Acheulian Handaxe from Lower Farm, Finglesham, near Deal’, KAR, 178, 178-180.

Plater, A.J., et al., ‘Evidence of episodic coastal change during the late Holocene: the Dungeness barrier complex, SE England’, Geomorphology, 104 (1-2), 47-58.

Rady, J., ‘Thanet Earth, Monkton’, Canterbury’s Archaeology 2007-2008, CAT 32nd Annual Report, 11-24. [Interim note on important prehistoric discoveries]

roman

Ansell, R, ‘A Romano British Cemetery at Borough Green’, KAR, 176, 113-115.

Clewley, G., ‘An Unusual Roman Box-Flue Tile from Dover’, KAR, 177, 158-159.

Davies, M., ‘The evidence of settlement at Plaxtol in the Late Iron Age and Romano-British periods’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 257-278.

Lawson, T., ‘The Population Size of Romano-British Kent: an initial estimate’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 391-394.

Mynott, E., ‘Crofton Roman Villa 2008’, KAR, 175, 100-101.

Neal, D. S., and Cosh, S. R., Roman Mosaics. Vol. 3, South-East Britain. Part 2 (London: Society of Antiquaries of London). [Kent section 352-392.]

Parfitt, K., ‘Preliminary Report on Excavations at Hull Place Roman Villa, Sholden, 2005-7’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 103-112.

Parfitt, K., and Boast, E. and Moody, G., ‘The Roman Villa at Minster-in-Thanet. Part 6: The Villa Enclosure, Buildings 2 and 5’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 333-357.

Philp, B., ‘Excavations at Richborough Roman Fort’, KAR, 175, 88-92.

Swift, E., Style and Function in Roman Decoration: Living with Objects and Interiors (Farnham: Ashgate).

anglo-saxon

Berg, M. and Berg, P., ‘St Augustine of Canterbury’, KAS Newsletter 80, 4.

Burrows, V., ‘The Wolverton Warrior: Alkham Valley near Dover’, KAS Newsletter 81, 14-15.

Clancy, J., ‘The Anglo-Saxon graves found at the Meads, Milton Regis, Sitting-bourne’, KAR, 176, 124-127.

Clancy, J., ‘The Meads Anglo-Saxon finds’, KAR, 178, 187-188.

Holman, D., ‘A late Saxon stirrup-strap mount from Staple’, KAR, 178, 185-187.

Richardson, A., review of S. Suzuki, Anglo-Saxon Button Brooches: Typology, Genealogy, Chronology. Anglo-Saxon Studies 2008 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press), in Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 405-407.

Stevens, S., ‘An Archaeological Investigation at Kingsborough Farm and Kingsborough Manor, Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 129-154. [Includes reference to Anglo-Saxon discoveries.]

Suzuki, S., ‘Anglo-Saxon Button Brooches from East Kent and the Isle of Wight: Typological and Genealogical Perspectives’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 55-76.

Thomas, G., ‘Uncovering an Anglo-Saxon Monastery in Kent’, KAS Newsletter 81, 12-13.

Various, ‘CAT Interim Reports’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 366-373 [includes references to Anglo-Saxon discoveries at Barton Court Grammar School, Canterbury College and Palace Street in Canterbury and at Fordwich Village Hall].

Willis, S., review of G. Moody, The Isle of Thanet: from Prehistory to the Norman Conquest (Stroud: Tempus Publishing, 2008), in Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 401-404. [Includes reference to Merovingian pottery found in Kent.]

Portable Antiquities and Treasure Annual Report 2007, 93-104:

Ringlemere: six grave groups.

Worth: gold coin pendant.

Otford: silver-gilt zoomorphic pin-head.

Ramsgate: gold annular pendant.

Denton with Wootton: silver hooked-tag.

medieval

Barber, L., and Priestley-Bell, G., Medieval Adaptation, Settlement and Economy of a Coastal Wetland: the evidence from around Lydd, Romney Marsh, Kent (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2008).

Berg, M., and Jones, H., Norman Churches in the Canterbury Diocese (Stroud: The History Press).

Connor, M. (trans.), John Stone’s Chronicle: Christ Church Priory, Canterbury, 1417-1472 (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications).

Downer, G., The Stones of St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury (Canterbury: Kent Regionally Important Geological Sites Group)

Draper, G., and Meddens, F., The Sea and the Marsh: the medieval Cinque Port of New Romney revealed through archaeological excavations and historical research (London: Pre-Construct Archaeology).

Fox, P.A., ‘Striving to Succeed in late Medieval Canterbury: the life of Thomas Fokys, publican, mayor and alderman c.1460-1535’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 209-224.

Fraser, J.E., ‘Rochester, Hexham and Cennrígmonaid: the movements of St Andrew in Britain 604-747’, in S.I. Boardman, J.R. Davies and E. Williamson (eds), Saints’ Cults in the Celtic World, Studies in Celtic History 25 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press), 1-17.

Galloway, J.A., ‘Storm flooding, coastal defence and land use around the Thames estuary and tidal river, c.1250-1450’, Journal of Medieval History 35.2, 171-188.

Gelin, M-P., ‘Gervase of Canterbury, Christ Church and the Archbishops’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 60.3, 449-463.

Goacher, D., ‘A Documentary Study relating to Buckland in the Medieval Borgh of Westree in Maidstone, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 394-398.

Goormachtigh, M., and Durham, A., ‘Kentish Place Names: were they ever Celtic?’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 279-293.

Heath, D., ‘Doubt and Ambiguities in the Transmission of Ideas in a Medieval Latin Bestiary: Canterbury Cathedral Archives Lit. Ms D.10’, Skepsi 2.2: Ambiguities, 13-27 [online journal].

Heslop, T.A., ‘Regarding the spectators of the Bayeux Tapestry: Bishop Odo and his circle’, Art History, 32.2, 223-249.

Lisi, O., ‘Royal and Ecclesiastical Law in seventh-century Kent’, in S. Baxter (ed.), Early Medieval Studies in memory of Patrick Wormald, Studies in Early Medieval Britain Series (Farnham: Ashgate), 97-11.

McEwen, A.B.W., ‘The death of Margaret of Scotland, Countess of Kent’, Foundations: Newsletter of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy 3.1, 36.

Pearson, S., ‘Sandwich 1000-1520: the history of the ‘completest medieval town in England’ seen through its buildings’, in The Romney Marsh Irregular 34, 5-18.

Philp, B., ‘A High-Status Medieval Site near New Romney’, KAR, 177, 145-153.

Rady, J., Excavations at North Lane, Canterbury, 1993 and 1996 (Canterbury: CAT).

Semple, J., ‘Old Soar Manor, near Plaxtol: house, land and occupants over seven centuries’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 155-187.

Stevens, S., ‘An Archaeological Investigation at Kingsborough Farm and Kingsborough Manor, Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 129-154.

Ward, B., Anselm of Canterbury: his life and legacy (London: SPCK).

early modern

Bartram, C., ‘Reconstructing Literary Life in the Provinces with special reference to the Elizabethan Gentry of Kent’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 113-128.

Buckley, J., For The Good of This Town: Jurats of Maidstone 1549-1660 (Bearsted: Miscellany Books).

Cuttica, C., ‘Thomas Scott of Canterbury (1566-1635): patriot, civic radical, puritan’, History of European Ideas 34.4 (2008), 475-489.

Ellis, M., ‘Was Sir Thomas Wyatt able to draw on a Culture of Rebellion in Kent in 1554?’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 77-102.

Flisher, L., and Zell, M., ‘The Demise of the Kent Broadcloth Industry in the Seventeenth Century: England’s first De-Industrialization’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 239-256.

Gerhardt, E., ‘We pray you all – to drink ere ye pass’: Bann Criers, Parish Players, and the Henrician Reformation in England’s South-East’, Early Theatre 11.2 (2008), 57-88.

Gibbons, K., ‘Saints in Exile: The Cult of Saint Thomas of Canterbury and Elizabethan Catholics in France’, Recusant History 29.3, 315-340.

Mortimer, I., The Dying and the Doctors : The Medical Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England, RHS Studies in History, New Series 69 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press).

Shepherd, A., ‘Poverty, Labour and the Language of Social Description in Early Modern England’, Past & Present 201.1 (2008), 51-95 [how witnesses to Canterbury and other probate courts described their economic status].

Singleton, A., ‘The Standens: Finerymen and Hammermen’, Cranbrook Journal 20, 4-6 [iron smelting in the Weald 1500-1660].

Sweetinburgh, S., ‘Eternal town servants: Civic elections and the Stuppeny tombs of New Romney and Lydd’, in M.B. Bruun and S. Glasser (eds), Negotiating Heritage: Memories of the Middle Ages, Ritus et Artes, 4: Traditions and Transformation (Turnhout: Brepols).

modern

Ager, A., and Lee, C., ‘Prostitution in the Medway Towns, 1860-1885’, Local Population Studies 83, 39-55.

Aldersen, C., Marden’s Aviation History (Marden: Marden History Group).

Aubry, B., William Cuffay: Medway’s Black Chartist (Rochester: Pocock Press, 2008).

Bates, A., Tunbridge Wells in the Second World War & the Years of Austerity 1939-1953, Royal Tunbridge Wells Civic Society Local History Monograph 11.

Bevan, J., Another Whitstable Trade: an illustrated history of helmet diving (Gosport: Sebmex Ltd.).

Brenchley and Matfield Local History Society, Brenchley and Matfield Revisited: a pictorial record 1842 to 2008 and history of the villages of Brenchley and Matfield in Kent.

Brooks, R.J., Kent: the Battle of Britain: the long hot summer of 1940 (Newbury: Countryside Books).

Chapman, M.T, ‘The Loose Scouts’ Memorial at Crisbrook (John Greville Fulkes & Alfred Vernon Langley)’, Loose Threads: Journal of the Loose Area History Society 9, 44-48 [account of two men from Loose who fought in World War I].

Downes, D. (compiler), Flames over Ash!: Ash and the last labourers’ revolt in 1830 (Ash: Ash Heritage Group).

Glover, M., Whitstable Revisited (Stroud: The History Press).

Hales, I., Maidstone through Time (Stroud: Amberley Publishing).

Hales, I., Maidstone From Old Photographs (Stroud: Amberley Publishing).

Hann, A. (ed.), The Medway Valley: a Kent landscape transformed (Chichester: Phillimore for VCH).

Harding, T., and Goodman, B., Motoring around Kent: the first fifty years (Stroud: Amberley Press).

Haslam, R.M., Reality and Imagery: the grottoes of Margate and Twickenham (Twickenham: Athena Press).

Hiscock, R.H., Gravesend and Northfleet Revisited (Stroud: The History Press).

Hitchings, G., Speldhurst Church: its story and its windows (Speldhurst: Friends of Speldhurst Church) [mainly 19th century].

Hudson, W., The Roman Catholic Church in North Kent 1840-1875: a brief history of the early missions from Gravesend to Erith (Hook: The author).

Hughes, D.T., Flying Past: a history of Sheppey aviation (Stroud: The History Press).

Johnson, J., Southborough War Memorial: the stories of those commemorated (Southborough: Old Dog Press).

Joye, R., and Cunningham, J., Historic Panoramas of Royal Tunbridge Wells. Royal Tunbridge Wells Civic Society Local History Monograph 12.

Kennett, P., Faversham from Old Photographs (Stroud: Amberley Press).

Kent Libraries & Archives, Jane Austen & Tonbridge: a circular walk (Maidstone).

Killingray, D., ‘Grassroots Politics in West Kent since the late Eighteenth Century’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxxix, 33-54.

King, M., ‘“Ill Fares the Land”: A Social History of the Village of Sundridge 1719-1826’ (Friends of St Mary’s Church, Sundridge, 2008).

Lewis, J. (ed.), A Rose by any other name: or a potted history of Oakwood Park Grammar School (Maidstone).

McArdel, C.A., The Early English Barns and the Kent Oasthouse (Farnborough: Camca Publishers).

McDougall, P., Chatham Dockyard 1815-1865: the industrial transformation (Aldershot: Ashgate for the Navy Records Society).

Maidstone Prison, Within the Walls: a history of Maidstone Prison 1819 - ²⁰⁰⁹ (Maidstone: the Prison and Maidstone Museum) [brochure for an exhibition at Maidstone Museum, May - July 2009].

Maylam, R., Lynn, M., and Doel, G., Percy Maylam’s The Kent Hooden Horse (Stroud: The History Press) [includes additional photographs and a biographical essay on Percy Maylam].

Morieux, R., ‘Diplomacy from below and belonging: fishermen and cross-Channel relations in the eighteenth century’, Past & Present 202, 83-125.

Newman, J., Dunton Green: the story of a village in Kent, 2nd edn, (Sevenoaks: Dunton Green PC, 2008).

Newell, N., ‘The Tyro-Pedro-Theo Mystery: a Garlic Thunderbolt from 1820’, Cranbrook Journal 20, 7-10 [political pamphleteers in early 19th-century Cranbrook].

Otford and District Historical Society, Otford the past in pictures II (Otford).

Paine, K., and Paine, J., The Leas Cliff Hall: a history (Folkestone: Robin Hillier Multimedia) DVD.

Parkin, M., Village Remembered, Kemsing: the changing landscape and way of life in Kemsing, a Kentish farming village from the 1880’s to the present day (Kemsing Heritage Centre, 2008).

Pinnock, K., A Canterbury Childhood: scenes of life in a small city between the wars (London: Hale).

Rowley, C., The Lost Powder Mills of Leigh: the history of the gunpowder mills at Leigh, near Tonbridge, Kent, 2nd rev. edn (Leigh).

Rowley, C., The Lost Powder Mills of Leigh. Part 2, Site Gazetteer (Leigh).

Rymill, J., 150 Years of Bridging the Swale (Sittingbourne).

Salter, S., Remembering Ashford (Stroud: The History Press).

Sansum, P., et al., A Revision of the Ancient Woodland Inventory for Ashford borough, Kent: project carried out by the Weald and Downs Ancient Woodland Survey for East Sussex and Kent, November 2006 to March 2009 (Flimwell).

Sears, A. (compiler), Rochester Remembers: World War II memories of a Medway community (Rochester Cathedral, 2008).

Shaw, D., ‘Retail distribution networks in East Kent in the eighteenth century’, in J. Hinks and C. Armstong (eds), Worlds of Print: Diversity in the book trade (Oak Knoll Press and British Library, 2006), 197-206.

Stokes, R., Hereson School one hundredth anniversary, September 11th 2009: ‘Old Hornets never die, they just buzz away’ (Ramsgate: Ellington & Hereson School).

Stoyel, I., Memories of Kentish Watermills: the Rivers Cray & Darent, a nostalgic look at the watermills of two much-changed rivers over 50 years ago (Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 2008).

Tann, P., Faversham: A New History: the most comprehensive history of Faversham and its adjoining parishes (Faversham: Faversham Society) CD [a transcription of Edward Crow’s mid 19th-century manuscript].

Taylor, A., Folkestone through Time (Stroud: Amberley Press).

Tritton, P., ‘Along the turnpike road to Loose and Linton’, Loose Threads: Journal of the Loose Area History Society 9, 6-15.

Tritton, P., The Brett Group, 1909-2009: one family, one firm, one hundred years (Shepperton: Boscun Press) [Robert Brett & Sons started as haulage contractors in 1909 in Canterbury, later diversifying into aggregates and ready-mixed concrete].

Wateringbury Local History Society, More about Wateringbury (Wateringbury, 2008).

Webster, P., ‘George Bell, John Masefield and “The coming of Christ”: context and significance’, Humanitas, The Journal of the George Bell Institute, 10, 2. [concerning a performance of Masefield’s ‘The coming of Christ” in Canterbury Cathedral, 1928].

Wells, P. and Howe, J., Dover Past and Present (Stroud: The History Press).

Walsh, R. (ed.), Sailing Barge Master: the story of a Victorian Bargeman Capt. George Winn (Ware: Chaffcutter Books in association with the Society for Sailing Barge Research).

Wise, P., The Pre-Raphaelite Trail in Kent (Seaford: SB Publications).

theses

Crawley, R., ‘An enigmatic persona: impressions of the character and reputation of Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) from 1585 to 2005. ph.d., University of Lancaster, 2008.

Huitson, T., ‘Hidden spaces, obscure purposes: the medieval ecclesiastical staircase, gallery and upper chamber in East Kent’. ph.d., University of Kent, 2008.

Keys, J.E., ‘The care and education of children in an urban and a rural workhouse, Poplar and Sevenoaks, 1870-1914’. m.a., Open University.

Lee, C., ‘Regulating prostitution in 19th-century Kent: beyond the Contagious Diseases Acts’. ph.d., Open University, 2008.

Legrand, L., ‘Diana and Antoinette Powell-Cotton “interested amateurs”?’. m.a., University of Kent, 2008.

RECENTLY CATALOGUED ARCHIVES

The following is a selection of material in the offices of the Kent Archives Service and the Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre which was catalogued in 2009.

A full list of all accessions received during 2009 is available on the National Archives website at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/accessions/.

centre for Kentish studies

Parish

Ashford St Mary the Virgin: additional records, 16th-20th centuries, including: burial in woollen register, 1678-1744; churchwardens’ accounts, 1589-1888; minutes of Committee for the Alteration of the Church, 1821-1822; tithe accounts, 1784-1807; survey of tithable lands, 1824; vestry minutes, 1757-1914; overseers’ letter book, 1830-1833; Tufton Street Almshouses trustees’ minutes, 1853-1981; roll of copies and original documents assembled by Revd William Warren in 1712 for his history of the church, College and Grammar School (P10).

Ruckinge St Mary Magdalene and Ruckinge Parish Council: poor rate books and related papers, 1871-1926 (P27 and PC267).

Stowting St Mary the Virgin: Photograph of Revd Frederick Wrench, rector 1834-1870, no date [mid 19th century] (P355).

Unofficial

Mary Louisa Dundas, nee Knatchbull (1834-1923), daughter of Norton Joseph Knatchbull, 10th Baronet: family papers, including diaries, press cuttings, passports, photographs and correspondence, 1791-c.1922 (U3723).

Illuminated charter of George IV, creating Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe Baron Penshurst of Penshurst, 1825 (U3813).

Covenant for production of title deeds relating to Allington, Aylesford, Boxley and Barming and plan of Preston Hall Estate, 1876, 1897 (U3831).

Title deeds, including will of James Stanford of Oxted, Surrey, yeoman, relating to a message in Edenbridge, 1688-1737 (U3835).

Miscellaneous documents: title deeds relating to a messuage and land in Birchington, 1598-1710; account relating to the administration, by Mrs Mary Friend, of the goods of John Penny, deceased, 1777; petition, bill and act of Parliament relating to the repeal of certain provisions in the for the building of Sheerness Pier, 1801-1803 (U3836).

Writ of capias to the Sheriff of Kent, commanding him to summon Thomas Allen, John Allen and Richard Sells to attend the court of King’s Bench to answer Alice Hodges, widow, in a plea of trespass, 1741 (U3837).

V.J. Torr (1895-1965), antiquary: letters on churches and secular buildings in Kent and elsewhere, 1919-1921 (U3840).

Miscellaneous title deeds relating to marshland in New Romney and Ivychurch, Langley Farm and Fir Tree Farm, Langley, and the Earl of Romney’s Kentish Estates, 1779-1901 (U3841).

Title deed relating to lands, including salt marsh and fresh marsh, at Eastchurch on the Isle of Sheppey (U3842).

Revd Miles John Stapleton (1801-1830), vicar of Tudeley and rector of Mereworth: manuscript volume of sermons, c1824-1828 (U3844).

Title deeds of Martin’s Farm, Shipbourne, 1555-1770 (U3845).

Releases relating to the will of Joseph Amies of Loose, paper mould maker (died 1859), 1862-1871 (U3846).

Hendley family of Coursehorne, Cranbrook, and Gore Court, Otham (Kirkwood Manuscripts): Otham manor court book, 1486-1688; custumal or precedent book relating to Faversham and its relationship with the Cinque Ports, early-late 17th century; account and memoranda book of the Frebody family of Udimore, Sussex, c.1578-1642; title deeds relating to lands at Cranbrook, Biddenden and elsewhere, 1394-1477; Revd Charles Collins Crump’s notes on Walter of Henley’s ‘Treatise on Husbandry’ and Thomas Hendley’s book, 1848 and c.1850-1859 (U3847).

Battle Abbey, Sussex: part of a late 14th- or early 15th-century cartulary relating to the manor of Angley in Cranbrook, containing more than 100 deeds dating from the mid 13th to the mid 14th centuries (U3848).

School and education

Gravesend United District School Board: minute book, 1875-1882 (C/EB 33).

Gravesend and Northfleet District Education Committee: minutes of Education Committee and sub-committees, 1903-1904; financial return for elementary education, copy of return submitted to Board of Education, 1910 (C/EC 24).

Gravesend, Church Street School: pupil teachers’ training register, 1905-1908 (C/ES 159/7).

Gravesend St James’ Girls’ and Infants’ School: log book, 1894-1916; St James’ Boys’ School: log book, 1897-1926 (C/ES 159/11).

Other

Rural District Councils’ Association (Kent Branch): signed minutes, 1956-1973 and Managing (Executive) Committee minutes, 1936-1965 (Ch 172).

Tenterden: minutes and reports, 1922-1975 (Te).

Faversham: additional records including Town Clerk’s letter books, 1890-1957; Treasurer’s bills and correspondence, 19th and 20th centuries; National Registration Acts Survey, 1915 and 1918; World War I Local and Appeals Tribunals papers 1916-1917; Housing Overcrowding Survey [1950s] (Fa).

Gravesend Borough: valuation lists for Gravesend and Milton, 1896-1914 (Gr FRp).

Blean Union Medical Officer’s report book, 1865-1896 (G/Bl WIm 1).

Gravesend Poor Law Union: District Medical Relief book: Milton next Gravesend, 1853-1855; Assessment Committee minutes, 1911-1923; copy valuation lists for Gravesend and Milton, 1875-1876, 1907-1909, 1912-1916, 1918-1922 (G/G).

Lenham Sanatorium: Admission and discharge register of male and female patients, 1957-1972 (MH/Md/5).

canterbury cathedral archives

Parish and Diocese

Barham Parish Council: minute book, 1998-2002, (PC1).

Canterbury St Gregory: order of service, 1949; form of service for institution of Reverend Pharaoh, 1939; souvenir of centenary of consecration of church, 1952 (U3-105).

Guston St Martin of Tours: Register of services, 1949-1962 (U3-109).

Sutton-by-Dover St Peter and St Paul: PCC Minute Book, 1993-2005 (U3-142).

Betteshanger St Mary: papers re redecoration work to church, including specification of works to be carried out and certificate of completion, 1994-96; inspection of church, 1999; report and recommendations on churchyard and lychgate, 2001 (U3-75).

Adisham Holy Innocents: register of marriages, 1997-2008 (U3-155).

Wye St Gregory and St Martin: register of services, 1999-2003 (U3-174).

Brook St Mary: register of services, 1973-2005; register of banns, 1840-2008 (U3-193).

Westgate St Saviours: register of baptisms, 1946-1997 (U3-272).

Diocese Confirmation returns, 2003 and 2006-2007 (DCb-B/A).

Installation mandates (Dean and Chapter), Canterbury Cathedral, 2009 (DCc-MAND/HC).

Unofficial

Acts of Parliament relating to grants of building and repairing leases by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, 1805-1807 (U514).

Papers relating to marriage settlement of Revd Arthur Reginald Kemble Wells of Northwood House, Herne, 1923-1925 (U515).

Contract for building work at 60 Burgate, Canterbury, 1874 (U516).

Postcard, ‘The Cathedral flood-lit’ taken on the night of the allied victory in Europe, 1945 (U517).

Alfred Edmund Johnson (1882-1968) of Canterbury, confectioner: notes and memorabilia relating to sporting events in Canterbury and elsewhere, including posters, fixture lists, newspaper cuttings and programmes and notebooks containing details of local and national results, late 19th-early 20th centuries (U519): personal papers, 1839-1992, including diaries, 1913-1958, notebooks, postcards, photographs and prints, and genealogical material (U520).

Stanley G. Sayer, company officer for the Canterbury branch of the National Fire Service: diaries, notebooks and records relating to Canterbury Fire Service, including photographs, plans and printed material, 1943-1944 (U521).

Reverend Robert James Edmund Boggis (1863-1951), sub-warden of St Augustine’s College, Canterbury, 1895-1907: prints, postcards and glass slides relating to St Augustine’s College and Abbey and other sites in Canterbury, 1784-early 20th century (U522).

Christopher Buckingham: collection of research notes and manuscripts, pamphlets and prints and drawings relating to churches in Canterbury and elsewhere in Kent, c.1960-1985 (U523).

Deeds relating to 13 messuages in King’s Terrace, King’s Road, Herne Bay, 1833-1883 (U525).

Canterbury Lying-In Charity for the Relief of Poor Married Women: rule books, lists of subscribers and statements of accounts and reports, 1815-1908 (U526).

Telegrams and a photograph relating to Canterbury Cathedral Fire of 1872 (U527).

Plan of Canterbury Cathedral, precincts and surrounding area, F.J. Pollman, 1894 (Map 216).

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[The East Kent Archives Centre does not hold parish records.]

School

Elizabeth Carter School, Deal: scrap book, library acquisitions register and history of the school, 1937x1968 (C/ES112/13).

Dover Road Council School for Girls, Folkestone: admission register, 1876-1893 (C/ES148/6).

Holywell County Secondary School for Girls, Folkestone: admission registers and plans, 1927-1973 (C/ES148/13).

Lydd Primary School: punishment book, 1900-1981 (C/ES237).

Photographs and copy plans of Ramsgate schools, 1932-1939 (R/U3).

Charity

Dover Institute (formerly Dover Working Man’s Institute): additional records, 1852-1935 (EK/Ch3).

Deal Relief in Need (formerly known as the Deal Poor Charities): minutes, reports and accounts, 1981-2000 (EK/Ch6).

Hythe and District Gardeners’ Society: minutes, accounts, newsletters, etc, 1958-2004 (EK/Ch14).

Kent Federation of Amenity Societies: minutes and accounts, etc., 1988-2003 (EK/Ch26).

Folkestone Co-operative Society: subscription register, 1890-1902 (EK/Ch24).

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB): South East Kent Members’ Group: minutes, accounts, newsletters and programmes, 1983-1998 (EK/Ch25).

Soroptomist International Folkestone: minutes, 1964-1974 (F/Ch7).

Boulden and Ramblers Cricket Clubs, Folkestone: scoring books, 1929-1970 (F/Ch11).

Unofficial

Historical notes on tree planting and ownership of Maydeken, Barham and beating the bounds of Denton parish in 1819, 1903 (EK/U103).

The Three Horseshoes Public House and 8 The Street, West Hougham: deeds, 1645-2002 (EK/U106).

Miscellaneous Shepway documents, 1759x1943: letter from Robert Tournay of Hythe, 1759; documents of John Minter, solicitor of Folkestone, relating to the estate of Bennett, Channey and Tolputt family members, 1873-1898; and manuscript and typescript lists of Lydd men who served during World Wars I and II, etc, 1915x1943 (EK/U109).

Inventory of Captain Harvey: The Lodge, Upper Deal, 1861 (EK/U111).

Personal diaries of William Hudson, sexton, parish clerk and master of the Endowed School, Ash next Sandwich, 1871-1878 (EK/U113).

Papers of Tess Cockin, including prospectuses of Stone House Preparatory School, Broadstairs, 1920x1928 (EK/U114).

Gift of a messuage and two annexed tenements in Sandwich to Vincent Engeham,1533 (EK/U115).

Sir Moses Montefiore: poster celebrating his centenary, 1884 (EK/U132).

Commissioners for Assessed Taxes, Shepway: minutes, 1834-1860 (EK/U144).

Land in Herne Bay and St Margaret at Cliffe: abstracts of title, 1871-1874 (EK/U183).

Waldershare House, Waldershare Park: plan showing the wallplate/window frame, 1802 (EK/U220).

Chilton Farm, St Lawrence, Ramsgate: conveyance of part of a rent charge, 1854 (EK/U222).

Letter of Confraternity: Henry, prior of Dover, to Richard Dering, Lieutenant of Dover Castle, 1497 (EK/U229).

Letter written from Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) headquarters, Dover, not dated [c.1940s] (EK/U230).

Each End Farm, Woodnesborough: lease, 1706/1707 (EK/U233).

Miscellaneous records, mainly relating to Deal and district, 1454-1920 (EK/U237).

St Monica’s School, Kingsdown, near Deal: inspection report, 1930 (EK/U239).

Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, Margate: patient’s photographs and reminiscences, 1928-2009 (EK/U241).

Release of Margate properties, including the Clifton Baths and The Grotto, under the will of Thomas Dalby Reeve, 1895 (EK/U244).

W.A. Hurrell, Tilmanstone Colliery documents: authorisation form and wage slip, 1929-1930 (EK/U245).

Grant of messuage and land in Fulmede, Deal, 1502 (EK/U246).

Legacy and annuity receipt for the estate of Mary Ann Rider of Ramsgate, 1840 (R/U38).

Map of the parish of Lyminge, 1839 (F1960/1).

Folkestone Band of Hope and Women’s Adult School: registers, 1896-1913 (F1975/24).

Cottage and land at Gibraltar Lane, Hawkinge (formerly in the parish of Folkestone): deeds, 1834-1952 (F1984/5).

Other

Ebenezer Congregational Church, Ramsgate: burial ground account book, 1840-1862, and Sunday School Committee minutes, 1946-1955 (R/N1).

Old Zion Chapel (formerly Grace Chapel), Folkestone: deeds, 1862-1877 (EK/U240).

Dover and Deal Methodist Circuit plans, 2008-2010 (M12/1).

Deal Borough: main road expenditure accounts, 1896-1901 (De).

Dover Harbour Board plans in the case of DHB v London, Chatham and Dover Railway Company concerning construction of railway affecting Limekiln Street and Pier properties, 1860-1862 (DHB).

Thanet Poor Law Union: terrier, Minster in Thanet, 1863 (G/Th).

Canterbury Group Hospital Management Committee: audited final accounts, 1948-1974 (MH/HA1).

Isle of Thanet Hospital Management Committee: Endowment Fund ledgers, 1954-1961 (MH/HA2).

Ashford Hospital: casualty register, 1967 (MH/SEK4).

Willesborough Hospital: register of operations, 1958-1961 (MH/SEK5).

Royal Victoria Hospital, Folkestone: registers of operations, 1953-1970 (MH/SEK6).

Kent and Canterbury Hospital: legacy book, 1934-1951 (MH/T4).

Ripple Parish Council: minutes, 1982-1996 (PC110).

Lydden Parish Council: minutes and financial and allotment records, 1913-1999 (PC117).

Ash Parish Council: minutes, accounts and declarations of parish councillors, 1894-1981 (PC121).

Alkham Parish Council: financial records, 1895-1998 (PC122).

John Baily and Company, chemist of Margate: ledger, 1929-1970 (R/U72).

Girlings, solicitors: deeds relating to properties in Thanet, 1781-1988 (R/U83).

Kent Aircraft Services Ltd and Thanet Aviation Ltd: business documents, 1931-1933 (R/U112).

Appointment of John Seath Cramp as ‘Purveyor of Essence of Shrimps and Potted Shrimps’ to Queen Victoria 1837 (R/U114).

Folkestone Charter Trustees: copy minutes, 1974-2004 (CT/Fo).

Photocopied documents: deed relating to the partition of the Manor of Old Langport, Lydd, dated 1565 and four muster rolls for Birchington, dated 1599 (EK/TR7).

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Darenth St Margaret: confirmation register, 1960-2008 (P109).

New Brompton New Baptist Sunday School: photo album, 1898-1899 (DE1200).

Strood St Nicholas: plan of Strood parish boundary, 1935 (P150b).

Temple School, Strood: records including, governors’ minutes and agendas, 1946-2009; logbooks, 1936-2009; admissions registers, 1940-1991; correspondence relating to proposed closure of school, 2007; booklet for the official opening, 1936; notes on the early history of the school [pre 1961]; programmes for the dedication of the new school buildings, 1964, and the grand re-opening, 1995 (C/ES/150T).

North Aylesford Petty Sessional division: licensing registers, 1959-1972 (PS/NA).

Rochester City Petty Sessional District: licensing register, 1962-1974 (RCA/J2).

Cuxton Parish Council: minutes, 2002-2008 (PC108).

St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Rochester: Trustees’minutes, 1859-1873 (CH2).

Robson family: miscellaneous items comprising: rent card, 1961-1962 (Chatham Borough); certificate re anti-gas training, 1938; business card no date [c.1940s] (DE1204).

Reeby family papers, 1881-1977: personal and family papers of Miss Gladys Kate Reeby (1888-1976) of Gillingham, including material relating to her teaching career and documents connected with her father, Sidney Reeby (1861-1933), a shipwright in Chatham Dockyard (DE1206).

Medway Towns: deeds various, 1750-1919 (DE1207).

Carden and Godfrey, Architects and Building Consultants (based in London): papers relating to projects tendered for, and work undertaken, relating to Rochester Cathedral Precincts, 1959-1987 (DE1203).

Armament Supply Department: Chatham District (Upnor Section): staff photograph, 1943 (DE1202).