Kentish Bibliography
ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF KENTISH ARCHaeoLOGY AND HISTORY
Compilers: D. Saunders (Kent History & Library Centre),
K. Parfitt, Prof. D. Killingray.
A bibliography of books, articles, reports, pamphlets published in the calendar year 2021, unless otherwise stated.
general and multi-period
Allen, T.G., ‘Prehistoric to Medieval Discoveries Along the A21 Tonbridge-Pembury Dualling Scheme’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxlii, 188-234.
Ahmet, J., 50 Finds From Kent: objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme (Stroud: Amberley Publishing).
Betts, P., An Obscure and Inconsiderable Parish: a history of Frittenden (Tenterden: Canterley Publishing Ltd).
Biddulph, E. et al., London Gateway: settlement, farming and industry from prehistory to the present in the Thames Estuary: archaeological investigations at DP World London Gateway Port and Logistics Park, Essex, and on the Hoo Peninsula, Kent (Oxford: Oxford Archaeology).
Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell Press), ‘Introduction’, 1-21.
Canterbury Archaeological Trust., Canterbury’s Archaeology 2019-2020, 44th Annual Report (Canterbury: CAT).
Flintham, D., ‘Centre for Experimental Military Archaeology at Detling’, KAS, 116, 17-19.
Gibbons, V. and T., ‘The Middle/Late Iron Age and Roman Finds made by Antoinette Powell-Cotton on the Foreshore and Cliff Tops at Minnis Bay, Birchington’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxlii, 81-104.
Lincoln, M., ‘Afterword’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell Press), 487-491.
McGonigal, C., The Deedes Family in Hythe, Kent 1580-1800 (Hythe: Hythe Civic Society Local History Group).
Margetts, A., The Wandering Herd: the medieval cattle economy of South-East England c.450-1450 (Oxford: Windgather Press).
Newell, N., ‘Cranbrook In Hundred And Lathe’ Cranbrook Journal, 31, 1-4 (2020).
Nicholls, H., ‘Evidence of Late Iron Age/Early Roman Settlement and an Early Medieval Strips Field System at Shadoxhurst’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxlii, 118-31.
Pattison, P., The Great Tower of Dover Castle – history, architecture and context (Swindon: Historic England, 2020).
Pittman, S., Crockenhill: past and present (Tenterden: Canterley Publishing).
Rady, J., Evidence for a Neolithic midden, later prehistoric and Anglo-Saxon settlement at the site of the new Ellington and Hereson school, Ramsgate. Occas. Paper 13 (Canterbury: CAT).
Stoodley, N. and Cosh, S.R., The Romano-British Villa and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Eccles, Kent: a summary of the excavations by Alex Detsicas with a consideration of the archaeological, historical and linguistic context (Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology).
Varrall, C., Engineering Richborough (Deal: Addelam Books) [development of Richborough from Roman times].
Woodhams, J., Canterbury in 50 buildings (Stroud: Amberley Publishing).
Young, C., ‘Kent’s Changing Coastal Landscape: a view across space and time (or “Where the land meets the sea!)”’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 25-81.
prehistoric
Beresford, F., ‘A Further Refitting Reduction Sequence of Early Middle Palaeolithic Laminar Flakes from Stoneham’s Pit, Crayford, Kent’, KAS, 114, 38-43.
Philp, B., A. Woodcock and P. Couldrey, Prehistoric Sites on the Kent M25 Motorway (Dover: KARU).
Sparey-Green, C., ‘Bigbury Camp and its Associated Earthworks: recent archaeological research’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxlii, 31-58.
roman
Blanning, E., ‘Trade and Industry during the Roman period’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 171-194.
Boden, D. and J. Weekes, ‘Near the Heart of Romano-British Durovernum: excavations at 70 Stour Street, Canterbury’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxlii, 286-297.
Cramp, G., ‘The Re-Discovery of Hartlip Roman Villa’, KAS, 116, 22-25.
Goacher, D., ‘The Roman Building at Chart Sutton Revisited’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxlii, 253-272.
Philp, B. and J. Wilson, The Discovery of a Roman Settlement in the Centre of Gravesend (Dover: KARU, 2020).
Topham, G. et al., ‘The Lympne Roman Settlement: geophysics results’, KAS, 114, 24-28.
Wallis, S., ‘Evidence of Late Roman Settlement near the site of the Church Hall, Kemsing’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxlii, 273-285.
anglo-saxon
Parfitt, K., ‘Defending the Kent Coast – Roman to Anglo-Saxon’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 85-109.
Richardson, A., ‘Far-Fetched Treasures: the maritime networks of the Kingdom of Kent’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 195-214.
medieval
Andrews, M., Coin Hoarding in Medieval England and Wales, c.973-1544: behaviours, motivations, and mentalités (Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2019) [Includes Kent examples].
Calazza, M., ‘Saints and Weirs: late medieval and early modern communities within a small island landscape in North Kent’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 401-415.
Carter, M., ‘The Late Monastery of Boxley in the Countie of Kent: court of augmentation accounts for the dissolving of Boxley Abbey’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxlii, 176-187.
Cole, D., Medieval Tonbridge Revealed (Tonbridge: Tonbridge History Society).
Dawkes, G., The Medieval Hospital of St Mary & Other Features: excavations at Friary Place, Strood, Kent (Portslade, East Sussex: SpoilHeap Publications, 2020).
De Beer, L. and N. Speakman, Thomas Becket: murder and the making of a saint (London: The British Museum) [850th anniversary].
Draper, G., ‘Urban Privilege? The advantages and enjoyment of Cinque Ports’ status in the Middle Ages’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh, (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 277-297.
Harrington, D., ‘The Manor of Elverton in the Parish of Stone next Faversham’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxlii, 235-252.
Holman, J. et al., Medieval New Romney A Town Shaped by Water: the archaeology of the first time sewer. Occas. Paper No. 12 (Canterbury: CAT, 2020).
Jobson, A., ‘The Maritime Defences of Kent from the loss of Normandy to the Hundred Years’ War’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh, (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 111-131.
Kowaleski, M., ‘Maritime Trade and Industry in Medieval Kent’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 215-233.
Logan, F.D. (ed.), The Register of Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury 1375-1381 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2020).
Raven, M., ‘William Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon, and the County of Kent: a study of magnate service under Edward III’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxlii, 59-80.
Rose, S., ‘The Political and Strategic Importance of the Port of Sandwich in the late Middle Ages c.1340-1500’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 371-385.
Shaw, D., ‘When was Canterbury Cathedral’s Medieval Library Building Demolished?’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxlii, 321-326.
Smith, K. and D. Lloyd, ‘Alexander Iden, Captor of Jack Cade (1450): his family and the evidence of a memorial in Penshurst church’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxlii, 311-321.
Splarn, L., ‘St Thomas Becket and the Pilgrim Souvenirs in Canterbury’s Collections’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxlii, 299-310.
Stevens, S., ‘A Middle Iron-Age Bloomery and other features at Heartenoak Road, Hawkhurst, Kent’, Wealden Iron, 41, 4-22.
Sweetinburgh, S., ‘“Ready to go to Sea”: maintaining fishing families in late medieval Hythe’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 387-400.
Webster, P., The Cult of Thomas Becket in the Plantagenet World 1170 -1220 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press).
Allen, T. and Martin, T.F., The Castle Hill Brickworks and Somerhill Estate: post medieval discoveries on the A21 Tonbridge-to-Pembury Dualling Scheme, Kent (Oxford: Oxbow Archaeology).
Andrews, J., ‘The Early Modern Period 1500-1700: trade and industry’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 235-252.
Bartram, C., ‘“Dost Thou Know Dover?”: locating Dover in the early modern literary imagination c.1500-1660’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 433-450.
Dunster, S., ‘Maritime Communities in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Kent’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 325-343.
Fox, Paul A., Great Cloister: a lost Canterbury tale, a history of the Canterbury cloister, constructed 1408-14, with some account of the donors and their coats of arms (Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2020).
Wedd, I., ‘Gavelkind on the Ground, 1550-1700’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxlii, 1-30.
Whitewright, J. (ed.), The Stirling Castle, a 70-gun ship lost in the Great Storm of 1703. Archaeological Investigations 1979-2009 (Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020) [wreck on Goodwin Sands].
Wyatt, G., ‘Early Modern Thanet: an open society’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 417-432.
modern
Adams, E., Rolvenden School: a history (Tenterden: Canterley Publishing Ltd) [3 centuries of history].
Ashwin-Kean, C., Herne Bay War Memorial Park: celebrating 100 years (Herne Bay: Herne Bay Historical Records Society, 2019).
Barham, William., Forty Years A Potter: Dorothy Watson and the Bridge Pottery, 1921-1961 (Biddenden: YouByYou Books, 2020).
Bull, A., Walking Charles Dickens’ Kent (Ammanford: Sigma Leisure).
Cheeseman, C., Sittingbourne’s Forgotten Bus Operators: Jessop’s of Frinstead and others (Walsall: Omnibus Society, 2020).
Cole, D., The Tonbridge Knights Walk: 14 circular walks through the Weald of Kent (Kings Lynn: Biddles Books Ltd).
Cromie, D., ‘Minutes from Disaster: a year of boardroom troubles on the London Chatham and Dover Railway 1866-1867’, Invicta, 97, 4-15.
Crosse, J., ‘Westerham A Lost Heritage’, Steam Railway, 525, (Nov-Dec), 72-77.
Down, C., ‘Cement Railways of South-East England (26-28): Kent Works, Stone’, The Industrial Locomotive, Part 1, 179, 289-306; Part 2, 180,1-12; Part 3, 181, 33-48.
Edwards, E., ‘A Rich Diversity: modern Kent coast communities’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 345-368.
Eeles, D., ‘Sandwich Haven: Part 1 - When Sail was King’, Topsail, 54, 11-38.
Floate, M., Football Grounds in Kent: a visual history (Yorkshire: Newlands Photographic, 2020).
Franklin, G. et al., Ramsgate: the town and its seaside heritage (Swindon: Historic England, 2020).
Fridman, I., Foreigners, Aliens, Citizens: Medway and its Jewish community (UK: Birch Leaf Press, 2020).
Goodridge, D.M., Warders Medical Centre: the history of a practice in Tonbridge and Penshurst 1808-2021 (Kent: David Goodridge).
Granville, V., Sevenoaks in a Time of Change: dynamism diversity resilience (Sevenoaks: Silver Pines Press, ٢٠٢٠).
Gunnill, G., ‘The Man Who Captured Sandwich’, Bygone Kent, 42, 4, 14-23 [photographer William Boyer 1827-1897].
Hellicar, C., ‘Handcross – a forgotten tragedy’, Bromleag, 60, 11-21 [1906 annual day trip of the Orpington volunteer fire brigade; an early motorised transport accident].
Hendy, J., Chatham Steamers: the paddle steamers of the London Chatham & Dover railway (Romney Marsh: Invicta Maritime).
Hendy, J., Rails across the Harbour: Folkestone and its branch line (Romney Marsh: Invicta Maritime, 2020).
Holden, C., Cold War Kent (Stroud: Amberley Publishing).
Holyoake, G., Secret Deal & Walmer (Stroud: Amberley Publishing, ٢٠٢٠).
Hopkins, D., ‘James Blackman’s Letters to the Governor of New South Wales on Illicit Distillers, 1806’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxlii, 330-332.
Opkins, D., ‘James Blackman’s letters to the governor of New south Wales on the illicit dstillers,1806’,
Hubbard, R. and G. Downer, The Smugglers Trail: geology of the Thanet coastline from Broadstairs to Cliftonville (Kent: GeoConservation Kent).
James, J., The East Kent Railway and the Knees Woodland Railway (Chippenham: Mainline & Maritime, 2020).
James, J., The Swanley New Barn Railway at 35 (Chippenham: Mainline & Maritime).
Kent Historic Defences Group, ‘From the Great War to the Cold War: and other conflicts’, KAS, 113, 14-18.
Killingray, D., ‘Maritime Kent: trade and industry since 1700’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 253-273.
Killingray, D., ‘Black People in Sevenoaks since 1600: history and research methods’, The Local Historian, 51, 3, 297-308.
King, D., King of Maidstone (Cranbrook: Stationery Express UK) [history of King’s, a clothing store in Gabriel’s Hill, Maidstone].
Lambert, A., ‘Kent’s Role in the National Defence Strategy 1815-1865: dockyards and harbours in the age of steam’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 149-167.
LeGear, R., ‘Margate Caves’, KAS, 116, 6-8.
Marsh, B. and D. Killingray, ‘Empire, Race, and Diversifying Kent’s history, c.1500-1840’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 299-323.
Marshall, P.J., ‘The Kentish Associations of a Great West Indian Planter: Sir William Young (1725-1788) and his Monument at Chartham’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxlii, 105-117.
Moss, M. L., The Hollingbourne Doctors (United Kingdom: Pixum, 2020).
Mills, P. and D. Swarbrick, Military Matters in Tonbridge: the impact of the Great War on a small market town (Maidstone: Absolute Creative Print, 2020).
Milton, H. and P. Francis, Kent County Cricket Grounds: 150 years of cricket across the garden of England (Gravesend: H. Milton).
Nisbet, H.A., ‘Edward Hall’s ‘big idea’ for a Dartford Ship Canal: and the measures taken to bring it to pass’, Dartford Historical & Antiquarian Newsletter, 58, 11-17.
Ormrod, D. and G. Rommelse (eds), War, Trade and the State: Anglo-Dutch Conflict, 1652-1689 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press) [1667 Dutch Medway raid].
Oulton, C.W. de la L., ‘“Fat persons bathing whose appearance was most disgusting”: Entertaining Thanet in the Age of Steam’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 451-466.
Powell, B., ‘Kent or “Sussex Foot” turnwrest ploughs’, Heavy Horse World, (Spring 2019), 55-57.
Rogowski, R., Brasted: the past in pictures (Sevenoaks: Brasted Society).
Romyn, M. (ed.), Kent’s Sporting Memories (Maidstone: Kent County Council).
Rootes, A., ‘A Cure in the Countryside’, Bygone Kent, 42, 4, 4-13 [Benenden chest hospital].
Sanders, F., Pluckley was my Playground: a boyhood memoir 1919-26 (Tenterden: Canterley Publishing, 2020).
Sargent, A. and C. Varrall, From Rink to The Regent: seafront entertainment in Deal since the 1870s (Deal: BooksEast, 2020).
Scott-Morgan, J., East Kent Railway (Barnsley: Pen & Sword).
Shotter, H., ‘Lenham Camp’, KAS, 116, 9-11.
Smith, V., ‘Surviving Doomsday? The cold war bunker at Gravesend’, KAS, 116, 12-16.
Smith, V.T.C., ‘Kent’s Twentieth-Century Military and Civil Defences. Part 5 – Swale’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxlii, 148-175.
Stanley, J., ‘Rhododendrons and Raids: Dover naval women’s daily life and emotions in 1918’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 467-486.
Taylor, I., ‘The Sevenoaks Banking Fraud and its Aftermath 1888-1891’, The Local Historian, 51, 2, 100-12.
Taylor, I., ‘Rail, Risk and Repasts – The Dining Culture of the London, Chatham & Dover Railway, 1888-1899’, Archaeologia Cantiana, cxlii, 132-147.
Titheridge, A., Heartbeat of Hythe: story of the Hythe pier railway (Southampton: Ceratopia Books).
Tritton, P., ‘Silver Ghosts & Flying Eagles: Henry Royce’s Kent connection’, KAS, 14, 47-51.
Ware, C., ‘To Defend the Coast’, in Bligh, S., E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh, (eds), Maritime Kent Through the Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell), 133-147.
Warren, R., ‘Cranbrook, Sugar and the Legacy of Slavery’, Cranbrook Journal, 31, 7-12.
Williams, C., ‘The ‘Hales Palace’ Estate Map (1715) Recovered to Canterbury’. Archaeologia Cantiana, cxlii, 326-330.
Wright, D., ‘City of Canterbury Consolidated Probate Index’, Genealogists Magazine, 33, 11, 437-439.
RECENTLY CATALOGUED ARCHIVES
The following is a selection of material in Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Kent History & Library Centre and Medway Archives Centre which was catalogued in 2020/2021.
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Canterbury Cathedral
Sacrists’ Custumals, 1949 and 1980s (DCc/MR/B/SAC/C/1-2)
Library scrapbook compiled by William Urry, 1931-1960s (DCc/LA/12/3)
Photographs of Canterbury by Francis Frith or Francis Frith & Co photographer, Canterbury, late 19th-early 20th century (DCc/Photo/ALB/12)
Watercolour by John Coney (1786-1833) from the south quire aisle/south-east transept, looking north-east, 1809 (DCc/PRINDRAW/2/J/13)
Map of Eastry Manor/Court by Jared Hill, 1728 (Map/228)
Theological treatise fragment, late 15th century (DCc/AddMs/129/69)
Cathedral Tombs, album of photographs 1888-1890s (DCc/Photo/A/46)
Photograph of Frederic William Farrar, Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, in a family group, c.1895 (DCc/Photo/A/47)
Photograph of interior of Howley-Harrison Library, looking east, c.1890s (DCc/Photo/A/48)
‘Nunc Sancte Nobis Spiritus’, anthem by Andrew Parnell dedicated to the Very Rev. Robert Willis on the 30th anniversary of his ordination, 2003 (DCc/MusicMs/160)
Canterbury City and District
Translation by Frank Higenbottam, City Librarian, of John Twyne’s ‘De rebus Albionicis’, 1950s (CC/W/28/12)
Papers relating to Lefevres/Debenhams Department Store, 1905-1985 (CC/W/36)
19th-century correspondence from Home Office to Canterbury Clerk of the Peace relating to Quarter Sessions (CC/J/Q/M/1)
Tower House visitors’ books, 1955-1993 (CC/M/7)
Specification of drainage works for Blue Coat School premises, police station and six cottages in Stour Street, 1871 (CC/P/2/395)
Valuation lists for the parish of Canterbury, 1910 and 1912 (CC/Q/GB/T/5/10/79-80)
Collector’s Ledger, 1933-1937 (CC/Q/GB/T/10/1)
Two deeds relating to property in St Paul’s parish, Canterbury, described as the Smith’s Forge and as property in Love Lane, 1608 and 1663 (CC/W/35)
Schedule of City documents by Cyprian Rondeau Bunce, 1794 (CC/Z/4)
Papers relating to the Canterbury Michaelmas Fair, 1874-1888 (CC/BB/469)
Correspondence from Home Office to Canterbury Clerk of the Peace relating to Quarter Sessions, 19th-century (CC-J/Q/M/1)
Property conveyance deeds and bond relating to the city of Canterbury, 18th-early 20th century (CC/W/33-34)
Rural and Urban Districts
Bridge-Blean: rate produce books, 1950-1967; grand summary of the general rates, 1962-1974; record of total rateable values, 1950s-1984 (RD/BB/O/R/1/1-6)
Herne Bay Urban District Council: Inspector of Nuisances Journal, 1889-1892 (UD/HB/O/N/1/24)
Parishes
Ash, St Nicholas (U3/274) Addl.
Canterbury Cathedral: Book of Condolence signed in the Cathedral after the death of Nelson Mandela, 2013 (U3/100/28/16)
Canterbury, SS Martin and Paul (U3/81) Addl.
Chartham, St Mary (U3/154) Addl.
Faversham, St Mary (U3/146) Addl.
Godmersham, St Lawrence (U3/117) Addl.
Hawkinge, St Luke (U3/293) Addl.
Herne Bay, St Bartholomew (U3/286) Addl.
Hernhill, St Michael (U3/235) Addl.
Littlebourne, St Vincent (U3/73) Addl.
Margate, St John (U3/140) Addl.
Molash, St Peter (U3/219) Addl.
Sturry, St Nicholas (U3/48) Addl.
Temple Ewell, SS Peter and Paul (U3/184) Addl.
Unofficial
Scrapbook maintained by Mrs Mary Jakeman, [mother of Paul Jakeman], chorister 1958-1962 (U166/X/1/1)
Photographs of the performance of Peasants’ Priest by Laurie Lee in the Chapter House, 1947 (U167/P/G/36)
Two drawings by Erwin Bossanyi for the Salvation window in Canterbury Cathedral, and two further drawings, 1950s and 1960s (U330/3)
Wallace Harvey family tree, 20th century; copy of will of James Head of Willesborough, Kent, 1818 (U467/L/78/1/8, L/161/1)
8 charters relating to Caldicote manor, Canterbury, and other places, 1321-1429 (U578)
Collection of printed items relating to Thomas Becket, including cuttings and commemorative envelopes, late 19th century-1997 (U582)
Diary and reminiscences of Audrey Beecham, former resident of the Precincts (U583)
Papers relating to Dr Allan Wicks, Cathedral Organist 1961-1988 (U581)
Set designs, seemingly for performance of The Young King by Laurence Binyon in the Chapter house, 1934 (U585)
Photographic print of painting of nativity scene from 1928 performance of John Masefield’s The Coming of Christ (U586/1)
Design for screen of Buffs Chapel and drawing by Dennis Woodcock, c1962 (U587)
From the Ken Reedie Collection: carte de visite photographs, mostly portraits, with some cathedral and other local scenes, late 19th century; stereoscopic photographs of cathedral and other local scenes, late 19th century; glass plate slides of depictions of murder of St Thomas Becket, early 20th century (U588/A-C)
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Charities and Societies
Alkham Women’s Institute minutes, 1992-1997 (Ch170/B/4/A/1/2/4)
Records of the Tonbridge Council of Social Services, Old People’s Welfare Committee, and High Halden Residential Home, c.1939-1993 (Ch191)
Minutes of the Trustees of Huggens College, Northfleet, 1963-1973 (Ch63/A5)
Royal School for Deaf Children, Margate, 1792-2011 (Ch192) NB. cataloguing in progress but enquiries welcome about this collection
Hospitals
Princess Christian’s Hospital, Hildenborough: Visitors’ Book, 1911-1947; Admission and discharge register: male and female patients, 1909-1938 (MH/TW2)
Leybourne Grange Hospital: Daily Journal of Matron, 2 Mar-31 Aug 1940 (MH/TW1/Am1)
Local Government
GSGS [Geographical Section, General Staff] military maps of the county, c.1942 (C/Ad1p/10)
Superannuation Committee attendance book, 1937-1972 (C/C/CA/2/15)
County Council blue books, 1991-1993 (C/C/P4/21-23)
KEC Library Sub-Committee reports, 1921-1974 (C/C/R/8/1/2/1-5)
County Surveyor’s annual reports (C/C/R/23/1/53-55)
County of Kent Official Diary, 1933-1939, 1947-1977 (C/C/H/2/1-36)
KEC Library Sub-Committee minutes, 1921-1974 (C/C/MC/15/14/1-5)
Tunbridge Wells Borough Police Force: Weekly pay sheets, 1926-1927 (C/PO/22/9/11)
Tunbridge Wells Borough Police Force: Weekly pay sheets, 1941-1942 (C/PO/22/9/12)
Parish, councils, schools
Alkham, photocopies of school log book, 1865-1900 (C/E/S/5)
Ashford, St Mary: registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, confirmations, banns, services, 1915-2005; vestry, APCM and PCC minutes, 1880-1971 (P10 addl)
Boxley, SS Mary & All Saints: marriage register, 2005-2017 (P40)
Capel-le-Ferne, photocopies of school admission register, 1911-1944; 1972-1997, (C/E/S/5B)
Charing Church of England Primary School: Logbook, admission registers, accounts, 1930-2014 (C/ES 78 addl)
Detling, SS Martin of Tours: marriage register, 1999-2017 (P117)
East Malling St James County Primary School (Infants): logbooks, 1951-1975 (C/ES 242 addl)
Farningham, SS Peter & Paul: Roper’s Charity minutes and accounts, 1909-1982 (P145 addl)
Luddesdown parish council: Minutes, accounts etc, 1894-2018 (PC322)
Shoreham, SS Peter and Paul: vestry minutes, 1782-1873 (P335 addl)
Ulcombe parish council: minutes, 1894-2000; Annual Parish Meeting minutes, 1911-1977; receipts and payments book, 1974-1998, etc. (PC321)
Unofficial
Box formerly containing samples of Hollingworth Rag Bond paper, 20th century (U1999/B13/4)
Elmsted Court farm records: correspondence, family and financial records, 1931-early 21st century (U2916 addl.)
Plans for restoration work at Bore Place, Chiddingstone, 1909-1912 (U3948)
Title deed for property in Dering Road, Ashford, 1875 (U4112)
Title deeds for Gray’s Farm and related property, Chislet, 1705-1829 (U4120)
Records relating to the Chequers Inn, Lamberhurst, and other areas in Kent, 1856-1987 (U4131)
Title deeds relating to Boresisle Farm/ Silcock Farm and related land in Tenterden, 1777-1857 (U4160)
Notebook of Richard Fermor of Harrietsham, c.1812 (U4201)
Title deeds for Leith Villa, Dover, 1883-1925 (U4217)
Promotional material from the Herne Bay and Kent area Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament [CND] Groups, 1982-2019 (U4220)
Tenancy records for 305 Loose Road, Maidstone, 1956-1957 (U4221)
Training notebook of 2nd Lieutenant C.S. Duncan, West Kent Regiment, 1940-1941 (U4227)
Kent Local Pharmaceutical Committee records, 1912-1987 (U4230)
Map of Court Lodge Farm, East Farleigh, 1926 (U4182)
Kent County Mental Hospital, Maidstone: commemoration booklet for opening of the Admission Hospital and Convalescent Villas, 1938 (U4187)
Sevenoaks Parliamentary Division Liberal Association: minutes, 1923-1982 (U4194)
Title deeds: land in Clarendon Street and Clarendon Place, Dover, 1881-1938 (U4242)
Title deeds: Walmer Cottage, Gillows Bush, Walmer, 1829-1896 (U4200)
Estate map: manor of Rippley alias Ripple in Ripple and Sutton by Dover, by Francis Hill, 1709 (U4224)
Bond of John le Botilet to Geoffrey Nichol, secured by land in Sevenoaks called ‘La Teaghe’, 1274 (U4225)
Title deeds and probate documents: property in Dover and Deal, 1742-1950 (U4229)
Table of Kent manors in Domesday Book, annotated by Edward Hasted; ‘Verses on Den Hill’, late 18th cent. (U4232)
Title deed: Ramherst alias Culverhouse Grove, mills, and land in Leigh and Tonbridge, 1678 (U4234)
Title deeds: land to north of Tenterden High Street, and Strongwere in Warehorne, 1773-1903 (U4237)
Henry Headley & Co, grocers of Ashford: additional records, including cash books, etc, 1861-1987 (U2577 addl)
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Parish
Cuxton and Halling: parish records (P108) Addl.
Halling, St John Baptist: parish records via Snodland Historical Society (P165/8/2A) Addl.
Hartley: parish records (P174) Addl
Northfleet, St Mark, Rosherville: records (P270B) Addl.
Stoke parish: records (P350) Addl.
Sutton-At-Hone: parish records via the Kent History & Library Centre (P358/5/2) Addl.
Patrons, Governor and Brethren of St Bartholomew’s Hospital: counterpart leases issued for various properties in Chatham, 1851-1865 (DE1290)
Unofficial
Coulson Family Estate Records (DE1215) Addl.
Gerrard Land and Investment Company Limited and Maidstone No. 2 Estate, 1933-1977, records donated by FOMA via N.J. Lynch (DE1285)
Records of Ernest George Payne whilst in the Royal Naval Volunteer Service (DE1286)
Chatham Brewery: account ledger, June 1851-June 1884 (DE1289)
Deeds relating to the Old Post Office, (17 & 17a) Gads Hill, Gillingham, Kent (DE1288)
Transfers from the Guildhall Museum, including commonplace books, minute book of the Rochester and Chatham Ethical Society (later Rochester Philosophical Society), 1897-1914, and Borough of Chatham Visitors Book (including Royal Visits), 1900-1974 (DE1291)
Plan of land behind the Clarendon Public House, Gillingham, 1933 (transfer from Essex Record Office) (DE1284)
Printed
Papers, ephemera, reports donated by Tina Glover (former Arts Development Officer, Gillingham Borough Council)
Ephemera from Friends of Medway Archives
Past exhibition folders by MAC, including Hempstead; Snippets of history; Images of Rochester Bridge; Women’s Suffrage; Know your streets; Chatham Town Centre
Local and general history books donated by the late Pat Salter
Archaeological Reports donated by Alan Ward