Committee Round-Up

KAS Historic Buildings Committee

Preparations are underway for the Autumn Historic Buildings Conference, which this year will be held in Harrietsham Village Hall on Saturday, 17 October. The Committee is delighted that Dr David Starkey CBE, historian, author and broadcaster, who wrote and presented the popular television series, ‘The Six Wives of Henry VIII’, ‘Elizabeth I’, and ‘Monarchy’, has accepted the invitation to speak at the conference. The topic of his talk will be Ightham Mote and the Tudors. More details on this one-day conference will be available in the next issue of the KAS Newsletter.

Arrangements have also moved ahead for the first two visits planned for 2009. All the places have been taken up for the tour of The Grange at Ramsgate on Wednesday, 27 May. As mentioned in the last KAS Newsletter, only 20 members could be accommodated on the tour of Luddesdown Court on Wednesday, 10 June. Regrettably, this visit, which includes a tour of Dode Church as part of the programme, has been over-subscribed. By now Joy Saynor will have contacted everyone who applied in order to let them know whether or not they have places.