New Books
KENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, KENT RECORDS (New Series) Volume 1. Pt. 1 HENRY HAULE'S NOTEBOOK, 1590-95 The Journal of a Maidstone attorney. Edited by Felix Hull. Now Published on a subscription basis at the following rates: £5 per annum (2 parts). £3.50 for KAS members. Plus £1 in either case for postage and packing. OR £3 per part. £2 for KAS members.
Plus 60p in either case for postage and packing.
A microfiche edition may be available later.
Please send your subscription (payable to the Kent Archaeological Society) to the Hon. Editor.
KENT and EAST SUSSEX UNDERGROUND, by members of the Kent Underground Research Group (a Subject Branch of the KAS) 128 pages. Price £5.95. will be available late April from Meresborough Books. 17, Station Road, Rainham.
'CHEERS!' A Hundred Years, A Hundred Dartford Pubs. by Chris Baker and Graham Hinkley.
Queen Victoria, Jane Austen, Richard Trevithick, Mick Jagger and Les Dawson - what do they have in common? They all have visited and some stayed at Dartford pubs. And they all appear in 'Cheers', an historic guide to local pubs published by the Dartford Borough Council in December 1990.
'Cheers' explores every public house which has traded in the Borough during the last hundred years. Over a hundred pubs are featured, each with historic or modern photographs and notes about their past. The book has been researched, written and designed by staff at Dartford Council's Museum and Public Relations Department and is available price £4.60 from Dartford Borough Museum and also from the Tourist Information Centre in Dartford.
For postal applications, cheques should be made payable to Dartford Borough Council for £5.68 (1st class postage and packing) or £5.55 (2nd class) and sent to Dartford Borough Museum, Market Street, Dartford, Kent DAI IEU.
THE ICE HOUSES OF BRITAIN by Sylvia Beamon and Dr. Susan Roaf.
Published in August 1990, this book is the result of many years of research and will be regarded as the definitive work on the subject. The second half of the book constitutes the first gazetteer of ice-houses in Britain to be published and there are approximately 70 entries for sites in Kent. At £100, this is an expensive book but no library should be without a copy. It may be ordered from Vickie Kemp, Promotion Dept., Routledge, 11 New Fetter Lane, London, EC4P 4EE.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PERIODICAL LITERATURE.
The Society of Antiquaries has now issued this bibliography as a separate booklet, instead of being at the back of the Antiquaries Journal. It costs £3.50 plus postage and is available from the Society of Antiquaries at Burlington House. It runs to 76 pages and forms an Index to the papers and periodicals received by their library between September 1988 and September 1989. As would be expected, it is mainly concerned with Archaeology, but includes Architecture, Archives, The Arts, Coins, History, Local History, Conservation and Museums.
BUILDINGS IN NEED. A Register of Historic Buildings at Risk in Kent. This A4 size, spiral-bound booklet has been issued by the K.C.C. Planning Dept. and was compiled with the help of the Kent Building Preservation Trust and the District Councils. (It is available from K.C.C. Planning Dept. Springfield, Maidstone, ME14 2LX at £5 a copy plus 85p postage.) It lists those buildings known to be at risk, district by district, with a descriptive paragraph on each one, and its National Grid Reference. This is a most helpful and useful publication, although many of the entries are well known to the Kent Historic Buildings Committee who have welcomed the document and will monitor progress. The list for Greater London, which includes the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham, was produced by English Heritage. This is not so attractively produced as the Kent one, being in the form of a computer print-out list. (Comments, on possible omissions especially, on both of these reports would be welcomed by the Hon. Sec. K.H.B.C. Mr. Charles Friend.