STELLING
MINNIS & UPER HARDRES HISTORICAL SOCIETY
STELLING
MINNIS & UPER HARDRES HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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Contact Historical Society - e-mail: Edward Lewis (chairman)
About the Society Current Projects Photograph Library
Historical Society - talk by Derek Boughton on the history of the area of Stelling Minnis
Stelling Minnis Village Hall Friday 2nd July 7.30pm. Tickets £6 each including complimentary glass of wine or soft drink - available from Stelling Minnis Stores.
Links to other Historical information:
History of St Peter & St Paul Church, Upper Hardres
History and Mystery of the Minnises
The Historical Society was originally formed in the 1980s by a keen local historian, the late Alwyne Hawkins. Members initiated a number of research projects including a buildings survey, studies of local wills and the like. A successful journal was also produced. Unfortunately the Society eventually went into decline, but it was kept alive in recent years by the then chairman, Peter Harrison, and a few other members. Now, with the availability of the clubroom in the new Stelling Minnis Village Hall, it is undergoing a revival. Its current projects include a survey of inscriptions in St Mary’s Churchyard, studies of census returns, combing through editions of the Kentish Post for local references, and the identification of famous people with local links. A computerised database is currently being set up. Annual membership costs £5 and anyone interested is welcome to join.
Meetings are at 7.30 pm on the second Thursday of each month at Stelling Minnis Village Hall.
We have just heard that the Society’s application for an Awards For All grant has been successful and we are most grateful to Maxine Blades for her expert help in framing the bid. The money will be used for digitisation of our extensive collection of historic photographs of the area, conserving film footage, archiving and IT equipment.
The Society is able to copy and return old photographs and documents relating to the history of the area and we would be pleased to hear from anyone who has this sort of material.
Our next project is surveying the inscriptions at Upper Hardres Church and, with the kind permission of the Churchwardens, we hope to make a start in May.
Planning is going ahead for a summer tour of local buildings incorporating bricks dated circa 1720, when there appears to have been a building boom locally.
The idea is to start at the Bossingham end and finish in Wheelbarrow Town with a barbecue and a demonstration of brick-making, a stone’s throw from where we know there was a brick kiln at the bottom of Droveway during historian Edward Hasted’s time, a little over 200 years ago.
If you have any information about such buildings that might help, or are interested in joining the walk on a date yet to be fixed, please contact Colin Robbins.
The photograph library is now available on a series of pages by subject.
click on 'view slide show' for each of these (close the page to return to this page)....
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