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Thursday, 28 August 2008
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BIRLING HOUSE, STATION ROAD
The owners would like photos/information about the house. See contact page for FELHS archivist | Sunday, 13 April 2008 |
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Patience Strong in Farningham
Having now read her autobiography 'With a poem in my pocket', I discovered that Patience did not live in Farningham during the Second World War. She and her husband lived in a flat in the former public house, 'The Bricklayers' Arms', for a year in the mid 1930s, until they found a more permanent home. This is what she wrote about Farningham:
Two memories of our year in this strange place stand out in my mind: a Victoria plum tree in the garden so heavily fruited that it bent to the ground under the weight of the branches and I shall never forget how a nightingale sang from the honeysuckle hedge from dusk to dawn on the night before we left.'
| Friday, 1 February 2008 |
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Names on Farningham 1st and 2nd World War memorial
Kyle Tallett, a First World War historian, whose family originated from Farningham has researched the names on the war memorial. His research is available on his website: www.royalnavaldivision.co.uk He has given the Society a CD copy of his work.
| Friday, 1 February 2008 |
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Herbert Randall DCM by Frank Coppins (68 pages fully illustrated)
My Childhood at Wested by Jack Randall aged 77, August 2006 (46 pages illustrated)
Both cost £3 + postage
Jack and Frank are brothers-in-law, but Frank has done the hard graft of research. Herbert Randall was Jack's older brother, who was killed in the final days of the First World War. His name appears on the war memorial in All Souls' Crockenhill. Frank has done a marvellous job in discovering Herbert's war record and recreating it through the regimental diary and the memories of other soldiers who fought in the same battles. Jack Randall's childhood memories cover the period of the 1920 to 1940s.
Contact: Frank Coppins/ 5 Longpark Place/ Livingston/ Scotland/ EH54 6TU
| Friday, 1 February 2008 |
| | Ross Parker and 'They'll always be an England'
The composer of this famous song lived in Eynsford. If anyone knows more about him, especially of his time in Eynsford, do get in touch. He lived in the large house now called North Denes in Pollyhaugh for about 17 years and wrote 'They'll always be an England' with Hughie Charles. He also wrote 'We'll meet again'. It is rumoured that some of the lines of 'They'll always be an England' were based on Eynsford. He was also a support actor and he might have been a writer for programmes such as 'That was the week that was'. He died in 1974.
| Sunday, 7 October 2007 |
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An Englishman's Home – The adventures of an eccentric gardener, by Tom Hart Dyke
This book is available at Waterstones bookshops or at Lullingstone Castle for £18.99. Written in conversational, informal style Tom's book soon captivates the reader. His enthusiasm is infectious and one is swept along by the sheer force of events from the concept of the world garden at Lullingstone while Tom was captive in the Damien gap jungle in 2000 to the opening of the garden several years later in 2005. 2006 and the second BBC2 TV series are also more briefly covered at the end of the book.
| Sunday, 7 October 2007 |
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THE FAMILIAR RED POST BOX by AUDREY GEE
This new publication gives a background to the subject and then covers the history of the post offices and post boxes of Eynsford and Farningham with coloured photographs of each one. Available from the author 01322 862477 or through FELHS. £1.50 + 50p postage
| Sunday, 7 October 2007 |
| | FARNINGHAM CRICKET CLUB
The club is celebrating its 150th anniversday. The centenary was marked by Bernard Drew's booklet 'A Hundred Years of Farningham Cricket'. The club would love to extend this to include the last 50 years. If you would like to help please contact Darren Blake at farninghamcc@googlemail.co.uk
If anyone has stories to tell of the club in the last 50 years Darren would be pleased to hear from them.
| Monday, 19 March 2007 |
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Axstane Players of Farningham
are requesting any memorabilia or information regarding their amateur dramatic group.
As they are celebrating their 40th Anniversary in 2007 a concise history of the group has been started.
Anyone who has been a member of Axstane or the audience would be of much use to them in this massive undertaking. Lots of archive material has already been gathered and more is needed but more importantly personal comments are needed. These are what make history entertaining and more interesting.
Any person with relevant information should call Barrie Payne on 01474 850761 or e-mail him at barriepayne@mail.com
| Friday, 17 November 2006 |
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FARNINGHAM and its MILL -
by Hilary Harding has been published. This detective story of Farningham's history includes tales of treason, murder, scandal and highway robbery, wills, deeds, inventories and the work and lives of local people up to the present day. Subscription price £20. Contact Wadard Books, 6 High Street, Farningham, Kent DA4 0DG.
| Sunday, 3 July 2005 |
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Tudor and Stuart Deer Parks in Kent
On a personal note, I have now embarked on a PhD under Canterbury Christ Church College University on the above subject, so will be even more pushed for time! This is a huge extension of my interest in Lullingstone Park and is already proving fascinating. If anyone knows any information about other deer parks, please let me know. I am researching documents, but also undertaking landscape history in that I am visiting the sites of various deer parks to try to trace lost boundaries in the present landscape.
Susan Pittman - see Contacts page | Saturday, 12 March 2005 |
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Living memory project: Earliest memory of the villages - this project seeks to record the earliest memory anyone has of the FELHS area. The idea has been to record earliest childhood memories, and this could relate to younger as well as older people. An extension would be to have as many 'early' memories as possible, which would include those who have come to the area from outside and what their first and earliest impression was. As only one vivid memory is requested this task need not be onerous, so please do jot down your memory and pass it on to the archivist (see contacts page)
| Saturday, 12 March 2005 |
| | SEARCH OF FARNINGHAM and EYNSFORD CHURCH REGISTERS
Stella Baggaley is willing to look up specific entries or simple queries from the transcripts of baptisms, marriages and burials from earliest records up to the 1970s. See contact page.
| Wednesday, 12 January 2005 |
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