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 Issue No. 23

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December 2009

THE CHURCHYARD MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS BOOKLET will be available at our Christmas Party!

 Keeping you updated

The Committee is pleased to announce the completion of a booklet that records the inscriptions of gravestones to be found surrounding the Church of SS Peter and Paul, Lynsted.  This has been a major undertaking spread over more than two years led by the Society to create an authoritative record for future generations.

This project is important as the years have taken their toll on the legibility of many of those stones that will continue to weather.

A5 booklets, containing a map and text of those inscriptions can be purchased at the Society’s Christmas Party.  Should you wish to buy a copy later, we shall print to order - at £2.50 (plus P&P: UK=85p; overseas = £2.45). Alternatively, we plan to publish the A5 booklet on-line as a PDF that you can download free and print your own copy if you wish.  After the party, you will also be able to view the full records on the Society’s web site, with corresponding photographs.  Orders for printed copies of the A5 booklet can be made by first contacting us when we will confirm the postal address and payment method.

Next year, an archival A4 copy (bound and including illustrations) will be lodged in the Church for reference by visitors.

 

 

Recent additions to our website

 

 

 

Dates for Your Diary

NEW: The Fete Committee have published copies of past Fete Programmes that give an fascinating insight into past Fetes and local traders/advertisers!

UPDATED: Clergy of the Church of England - Kingsdown & Lynsted - 1313 to 1922 - based on Clergy database and research of Rev Bill Hill (once of this Lynsted Parish).  Uploaded on the web site in response to a query (that turned out to be about the Kingsdown in Dover!)

 

UPCOMING EVENTS:

17th December: Members only event: Carols and festive food and drink. Very well subscribed this year. A jolly evening in prospect for all. 

20th January 2010: Colin Harvey will give an illustrated talk - “Wings over Sheppey” and the “SS Richard Montgomery”

17 February (date to tbc): Illustrated talk on Traditional Orchards. Bob Baxter

March: Date tbc: Talk about archaeology in Perry Wood

24th April: The Thomas Clark Quire group - a Georgian music performance based on Kentish composers or music associated with Kent churches.

1st May: First Society Archiving Day: We plan to host an open day to invite anyone with records of the Parish and surrounding area (photos and documents) to share those records with us and to copy those records into our archive.  More details to follow.

End of May/Early June (tbc): Walk in managed coppice woodland to learn about dormice sites and game bird management.

Late June/Early July (tbc): Visit to unspoilt chalk-land flower meadow. 

Future events under active consideration

* Geoff Coates - Bumblebees
* Peter Derby - National Hop Collection, focussing on Harbledown and Ospringe Collections.

 

 

There are other events run by the Kent History Federation - noted on the events page.  Our Society is affiliated, so Members of our Society can take part.

 

If you have photographs, illustrations or documents from around the Parish even in its most recent past, please let us record them on this web-site for others to enjoy.

 

 
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