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 Issue No. 25

Lynsted with Kingsdown Society

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 February 2010

 

 Keeping you updated

Thank you for your continued support.
Please note membership renewal is due from 1st January. The Committee have held the price for another year.  £12 single membership; £20 for joint membership.  Membership gives free entrance to talks throughout the year (and includes our popular Christmas Party) and supports our researches.  

 

CAN YOU HELP?
Questions sent to us through the web site:

Recent additions to our website

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dates for Your Diary

1.  From the USA, Lorene Greenstreet Wagner asks for any information about the family of James Couchman Greenstreet, born in 1755. His wife was Sarah Goulder.  If any Members know of this family line or web sites that might help, please let us know.

WEB SITE ADDITIONS

1.  1923 Children’s Christmas Party in Lynsted, illustrated story

2.  1937 Coronation Committee Programme of events in Teynham, Lynsted, Norton and Buckland

3.  Report on 20th January talk by Colin Harvey - “Wings over Sheppey” and “SS Richard Montgomery”

 

UPCOMING EVENTS:

4th February: Members’ attention is drawn to the postponed AGM of The Park Farm Orchard Group, which will now take place on this date.  More details here.

17 February: Illustrated talk on Traditional Orchards. Bob Baxter (Chair of the Park Farm Orchard Group) and speakers from the Mid Kent Downs Countryside Partnership and Kent Downs AONB

10th March: 8pm: Talk about archaeology and the fort 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 Event: We will host an open morning in the Community Room, Lynsted Church, 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.

15th May: Second Society Archiving Event: We will host an open morning in the Greenstreet Methodist Church on Lynsted Lane near to the A2/London Road, 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.

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.

 

New Society Project for 2010

Records, Photos, Recollections

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.  Look out for “Open Days” when the Society will host events with scanning facilities - see dates above.  If you would like to help make this project a success either by sharing your family records or by joining the sub-group, please contact us using parishrecords@lynsted.com

Society Publications
(PDF free downloads)

1. Five Year Anniversary Review (2008)

2. Churchyard Monumental Inscriptions - Church of SS Paul and Peter, Lynsted (2009)

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