Lynsted with Kingsdown Society
Newsletter Issue No.39
October 2011
Welcome to our Newsletter that goes to Society Members as well as visitors who ask to receive it because of their interest in the Parish, its people and events. Through this service, we will alert you to recent additions to the records of the Society and forthcoming events. All newsletters can be browsed on the Society’s web site.
COMMITTEE VACANCY
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AT OUR AGM on 26th October (the meeting tends to be no more than half an hour, followed our speaker on bumble bees)
Norma Baxter will be standing down as Events Co-ordinator at our next AGM on 26th October 2011 - so, we do need a new person to help us with this important function for our thriving Society. If you would like to learn more, please talk to Norma (01795 521515) or any of the Committee. Please do contact us if you can help us with this thriving and interesting Community organisation.
- Report on a Society visit to Tudor Cottage
- 26th October: Society AGM and guest speaker, Nikki Gammans, from the Bumble Bee Conservation Trust on Bumble Bees.
- 24th November (Thursday): 8pm: “Our Marine Environment” an illustrated talk given by Cait Cochrane - a volunteer for ORCA.
Venue: Greenstreet Methodist Church. Entrance; £3 but Members are free.
NEW RESEARCH
- Gravestones & Memorials updated on the web site to include a plaque dedicated to Len Scott.
- Radfield House and its hamlet are the subject of a new study by the Sittingbourne Heritage Museum - edited by John Clancy. The Society retains one complimentary copy. Further copies can be obtained for £1 from the HRGS.
THE SOCIETY SOCIAL HISTORY PROJECT
Recording and Archiving of Local History
Report on 2011 Open Day now available on the web site. Some important and surprising discoveries. If you missed the Open Day display material, we shall be displaying at the Lynsted Traditional Village Fete on 29th August (Bank Holiday).
The subgroup have now captioned 2,600 of the 3,000+ files scanned to date - but a large box and several files have recently arrived from the Parish Council - including some fascinating records for the 1937 Jubilee and Coronation Celebrations! Keep it coming! All contributions are welcome at any time.
Transcription Volunteers Update
Thank you’s go to those who responded to our cry for help in copy-typing to help us transcribe documents that cannot all be done automatically on a PC.
Documents posted onto the web site as they are transcribed.
- NEW: Teynham and Lynsted Fire Brigade Fire Reports 1916 to 1937 (thanks go to Eddie Read who rescued this important document; transcribed by Pip Baron). This document is a fascinating record, giving not only the places, but also the causes (where known) that include arson and train sparks!
If you would like to add your name to our transcribers, we should be very grateful - please do contact us. We can cope with typewritten or computer transcriptions of the wide selection of small and large documents. This is the kind of task that does not have fixed deadlines and can be fitted into your own timetables. Any help in this direction would be very gratefully received by the project sub-group. With your help, these fascinating documents can then be publish and shared through the web site and Society publications in due course.
To learn more about this project or contribute material or stories, please contact us using parishrecords@lynsted.com. Latest news and published documents can be found on the dedicated pages for this Society project.
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- Society Christmas Carols event for Members will take place again this year - details will come through a letter to Members from our Chairman.
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INFORMATION REQUESTS RECEIVED BY THE SOCIETY
- Information requested about the Tyler Family connection with Lynsted Lodge and how the Lodge came into the ownership of Eliza Lethbridge. Please contact Nigel Heriz-Smith.
- Are you researching into the Couchman family connections with our Parish and local area? If so, we should like to hear from you as a researcher (Andrew Couchman) is seeking relevant contacts. Contact Nigel Heriz-Smith if you are happy to have your details forwarded.
- We have also been asked by a researcher into the Divers Family about Kingsdown Court. This appears to be what is now shown on maps as The Old Rectory next to the St Catherine’s Church, Kingsdown. Again, any thoughts or help you can offer can be sent via Nigel Heriz-Smith.
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NEW WEB LINKS THAT YOU MAY FIND INTERESTING
- Be prepared to waste several hours! The BBC has a large collection of short videos on topics like - Garden Life (badgers to butterflies, frogs to foxes), animal record breakers, and Timelapse photography, to name a few. Enjoy!
If you have found interesting web sites covering subjects we try to cover, please do let us know.
Thank you for your continued support and interest.
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