"Lynsted Times" Collection
Drawing on his collection of local newspaper extracts, Nigel Heriz-Smith produced two series of "Lynsted Times" to support two Society Projects:
- Lynsted Festival Weekend, 2016; and
- Lynsted War Memorial Remembrance Exhibition, 10th November 2018
"Lynsted Times" - for Lynsted Festival Weekend, 2016
- Issue 1 - "Horrible Histories" - gruesome happenings. Inc. "The Head of Sir Thomas More visits Lynsted"; "Riot! - Bludgeons, Death and Executions"; "The Courtenay Riots"; "The "Knight of Malta" Story and Bossenden Wood".
- Issue 2 - "Murder and Mayhem" - violent acts and rebellion. Inc. "Ludgate Lane Murder"; "Murderer Dies in Custody"; "The Knoble Knatchbull Transported to Australia"; "Hero Delanoe of The Nore Mutiny - Mugged."
- Issue 3 - "Wells" - the danger of water. Inc. "Tragic Woman's suicide in a Well"; "Died Cleaning a Well"; "Alcoholic in Kingsdown Pond, suicide"; "Lynsted Pond Attempted Suicide"; "The Jubilee Pump - Greenstreet".
- Issue 4 - "Poor Lynsted" - how poverty was experienced. Inc. "The Sick & Poor, The Workhouse & Closed Schools"; "Lunatic Digs for Treasure in Lynsted"; "Toilets, Buckets and Cesspools"; "Thirty in One Cottage".
- Issue 5 - "Pew News" - church and churchmen. Inc. "Scandalously Rich Clergymen"; "Lynsted Burial Scandal"; "Ex-Lynsted Vicar, Drunk, Intemprate and a Thief"";"Lynsted Church Blitzed! 1940 Bomb".
- Issue 6 - "Countryfile" - arable and livestock items. Inc. "Giant Fox Kills Sheep to Eat Their Ears"; "Children Die in Sheepdip"; "Man Run Over by a Thresher at Lynsted"; "More Ladder Falls"; "Lynsted Tobacco Plantation"
- Issue 7 - "Trips and Slips" - accidents. Inc. "Sparrow Causes Barn Fire"; "Chimney Kills Child"; "Cart and Carriage Accidents"; "Woman Freezes to Death Walking to Dover"; "Railway Crossing Fatalities"; "Gun Accidents".
- Issue 8 - "Crime and Punishment" - falling foul of the law. Inc. "The Stolen Whip: National Outrage!"; "Runaway Apprentices"; "Transportation for Life"; "Girl Shot from Privy"; "The Swan: Cut-throat suicide attempt".
© "Lynsted Times" Copyright 2016. If used, please credit "Nigel Heriz-Smith Collection"
"Lynsted Times" - for War Memorial Exhibition, 10th November, 2018
- 1914 - War Arrives in Kent
- 1915 - Grinding to a Halt & The New Army
- 1916 - Conscription
- 1917 - U-Boats, Rations & Conscription
- 1918 - Crisis & Resolution
© "Lynsted Times" Copyright 2016. If used, please credit "Nigel Heriz-Smith Collection"
World War 1 Pages