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HRGS AGM
Strangeness Afoot at Borden Church
More Victorian Post Mortem Pictures
Tong Castle
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Investigation of Object Found Field Walking: Hand Axe

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Local Treasures: A Headless Martyr
Mass Observation Project
Report on June's Meeting: Milton Houses
HRGS AGM
Strangeness Afoot at Borden Church
More Victorian Post Mortem Pictures
Tong Castle
Letters To The Editor
Investigation of Object Found Field Walking: Hand Axe

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I have a copy of a Marriage Licence for a Richard Burgess and Fanny Tanner from 1813. In it Richard deposes that he is a Batchelor of 25 and upwards and that he resides in Milton-next-Sittingbourne and he wishes to marry Fanny Tanner (Irons), widow, of Lynsted, Kent.
I have been unable to find an easy way of looking at the 1787/8 Parish Register of Milton-next-Sittingbourne (I live 200 miles from Kent and get to visit the area very infrequently) and I was wondering whether this would be one of the records that you would be able to undertake a look up of?
I am hoping to find a wider family of Burgesses in the area, as I have so far traced them from Walthamstow, to Milton via Hackney, Bethnal Green, and Rainham. However, the Will of Fanny Tanner's father, John Irons, listed a John Burgess of Milton-next-Sittingbourne as executor (along with a George Conquest Dr of Physic) and I suspect that it is not a coincidence and that Richard and John may be related. Are there any transcripts, or electronic methods of access to the early Milton Registers that you are aware of?
Anyway, any help or advice you provide would be most welcome.
- N Cole
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I would like to ask for some help with the history of the cement works, in Sittingbourne, dated 1840, this being the George Baker Roman Cement manufacturer, at Crown Quay. Then John Huggens of Northfleet, built the Sittingbourne cement works, at Crown Quay, around the 1860’s. He built several beehive kilns on the banks of Milton Creek, with a clinker grinding mill. Another works opened two years later this being Bulivants Cement Works. The manager and proprietor was William Bulivant. These works then became Cleaver and Cleaver cement works, with William Bulivant as manager. These being Samual and Charles Cleaver, of London. later to become Cleaver and Mist. Another works in 1880 was built by Edward Rosher, brother to Jeramiher Rosher, of Northfleet cement works, that being the Imperial Portland cement works at Crete Hall Northfleet. Then Charles Burley cement works, Milton Creek the Dolphin cement works,i n this i have all the history. The Smeed Deans brick and cement works I also have the complete history. Please do you have local maps dated 1840,1860,1865,1880,1909,showing Milton creek and crown quay cement works would like to get a copy of these. The reason for the information is for a publication ‘The Cement Industry of Kent.’
- R Fowler

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High Street, Sittingbourne (south side, looking East)
Date: 14th July 1921
Source: L Catster (found on Honiball's Estate c.1965)
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My grandmother, May Moore (nee Swan, who died last year) was born in Bredgar and was involved in an accident which saw a child (Betty Aylett, her cousin) killed by a runaway horse on the High Street in 1929. The tale is that May was pushing Derek Aylett (Betty's brother) in a pram and walking with Betty Aylett when the school mistresses daughter offered to take Betty to get the milk while May took Derek to get bread. A horse got loose and the girl was told to 'pick up that child and stand there' but she ran across the road and Betty followed her and was killed. We never thought much about this as a family until I started to do the family tree and May became ill and, when she had dementia, started to relive the sad incident.
T Grubb
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Archaeological Report: The Northern Relief Road
HRGS Research Plans
Heritage for Houses - The Demolition of The Paper Mill
A Strange Decade - 2010-2020
Things We Take For Granted - Civil Registration
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Edited by Alan Abbey

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By Michael & June Stevens

A useful booklet written by the present owners of this ancient property. The study not only looks at the previous owners and the changes they have made but also considers the wider aspects of their social circle. A must for those interested in the earlier history of the area.
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The Luther Gorf Award. Jonathan Carey nominated.
Court Hall Corner
Genealogy -- True history or Designer hobby?
The Wearers of the Cloth
Wherefore Art Thou Goodneston?
Thurnham Castle
The History of Paradise Chapel, Milton Regis.
A report on September’s social meeting at Downings, Bredgar
More Songs for British Workmen
Tall Oaks From Little Acorns Grow: Scouting Stories from Sittingbourne, Milton and District
More Newington Place Names

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Court Hall Corner
Schooldays In Sittingbourne
Bayford Castle, a reasoned response to some of the previous articles on this site
The 19th-century vicars of Borden
Of things ancient and modern, computers and history.
Keycol Hill? Who’d Have Thought It?
A report on May’s meeting at Minster Gate House Museum
Bayford Castle. The on-going debate
The Luther Gorf Award! Terry Matson nominated.
The Meanings of Newington’s Street Names

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The Maunsell Forts
The Luther Gorf Award: Helen Allinson Nominated
The May Meeting Review: Minster Abbey Gatehouse
A Puzzling Little Mystery: Sittingbourne FC Postcard
The Elmley Bridge
The Meanings of Newington’s Street Names

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