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What is The Archive?

The Archive is the HRGS' monthly publication and is full of articles about local history or anything that might be of interest to the local historian.

The Archive is free to members as a printed publication or if you want to help the environment and receive a full-colour version, as a digital file. It is also available to purchase for £1 direct from us (digital copy, below) or from the following as printed issues:
Nickel Books, High Street, Sittingbourne,
Milton Regis Gift Shop, High Street, Milton Regis
Cartridge World in Central Avenue, Sittingbourne.


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The Archive - July 2010 - Issue 68 (Digital Copy)The Archive - July 2010 - Issue 68 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:

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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The Archive - June 2010 - Issue 67 (Digital Copy)The Archive - June 2010 - Issue 67 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:

Local Treasures: Romano-British Lead Coffin
The May Meeting Report - Frinstead Church
Letters to the Editor
St. Bartholomew’s Church, Bobbing
Titus Oates, Vicar of Bobbing
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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The Archive - May 2010 - Issue 66 (Digital Copy)The Archive - May 2010 - Issue 66 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:

The first sixty five issues
Dode church - a medieval masterpiece
A Report On Our April Social Meeting - A Talk on "The Social Life of Things"
Letters to the editor
Election Special
Future Events
Lovely Day For a Beano
The Right to Reply - Rob Risbridger defends his article on ‘The Noble Dynasties of Bobbing’
Digging Dad’s Army Project
The Dockyard Festival
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The Archive - Apr 2010 - Issue 65 (Digital Copy)The Archive - Apr 2010 - Issue 65 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:

HRGS Microfilm Indexes - Admission / Discharge / Creed / Burial Registers for Maidstone Union, Milton Workhouse
Report on March's Meeting - The Lost Village of Elmley
Letters to the Editor
Post Morten Pictures - A Macabre Victorian Tradition
The Noble Dynasties of Bobbing and its local area up to The 15th Century - part II - Rob Risbridger
Kentish Sites and Sites of Kent. A Miscellany of Four Archaeological Excavations
Library News
The Noble Dynasties of Bobbing ... A Counter - Alan Abbey


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The Archive - Mar 2010 - Issue 64 (Digital Copy)The Archive - Mar 2010 - Issue 64 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Research Page - Tithe Maps and Awards
Report on February's Meeting - 'The History of Aviation'
Letters To The Editor
Steady The Buffs - Sittingbourne's Local Militia
Lynsted and Kingsdown Society's Local History Mornings
The Noble Dynasties of Bobbing and its Local Area Up to the Fifteenth Century
Sittingbourne Castle? A local image
Milton Parish Records Index - Holy Trinity
Library News
CSI Sittingbourne




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The Archive - Issue 63 (Digital Copy)The Archive - Issue 63 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
New Chairman's Welcome
Volunteer Work within the Kent Historic Environment Record
A Report on our December Social Meeting - Christmas Meeting
Letters to the Editor
John of Sittingbourne - Archbishop of Canterbury, AD 1232 - By Rob Risbridger
KENT: THE CRADLE OF BRITISH MARKSMANSHIP - By Dr Mike Baldwin
Aymer Vallance - Son of Lynsted - By Bob Baxter
The Columns of Ancient Olympia - By John and Anne Mount
Archaeology Course for Members
Running the village from the pub - By Helen Allinson
What’s in a Name? - By John Clancy

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The Archive - Issue 53 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 53 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Archaeological Discoveries at the Meads in Sittingbourne, Kent. A brief note on their importance to the archaeology of Swale and Kent
Report on HRGS Meeting - Christmas Meeting
The Anglo Saxon Graves found at The Meads, Milton Regis, Sittingbourne
Scocles Road and its origins
Archive Photos of Milton Regis and the Light Railway bridge
Was Alfred Really That Great?
The Third Sir Edward Hales
The 1911 Census
Battle of Britain Relic Appeal
Letters to the Editor
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The Archive - Issue 52 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 52 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Grandad, the vandal - L Cordell
The Bear Facts of Life - Teddy Bears
Squiggly Little Boats in Churches - Medieval Graffiti
The Vallance Family - Bankers and Brewers
It's That Time of Year Again - Pre Excavation Archaeology
NORAD and Santa
Report on HRGS Meeting - Historical Question Time
Mystery Picture - Mr Parrett?
£2million facelift for Milton Creek
The Bramley Apple Tree's Anniversary
Poinsettias - the perfect Christmas bloom
A Turkey is Just for Christmas ...Not for Life
A Brief History of Sittingbourne Baptist Church, 1867-1982

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The Archive - Issue 51 (Digital Copy)

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Articles:
The Hidden Meanings of Nursery Rhymes
Lullingstone Roman Villa
In Remembrance - Ken Rowles and Leo Rawling
Book Review of 'Farewell To Kent' by Helen Allinson
Did Tunstall Once Have a Norman Church?
(One last look at...)That Viaduct Again!
Report on HRGS Meeting - Talk on The Magic Lantern by Gerald Cramp
Suggestions for a Day Out - Gravesend
Research at Sheerness Library
The Heritage Protection Bill
Joan Cason of Faversham, Witch

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The Archive - Issue 50 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 50 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
The Barge Public House - Then and Now
Then and Now Photographs of Sittingbourne and Milton donated to our archive
The Bridge Family
Library News
The Sittingbourne Viaduct
Sailors Make Good Housewives
Report on HRGS Meeting - Talk on The Victoria Cross
English Witchcraft
The New Microfilm Titles in the HRGS Archive

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The Archive - Issue 49 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 49 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
The Conundrum of the Railway Bridge
New Acquisitions - 1590 Map of the Manor of Bayford
The Conservation of Books and Documents
The Bayeaux Tapestry - The Handiwork of a Canterbury Man
HRGS Trip to St Helen's Church, Cliffe
HRGS Social Meeting Review - Talk on 'Castles' in Sittingbourne
The Hales Monument in Canterbury Cathedral
Letters to the Editor



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The Archive - Issue 48 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 48 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:

Steam link on track between Mill and Ridham
Milton or Milton Regis?
A Little More About Packer Brothers
Homogeneous Anglo-Saxons
Borden in the Early Years of the Twentieth Century
Tunstall's Hatchments
The History of Postcards
HRGS Social Meeting Review - St Peter and St Paul Church, Lynsted
A Kentish Centenarian - Sarah Izaby
The Phoenix House Research Room
When is a Bus Shelter Not a Bus Shelter?
Letters to the Editor
Doctor Kenneth Rayner

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The Archive - Issue 47 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 47 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:

Tunstall's Royal Connection
Court Hall Corner
Ancient and Modern - Old Pictures and Digital Image Editing
New History Centre Proposed in Maidstone
Kent Archaeological Review
Steamy History
Library News - Lost Churches and Chapels in Kent by Alex Vincent and Kent by W. Teignmouth Shore
Temple Manor in Strood
Report on May's Social Meeting - Talk on The History of Ordnance Survey Maps
Finchcocks
Letters to the Editor
A Kentish Centenarian

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The Archive - Issue 46 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 46 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:

Tunstall's Missing Glebe Lands
Court Hall Corner
Behind the Scenes at Time Team
Newington's New Guide
An Amazing Archaeological Landscape
Kentish Folklore II
The Ads of Sittingbourne's Yesteryear
Report on April's Social Meeting - The Restoration of Old Buildings
Canterbury Archaeological Trust
Dear John ... Letters ot the Editor
The More Things Change


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The Archive - Issue 45 (Digital Copy)

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Articles:
Burials in 17th-century Rodmersham
Court Hall Corner
Kentish Folklore
April Fool
A Little of Sittingbourne's Charter
Fire Marks - A Sign of the Times
Centuries of Caring - Almshouses
HRGS Meeting Report - Reading Old Documents
The Ads of Sittingbourne's Yesteryear
A Hopping Timeline




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The Archive - Issue 44 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 44 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
The Meanings of Newington's Street Names
Court Hall Corner
George Payne 1848 - 1920
A Child's Book of Hymns 1872
Did You Know? - Larceny
The True Value of a Pound
New HRGS Website
An Alternative Interpretation of the Bayford Enigma
HRGS Meeting Report - Talk on 'The Archaeology of Death and Burial'
Marden Heritage Centre
The Things You Find on Ebay
In Search of 'The Boy King' - A Great Day Out At The O2

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The Archive - Issue 43 (Digital Copy)

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Articles:
Muswell Manor, the Home of British Aviation
Court Hall Corner
The Borden Grammar School Clock Tower
The Meaning of Newington Place Names
Newington’s Roman Past
The Cambria: An Update and Progress Report
More Songs For British Workmen
A Report on December’s Christmas Meeting
The Great War Memorial Returned to Milton Court School
A Rethink on A Plough Artefact

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The Archive - Issue 42 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 42 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
The Meanings of Newington Street Names
Court Hall Corner
What the Dickens .. .. .. !
Christmas and the Lord of Misrule
The Christmas Boar of Yore
It’s That Time of the Year Again
Robin's Christmas Quiz
A New book review: Sittingbourne - A History
A Christmas Day football match
Christmas for Samuel Pepys
A report on November’s social meeting: Historical Question Time
Churchyards
A 17th Century Library Puzzle Revisited
Who Is Father Christmas?

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The Archive - Issue 41 (Digital Copy)

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Articles:
The Builder’s Time Capsule: Hidden Writing
Court Hall Corner
The Second Iron Age
A Local Hero Indeed: Lieut. George Bruce <Actinic:Variable Name = 'Gubby'/> Robinson -- Scout Leader, 1st Newington Troop, 1924 - 1951
A Hollingbourne Scandal
Sherwood Forest: Archaeological Discoveries
The Eden Valley Museum
Bayford/Goodneston? Not More!
A report on October’s social meeting: The Effects of the Reformation in Sittingbourne
John Huggens of Sittingbourne
My Muggletonians
A New Book on Bobbing - A review

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The Archive - Issue 40 (Digital Copy)

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Articles:
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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The Archive - Issue 39 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 39 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
The Meanings of Newington’s Street Names
Court Hall Corner
Open all hours: The Retail Empire of B. N. Rayner
Blood, Bilge & Iron Balls: A Review
Research for Beginners
More Borden vicars
Blitzed Ruins of Hull Cinema Saved for Posterity
Report on June’s meeting at Cryall's House
Books For You: Teynham Manor & Hundred & Strolling Through Milstead
The Luther Gorf Award! Peter Morgan nominated.

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The Archive - Issue 38 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 38 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Churches on the Map
Court Hall Corner
Well, Who’d Have Thought It? Stone Henge and Rood Screens
‘Oops, I got it wrong again!’ The Bayford debate continued
Something of the Cross Keys Inn
Some Everyday Happenings in Kent During the 16th Century
Charing -- A Portrait of a Village
A report on June’s meeting - Robin Grimes' Lecture Myth Magic and Mystery - All in a Broken Pot!
The Amazing Mr Crunden and his Magic Box of Pictures
The Yew Tree
The Meanings of Newington’s Street Names

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The Archive - Issue 37 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 37 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Matthew Parker, Gent and Jurat of Sittingbourne
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 Archive - Issue 36 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 36 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
A 17th Century Library Puzzle
An Overly Large Cinema or Not
Court Hall Corner
A Lash for the Wife Beater
The 18th-century Vicars of Borden
The Continuing Enigma of Bayford Castle, Part III
When the Arab-Israeli War Came to Sittingbourne
A report on April’s meeting at Bicknor Church
I never Knew That, Did You? The Origins of Milton
The Meanings of Newington’s Place Names

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The Archive - Issue 35 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 35 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
"You'll end up down the Union!": The Union Workhouse
Court Hall Corner
News from the Cambria Trust
The Church and the Inn
The Continuing Enigma of Bayford Castle II
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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The Archive - Issue 34 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 34 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Palaeography (reading old, squiggly hand writing)
Court Hall Corner
Genealogy -- an expensive hobby? How your PC can help.
The Meanings of Newington Street Names
Milton's Medieval Civic Centre, The Court Hall
The Continuing Enigma of Bayford Castle
A report on February’s meeting: Sittingbourne Library
Day Out at Chislehurst Caves
The Sittingbourne Society
Book Review ‘Kentish Innsignia’

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The Archive - Issue 33 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 33 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
The Origins of Newington’s Street Names
Court Hall Corner - Episode One. An initial introduction
Sittingbourne Post
Some Notes Concerning Cellars
The smallest museum in England? Lenham
A Little on Milton’s Early Administration
A French Admiral in Sittingbourne:Rear Admiral Jean-Baptiste Louise Philippe de Cacqueray, Lord of Valmenier
The Sittingbourne Society
A report on December’s Christmas meeting
Public Executions
The not so Frosty Fair


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The Archive - Issue 32 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 32 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Kentish Lady’s Love Romance: Miss Eleanor Hinde
A Traditional Christmas?
Have You Seen This House?
The Milton Regis War Memorial
Remembering Christmas 1947
Some gargoyles and grotesques I have met
The Milton Regis Mummers Play
Whilst Wandering Through Margate
Christmas day in the Workhouse (1903) (A Poem by George R. Sims, 1847-1922)
A report on November’s meeting at The Races
Report from an Archaeological Test Pit carried out by the
Faversham Society Archaeological Research Society
The Phantom, An Artist & A Church in Kent
Pass Your Memories On

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The Archive - Issue 31 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 31 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Sittingbourne FC Update
The Luther Gorf Award: Malcolm Moore Nominated
Christmas Coaching Nostalgia
Saving our Heritage
A Bredgar Soldier in the Zulu Wars
The Changing Face of Postmarks
Celtic Weave
Eyam Plague 1665-1666
October’s meeting at the M-real local History Quiz!
Anniversary of the VC
Sittingbourne Society
Shadows of WWII
A true first! The Opening of the New Sheppey Bridge



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The Archive - Issue 30 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 30 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Murston’s Victorian Church
The White Hart Stores
Save Our Local Heritage
Achille Serre, a Century of Cleaning
The History of a History Book: ‘Collectanea Cantiana’ by George Payne, 1893
Early History on the Site of Brenchley House
The History of Flora Hastings Cluff
A report on September’s meeting at Teynham Church
Swale Philatelic Society Celebrates 70th Anniversary
Thurnham Castle Uncovered

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The Archive - Issue 29 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 29 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Funton
An A-Z of the Origins of Newington Street and Place Names
The Newington Charities
Sittingbourne Football Club
The Paintings of Luther Gorf
The Milton Vicarages
Kingsferry Bridge
A report on August’s meeting at Bredgar Village Hall
Britain’s Oldest Brewer: Shepherd Neame
Rodmersham Society
Council for Kentish Archaeology
Kent Science Park meeting
The M-real Local History Challenge!!



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The Archive - Issue 28 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 28 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Visit to Salisbury: Review
Eltham Palace
Milton's Medieval Tanning Trade
The Bowater Archive
Oh we do like to be beside the seaside!
A report on July's meeting at St Mary of Charity, Faversham
Save Dreamland
Dockyard Heritage Tours
Sittingbourne Society
Genealogy Competition
The Wickham Trust Part II
Genealogical Research


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The Archive - Issue 27 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 27 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
An A-Z of the Origins of Newington Street and Place Names
The Wickham Trust Part I
100 Years of Aerial Photography
Castle Building in Kent
Kingsferry Bridge
The Return of the King: Kent and the restoration of Charles II in 1660
An Inscription on a barn at Murston
Four Suns seen together in the Heavens
James Barnard of Sittingbourne: Watch Maker

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The Archive - Issue 26 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 26 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
An A-Z of the Origins of Newington Street and Place Names
English Heritage
Kent Family History Society
Faversham Society Open House Scheme
Talk on The Plague in Sittingbourne
Book Review
‘The Story of Gore Court House and Estate, Tunstall’. By Helen Allinson
A Call to Arms: Restoration of the Milton School War Memorial
Great Taste! The Central Pie Shop
New Victoria County History Launched!
The Paintings of Luther Gorf
The Weald and Downland Open Air Museum
The Barrow Trust and its school in the nineteenth century. Part IIII
The Beginning of Burial Registers
18th Century Landscaped
Estate at Rose Hill?
Hidden Clothing at Sandwich!

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The Archive - Issue 25 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 25 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Kent Archaeological Society
Medieval Hospitals
A Da Vinci Connection? St Mary the Virgin Church, Newington
A Little of Sittingbourne in the 17th Century
A Year in the Life of the HRGS Archaeologist
The Barrow Trust and its school in the nineteenth century. Part III
An A-Z of the Origins of Newington Street and Place Names
A Day Out at Leeds Castle
What a difference a Century Makes - Sittingbourne High Street


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The Archive - Issue 24 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 24 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
The Grovehurst Pet Stores Project
Tunstall Churchyard
A Record for Rodmersham Church
A Town’s Worst Imaginable Disaster - Explosion at Cotton Powder Co., Faversham
Chalkwell Coaches, a Family Firm
The first 100 years of William Barrow’s Borden charity Part II
Archaeology at Boyces Hill?
The Meeting at All Saints Church, Iwade
The Tommy Hopper Story

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The Archive - Issue 23 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 23 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Recipes from the Past
A High Street Favourite: Bateman's
The Rodmersham Society
Before Safes: Parish Chests
The Jezreels Tower
The First 100 Years of William Barrow's Borden Charity, pt. 1
Stonehenge
Outing to Salisbury
What's a Gargoyle?


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The Archive - Issue 22 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 22 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Back on the Trail of Thompson Hall
Medieval Recipes
Jezreels Temple, Gillingham
Smuggling in 18th Century England
The Church at Murston
Iron Age Fort Saved from the Plough
The Pictures of Luther Gorf
Our Lost History and Heritage
Kent Archaeological Society News

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The Archive - Issue 21 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 21 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Roman Recipes
A Quick Stroll Down the High Street
The Sittingbourne Heritage Museum
Cinema-going and Other Leisure Activities in the 1960s
Kemsley Paper Mill - the installation of the new boilers
The Chetney Hill Lazaret
Early Closing
Life in The Workhouse
William The Conqueror or William The Norman
Just Beneath Your Feet: Foot Pattens
Researching the Coomber Family Tree

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The Archive - Issue 20 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 20 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Save Our Finger Posts
Christmas Crackers
The Joys of Living in a Period Property
Victorian Christmas in a Kentish Village
Where did the Romans Land in AD 43?
Christmas in Sittingbourne in Days Gone By
Honey Hole Barn Revisited
Recipes of the Past
Just Beneath Your Feet: Nut Crackers
Waking the Dead: History in Churches and Churchyards
The Cromers of Tunstall, pt. 3

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The Archive - Issue 19 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 19 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Judd Folly Hill
Kent Archaeological Society Magazine
A Tale of Two Towns: Sittingbourne and Faversham
The Crowmers of Tunstall, pt.2
The Story of Murston
Milton Regis Online
Recipes of the Past
Just Beneath Your Feet: Counterfeit Coinage in Britain
The Victoria County History

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The Archive - Issue 18 - October 2005 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 18 - October 2005 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
The Return of the King: Restoration House, Rochester
The English Vicarage
Maritime Heritage, the Poor Relation?
HMS Victory, A Daughter of Kent
HRGS to launch family games
Swanscombe Heritage Park: Review
The Chetney Hill Mystery
Just Under Your Feet: Sounding Weights
H.E. Bates, an update
Chatham Historic Dockyard New Exhibition: Review
The County's Economic Mainstay: Wool
The Crowmers of Tunstall, pt. 1

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The Archive - Issue 17 - September 2005 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 17 - September 2005 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
The Plestor: Local House
The Rodmersham Society, an update
The Kent Archaeological Field School: Review
Queenborough Guild Hall
The Sittingbourne and Milton Regis Fire Brigades
Reculver: A Roman Fort
Lullingstone Roman Villa: Review
Just Under Your Feet: Responsible Metal Detecting
Planning Ahead: Periwinkle Mill
Sittingbourne Heritage Museum
A Point of Debate: The Roman Invasion of AD43

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The Archive - Issue 16 - August 2005 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 16 - August 2005 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Local Men Who Fought at the Battle of Trafalgar
Oare Gunpowder Works re-opens
Graffiti Project Makes the News
H.E. Bates
The Cellars of Brenchley House
HRGS Archaeology Course
Time Team Returns to Kent
Living History at Wildwood
Just Under Your Feet: Posy Rings
Sittingbourne Library Local Studies Collection
Bredgar School Book Launch
Trouble At Mill 1969

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The Archive - Issue 15 - July 2005 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 15 - July 2005 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Geophysics: What is it?
The Census for Borden Street in 1861
Road Names in Sittingbourne and Milton Regis
Hidden House History Show Opens in Havant, includes Plough Artefacts
The End of All Saints' Church, Murston
Maison Dieu, Ospringe
Just Under Your Feet: The Swanscombe Elephant
School of History at University of Kent
The Weald and Downland Open Air Museum: Review
The Milton Regis Vicarages

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The Archive - Issue 14 - June 2005 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 14 - June 2005 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Sheerness Dockyard Buildings Update (insert)
1861 Census Online
Court Hall Museum
Sittingbourne Heritage Museum
A New Slant on the Battle of Hastings
Update on The Plough Finds
Mail Memorials
Chesterfield's Twisted Spire
Upchurch in Old Picture Postcards
The Red Lion, Sittingbourne
" A Maid of Kent" in Canada, pt.2
Just Under Your Feet: Heraldic Horse Pendants
Road Names in Sittingbourne and Milton Regis
You Never Know - Medal Found

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The Archive - Issue 13 - May 2005 (Digital Copy)

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Articles:
Clay Pipe Making: A Local Industry
The Charing and District Local History Society
KAS Snippits and News
HRGS Visit Charing: Review
Local Geophys' Surveys - New Article
Local VE Day Celebrations - As remembered by a very local lass
Leaving Bredgar Forever - Emigration to America
The Paintings of Luther Gorf
Just Under Your Feet: Flint Tools
"A Maid of Kent" in Canada - Violet Jackson, pt. 1
Bickerton, an early Milton School
Rough Music

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The Archive - Issue 12 - April 2005 (Digital Copy)

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Articles:
The Paintings of Luther Gorf
The Sittingbourne Society
HRGS Website Launched
Memories of Murston's Old Railways
Serving the Community for 150 Years - The Story of the East Kent Gazette
A Rodmersham Scandal
Dolphin Yard Sailing Barge Museum
Just Under Your Feet: Medieval Pilgrim Badges
War Memorials to be Recorded
The Graveney Boat

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The Archive - Issue 11 - March 2005 (Digital Copy)

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Articles:
Great Briton Hereward, was actually a Viking!
Medieval Archaeology at Fulston Manor
The Rodmersham Society
Kent History Federation
Another Sittingbourne Chapel
A Trip to the Dominican Priory, Canterbury: Review
The Centre for Kentish Studies
The Significance of Castles in the Landscape of Kent
The Milton Regis Play of the Seven Champions
New Project Underway - Great Grovehurst Farm, Milton
The Decline of the Thames Spritsail Barge
Just Under Your Feet: Clay Pipes

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The Archive - Issue 10 - February 2005 (Digital Copy)

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Articles:
Lynsted with Kingsdown Society
Grammar School's Centenary: Highsted School
The Milton Mineral Works, pt. 3
Just Under Your Feet: Lead Seals
The Sittingbourne Society
Court Hall Museum
Wartime Memories
Census Online
A Milton Legend: Saint Sexburga, Queen of Kent
Some Famous Men with Swale Connections
Memories of The Fifties
On the Trail of Thompson Hall

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The Archive - Issue 9 - January 2005 (Digital Copy)

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Articles:
93 Years of WJ Dolding & Son Ltd
£1 Note from Sittingbourne Bank
The Milton Mineral Works, pt. 2
Just Under Your Feet: Metal Detecting
The Broken Tower: Sittingbourne and the Norman Invasion
An Archaeological Gem: Littlecote House
The Gravesend Wreck: Update
The Sketches of David Colthup

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The Archive - Issue 8 - December 2004 (Digital Copy)

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Articles:
New Local Books - 'Upchurch in Old Picture Postcards' and 'Stockbury'
Christmas Day in the Workhouse
History Class Tour of Milton High Street
The Most Exciting Discovery Since The Mary Rose
Plough Monday and the Plough Tuesday Bear
The Vauxhall Wyvern
The Milton Mineral Water Works, pt. 1
Just Beneath Your Feet: Celtic Coinage in Britain
Archaeological Excavation at Key Street

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The Archive - Issue 7 - November 2004 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 7 - November 2004 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
WWII Bunker Project Launched
Aerial Survey Local History Offer
Sittingbourne Cemetery
Kemsley Bowls Clut - 76 Years Young
Rose Hill and The Grove
Sittingbourne Methodist Church's 200th Anniversary
Trotts Hall Project Site Visit
Milton's First Guy Fawkes' Night Casualty?
Metal Detecting as a Hobby

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The Archive - Issue 6 - October 2004 (Digital Copy)

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Articles:
WWII Bunker Identified
Weald and Downland Open Air Museum: Review
The Sun Inn, Bredgar - 300th Anniversary
Domesday Book Goes Online
Kent's Largest Archaeological Study Available Online
1066 - More Than Just a Date
The Wyvern
Visit to The Houses of Parliament: Review
The Early Postcard Producers
The Periwinkle Water Mill

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The Archive - Issue 5 - September 2004 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 5 - September 2004 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
A Very Hidden History: Local WWII Bunker Discovered in Albany Road
Chatham Historic Dockyard: Review
The History of the Post Card
The Sutton Hoo Ship
New Archaeology Display at Sittingbourne Heritage Museum
The Early Local Historians
Champion Phoenician: Sailing Barge
The Bredgar History Society
A Borden Boundary Stone


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The Archive - Issue 4 - August 2004 (Digital Copy)

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Articles:
M-real Visit
A Secure Future for The Plough Artefacts
Sittingbourne: A Biblical City?
New Old Shoes from Upchurch
Gore Court: A Brief Glimpse
Sympathetic Redevelopment: East Street
Curious: A Plough Artefact

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The Archive - Issue 3 - July 2004 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 3 - July 2004 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Building An Archive
Holy Wells and Springs
Sittingbourne & Milton Regis Golf Club Celebrate 75th Anniversary
The Salvation Army, Sittingbourne
Book Review
English Local History, An Introduction by Kate Tiller: A Review
The Sailing Barge ‘Cambria’
Burial Registers, an historian's treasure chest
Toponymy, It’s All in the Name

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The Archive - Issue 2 - June 2004 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 2 - June 2004 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:
Building an Archive
Murston Church Update
A Civic Mystery
Scout Stories Needed For New Book
HRGS In Action - Murston Church Presentation
Local Casualty of the Anglo-Zulu War Remembered
A Mother's Love?
Ashley Goatham

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The Archive - Issue 1 - May 2004 (Digital Copy)

The Archive - Issue 1 - May 2004 (Digital Copy)
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Articles:

Dode Church
Milton Regis - A Town Of Pubs
A Fitting Tribute to Town's War Dead - Local Website
Local History Introduction Course
A Question of Perspective? The 'Not So Great Debate' - Oral History

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