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Over the months we have highlighted events, projects and links to other websites, and changes affecting the Society.  From this page you can browse those old e-Newsletters. 

DATE

FEATURES

November 2004

  • David Wood’s research into Lynsted Church
  • Concert Poster of 1888
  • Lynsted Court, Tudor Cottage, and Sunderland Farmhouse
  • Flood risk map

December 2004

  • More of David Wood’s History of Lynsted Church
  • Sites and Monuments Record
  • Listed Buildings Index

February 2005

  • Crimes in Lynsted - 16th/17th Century
  • Understanding Hatchments
  • Sunday Times Article on Lynsted use of the web
  • Family Names in Lynsted - 1871 Census
  • 1908-09 Street Directory
  • London Marriage Licences for Lynsted Families
  • Article on Bats
  • Addition of Links Page
  • Introduction of Birdbox Diary

April 2005

  • Understanding Place Names
  • Archaeological finds: Lynsted Church Path
  • Report on the mediaeval ring
  • Hasted’s Survey of Teynham Hundred 1778-1799
  • Visitor’s account of Greenstreet

May 2005

  • Henry Eve Geneaology
  • The Late Peter Salmon’s views of Greenstreet - 1973
  • Map detail 1742
  • Mileage Chart from 1701-22

June 2005

  • Account of direction finders in Second World War
  • Vicars and Patrons - Lynsted and Teynham
  • Stephen Back, schoolmaster of 1861
  • Ferrell and Baker closes - end of an era
  • Meadow Plants by Ann Diamond

September 2005

  • Kent Landscape information system
  • Membership survey results
  • Lynsted commendation for us of Information Technology

December 2005

  • Search Engine added to the growing web site
  • Energy Conservations and wood-burning guide
  • Fungus Foray report
  • Anchor House (1942 account by Aymer Vallance)
  • Kentish Ballad (c.1600) - Thomas Deloney
  • Maps of the Parish - 1959 and 1964

January 2006

  • Stedlyn Farm Archaeological Report
  • Household energy efficiency report
  • Feeding birds in winter

April 2006

  • Kingsdown Gunnery correspondence
  • Parish Census update & 200 year summary
  • Elisabeth Selby accounts
  • The Grange - Deeds and census data
  • Lynsted Church - North Chapel research

August 2006

  • Gallery of traditional thatching in Cellar Hill
  • Gallery of Fungi
  • Report on Oral History Course
  • Small mammal survey
  • Beginning of Picture Bank Project

October 2006

  • Report on LichensPicture Bank - highways and paths
  • Reminders for bird feeding over winter

December 2006/ New Year 2007

  • Feeding and planting for birds
  • Report on Underground Kent
  • Tranquility Maps (CPRE)
  • The Grange - further research
  • Links pages expanded

April 2007

  • Links about workhouses
  • Birdbox activity spotted and followed

December 2007

  • Hedgelaying Project launched - workshops & team set up
  • Who are they? 1930 picture of Lynsted School children
  • Report on Conservation in the Thames Gateway
  • Video Footage added - steam railway and bus trip to Rye
  • Report on Farm Walk in Kingsdown

February 2008

  • Local field names 1908 & 1930
  • Report on Kent Churches talk

April 2008

  • Noble Chafer Beetle Talk - and group established
  • Report on Ancient Building in Kent
  • Tea Tasting Event suggestion tested
  • Vintage Bus Trip

February 2009

  • Report on King George Playing Fields
  • Report on Historic Buildings of Kent
  • Invitation to Tea Tasting Event  -  Learning about blending and creating our own Society Blend.

April 2009

  • Tea Tasting Report and offer on the Society Blend
  • G A Filmer Auction of 1917 of several local properties
  • Updated events list

June 2009

  • Fete 1965
  • Wartime Recollections of Norman Wigg
  • 1940 Appeal for repair to bomb-damaged church
  • “The Twist of the Collar” - 1949 Memoirs

August 2009

  • AGM coming up and invitation for ‘new blood’ in the Committee members
  • Aerial Photograph of Lynsted village - 1968
  • Updated events list

November 2009

  • AGM Report and Open invitation to ‘taste’ Committee work
  • Dormouse Talk Report
  • Updated (Jan 2010) Information sought on Goldsmith Family and Laundress Farm
  • Information sought early buses and village carriers

December 2009

  • Sent only to Members - Reminder of XMas Party Details

December 2009

  • Publication of A5 Gravestone Booklet announced
  • Updated list of future events into Summer 2010

January 2010

  • New Research on Aymer Vallance
  • Some recent enquiries by visitors to the web site regarding: the Pope Family; and Francis Brown (with links to Christopher Roper).
  • Snippets about Henry Eve DD provided by a visitor.
  • Updates on Events and closure of one enquiry about a different “Linstead” in Suffolk (easily done in some older and ambiguous records).

February 2010

  • 1923 Children’s Christmas Party in Lynsted (provided by a visitor who is researching the Kemp family history)
  • 1937 Coronation Day Programme for Teynham, Lynsted, Norton, and Buckland (provided by a Member)
  • Reminder about the Park Farm Orchard Group AGM

March 2010

  • Major New Society Project to record and archive the physical records from our Parish.  Announcing two open mornings in May (1st and 15th) to start the project off.
  • Announcing the exciting West Gallery performance in Lynsted Church by The Thomas Clark Quire.

Site Last Updated
11th
March 2010

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