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ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETING (Cont'd.)
These are important meetings and it is hoped that as
many people as possible will attend to elect their
Churchwardens and members of the Parochial Church
Council, and to hear reports of what has been.done and is
being done for their Churches. The P.C.C@s really do
need all the support and encouragement they can get,
pzrticularly in the forthcoming year, so surely it is -
not too much to ask you to turn out on_Qne evening in
the year to show you support them.
1A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY
-Bekesbourne Church ‘May Fayre‘ will be held this
year on Saturday, May lst.
some VILLAGE Notes
II. Bridge. In 1793 Zechariah Cozens wrote: "The
”- parish of Bridge is but small and the
soil in general is but chalky and barren producing at
several places heath and coppice wood and from the hills
surrounding the village we have a most delightful view
of the vales which are thickset with villages and the
neighbouring heights which are adorned with many
Gentlemen's seats and other picturesque objects."
A few years later in 1815 Dr. Haddy James Assistant
Surgeon to the first Life Guards and one of the first
Presidents of the British Medical Association wrote on
return from the Battle of Waterloo "It was three in the
afternoon when we quit Dover and we then faced a cold
march of fiveteen miles to Canterbury and stopping at
Bridge I was much impressed by the mode of agriculture
and the excellence of their hospitality." *
The 'Gentlemen's Seats’ must have indeed been an
impressive sight. There was Bifrons not yet occupied
by the Oonynghams until 1820 but lived in by the Brook
Taylors, the father of the family who had been vicar of
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