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COUNTRY LIFE—FEBRUARY13,1969

BURITON MANOR, NEAR PETERSFIELD, HAMPSHIRE
Sn: Ivtlrr: Tin’ Glwsl of lmriton Manor

T TO SAVE OLD
FONBRIDGE

1 was delighted to read in :1
1 edition of (‘ou.\'riiv 1.11:1:
Ltempt-; being made to save
uolition the old buildings and

on the north side of Ton-
ligh Street, at the eastern

should not be overlooketl
iin two or three years, at the
he new Tonbridge bypass
~ been opened. This will (as
:1 proved in the adjacent

Sevenoaks) substantially
ie north—south flow of trallic,
.ually eliminating the delays

trallic on the east—west

-ly, the county council can
’_ reprieve these ancient
4, of which so few now remain
'id;z,e, until the effects of the
have been measured. To
y, three years is but an
gone in the liistory of these
-s, which once destroyed, can
replaced.

tine l*‘erox Hall at Tonbridge
nd the attractive weather—
l\()\l."~L‘$ ()p“D()Hll.U Cl)lIII7lCllI('ITt.
ildines, and their removal
.11 ileiract from what little

charm is left to this once attractive
town.—~—\i\’. ]. BREEN, Redwood, Pens-
liursi, Kant.

THE GHOST OF BURITON
MANOR

SiR,—The anniversary of the death
of lidward Gibbon on January 16
recalls Buriton Manor, near Peters-
lield, to which he fell heir in 1777 on
the death of his improvident father,
and which, intent on proceeding with
his prodigious l)e'cIim' and Fall, he
sold two years later in order to settle
in London on what he had managed
to save of his depleted patrimony.

in June, 1957, an estate agent
in 1’eterslield appeared at a valuation
court there on behalf of this manor's
owner, who sought a reduction in
the manor's assessment because of the
ghost haunting it. It had become
better known because of its ghost
than because of its connection with
the Gibbon family.

The ghost would appear to have
been a relevant lactor in as‘ ‘sing
its rateable value that year, since the
panel reduced the assessment to £135
gross value, and £109 ratcable. 1n
other words the appeal resulted in
the owner payingz; £13 less in rates, an

 

achievement that broue,’lit from the"

late (illl)t'1‘t 1*1ardin;;' the comment

__—...'.u;.-.-—-.m.u-..... ...~ .-. .._

that he would sooner have a pale
ghost as a guest (with no overheads)
than be haunted by the only too real

rating ollicer. 7- :\1.:\!~‘.l).»\lR .-\i.i=ix
l\lAC(;1{lE(2()R, T/ur I\'1'ug's Burn,

(ldilzum. I-lam/75/1in'.

HISTORY OF A KENTISH
HOUSE

SiR,~V\"itl1 reference to Doris l\'er’s
inquiry (Cm'n's[>o1ulmzc:', january 30),
the house called lfiifrons was situated
in a large park near l’atri.\'bourne, in
l\'ent, three miles from Canterbury.
The house was built in the early
17th century by John Bargrave, of
Patrixbourne. His brother, lsaae,
was Dean of Canterbury in 1625 and
receives mention in The I)ic!im1m'y
of1\’ati'<nm1 liiogmp/ty. Two genera-
tions later, in. 169-1, liifrons was sold
to John Taylor, whose descendants
held it for more than a Century.

The house was rebuilt in 1770
by the Rev. lidward Taylor, vicar
of Patrixbourne, who had carvt-(‘l
upon the front of it a Latin inscrip-
tion in commendation of his wile.
Two of his sons, Lt.-Gen. Sir Herbert
Taylor and Sir Brook Taylor, also
have notices in the l).\'l)‘.

Jane Austen, in a letter to her
sister from Rowlinig in 1796, wrote:
"\\'e went to llilirons, and 1 con-
templated with melancholy pleasure
the abode of him on whom 1 once
londly doated”. Lord lirabourne,
who edited the letters, states in his
introduction that liifrons was at that
time in the possession of the Taylor
family, lrom whom it afterwards
passe<l to the (‘onyn;.{liains.

The 1st Marquis Conyngliain
who, through his \vife's friendship
with George 1\', had great influence
at (‘ourt, would undoubtedly have
known l.t.~(}en. Sir llerbert Taylor,
who was a confidential friend of the
Duke ol‘ York; and it could have
been tlirougli this contact that the
(‘onynghams purchased Bilrons. The
l\larquis died in 1832 and was buried
at l’a1rixl>ourne. The l\lareliioness
held the estate until her death in
1861 (a portrait ol’ (leorge l\' by
l.a.\vrence hungz; in the (li'2i\\‘iiig-
room), and her descendants retained
it until 1939. The house was pulled
down soniewliere between 19-15 and
1951).

CE

The enclosed photograph, taken
in 1951, shows the topiary that
remained in the gardens of liifrons
after the house was demolislied.»~«

\\’. l31lRC11, 7 illilzizwud Iroucl,
1'Iu1'slmnI, .\'u5.~:l'.\’.

A MOTORWAY THROUGH
GREENWICH PARK?

SIR,——~iV1rs. Platts is right when she

suggests (Correspmzdeazre, January
30) that the planners should start
again with their road planning

through Greenwiirli and Blaeklieatli.
To Mr. Yigars (january 23) Green-
wich l’ark seems to be nothing more

than an inconvenient barrier which

prevents trallie lrom flowing about
this liistorie area. liy “free move-
ment" he means free movement for
cars. \\'hy put cars before human
beings?

How can anyone foolish
enough to «sontemplate spending
,g'l,(l(>() million on the destruction of
large parts of (‘-reater London when a
lraciion of the money would improve
public transport to the point where

be

motorways are unnecessary; and
when this ugly, ag;z1‘essive, malo-
(lorous and lethal steel box on

wheels called a car will probably be
olisoleseent in another 20-30 years ?-A~
i\1.i«:x 8'1‘.-\k1<i«;\‘, Fla! -1, 2 Jllounl
l"i!/us, 1.11iz5do-zwzc Hill, Lomlou,
SE27.

SURVIVING ANCIENT
SIGNPOST

Sm,-~ Near the homan fort of
(‘liesterholm (\'indolanda), in North-
umberland, stands the Roman mile-
stone shown in my photograph. lt is
a line column about 6 ft. high; if
there ever was an inscription on it,
time and weather have rendered it
illep;ible. The Roman road named
Stout-;.;':ite run past this ston:-_

\\'hen one reads of Roman relics
liaving been torn down for building
material in the past, it is ;.;rati1ying
to see this milestone in silu instead of
being split in two and used for
gateposts, which was the usual fate
of these milestones.—~'l‘i£Riaxc1c _l.
g_lU1.\'.\‘, 70 l’z')tzlo'zm'I' ll'a_)', i\'ea"c1ls/le-
U/>on-'l'ym'.

WHEN MIDDLESEX WAS
RURAL

SlR_—-—:\>i a somewhat old-lashioned
countryman, rather town—bound by
occupation, 1 should like to express
my enjoyment and appreciation of
1). l\laeer \\'rie,lit’s charming and
expressive word picture of l.ondon's

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poses are conventional, the
painting shows the artist’s abil-
ity to group his sitters easily,
and his disinclination to idealise
features is reflected in the plain,
jowly faces.

The portrait ofHenry Pur-
cell ofaround 1695, is also lost,
but a drawing from life Fig 2),
previously attribute to
Kneller, gives an impression of
the artist’s competence as a
draughtsman. Other famous
men represented here include
john Dryden——whose long
nose, hooded eyes and unsmil—
ing face show Lely’s influence
——and Christopher Wren. The
portrait ofWren (Fig 3), presen-
ted to the Royal Society in 1750
and still in its possession, is
characteristic of the painter’s
earlier work: not adventurous,
but dignified, informative and
appropriate. V/ren’s fame as a
mathematician is commemor-
ated by the drawing he holds;
his architectural achievement
by his most famous building.
The painting dates from the
mid—1690s, while St Pau1’s was
sti" being built. The parts ofthe
C edral which were not com-
plete-——-the west end, with the
towers on either side of the
porticov, and the dom<.~—differ
interestingly from what was
eventually executed.

’ As Closterman’s reputation grew he was
given commissions for increasingly elaborate
portraits, and his talent as an organiser of
figures into coherent roups emerged. His
portrait The Children rfjohn Taylor of Bifrons
Park, Kent (Fig 4), anot er recent acquisition by
the National Portrait Gallery, is a fine example
of his abilities. The picture presents an
ambitious allegory, a play on the Taylor family
motto: Fama candida rosa dulcior (Fame is sweeter
than a white rose). One irl distributes roses,
while two ofthe sisters ho d the wreath of fame
over the head of the eldest brother, Brook, at
the age ofll when he was already celebrated as
a musician (he was later to become a well—known
mathematician). The artist avoids pomposity by
establishing a sense of contact between spectator
and sitters, and shows sensitivity in conveying

5—~—IADY ASHE, THE SISTER OF
CLOSTERMANS CLOSEST FRIENDS.

ONE

COUNTRY LIFE———SEPTEMBER 3 ,

4—-THE CHILDREN OF JOHN TAYLOR, OF BIFRONS PARK

the relative status of the children and in the lig
touch with which the allegory is handled. 

In 1698 Closterman set out on a Eurépean
tour, under the atronage of two young
noblemen. One 0 these was James Stanhope,
whose father was English Resident in Madrid,
and it was to Spain, then seldom visited from
England, that the artist went first. The
exhibition includes a striking but stiff and
strange portrait of Stanhope senior (lent from
the family house, Chevening) which was
intended to impress the Spanish Court with
Closterman’s abilities.

The resulting studies of the King and
Queen are, unfortunately, lost. From Madrid
Closterman travelled to Rome, where he spent
two years, and apart from his study of Italian
painting gained experience for his later activities

OF

is

She

presented as Cecilia, patron saint of I11USi('

as an art-dealer. He was back in England b
July 1700. The artist’s second sponsor on hi
travels had been the brilliant young politicia
and philoso hical writer Anthony As ley, 3r
Earl of Sha tesbury, and it was in this noblema.
that he found his most important patron on hi
return to England. He executed a number 0
works for Shaftesbury, of which three oi
paintings are included in this display. Ladj
Ashe (Fig 5), the sister of one of Clostermzm’
closest friends, is painted in a grand manne
new to the artist: she is presented as Cecilia
patron saint of music, in an acidly-colouret
version of the Bolognese style.

The vet picture ofthe Earl and his brothe
Maurice Ashley (Fi 6) reflects the patron’.
interest in plannin the work. The two young
men. both of t em classical scholars, ar-

depicted wearing something
like Greek dress and standing
in something like classica
poses, in front of the Templn
of Apollo. Intended as '
statement of the neo—Platonii
doctrine of the relationshi]
between nature and the divine
the picture has a striking
landscape background, and i
is interestin that in his Seconi
Characters 8 aftesbury refers t<
discussions about nature witl
Closterman in St Giles’
woods. All the same, thi
picture cannot be accounted .
total success. Bold it maj
be, but it is also slightlj
absurd.

Less is known abou
Closterman’s later years. H
achieved great pros erity—
though hardly, one feels, fron
such works as his lumpisl
portrait of Queen Anne-—an«
died in 1711. Though som
of his works are recorded i:
country houses and publi
collections, others remain t«
be rediscovered. This ex
hibition should encourag
further research. and th
rv .‘ 1 1 I


INTRY LlFE—JANUARY 30,1969

\I LAST YEAR

ace against time. The
_ue with its remarkable
diversity of plant life.
‘e hillsides with tumble-
ariety, size and age of
recs are outstanding, it
uary and major resting
I of the migratory birds
ulf Coast. The Big
riceless asset to Texas,
d the world. lt has a
;truction and exploita-
', it was, and is, the
he have wreaked such
5 priceless irreplacable
ure. lf the destruction
thousands of animals,
iousands of birds, rare
ier natural wonders of
th the layman and the
pass out of human ken
for e\'er.—~-]oH.\' \'.
Rm’. House, 80,1’ 57.4
1451'], .\'<'z.' Yul‘/'x’. (’.‘{.~l.

records were destroyed in an air raid,
and they are unable to trace who they
sold it to. Professor Ellis VVaterhouse
lists the portrait as No. 466 in his
comprehensive work on Gainsborough

but does not know its present—
whereabouts. .5
However, a photograph was

made of the paintingin 1897, and I.
enclose a recent photographic copy?
of this, in the hope that one of your:
readers will recognise it and tell me?
where it is.—-GERVASE VV. MARK—_
HAM (ReV.), Jrlorlarzd, P67L7’it]Z, Cum-*
berlcmd. ’

THE YEAR OF THE YUCCA 

SIR,~—During the summer of 1968,‘
reports came in from all over the?
country of yuccas suddenly going;
to blossom. My photograph showsf
one in the London area. Could it beg"
that the temperatures of 1968 were
just right ?-—VV. LesTER, 22 B1/zrleigh
House, Beaufort Street, Chelsea, SW3.

FINE WOODS USED BY’
CABINET—MAKERS

S1R,~—~Looking through the London
sale—room notices one sees references
to purplewood, tulipwood, satinwoocl,
harewood and other fine woods used
in cabinet—making. Can you describe
the origin of some of them ?—
JOHN S. PEACOCK, 23 Clzadbroo/e
Cresi, Brook Road, Edgbasion, Bir-
mvinglmm 15.

[Purplewood comes from Pelto-
gyrze pubescms, a native of Brazil, is
similar in appearance to rosewood
and was imported from the late 18th
century onwards. Tulipwood, also
Brazilian, and imported in the same
period, was the name given to
several ornamental woods, especially
the striped and rose—coloured wood
of Physocalymrna _flor2'b7/mda. Satin—
wood is the name of several woods of
satin~like appearance, especially that
of a large Indian tree Chloroxylorz
$wi€2‘z'ana.. lt was imported from the
V\/est Indies from about 1760 and
later in the century from the East
Indies. Harewood is sycamore
stained by oxide of iron to a greyish
green. Kingwood is from species of
dalbergia, probably D. rzigra and is

 

compliment.

243

beautifully streaked with violet. lt

was particularly in favour in 18th-

century France and is said to have

been named after Louis XV as a
131).]

BYRONIC LINK WITH A

CANTERBURY HOUSE
S1R,—Wl1o owned the property called
Bifrons, near Canterbury, during the
period 1793-l820, and what was, or
is, the exact location of this house?
It is of interest to note that this
house was later bought by Annabella

~Millbanke, Lord Byron's wife, and
Augusta Leigh’s'

lent by her to
eldest daughter and her husband,
Georgiana and Henry Trevanion, in
1829 after their marriage.

1 should be most gratefulfor any
information on this subject.—DoR1s
KER, 30 Samicrsfie/cl Road, Barzsteaci,
Surrey.

THE ORLDEST YEW

SIR,——-,l was most interested to read
the recent correspondence in
COUNTRY LIFE about ancient church-
yard yews in Surrey and Hereford-
shire. Readers may be interested to
learn of the yew at Fortingall, in
Perthshire, which is 3,000 years old
and reputed to be the oldest piece of
vegetation in Eu1‘Ope.-]ACQUELINE
PROVE, The House in the Wood,
Ashley Green, Clwslzam, 13ztc/emg/zam.-
slzirr’.

EGG’S GUN SHOP
SIR, — VVith reference to Mr.
l£dwards’s comments (Correspond-
ence, December 19) on Fig. 1 in
Stella lVlargetson’s article 1;(md(m
TI’(l.(Ii[4S7')'7(’1'l of 11m lihegcerzcy, your
readers may like to know that this
actually sliows the shop of Durs

 nephew Joseph at No. 1
Piccadilly. It appeared originally in
1830 as Plate 32 of Thomas H.

Shepherd’s [.ormL’on and 1'15 Environs
in the 19/}; Cm1iz»1.ry.«-C. BLAIR,
90 Links Road, Ashtead, Surrey.

PEWTER CIGAR-HOLDER

SIR,—l was interested to read
your explanation of the pewter

vessel illustrated in Collectofs Ques-
We possess a

News of january 2.


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BRIGHTON

BOROUGH COUNCIL

28 June 1994

R J Franklin

20 Windmill Close
Bridge

Canterbury

Kent

CT4 SLY

Dear Mr Franklin

ARTS 8 LEISURE
SERVICES DEPARTMENT

TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE

10 BARTHOLOMEW SQUARE
BRIGHTON BN1 IIS

FAX BRIGHTON /0273) 777409
TELEPHONE BRIGHTON (0273) 26450

DATE
OUR REF
YOUR REF

CONTACT

Thank you for your letter of 1 June 1994. I am sorry it has taken so long to reply to you.

I have copied some information from one of our reference books: "Life in Brighton" by

Clifford Musgrave, which refers to Lady Conyngham.

If you need any further information, the historians at the Royal Pavilion may be able to help
you. I suggest you Write to: Public Services, The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, or telephone

them on (0273) 603005.

I hope we have been of assistance to you in this matter.

Yours sincerely

}_,\:i\.g<.Q.{.i

Mrs S Jeal
Visitor Services Manager

DIRECTOR OF ARTS AND LEISURE SERVICES - DEBORAH GRUBB


Pnmcrs AND PALACES

another, ‘he wore a huge cocked hat with gold tassels. He was surrounded
with company, who expressed their surprise at the size of his hat: when he
answered that he was then performing a different character from that of the
previous day. He is the gaze of Brighton.’ A fourth commentator remarked:
‘He appears about thirty years of age, his name is said to be Cope, and with
all his eccentricity of appearance, looks like a gentleman; he is always
alone; walks slow; and stops and looks at every lady as he passes. We
cannot call him the courteous stranger as he never honours us even with a
smile. If notoriety be his object he has fully succeeded, as the windows are
filled with ladies whenever he passes. Even Mr. Townsend [the Bow-
street runner] does not know what to make of him.’

A doggerel jingle about him even appeared in the Press. Alas, after he
had diverted the Brighton public for some three months with his ‘innocent
absurdities’, it became clear that his eccentricities went deeper than the
usual fashionable extravagances of behaviour. One day in October he
sprang out of the window of his house and leaped over the cliff. It seems
he had imagined from some cries he had heard that there was a riot, and
that his presence was required to quell the disturbance. Although badly
bruised and shaken, he suffered no serious hurt, and friends in London
arranged for him to be cared for. In the 19505 a young man in Brighton
who habitually wore a suit of bright yellow satin and a gilt paper crown
excited much less remark, while in the late 1960s every conceivable
aberration of dress seemed acceptable.

Also in October I806 amongst the names of the fashionable company
in Brighton appears for the first time that of Lady Conyngham. It has
hitherto been imagined that the Prince did not meet the last in the suc-
cession of his lady companions until about 1819, but it is hard to imagine
that she was not received by him at the Pavilion amongst most other mem-
bers of the nobility at the time of that first visit. Indeed, it is very probable
that they met as early as 1802, for in that year the name of Lady Conyng-
ham as a stall-holder at Drury Lane Theatre appeared on a fan, which was
no doubt intended to be sold at the Theatre, and which was printed with
the seating plan of the stalls and the names of all the seat—holders for that
season. Lady Conyngham’s seat was then almost immediately behind those
of the Prince and Mrs. F itzherbert.

The Princess Charlotte was twelve years old when she came to Brigh-
ton for the first time. Early in her life she had been removed from the care
of her mother, the Princess Caroline, and taken into the charge of the
Royal Family. One Sunday evening in July 1807 she was driven past the
Pavilion in her carriage on her way to stay at Worthing. The crowds of
people who lined the route were delighted by her lively ways and charming
appearance with her slender figure, blonde hair, and penetrating blue eyes,
and they commented upon her resemblance to her father. Although she

134

ORIENTAL EXPERIMENTS

did not stop at the Pavilion this time, a few days later she drove over from
Worthing to attend the grand Review on the Downs and the sham naval
battle that were now indispensable and riotous features of the Prince’s
birthday festivities every year. At the Pavilion she was warmly greeted
by her father the Prince and her uncles the five Royal Dukes, who showed
her the fantastic wonders of the Chinese rooms, which she passed through
entranced with amazement, and which must have far exceeded the most
astonishing scenes in any of her books of fairy—tales. After watching the
Review on the Race Hill, the party returned to the Pavilion, where
the Prince’s band was playing and refreshments awaited them. Later the
Princess was seen dancing on the lawn with the Duke of Cambridge, and
at six o’clock she drove away in her carriage for Worthing.

The Prince’s birthday celebrations were even more magnificent the
following year. Among the guests at the Pavilion the young Lord Byron
was present. Then only twenty and in his second year at Cambridge, he
was spending the summer week-ends in Brighton accompanied by ‘Gentle-
man Jack’ the champion boxer, and by a girl of very great charm and
beauty who dressed in a boy’s jacket and trousers, but who deceived no
one by this stratagem, especially when she was heard to speak in a penetra-
ting cockney voice and to call Byron her ‘bruvver’. He was staying at a
house on the Marine Parade where the Albemarle Hotel stood in later
years, and spent his time with his friends swimming, boating and riding
on the Downs, at night playing hazard until four o’clock in the morning.7
The Prince was probably intrigued to meet the young man around whom
so many romantic rumours had already been woven, especially of fantastic
parties and of drinking from skulls at Newstead Abbey. Byron did not
record his impressions of the Prince on this visit, but in 1812 he met him
again at a ball at Carlton House, and after a long conversation with him
wrote to Sir Walter Scott, as we have already noted, that the Prince’s
language had given him ‘a very high idea of his abilities and accomplish-
ments, which I had hitherto considered confined to manners, certainly
superior to those of any living gentleman’.

In the pages of Don Juan he was to write, not long before his death in
1823:

Shut up—no, not the King, hat the Pavilion,
Or else t’u2ill cost us all another million.

The news which came to the Pavilion in July 1809, of another great
victory of the Napoleonic wars, was, in fact, the first announcement of the
event made in this country, when dispatches from Sir Arthur Wellesley
arrived for the Prince at Brighton while his guests were seated at dinner,
informing him of the victory of Talavera in the Spanish peninsula, when
nearly 50,000 French troops were defeated by an English force of hardly

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PRINCES AND PALACES

Princess’s child was born dead after a long—drawn—out labour, and she
herself died soon afterwards from exhaustion. They were both victims of
the orthodox medical system of the time, by which the prospective
mother’s ‘excessive animal spirits’ were reduced by a starvation diet and
bleeding so that she was drained of all the vitality she needed for her ordeal.
Furthermore the Princess was denied the physical help she should have
been given, because of the inability of her surgeon, Sir Richard Croft, to
overcome his fear of touching the body of a Royal personage. Soon after
the tragedy Croft shot himself.*

The whole nation was stunned with shock at the loss of one of the most
popular Royal figures in English history. The Prince Regent was heart-
broken and was copiously bled in the course of the day. After the funeral
he retired into seclusion at Brighton, all those who attended upon him
shocked by his sorrow—ravaged face. Qieen Charlotte wrote of her son's
behaviour towards the Princess: ‘He granted and accomplished her Wish
to marry the man She chose herself, and gave Her the place to reside at
she was always partial to . . . God be praised that the Prince can have
nothing to reproach himself with, but can say with truth “I made her
happy.” 74

The alterations at the Pavilion had now been resumed, and may have
afforded the Prince some distraction, as possibly did also the arrival in the
spring of rooks in the grounds for the first time since 1802. The local
newspaper reported:5 ‘The black gentry, yclept rooks, are now busily
employed, about the towering trees of the Pavilion Grounds, framing their
nests for the pleasure of incubations, and the multiplying their sooty
species’—surely one of the earliest examples of the ‘plashy’ school of
nature-writing!

By December 18x7 the Regent had so far recovered his customary
high spirits that he gave a supper to the servants in the new Kitchen of the
Pavilion. ‘A scarlet cloth was thrown over the pavement: a splendid repast
was provided, and the good—humoured Prince sat down, with a select
party of his friends and spent a joyous hour. The whole of the servants,
particularly the female portion, are delighted at this mark of Royal con-
descension.’ But as with many other innocent and well-intentioned inci-
dents of the Prince’s life, the occurrence was made the subject of yet
another of those innumerable attacks aimed to discredit him politically,
on this occasion in the form of a caricature by Cruikshank entitled ‘High
Life Below Stairs’, in which the Prince is shown drunkenly carousing
with his cronies, and watched by contemptuous servants. The rather stiff
formalities of Court life at the Pavilion in those years are more reliably
described by John Wilson Croker in his ]0umal for 1818. In December he

wrote:
‘The etiquette is, that before dinner when he comes in, he finds all the

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THE REGENCY

men standing, and the women rise; he speaks to everybody, shakes hands
with new comers or particular friends, then desires the ladies to be seated.
When dinner is announced, he leads out a lady of the highest rank or when
the ranks are nearly equal, or when the nominal rank interferes a little with
the real rank, as yesterday, with Lady Liddell and Mrs. Pelham, he took
one on each arm. After dinner the new dining-room was lighted and he took
the ladies to see it. It is really beautiful, and I liked it better than the other,
if I can venture to say that I prefer either. Everybody was comparing them,
and the praise of one was always, as is usual in such cases, expressed by its
superiority over the other. I ventured to say that this was not a fair way of
judging them; that though different they were, perhaps, both equally
beautiful in their respective kinds, like a “handsome man and handsome
woman”. This poor little phrase had great success. The ceilings of both
rooms are spherical and yet there is no echo. Nash says he has avoided it
by some new theory of sound, which he endeavoured to explain, and which
I did not understand, nor I believe he neither. The rooms are as full of
lamps as Hancock’s shop.

‘After dinner there was music as usual. . . . The supper is only a tray
with sandwiches and wines and water handed about. The Prince played a

hand or two at Patience, and I was rather amused to hear him exclaim‘

loudly when one of the Kings had turned up vexatiously, “Damn the
King!”’

When the Pavilion was in the last stages of its completion the Regent
stayed during his visits in 1819 and 1820 in one or other of the houses in
Marlborough Row, which ran southwards from Church Street in the
northern part of the Pavilion grounds. Only one of these houses remains
today, known as North Gate House. Colonel Bloomfield, the Prince of
Wales’s Secretary, had lived there at one time, and after 1820 it became
the residence of Lady Conyngham, Lady Steward of the Royal Household.
Today it houses the Administrative Oflices of the Art Gallery and

Museum.

Long after the closing .of the Castle Hotel the brilliant tradition of the
great balls was continued at the Old Ship Hotel. They were organized by a
committee of lady patronesses, with Mrs. Fitzherbert at their head. All
the fashionable residents and visitors thronged to these private subscrip-
tion dances, which were said to be arranged ‘on the model of the London
Almack’s’, an allusion to the dances held at the famous assembly rooms of
that name in St. ]ames’s. Here Lady Jersey, Lady Castlereagh, the Prin-
cess Esterhazy and the Princess Lieven were among the lady patronesses
who wielded despotic power in granting admission to what Captain Gro-
now described in 1814 as ‘the seventh heaven of the fashionable world. Of
the three hundred oflicers of the Foot Guards not more than half-a-dozen

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of the above intrepid aeronaut as a remuneration for the danger and loss
he has sustained, to gratify the public’.

By the time of his accession to the throne the King had broken off his
friendship with Lady Hertford. For over fifteen years she had been the
King’s principal confidante and adviser. Lady Hertford herself maintained
their association had never been other than platonic, and the political
influence she wielded through this attachment was undoubtedly sweeter
to her than any other delights the King was able to offer. The King was
now completely under the spell of the Marchioness of Conyngham, con-
tinually fondling and kissing her hand, and gazing upon her even in
public with abject adoration. Lady Conyngham possessed the ample
proportions that the King seemed so often to require in all his intimate
companions, but unlike the frigid Lady Hertford and the vixenish Lady
Jersey, she had a warm—hearted, relaxed temperament that the King found
soothing and restful. The post of Lady Steward was created for her, while
other appointments in the Royal Household were given to her husband
and two of her sons, and the end house in Marlborough Row (now North
Gate House) was set aside for her use. The King’s willingness to leave all
his domestic affairs in her hands, and his generous presents to her,
naturally caused intense animosity to be aroused amongst her acquaint-
ances. ‘All the members of her family are continually there,’ wrote Greville
in May, ‘and are supplied with horses, carriages, etc, from the King’s
stables. She rides out with her daughter, but never with the King, who
always rides with one of his gentlemen. They never appear in public
together. She dines there every day. Before the King comes into the room
she and Lady Elizabeth [Conyngham] join him in another room and he
always walks in with one on each arm. She comports herself entirely as
mistress of the house, but never suffers her daughter to leave her. She has
received magnificent presents and Lady Elizabeth the same; particularly the
mother has strings of pearls of enormous value. . . . The other night Lady
Bath was coming to the Pavilion. After dinner Lady Conyngham called to
Sir William Keppel and said “Sir William, do desire them to light up the
saloon as Lady Bath is coming this evening.” The King seized her arm and
said with the greatest tenderness: “Thank you, thank you, my dear; you
always do what is right, you cannot please me so much as by doing everything
you please, everything to show you are mistress here.” ’ Those who have ‘the
Royal ear’ are not infrequently envied, feared and even hated, but Lady
Conyngham seems to have been ridiculed and vilified to a far greater extent
than almost any other person associated with the King, and this campaign of
slander has continued even into our own day. Creevey wrote in his diary
in December 1822: ‘Brougham says many of the best informed people in
London, such as Dog Dent and others, are perfectly convinced of the
truth of the report that dear Prinny is really to marry Ly. Elizabeth

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Conyngham; on which event the Earl here humorously observes that the
least the King can do for the Q1_ieen’s family is to make Denison “Great
Infant of England”.’ A footnote in Sir Herbert Maxwell’s edition of the
Creevey papers (1903) mentions that Lord Albert Denison Conyngham,
third son of Elizabeth Denison, first Marchioness of Conyngham, was
born in 1805 ‘and was supposed to be the son of the Prince of Wales
(George IV)’. This belief, widely held at the time, was quite conceivably
not incorrect. It has already been shown that the King and Lady Conyng-
ham could have known each other as early as 1802. Also, in 1805 she was
among the fashionable visitors to Brighton and it seems most improbable
that the Prince did not meet her then.*

Lady Conyngham was accused of being ‘avaricious and insatiable in her
lust after anything of the least value she could seize’, persuading the King
to lavish upon her jewellery of enormous value, including even some
articles of the Crown jewels which the King had been compelled to recover
from Prince Leopold after the death of Princess Charlotte. It can quite
convincingly be argued that the wealthiest people are often the meanest,
especially in small matters, but the accusation of avariciousness seems very
much out of place in connection with the Conynghams, who were one of the
richest families in England. She herself was the daughter and heiress of a
wealthy London banker, Joseph Denison, and the sister of a multi-
millionaire. Sir Thomas Lawrence’s dramatic portrait of her, painted in
1802, shows a handsome woman of queenly build, and a portrait in enamel
by Charles Muss,5 while throwing a cast of beauty over her ample form,
conveys an impression of a woman of great shrewdness as well as charm of
character. The greatest tribute to her ability was made by the Duke of
Wellington, who confessed that he invariably consulted her and asked her
advice in public matters, and stated that no decision of importance in affairs
of state during the years of her ascendancy was made without her opinion
being sought. The picture of a selfish, grasping woman, using her influence
with the King solely for her own personal ends, changes when one considers
the tradition in the Londesborough family to the effect that she prevailed
upon the King to abolish the flogging of women prisoners. The author was
informed of this tradition by the late Dame Edith Sitwell, a descendant
of Lady Conyngham’s on her mother’s side. ‘What an atmosphere the
King lives in!’ wrote Lady Anne Becket to the monarch’s biographer
Croker. ‘He never, since he has been at Brighton, has left his own room,
except to walk across at half-past three or four to Lady C’s house, and at
six to walk back, he then dresses and comes down to dinner, and that is the
whole of his air and exercise. Bye the bye, all the world, if they chose,
might see this daily visit; for the King goes out at the south"“ gate of the
inclosure and has a few yards of the common street to walk to reach the
steps of Lady C’s house.’ This house, now North Gate House, has since

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I93 5 been the administrative oflices of the Royal Pavilion, Museums and
Libraries, and the room where the King and Lady Conyngham sat con-
versing and drinking tea every afternoon was for nearly thirty years the
present writer’s oflice.

Dinner would be served at the Pavilion at six—thirty. The King sat
on one side of the table, with Lady Conyngham on his right, and her
daughter, Lady Elizabeth, on his left. At one end of the table sat Lord
Conyngham, with his son Lord Francis Conyngham at the other. Oppo-
site the King was his Private Secretary, Sir Francis Bloomfield. On one
occasion reported by Croker the party retired after dinner to the Music-
room, where the King sang some Italian trios with the two pretty Miss
Liddells, daughters of Lord Ravensworth, who Lady Conyngham sus-
pected were trying to insinuate themselves into the King’s favour. He
also sang Lzfe’s a Bumper and A Friar afOrder5 Gray. After a minor up-
roar over the King’s snuff box, which had become mislaid, but which was
eventually found reposing safely in his pocket, at eleven—thirty the King
retired to bed. The next night after dinner he sang again, this time with
two young choristers from the Chapel Royal. There were some glees,
Glorious Apollo, and Lord M0rnington’s Waterfall——s0 popular was the
latter that he had to repeat the performance——and Non Nobis Domine.
‘His voice, a bass’, remarked Croker, ‘is not good, and he does not sing
so much from the notes as from recollection. He is, therefore, as a musician
merely, far from good, but he gave, I think, the force, gaiety and spirit of
the glee in a superior style to the professional men.’ Croker also noted that
‘Lady Conyngham and Lady Elizabeth did not conceal their dissatisfaction
to all this music, and particularly at the Liddells’.’ The King had never
enjoyed music so much as in this new Music-room he had devised, and he
told Lady Granville that he cried for joy whenever he reflected on the
delights of the Pavilion.

During his first visit to England, Rossini was invited to the Royal
Pavilion on 29th December 1823. A grand concert was held in the Music-
room at which the overture to La Gazza Ladrzz and a selection from I]
Bar/riere were played by the King’s band, and the composer himself sang
two songs from his own operas. When the Coronation anthem was played
the maestro had not the slightest hesitation in taking a seat, uninvited, by the
King’s side, an act of familiarity that greatly displeased Lady Granville and
other guests, although the King willingly overlooked it in an artist for whom
he himself had so much respect.

The glories and extravagances of the Pavilion excited the Princess
Lieven’s customary shrewish disapproval, accompanied by her usual
inaccurate estimate of the cost of things. ‘I do not believe that, since the
days of Heliogabalus, there has been such magnificence and such luxury.
There is something effeminate in it which is disgusting. One spends the

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evening half-lying on cushions; the lights are dazzling; there are perfumes,
music, liqueurs. . . . Here is one single detail about the establishment. To
light the three rooms, used when the family is alone, costs I 50 guineas an
evening; when the apartment is fully opened up, it is double that.’

The King’s Band now numbered seventy performers, and was costing
him between £6,000 and £7,000 a year. Even so the musicians complained
bitterly about the inadequacy of their pay, and it was worked out that the
least a man with a wife and three children could live on was £2 9s 6-}d a
week, the cost of lodging, furniture, the schooling of children and clothing
not being included. Most of them got no more than about £2 6s od, and as
a result the wages were increased by about 75 a week for each man. Their
difliculties were further alleviated by allowing some of their musically
inclined sons also to be ‘put on the strength and allowed to draw wages’.°

It was about this time that the King made the munificent gift to the
nation of the great library which had been formed by his father, and which
included many important manuscripts and early printed books. The gift
was conveyed to the Prime Minister in a letter written from the Pavilion
by the King while in the midst of great pain during a severe illness.7
£40,000 was voted by Parliament for the building of a new wing at the
British Museum, and it is there that the King’s Library is housed to this
day. It has been said that the Emperor of Russia had offered £100,000 for
the collection, and that King George IV was compensated for the loss of
this sum by a grant of the amount from the Admiralty Prize Fund.*

George IV was genuinely interested in literature. He was an avid reader
of the works of Sir Walter Scott, who became a close friend and whose
baronetcy was the first conferred by the King upon his accession. He was
an admirer, too, of the novels of Jane Austen, and when at his suggestion
she dedicated Mansfield Par/e to him he invited her to visit Carlton House
in order to inspect his own library there. His admiration and respect for
writers is shown by the subscriptions of 1,000 guineas a year which he
made to the Literary Fund of the Royal Society of Literature, by means of
which pensions were paid to ten men—of-letters. He also subscribed
heavily towards the cost of a new headquarters for the Society. One of the
pensions was paid to the poet Coleridge, whose poem Xanadu had seemed
to speak of the Pavilion——‘In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately -pleasure-
dome decree’. Now in his old age, afllicted by sickness and fits of insanity,
Coleridge had been kept from misery since 1825 by the King’s generosity,

but after the death of George IV the new King declined to continue the _

pensions, on the advice of the Whig Ministers Grey and Brougham.

The generosity and sympathy of King George IV were no less powerful
when they were exercised on behalf of the very humblest people, even if
the fact was not likely to become known. The King’s Ministers were
accustomed to his frequent exercise of the Royal prerogative of mercy~—‘a

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Scharles Apps, said yesterday.

  MARQUIS

SELLS UP

LOVELIEST’
VILLAGE

Express Staff Reporter ,

FOR a little over £3,000,
the 28 thatched
cottages of Patrixbourne-—
“loveliest village in Kent ”'
—have been sold by thew
Marquis Conyngham.

And his ,40—room mansion,
built in the reign of Charles IL.
has been pulled down.

The 60-year-old Irish marquis
has done this, his sub-agent. Mr.

“because the low rents——which are
still the same as Dre-wa.r——do not
my for repairs."

Rents for the cottages—up to

some are 35; 9d.

Nearly all the 118 villagers once
worked at the mansion-—B1frons.«
which stands in a 230-acre park.
Last week they saw workmen
demolish the last stone.

Said Mr. Apps: “No one would
buy it. During the war the Forces
used it. But now no one wants it.
The council considered it for 8}
hostel. but it was unsuitable I

“The rates were terribly high.‘
and the only answer was to pull it!
down."

No shops

The marquis lives at Slane Castle.
Co. Meath.

Nineteen cottages were bought by
Mr. Edwin Gardener. a Canterbury
auctioneer. for £2100. Seven were
sold to a Canterbury solicitor, Mr.
Wilfred Mowll. coroner for East
Kent. ‘

‘ The village has no shops. no

public houses, no street lights.

and one pillar box.

The only building not sold is the
12th century church of St. Mary.
The vicar, the Rev. W. H. Gregory,
said: “Villagers are ‘really upset

300 years old—average 5s. a week. ‘

that the modern" century has‘

caught up with them at last."

rwomen‘ buy
Kent picture
Village

by Daily Mail Reporter‘
IRISH Marquess Conyngham has

_ sold Patrixbourne, a thatched
village near Canterbury, “as part
of an economy drive."

The village is one of Kent’s
loveliest, but it is off the beaten
track, and little known even to
tourists.

It has been sold followin the
demolition of Lord Conyng am's

.40-roomed country seat, dating

back to the days of Charles II. ,

The Conynhams have not lived
therefor half a century. They
found it uneconomical to recon-
struct the mansion for anyrother
purpose. . . . _

A Canterbuxtv solicitor and an
auctioneer have bought‘ up most
property in tbevillage, which has
no shop or public-house. The 12th-
century church has not been sold.

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The Children of John Taylor of Eifrons Pa'k (1595 ?) John Closterman

The portrait shows eight of the children of John Taylor, a wealthy Kent
owner and his wife Olivia. Second from the left is Brook Taylor (1635:? .1),
their eldest son, later a celebrated mathematician, the inventor of Taylor's
Theorem. According to a memoir of Taylor published by his grandson in 1793,
the portrait shoes him aged thirteen; that is, on or after_18 August 1698.
There are two objections to this. First, Closterman was in Hadrid by November
of that year, allowing very little time for so ambitious a commission.
Secondly, one son, Bridges (1695-1727), would be missing. A date of 1696 for
the portrait, when Brook was eleven, fits the circumstances better. The

children would then be (left to right): Olive (b.1681), Brook, Ehrgaret
"'(b.1683), fiery (b.1o80), Upton (b.1696), Hathaniel (b.1687), John (b.1587)

and Bridges (rather than Herbert, b.Hay 1698).

Closterman is known to have painted two other family groups - The Sovmour
Ghilggen (Syon Kfiouse) and The Marlborounn Family (Blenheim Palace) - but
tbi§,bigbly finished group, with its assured, rhythmic composition,sumptuous

,'g#l=nring an5VFrenchified elegance, is arguably his masterpiece. It is
,c¢nt:1vea as;a play on the motto of the Taylor family, Fame candida rosa

dnlcior' (fame is sweeter than a white rose) (information from Professor J.
Douglas Stewart). Olive and Margaret hold the traditional allegorical

1 attributes of Eame: two trumpets and a wreath with which they crown Brook,

wno¥wes evidently something of a child prodigy and an accomplished musician.
The wreath appears to be of orange blossom rather than the more usual bay.
Mary, seated at the centre of the group, dispenses from Aer cornucopia,

.symbol of the benefits of good fortune, a white rose. It is possible that

the exonisite flowers were painted by a specialist flower painter, rather
than by Cloeterman himself.

Provenance: almost certainly painted for John Taylor (1565-1”29}; b" descent
to B.E.G.Trench: his sale, Sotheby's, 9 July 1930; bought b" the Trustees of
- . . -. u,- n, . . ~y ,
the Rational Portrait Gallery, Lennon, uovember 19oO. On View 1“ toe ;.P.-.

Collection at Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire.

Faoueo s’.i-z9°u  


Higham Place - Highland Court

1320

1543

1726

1768

1781

1823

1846

1901

1910

1911

1928

1936

1948

1951

1968

First mention of a house of the site

House on the site owned by THOMAS CULPPER
eventually passed on to ANTHONY ARCHER.

THOMAS CORBETI‘ (married sister of Archer)

Present house built by IGNATIOUS GEOGHOGEN who
married 4th daughter of Corbett.

JAMES HALLE'I'l‘ son of a wealthy sea captain from
Little Dunmow, Essex bought the house. He bequeathed
it

Rev. CHARLES HUGHES-HALLETT who had taken
the Chaplaincy of Bridge and the Vicarage of
Patrixbourne in 1813. He died

Rev. JAMES HUGHES-HALLETI‘ eldest son inherited.
He was Vicar at Petham with Waltham and originally
lived at Bridge Place. Died in 1901 and bequeathed
house to nephew who lived in Scotland. The house was
sold

WILLIAM GAY London Banker responsible for the
walled garden and an orchid specialist. Sold the house

COUNTESS ZBROWSKI who had lived for a while at
Bridge Hill House and was the grand daughter of
wealthy William Astor. She started to alter and
redecorate the house but died 1911 without living in the
house. Inherited by

COUNT LOUIS VOROW ZBROWSKI (Born 1895) at
the age of 16 together with £3 million from his mother
and £8 million from his father. [see other boards] Died
in a motor racing crash 1924 and it took four years for
the administrator to sort out the estate. The house was
put up for sale London Auction Market, Victoria Street
by JD. Wood and Co and bought for £17,500 by

WALTER KENNEDY WHIGHAM of Highland
Investment Co Ltd, Crosby Sq, London. He changed the
name to HIGHLAND COURT.

The cricket ground was added
Walter K Whigham died and the house was offered to
the REGIONAL HOSPITAL BOARD as an annex to the

Kent and Canterbury Hospital of which WK Whigham
had been President for 13 years.

Formally opened by Mr K.I. Julian CBE Chairman of
the S.E. Metropolitan Regional Board.

Closed due to financial restraints


1972

1987

Reopened as home for Mentally Handicapped

Sold by the S.E. Thames Regional Health Authority for
£15 million to TILLER INTERNATIONAL

Since then we believe it changed hands once more and
is currently FOR SALE


Bifrons House, Patrixbourne, now demolished. Was it ever painted
by Ernest Taylor?

9

Help me find paintings

Sir, —
Re: Ernest Taylor 1856-1940. This was
a descendant of the Taylor family,

1 owners of Bifrons House and estate at

Patrixboume. The house is now
demolished.

Ernest Taylor sometimes lived" at
'1 Boume House, Bushey, Herts, but died
while resident at the Leas Hotel,
Folkestone. He is buried in Hawkinge
Cemetery. He had no children.

1...,‘ .,...,. X.

Although he did not need to earn his
living, he was a watercolour landscape
painter of some repute. I have no
knowledge of any of his paintings
having survived.

I am particularly interested to know
if he ever painted Bifrons or any scenes
around Canterbury.

Can any reader help?

IAN D. TAYLOR

V 3 Whitelocks Close,

Kingston.

 

I Sir,

I am writing to complain about the

71 Kent County Council and/or Bekes—

bourne Parish Council.
I am a serving member of HM Forces

1- in the Royal Navy.

I recently spent a weekend at home
with my parents in Bekesbourne after a
three—month tour with my ship.

I am writing to complain about the
state of the public footpath from the

_ station to Littleboume Road.

It was overgrown with weeds, sting-
ing nettles and elderberry trees which
overhung the pathway to about four—ft
from the ground and it was practicably
impassable in places.

It is very disappointing to see this sad
state of affairs after seeing clean streets
and paths abroad.

My parents both pensioners in their
70s, had written to Cllr Johnston of
Bekesbourne Parish Council informing

him nf' tho efofo rd‘ Hun nnek

‘$5? 72». r
. ax .
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Cllr Johnston referred ti
County Council, saying it
sponsibility.

My parents then wrote
who said the path was t.
bility of Bekesbourne Paris;

My parents then wrote :
Johnston who failed to
their letter.

As I was so disgusted wi
of the path and consider:
state of health of my fathe:
to walk up that way to ti
spent 31/2 hours one Sum:
cutting down the over:
clearing it to enable folk
public footpath. -

Hopefully the people cor
read this letter and mayb
footpath clear. in future.

JOHN A

2J2 Mess,

HMS Illustrious,
nman q».;,.._.


B.JONES
Milkman

S.GILBERT
Blacksmith
2nd Officer

H.T.PRICE
Engineer
Haulage Contractor
C & G Yeoman

1930 - 31

1911 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost

F.HOGBEN F.DOWNS
Sadler Cycle Shop
A.TAYLOR H.PRICE
Candlemaker Grocer
C.wILLS

Chief Engineer
Retired Baker

A.VlNTEN
BBRD Council

Plough Landlord

J.FRIEND
Engineer
Retired Publican
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GUIDE; TO KENT COUNTY ARCHIVES (.')Fl~‘ICE

Canterbury, 1862-1914; terriers, 1863; school attendance committee
minutes, 1877-I921; infant life protection registers, and reports,

1896-1922; rural sanitary authority by-laws, 1892; vaccination
registers, Sturry, 1901-14, Whitstable, 1913-16.
‘ BRIDGE UNION G/Br

ADMINISTRATION: minutes, 1835-1930, committee minutes, 1915-17;
in-letters, 1850-1917, letter books, 1843-65; ledgers, etc., 1835-1930;
lunatic returns, 1913-26; service registers, 1896-1929; settlement case
papers, 1832-1926; register of apprentices, 1865-1911; registers of
infants and children boarded out, etc., 1894-I926; registers of children
sent to training homes, 1916-24; reports, 1885-1931; statistical returns,
1839-52, 1913-30; Guardians’ declarations, lists, etc., 1840-1921;
bastardy papers, 1842-1922.

FINANCE: collectors’ books, 1907-30; treasurers’ books, 1912-25.
DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICER: report book, 1901-18.

RELIEVING OFFICER: application and report books, 1890-1912; weekly
relief for Adisham, Barham, Beakesbourne, Bishopsbourne, Bridge,
Chartharn, Fordwich, Harbledown, Upper and Lower Hardres,
Ickham, Kingston, Littlebourne, Nackington, Patrixbourne, Petham,
Stodmarsh, Thanington, Waltham, Westgate, Wickhambreaux and
Womenswould, 1835; outdoor relief books, 1897-1929; lunatic recep-
tion, 1873-1929.

WORKHOUSE ADMINISTRATION: casuals’ admission and discharge, 1907-
31; accounts, 1886-1935; admission and discharge books, 1835-1934,
birth register, 1915-20, lunacy, 1870-1919, indoor relief lists, 1836-
1933; chaplains’ reports, 1909-23, masters’ reports, 1912-30, work-
house medical relief, 1912-14, porters’ books, 1914-30, visitors’ books,
1907-34; inventories, 1848-1932, contracts, etc., 1913.

NON POOR-LAW DUTIES: assessment committee minutes, 1862-1927,
appeals, 1866-1922; rates for Adisham, 1914-26, Barharn, 1911-26,
Beakesbourne, 1886-1926, Bishopsbourne, 1912-26, Bridge, 1877-1926,
Chartham, 1906-26, Fordwich, 1914-26, Harbledown, 1901-26, Lower
and Upper Hardres, 1926, Ickham and Well, 1871-1926, Kingston,
1910-26, Littlebourne, 1914-26, Milton-next-Canterbury, 1889-1926,
Nackington, 1925-6, Patrixbourne, 1877-1926, Petham, 1848-1926,
Stodmarsh, 1915-26, Thanington, 1880-1926, Waltham, 1905-26,
Wickhambreaux, 1926, Womenswould, 1905-26; valuation lists for
above parishes and St. Nicholas Hospital, Canterbury, 1862-1906;
overseers’ accounts for all parishes, 1868-1927; school attendance

, committee minutes, 1877-1909; infant life protection registers, 1908-29;

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Several repxoaentafiives asked questions to which
answers were given and the meeting finally agreefl ' in
the best interests of economy and efficiency fio transfer the
older children from Bishopooosrno C.R.fiohoo1 to Brififie
C.ElSchool loavinfi Bishopsbourno so a C.E¢Suh0O1 open ior
infants and juniors. It 19 nnfierntood that the oxistsnco
oi Bishoosbourme School is not so be allowefi mo be
inperilled by these changes and E180 thafi if The Bridge A
C.E.Sohool oocomas ovororovdefi some or all of the Biohopobourne
children mar roturn to their own Rarish school. The
proposal is to be open to such revision as may be found
necesnary_and the K}E.C. reprenentauivos unflnvtook to
sabmit the proposals formally to each bofly om xonagers for
their formal aooeptanco.

  

   
  
 
 

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BRIDGE PARISH COUNCIL

SILVER JUBILEE CELEBRATION COMMITTEE
IN ASSOCIATION wrrr-1 PATRIXBOURNE PARISH

Hon. Secretary:

Mrs. ME. Jones, March 1977.
18, Conyngham Lane,
Bridge.

To: The Citizens of Bridge.

The Jubilee Celebrations in Bridge will take place on Jubilee Day,
Tuesday 7th June 1977.

To mark the occasion the Committee would like to see the Village decorated;
accordingly we ask the Householders and Shopkeepers in the High Street, and
elsewhere, to decorate their premises with Bunting, Flags, Flower-baskets and
whatever, and at dusk to switch on coloured lights in the front window. (The
Xmas Tree lights perhaps!) .

The day will start with a short Service of Thanksgiving at St. Peter's Church
at 10.15am. —- quite informal, and all will be welcome; thereafter the day's

‘events will get under way.

The timetable for the events and the locations will be publicised when
arrangements are finalised, meanwhile think about taking part instead of just
watching - there will be ‘plenty of opportunity.

Already organised we have:-—

Jubilee Reception for the Senior Citizens.

A Marching display by Whitstable A.T.C. Band and the “Majorettes”.
‘Tug of War’ over the River. (Teams from local organisations)

Exhibition of Handicrafts — theme: The past 25 years in the Village.
Location: Methodist Chapel.

Punch and Judy Show. 2pm. Recreation Ground. (Village Hall if wet)
Obstacle Course and other Children's attractions.
Sideshows.

 


Disco for the ‘Young Generation’.
(Village Hall. Monday evening, 6th June 1977.)

Bar-B-Q and Dance.
(Licenced Bar) Location: Bridge Place Country Club Grounds.

Jubilee Mugs will be distributed to all Children up to the age of ELEVEN
years, and the Children in the age group ELEVEN to SIXTEEN years will each

receive a Jubilee Pen.

For this purpose we wish to list the Children in 3 Categories:—
No. 1. Children attending Bridge Primary School.
No. 2. All Infants and Children, UP to the age ELEVEN, who do NOT

attend Bridge Primary School.
No. 3. Children aged ELEVEN to SIXTEEN.

To enable the Committee to order Stock, make arrangements and thereafter
ensure fair distribution of the Mugs and Pens, and also gauge support for some
of the other functions, Parents and others concerned are asked to complete the
attached “tear-off” section and place it in one of the Collecting Boxes located
in the Village Shops — AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. '

Please note these Fund Raising events to be held soon:—
Wednesday 23rd March 1977, 10.30am. to Noon.

A “Jubilee Do" or Bring and Buy Coffee Morning at Riverdale House,
High Street, Bridge.

By kind permission of Mr & Mrs. E.A. Hawkins.

Easter Monday, 11th April 1977 at 11am. Bridge High Street.
Sponsored Pram Races - so prepare your ‘Machine’, get into training and

gather your sponsors!!
Easter Bonnet Parade. Adults and Children.

Easter Eggs for the winners.

Finally, the Annual Parish Meeting will be held in the Village Hall on
Thursday 17th March 1977 at 7.30pm., this will be your last opportunity to
submit ideas for the Celebrations and Fund raising.

H.P.M. Lawrence, Chairman, Jubilee Celebrations Committee.
J .E. Anderson, Vice Chairman.

 

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BRIDGE PARISH COUNCIL

SILVER JUBILEE CELEBRATION COMMITTEE

Please submit the following information, as applicable,
by Thursday 31st March 1977.

Name (Block letters please) ............................................................... ..

Address ......................................................................................... ..

Children’s> Mugs and Pencils:

Category No. 1.,- No further action required. Bridge Primary School will
provide Committee with the necessary details.

Category No. 2. — Number of Babies/Infants below School age .................. ..
Number attending other Primary Schools ....................... ..

Category No. 3. — Number attending Grammar/ Secondary School in the age
group 11 — 16 years ...................... ..

DECLARATION: I certify that the above information regarding Children
living at the above address is correct.

Signed .......................................................... .. Date ....................... ..

N.B. Parents/Guardians must sign the Declaration and return it to the
Committee by 31st March 1977.
Mugs and/or Pens for Children in Categories 2 and 3 will only be
issued to those listed above.
The Committee regrets that it cannot be held responsible for claims
received after 31st March 1977.
Stocks of Mugs and Pens will be ordered as per the information supplied

above.

DISCO FOR ‘YOUNG GENERATION’,
(up to age 16) on Monday 6th June 1977.

Please indicate approx. number from your address whom we may expect to
attend this function at the Village Hall. ............................................... ..

P.T.O.


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Decorated
Wheels Comp.
1st. Katrina
Johnstone,
2nd. Gary
Fisher (left)
3rd. Mark
Fisher (right)

 

‘A’

 Adult Fancy
.. . Dress Comp.
 _1st. Mr. Ian

, Johnston

- ‘_2nd. Mrs. Pam
- » '=Farbrace 3rd.

   

Whigham (on
the right).

Children's Fancy Dress Comp. ‘:I0int ls.

 Crispin Warner, Ian Hodges; 2nd Zoe Gabbe

(on right) 3rd Lynn Wheeler (on the left).
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One thing not in short
supply was food — a

grand tea was laid on
at Bekesbourne.

 

The Martial Art of TAEK-WONDO was demonstrated between
the showers at Bridge, and this colourful display helped to
combat the extreme dampness that nearly everyone in the
parish suffered. It took us back to Coronation Day said all
those who remembered that June Day!

Throwing the Wellington
Boot was a popular side
show with all — but Mr.
Tim Hoare having been
felled by a flying boot
for a moment, wisely
went for a check-up at
the Kent and Canterbury
Hospital. “It couldn't
have happened to a
nicer chap" was the
general comment.

     

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THE‘ ENG'NE OF ‘BRIDGE FIRE BRIGADE, llted  1 hair‘. at thg fungg-3|A0n

Wodnosdayn: of Mr. Jack Friondya memborlof the Brigade for

Loss TO VILLAGE
or BRIDGE

DEATH OF MR. J01-IN FRIEND

RIDGE hasfllost one of its most promin-

,en‘t vii1a.gers,— and the “Kent Messenger'_'

a valued contributor. by the death which 00-

eurred suddenly on Saturday. of Mr. John

Friend, of Bridge ‘
Street. [-

Educated at Simon
Langton School, Can-
terbury, Mr. Friend.
who was 48 years of
age. Was’ the on1y.son-
of Mr. Richard Friend
and‘ late Mrs. Friend.
of Bridge. On leav-
ing school he assis-
ted his father in his
business as 8. coal
merchant. He mar-
ried in 1909 Miss
Louie Brice. and from
1912 to 1918 was
licensee of the “Red
Lion." Bridge.

In recent years he
has taken a. keen
interest in local
government. He was MR. J. FRIEND.
elected- to the old’

Bridge R.D.C. in 1930 and had continued to
represent the parish since the formation of
the Bridge—B1ean R.D.C.

He was chairman of i the Folkestone aha
District Public Assistance Committee. Div.
23 -and 24, a member or the Folkestone and
District Guardians‘ Committee, or * the
Bricige Peirish‘Counci1', and the Parochial
Church‘; Council, ~-and-.0! .‘ the local Old Age
Pensioneocommittee. L ‘

A member of theeBr1dge Fire B1-iga”de for
29 years, he had for e. longtime beervsecond
Ofiicer.   ‘ L‘

   

many YOQTS.


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This fancy dress competi-

tion winner. drew special

applause as shewalked the -.  W v  3.’ _ 

length of the High Street on Oneof the delightfully -dressed entrants in the fancy
stiits. contest.

      

Best dressed tramps at the Red Lion, Bridge, were Alison Gompertz (left) and Mike Mu
(second right), pictured with the landlord. Mr Fred waits. and his wife, Iris.

Gentlemen and women of

Nearlyrso regulars at the . Mar ate. The evenmgt
Red Lion, Bridge, celebrated t e  ‘g‘ e E the Ecene
‘the by—pa.sS opening wifh a , -the Red on. Mr Fred
tramps’ supper‘. " The best - or rather worst andhiswife, Iris.

_ aodresfizd tram s wer1&Afiison 2

Money had been couected rape and _ e u ens, M1. wens said; on

[during the past two montheto whoewon, £5 each. really good _3v_9mm

nav fnnthn sand and as-in» own!‘


Count’s mansion

ready

PLANS are being drawn up for the
restoration of an‘ imposing near-
derelict mansion which has stood
empty for nine years.

The scheme to refurbish Highland Court
at Bridge to its former glory also involves
building 10 four and five—bedro0m luxury
homes in the old walled garden.

Highland Court, which overlooks the A2
Bridge bypass and was once home of the
eccentric Count Louis Zborowski, creator
of the Chitty Bang Bang series of racing
cars, has fallen into disrepair.

A grade two listed building, it was last
used as a home for the mentally handi-
capped and has stood empty since July,
1987, when the last patients left to live in
the community. -

It was then marketed by the local health
authority with a 31 million price tag.

The new owners, an East Kent family,

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by Amanda McDine

plan to completely restore the Palladian—
style mansion.

“In order to fund the restoration of the
house they had to sell a small part of the
land and they want us to build a very select
and upmarket development there,” said
Gwen Jex, sales director for the
developers, Sussex—l)ased Rydon Homes.

A bungalow, built with money raised
from an appeal held by BBC 'I‘V’s Blue
Peter, will have t.o be demolished to make
way for the homes.

The bungalow, which stands in the
walled garden, was built in 1980 to provide
a home for mentally and physically handi-
capped children. They moved to new
accommodation in Harbledown when

llighlaiul ( ‘ourt Hospital closed.

The planning application for the In
houst-s is unlikely to be (lis<'us.«a<-ti by
(‘;uuerlu1r_y council bei'on- Jun:-.

Meanwhile the new owners are look-
ing forward to what will he a
tremendous challenge.

“The family bought the house he—
cause they fell in love with it. They have
21 love of fine architecture and just
wanted the challenge of restoring it,”
said Mrs Jex.

All the main rooms, including the
ballroom, the dining room and the
billiard room, will be restored.

The new owners also plan to carry
out major works in the garden, including
restoring the Venetian water garden and
the sunken rose garden, and replacing
the 60 or so trees lost in the Great Storm
nine years ago.

Although not derelict, the house is in
a poor state and the restoration work
will be a long~term project, said Mrs
Jex.

She added: “The owners are hoping to
open it up on certain occasions."



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A COUPLE from
Patrixbourne are
hoping Memories
readers ‘will help
them uncover
information about

the old tollgate cot-.

tage that _once stood
opposite‘ the Gate
Inn in7New Dover
Road, Canterbury; .

Pensioners Reginald .

and Gwendolyn
Brickenden, who live ‘at
Bifrons Gardens,
remember that the build-
ing —-— known affection-

ately as the bungalow -—’

was standing at the
beginning of this century,

but think it must have

been demolished some
time before World War II.
Mr Brickenden’s par—

ents lived there for many.

years before they moved
over the road to take over
the Catt.‘ Inn. *

An industrious couple,
Charles and May

Brickenden ran the busy‘
. pub,. kept -pigs and

chickens and brought up
a family of 16 children.
And Mr Brickenden still
managed to make and sell

- wattle hurdles.

The gold gentleman is
pictured standing beside
his hurdles stacked in
front of the stable, while
his wife. is in the pub
doorway. ‘ ‘

The couple retired from
The; Gate in 1927 after
running it for 42 years and
spent their latter years in
the _house shown next
door — then 60 Old Dover
Road.

-As the youngest of the
16 children, Reginald was

‘ born _at The Gate Inn, but '

can remember i" at least
three other families living

‘in the“ tollgate cottage

before it was pulled

down. -

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year on Saturday, May lst.
§%?.I*,'TE7 Yiisliefifi N0’-P3‘=?S

II‘ §?i§f§» Loaens wrote: “C

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A few years later in
Surgeon to the first bite

Presidents or
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wfflP??551\' " EHQPQ was Eifrons not yet ohm
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Patrixbourne from 1734 to 1739 and the former residence
of the Bargrave family. Here was Bridge Place the
former home of Sir Arnold Braemes who had so astutely
manipulated the harbour rights at Dover in his favour
and built the largest country houserin Kent at the end
of the seventeenth century, much of it constructed in
Dutch brick, with its aviary and deer park; further
down the valley was Howletts the home of Sir Edward
Palmer, Comptroller of the Navy; another house was
Higham, now Highland Court and Renville shortly to be
bought by the Crippen family; nearer Bishopsbourne was
harlton Park and at Littlebourne Lee Priory recently
modelled on Walpo1e's ‘Strawberry Hill’ at Twickenham.

* Quoted from "Surgeon James Journal" edited by Joan
Vansittart. A portrait of Dr. James may be seen in
the main hall of Exeter General Hospital.

***-X-**-X--X-**

BIBLE READING AND DISCUSSION GROUP

The meeting on March 4th
at the home of Mrs. Meigh, 37 Haywards Cotts. Union
Road and the meeting on March 18th at 8 p.m. will be
held at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Rose, Church Cottage,
High St., Bridge. We are continuing our study of St.

John's Gospel and anyone interested will be most
welcome.

at 8 p.m. will be held

WOMEN'S INSTITUTE


some surnames repeat themselves frequently
especially the following which are all Kentish
names:

May? Goldfinch, Fourd, Maxted, Hogbin, Dadds, Denne,
Egglgieia G0%gUP, Phllpot, Fagg, Ovenden, Backman
name sficfi. Cfire is also the occasional Huguenot
the Old T a: apeau, Mousquetier and Martel and
némes Sucgs amig lis frequently used for Christian
Hannah as e , Abigail, Rebeccah, Abraham,

- and Ambrose.

rec ghg Church collections are also carefully
I i$§'e agd funds were often used for the re-
lflg 0 other churches and cathedrals as wide
apart as St. Albans and Blandford in Dorset. In
1678 there was a collection after the Great Fire of
London towards the rebuilding of St. Paul's
g:§§:%T:%-Fln 1681 there was a collection for the
was Ord dr§nch_Protestants and in 1671 a collection
‘ere y His Magesties Privy Council towards
the raising Of 53,0000 for "the redemption of a
great number of our Christian countrymen from that
Eisgrable Turkishinfidel whose inhuman slavery and
0“ 38? they now groan under.
Sir Arnold Braenes and his lady‘ £1.10.0d;
Daniel Ovenden and his wife £0. o,4d
Thomas Denne £0. 0.3a:
All the rest of the householders gave 2d. each:

John Williamson.
* * x * * * * *

THANK YOU

Surrougdig surell speak for many Bridge and
‘thank Dug X1 tfige parents when I send a grateful
and runfiin ? B ose concerned with the founding
know that Eu? Tldge Youth Club,_ It is good to
themselves undyoungsters are meeting and enjoying
is no likelih eg a ult supervision and that there
uncivilised bog ) only too common these days, of
'Discos' are I aklguf Spoiling the evenings‘ The
excitement do? e orward to with great.
generating :nspir:IS3ff::It;h:£o:2:tCI:: §§uth of
BTid€€- Anything we parents can do to help raise

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SOME VILLAGE NOTES XII .i;
The Bridge Parish Register 1579 - ._ Rfiw

There are over three thousand names rec.‘.
in the Bridge Church Register during this perioa
and the deciphering depends very much on the
calligraph of the particular Vicar the
Elizabethans are the best, the Stuarts the worst,
but each period gives some insight into how life
was led at that time; the earliest record is to
Anne Ryall buried 12th day of September Anno
Supra 1579 and the last to the baptisement of the
son of Mary and George Kendall (his reputed
father) 20th April 1760. Some typical recordings
during the Seventeenth Century are as follows:-

1661 Christpher Carger an aged man buried

13th August.
1663 James Jordan the Clerk of Bridge buried

21st December.
1667 Macobus Kasey, later of Pembroke College

Ogford Vicar of Patrixbourne with Bridge died aged
V32 years 7 weeks and M days and is buried in ye

4 north chancel of Bridge Chappel.

1668 Died: John Herring a poor householder
of Bridge Hill House and Richard Adams a poore
servant of John Fowler a Butcher at Bridge.

1669 Joan Briggs a servant maid brought from
Canterbury died October 1st.

1672 Samuel Mazbrook, a stranger was buried
in woolen (as the affidavit doth appoint)

1681 Sir Arnold Braenes born in Dover in
1602 was buried on 20th November near the tomb of
dis two deceased ladies.

1686 John Taylor of Tower Hill London was
killed by a fall from a horse on Barham Downs on
March 17th between 3 and H in ye afternoon and was
buried behind the pulpit at Bridge.

During the 18th Century there were often
military encampments at Barham Downs. For example
in 17h8 there is recorded that John Levingston a
private soldier in Major General Jeffereys
regiment was accidentally killed by a bread and
forage waggon belonging to the camp at Barham Downs
going over his body whereby he was crushed to death.

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BRIDGE & PATRIXBOUHNE CHURCHES
Summer Fete 9th June 1973

RECEIPTS

Teas and Cakes

Donation

Mothers‘ Union - Groceries
Garden Produce

white Elephant

Raffle

Lgss Tickets and Premium Bond
Bottle Stall

LE§§ Expenses

sIDEsH0ws

Young wives

Mr. and Mrs. Pratt, wheel of Fortune
Mrs. Pomroy

Mr. and Mrs. Milton
Mrs. Rampe

Mrs. Carpenter

Mrs. Pierce

Miss Fuggel, Pony Rides
Scouts

Cubs

Guides

.... .1, .2 . . _-  .. ~ ...._.._....,

Bridge Youth Group
Donation from Churchill House

EXPENSES

Hire of School
Printing

Canterbury City Band
Public Address System
Hire of Tables
Competition Prizes

PROFIT

 

£ £
20.00 5 00
5.00 2 .
20.26
26.34
4.00
52.62
8. 2 43.90
2.88
3.41 49.47
17.37
7.19
5.01
7.31
3-43
3.62
4.38
3001+
3.68
1.16
1.062
10.11
1.00
237.89
4.00
6.00
20.00
2.00
1.20
1.95 35.15

£202.74

 
 


family man with two children, all of whom

The New Head

By now it is widely known that Bridge
Primary School’s next Headteacher will be
Mr. Brian Farley, and On The Nail
welcomes him to his new post, which he
takes up in January.

Mr. Farley comes to us from Abbey
Primary School, Bexley; where he is
currently the Deputy Headteacher. He is a

are looking forward to living in this area
after their move from Dartford where they
live at present. Our new head is also a
committed churchrnan, being actively involved in the work of his local
Baptist Church, and is very keen to continue the excellent link between
church and school that his predecessors forged.


. —..—u.—-ua. nwair‘-'1|w'ao-r— -_--—.~

,: _.-A iv j)E.iT1:-t or
 HERBERT A. S. BDUNT

 

- MANY (YEARS STlSWARD or
CONYNGHAM ESTATE. ~ .

-We regret to record the death of M1".
Herbert Arthur Scawen Blulif. Wlllch
occr ‘ed at liis‘residence. the Old Pur-
son .". Ospringe, on -M_arch 23rd. from
the elfects of :1. chill which he caught at
White Hill Woods. Nackington, the D79‘
vious Friday, death folIowinS.f1“‘m P“°“'
monia. The deceased gentleman had been
steward for the Conynghuni estate for 54
years, and since taking up his 1‘\'-'S1(iel’lf‘B
at Ospringe a few years ago had been in
the habit of travelling to Cant;-rbi_iry
daily. He was Well-known in-fhe ('llSi1‘1(:t,
and for many years took‘ a keen lifter?-‘t
in the business and social life of East
Kent, and he was at one t_1me 3 mtfmber
of the Bridge Rural District Council-

‘~””‘1?fJIiIir'R7AfL‘“A’ji"PAT1i1xBoURNE. -

The funeral‘ took place oi. Patrixbourue
on Saturday, the church be1n§_filled with
the relatives and friends w1si11Y1Z't0 Pay
their "last tributes of respect. U16 Gfmflat‘
ing_clergy were the Rev. Iluliert Ixlllght
(Vi6a1- of Patrixbourne and B_r1dge)_ and
the Rev. C. F. Hodges (Vicar o_t Osp1‘ll139l:
while Mr S. VV. Mount presided -at the
organ, nnd the Bridge choir were present
The coflin had been borne by road from
Ospringe the same morning. re_ach1ng
Panixbourno about noon, when 1t was
placed in.the church to await the service; _
The ‘organist played “ 0 rest in the Lord
(Me lssolml, and the service opened wifli
the“. in, “ 0 God, our help in ages past,
followed by the chanting of _the 23rd_ Psalm.
i'I‘l1e lesson, from Revelations xxi., was
read by the Vicar of Usprlngey End the
service concluded with the hymn On the
Resurrection lVIor_ninp:,” and the Nunc
Dimittis. Tho mortal remains were fhen
home to the south ‘portion of the church-
yard and interred near the Cfmynghilm
vaults. the grave having been lined with
ivy and (lafiodils by Mr. A. Kelsi: (heull
gardener at ifrons).

The principal mourners were Mrs. Blunt
(widow),.Miss Blunt (sister), Colonel Blunt
(brother), Colonel and Miss Sheepshank,
Colonel and Mrs. Fair, Colonel Gog_arty,
Mrs..Kenrick, Mrs. Jupp_ Lady Shiflner
' » _ ..  _l.oncowe. . .. Among the large
got iering in the church or al: the grave-
side were noticed the Hon. Mrs.‘ Talbot
;t1n'd Mr. ’.A. Kettlcliiirchwardens), Colonel

he Hon. M. G. Talbot, Major and Mrs.
Gordon Home. Mrs. I-‘enn._Mrs. Ronald,
Mr. H T. and Miss Bensfed. the Rev. S.
(7. Woods, the Rev. R. U. Potts. Dr. A.
T. Wilson. Messrs. T. Louis Collard, 1?.
_ C. Wills.‘ C. “Test. R. Friend. J.
Friend, A. Wilson. S. Gilbert. G. Stone,
BL  Edwards, G. Russ, W. Colthun,
-‘Lewis ll. Finn. E. Byron Kelsey. E. W.
Baker, J. W. Robinson, T. S. Coleman.
Arthur Merchant, W. F. Crawford, T.
Hume. II. '1'. Willellz. C. Dunlrin, Guy Pet-
ley, . de . Collard, F. Spanton, W.
H. Court. A. H. Amey, Holman Teal. Hol-

‘ ness "‘ller, C. Hollands. G. 'Setterfield. R.
« Docl

.v, ,Silsby (representing ‘Lloyrls
Bank. Canterbury). A. H. Field (represent-
ing Messrs. Snltwell and Co.. solicitors).
{any wrealhs and floral fributes were
sent. ~'I‘hose included fhe widow’s beauti-
ful full-length cross of rlnffodils and red
car-nations: and others sent by the Dowager
Marchioness Conyngham; employees of
Bifrons Esfate; Ellen and Betty-, staff nl.
Ospringo Pnrsonirve; Elsie; Arthur H.
Field: Mr. and Mrs. W. Chapman; Major
and Mrs.» Gordon Home: Mr., Mrs. and
Miss Fensted: Mr. and Mrs. J. H. John-
son; Mr. and Mrs. (‘ii-eecl; Mr. A. H.
Wlutinq; Mrs. ll. H. J. 1l‘awcett_: Folonel
and _Mrs. James G. Fair; the Vicar of
Osprmve; Mr. and Mrs. Ilerdman Por-
ter an family; Major E. Fnunce do Luune;
Mrs. Almack; >Mr, and Mrs. Lewis B. .
Mr. and Mrs. Ruck; Mrs. Geoffrey 1
if‘ Mr. and Mrs. Lawton; Captain
George W'heler; Mr.‘ and Mrs. I
1; women of Ospringe; ‘C. Whiting ‘
S. A. Popper; Bolaesbourne Football 1
Club; ‘Ross illlll ‘ueralrl; Arlhur $4. Sn.ll- 4
\v'rll- l\lv':« T‘.l ML. 1

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Bridge is a parish and head of a union, giving its name
to a rural deanery; it derives its name from its situation in
a valley on the Roman and modern road to Dover, at a bridge
over a feeder of the Stour, with a station on the Canterbury
and Folkestone line of the Southern railway, and is 1% miles
south from Bekesbourne station on the same system, and 5 south-
east from Canterbury, in the Canterbury division of the county,
lathe of St. Augustine, hundred of Bridge and Petham, petty
sessional division of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, county court
district of Canterbury, rural deanery of East Bridge and
archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury. The village is lighted
with gas by a local limited company. The church of St.Peter
is of flint, in the Norman style, with some additions of the
Early English period, and has a tower with spire, containing
a clock and 4 bells; the windows are stained; within a recess is
a recumbent effigy of a man in robes, in low relief; the church
was repaired and partly rebuilt about 1860, and affords 550
sittings, 80 being free. The register dates from the year 1565.
The living is a Vicarage, annexed to the Vicarage of Patrixbourne,
joint net yearly value $550, with 58 acres of glebe and residence,
in the gift of the Marquess Conyngham, and held since 1897 by the
Rev. Hubert Knight M.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge, who
resides at Patrixbourne. A war memorial was erected in 1920 by
public subscription in the north-east of the churchyard, to the
memory of 15 men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18.
The Wesleyan chapel, built in 1894, is of corrugated iron and
wood, and seats 150 persons. The principal landowners are the
Marquess Conyngham, who is lord of the manor, Earl Sondes and the
Hon. Mrs. Matthew Bell. The sail is chalky; subsoil, chalk.
The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and hops, The area is
1,171 acres; rateable value, £5,585; the population in 1921 was 699.

Post, M.0., T. & T.E.D.0ffice. — Richard Castle, sub-
postmaster. Letters through Canterbury.

Bridge Fire Brigade: engine house, Plough & Harrow P.H.;
consists of a motor engine & trailer & about 1,200
feet of hose; Charles Hills, lt. & sec; number of
men 10. -

Assistant Overseer & Clerk to the Parish Council, Ernest
G.Wood A.L.A.A. 21 Burgate street, Canterbury.

BRIDGE RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL.
The parishes in the District are the same as form the Union

Council meets at the Guardians‘ hoard room, Bridge, the third
thursday in each month at 11 o'clock.

Chairman, Spencer William Mount, Patrixbourne.

Officials

Clerk, Lionel James Nilliams, Bridge

Treasurer, Richard Henry Newman, Lloyds Bank Ltd. (C. & C. branch
Canterbury.

Medical Officer of Health, James John Day 0.B.E., M...C.S.,
L-RsC.P., D.P.H., 52 Whitstable road, Canterbyry.

Building Surveyor, Herbert Keswick Blundell, Bridge.

Tighway Surveyor, Septimus Sladden, Littlebourne.

Sanitary Inspector, Herbert Keswick Blundell, Bridge.


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BRIDGE UHIQN

Board day, the third thurs. in each month at the Board room
at the Poor Law Institution, Bridge, at 12 noon.

The Assessment Committee meets on the first saturday in each
month at 21 Burgate street, Canterbury, at 2 p.m.

The Union comprises the following parishes, viz:-
Adisham, Barham, Bekesbourne, Bishopsbourne, Bridge,
Chartham, Fordwich, Harbledown, Ickham, KIHTSDOD,
Littlebourne, Lower Hardres, Milton, Nackington,
Patrixbourne, Petham, St. Nicholas hospital, Stodmarsh,
Thanington Without, Upper Wardres, Naltham, Nickhambreaux
& Nomenswold.
The area of the union is 41,796 acres; rateable Value,
$76,012; the population in 1911 was 11,194 & in 1921
was 11,256.

Chairman of the Board of Guardians, Spencer William Mount.

Clerk to the Guardians, Lionel Jas. Williams, Bridse.

Treasurer, Richard Henry Newman, Lloyds Bank Ltd. EC. & C.

Branch) Canterbury.

Collector to the Guardians & Relieving Officer, William
Hutchings Mass, Bridge.

Vaccination Officer, William Hutchings Nass, Bridge district.

Medical Officers % Public Vaccinators, No. 1 district,
Henry Octavius Preston L.R.C.P.Edin., H.R.C.S.Eng.,
Lower Bridge street, Canterbury (public vaccinator);
No. 2 district, Hugh George Rashleigh L.R.C.P.Lond.,
M.R.C.S.Eng. Chartham; No. 5 district, Henry Octavius
Preston L.R.C.P.Edin., Lower Bridge street, Canterbury;
No. 4 district, E.B. Mercer M.B., Ch.B.Edin., Littlebourne;
ho. 5 district, David Ivor Rees, M.B., B.Ch., H.R.C.S.Eng.,
L.B.C.P.Lond., Elham.

The Poor Law Institution is a structure of red brick, built in
1855, to hold 2OO inmates; Percy William Honney, master;
Rev. Hubert Knight M.A., chaplain; Arthur Thomas Wilson
N.B., B.Ch. medical officer; Mrs. Honney, matron.

BRIDGE REGISTRATION DISTRICT

Superintendent Registrar, Lionel James Williams, Bridge;
deputy, Herbert Keswick Blundell, Bridge.

Registrar of Births & Deaths, Bridge district, William
Hutchings Wass, Bridge; deputy, Percy Wm. Honney.

Registrar of Marriages, Percy Nilliam Honney, Bridge;
deputy, W.J. Martin, Chartham.

Public Elementary School (mixed & infants), for the joint
oarishes of Bridge & Patrixbourne, for 110 boys & girls
& 86 infants; William John Billing, master; Miss M.
Bell, infants’ mistress.

The school is under the control of the Kent Education
Committee.

Carriers to Canterbury pass through daily.

Conveyance — There is a frequent service of motor omnibuses,
which run through from Canterbury to Dover & Folkestone.

Railway Station (Southern R), Peter William Pettyfer, station

master.


Anderson, George Knox D.L., J.P. Bridge Hill house
Berry, Francis R.w., Bourne L
Blundell, Herbert, Ivy house
Collard, Thos. Louis, Little Bridge pl
Cowell, George, Vine cottages

Croft, Mrs.E., l Sefton villas
Holness, Frederick Robert, Great Pett
Hordern, Miss, River house

Jones, Mrs. Rosedale Villa

Mummery, Frank, 4 The Terrace

Newman, Miss C.A., Alexander house
Penn, Mrs. Ethel, Bridge place

Ramsay, Misses, East Bridge House
Sargeaunt, Norman, Lynton house

Sperling, Misses, Rose Bank
Tassell, James, Weston villa
Tassell, Miss, Nych Elm

Wills, Charles, The Terrace

Wilson, Arthur Thomas, M.B.,

Wilson, Mrs., High Street

fiorrell, Charles Henry, The Terrace

COMMEICIAL

Ballards, hairdrssrs. -
Blundell, Eerbt. Keswick, building surveyor & sanitary inswector
to the Rural District Council

Brice, Hannah Lydia (Mrs.) Plough & Harrow P.H.

Bridge Gas, Coke & Coal Co. Limited (Charles Mills. sec)
Bridgland, Albt., builder, Portland ter.

Castle, Arthur James, baker

Churchyard, Henry, boot & shoe dealr.

Collard, Thos. Louis, clerk to the Bridge sub—committee of the

Kent Local Pension committee & Old Age Pensions Committee

Decent, Walter, grocer

Down, Frank, cycle dealer

Edwards, Bertram Willie, butcher

Fairbrass, Charles, shopkeeper

Fenn, John, plumber

File, Norman, farmer, Little Pett frm

Gilbert, Sidney, blacksmith

Matcher, Hy.Fdwin, farmer, Middle Pett farm

Hawkins, Geo., draper

Hogben, Frederick John, saddler

Holland, Chas., contrctr. Mill ho

Honney, Percy Wm. deputy registrar of births & deaths &

registrar of marriages for Bridge district

Jones, Albert Edward, Brick maker

Mummery, Frank, agricltrl. engnr., Laundry la.

Nelson, Thomas, laundry

Price, Henry George, grocer

Prickett, George, beer retailer

Reading Room (Mrs. Cowell, caretkr)

Richards, Phillip, grocer

Rogers, Archbld. Nm., motor engnr


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COMMERCIAL (Contd)

Sidders, Wm.Chas., plumber, Vine cotts.

Sneller, Aubrey James, motor garage
Stockwell, Victor G., M.P.S., chemist
Stone, George, dairyman

Sutton, Jane (Nrs.), woodman's Arms P.H., Pett Bottom (letters
through Lower Hardres, Canterbury)

Taylor, denry & Son, coal merchants

Tutt, Eliz. (Miss), dressma

Uden, flilliam, farm bailiff to F.R. Holness esq. Great Pett
Farm

bass, William Hutchings, collector to the guardians, relieving
& vaccination officer & registrar of births & deaths for
Bridge district, Fairview

Watson, John Thomas, Red Lion P.H.

Wentzell, Geo. Rt., White Horse Pufl.
west, Charles, butcher

Williams, Lionel Jae., clerk to the Bridge board of guardians
& assessment committee of Bridge union & Bridge Rural
District Council & Supt. registrar

Wilson, Arth.Thos., M.B., B.Ch., B-A.O.Dub. medical officer
Bridge Union & medical officer of Bekesbourne Sanatorium

wood, Ernest, Fishmngr.

Wye, Robert, house & insurance agent


 

ORGANISATION AND FORMAT
PART I: THE PARISHES OF ENGLAND

This part is arranged alphabetically by ancient counties, and within each by its constituent parishes in
alphabetical order. To the extent allowed by the nature of each parish, a variety of information is presented.

Information:

Creation, Abolition.‘

For each civil parish (CP) and ecclesiastical parish (EP), the date of creation, the names of
other parishes from which it was formed and a footnote reference to the authority for the creation.
For each ancient parish (AP), CP and EP, the date of the abolition (if any), the names of the parishes
into which its territory was dispersed and a footnote reference to the authority for the abolition. It
is possible for a parish to be abolished for one purpose and continue to exist for the other, e.g., an
AP which loses its civil identity to an expanding nearby town while remaining ecclesiastically separate.

Alterations of Boundaries.

For all parishes, the dates when boundaries were altered, for any purpose, with a footnote
reference to the authority for the change. The names of other parishes affected are not generally
cited for economy of space, except when the change resulted in the creation of a new parish, when
another parish was gained in its entirety, when the boundary of a county was altered (changes in
APs, CPs) or when the boundary of a diocese was affected (APs, EPs).

Civil Organisation.

For APs and CPs, to the extent that the parish was in existence at any time, inclusion in
hundreds (late 16th cent—l889), boroughs (at any time), poor law unions (1830s—1930), sanitary
districts (1875——94) and administrative county units (1894-1974).

Parliamentary Organisation.
For APs and CPs, to the extent that the parish was in existence at any time, inclusion in
parliamentary boroughs (at any time) and divisions or county constituencies (after 1832).

Ecclesiastical Organisation.

For APs and EPs, the rural deaneries in which the parish was organised. A reference to the
entries at the beginning of the county’s section will indicate how the rural deaneries were organised
in dioceses and archdeaconries.

Sample Entries:

For the instances below and for all entries, reference must be made both to the General
Abbreviations (below in this section), applicable throughout the Guide, and to the abbreviations
particular to each county, found at the beginning of its entries in Part 1.

EXAMPLE A: HILDERSHAM
Cambs AP LG Seq 5. Par] Seq 1. Eccl Seq 1.

EXAMPLE B: TORTWORTH 4
Glos APLG Seq 18. Transf 1974 to Avon. Parl W’rn
Dv (1832-85), Mid Dv (1885-1918), Thomb.
Dv (1918-48), Stroud & Thornb. CC (1948-
55), S Glos CC (l955—*). Eccl Seq 21.

EXAMPLE C: PENZANCE

Cornw Bor and chap in Madron AP, sep EP 1741 ass
‘Penzance St Mary’, qv, sep CP 1866.
LG Penw. Hd, Penz. PLU, pt Penz. USD, pt
Madron USD, Penz. MB. Civ bdry: 1894 (the
pt in Madron USD cr Penzance in Madron
cm,” 1934.‘ Parl West Dv (1867-1918), St
Ives CC (l918—*).

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262 THE PARISHES OF ENGLAND
Eccl Seq 9. Eccl bdry: 1956 (gains Bircholt
AP).92
BRASTED

AP LG Orig pt Westerham Hd, pt Brasted Ville, by
19th cent pt Codsh. Hd, pt Westerham Ha,“
Seven. PLU, RSD, RD. Civ bdry: 1934.” Parl
Seq 20. Eccl Se%838. Eccilogdry: 1880 (help or

Four Elms EP), 1907.
BREDGAR
APLG Seq 29. Parl Seq 4. Eccl Seq 16.
BREDHURST

Chap in Hollingbourne AP, sep civ identity
early, curacy & self-styled Vicarage, eccl sep
status sustained.“0 LG Seq 1. Civ bdry:
1934.19 Parl Seq 9. Eccl Exempt from Arch-
deacon (until 1845), Sutton RDn (until 1938),
Roch. RDn (1938-54), Gill. RDn (1954-72).
Ecclbdry:1884,112 1938.1“ 1943, 111963.“
Abolllseccl 1972 to help or South Gillingham
EP.
BRENCHLEY
AP LG Orig pt Bren. & Horsm. Hd, pt Twyford Hd
(also pt in town AI4lesford), ent Bren. & Horsm.
Hd by 19th cent, Tonbr. PLU, RSD, RD. Civ
bdry: 1934,” 1955 (cr Paddock Wood c1>).““
Parl Seq 16. Ecol Seq 27. Eccl bdry: 1860 (help
or Paddock Wood 1~:1>),‘” 1875 (cr Matfield
EP).111
THE BRENTS
EP Cr 1881 from Preston next Faversham Ell’,
Faversham AP.116 Ospr. RDn. Bdry: 1947.
Abol eccl 1966 to help cr The Brents and
Davington EP.” -
THE BRENTS AND DAVINGTON
EP Cr 19866 by union The Brents EP, Davington
AP. Ospr. RDn.
BRENZETT
AP LG Orig Aloesb. Hd, by 19th cent pt Aloesb.
Hd, pt Rom. Marsh Lbty, Rt Cq Pt ofNew Rom.
and Lbties New Rom.,4 Rom. Marsh PLU,
RSD, RD. Civ bdry: 1934.” Parl Seq 6. Eccl
Seq 12. Ecclbdry: 1962.“
BRIDGE
Chap in Patrixbourne AP, sep Civ identity early,
no sep eccl identity. LG Seq 16. Parl Seq 1.
BROADSTAIRS
EP Cr 1850 from St Peter in Thanet AP.119 Westb.
RDn (1850-1930), Thanet RDn (1930-*).
BROADSTAIRS AND ST PETER’S
CP Cr 1935 by union pts Garlinge CP, Ramsgate
CP, St Peter CP.6 LG Broadstairs and St Peter’s
UD. Parl Isle of Thanet CC (1948-70), Thanet
East BC (1970-*).
BROADWATER
EP Cr 1867 from Frant AP (Sussex, Kent), Eridge
Green EP (sussex),53 to be in Chich dioc. see
entry in Sussex. Bdry: 1889 (help cr Tunbridge
Wells King Charles the Martyr EP),2 1921. 6
BROADWATER DOWN
CP Cr 1894 from the Kent pt of Fgant AP (Sussex,
Kent) in Tunbr. Wells MB.” LG Ticehurst
PLU, Tunbr. Wells MB. Bdry: 1900 (gains pt
Frant AP, E Sussex).”7 Abol 1934 ent to

Tunbridge Wells MB and CF.” Parl Tonbr. Dv
(1918-48).
BROCKLEY

EP Cr 1901 from Lewisham AP.123 Lewisham RDn.
Abol 1960 pt to help or Crofton Park St Hilda
with St Cyprian EP, pt to Deptford St Peter
EP, pt to Lewisham AP.124

BROCKLEY HILL

EP Cr 1867 from Forest Hill Christ Church EP.“8
[London dioc 1867-68] , Greenw. RDn (1867-
86), Lewisham RDn (1886-*). Bdry: 1900
(help cr Crofton Park EP).‘°°

BROMLEY

The following have ‘Bromley’ in their names.
Insofar as any existed at a given time: LG Brom.
& Beck. Hd, Brom. PLU, USD, UD (1894-
l903), MB (1903-65). Transf 1965 to Gtr
London (Brom. LB).5 ParlW’rn Dv(1832-67),
West Dv (1867-85), W’rn Dv (1885-1918),
Brom. Parl Bor/BC (1918-70), Gtr London
thereafter. Eccl Dartf. RDn (until 1864), W
Dartf. RDn (1864-1909), Brom. RDn
(l909—*).

AP1—BROMLEY [ST PETER AND ST PAUL]-
Civ bdry: 1902,50 1934 (incl help cr Chisle-
hurst and Sidcup cP).‘° Eccl bdry: 1842 (cr
EP2, refounded 1843) 125 1863 (cr Plaistow
EP, Brgfounded 1864), 5 1866 4cr Bickley
EP), 1291880 ‘g12e1p cr 1~:1>4),” 1887,”
1906, 1907, 1938 (help cr West Wick-
ham St Mary of Nazareth EP),“ 1938i”
1948 (acr 1-:P5),‘3° 1955 (help or EPI), 3‘
1966.1 2

EP1—BROMLEY CHRIST CHURCH-C1‘ 1955
from AP1, Plaistow 139.13‘ Bdry: 1963.”

EP2—BROMLEY HOLY TRINITY—Cr 1842, re-
founded 1843 from Ar>1.”5 Bdry: 1889 (cr
EP7),2 1934 (help cr EP6),81 1957.84 Some-
times called ‘Bromley Common Holy Trinity’.

EP3—BROMLEY ST ANDREW—Cr 1927 from
Plaistow E1>.‘33 Bdry: 1938.83

EP4-BROMLEY ST JOHN THE EVANgELIST-

CI 18820 from83AP1, Plaistow EP. Bdry:
1907.8 1938.

EP5-BROMLEY ST MARK—Cr 1948 from
AP1.‘3° Bdry: 1957.“

-BROMLEY COMMON HOLY TRINITY-See
EP2.

EP6—BROMLEY COMMON ST AUGUS”£1NE—Cr
1934 fgom EP7, EP2, Bickley EP. Bdry:
1957.8

EP7—BROMLEY COMMON ST LUKE-Cr 1889
from E92.’ Bdry: 1907,82 1934 (help cr
1396).“

BROMPTON 134
EP Cr 1847 from Chatham AP, Gillingham AP.
Roch. RDn (1847-1954), Gill. RDn (1954-
56). Abol 1956 to help cr Gillingham St Mark
ER135
NEW BROMPTON ST LUKE

EP Cr 1909 from New Brompton St Mark EP, Gil-
lingham AP. Roch. RDn (1909-S4), Gill.
RDn (1954-*). Now called ‘Gillingham St


 

 

2532 KENT 283

lgton’
. Eccl

7 Orig
In Hd
bdry:
cl Pec
from
:after.

y, sep
’ 19th
PLU,
rl Se
:94,‘

wlton

.John
‘hanet
o Gar-
laptist

itrood
D. Civ
I867-
Shor.
D. Eccl
;P)’4o4

1. Eccl

Honor
Cathe-
ltholin
: 1923
936.6

. RSD
. RSD
.6 Parl
87,357

1. Eccl
.1 eccl
81375

n with

J. Eccl

Rom.
1, RD.

 

Abol civ 1934 ent to Burmarsh AP.” Parl E’rn
Dv (1832-85), S’rn Dv (1885-1918), Ashf. Dv
(1918-48). Eccl Lym. RDn (until 1873), S
Lym. RDn (1873-1963). Abol eccl 1963 ent
to Burmarsh AP.1m
ORLESTONE
APLG Perhaps orig ent Ham Hd,358 probably pt
Ham Hd, pt Rom. Marsh Lbty as later, E Ashf.
PLU( 836-1930), RSD, RD. Civ bdry: 1883,’;
1935. Par] Seq 5. Eccl Seq IO. Eccl bdry:
1952.“
ORPINGTON
APIncl cha7p Downe (sep civ identity early, sep EP
186117 ), chap St Mary Cray (sep civ identity
early, sep EP 1867228). LG Ruxley Hd, Brom.
PLU, RSD, RD (1894-1935), Orp. UD (1935-
65). Addtl civ bdry alt: 1934 (incl help cr Chis-
lehurst and Sidcup CPI.” Transf 1965 to Gtr
London (Brom. LB).5 Parl W’rn DV (1 832-
67), West Dv (1867-85), N-W’rn Dv (1885-
1918), Chisl. Dv (1918-48), Orp. CC (1948-
70), Gtr London thereafter. Eccl Shor. RDn
(until 1864), W Dartf. RDn (1864-1909),
Brom. RDn (1909-54), Orp. RDn (1954-*).
Addtl eccl bdry alt: 1852 (from area chap St
Mary Cray, cr Crocken Hill EP),229 1934 (cr
Orpington St Andrew EP);°5 1935 (help cr
Petts Wood EP),82 1938, 03 1940 (help cr
Orpington Christ Church EP),2°2 1959 (cr
Crofton St Paul El>).“3
ORPINGTON CHRIST CHURCH
EP Cr 1940 from Chelsfield AP, Orpington AP.2°2
Brom. RDn (1940-54), Orp. RDn (1954-*).
ORPINGTON ST ANDREW
EP Cr 1934 from Orpington A1>.“°5 Brom. RDn
(1934-54), Orp. RDn (1954-*).
OSPRINGE
APLG Fav. Hd, PLU, pt Fav. Bor/MB (until 1883),
pt Fav. corporate mbr Cq Pt of Dover, pt Fav.
USD (1875-83), Fav. RSD (pt 1875-83, ent
1883-94), Fav. RD (1894-1934), Swale RD
(1934-74). Civ bdry: 1883.8 1935 (incl help cr
Faversham CP2.6 Parl Seq 4. Eccl Seq 13. Eccl
bdry: 1930,” 1947.1”
OTFORD
Chap in Shoreham AP, sep civ identity early,
sep EP 1723.177 LG sec; 40. Civ bdry: 1908
(cr Dunton Green CP).2 8 Parl Seq 20. Eccl
Shor. RDn. Eccl bdry: 1890 (cr Dunton Green
EPL242
OTHAM
APLG Seq 2. Par] Seq 9. Eccl Seq 17. Eccl bdry:
1971,“ 1972.”
OTTERDEN
AP LG Orig ent Eyhorne I131, by 19th cent pt Ey-
horne Hd, pt Fav. H513 Hollingb. PLU, RSD,
RD. Civ bdry: 1883.3 Parl Pt E’rn Dv (1832-
85), pt W’rn Dv (1832-67), Mid Dv (pt 1867-
85, ent 1885-1918), Maid. Dv/CC (1918-*).
Eccl Seq l3.
OXNEY
Chap in Eythome AP, sep civ identity early, no
sep eccl identity. LG Com. Hd, River PLU (re-

named Dover in 1840s), Dover RSD, RD. Abol
civ 1934 pt to East Larlgdon AP, pt to St Mat-
garet’s at Cliffe AP.” Parl E’rn Dv (1832-
1918), Dover Dv (1918-48).
PADDLESWORTH
APLG Seq 36. Parl Seq 2. Eccl Exempt from Arch-
deacon (until 1845), Seq 8.
PADDLESWORTH
APOrig AP, destroyed church, civ incl early in
Snodland AP (Larkf. I-Id); eccl in Mall. RDn,
deemed as ex-par after destruction, abol eccl
193;»! to help cr Snodland with Paddlesworth
EP.
PADDOCK WOOD
EP Cr 1860 from Brenchley AP, Yalding AP, Net-
tlestead AP, Collier Street l~:1>.“5 Mall. RDn
(1860-64), S Mall. RDn (1864-1906), Tunbr.
Wells RDn (1906-09), Tonbr. RDn (1909-*).
CP Cr 1955 from Brenchley AP. ‘ LG Tonbr. RD.
Parl Royal Tunbr. Wells CC (1970-*).
PATRIXBOURNE
AP Incl chap Bridge (sep civ identity early, no sep
eccl identity hence this par eccl ‘Patrixbourne
with Bridge’, qv). LG Bridge & Petham Hd, pt
Canterb. Bor/MB/CB, Bridge PLU, pt Canterb.
USD, pt Bridge RSD, Bridge RD. Civ bdry:
1894 (loses the pt in the CB to Canterbury St
Paul AP).‘” Parl Pt Canterb. Parl Bor (until
1918), remainder and later, Seq 1.
PATRIXBOURNE WITH BRIDGE
APUsual eccl spelling; for civ and civ sep chap
Bridge, see prev entry. Eccl Seq 1.
EAST PECKHAM
APLG Orig pt Twyford Hd, t Littlef. Hd, ent
Twyford Hd by 19th cent, Seqgll thereafter.
Civ bdry: 1883,“ 1888.9 1934. Purl Seq 15.
Eccl Seq 25. Dedication changed 1972 from St
Michael to Holy Trinity.372 Eccl bdg: 1843
(cr East Peckham Holy Trinity EP), 4 1947
(gains back East Peckham Holy Trinity EP).34l
EAST PECKHAM HOLY TRINITY
EP Cr 1843 from East Peckham Al>.39“ Shor. RDn
(1843-64), N Mall. RDn (1864-1906), Mall.
RDn (1906-47). Abol eccl 1947 ent to East
Peckham AP.341
WEST PECKHAM
APLG Orig pt Hoo Hd, pt Littlef. Hd, ent Littlef.
Hd by 19th cent,“ Seq 5 thereafter. Civ bdry:
1888.9 Par! Seq 10. Eccl Seq 24.
PEMBURY
APLG Orig pt Twyford Hd, pt Washl. Hd, ent
Washl. Hd by 19th cent,l Seq 12 thereafter.
Civ bdry: l883,8 1934. 9 Parl Seq 16. Eccl
Seq 27. Eccl bdry: 1952.4
PENGE '
CP Transf 1899 from Surrey to Kent. LG Penge
UD. Transf 1965 to Gtr London (Brom. LB).
Parl Surrey until 1918, Brom. Parl Bor (1918-
48), Beck. BC (1948-70), Gtr London there-
after.
PENGE LANE
EP Cr 1878 from Beckenham AP.“ W Dartf. RDn
(1878-1909), Beck. RDn (1909-*). Bdry:

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a prayer at future meetings.
we would very much welcome any new members.
K. Lawrence (Hon. Sec.)

SOME VILLAGE NOTES XII - Bridge Parish
degisters 1813 — 1881

The marriage register for this period is
interesting because it gives a list of the
different trades and professions of the time;

(Contd. on page 10)

_ 7 -

many of these are extinct like tollkeeper, ginger
beer maker, basketmaker and Collar maker; other;
continue from one generation to another like
Farrier, Surgeon and Policeman, As in the 18th
century the same names repeat themselves in the
village like Hogben, Denne and Collard; another
great influence was the presence of the army both
at Canterbury and at the annual camps on Barham
Downs. The Adjutant of the East Kent Militia, the
Staff Sergeant of the 4th Depot and a Private in the
.lst Life Guards were all married in Bridge Church,
There were also several who came to the village to
get married: a clerk in the East India Docks in
l862, a warder at Millbank Prison, a Clerk in the
Bank of England, a pilot from Dover 1878 and in
1839 a horse trainer. Besides the resident vicar
there was help from the Vicar of Patrixbourne who
was also domestic chaplain to the Conyngham family
and help from a visiting parson. In 1860 Mr. Keeney
Chaplain at the King's School officiated at a
wedding - also the Reverend Methuen (of the
publishing family) and the Rev. A.M.V. Mallett from
the British chapel at Bruges, whose son lived at
Highland Court. His grandson was in charge of
the Dieppe landings in 1942 and was subsequently
Conservative M.P. for S. Croydon. Others mentioned
are the Rev. C.J. Irwin,Colonial Chaplain in Hong
Kong and the Rev. J. Lombard from Queenstown in
Ireland. One of the most interesting entries is
that of the watchmaker Mr. Hardeman in 1818: his
watches are now very valuable and one reached £320
last year at Christie's the London auctioneers, In
none of the cases is the wife's profession listed
except as spinster or domestic servant and all were
married before the passing of the Married women's
Property Act in 1885.

J. J. WILLIAMSON

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Nailboume

East Kent’s mystery
 m‘lm"'fine, is
flowing again — for the
second time this year.
The Nailbourne, accord-
ing to local superstition,
is supposed’ only to flow
every seven years, other-

The Nailbourne
ITI-I the Nailbourne flowing
again, a reader who is
interested in place-names has
asked me whether I know of
a backwater of the stream, on
the Bshopsbourne side of
Bourne Park lake, which is
known as “Cold Bath" or even
“Romans’ Cold Bath/', and
whether there is any evidence
that this pool was used b.V
Roman soldiers during the oc-
cupation,

I have checked with a local
resident, at least as far as the
name is concerned, and have
been told that this backwater
has “always" been called Cold
Bath.

Finding evidence that it was
used by Romans is a very dif-
ferent matter and the nearest
I can get to producing it is in 3.
description of Bourne Place.

“In front of the mansion is a
fine sheet of water: in digging
to form this sheet, which is art!-
ficial, several ancient coins and
a glass vessel 12 inches high and

nine inches in diameter were
found.” _
Whether the coins Were

Roman or not is not statenl, nor
is any clue given of their fate.

The same man remembers
when the lake was cleaned
rather more than 50 years ago
“during a dry spell." He does
not remember that any veins 0_1‘
other treasures were found.
but recalls, very clearly, a “iiiziss
of wriggling. lmotted eels."

If there is any evidence that
the backwater was J. Roman
Cold Bath he, and I, would be

wise it heralds a national
r.

P e o p l e in t h e
Nailbourne valley say it is
the first time the river has
flowed in November in

living memory.

Local geological ex-
perts, however, believe
the Nailbourne rises
when an underground
reservoir overflows. It is
not unnatural that it
should do so at the
present time because of
the heavy rainfall in past
weeks, they say.

(Kentish Gazette, Octo-
ber 18,1966

 

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Burnes

;HOW many of the villagers
I _ who object to their parish of
,vBi_shopsbourne being merged
with neighbouring Bridge know
,that it was "anciently called
IBurnes from the bourne or
!stream which rises in it, being
lthe head of the Lesser Stout
and had the name Bishops-
bourne from its belonging to the
archbishop and to distinguish it
from the several other parishes
of the same name in this neigh-
hour-hood”?

The “head" of the Lesser
Stour was given, in the same re-
cord. as being‘ to the westward
of’ the church in the grounds of
Bourne Place. and a further
note states that the bourne up-
W‘%Y‘d5 15 <3-FY except after great
rains and thaws of snow when
the ,Nail’bourne springs at

"' ' 1' ‘ihndli 'occasion-

      
 

‘§n”£i"nie ii men, g...'g...1....g,°'
X} .
l :- 'f1‘!1e.Littlg-,,s ,; cf;

lK_ingst_on ‘ but the " ‘ed “ .,the
‘rlver is overgrown with grass.”
Evidently, when those words
were written. the seven-year
spate of the Nailbourne was
almost due,

= U1 1-? mt9re-sting to note that
this historian knew nothing of

glad to hear about it.

The Mermaid

BISHOPSBQURNE may be a
small parish, but the rnerest
mention of the name appears
to make readers reach for their
Pens. During the week I re-
ceived a letter’ from a man who
revisited the village last summer,
after‘ an absence of many years,
,and he asked whether I could
?eXD1&1n Why the pub was now
called the “Mermaid.” He had
made enquiries in the village,
without success.
The public house now known
.as the Mermaid was built when
the Bell family owned Bourne
Place and almost all the parish,
and the original name given to
it was the Bell Arms. The sign-
board showed those arms, which
consisted of a 11on’s head, and it
was not long before the pub
Itself: became known as——The
Llofls Head. When the property
Wab acquired by the late Sir
John Prestige he decided on a
Change, and substituted the
1’::1"Y(*)1‘:1’1l<1i. ‘jg’l1P1I1I::h"fcifrme€1hPal1't of
S. Or e in’

head of the Bells. 0 S
The source of my information
was the late Sir John Prestige

 
 
      

himself.
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25 years
Rain

Bridge had its heaviest
rainfall for three years on
Wednesday when .l2in
fell in just under five
minutes. It was recorded
by Mr Brian Lewis, oi
Weston Villas, whose
spare-time hobby is
meteorology.

(Kentish Gazette, May 7,
1965)

 

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‘Write’ j!” ‘ - ;‘ ,1‘-E.‘
To the Editor,-— ._. '

Your excellent pictures of the
Nallbourne- in flood, and
“G=azetteer's"‘ report of his chats
with Baa-ham locals, are most in-
teresting.’ -

The real reason, if the less
romantic one, for the Nailbourne,
in this age, being “not there"
for years at a time is due to the
huge extractions of water, for
industrial and domestic usage,
from the underground lakes and
springs which years ago fed a
permanent stream through
the Elharn Valley (starting, I
believe, from the high land above
Lyminge).

Years ago, many of the pre-
sent pumping stations either did
not exist, and those that did
needed to draw up far less water
through the chalk strata than
they do now. The Nailbourne,
and other Kentish “bournes” or‘
chalk feeder streams of the.
main Kentish Stour (one flowed’
through Petham, for instance),
were in full flow at all times.
The crystal-clear, abundant alka-
line water supported fat trout:
as “Gazetteer” says (and as older
folk have themselves told me)
trout were once plentiful well
up to Barham and beyond,

And was there not once a
trout hatchery at Patrixbourne?
A certain indication that, years
ago, ‘here was a. plentiful and
permanent flow of water in the
Nailbourne.

Chalk streams and “bournes"
throughout the South of Eng-
land have all suffered to a
greater or lesser extent from
abstraction during the last half}
century. The Kentish Stour and
its feeder streams have suffered
markedly.

However, with the Nailbourne
water lapping at one’s kitchen
door, it is understandable that
local people should cry: “Whoa,
water ! "

DONALD DOUGALL,
Knowicr Farm,
Stelling Minnls,

I 50 years

l
l .
{ N ailbourne

E3-Fly last week the‘
. lham Valley Nailbourne.

l issued from its source and
3 was seen
‘ through Bar

By the end ofthe week it
11;-'9-'3 gone through Boume
,aI'k_ and _Bridge to its:
Junction with the Lesserl
Stour at Littlebourne. 

This is rather late in the;
year for the intermittent!
St?!’-‘am to flow; if it is?
301113 f0 flow it generafillyl
starts with the year. Lastl
year it ran through!
January and early sum.;
mer. ,

In the good old days it?
would run for several sea-
sons and then be dry forl
several seasons, but 
{EDIE recent years, since
h e reat War especially, it

as W’! f°1‘ Just a few
::*.2';2::..%" the  Pm of

At the ‘moment the Nail.
gourne is fairly full at

11586. thou_ h the experts
expect that i will be even‘
higher before long. Our
Bridge friends expect some
excellent trout fishing
before the stream com-
pletes its run for the
season.

(Kentish Gazette,

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Recreational facilities and organisations existed or developed to meet

the interests of most villagers. A Womens Institute was established in 1919, (EN)
while a cricket club had existed intermittently since l7h8. (25) The
Horticultural Society was reformed in 1920, (26) while for younger generations

a scout troop met behind the Red Lion Public house, followed later by a boy's
club. The British Legion organised railway outings until the closure of the
Elham Valley line during the Second World War.

One organisation of vital importance was the Bridge Volunteer Fire Brigade,
whose equipment in l9l8 included a Merry—Weather manual engine and about 1,200
feet of hose. The Fire engine was horsedrawn, being pulled by the same horses
as were used for funerals and for delivering coal. The firemen were mostly
local tradesmen and at one time included two grocers, the cycle agent, a
publican, the draper,two gardeners, the coal merchant and the blacksmith.
men were summoned by a maroon flare, and Mr. Hawkins recollects that a man
was killed around 1920 when looking over the flare, supposing it to have gone
out. There were 12 sets of helmets, tunics and axes, and if a tall man left
the force to be replaced by a short man,the latter had to endure an ill fitting
uniform. The force entered the motorised age when Count Zborowski donated a
motor appliance, registration nuber CE 1037. It was kept running largely
through donations from insurance companies, whose outgoings would have
soared but for the Volunteer Brigade's existence and devotion to duty. Mr.
Hawkins, who was captain of the force for some time, recalls how they resented
the presence at small fires of the Canterbury or Sturry Brigades, who would
be soaked on arrival! The Bridge Brigade had no ladders until shortly before

The

128.

the last war, while the early hoses were made of leather and thick rubber.
The fire brigade remained independent up until the Second World War.

CONCLUSION

Bridge deVel0Ped in the same way as countless other English villages

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of the village which we hzzello kedlnititutlons, the’People and the life Style

future generations and not onlo :h a ‘in t§e pregedlng chépter’. Hopefully

the development of the villa y‘ e glstorians will find 1? easlgr to trace

interest in recording as ge ln'm° ern ilmes, ;or there is gn-increased
pects of village life, not only by individuals but

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In Bridge churchyard there is a headstone recording the
deaths of two little children within a very short time in
1864.

My great—grandfather, Henry Vye,was a younger son, and
instead of going into the family grocery business in
Broadstairs became a commercial traveller , representing a
London men's outfitters, and covering large areas of South
and East England in a horse drawn brougham.As an apprentice
outfitter in Ramsgate he had met a young lad called Jarvis
who came from Bridge. On the day of the Duke of Wellington's
funeral they hired a pony trap to drive to Bridge, and there
Henry met his future wife, Elizabeth Jarvis.Her father, who
had married a Welsh girl employed as a nurse to children at
Higham(now Highland) Court, grazed cattle at Stone Street
and had a butcher‘s shop on the site of Mr Vakeham's

Henry and Elizabeth duly married, and set off for Paris for
their honeymoon, but the sea was too rough, and they had to
stay in a hotel in Dover!

They settled down in a house on Bridge High Street.Soon two
children, Henry and Edith, were born. One day Henry Vye was
in Deal on business when his brother~in-law sent him a
telegram to say that his son was dying of scarlet fever.He
rushed back, and witnessed the death first of his son and
then of his daughter. My great«grandfather's diary, in which
he records the events, makes harrowing reading.

Henry and Elizabeth endured the tragedy, and next year , in
1865, another child was born. He was named Lincoln, after
the American President.

In 1874 the family moved to Ramsgate. Lincoln's daughter,
Vera, lived for much of her life in Derringstone, then after
ten years at Stone Street spent her last ten , until 1979,
very happily in Churchill House in Bridge.

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One organisation of vital importance was the Bridge Volunteer Fire Brigade, whose
equipment in 1918 included a Merry-Weather manual engine and about 1,200 feet of
hose. The Fire engine was horse drawn being pulled by the same horses as were used for
funerals and for delivering coal. The firemen were mostly local tradesmen and at one
time included two grocers, the cycle agent, a publican, the draper, two gardeners, the
coal merchant and the blacksmith. The men were summoned by a maroon flare and one
was killed in 1926 when looking over the flare, supposing it to have gone out. There were
twelve sets of helmets, tunics and axes, and if a tall man left the force to be replaced by
a short man, the latter had to endure an ill fitting uniform. The force entered the
motorised age when Count Zborowski donated a motor appliance, registration number
CE 1037. It was kept running largely through donations from insurance companies,
whose outgoings would have soared but for the Volunteer Brigade’s existence and
devotion to duty. The Brigade would resent the presence at small fires of the Canterbury
or Sturry Brigades, who would be soaked on arrival. The Bridge Brigade had no ladders
until shortly before the last war, while early hoses were made of leather and thick
rubber. The Fire Brigade remained independent up until the Second World War.

Author: Crispin Whiting - UKC Group Research Project 1978


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Bridge and Patrixbourne C. of E.

P R 00 RA M M
6th AONFNUAL

School Concert.

(IN AID OF SCHOOL FUNDS)

DECEMBER 19th and 20th, 1954.


_ S‘;-.-..f>9££ _5n<¥ Pant:

  PROGRAMME.

1. Opening Item
"BEFORE  CURTAIN RISES”
Tug Compamr

2. Sketch "UP THE POLL"
M. LAMING, J. Cnawusy, P. W333, B. PRICE

"THE MINUET"

E. KEELEQW. Doasou, J. (;{uu>F.Nrrm, J. ]baDAN

“THE DUI) SET"
Cfiamrlen:

Gmrmie Stubbs ................... ., M. Lamm.
Her Gnmdsons  WEBB, R. ANDREQ
Thcit Fticnds ............. .. B. and R. Pmc
Assisted by  P. ILm=E. and E. MCDOLIGALI.

INTERVAL

Humorous Operetta
“THE DOLLS’ WEDDING”

Clfmmcterj in order of appearance:

Fairy Goodiuck ......................... .. J. CARPENTER
Attendant Fairies ...................... .. F. and B. WEST
Bridesmaid Dolls .... .. E. MCDDUGALL 8: N. VAUGHAN
Bride Doll ..................................... .. P. Iurmz
Tinker ........................................... .. F. DAVIS
"T‘ai1of'....:; ..............  ....  ‘A”.'B1u3wN
Soldiers ...................... .. J. CRAWLEY & H. Joan.-av
Sailor ........................................ .. W. Doasou
Rich Man ............................... .. V. Q'CGNNEI.L
Plough Boy ................................. ., B. VAUGHAN
Poor Man ............................... .. E. Wooncomt
Thief ...........................  .... .. ..... .. N. Hocamz
 an ........................  ........ .. F. Hoxzmm
The Cat ....................................... . . S. W:u_m“r

Grand Finale “TA TA”

THE COMPANY

GOD SAVE THE KING


 

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Children and parents watching the open-air concert at Bridge Primary School open day last Wednesday.

   

 

’ . . ' -.  ' ' School sang him a Huron Indian carol-
_ _ _ - t Thursday, a-,hildren from Bridge Primary ‘
After receiving Sm‘ f"°m Father Chns ma,s °n ~


THE ‘BEETLE ‘S’ BIG BROTHER
BEACHES 1.000.000 —

this proves that millions of
Volkswagen owners can’t be
wrong!

Why not choose your new one from one
of the following models:

Used V.W.'s in stock Include:

     

Maiar r  lVIa1Il1y or
racing 0 E

This Sunday at the Lydden
Motor Racing Circuit sees a
Very full entry of both men and
women drivers. The‘ women in-

    

      
       
   
   
    
    
        

1964 }’2%l(l)&r-Svvzllszen De Luxe man no Luxe Sal. £661.34 elude Some °f the leading race
beige  £460 moo Tl. Fast Back £1015.:5.8 d“Ve1s.m the Countryuwho are
1955 \"0]k§“‘aggn 1500 V _ _ . competing for the /Embassy
Variam Estate can l600\unuIIt lastate £I077.4.}0 Trophy” presented by "W. D_

     

Baltic blue, one

 
    

and H...O_ Wills. -Jacqui Smith,

      
       
 

. 1500 1-ton Pick—up £618. 0.0 . _
owner ................. .. £875 ‘ ‘_ _ in the nFraSkei_ Imp’: and Gabriel
I964 ¥2o0l‘l)<swgagen De Luxe L500 1-ton Van  £683. 0.0 Konigis ulqathan Impvs Should
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wh,-my good com men in the saloon car races.

dition, low mileage £350 [1] - ." d .
1960 Volkswagen Pick-up, ca“ ed an see us or we‘

     

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RV new tyres ........... .. £295 evening by appointment. 23_ Both of these are past re.‘ 7

      
   
  
   
   
 

cord holders at Lydden ‘and
both will no doubt be intent
upon recapturing the ‘outright
lap record. ‘ ‘

All races are oversubscribecl
and the meeting. consisting of
11 races‘ with full grids at each
event_ should be the highlight of’
the season at Lydden_ Racing
commences at 2.15 p.m. and the
circuit is to be found onuthe A2
midway between Canterbury ,. '

BEST SELECTION or USED CARS n [fig  énd D°"e”- ; Chane-e foriaqy Passe”;

‘iii *sXn€1~s+rcot31zi~,rcnfismiuniiz. in; 621
Principals: Mr. Sydney Woodman, A.R.A.D. (Advance
M.I.D.T.A. (Ballet, Stage and Ballroom), Miss M:
vvooaman, A.R,A.D. (Advanced), A.I.S.’I‘.D. (Ballet: Hig
Comnfiended), M.I.D.T.A. (Ballet, Stage and Tap: Hxg
' : .Commende!A1) .
This yea—r’s Pantomime, “I HAD ,A»LITTLE NUT TRE
to fun presented at the Marlowe‘The_atre on January 2
and 30th, 19th ANNUAL PANTOMIME.

    
 
 

of Canterbury

  

Wish all their Customers a
Merry Christmas and
Every Happiness
in the

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Prosperous New Year

J -E  , to their Customers and Friends

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CHRISTMAS


A Kent County Council mobile classroom arrived by lory at rdge Schol y= tcrday (Thursday) an there was an
interested audience to watch it being unloaded. It is the first classroom of its type to be provided for a school in the
(I_21_xit_<_:_1:l)1ii_'y_31i'e_217-A-:§iAlt¥1ioTiigl1__Canterbury‘ and Distriet Joint Education Committee is itself considering buying some.


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ijgsos, Property,
Businesses
For Sale

.Ie;IEI-‘INE_Bay. —— Attractive Tudor-
; yle Semi-detached House. 2 recep-
ton. large kitchen, 3 bedrooms,
bathroom, sep. w.c. Det, garage.
E4,-.000, Freehold. —— ‘Phone Canter-
ou1‘y_ 64282. xh 8

J<US'T IN THE MARKET.-
3ARTO:N ROAD. Post.-war semi-
I.eta_c_ House with 23ft. Gin.
owige-dining room, 3 bedrooms,
(i_to,h,en,‘ bathroom, w.o. G a nd a n:
Ni‘11‘h detached garage.
34:25.0. — Frank Wood & co.,
waning street, Canterbury (Tel.

,I7ANTE,RBURY Outskirts. -—- Det.
Eentrally heated. 3 bedrooms, Gdn.
}a~ra.ge.I' £4,900. No agents.—Write
Bo_x}A923. 9, St. George's Plal§:8e_§

X

"Janterbury
At;tract:ivs, Newly-

ss‘ 1lDG.E.' _ p _
)i§I_ jse‘n,1i-detached n Bungalow in

Hmllided position and In excellent
 Lounge-dining room, 3
.0__._0 ‘

, bedrooms» large kilohen,
aatgtiroom, w.c. ‘ rick-built garage.
Gfiood; garden. owner must sell
jug . £4,1 or. near offer.—

   

_wsAGENT’s / GONF. / TOB.,
, gate, taking £480 p.w. N.B. £100.
in ited net £2,500. Bright, well-
equipped shop, same hands 14 years.
E»-bedroomed home with pleasant
xdn.‘ New 14- ear lease at £400 p.a.
'l‘slng £6,000’ R f KB 523-

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:IglRl$TIE‘&- co., 57, castle street,
3’9"‘C”.°'»‘b.l3!’l! 51121 h
—.}E!..E‘AN. —— Modarm Detached Bun-
s,I -w, lounge, 2«bedrooms, kit-
_ _ a  oo_m,‘separat‘e w.c. Gun.
'.'olinigr:eto.‘dri.Ve-in and space for
 F;reehol_d; £3,000. — Frank
 ‘ , co., 34; wailing st., can.-

'('l'_el.. 66461).

A.‘M0_,_DERN SELF SERVICE
ES ,m'gha.m. Built 7 yrs. Nu
Extensive local develop-
___rin'g, completion
.3>.§l=.nt VT/O, ‘£400 D.W.-»‘

    
  

      
  

R E P A I R S to Pianos, Organs,
Hannoniums, Violins and all Musical
Instruments.—C. Ashby, 2, White-
horse Lane, Canterbury. xh88_

DRESSMAKING. —- M o d e r a I e
prices and expert attention.
Edward R o a d , Canterbury (Tele-
phone: Canterbury 61204). S88

DE_c0RATING and Building
Repairs done at low rates. Special
rates for O.A.P. Estimates free.
Book now and save disappointment.
—Write Box A14, 9, St. George's
Place, Canterbury. - s8

TAILORINO
LADIES’ AND GENTJI
Aluratlons and Repairs
Prompt ‘Personal servloo

M. I. BENJAMIN,
11. St. Dunstan's Strut.
Canterbury 65117

s96

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C. A. HAWKINS, “The Springs,”
Island Road, Sturry. Decoratmg,
House Repairs and Plumbing, any-
,wheI'e.—’Phone Sturx-y‘589. sh86

EMIGRATING'.’—-Furniture or Per-
sonal - Effects Personally Packed,
Crated and Shipped AT LESS cosr.
Estimates 9. nd advice f 1- e e . -
JORDAN & JARRETT, St.
stan's Street, Canterbury.

Dun-
tc

GONGRETING
Garage Drives Bases and Foot-
paths Law
Also concrete Garages Supplied

and Erected ,

Average Price of Base, Garage
and Drive—£125

ESTIIIIIATES FREE

‘PHONE NONINGTON 239

(Any Evening) x86

QUALIFIED SURVEYOR AND
VALUE specialises in Preparing
Plans, Specifications./New Building
Work,’ Town and Count Planning
Applications and Appea s, Rating

Proféssional 1 F‘

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Summer‘ Sale
will‘ be held at
St. Mild]-ed’s Rectory Garden
(If wet in St. Mildred’s Hall)
Fancy goods grocery and

 

cake stalls - jumble - teas
Admission 3d.
Motor Cars
1955 FORD Popular; M.0.T.;

7 taxed; good condition; £65 o.n.o.—-

61, Wife of Bath Hill, Canterbury.

xh87

1954 SIMCA; good condition;
M.O.T.; £65.—Apply after 6.0: 82,
Shipman Avenue, Canterbury xh

HEINKEL '57; new en me; give
away at £40.—Chilham 405 s

‘WANTED. — Standard Vanguard;
body and chassis in good condition,
engine immaterial; from 1954 to
1957.—Mr. H. Wilson, 1, Woodside
Road, Broad Oak‘, nr. Canterbu 88.

x

SGRAPPING 1950 Morris Minor.—
All Spares cheap. New Battery,
Radio.—Canterbury 66419. x

HILLMAN Minx 1950; good tyres,
heater; £25 o.n.o_ — Ring Petham
382 (evenings). x

  

30,’ ST. DUNSTANS 0.
CANTERBURY -

 

‘Youth  It -0 P

DANCE

to the

COUNTDOWN S ‘
At Bekesbourne

Village Hall ,
ON, SATURDAY, JUNE 19 A

8-11.45 p.m.
Admission 4/-

Friends of Sturry
JUMBLE SALE
AT STURRY SECONDARY

SCHOOL
"Saturday, June 19,3 p.m. a
Admission 3d.

STELLING MINNIS
METHODIST CHURCH

103rd ANNIVERSARY

. SERVICE
SUNDAY, JUNE 20
2.45 p.m. Rev. T. Harold Wood’
6.30 p.m. Mr. W. C. Tilleray
Continued on
THURSDAY, JUNE 24
4 p.m. Divine Worship led by
Rev. E. Maynard Wilson I
5.15 p.m. Tea with strawberries
if available, 2/—, 1/3, S.S.S. 1/-
630 p.m. EVENING ‘RALLY
Chairman: Mr. E. R. O’Maho_ny._
Speaker:
Rev. E. Maynard Wilson
Soloist: Mr. A, W. Hobbs,
supported by Circuit Ministers


WORK as an infants? tea-
cher is demanding for the
your; and most enthusias-
ic 0 teachers, butit has
provided Mrs Marjorie Col-
ier. with a lifetime of doing
everything Eh
wanted to do.
At the end of the summer
term, Mrs Collier, of Oller-
ton, Valley Road, Barham,
retires, as a teacher at
Bridge Primary School
after 30 years’ service.
Before World’ War II, Mrs
Collier taught in West
Sussex, leaving for several

e has ever

. ears when she brought up

er two children.

She resumed work in
1946,. and over the years
has seen attitudes towards
education change consider-
‘ably: "Teachers have
much more personal con-
tactwith the children now,
which I feel is far better.”
said’ Mrs Collier.

“Children are people and
not just a number in the
class. Nowadays, the
system allows for several
activities to be carried out
at the same time with the
teacher joining in each
small group, Of course,
this means much harder
work for the teacher, but it
is definitely more reward-
1ng.n -

Although these changes
allow. more freedom, Mrs
Collier maintains that as
long as the children

understand and are inter-
ested in what they are
_doing, results prove that
they learn more through
this system.

home,

_ will

 

“The children,” she ex-
plains, “respond well to
this method and never run
wild. I’m a dragon in class
sometimes, but I‘ make
sure they learn the basic
lessons first.”

During her career at’.
Bridge, Mrs Collier has

taught children using the
family grouping system,
but still prefers individual
age groups as she feels the
pupils learn quicker this
way. I

Life as a primary school
teacher is certainly not a
nine to 3.30_ job as many
might think. As Mrs Collier
pointed out,_ “Doing the
best for the children in-
volves a‘ lot of incidental
work and many extra
hours. I

“In fairness to my
family, I have always tried
to finish my work at school
after lessons so that I could
leave it behind when I went
but this has not
always been possible. ”

After 30 years as a substi-
tute mother to hundreds of
small children, Mrs Collier
now looks forward to her
retirement and spending
far more time with her
three grandchildren. “I
have neverhad time to go
to their school functions, so
enjoy having some
spare time now, ” she said.

Mrs Collier has made no
definite plans for her re-

tirement but will enjoy’

spending more time at
home with her daughter
and pottering in her
garden. She will visit

  

Jeweller Pleasance Kirk, whose work is currently on-
" show in London, in her own studio‘.

. dual

given a ,
amount to the children of

  

Mrs rjorle Collier

Bangor University, North
Wales, in September for an

I Lifetime an a Job she loves

 

7

educational holiday with a t ‘

friend.
A widow for 13 years, she

has found working a finan-'

cial necessitybut would not
have chosen any other
career. “Teaching has
been my life,” admitted
Mrs Collier.’ “I have en-
joyed every minute of it. It
is the only thing I have ever
wanted to do. ’

“I’ shall miss the children I

and the life, of course, but
I'm not a sentimental per-
son and have-no qualms
about leaving."

The school’s staff will
miss Mrs »Collier’s indivi-
' and forthright
approach very much. The
headmistress, Miss Wendy
Tomlin, said, f‘S—he has
tremendous

this school over the last 30
years. Her approach to
individual projects has
been so absolutely terrific
that we now call her the
Queen of Projects."

Now teaching her second
generation of village child-
ren, Mrs Collier recom-
mends the profession to
anyone with enthusiasm
and stamina‘:
you must like children if

- you wanttoteach. ,
“You are in demand all ‘

the time they are at school,
but if you are keen the
rewards are high. I have
been lucky working here. It
is one of the best schoolsin
the area.”

Since the new school
building opened four years
ago, there has been a sub-
stantial increase. in the
number of staff. "It has
been a very happy com-
munity with a delightful
headmistress. They’ all
have a’ grand sense of
humour, and I shall miss
all my colleagues very
much.” she said. ‘

The teachers, pupils,
parents and managers of
the schoolwill say their

farewells to Mrs Collier at

the end of term. '

“Basically, '


NEW°;F0SEAA%Headp

‘ Tl-_iE5new head teacher ef

Bridge and Patrixbourne
Primaryfschool says she
has inherited’ a fantastic .
slchnotfiwhich has an
exciting future.  »

Renuka Chinaaduralk ~ 7

35, has taken over the ‘ g V 1
reins for her first headship; ~

having previously held

deputy posts in:Ashfor<1 ‘ g L»

and.S‘treathgam,e

Under her predecessor, ” 

Anna Newton. the ,
school earned‘ a giowing
Oisted report and Miss

Chinnadurai wants to buiid 2

on tpat good wbfk.

with 335 pupils,’Bifidge ’  A

is one of the biggest .
village eprimary'schools —
in the district. ’

Miss«Chibtiadurai, who’ has ’ ’

a‘‘four-‘year-oId‘dagghter,
have camejto a '

drea . , .

am not;-zbout to make any

L ‘swee'pinq.changes.,

"The échdofis being run ’
‘very smoothiy and isvew
weli-equipped, particularly
for iTC. with five advance _
skills teachers.  *
‘ffgwant to build ,on the
school‘: strengths and \
develop theytongemerm
plansfor‘ an outside
learni:ig4.envirdnp*cent."
Miss Chinnadu’rai"lives at

ffsand pupllsse I  V

vsri,

IuewLnea¢otnrsagean¢,ramxhouJ'LfV'    masseuse “
snephegqgwenn \r)§‘thLher‘patt’iien [ ‘

Hugh Greenwood, who ishead L

 teacher affioughton finder‘
L Blean primary. 4 ‘ “

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‘_.V,,,‘.%

In her spare time. she eh]og;1s."

 qarqenjnq and cooking and s; s

shepiansto treat staff» Eo sqjhe

" of her,’homemade_cakes. ‘


East

  The Bridge
Flood

ITH reference to the recent V

flooding at Bridge, Mr. V. G.
Stock-wel1,_,..fo the vill e
chemist. and Bridge-Blean co

cillor, and now living in retire-
ment at 12 Compton Road,
Addiscombe, Croydon, tells me
that when he arrived at Bridge
over-30 years ago, he noticed

  

that a drain, outside the cottage .:

that once stood on the corner
opposite the Red Lion, did not
fulfil its function and he was
told that the water never did run
away.

Then came the floods, that of
which Mr. Stockwell encloses
photographs, and by which his
premises were saved from flood»-
ing only by the use of railway
sleepers. After some agitation,
the County and Divisional sur-
veyors arrived, and the latter,
says Mr. Stockwell, denied that
there was a drain, whereupon he
ptroduced the man who had put
1 in.

It ran from the church field .
under the main road, past the .

‘Boys’ Club ‘nut and emptied into
the '.~Nailbourne. It was found

t-liat;-'the—dra.~in~wvas eempletely ‘_

__bio,cked, and it was cleared and
fa manhole built near the Club
nut, after which there was no

i further trouble.

Later, when Mr. Stockwell, at
a; Council meeting, raised the
question of keeping the Nail-
bourne course clear, he was told.
that it was the responsibility of
the landowners, and that in any
case the Water Board was tak-
ing away so much water that the

ailbourne would never flow
again! When he pointed out
that the Nailbourne water came
from a different source—-a geo-
logical fact——he was told he did
not know What he was talking
about.

Acting on that statement, a
Barham farmer planted a crop
across the Nailbourne course and
put ‘up a fence. In due co-urse,
the Nailbourne flowed and swept
away crop and fence. Referring
to the recent flood, Mr. Stockwell
suggests that, while not imply-
ing that the aforementioned
drain has not been cleared, it
might be worth investigation.
“What I do say," he adds, “is
that the whole course of the
Nailbourne from Bishopsbourne
to Bekesbourne should’ be
dredged. That would at least
avoid some of the trouble . . .
The floods prove that what I said
and tried to have done all those
years ago was right.”

Secretary. of the Admiralty

EMBER of a well-known Can-
terbury family, Sir Clifford
Jarrett, who has just been
appointed by the First Lord of

"the Admiralty as Secretary of

the Admiralty—-a £7,000’ a year
post~_—is the son of Mr. G. H.
Jarrett, of 19 St. John's Lane,
Canterbury, and a grandson of
thellate Mr. W. Jarrett, who was
for 30 years licensee of the Jolly
Sailor, Northgate._

 During the 1914-18 War, Sir
Clifford attended“ the Payne

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Kent Diary

BY GAZETTEER

Smith School, Canferbury. When I
his father move to Dover-—
where, for 50 years, he had a"
photographic business——hr:=. was a
pupil at Dover County Grammar
School. He took a, Double First
at Cambridge. ,‘
, He. joined » the , Ateministrative
Civil Service ‘and was later"
assistant principal at the Home;
Office before transferring to the ,
Admiralty. During the war he‘-
was principal private secretary
to the First Lord,: Lord Alex-
ander of Hillsborough.

Aged 51 and married, with
three children, he resides at
Chislehurst. He has been
gvygarded the K.B.E. and the

 
  
    
  
 

  
  
   

High Street, St. Gregory
“‘ HE Priory of ‘St. Gregory,
founded by Archbishop Lan-
franc in 1084, was‘ situated on
the high road leading to the Isle
of Thanet. John Sympkins was
prior of this house at the time
of the dissolution, when there
were thirteen religious in it, the
annual revenue being £121/_15/1.
The king exch-anged_the site with
the archbishop and it was
eventually sold to  Gipps Esq.,
who died possessed’;of it in 1800;
Its site _was ‘between Northgate
Street and the n ‘-w ix/rm»:-v

When Brewery Lane was flooded 30 years ago.

  
   

 

“I was interested to read your
paragraph on the Langton badge.
Until I gave it to the School last

_year, I, also, had kept my silver
and enamel cap badge, number

701, and, like your correspond-
ent’s, issued in September, 1910.

.,I was still wear:ing,m_ine_in.,192-1.

“The age-group‘ or the ‘700"s”
suggests that many of these
badges with lower numbers still
exist, and, doubtless, several City

Fathers yet display them to their

grandchildren on high days and
holidays—a.nd get a. nostalgic
‘kick’ in doing so! ” .

F .N.

‘ HE reference to F.N. motor-
cycles last week has ’ re-
minded a reader that before 1921
all motor-cycles and cars of this
make were registered in Canter-
bury so_ that they should have
index mark “F.N.” Several of
them were owned by residents
of the city, including at least one
of the four-cylinder models... The
makers were Fabrique Nationale;
a Belgian firm which did a good
deal of pioneer work in the early
days of motoring.‘ ‘ ~

SEEN THIS WEEK,

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Liberal Democrats keeping you informed

’ ’ North Nailbourne
Publishec‘i“by Mart'm‘Vye,
V The Dacha, Patrixbourne Rd,
Bridge, Canterbury, Kent:
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‘/1 L|BERAL Sittingbourne ME104HE
DEMOCRATS N017

   

Cllr artin Vye
PATRIXBOURNE

A good example of what can be done
with concerted effort! Cottages by the
bridge at the entrance to the village
have been flooded since the autumn.
On February 2nd the parish council
organised a meeting in Patrixbourne
Church. The MP and City Councillor
were there, and I attended as County
Councillor. Local residents were able

What they intended to do to tackle the
flood. By the time the meeting ended
all of them had signed up to a series
of meetings at the City Council offices
to work on practical solutions, and
work has started to dredge the
channel of the Nailbourne.

, BISHOPSBOURNE

    
 

Possibly the worst hit village, or its

size. A public meeting was held in the

Conrad Hall back in December, to
which we had to wade in Wellie boots.
It resulted in a commitment by the
City Council and the County Council
to put a temporary bridge over the
ford at the Charlton Park end of the
village, to allow villagers to drive out.
The fresh downpour in February,
however, brought new misery to res-

. idents.

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" Liberal
Democrats‘

     

    

liberal Demcraf:

   

flnad special

’My heartfelt sympathy to everyone flooded out — our house escaped,
thanks to the work done to deepen the channel of the Nailbourne
opposite us last Winter, after persistent pressure by the Parish Council

 

‘_g\_/er th_q3%/37a,_e;ars. But I have seen for;mvself1vha_t.a_t.er1:il;Ll.e mess-floooL..,_.__
‘water‘causés‘t6 peopltrs’ homes. a

Our urgent priority has to be to prevent it causing as much damage
the next time it happens. The things the City Council and the County
Council will be looking at are:

WARNING TIMES Did residents get the earliest possible warning of
flooding to come?

SANDBAGS Were the sandbags there in time to prevent avoidable
flooding?

BRIDGES These can hold up the flow of water. Does work need to be
done to enlarge the channel through them.

, OTHER OBSTRUCTIONS Was everything done to clear obstructions

from the stream before the water started flowing? .

SEWAGE Backing up into toilets has been a distressing feature of this
emergency. Southern Water have pumps going right along the
Nailbourne to get the sewage away. Was it done fast enough? Areithere
other ways of solving the problem apart from soiling the stream in this
way? A T

THE STREAM BED Should the channel be dug deeper?

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Do you remember it so bad? -

The recent flooding may be a once—in-two-hundred years event. I doubt it. All the
evidence seems to point to increased autumn and winter rainfall in the future. Ifwe
are going to be able to plan properly to avoid the worst flooding it is vital we learn
from the behaviour of the Nailbourne in the past. This is where the experience of
our older residents will be so valuable. If you feel you have some useful information,
please write to me —- or phone me so that I can come round and make notes.

4-making thing: happen locally!  


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The immediatet

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minimise the damage caused by flooding. A Flood
Committee has been set up, and members have
visited all the areas in the district affected.

The first priority is to be prepared for a recurr-

ence of the extremely heavy rainfall that came over- '

night in early February, to identify the properties
most_at risk of flooding again, and to have an early
Warning system and sandbags ready.

Good news

 

Elliot Morley, the Government minister who toured
our area in mid-February announced £2-1 million

extra government money for flood emergency work .

in the Southern Region.

  
 

Yet another dismal scene of flooding, with sandbags
at the doors and people marooned in their houses.

   
 
 
  
   
 
   

 

  .  Together we
_  are stronger
‘‘ -‘  ‘ ‘~ ‘F Each of the parishes along
' ' the Nailbourne has been
tackling the flood problem
 in its own Way. I take my hat
' ‘__';.9" ‘off to all of them‘? and to all
‘"- public-spirited residents —

for rolling up sleeves and
acting with determination.
_, But I think there is a lot of
'§ mileage in the idea of form-
*-_-<_~: ing a Nailbourne Flood Com-
J" mittee, with parish council-
lors, City and County coun-
cillors, and local residents
from along the length of the

Nailbourne. They could then-
‘ - present the various agencies
’ ', — City Council, County Coun-
cil, Environment Agency,
Southern Water, Fire Brig-
‘ ade, Police 4-With a list of
' “‘ what local people decide they
' need to combat flooding in
the future.

it Not so good news . . .

0

This money the Government is giving for flood
‘ emergency work in the Southern Region is going to
‘ the Kent Local Flood Defence Committee, whose
main responsibility is sea defences. Will any money
come to the Nailbourne? I am pursuing this and will
1 t

  
 

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WHAT S YOUR PROBLEM?
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note at down FOCUSTEAM

MARTIN VYE,

The Dacha,
Patrixbourne Road,
Canterbury, Kent
CT4 5BL

Tel: 01227-831820

e-mail: vyebridge@rmpic.co.uk

JANET HORSLEY
Ragstone Cottage,
Meadow Close, Bridge,

Canterbury CT4 5AT
Tel: 01227-830923

Name ....................................................... .. Tel: .............................. ..
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to Joan's efforts

A COMMUNITY-minded
villager has been
thanked by her peers.

Members of the Bridge
Fish Scheme, a neighbour-
hood help initiative, this
week held a lunch in honour
of founding member Joan
Warren who is stepping
down after 23 years’ service.

Mrs Warren, of Bridge
Down, was contacted by the
Canterbury Volunteer Bureau
in 1980 but decided that
instead of becoming an out-
post of the city, Bridge should
stand alone.

With this in mind Mrs
Warren set up a scheme that
included a transport service,
luncheon club and neighbour-
hood visiting.

She also became an encyclo-
pedic authority on what bene-
fits people were entitled to
and made sure everybody got
their due.

Paying tribute to Mrs
Warren’s efforts parish coun-
cillor John Hill said: “Joan

always knew what she wanted
and got it with charm.

“She was not alone in the
organisation but she was the
driving force.

“Like any large football club
or big business, the scheme
has benefited from such a
strong manager.

“Joan can rest assured that
what was established 23 years
ago is still fulfilling the needs
of people in Bridge and will
continue to do so for many
years to come.”

Receiving a card and gift
from scheme members, Mrs
Warren said: “Pm delighted
to think I made such a good
excuse to hold a lunch party!
Thank you so much.”

Mrs Warren also thanked

fellow members and especial~
ly her husband Michael for his
help and support.
OThe Fish Scheme is always
on the lookout for new volun-
teers in the Bridge area. To
get involved, call co-ordinator
Jean Johnson on 01227
766182.

Founder of fish
seheme resigns

  

 

 

COMMUNITY MINDED: Dedicated Jean with
her husband Michael and John Hill

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Village in despair

GROWING CONCERN: Madge Hearn, 86, and her daughter Penny
Moon watch the rising Nailbourne

   

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as river overflows

VILLAGERS who saw
raw sewage pour into
their street and gardens
have complained that
their early pleas for help
were ignored.

Heavy rain caused the
Nailbourne, known locally
as the Waters of Woe, to flow.
It only runs occasionally,
usually after a very wet win-
ter.

by Claire

 

Witherden

“What’s the point of the
council having a flooding
line if all they’re going to
tell you is where to buy
sandbags? What do We pay
our rates for?”

The villagers themselves,
including 77-year-old John
Kenyon, began clearing

 

SANDBAG DEFENCES: The Nailbourne flows through South Barham

November 23, 2000
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Set against the backdrop of the magnificent Atlas
Mountains, the pink walled city with its mosques, souks
and bazaars.


Some roads in barham
were under a foot of water
while the residents of
Bishopsbourne grew more
and more alarmed as water
rose through the ground
into their gardens and into
The Street.

Over the weekend sewage
began coming out of drains
and manhole covers and
even backed up- into houses
through toilets.

Villagers have now been
warned to disinfect their

, hands if they come into con-

tact with the flood water.

Malcolm Mitchell, chair-
man of Bishopsbourne
Parish Council, whose home
has been flooded, forcing he
and his wife to move
upstairs and put rescued fur-
niture into storage, said:
“We had to sit and watch as
the water came up through
the floor and spread across
the room on Saturday night.

“What we needed -was
someone who knew some-
thing about flooding to come
out and have a look. We felt
ignored and snubbed.

“We do feel neglected by all
the authorities in the first
instance when we were pan-
icking and didn’t know what
to do.

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debris in the river bed when
the water started to rise on
Thursday night.‘

Mr Mitchell said: “After
much bludgeoning from me
someone from the highways
agency came and looked at
the road on Saturday and
brought 50 sandbags.

“Once they realised our
plight they were brilliant
and we have received a lot of
help.

“The fire brigade spent an
hour pumping water away

on Sunday, but it made no .

difference.”

He added: “Normally the
Nailbourne only flows in
January and February when
there has been lots of rain
over the winter.

“Some experts say we
could be like this until
June.”

Southern Water’s waste
water manager Paul Kent
said: “When the Nailbourne
is in flow, ground water over-
flows the sewers and some of
the water is pumped into the
river, bypassing the treat-
ment works.

“If we didn’t do that then
properties which are con-
nected to the sewage system
would flood.

“The main pumps at

  

 

ANGLING TIMES: Malcolm Mitchell makes
light of a serious situation at Bishopsbourne

Bekesbourne were working
but somebody turned the
additional pumps off over
the weekend. We’ve modi-
fied the pumps to stop that
happening.”

At Barham pensioner
Madge Hearn, 86, said: “I
have lived in Barham and
Kingston all my life and I
have never seen the river
like this before.

“Just a week ago the river
bed was as dry as a bone, and
now I cannot believe the
force of the flow.”

Steve Rivers, Kent
Highways senior engineer at
Canterbury council, said he
was baffled by comments
about the council’s alleged
lack of action. '

An engineer had been on
site monitoring the rise of
the river and organising nec-
essary work. Four hundred
sandbags were also deliv-
ered to the area.

“The majority of people we
spoke to seemed genuinely
grateful for what we were
doing, “ he said.

“Although the Nailbourne
is not a highways responsi-
bility the Highway Unit has

, tried to act as a good neigh-
bour and help where proper--

ty is in imminent danger of
flooding.”

   

  

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St Peter's

2.00 pm on Su
follow ; ial at
St Mary's Chur ‘d,‘ Partixbourne

Presiding Minister
Mrs Margaret Clarke
Pastoral Assistant, the Bridge Group

You may keep this service sheet

   

Donations in memory of Laurie gratefully received for
”The Ryder—Cheshire Foundation” Reg Charity No 1088623

for the benefit of Raphael, North India 

© Words reproduced under CCLI No 509548 C / 0 W] Farrier 8: Son, 161 London Road, Dover CT17 OTG V


He who was seated on the throne said, ”I am
making everything new!” Then he said, ”Write this
down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

He said to me: ’’It is done. I am the Alpha and
the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is
thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring
of the water of life. He who overcomes will inherit all
this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

Add!'8SS

PVGYEFS

Hymn

Guide me, O thou great redeemer,
pilgrim through this barren land;
I am weak, but thou art mighty;
hold me with thy powerful hand:
Bread of heaven,

feed me now and evermore.

Open now the crystal fountain
whence the healing stream doth flow;
let the fiery cloudy pillar

lead me all my journey through:
strong deliverer,

be thou still my strength and shield.

When I tread the verge of Jordan,
bid my anxious fears subside;

death of death, and hell's destruction,
land me safe on Canaan's side:

songs and praises

I will ever give to thee.

opening Sentences

Welcome fr Introduction

Prayer

Hymn

Morning has broken

like the first morning,
blackbird has spoken

like the first bird.

Praise for the singing,
praise for the morning,
praise for them springing
fresh from the word.

Sweet the rains new fall
sunlit from heaven,

like the first dewfall

on the first grass.

Praise for the sweetness
of the wet garden,
sprung in completeness
where his feet pass.

Mine is the sunlight,
mine is the morning
born of the one light
Eden saw play.

Praise with elation,
praise every morning,
God's re~creation

of the new day.


Personal Tributes

Chris Barton
Dr Peter Giles

Nick Shirley

A Poem

Written 69* read by l.r;mrie’s grandaughter, Meg
Grandad

We are gathered here,
Hearts too sad,
Because of the loss,

Of my grandad.

His name was Laurence,
Laurence Shirley,

I need not tell you.,
His loss is hurting.

His grin so wide,

His eyes so gay,

His laughing side,
Every day.

His large straw hat,
His snow white hair,
His wanting to chat,
I-lis judgement so fair.
His mouth full of joke,
His hand full of fun,
Friends of all folk,

but now he's gone.
Remember my grandad.

Hymn
Immortal, invisible, God only wise,
in light inaccessible hid from our eyes,
most blessed, most glorious, the ancient of days,
almighty, victorious, thy great name we praise.

Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light,

nor wanting, nor wasting, thou rulest in might;

thy justice like mountains high soaring above

thy clouds which are fountains of goodness and love.

To all life thou givest, to both great and small;

in all lite thou livest, the true life of all;

we blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree,
and wither and perish; but naught changeth thee.

Great Father of glory, pure Father of light,
thine angels adore thee, all veiling their sight;
all laud we would render: 0 help us to see

'tis only the splendour of light hideth thee.

A Reading From Holy scripture
The Revelation to iohrz, Chapter .21: verses 17
Read by Laurie's grandson, Scott

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for
the first heaven and the first earth had passed away,
and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City,
the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from
God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her
husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne
saying, ”Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he
will live with them. They will be his people, and God
himself will be with them and be their God. He will
wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more
death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order
of things has passed away.”


me committal

Procession to St Mary's Churchyard

The Burial

The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;

thy kingdom come;

thy will be done;

on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And iead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom,

the power and the glory,

for ever and ever.

Amen.

The family would like to thank you all for coming today,
and invites everyone for light refreshments at;
The Plough 8* Harrow, Bridge
following the burial


Church.

SICAL TRIBUTE: The New Orleans jazz band joins the cortege
Re]? pd 349509

l\lew Orleans
jazz send-off
for Villager

THE streets of Bridge were lined with
mourners on Sunday for the funeral of
former sub-postmaster Laurence Shirley.

More than 300 people looked on as a horse
and carriage made its way through the High
Street towards the village’s St Peter’s

Former campaigner and councillor Mr
Shirley’s last wishes were met as a New
Orleans-style jazz band joined the cortege.

A celebration of life was held at the church
followed by a reception at the Red Lion and
the Plough and Harrow pubs.

Mr Shirley’s son Nick said: “I’m very proud
of my father and was glad to see so many
people in the High Street. He was a very
popular man. There was a real sense of
community spirit about the day.”

Mr Shirley’s widow Ann said: “We want to
say thank-you to all the people who sent
cards and letters and have made donations
to the Ryder Cheshire Foundation.”

   

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F‘U NERL PRCSN: The horse and cariage
High Street

.ELECTIONS Will be held

       

Voting time
on campus

across Kent University cam-
pus tomorrow (Friday) for
National Union of Students
conference delegates.

Becoming a conference dele-
gate is a good foundation in
politics and so there is some
competition for the eight
available seats.

The successful candidates
will discuss and vote on such
issues as student fees, accom-
modation, teaching and
course programmes.

Polling is from 10am to 3pm

and counting from 3.30pm.


Campaigner
with a kind
word for all

FORMER campaigner and
councillor Laurence Shirley
has died at the age of 67
from cancer caused by
exposure to asbestos.

Mr Shirley was sub-postmas-
ter at Bridge for 32 years until
he retired in 1998, having taken
over from his father.

He immersed himself in vil-
lage life and became chairman
of the village hall committee
and was elected on to the old
Bridge-Blean Rural District
Council. '

He then joined Canterbury
council and was the first chair-
man of the city’s Oxfam group.

During this time he also
chaired Bridge Parish Council
and the village sc_hoo1’s par-
ent/teacher association.

He campaigned to replace the
old school built about 1870 with
one built in 1971. He was also
prominent in the Bridge bypass
campaign and for several years
was president of Bridge and
District Horticultural Society.

Mr Shirley, who died at home
last Tuesday, studied building
at Farnborough Technical
College.

In 1960, he went to India to
start the building of a hospice

‘for Leonard Cheshire in the

foothills of the'Himalayas. The
hospice now cares for lepers
and other sufferers.

After finishing his voluntary

 

LAURENCE SHIRLEY:
Devoted to village life

work in India he went’ to
Australia and travelled home
on a cargo passenger ship.
During the nine-week voyage
he met and became engaged to
his wife Ann.

Back in England he contin-
ued building work in
Cambridgeshire where he and
his wife had two sons, John and
Nicholas, before moving to
Bridge in 1966 to take over the
sub-post office.

Mr Shirley was elected as a
Conservative member of Kent
County Council and became
involved in many campaigns
and chaired several commit-
tees, including oneyvhich was
responsible for negotiations

    

DANCERS are needed for a
short film about a prima
ballerina and a caretaker who
swap skills.

Second year students from
Canterbury Christ Church
University College’s radio, film
and television department are
making the film.

It is being shot between
February 17 and 21 and the
cast comprises a man and a
woman who should be aged
between 16 and 35.

Dancers are wanted

“We’re looking for people with
training, preferably in ballet
for the woman and tap for the
man,” said producer Erin
0’Neill.

“We would also need them to
help us with some of the
choreography too.”

There would be no payment
for the actor/dancers, but
travel costs can be discussed.

For more information call
07813 736372 or e-mail
erinjonei1l@hotmail.com .

between’ local and gipsy com-
munities.

Throughout his years in the
sub-post office he never lost his
building skills and with his
sons converted the derelict
Great Pett Oast into two homes
for them and their families. He
also had a great passion for tra-
ditional jazz.

He was a volunteer driver for
Kent -Ambulance Service and a
voluntary escort driver for the
county council’s social ser-
vices. '

He joined Canterbury Victim
Support group and at the time
of his death was chairman of
the Canterbury branch of the
Council for the Protection of
Rural England.

In October Mr Shirley was-

diagnosed with malignant
mesothelioma, a chest cancer
caused by exposure to asbestos.
He was treated at Kent and
Canterbury Hospital and the
city’s Pilgrims Hospice.

A New Orleans-style cortege
will leave on foot on Sunday at
1.30pm from Dering Road for
the funeral service at St Peter’s
Church, Bridge. Afterwards
everyone is welcome to join the
cortege for burial at
Patrixbourne Church, followed
by a reception in the Plough &
Harrow pub, Bridge.

The family has requested no
flowers and has askedcfor dona-
tions, preferably with gift aid
declaration, to the Ryder-
Cheshire Foundation, 82
Queen’s Road, Brighton, BN1
3XE to be transmitted to
Raphael, Dehra Dun, Uttar
Pradesh, India.

His son Nicholas said his
father always favoured the
underdog so that those who
could only sign an X for their
pension or UB40 were not
humiliated.

“Every customer who stepped
into the post office and
approached the counter was
given recognition, a joke, a
kind word and a question about
their health and recent activi-

.~ .ties,”he  — W - I

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BIDGE WTH

PATRIXBOURNE

Correspondent: J Anderson. 7

 

‘ Dering Road, Bridge, Canterbury,

CT4 5NA. 01227 830260
Thanksgiving: A service for the life
of Laurie Shirley, as he was
affectionately known in the village,
both as Postmaster for many years,
as well as representing the village
as parish, City and Kent county
councillor, was held on Sunday,
February 2.

The cottage of a horse-drawn
hearse and carriages, preceded by
the Gambit Jazz Band, processed
through the High Street from
Dering Road, past the Post Office in
which he had worked for so many

a years and on to St Peter’s Church

where the service was held.

A large gathering of relatives,
friends and villagers followed on
foot, and many more lined the
street to pay their last respects to a
greatly loved and respected
character.

The church was packed to capacity
with standing room only. Apart
from all the local mourners,
representatives from all the
councils, authorities and charities
with which he had been associated
were present.

After a short recital by the band,
the congregation was welcomed by
the presiding minister Magaret
Clark, pastoral assistant to the
Bridge group, followed by a prayer
from the priest in charge, the Rev
Paul Filmer.

Personal tributes were given by
long-standing friends Chris Barton,
Dr Peter Giles and Mr Shirley's son,
Nick. There followed a poem
written and read by his
grandaughter Meg. A reading from
the Bible was made by his
grandson Scott.

Continued next page

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From previous page.

The cortege then reformed and
proceeded with most of the
mourners to St Mary’s Church,
Patrixboume, where the burial-
took place, with a moving farewell
by the Jazz Band.


Village pb  accolade  

 

 

_ 31.  .
I Melanie and Chris Maclean celebrate after their pub was
named local CAMRA Pub of the Year Picture: Paul Dennis pd809Z66

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LANDLORDS Chris and Melanie Maclean are
happy to break most of the so-called golden
rules on how best to run a successful pub in
these difficult times for the licensed trade.

They do not serve food, they do not have
a garden where children can run around
while their parents imbibe and they have
no time for live music.

Loud, recorded music is also a no—no and
their idea of decent drinking hours is llam-
11pm and they will not ban smoking.

Struggling

But far from struggling for business,
the Macleans’ Plough‘ and Harrow pub in
High Street, Bridge, has been named Cam-
paign for Real Ale (CAMRA) Pub of the
Year for the Canterbury, Herne Bay and
Whitstable area. -

Gerry Keay, chairman of local branch of
CAMRA, said: “The*Plough and Harrow is
a fantastic example of a traditional English
community pub, where a friendly welcome
and excellent beer are always offered to
both regulars and visitors in the area.”

The Macleans recently won Shepherd
Neame’s Community Pub of the Year
award and on the strength of this week’s
success gain entry to the east Kent Pub of
the Year contest. ‘ ‘

Mr Maclean, 48, said: “We are both aston-
ished and delighted.

“We have been at the pub for 14 years and,
during thattime, we have sought to provide
a hub for the village community.”

Wife Melanie, 48, added: “The best thing
about our pub is that there is nothing spe-
cial. Our emphasis is on good conversation.
We are also the home to 30 local clubs.”

Local clergyman, the Rev Paul Fflmer,
even does a stint behind ‘the bar once a
month in an effort to maintain contact out-
side his church in the parish.

As part of a reciprocal’ arrangement, Mr
Maclean is a lay minister in his spare time,

reading the lesson at Patrixbourne church.

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BRIDGE

Parish Council
Caring for the village //

Autumn 2013 Newsletter

Changes on the Parish Council

Unfortunately Bill Oakey
resigned from the Parish Council
because of his health. He did
sterling work for the village, as he
has done in his role as a City
Councillor, which he is continuing
to do.

  

 

A call for volunteers to fill the
vacated seat resulted in three
excellent offers and the
Council co-opted
Mike Burns-Stark as your
new Councillor

Your new Chairman is
Cllr Sue Hodges

 

Next Parish Council meeting
7.15 pm Planning Committee
7.30 pm Full Council

Thursday 1 0”‘ October 201 3
Bridge Village Hall - all welcome


Bridge in Bloom

Congratulations to the winners of the 2013 Bridge
in Bloom competition. The standard was once
again very high throughout the village. Thank you
to all those who took part and to the judges who
went around the whole village in July.

   

Jim Tamsitt Trophy
(Businesses): ia_ .. §,§; _  
White Horse Inn %  
2”"-Red Lion lnn fin _‘

   
 

   

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Margaret Jones ’\7a’s‘e
(Community):
Mansfield Court

Residential:

Julie & Malcolm Bennett,
33 High Street

2nd - Anchorage,

Dering Close,

3rd - 17 Union Road.

 

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High Street Planters

 These looked very attractive this

 year and thanks go to Vicky
White, who has tended them so
lovingly.

 

Dead Weeds

KCC have sprayed the weeds
in the village but they do not
remove them. Please pull up
any weeds outside your
property so as to improve the
appearance of the village.
Thank you

 


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BY THE SEA: Plough and Harrow regulars enjoy their outing to Hastings in 1961

UB regulars
boarded a
charabanc for a

seaside trip to recreate an
outing that happened 40
years ago.

The party left the Plough and
Harrow, High Street, Bridge
for their excursion to
Hastings, just like their
predecessors did in the past.
The landlady who organised
the original outing, Freda
Weller, died at the end of last
year. She ran the pub from
1958 to 1978.

Current landlord Chris
Maclean said: “Her family
gave me a pile of old papers
and photos from her time as
landlady.

“Among them there was a

DAY OUT: The last trip to Hastings 40 years ago proved
popular with the pub’s regulars

  

 

    
    

TIME TRAVELLERS: The current landlord of the pub, Chris Maclean, hired a charabanc
to make the 2001 trip to Hastings as authentic as possible

Tour is a
ride back
in time

that happened on July 16,
1961.

“It seemed appropriate to
mark the anniversary of this.
So I hired this 1950 charabanc
and about 20 of us piled in.”

Mr Maclean said: “The
weather was fine all day. We
ate spam sandwiches and
drank beer. It was lovely.”

Our first picture from the 1961
outing, which was taken at
Hastings, shows Plough and

Harrow regulars Bill Last, SUN‘ Hm
Nobby Laming, Ted Baker, '  ’
Arthur Gambell, Jack Swan

and Jack Osbourne.

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BRIDGE & DISTRICT
HISTORY SOCIETY

19 The Close, Union Road, Bridge, Kent CT4 5N3
Tel 01227 831 041+

Affiliated to the
Kent History Federation

Mrs Win Tamsitt
45 Union Road
BRIDGE
Kent CT4 5L\V
22 August 1996

Dear Win,

I am delighted to enclose the programme for our second
season 1996-97, commencing on Tuesday 3rd September, a
highlight being the Visit to Bourne Park in October*.

I trust that you will be encouraged by the fact that the
membership subscription and meeting charge have not been
increased from last season. Please use the enclosed form to
pay your subscription either at the Se tember meeting, or

send it direct to me.  w0t/

Along with the rest of the committee, I look forward to
welcoming you at the new season's meetings and visits.

Yours sincerely,

Bill Dawson
Secretary

* Tickets for the Visit to Bourne Park go on sale at 3rd
September meeting.


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wins accolade

LANDLORDS Chris and Melanie Maclean are
happy to break most of the socalled golden
rules on how best to run a successful pub in
these difficult times for the licensed trade;

They do not serve food, they do not have
a garden where children can run around
while their parents imbibe and they have
no time for live music.

Loud, recorded music is also a no—no and
their idea of decent drinking hours is llam-
11pm and they will not ban smoking.

Struggling

But far from struggling for business,
the Macleans’ Plough and Harrow pub in
High Street, Bridge, has been named Cam-
paign for Real Ale (CAMRA) Pub of the
Year for the Canterbury, Herne Bay and
Whitstable area. -

Gerry Keay, chairman of localbranch of
CAMRA, said: “The Plough and Harrow is
a fantastic example of a traditional English
community pub, where a friendly welcome
and excellent beer are always offered to
both regulars and visitors in the area.”

The Macleans‘ recently won Shepherd
Neame’s Community Pub of the Year
award and on the strength of this week’s
success gain entry to the east Kent Pub of
the Year contest. ‘

Mr Maclean, 48, said: “We are both aston-
ished and delighted.

“We have been at the pub for 14 years and,
during that time, we have sought to provide
a hub for the village community.”

Wife Melanie, 48, added: “The best thing
about our pub_is that there is nothing spe-
cial. Our emphasis is on good conversation.
We are also the home to 30 local clubs.’’

Local clergyman, the Rev Paul Filmer,
even does a stint behind the bar once a
month in an effort to maintain contact out-
side his church in the parish.

As part of a reciprocal arrangement, Mr
Maclean is a lay minister in his spare time,
reading the lesson at Patrixboume church.


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A friendly welcome awaits the newcomer to Bridge, accord-
ing to the Vicar, the Rev. Colin Perry.


THE "KENT|SH(

PROSPERITY IN

DESPITE THE PROBLEM5

“Kentish Gaz

FTEN vill8E_°9_ are
merely providing a S

businessmen. . . _ .

destroyed when visiting Villages

care—-sometimes Qty
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g‘i33}},§a§ with its rising‘ popu-

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hown as clu
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This illusion of rural 5“

lmost passionatelY""3

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THE ormiG-

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stars of houses and 5l"~_*=;>,
and I‘Cllr;\i
gnation is

such as _
bout the future of thin

01 the chs;n:g'es“.-in ttfhe vi '
Mr. Price said‘: Years 8.":
.m,;,d was m~9.-rrower i new:
rbrrldgeand we had ‘a fine
.11-metre-es down ‘the 'St,I‘°e‘

{us now the Red Laon

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needs it certainly has;-‘
_ Apart’ from '9;-wet

self-contained for the housew’li.'e..

'Some‘_ villagers arc’ pressihg
hardto get a bank and,‘ if they
are as successful with this pro-

'ject as they have been with past

demands, Bridge should h av e
one in the'not ‘too distant future.

Proud of the past
Yet that is looking ahead and

_Bridge is proudof its past. It

; straddling the River Nailbpurne
,in the High Street. - ' -

takes its -name mm «what is- now
‘the 18th Century brick bridge

For many of the older resi-

dents an evening is often well
spent recalling life in the vil-
; lage ‘at the turn. of the century.
. Anyone ‘vyishmgl to know of_ the

.Bridge of decades ago is

mediate! . directed

of Mr‘ _‘to,,the home

erbert Price at _Lynton

,_Cottage. . -

F0Pmef|Y the 7vi1lage's relpre-I
senwcive-an ‘Bridge-Blean Rural

l District Council, he retired be.

cause ‘of ill-he'alth_bul‘. is‘ still an
active member of the Parish.

P Council. which he joined in 1930

'-‘fish ‘5h_9P  .
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former :l.Iiiaid'lox1d of the Red Linn,
who organised the vil1*age’s King
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PrI_1)curin'g' chi-sf rle-collections in
-'e -never.-mi»-3 to 1-emu -A 
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[1910 of F‘i-remain J,‘ Fojgn‘ ~.,v.m
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1- -wins’ on ‘the  _'_of F11»:-
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were lined -with .  pcopgt

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his PUW
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Memories are provided by
Mr. Herbert Price.


PROSPERITY IN THE orruw-—
DESPITE ms PROBLEMS

“Kentish Gazette” report"

-- f houses and sh‘

' re shown as clusters 0 _
FTEN v|l1a8_9:_ :4 E Slumbcmnd for wmmurcrsond TL:IH_1
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‘businessnien. 1§'1_n villages such as By-idgc, whose villul, ,‘
destroyed when vnsllgqlosgt passionam-|y— bout the future of Ill‘ E:
care-—sOl'i'lClimCS 3

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and a bank, Bridge has every Couucrii- M993 M ' .
ly- oi’ shop 1-ieedeciio make It  ‘- lm1_1_ 5“? °° '“! ‘
se f-contained for the housewife. »-‘ ' ' I
Some villagers are pressing Look-in; balzk 11‘ mt‘ -
hard to get 1-. bank and, if they ohm-aotnm he’ :ha_s know»
are as successful with this pro~ erni mmea came 00 Mr. I
jeoi as they have been with past mind. He said he -€0U'1d r‘
demands, Bridge should have rememvber ‘Mr. Jfick Fri‘
one in the not too distant future. former iImd'lo:\duI‘>;! I;1;fiflI";i:Yd 1|‘_m..‘
Proud of the past WM °"3"‘“’°“ ' ” ':‘~"‘-‘
Yet that is looking ahead and (%“'rg°fiwa t!$?w§e],‘,_““' “'
Bridfil’ is proud/of its past. It ”a"3‘o¢9 farther village im H‘
takes Ms nameefromwhatls now ‘giffiéh 3]’ _wm‘ and Mr '( 
the 18th Century brick bridge w~‘- whfwu the chaim} .-"
straddlinil the River Nailbnurrie ‘hm"' Wm‘ o°'ncn I I. ,“_‘ "‘
in the High Street. “;‘é§rsF~"" < " ‘’ ‘'''”'\
For many 0! .the older resi~ ' ‘ k.
dents an evening is often well D“““3' 'msm‘d‘,le°°l1°°%'
spenv. recalling life in the vil- P"‘°° ““"'°’ 5 '° _.‘ W
lage -at the turn of the conturv. “"3 day Bfldge W“ packcl “"‘ “
Anyone wishing to know or the ‘P°°P‘°- m ""3 ‘“ ‘he ‘f‘’‘"‘‘'‘‘‘ 1*
Bridge of decades ago is lm- 1910 °_f,. Firefifiamfl J‘ ‘Faun; ‘”
mediatellindlrected i.o,the home w'l513}f%‘§: as Ewfir ;:|n,“"_"l.' ‘i
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gfotlm-8.2. erbert Pnce at Lyman as kFwas‘o? ‘he Ida I M I, W
Former} the viii ' 1- mm‘ “ms ‘.““e'“- E '\”“‘
senmdvegn Br‘ gfifiasn  were ‘lined with masses 0:‘ 1”‘!-1 ‘A
  Dhtflct councm E retired be_ who came from mdiegaromha :.
 cause of ill-health but is still an 735' me” "°..sp°‘?'° 1° wk‘ ""1’”
“five member of the Parish lat fireman, said Mr. Pn:m_

_ V coumzmwmch he joined in 1930. no-u,fi,g d,y,|.,P.‘,m¢,b

Another person who hn.<m:v:1
memories of Bridge is M1‘. H311
llawkrins. ownez-rot mhe lrull-~
and men’: oummmm hn-l zn
nevursage-nsba. H13 lather L'Zlli]I- :
Bridge in 1907 and he vvns hm-
in the v‘$'iiug_e.

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the gvreurr. ho developmun
in N16 viii B 13 ‘pal‘fic‘LIl:u

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Fire Brigade. ntu ha the x-angeda.
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terbury to help with city fix-ea. ‘ -pg-men
uner a. Rails Royce chagrin nuzggag
was converted for us: and in
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 hack to former president of Bridge Women’s Institute, Mrs. Heather Stotesbury (right), seen talking to the
"flit president, Mrs. V. Dawson. With them are friends of Mrs. Stotesbury who were welcoming her back for a short visit
 _' ’. _ ‘ e Mat_a p_arty _at Mrs. Dawson’s home. M

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L Taking advantage of some midday sun, residents and stafl of The Close relax in the attractive gardens.


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Children splash hoppily in E1-Edge School swimming pool, bought after a monev-raising effort by the Parent-Teacher _-\_-‘-$0ci-

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ation. Keeping a watch on the fun is the headmistress, Mrs. 0. Knight.


Bridge’s policemen, Sgt. D. Ca:-less and P.C. B. 
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C 3 Bedrooms,
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ANGELA HIRST

Surveyors & Valuers

   
  

R590

26 High Street    a
Bridge    
Canterbury
Kent

Price £100,000 

Description This extensive property comprises a shop and store with four bedroomed
living accommodation. The property is constructed mainly of brick under
a slate roof. The property is in need of extensive improvement and
renovation and is suitable for a number of uses subject to change of use.

Location Situated in the High Street of the much sought after village of Bridge,
approximately 4 miles to the south of Canterbury. A very convenient
location.

Directions From Canterbury proceed along the New Dover Road towards the A2.

Take the slip road signposted for Bridge. Turn right at the T junction and
continue until you come to a set of crossroads. Turn left and proceed into
the village. The property can be found on the right hand side by the
village hall.

Agents Note The electrical circuits and equipment has not been tested
nor has any heating, plumbing or drainage system.

Viewing By appointment with agents, Angela Hirst Surveyors and
Valuers (01227) 765533.

 
  

 
   

Canterbury: (01227) 765533 9 Rye: (01797) 22688‘) 9 Ucklicld: (0l825) 76055.5
Sandwich: (01304) 239057 9 Crzmbrookz (01580) 713700 9 Favershanl: (01795) 830001


The accommodation comprises:

Access via the main front door. Main stairway leading to first floor. Door to lounge.

Lounge

Hallway

Dining Room

Kitchen

Shop

Store Room

Cellar

First Floor
Landing

Bed room 1

Secondary Stairway

Bathroom

Bedroom 2

Bed room 3

Bedroom 4

Outside

l2’6” x l2’6”. Attractive open fireplace with timber mantle, window to
front, built in storage cupboard, radiator, door leading to main stairway.

Doors to lounge, dining room, shop and cellar. Telephone point, central
heating controls, alarm controls.

l3’7” x 13’. Door to secondary stairway leading to first floor, gas fire
with back boiler providing domestic hot water and central heating.
Window to side, built in storage cupboard, door and steps down to
kitchen.

l4’4” x 9’2”. Stainless steel single drainer sink unit with floor mounted
storage cupboards under, range of floor and wall mounted units, electric
cooker point, plumbing for washing machine, plumbing for dishwasher,
windows to the rear, door to the garden.

54’9” x l 1’4” average. Display windows and door to front, side door to

, garden, open doorway to store, hatch to loft space, second hatch to first

floor store room (measuring approximately l4’3” x l1’3”).

ll’2” x 6’3”. Expelair extractor fan, wash hand basin, stainless steel
single drainer sink unit.

16’ l” x 12’. Electric and gas meters, open fireplace.

Main staircase, doors to all bedrooms.

13’9” x 13’ 1”. Open fireplace, door to airing cupboard, door to secondary
stairway, access to loft hatch, window to side, radiator.

Door and steps down to bathroom, stairs down to ground floor, window.

Bathroom suite comprising low level WC, wash hand basin and panelled
bath, window to side, radiator, sloping ceiling.

l2’6” plus built in cupboard x l2’6” plus built in cupboard. Open
fireplace, window to front, radiator.

l l ’4” x l l’4”. Door to landing, window to front, radiator.

ll’l” max x ll’ll”. In need of complete renovation, window to rear.

Enclosed gardens with a small lawned area, many shrubs and plants,
paved path leading to car parking area with space for two vehicles, door
to shop, access onto Union Road.

Angela l-lirst and Hirst Coiriniercial for themselves and for the vendors or lcssors of this property whose agents they are give notice that:-
the particulars are set out as a general outline only for the guidance of intending purchasers or lessees. and do not constitute, nor constitute part of.

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

an offer or contract;

all descriptions. dimensions, references to condition and necessary permissions for use and occupation. and other details are given without
responsibility and any intending purchasers or tenants should not rely on them as statements or representations of fact but must satisfy themselves
by inspection or otherwise as to the correctness of each of them:

no person in the employment ot‘Angela llirst has any authority to make or give any representation or warranty whatever in relation to this property.


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BRIDGE
Modern semrldetached bungalow in a cu1—de-sac.
Centre of popular village. Two bedrooms.
£94,995

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MOUNT,CHARLE HOUSE, BRIDGEVGuide Price £525,000
A magnificent detached residence enjoying a centrally located plot of about .1 acrebacking
onto open farmland in this extremely popular, well served village. Reception hallway, ,
cloakroom, drawing room, study, dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, laundry room,~

   
 

 
   

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shower room, family room, galleried landing, master bedroom suite, 5 remaining bedrooms .  ll/Jndi  g 
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and family bathroom. Detached double garage and fully landscaped gardens.

CANTERBURY 4 MILES £795,000
A delightful ‘small residential farmstead in a secluded
valley yet within 4 miles of City centre. Period farmhouse
With 3 receptions,4 bedrooms. Outbuildings, gardens
and well fenced pasture.Approx l8V2 acres in all. 1 :3

 

   
   

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establish“; Earilielglsaillulhllialtsleohvltllil well
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period house in this sought after village
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comprehensive a
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plus kitchen/breakfast room.
gait-age, driveandgood size rear garden-

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Offers
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a Land with out lined planning permiss
u Offers in excess of £275,000

OIEO £275,ooo.9E..

An elegant semi-detached Victorian villa offering spacious family aoco ad '
charming prope ' ' - . , ‘ mm at'°”- This
rty is now in need of extensive refurbishment. Sitting room, dining room,

kitchen, breakf t .
as room, 4 bedrooms, cellar. Garage, parking and walled ga|’den_

Region of £425,000

. 3 Bedroom Detached Home

. Fit Kit, Lounge/Diner, Conserv
. Front & Rear Grdn, Gge & ORP
Canterbury office

Homes _& Motoring, September 2, 1999

SELLING OIRO £145,000
Cottage benefiting from 3 bed accomm, 1 with en-
suite, mature gdns with summer house and views.

 

 

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A desirable semi detached period property set with
the village conservation area

Lounge/diner, long galley kitchen, dining room.
Bathroom and 3 bedrooms. Pretty rear garden with
outbuilding. Large driveway with parking for several c

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framed house in this sought after vlllage. 2 further baThF00mS double garage gardens

 

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near the centre of the village. Two bedrooms. £95 000

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5 bedrooms, 3 reception rooms. Gardens;

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Bridge Brownies were hosts to the 5th Canterbury (Bridge) Cub Scout Pack at a scarecrow party held in the Village Hall
on Saturday, to celebrate their fourth birthday.

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Bridge
Brownie

party

To celebrate its fourth birth-
day the 1st. Bridge Brownie
Pack held a "Scarecrow" party
in the Village Hall on Saturday
and an amusing variety of fancy
dress was on display. Guests
were the 5th Canterbury
(Bridge) Cub Scouts and a pro-
gramme of games, competi-
tions and a snack supper were
enjoyed by about 60 children.

Mrs. B. Goode, Brownie
Guider, was in charge, assisted
by Mr. B. Pearson, Cub Scout
Leader. and Mesdames Meyben,
Goodwin and Ashdown.

1  lhurl.

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& i11 crash
I

A 19-year-old student at the
University, Miss Peta Mackay,
of Keynes College, was detained
in Kent and Canterbury Hos-
pital with face and leg injuries
on Sunday after the car in
which she was a passenger
crashed in P<:l<esbourne Lane.

The driver was Mr. Robin

fwright, of 1 Green Dell, Tenter—
gden Drive, Canterbury, who was
eunhurt, ‘and no other vehicle
I was involved.

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PATRIXBOURNE CHURCH framed in a setting of snow—covered trees \ ~

  

THE MAIN ROAD WAS_ BLOCKED Whi_1e two Army recovery vehicles extricated this 10—ton armoured personnel
carrier from the ditch 11: had ekldded mto wh}1e on tow at Bridge, near Canterbury, on Monday. There were many
minor crashes On the Sn0W- covered roads in the county. ,

 


News

01227 76:

Ea””t‘uorders at historic
pub after rate hk

A PUB landlord has called time on
a thriving business he claims has
been made untenable by a “dra-
matic” rent increase.

John Leeming has left the Red
Lion in Bridge following a dispute
with the owners Punch Taverns.

He called last orders last Sunday
and pulled out of the 400-year-old
premises he has run for the past
five years last Monday.

Mr Leeming left over what he
claims is the unfairness of Punch’s
decision to increase his rent to
£10,000 a year, following re-devel-
opment of the five-bedroomed pub
to include a new restaurant.

He says the pub “chain has im-
posed a much higher rent than
was agreed verbally and it would
be “financial suicide” for him to
continue. ,

“It was a lot more than we
agreed. My rent would have gone
up dramatically,” he said. “I have
always paid my rent promptly. I
have run a very tight and happy
ship, a true family business. It has
given us all a decent living but
we’ve worked very hard for the
rewards we’ve enjoyed.”

The Red Lion staff line-up in-
cluded Mr Leeming and his wife
Martina, daughters Neica Sharp
and Zoe Leeming, stepdaughter

Pub chain says
it was fair deal

Jessica Horn, son-in-law Fergie
Sharp and son Mark Leeming.

He more than doubled the tak-
ings from the £3,500 a week the
pub was attracting on his arrival
and in recent years the pub has
rim two darts teams and a bat-
and-trap team.

Jules Kerby, a spokesman for
Punch Taverns, said: “The Red
Lion is a listed building and Eng-
lish Heritage has requested that
we carry out certain structural
improvements, including a new
roof.

“Work will begin on the pub in
the New Year with the conversion
of the ground floor cellar into an
85-seat dining area.

“The former licensee was offered
a new lease agreement which took
into account the investment we
are making in the site, but chose
to leave of his own accord.

“We have now recruited replace-
ment retailers with whom we look
forward to together developing an
even better pub for the local com-
munity to enjoy.”

 

I From left, John and Martina Leeming, Daniel Tunbridge and Fergie sharp
Picture: Gerry WnIllakerpd892193

 

The Kent Messenger Group is a member of Verified Free Distribution. W
VFD certified distribution January to June, 2005

Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge and Sevenoaks Extra 58,675. Maidstone Extra 52,697. Me
Extra 90,079. Ashford and Tenterden Extra 32,041. Sitiingbourne Extra 18,270. Cante
Herne Bay, Whitstable and Faversham Extra 63,455. Thanet Extra 57,417. Folkeston

_ Dover Extra 63,354. Gravesend Extra 36,395. Darrford and Swanley Extra 46,641. Bexleg
73,035. Bromley Extra 105,951. KM Extra Group 698,010.


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J

ew bridge proves

   

by Gerry Warren

COUNCIL officials faced
with a bill. of £10,000
thought it was a bridge too
far.

But villagers at Bishops-
bourne, who endured flood
misery for months, finally
persuaded them otherwise.

So engineers set to work on

—-~~'-l‘—lw«rs~day to build. ‘~:h~':-. relief

crossing over the ford in Rose
Lane.

It means residents who have
been cut off at times by the
overflowing flailbourne have
a vital, safe route in and out of
the village.

The city and county councils
are sharing the cost of the
bridge, which is only tem-
porarily in place while flood-
Water continues to threaten
access to the village.

The concrete and steel struc-
ture took two days to erect
and has a weight limit of
three tons.

It was welcomed by parish
council chairman Malcolm
Mitchell who has been in con-
stant negotiations with the
authorities.

He said it was regrettable
the authority had not acted
when he first appealed for the
crossing in November as the
worst floodi.-lg in memory cut
off the village.

At the time officials said the
solution was too expensive

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but villagers criticised the
city council for putting the
cost before the humanitarian
need of the community.

The value of the bridge
became evident on Friday
when a Southern Water pump
used to reduce pressure on
sewers in the Park Lane area
caught fire and was put out of
action.

The flood water at Frog Lane
deepened until the road
became almost impassable to
all but bigger vehicles, leav-

ON L

  
  

ON THE BRIDGE: Engineer Paul Lo, head of engineering Viv Pritchard, parish coun-
cil chairman Malcolm Mitchell and city councillor Bill Oakey

ing the Rose Lane bridge as
the only guaranteed way out.

Mr Mitchell said: “When offi-
cials were saying the cost of
the bridge could not be justi-
fied I argued that the council
and Southern Water could not
guarantee keeping their
pumps going 24 hours a day
for 100 days — and Friday
proved me righ 

City council head of engi-
neering Viv Pritchard said the
bridge would be in place until
the flood threat subsided.

    

~“)' :..

CTION: Workers place the temporary
the ford in Rose Lane

its worth in hours

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The structure will then be
put in storage for use in simi-
lar circumstances in the vil-
lage or elsewhere.

But Mr Mitchell and city
councillor Bill Oakey say that
longer-term remedies had to
be sought to cure the
Nailbourne flooding prob-
lems.

Cllr Oakey said he would
continue to fight to prevent
development in the flood plain
which many believe increases
the threat of flooding.

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ridge over

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ALIWAL: He shouted, ‘You

the raiders 11/ 7681 W/ 00

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by Claire Witherden

A VILLAGE store re-opened
only hours after a ram-raid
caused damage estimated
at £10,000 because the
owner did not want to let
down his customers.

A car repeatedly rammed the
front wall of Bridgeway Stores,
Bridge, in the early hours of
Friday as owner Ranjit
Dhaliwal watched from an

,.upstairs window.

He and volunteers from the
village spent the morning
clearing up and the mini-mar-
ket re-opened at 11am.

The shop front was rebuilt
the same day.

Mr Dhaliwal said: “It was a
complete mess but there are
many elderly people who need
their bread and milk and other
necessities, and find it difficult
to travel. We provide a service
for them comparable to super-
market prices. ‘ ‘

“We had to wait until the
scenes of crimes officer had
been out at 8am, otherwise we
could have been clearing up
beforehand.

“A lot of people were kind
enough to offer their help.
About 10 or 15 people came by.

 

 
  

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In particular, I must thank
Laurence Dunderdale, who
works for Canterbury council's
refuse department. He was
clearing up from 7am while I
was making phone calls.”

The raiders were targeting an
ATM cash machine but were
disturbed before they could
take anything.

Mr Dhaliwal has been a spe-
cial constable with Canterbury
police for six years and lives
above the shop. He was watch-
ing a film when he heard a
screech of brakes at 1am.

He added: “I could see a blue
Ford Transit Van ramming into
the shop. I started shouting at
them: ‘You stop that!’

“The alarms were going off
and I also pressed the panic

\ button next to my bed.”

Four men were in the van but

they then got into a grey Ford

Qinrrq in Wnctnrn Avmmm

Thousands of1Tound
amage in ram-raid

Police say the Sierra was
abandoned in Bridge Hill
towards Barham with the
engine still running. The men
are thought to have transferred
to another vehicle.

The shop has been targeted
by ram raiders before, four
years ago. Mr Dhaliwal is con-
sidering putting up shutters.

He said: “My wife and I were
on holiday but my father was
here and he came down and
fought with the intruders.

“I’m ready for them any time.
These people think they can
get away with it but well just
put up more barriers and shut-
ters to stop them."

He has dropped plans for exte-
rior shutters because planning
permission will not be decided
for six weeks, and instead will
put them up on the inside.

“We’re talking about £10,000
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Tunnel Vision 0

SUPPORT is growing for our
campaign to move Charlotte

‘ the pig into the perfect des

res for a discerning sow — an
old London Underground
carriage.

People have contacted us
backing the campaign and
urging the city council to
allow Charlotte’s owners, the
Shirley family from Bridge, to
site the carriage on their
small-holding.

Council planning officers
have told the Shirleys that
they are unlikely to get
planning permission for the
carriage, even thought it will
be placed just yards from the

old Elham Valley railway line.

Steve and Hazel Dawe, from
Canterbury District Green
Party, urged the city council
to embrace the Shirleys’
imaginative project.

ON THE TRACKS: Our camp 0 allow htte 0
live in a tube carriage is gathering momentum

They said: “Charlotte is a pig
of great charm. Her current
home is obviously inadequate
to the needs of a fast-growing
lady pig and is in need of
replacement.

“Not only does the railway

  

carriage have historic echoes
in the Elham Valley line
which used to pass close by,
but it is re—use of a resource
which might otherwise have
to be dismantled and
retrieved as scrap metal.

 

for pig

“We are slightly puzzled that
a pig shed for pigs destined
for the dinner table would be
agricultural use while a pig
shed for Charlotte who is a
rescue pig apparently is not.”

Charlotte had been living at
the Lord Whisky Animal
Sanctuary when she was
given a home by the Shirley
family.

Margaret Todd, who runs the
Stelling Minnis sanctuary,
also threw her weight behind
our campaign.

She said: “It is vitally
important that pigs have good
accommodation. A railway
carriage would be ideal as
long as it doesn’t stick out
like a sore thum 

Chris Maclean, landlord of
the Plough & Harrow pub in
Bridge, is fully behind our
campaign, as is the landlord

December 16, 1999 5

 

of the village’s White Horse
pub, Alan Walton.

Mr Walton said: “The
campaign definitely deserves
support. lam a bit of a
railway buff and I like this
idea because it is a bit
eccentric. I cannot imagine it
will be an eyesore.”

Tony Mogridge, of Burgate
Bakery, which supplies free
bread for Charlotte, said he
thought the carriage was a
good idea.

He said: “I would like to see

Charlotte in her new home"
/and I don’t think the carriage
would upset anyone.”

Mr Shirley said he was
delighted with the support
Charlotte was getting.

“I don’t believe that I need
planning permission for the
carriage and am still trying
to convince the city council,”
he said.

A council official said: “We
have received Mr Shir1ey’s

letter and are giving it our
attention.

“The use of land for
agriculture would not
require planning permission
but Mr Shirley does not have
any agricultural ‘permitted
development’ rights because
he is not a farmer.

“Genuine farmers are given
certain rights by the
Government in national
planning legislation — these
rights do not extend to hobby
farmers or to those keeping
farmyard animals as

domestic pets.”


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by Claire Witherden

A VILLAGE store re-opened
only hours after a ram-raid
caused damage estimated
at £10,000 because the
owner did not want to let
down his customers.

A car repeatedly rammed the
front wall of Bridgeway Stores,
Bridge, in the early hours of
Friday as owner Ranjit
Dhaliwal watched from an

. upstairs window.

He and volunteers from the
village spent the morning
clearing up and the mini-mar-
ket re-opened at 11am.

The shop front was rebuilt
the same day.

Mr Dhaliwal said: “It was a
complete mess but there are
many elderly people who need
their bread and milk and other
necessities, and find it difficult
to travel. We provide a service
for them comparable to super-

' "market prices.

“We had to wait until the
scenes of crimes officer had
been out at,.8am,.otherw".se we
could have been clearing up
beforehand.

“A lot of people were kind
enough to offer their help.
About 10 or 15 people came by.

CRIME s1: Tis s V
knocked down by the car

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In particular, I must thank
Laurence Dunderdale, who
works for Canterbury councils
refuse department. He was
clearing up from 7am while I
was making phone calls.”

The raiders were targeting an
ATM cash machine but were
disturbed before they could
take anything.

Mr Dhaliwal has been a spe-
cial constable with Canterbury
police for six years and lives
above the shop. He was watch-
ing a film when he heard a
screech of brakes at 1am.

He added: “I could see a blue
Ford Transit van ramming into
the shop. I started shouting at
them: ‘You stop that!’

“The alarms were going off
and I also pressed the panic

\ button next to my bed.”

Four men were in the van but
they then got into a grey Ford
Sierra in Western Avenue.

Mr Dhaliwal said: “They were
swerving all over the road and I
think they hit another car.”

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Police say the Sierra was
abandoned in Bridge Hill
towards Barham with the
engine still running. The men
are thought to have transferred
to another vehicle.

The shop has been targeted
by ram raiders before, four
years ago. Mr Dhaliwal is con-
sidering putting up shutters.

He said: “My wife and I were
on holiday but my father was
here and he came down and
fought with the intruders.

“I’m ready for them any time.
These people think they can
get away with it but we’ll just
put up more barriers and shut-
ters to stop them.”

He has dropped plans for exte-
rior shutters because planning
permission will not be decided
for six weeks, and instead will
put them up on the inside.

“We’re talking about £10,000
or £15,000 of damage’ to this
shop,” he said, “but if we had
shutters I think they would
have picked another store.”

SMASHED-IN: The
front of Bridgeway
Store, Bridge, was
rebuilt on the day of
the ram-raid

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Fury as surgery
is given go-ahead

CONTROVERSIAL plans for a doctors’ surg-
ery in Bridge have been approved, despite
huge protests.

Villagers who spoke out against plans to put the
two-storey building next to the recreation ground
in Patrixbourne Road packed Canterbury council’s
Guildhall on Tuesday.

But after hearing from residents and one of the

plans were approved by 12 votes to six. -

Afterwards, Dr Mark Jones from the surgery said
the practice was pleased that the development con-
, trol committee had approved the location of the
new surgery and its design.

use early next year. ,
Sheila Sochacka, speaking on behalf of the
Bridge residents who

doctors ‘and after a long debate by councillors, the .

He said they expected the building to be ready for ~

protested at the meeting, 1
said afterwards that they ;
were disappointed.

_ “We were heartened
that six councillors
spoke vigorously against

~ this, but we were sad-
dened that an innovative
solution to use the exist-
ing building or a less sen-
sitive greenfield site was

“ not agreed on,” she said.

“We fear that this deci-
sion puts at risk other,
similarly protected land

l around this area.”

Residents criticised the
location of the surgery
and the effect it would
have on the countryside.

Natural beauty

Norman Fowler told
the committee other sites
were available on the
edge of the village.

Mrs Sochacka said the
cost of losing the land
would be too great and-
the surgery would be a
sore thumb» in the middle
of a green space, while
Penny Morgan said the
building was to go in an
area of outstanding nat-
ural beauty.

Emily Shirley said
there was no proof of an
overriding need for more
facilities at the surgery.
The existing one could be
extended or another
building chosen, she
said.

Dr Jones told the meet-
ing the present facilities
were woefully inade-
quate.

Planner Bob Britnell
said allowing the surgery
will not set a precedent
for development.

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our bar staff Shannon and
Dave.”
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lager, we  sell la‘—lot'of
wine witllpeop1efs'r.Iieals.” ‘ e
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come children at alLt‘imes.e”

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trolled and on leads.”
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WE DON’T KNOW: “The
pubwas-originally a coaching
inn and dates back to the six-
teenth century.-” ‘ _
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there was a serious {flood so
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BRIDGE

Correspondent: J Anderson, 7
Dexing Road, Bridge, Canterbury,
CT4 5NA. 01227 830260

Playgroup: The new term began
this week at the village hall.
Mondays and Wednesday sessions
are dedicated fours mornings,
mainly for preschool children with
emphasis on skills that will be
needed at school, fees are £4.

Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
sessions are for the playgroup plus
the fours, the fees being £3.75.

The OFSTED inspection was
passed successfully. For details
phone Nicola Adam on 01227
721395, or the Playgroup mobile on
07980425109.

Institute: Bridge with
Patrixbourne WI branch will meet
in Bridge Village Hall on Tuesday,
January 15, at 7.30pm when Mrs
Jan Glover will talk on basket
making.

The competition will be a
photograph of a winters scene.
Visitors and new members will be
welcome.

Village surgery: The medical
practice in Bridge has, over the last
10 years, expanded from a single
GP to three full—time doctors, with
nearly double the number of
patients and the list still growing.

The new surgery, to replace the
existing bungalow, opening on
January 28, will enhance the range
of services that the practice is
required to offer.

The ground floor will have a
waiting area with children’s
facilities, a reception office with
secure storage for patient records,
and a new computer system, two
consulting rooms, a visiting
consultant / therapist room, minor
operations room, nurse treatment

. room, district nurse / health visitor

," patient confidential interview
room, and toilets.

On the first floor there will be a
staff training and meeting room,
two offices and staff kitchen.

There will be on-site parking for
patients and staff, replacing the
present street parking in Green

Court. '

The building will have a full range
of facilities for the disabled, _
including designated car parking.

Expanded services for patients are
increased doctor’s surgery time,
with minor operations being
undertaken, in—house clinics with
visiting hospital consultants and
therapists, and extra nurse clinics.

There will also be an opportunity
for in-house physiotherapy,
osteopathy, acupuncture and
chiropody clinics, for which
patients now have to travel to

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l.itt1ebourneAor to the Kent and
Canterbury Hospital.

The surgery will be open for
viewing from 10am to noon on
Saturday, January 26.

Concert: The King’s School Crypt
Choir and King’s Musicians will
perform in concert at St Peter’s
Church, Bridge, on Saturday,
February 9, at 7.30pm, in aid of St
Peter’s Church restoration fund.

Tickets at £5, to include puddings
in the interval, are available from
Pat Dunderdale (830668) or Andrea
Nicholson (830947).

Bill Dawson: The funeral took
place at St Peter’s Church Bridge,
of the well-known village
personality who will leave a gap in
the community.

Mr Dawson was born in Dunstable
but moved to London in 1960. In
1978, with qualifications in graphic
design, he started his own business
designing signs.

Nearly 14 years ago he started to
visit and stay with his partner,
David, in Bridge and gradually
became involved in village
activities, moving here seven years
ago.

He undertook various duties
concerning the running of the
village hall and with the late Jim
Tamsett founded the Bridge and
District History Society.

He also undertook to revise and
publish a new illustrated history of
Bridge Church.

Donations may be made in his
memory to the Canterbury
Hospice.

Red Lion: John Leeming, landlord
of the newly—restored inn in the
High Street, says that from Friday,
January 18, the newly-fitted
kitchen will be operating for the
service of restaurant meals and bar
snacks.

Surgeries: City councillor Bill
Oakey, representing the North
Nailbourne Ward, will hold his
monthly surgeries on the third
Saturday of each month, from
10am to noon on the following
dates: for Bridge and Bishopstone
at Bridge Methodist Church Hall,
Patrixbourne Road, Bridge,
January 19, March 16, May 18, July
20, September 21, November 16; for
Bekesbourne and Patrixbourne at
Bekesbourne Village Hall, Station
Road, Bekesbourne, February 16,
April 20, June 15, August 17,
October 19, December 21.

Confirmation: Classes are to begin
in February. It is not too late to
enrol by contacting the Rev Paul
Filmer on 830250.

Lent begins early this year on
February 13 and details of Lent
events and courses will be
armounced shortly.

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.Mr J E Hill 22 July 1994
Renville Oast

Bridge
Canterbury
Kent

CT4 SAD

Dear Mr Hill
Thank you for your telephone enquiry of 18 July.

I am enclosing a selection of photocopies of Bridge, comprising
approximately 50% of our holdings of the village. I have chosen
these images because of their suitability for your purposes and
because it should be possible for us to provide copy prints for
the majority, in particular those with an AA and BB reference
number. I have given the date taken where available. I enclose a
price list for your information.

We do not hold the negatives for the two prints marked "c. Amos

and Amos, Dover", and regret that we do not have an address for
this company.

The negatives for the prints marked "K Gravett" are in the
possession of Mr K W E Gravett, 85 Seaforth Avenue, New Malden,
Surrey. I have provided his address, but our copyright file
indicates that we have found that he is reluctant to make copies
for people. I have included his photographs only because they
happen to be on the same card as work by one of our own
photographers.

The remaining coverage of Bridge is as follows:

'26 prints of houses in Dover Road (K Gravett - all 1962)

"Bridge Place: 2 copies of a painting of the house (c. R Bostock)
7 exteriors) .
7 interiors) all 1962

‘M3 prints of St Peters Church (Amos and Amos)

2 prints of St Peters Church - Tympanum (1931)

If you would like photocopies of these prints or would like to
order copy prints, Please do not hesitate to contact us at the
address below.

Yours sincerely

Moira Birks
Archives officer
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the bakery section.

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sandwiches using bread baked
on the premises, rotisserie
chickens and breakfast baps.

Ranjit’s next plan is to sell

hot beverages, filled baked
potatoes and paninis alongside
the pies, sausage rolls,
doughnuts and cookies

the shop already stocks.

Since the Dhaliwals bought
Bridgeway Stores 16 years
ago, they have always tried
to stay ahead of the game,
looking to the supermarkets V

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to determine what is effective
marketing and.what is not.

Ten years ago, they extended
the premises and now have an
impressive 17,000sq ft of floor
space to play with.

In 1999 they bought the
newsagents in Bridge High
Street and ran the two shops in
tandem until three years ago
when they incorporated it into
Bridgeway Stores.

Although the store is
independently-owned, it is part
of the Londis group, giving the
Dhaliwals more marketing and
purchasing power and helping
them stay competitive.

Unlike the major supennarkets
Bridgeway Stores can offer
customers personal service

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from strength to strength. ‘

Ranjit’s best piece of advice 1
“You have to move with the * for struggling shop owners is
times,” explained Ranjit, Who to invest in a computer system ‘
employs a team of 10. including in order that they can keep a ‘
f0UI‘ full-time  “P133 always proper track of stock_

— Ranjit often makes deliveries
for villagers unable to get to
the shop themselves.

trying to stay one step forward. He added:-mvmage Shops can
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and what doesn’t — he seems to you have to put the hours in,
have found a winning formula. you have to invest’ and you
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couple Bob and Joyce Hopkins
after the pair went gathering
chestnuts together more than
60 years ago.

And today (Thursday) they
are celebrating their diamond
wedding.

Mr Hopkins, 88, and his wife,

I Joyceand Bob Hopkins on
their wedding day

V Bekesbourne Church, Mrs

office closes

Minal Patel will operate as the
sub-postmasterfrom his Londis
Poparound store, also on The
Street, from Thursday, Septem-
ber 6.

Mrs Mawson said: “We would
like to thank all of our loyal cus-
tomers for their continued sup-
port over the years.

“We are going to miss all of the
friends we have made during our
time serving the community.”

Avenue and met at the Uniconi  1
pub in Bekesbourne, where

Mrs Hopkins’ father Albert
Rennells was landlord.

“My wife asked me if I knew "

XI

where she could go to get
some chestnuts and since I
did I showed her and it went
on from there,” Mr Hopkins
recalled.

At the time he was working 2
as a driver for the old Bridge _,
Blean council and Mrs ‘
Hopkins was Working for a
poultry farm.

After their wedding at

 
   

Hopkins gave up work and h
husband became 'a gamekee ._
on the Bourne estate at ‘
Bishopsbourne. ’

The couple livedin tied

accommodation for the next  
years until'M,rH,opkins turned” . '
60, when he retired from
gamekeeping and started work
for Burgate Bakery in Bridge
where he stayed until he was

65. Mrs Hopkins ran a taxi
business from their home until ~-
she retired.

The couple have five children,  ‘
eight grandchildren and two '
great-grandchildren.

They moved to Union Road,
Bridge, in 1976 and to their
present home in 2002 where

Mr Hopkins keeps himself

busy with some gardening, Iv
while his wife is a member of 2 .
Bridge WI and helps with Kent:-1
and Canterbury Hospital’s ‘
League of Friends.

On Saturday they celebrated
their anniversary at the .
Chequers pub in Stone Street 
with 40 members of their ~ ‘.
family and friends, including " '
two of their bridesmaids.


A new seat has been placed at the side of the River Nailbourne, at Bridge, thanks to the village’: Young 

'~'

es’ Group. It was handec

over on Wednesday to Cllr. Peter Lawrence, chairman of the Parish Council, who thanked members for their gift.

BUMPER RECRUITING
YEAR FOR
ATHEDRAL FRIENDS

LAST ‘year was a bumper re-
cruiting onc for the Friends of
Canterbury Cathedral, whose
membership figures were the
highest for the past 10 years.

The news was given‘ in‘ the
annual report when the chair-
man, the Dean of Canterbury,
the Very Rev. Ian White-Thom-
son, said, “1971-72 has been a
good year for the Friends and
therefore for the Cathedral, in
so ‘far as the sltre-ng-th of the
Frierrds is arr ‘inrlicaflionl of the
love and loyalty which the
Cathedral in=spire‘s.

“The past year, as far as
Irue‘mlbe_rslh'ip figures in the office
record's shows, has been the
mloest ‘successful’ the Friends
have had for 10 years‘. Member-

ship is higher than at any time‘
during that petrio .”

"Thrn T)cmn.- cazar 41»

,affairs ‘but he would

_ E the upsurge of interes

pared with £1,400 and the num-

ber of people cov'en?ant’in'g* had
virtu'a'1l‘y trehled from £74 in
1970/71 to £333 in 1971/72.

He said many thvings had‘ con-
trfisbutedl to that happy state of
menft-ion
only three. First, the friendli-
ness, interest and infectious‘ en-
thusiasm shown by the Steward,
Mr. John Niclmlas.

Second, there was the tire-
less efficiency and total dedi-
cation to the Work of the
Friends which Miss C‘h1’i‘stine
Jenkins had shown since she‘
joined’ the office staff three years
ago. She was ably assisteidv lby
first Miss Paulline Hall and until‘
Nlovemher of last year by Miss
Lynda Midd-lieton; but in recent
months the day to day working‘
of the oflice had rested‘ on her
shoulders.

The Deanis third reason for
t ancr work

a_.

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centuries of Christian division.
It belongs to all mankind in its
beauty and in its grace.

“As its Friends, our happy
duty is to increase‘ the number
of people who care for it, who
want to give something of them-
selves to help in preserving it.

“At all times and to every-
body Ca.nte'r‘bu1'y gives much
more than it ever receives.”

Codel1—»
driver

did not
pay in

‘ A seat
beside
the ford

In a quiet spot in Bridge, 1
side the fort]. where the Rix
Nai*lb‘onme' crosses Mill Lane,
seat has been placed; for the 1
of the public.

D‘ona.tedl by members of t
Young Wives’ Group, it xx
form=a‘1‘1y ‘handed into the c2
of the panish co1m'c‘il on W:
nesday by Mrs. G'i:1I1iian Harm
leader of ‘the Young Wiv
Group.

Olllr. H. P. M. Lawrence, eha
man of the parish counc
tlilanlkinxg the group for tlr
‘gifit, said it would-‘ be grea‘
appreciated.

Seventy - six - year - 016. M
Bessie Godfrey,‘ of Church C
tagie, ad‘d‘ed‘ her thanks’ “on 1
half of all the old ladies in t
village, and others mot so old.’

After the presentation 1
party. which included‘ the Vic
Canon Colin E H. Perry, 1
vices-chairmarr of the pagrl
council, Cllr. L. G. Shrirljey, a
the clerk, Mr. E. Down, went
6 Bridgeford Way, the home
Mrs. Harvey, where refre:
merits were served. V

The cost of the seat and
plaque was met by membe
donations and the proceeds
cofiee mornrinlgs.

.


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Village's vibrant floral displays wow the judges V

Tender loving  

care

and

tomato feed

IT MAY not have been the easi-
est summer for gardeners, but
villagers excelled themselves,
transforming their community
into a riot of colour.

It was enough to impress the
judging panel tasked with pick-
ing the winners of this'year’s
Bridge in Bloom competition.

For the fourth year in a row,
Julie Bennett’s hanging bas-
kets and window boxes outside
her High Street home secured

_her the trophy for the best indi-

vidual display.

Julie, a health advisor for a
pharmaceutical company, said:
“Watering is a bit of a chore but
I just love doing the flowers.

“They seem to provide a lot of
pleasure for people walking up
and down the High Street.”

Julie picks different colours

every year and this year chose
an eye-catching lime green, yel-
low and salmon pink theme.

She puts the secret of her suc-
cess down to a weekly dose of
tomato feed. ‘

Julie said: “I’m not competitive;
for me it’s the pure pleasure of
doing the window boxes and has-
kets, but it was nice to win.”

_ For the second year running,

Bridgeway Stores won the shield
for the large retail category.
The colourful tubs outside

REPORT
Amanda Wills
PICTURES
Chris Daveyd

the shop have been tended by
manager Pam Possee and we e
planted by her husband Davi .

Pam said: “They brighten up
the shop and a lot of people com-
ment on how nice they look.

“It’s nice that they take notice,”
she added.

Residents of Mansfield Court
were given a special community
award for transforming the plain
communal areas at their retire-
ment flats in Riverside Close. C

Amanda Williams, scheme
manager at Mansfield Court,
explained: “We have communal
gardens at the front and back of
the flats, which were very basic
with just lawns and shrubs.” ‘

But last autumn residents
decided to enter Bridge in
Bloom 2007.

They worked hard through the

Mansfield Court's proud
residents show of their
award-winning blooms pd 1288144 '

winter preparing the ground,
spent the spring planting up
and were kept busy all summer
watering, feeding and dead-head-
ing the flowers.

Amanda said: “Now the gar-
dens are just a show of flowers
and look beautiful.

“Working on the gardens has
brought the residents closer.

“They were absolutely over the
moon to win and will definitely
be entering again next year.”

The Bridge in Bloom competi-
tion, which is run by the parish
council, is an annual event.

re’ advertise: 01227 768181

  

 


tomato feed

IT MAY not have been the easi-
est summer for gardeners, but
villagers excelled themselves,
transforming their community
into a riot of colour.

It was ‘enough to impress the
judging panel tasked with pick-
ing the winners of‘ this year’s
Bridge in Bloom competition.

For the fourth year in a row,
Julie Bennett’s hanging bas-
kets and window boxes outside
her High Street home secured

_her the trophy for the best indi-

vidual display.

Julie, a health advisor for a
pharmaceutical company, said:
“Watering is a bit of a chore but
I just love doing the flowers.

“They seem to provide a lot of
pleasure for people walking u
and down the High Street.”

every yearand this year chose
an eye-catching lime green, yel-
low and salmon pink theme.

She puts the secret of her suc-

cess down to a weekly dose of
tomato feed. ‘

Julie said: ‘Tm not competitive;
for me it’s the pure pleasure of
doing the window boxes and bas-
kets, but it was nice to 

, For the second year running

B/ridgeway Storeswon the-shield
for the large retail category.
The colourful tubs outside

REPORT
Amanda Wills
PICTURES
Chris Davey

Julie picks different colours

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College could do more

A NEIGHBOUR of Canterbury
College says it could do more
to stop the streets around the
campus being httered with
cigarette butts.

Irene Seijo, of Edward Road.
claims the smoking ban has led
to dozens of students congre-
gating daily outside homes.

‘She has contacted the_C011ege
but been told that a designated
smoking area _on campus is
not being provided because it

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wants to encourage students
and staff to kick the habit. _

She said? “Their intransi-
genceis disapp0lI1tl_Ilg 1359031139
the gutters are getting littered
with cigarette ends. ’

“_It could provide an ama for
smoking along with literature
and incentives for students
who want '59 St0P-”

College director of enter-
prise and partnership Marco
Forgione said the college had

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the shop have been tended l
manager Pam Possee and we
planted byther husband Davit
Pam said: “They brighten 1
the shop and a lot of people coi
ment on how nice they look. '.
“It’s nice that they take notige
she added. . '
. Residents of Mansfield Cou
were given a special communii
award for transforming the plai
communal areas at their retir
ment flats in Riverside Close.
Amanda Williams, schen
manager at Mansfield Cour
explained: “We have communz
gardens at the front and back?
the flats, which were very has)’
with just lawns and shrubs.”.'
But last autumn resident
decided to enter Bridge i
Bloom 2007.
They worked hard through th

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12, 1968

testrian ;
» after
dent

‘sale grocer was dead
arrived at Kent and
y Hospital after being
:1 a road accident at
a Canterbury inquest
an Monday. 

s 48-year-old Edgar
of 4 Edmund Road,
who leaves a widow,
e] R, Reynolds (35),
children. 

hearing evidence of
ion and the cause of
.e City Coroner, Mr.
\low]l, adjourned the
ir a month.

[ward Tudor, of Can-
said the body was

by Mr. Reynolds’
»Ir. Albert L. Bird, of
rod Road, Herne Hill,
known him for some‘

zident, he said, was on
4, and the following
tended a post mortem
ut by pathologist Dr.
:ilvie, who said death

to injuries to the
ad, caused by a frac-

W ear junction

ilcolm Rous, of Faver-
Lid he attended the
he accident last Thurs-
ing, Mr. Reynolds, he
a pedestrian and two
been involved in the
which was in The
springe——the main A.2
ar its junction with
ace.
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ven by 20-year-old Mr.
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Iolehill Road, Chest-
i the other, :1 Ford
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versham.
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ied by ambulance to
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Starry couple
died on the
same day

'HE.\‘ neighbour: forced I

Thurs'd:n' thry found both cldurly occupants dead Mr.

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, :1 heart attack and
K3,: ltmn ‘pneumonln.
They lived at 38 Pork \’m\\-.

in. Rosy Hnrrlson, 40
Park View. aaitlxhe collected
n do:-u:r‘s prescription form
from the Wulinmsus on Wed-
nesday eventing so that she
unuld get uhlets for them from
the chemisfs.

The lollowlni mornlng she
called at the nuse at about
930. ‘but could get no nnswer.
She thought they were still in

   
        
 
 
   
  

Ffiftaeen minutes Inter she

a window. 5 e saw the
light on and a tap run-

Stillashqa

she went to the front at the
honor end through
could see Mrs. Wllllams in bed.
"I thought the old lady was
still ulaen.“ she told the

gattlng no reply she

pushed open the hunt door and
‘CI Hr. Wllllulu J 111;. ln the
all. There was a pllow by his
out IM_ 1. quilt underneath

‘When she could get no uuwer
(mm him she rut (or help, and
telephnual for the doctor.

Dr. Peter omerelve, ot 40 See.
Street. Home Buy, sold he
examined Mr. Williams, who wen
lying in bl: day clothes, end
estimated he hul been deld
tor between tune and 12 hours.

Mrs. William: In bed, In her
nlght elothea. She had been
Geld for Ibout an hour at the
mnnnhe uld.

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though hls father was over-4 -'
welghl. ‘
Recording his mullet. Mr.‘
Mowll mill: "It is cvactnx-mlinury
Llint two deaths should uccur
in the same house. indent-n«
dcntly of each other. on the
same ni ht. For that reason, in
the pub] c lnterest. I thought it
might be deslrahle to hold an
Inquest."
He commended Mrs. Hrrison
for her help, not only in giving
evidence. but In trying to asslst
the elderly couple.

The cost
i of drinking

While u-aflic struggled to. scale Bridge l-{ill this week, pedestrians found the nearby Fan: to
the snow clung to the trees.

  

‘ goes up

The cost or drinking is going
up for 58-year-old Albert Ems, of
16 Biackrrlnra Street, Canter-
bury.

That was what he told Col.
George Mount, chairman of Can-
terbury magistrates, on Frlrlay
alter being flood (10 for dis-
orderly behaviour while drunk In
Butchery Lane on December 23. {

Ellle. who had tlve previous
convlctlons for the some otfnncc, ‘
sald, "It's gone up, 2311'." l

Mr. John Godley, Clerk to the
maglatrntea, told him, "It's all
gone up."

"I had heat atop a teetotaller
then." sold Ellls.

Sm. R. Gm:/ling told the court
Ihnl when Ellis was first fined
{or hell: drunk at Cnnterhury
in 1910. e had ad to pnv 10/-.
In 1950 he had been fined (1 and

Dr. G. B. I-‘orhesz, consultant
pathologlal. sold :1 post mortem
revealed that Mr. Wlllluns, who
alone. had

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HOT SEAT: Chitty 1 (above) was described ,.

Grand Prix at Monza in 1924. It is said that
he was wearing the same cufflinks that had
brought about the downfall of his father,
Eliot Zborowski, in 1903, when one of them
got caught in the hand throttle of his
Mercedes.

The Higham Park team was dedicated to
racing, but its members were known for their
flamboyant style of dress and fun approach.

Spectacularly coloured, checked Florida golf— 

ing caps were their trademark.

Had the Count lived on, Zborowski would
undoubtedly have become a household name
because of his racing exploits, but the multi-
millionaire also left a legacy of fun and enjoy-
ment for countless visitors to Kent thanksto
his involvement as one of the developers of the
Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway.

FTER Zborowski’s death, Chitty 1 was

bought by the sons of Sir Arthur Conan

Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. They
ran her in speed trials in the 1930s but
abandoned her at Brooklands, where she
was eventually broken up for parts.

Ian Fleming enjoyed many different
associations with Kent, but it was golf
that anchored him to the county.

He was a member of Royal St George’s

Telephone 01303 817000 wvvw.kentonsunday.co.uk 21

at Sandwich, which he described as “the best
seaside golf course in the world”.

At the time of his death in August, 1964,
aged 56, he was looking forward to taking up
the captaincy of the club.

During his time in Kent, Fleming lived at St
Margaret’s Bay in a property formerly occu-
pied by Noel Coward and at an 18th century
house in the grounds of Archbishop Thomas
Cranmer’s palace at Bekesboume.

References to the county run as a vein
through many of the early James Bond stories.

In You Only Live Twice, when 007 is believed
dead, M sends a notice to The Times obituary
page editor which includes the following
passage:

“When he was eleven years of age, both his
parents were killed in a climbing accident in
the Aiguilles Rouges above Chamonix, and the
youth came under the guardianship of an
aunt, since deceased, Miss Charmian Bond
and went to live with her at the quajntly
named hamlet of Pett Bottom, near
Canterbury in Kent.

“There, in a small cottage hard by the attrac-
tive Duck Inn, his aunt, who must have been
a most erudite and accomplished lady, com-
pleted his education for an English public
school.”

 

as a ‘brutal car put together by a madman’ — Count Louis Zborowski is at the, wheel

Fleming frequented the Duck and was
known to write notes there.

Goldfinger lived at a house called The Grange, '

which Fleming set at Reculver, near Herne Bay.

And in Moonraker, the monstrous Sir Hugo
Drax had his sinister missile station on the
cliffs at Kingsdown, near Deal.

LEMING also played golf at Deal. At
FPrinces he once borrowed his caddy’s

motorbike and took it for a quick spin. The
bike was a BSA Road Rocket and the author,
who gave Bond only two real hobbies — seduc-
tion and speed — apparently enjoyed the expe-
rience very much. Later a motorbike fitted
with rockets appeared in Thunderball.

But undoubtedly the best collectors’ reference
to Bond in Kent is of him enjoying a fry-up.

In Chapter 13 of Moonraker, the third of
Fleming’s 14 action thrillers, you can read: “In
Dover, Bond pulled up at the Café Royal, a
modest little restaurant with a modest
kitchen but capable, as he knew of old, of turn-
ing out excellent fish and egg dishes.

“The Italian-Swiss mother and son who ran
it welcomed him as an old friend and he asked
for a plate of scrambled eggs and bacon and
plenty of coffee to be ready in half an hour.

Then he drove on to the police station.” J


A chrisuna; tdast from 102-yeariold Miss Elizabeth
Bing, the oldest nesidéntvot Churchill House, Bridge,
who did not let hr ago stop her from enjoying the

  colobrnflons. ‘ .
 


  

adsoene week ending Friday 10 May 2002

RESIDENTS 
ANGRY AT

     

PLANS T0

   

VILLAGERS are on the
warpath because devel-
opers want to chop
down an ancient beech
tree which survived the

1987 hurricane.

And they are angry
that city council offi-
cials did not consult
them about the tree in
front of Bridge and
Patrixbourne -Primary
School.

    

AXE TREE 

Cllr Bill Oakey says the
village would agree to the
tree at New Close being
trimmed to two thirds of
its size but not its removal.

Over 20 villagers attended
a hurriedly convened site
meeting to discuss the
future of the beech.

“We can live with the
removal of the crown but
not the loss of the whole
tree,” Cllr Oakey said.

“It is disgraceful that the
beech tree could have been
felled without any consul-

     
 

tation whatsoever. We have
had our own tree expert
look at the beech and he
said it could live for anoth-
er 30 years at least.

“My real concern is the
total lack of any form of
consultation with’ local
people over this issue’.

“I hope we can put this
matter on hold until proper
consultation has ‘taken
place, and the views of par-
ties like Kent Men of the
Trees and conservationists
can be taken into account.”

_-é-.

Parish council chairman
John Anderson said the
tree had been standing for
about 100 years and is a vil-
lage landlnark which is
being studied by local chil-
dren.

He said: “A lot of people
are very angry that the vil-
lagers were not .consulted
about this at all. We have
been in touch with the city
council and registered our
displeasure.”

The tree has been given a
month’s stay of execution.

 
   
       
     
   
         
       
 

A CANTERBURY man
was found dead in the

v River Stour on Sunday

morning.

The body of Lawrence
Rogers was spotted by a
tourist from Middlesex.

Mr Rogers, 42, of
Birchwood Walk, was dis-
covered shortly before
9.30am in the river near
the Sainsbury’s store at
Kingsmead in

Canterbury.

Advertising Sales (01227) 454545

 
  

LANDMARK: The 100-year-old beech tree outside Bridge and Patrixbourne Primary School

Body found in River Stoun

Kent Fire Brigade were
called and recovered the
body. Mr Rogers was pro- 1
nounced dead at the scene
at 12.20pm.

A post mortem exami-
nation Was carried out at
the Buckland Hospital in *
Dover on Wednesday. ‘

Pathologists are await-
ing further analysis and
toxicology tests before
determining the cause of
death.


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Party of %              
Germans : A
visit the
cathedral

TWENTY Germans. aged;

16-30. came to Can—‘
terbury on Monday morn-;
ing to visit the cathedral‘

during 1 h e i r fortnighvs.‘
stay at Brighton with;
English families.

The party are from Ham-J
burg. and this is a "ret,u1-n"
visit." A reception was held‘
for Lhem at me Mayo:-‘s Par-‘
iour by the Sheriff of Canter-
bury lC1lr. Arnhur Wilsonv. ‘

Leader of the party. Herr
Herman Cu-eve. said they had
found everyone very kmd. and I
their new surrounding “1'nber—‘

The party have already vi-
sited many places in Eng-
land. including Crawley New
Town. on Saturday they Went.
to Butl1n's Holiday Camp at ;
30Enor 38816. ~

On Tuesday they went to
!:aa_t4boI.u'ne, where they had 2.

civu.-. welcome. Today they
1 we was at the Embassy of
 Funeral German Republic,

7_A.__o nunnharr -- - v‘-up

  

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kClul.) repens  

It. Dunstan‘: and Holy TWO VETERAN HOP PICKERS: 79-year-old Mr. Mac Carter of 17, Fishers Road. Canterbury
Youth Club, Canter his wife Amy (77). Their G08 GYD. their constant companion, relaxes in the sun while his 0

bury. 1- bod .3 - - ' th 1 .
,___ ” p__m_ m°:£°'gmrch“5I’mff 7 '3 work at Great Petr. Farm. Bridge. Mr. and Mrs. Carter have been hop picking as long as ey_

     

 

 

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TAKING TIME OFF‘ from their normal farm duties at Great Pett Farm. -
Bridge. are Mr. Charlie Laming or Bekesbourne and Mr. Steven Jones ot_
Llttlebourne.

 

THREE YOUNG LADIE fr

holidays hop picking at Great chart Farm. Bridge. Sheila-Castle. S:m,n..._
_ Norman and Glynes Pfouteryall 14 VeI.Irs- old. ‘M

om Canterbury who's:-e ‘spending their school \

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The Kentish
C ount who  

inspired a

film leg_e_ml_

By NEIL cI.EMEms

neil.c|ements@kosmedia.co.uk

ANY of Ian Flemingfs char-
acters were, to put it mildly,
larger than life, but the man
who inspired his children’s
novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was
as remarkable as some of James

Bond’s celebrated adversaries.

Count Louis Zborowski — the name alone
ranks up there with Auric Goldfinger; Sir
Hugo Drax and Francisco Scaramanga — was
the son of a Polish Count and an American
mother who lived in a Palladian pile near
Canterbury.

He had a passion for motor cars, he loved to
drive them fast and he had the money to
indulge his passion, racing in Europe and
America.

Zborowski actually built two Chitty cars at
Higham Park, close to the village of Bridge —
an area Fleming came to know when he
moved to the Old Palace at nearby Bekes-
bourne in 1960.

Chitty Bang Bang 1 was the first amateur
aero-engined machine to achieve fame at
Brooklands race track. The 23-litre, six-
cylinder Maybach Gotha bomber engine
bought from the Disposals Board afier World
War I was crammed into a pre-war, chain-
drive Mercedes chassis.

When the machine first appeared at the
Brooklands Easter meeting in 1921, it was
decribed as “a brutal car put together by a
madman” and was a far cry from the child-
ren’s favourite that could fly and think for
itself.

“Brutal” it may have been, but it won two
races on its first day out at the world’s first
purpose-built motor racing circuit, including
the Brooklands Short Handicap, at a speed of
100.75 miles per hour.

Lou, as Zborowski was known around the
circuit, fooled the handicappers into giving

 

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him a 10-second advantage with the design of
the car, especially its crude exhaust.

Eventually, alter modifications, she reached
113.45 miles per hour but after a crash, in
which a track official was injured, Zborowski
never raced her again.

Chitty 2 was more refined and had an 18.8
litre Benz aero engine. Remarkably, she was
used as a road car and took Zborowski and
friends to the Sahara in 1922.

Chitty Bang Bang, the originals only had
one “Chitty,” is supposed to describe the sound
of the engines but the name was actually that
taken from a bawdy song popular in the
trenches of W WI. 1

Three of these monster, aero-engined motors
were made at Higham Park (open to the pub-
lic in the summer) with the help of engineer
Captain Clive Gallop, along with a fourth
brute known as Babs in which Parry Thomas
died in 1927 attempting a land speed record at
Pendine Sands in Wales.

Babs still makes occasional outings at
Brooklands, and Chitty 2 is in‘ the National
Motor Museum.

The Counteventually joined the Mercedes
racing team but died just before his 30th
birthday after hitting a tree during the Italian

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j carrying‘ handsprays
' roses and carnations, and the

. , BRIDGE S
e   W~EB~BI-NG

MR. J. H. SWAN and
 :.~M;ss J. A. CURTIS

St. Peters Church, Bridge,
was thescene of the wedding on
Saturday of Mr. John H. Swan,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Swan,
of 47, Union Road, Bridge, and
Miss Jacqueline A. Cuzrtis,
daughter of Mrs. J. H. Thomson,
of 6, Highfield Terrace, Dover
Road, Sandwich. ,
—_ The choral service was con-
ducted by the Vicar (Rev. Colin
Berry) wand the hymns 'were
'‘‘The. King of Love” and
="Praise, my soul.” Mendel-
-=-s,s‘oh,n"s, Wedding March was
‘played at‘the‘ close.

3 , Given-. away by her stepfather,
{Mr.’J. H. Thomson, the bride
irnade a charming picture in an
Empire line gown of‘ heavy
satin brocade with train. Her
three~quarter , length veil was
held, by a single rose and she
carried a handspray of white
' oses, looped with emerald satin

ribbon.

The bridesmaids were - the
Misses S u s a n Swan (bride-
groom’s sister), June Ralph,

Diane Ralph and Janet Tamsitt.

‘They wore. emerald satin
dresses, two having emerald
headdresses and accessories and
of white

j others with white headdresses’

and accessories and. carrying

. an¢1;tnmhgLw~

posies of similar flowers: ,
Kenneth Blissett was best .manm

band ushers. were M‘e's_srs.’j[,.~.» __

Following ai‘ reception  t

_ , , 6' ‘
Adelaide Suite, Canterbury, the ‘
couple left for a touring honey- 1.,

moon, the “bride travelling in” a
navy suit with white accessories.

Numerous gifts included a
fitted candlewick bedspread and
pillow cases from the ~bricle’sj
colleagues at Pfizers and a
Swedish bread board and knife

and linen from the‘ brid_egroom’s »

colleaguesnf VV. H. Smith & Son
Ltd.’ at Canterbury and
Gillingham.

 
 

Found ‘Corner

The following,»articles,_ found‘

in Canterbury and district and
taken to» the City Police Station,
now await the claims of their
owners who should quote num-
bers¢1,232‘-1278: Job card in black”
case; colour transparencies;
Timex wrist watch; carton con-
taining cakes and ,biscuits;
child’s black-framed spectacles;
grey-blue plastic. mac; plastic
pouch of cosmetics; rolled gold
locket; mortice key on’ ring‘;
lady’s Ingersoll Watch; cycle
lock; bush hook; gold propelling

 1,1}-;‘O ’‘'‘‘-A‘’'"'

Mr. 1

pencil; two white hens; ignition
key; watch on leather strap;
large key; ladv’s glasses; gold
ring inscribed “Fidelity”; . man’sv
grey suit; Agifal camera in case;
off-White umbrella; mortice key;
pram cov‘erV;’Yale key; tie pin;
red purse; blue sho—pp,ing bag

containing fruit;;si1ver ring with
topaz. i ' Z‘


 

Kentish Gazette, October 18, 1974 17
Les1ie’s
a getting
awheel

Churchgoers at St Paul's,
Canterbury, have come to the
aid of the Kentish Gazette in its
search for a tricycle for a
hospital patient.

Thirty- ear-old Leslie Fuller,
a patien at Highland Court
Hos ital for the mentally
han icap ed, at Bridfge, asked
the East ent Diarya ew weeks
ago to help find him a tricycle.
Leslie had an operation on one of
his legs and is waiting to see if
another czfieration would benefit
him. In e meantime, he gets
about with the aid of a frame,
placin it in front of him with
each s ep. ~

He can just about mana e the
pedals of a c cle, but t at is
where the pro lem started. He
could not manage an ordinary
two-wheeler, bu felt he could
cope with a tricycle.

Now parishioners at St Paul's,
where Leslie is a regular
member of the congre tion,
have bought a tricylcle. d on
Wednesda ni ‘ht e was re-
sented wit lta Longportl-Ia .

Some of the money for the 5260
machine, built by George Fitt
Engineerin at Whitstable.
came from t e sale of paintings
in the Rector of St Martin’s and
S Paul’s, the Rev Christopher
Donaldson.

I-le launched the appeal for
money for Leslle’s tricycle at
the church's harvest supper,
and says the congregation went
,.“head over heels to help, once
they knew.”

Other money has come from
donations and the -balance is
expected to be raised at a coffee
morning planned soon. '

< em.

Watched by the Rev Christopher Donaldson and members of the St Paul's Church
L congregation, Leslie Fuller tries out his new tricycle for the first time.

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February 4, 1999 11

King met ‘girl of his dreams’

LITTLE girl who was once a
familiar figure in the
Canterbury area, is destined

to be the mother of the next King
of Jordan.

The son of Toni Gardiner, who lived at
the Red Lion in Bridge and grew up to
become the bride of King Hussein, has
been named as heir to the throne for
the second time.

Prince Abdullah was Crown Prince as a
toddler until the accession was
changed but is now heir again in place
of the King’s 51-year~old brother,
Prince Hassan.

The unexpected move to depose Prince
Hassan in favour of Prince Abdullah
came after King Hussein returned to
Jordan from the United States where
he has been treated for non-Hodgkins
lymphona cancer. He has subsequently
returned to the States.

Prince Abdullah was born after his
mother married the King in 1961.

As he is Crown Prince, it means Toni,
who took the name Queen Muna al-
Hussein on marriage, will remain a
member of the Royal Family of Jordan
despite her divorce from the King in
1971.

Those who remember Toni when she

 

THE installation of Prince
Abdullah as Crown Prince of
Jordan means that the next
King of the country will be the
son of a woman brought up in
the Canterbury area.
ROSEMARY BRAITHWAITE
traces the remarkable story of
the publican’s daughter who
met and married a king.

Little girl
grew up to
become
Queen

was growing up were unfazed by the
news. Childhood friend Eric Hawkins,
now landlord of the FitzWalter Arms,
Goodnestone, said: “Nothing surprises
us much although it was a bit of a
nine—minute wonder at the time.”

Mr Hawkins, the son of Bridge
newsagent, Harold Hawkins,
remembers Toni as an ordinary little
girl who was popular although her
family only lived in the village for a
short while.

He said: “She was perfectly normal,
just lovely and ordinary.”

His sister, Barbara, who now lives in
Margate, was another of Toni’s
playmates.

Toni’s father, Lt Col Walter Gardiner,
had taken a break from Army life to
run Red Lion before taking a

The King, then 26, fell head over heels
in love and thanked providence for
“bringing into my path an ordinary,
small family. I have met the girl of my
dreams.”

But the marriage was not to last.

Ten years later they divorced and he
married Queen Alia, whodied in a
helicopter crash. King Hussein is now
married to the American-born Queen
Noor. His first wife was Queen Dina.

Toni, now Princess Muna, lives quietly
in Amman. She has never returned to
Bridge.

Now villagers are wondering if the 37-
year-old Crown Prince, who is an army
major general, and was educated at St
Edmund’s School, West Sussex, and at
Sandhurst, will ever visit Bridge.

ROYAL FAMILY: Princess Muna with Prince Feisal, left, Prince
Abdullah, and the twin princesses Zein and Aicha in 1972

posting in Amman as military
advisor to the British Training
Mission.

Toni attended St Anne's
Convent, Sturry, and was a I
dance pupil with the Sydney

Woodman School of Dancing,
Canterbury. 1

The school is now run by
Mary Woodman who
remembers her parents
describing the future queen as
a lovely little dancer.

Jacqueline Price, 77, lived just 1

a few doors away from the Red
Linn when the Gardiner: had


As he is crown Prince, it means 'l‘on1,
who took the name Queen Muna al-
Hussein on marriage, will remain a
member of the Royal Family of Jordan
despite her divorce from the Kingin
- 1971.

Those who remember Toni when she

 

KING HUSSEIN: Being treated for
non-Hodgkins lymphona cancer
Picture: PA

* -"Cor1Vent:§rurry,“ana-vvas—a'““*‘ ‘

 

He said: “She was perfectly normal,
just lovely and ordinary.” T

His sister, Barbara, who now lives in
Margate, was another of To_ni’s
playmates.

Toni’s father, Lt Col Walter Gardiner,
had taken a break from Army lifezto
run Red Lion before taking a

in Amman. Shehas never returned to
Bridge.

Now villagers are wondering if the 37-
year-old Crown Prince, who is an army
major general, and was educated at St
Edmund’s School, West Sussex, and at
Sandhurst, will ever visit Bridge.

 

ROYAL FAMILY: Princess Muna with Prince Feisal, left
Abdullah, and-the twin princesses Zein and Aicha in 197:

posting in Amman as military
advisor to the British Training
Mission.

Toni. attended St A_nne’s V

dance pupil with the Sydney
Woodman School of Dancing,
Canterbury.

The school is now run by
Mary Woodman who
remembers her parents
describing the future queen as
,a lovely little dancer.
Jacqueline Price, 77, lived just
a few doors away from the Red
Lion when the Gardiners had
it;

She said: “I can see her now,
trotting out of the Red Lion.
She was such a small, little
thing.

“We all used to think — how '
on earth did she manage to
get hold of a king.”

Toni met King Hussein when
she joined her father in
Amman and acted as hostess
at a party.

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FLAHBACK: How te
engagement in 1961

enth Gazet reported the Royal

  
   


    
 

 
   

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‘St; Eéterfs Day,
he 2113101; of St. Peters
mi-é B1‘ 2130, Said faréwell to
the;§"ry.1¢Qr an . Mrs. .W. ,H.
L o  ' ' . ‘ .~ --

A .F'oIsluwing_ ,the’ evening service,
d\~ai:!wu1l.« ceremony was held in
the grounds of Bourne Lodge,
when M1-xiaregary ‘was presented
wt, wi:eqEe'by..Mr.’ F‘. R; W-
e eoplefs Wax-defl, on’

mf. n fpmishioners. He

81: ‘ed , r. G;‘egory,an auto-
» ‘.—:book signed by the 256
L“) tégio ers hazisubscribed

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' V ’:Mrs..Gx-egory was ‘the recipient;
of a.“bou€:uet,.: m‘esehtad~by Miss‘;
—Margatet Lemar. wh .has forg
‘ten"*yeai‘%,_b_em! »6rgan st at_ the;
' ha‘; xi oil’-cblb 1' painting of?
man was h sorigiven to
Gregory: b_y‘ _r1vI‘i‘s.“ Spencer

.  ntiments of all} ,those
pfesuif“ at,‘ the » ceremony‘ were
voiced ab Mr. ‘Berrywhen heé
wished iv r. and M15. ,Grégory
=Gbdspeed.am1 dnoowluck in their
W a»'in“Cana a.  ‘ '
"‘ flhéllld -like ti) thank them
1Iy.',’; cuntmued Mr. :Berry.
am sure all other mem-
he Patgnh-will jam with
 aaying how very much
9 pptguiated their work
é'?arish.”' , . » —
e‘~>l?q$ter, Chnrchwarden of
boumé, endorsed all that
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a sh}wil1 find he-'11‘) a“ big
Wrepu atiqn to‘; keep up. During‘
 regaryk 12 years at mid
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zmummgg, and =they.hav.e geld
? “inhighestbem.mfi-, '.
H15‘ pal e_rmon en.Sunday has
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or. who is; ‘we understand,
resented with a copy of it.-
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 MR.’AND MRS. MARSH, ‘of Preston, cutting the
H T cake at the celebration of their diamond wedding
: ~ -one Easter ‘Saturday.

60 YEARS
WED ‘

t‘ —,spx'ig11tly and lively Mr. and}
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{hear Canterbury, celebrated 60‘;
t—j_'g'ea1‘5 of married happiness at a?
'n‘.fa1ni1y party on Good Friday. }tl
_~,‘_. Mrs. Marsh, who was born into‘ (1
71a family of ten at Preston, toldlv
Ya, re-porter tlmt she and hex-Tl
*husband had" been “supre1ne1yi
‘~%ha-ppy". . T ' -efi
‘. -“If I had my life again. I wouldiy
Ldo exactly as before”, she said.‘C
; I‘ would still marry Albert.”
PA "A;;Sr|s:<eX r‘r1a‘11:;‘:iEi‘I!*.?’2v1Ei'Sh”o1')‘1‘y
:wearseg1a.srses to read. and works
:¥a.lL‘c.day in his large, neatly-kept
garden. ” -   e .
He was a blacks111iET1“.'be-forte‘.
1‘et1'1'emen’c - some years a,g0.;
Appre=nt.iced at 11, he worked for
ignanj; years in the forge at
1B:-idge.
;. The couple met when
[M12 Marsh moved to Kent to
gtanke up smithing. They
‘were married -shortly afterwards
,rin Wingham Congregational
.:Church. -
.j At F'rid-eLy’s'part3r their two:]
‘;chil_c11‘en,and' one grandchild. as
_§we11 as nmany re1atio11s and}:
'gfriend5, gathered in'the schoo1;‘
;;1m11 to offer their congrattll-.1_-{§
gtions and.d,rink to their 11ea1th.§+
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gcongratulatiorr was one from\\*
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-=."“L;ea%d us, Heavenly. F;;1ther"-"-élid
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"bride" in a: gown of

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:._-__c1-'eam :' gm-ed sati-_n,_ h_'er- em-

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iiiof tlillips? an-d_ -‘-Ii.-1i-es... . The" "matron -
-_c_:fJ";hongurgmrs. Norman Carbury '

sister), - arid. the "bridesmaid, 'Mis"s

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'F'::'3110wiI1'g {:1 ‘reception at - Slatte-r."s
fR_estajL1rant, Canterbury,
;‘{é'0'up1_e 1e '

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-j:".1'e~ndering:-Melody in  _(Rub_é;.n--.'-

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’-I‘ii1'g"ji'n "a." H'arri's twee-'d;_. suit with 
_%brC1_+W11- hat a'n4d acces_s0ries; -- S_'usar1- 
-V-I‘)i:i_ws.e (~godc_.hi1d)  p1‘es_ented-- the V" 
 with?‘ 3" silver _h0rsesh_0e.- ',
Th-i5e'— bridegro__om served "in. the -

  


    
  
     
  

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February 3 , 2000 35

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Parish farewell  
to retiring Vicar

THE PARISHIONERS of
Patrixbourne, Bridge and
Bekesbeurne have said a
fond farewell to their
vicar, the Rev Raymond
Gilbert.

Mr Gilbert retired on
Monday after 20 years
caring for the pastoral
needs_of the community
and acareer in the church
spanning 40 years.

On Sunday more than 125
friends gathered at the
primary school in Bridge
for a farewell lunch party.

He was presented with a

ICING ON THE CAKE:
The Rev Raymond

Gilbert and his wife,"

Rosemary, at the retire-

ment party
30/ 6877E/99

collection of Mozart CDs,
two cheques and a framed
picture of the three
churches by church
wardens John Anderson,
Andrea Nicholson and
Jane Millyard and organist
Roslaie Stacey on behalf
of the community.

His wife, Rosemary, was
presented with a rose tree
and book on rose growing
by Billie Anderson.

Mr and Mrs Gilbert also
cut a cake iced with the
three churches of his

parish and the Vicarage.

The couple are soon
moving to Eythorne,
where Mr Gilbert plans to
spend more time
mastering the Internet
and walking and
travelling.

He will remain an
Honorary Canon at
Canterbury Cathedral.


.|--fit"!-u}

,~_,.N.. uww cu-_ }-lair

- at St. P'ete'r"s”«C
‘morning, when

_ .Of -Councillor

V_ay..r;.JUJ'\J\!-3

A «192?442.

- R.A.F.' '
---badly Wouh_é1'1e‘fd,_ and for'_3‘-E: -years

POPULAR BRIDGE
    JWEDIOJING

MR. M. "TAYLOR AND
MISS A. CHERRY

i Bridge had‘ a

,/(._ A,{.___..;,_._,.._k

   

popular wed-d_i_n—g
hurch on .Su'I'1day
, _.the bri-degreom
was ‘Mr. Mark "Taylor, second-son
and IV_1"rs-. Allen
Tayl-or, of _Lyntdr_1' House, Bridge,
faiid the bride, Miss Anne Cherry,
.V_..<91:n'g.er _daught'er of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Che'_'rr.y, of the White
I:i0rs_e Inn, Bridge-, foer'I_r_1e-rly. of
the Welcome Ir1n,'E1th-a.me, from

T-he bridegroom __,served in .the
during the war, was

'; was a pr-isoner pf w_ar.'. He.‘ is
g.I1QW,_ on the Air Reg1'st1'~a1;1-on

.- $13-‘Oard.. ' at

,5 ti:-_e_,'.i si_.g'ni_nge of the K _
 forg;an'ist'. l.VI__is_s _ Ma.rgaret .Lemai'.,

..H‘er

=Li'_v_er‘pc'3o1, ' W3’-1"eI"e' Mr.

‘and Mrs. _Tay1ibr will r'esi3dé

. ‘teri_;1_porari'ly. The br,ici’e’s n1j't'ithe'i~
;- is  a ’p'_'p-ulavrg r'“ti'em¥__5er- ‘of St-.

Pe-1:'e'r..’s. 0_iI'''. -‘

The "Vita? ' _ (Rev.

fL_'}re-g__0ry)_ “ -0flicia.t‘ed‘,'

an-d  d‘urin—g
‘register the
p1=ay_e¢1 Rub_i."r‘1s't_e’in’s Mélotiy with
,Miende1_sso'hn_’s' Wedding "IVI‘a‘rc__1r‘1 at

-'_ the.‘ _¢1-ose. .

I. "Mr. Ch‘er11V gave away his

ed»2i¥uighter‘—ja ‘xdiainiy bride in
White‘ -err’-Ii1o_s:s.ed silk_. with

coronet of-real 1-ace, an_d"Brussei-'s'_’
net veil.‘ Her bouquet was of
red" rosebu-ds,. and this she 'sub—.
sequfentljr ' laid on her late

K-aij;h1'een .C"or1\ivay__= of ‘We11_if1__%i
just -home from_'DL'1rbaIi, _S_0ut‘
Africa. She wore 'a- dress“ of

--{White and ‘blue organdie, with

headdress‘ of blue flowers -and
iVei_;1.in'g, .and carried a Victorian

7 jposy. ' The brid'egr'o_om’s gift to

her "was ._a pair of diamante ear"-_
rifigs. The b'e_st_ rnazi "Was "Mr.
“Ronald Taylor ' ‘(brother)’.

:_After the .serviice,_M-r. and Mrs.
Ci=;ex‘°r.y en-te1_"_tained"50 _gueSts at _;a
reéeption at the White 1“-Iorse Ifih,
folltlwing‘ which the 'c'011p1_e left
by .-‘car. for '--a hone'ym=oon tour.

 '

 

— 

'=b'rother-—ir1-1-a'w’s grave at:E_if.ham'
Cemetery '-on her way" to Lon't§1Qn.»._

abridesfrnaid... ..wa_s'  MiS.S_-.'


Ian Barrie and wife Wendy, outside the Bridge Post Office and Pharmacy.

NOT MANY see what they want and have the
chance to get it but fortune smiled on phar-
macist Ian Barrie last week when he took over
Bridge Post Office and Pharmacy.

Ian, 38, explained: “I was managing a
chemists’ in Deal when the post office and
pharmacy came up for sale at the same time
under the same roof - I’d always wanted my
own pharmacy in a busy village community so
this was a golden opportunity.

“It’s an ideal purchase and a dream come
true because we’ve been well received by the
local community and everybody’s been very
welcoming.”

Ian, from Ayr and his wife Wendy have two
sons, Craig, 11, and Keith, aged eight, at
Capel—le-Ferne Primary School.

Not only has Ian kept on all the existing
staff he has increased trading hours through
the lunch hour to 6pm.


v

      

’ Peterfs for

;_conducted the .choral' service for.

7 a hands ray of red roses and
" lilies of

' ycoronet headdresses.

« . Following ‘a reception at the
" Village

    

~_ . (1 fruit set.
and a d1nne‘(1;1fsEeI;)‘£1°»f'e‘%g‘,g-es, The

> nets were I he br'1de’S ‘
gguqthe graves 0f t !

fremthe S afterwards P193
. i  gagandparents
.‘ .

Bungalow, Pluckley, ,,
Margaret S. ‘ Lemar, * .
daughter of Mr. _and Mrs. P,
Lemar, of Old M111 House, Union :

,Road. Bridge. L
The bridegroom’-was until re-U

  
  
 
 
 
 

‘ cently the village constable‘ at--,‘

Bridge, and the ‘bride, who has!
beenfon the staff of W. Lefevrel
Ltd., at Canterbury for 14 years,
has been church organist at St.
14; years.

The Vicar (Rev, G. A. Church)

which the bride’s place at the
organ was taken by Mr. W.
Mcculloch, who, rendered the
Bridal March from “Lohengrin ”
and — , Mendelssohn’s’ -Wedding
March. The_ hymns were “ Praise,
my, soul,” “The Lord’s» My
Shepherd” (Crimond) and “Now
thank we all our God.’.’

The bride, given away by her
father, made a charming picture
in a gown of ivory ~ figured
brocade, with train. Her cir-
cular veil was held by an orange
blossom coronet and she carried

he valley.
As bridesmaids sisters,
Gladys. and Gwen, ware frocks
of blue, and the bridegroom’s
niece, Ann Downham, lem_on net
over taffeta, with matching
A11 carried
anemones. r. J.
(brother) was best.

At the church door, the bride,
was «presented with a silver
horseshoe. by Diane Taylor, on.
behalf of the church choir. ‘

her

posies of
Downham
man

Hall, the couple left for.‘
e1r honeymoon, the bride
travelling- in a green suit with;
tan-aggcessories. ,
Numerous gifts included a ‘,

canteen of.§c};t1ery from the Vicar, ‘
church ,o,fl‘ic1a1s‘ and congregation

   


children playing at The
close-old» people's home_. at

more. The superintendent,
his wife and their two
young daughters are leav-
ing to take up posts in.an-
other home.

Superintendent Henry
Jones and his wife Edna,
who is the matron, have
been" at the 103-bed home
for the past four years.
“ We have enjoyed our stay
here,” said Mr. Jones,
“and have rather mixed
feelings about leaving.”

The cheerfuland friendly
couple are moving to a
larger home at Worcester.
At The Close they control
a staff of 40.

“One thing that has
helped us tremendously
has been the support of the
hospital’s League of
Friends,” said Mr. Jones.
“We have also had a lot
of assistance from the
_village."

Mr. and Mrs. Jones‘
daughters, Betty, 12, and
Barbara, 8, have become
close friends to many old
people at the home. The
new superintendent and
matron have not yet been
named. ,

‘ W K i I K   ~—-‘] THE happy sound ,0!-

Bridge, will soon be no"


 

 

 

: for C II

   

ew home

PRAISE for the way Bridge villagers care forutheir elderly

came from Canterbury MP Mr David Crouch on Friday.
when he opened the New Close old people's home.

Q-'1‘.1-tie purpose-built
‘County Council home

. for '40 residents, next to
5 Bridge
‘-Schoolgwas built to re-
- p‘lac_e_.,jt_he original
: Close, which has been
. shut ‘ - '

..ItJ‘.w.as' a campaign by
._ vfllagers, led by: Mr
- '51 Purchese. that're-
 '{$iIIt9fl;:%1n%f? the-' repiimé:
C ment -home .being_}built
' jintfife village.

Primary

- ' i-Twenty-four resi-
dents of ‘the original
home who could not be

. accommodated have
’ "been moved to Military
- -Road, Canterbury.-

_ Before opening the
£700,000 home, Mr
Crouch said: “The peo-

3

    
 

q-City--7-1\vlP. -Mrinavia 

'4"-C!'0“‘-'-h -(ri=gh.t);..ta1_ks k
to. ' residents
guests.

ple of Bridge have a

Mr Crouch was

very special affection-x thanked by one of the

for their old people.
They like having them
in their midst and like
looking after them.”

_ Ije said closure of the

' original home had been-
necessary because it

had beenbuilt in 1835.as

"a workhouse.

 may . ha-iye. been
old but it was‘a happy’
home, _made happy by
the matron, her staff’
and the villagers.”

Mr Crouch ended by p
praising the design of-
the single-storey home
and contratulat-ing'
matron Mrs Diane Hol-
way for being “an in-
spiration to ‘her staff.”

residents, Mrs Priscilla ‘

Norman, who presen-
ted a bouquet to his
wife, Margaret.

During the evening
Mr Purchese, chair-_
‘man of the ‘campaign to

keep thseivhome-' in
Bridge, "presented £231
raised by 'viI1age1_'§iiv_to
our ’-' ‘Ronnie -' iNormafi,
chairman of the 

A Councilfs Social Ser; 3
‘vices Committee.

. Also present were the
Mayor ‘and’ Mayoress,
Cllr and Mrs Arthur
Porter, villagers and
others involved wit

the home.

and r‘

‘-5: -I-ui'«c2-gm.“-—‘


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 l I 1 ..

— som.

r  oorooooomo "

LFOOTBTALLER;
  wens

   

Z0!

<=  N. or‘; CARPENTER

AND MISS B. E. JONES Z

Popularmember of "the »Bekes-3 ., 1

bourne F.C., Mr. N__e1:son F. Car—
pehter, only son of‘ Mr. and Mrs.

J. Carpenter, of The Green, Pat-A ..

rixb-ou-rne, _was married last

Thursday at _St.. Peter’s- Church‘, _
Bridge, to 1VI1ss Betty E. Jones,
younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A’
_A.  Jones, of 'Rosed_a1'e Villa,
Bridge. _The Rector (Rev.
Gregory)’ officiated, and M153 M.

   

—=vLe‘rnar,’._'at-. the _or'gan,"_.»rende'rfle;d'dL"

bI‘i.da_l"". rnus_i_c,. _inC1u-{:1i‘l'1g' '.M'er1t'd’eles,-.

.50-h'n."s' M We“.ddirig-- 1‘ March at  the
' ;c‘I;ose'.r , The hymns» were — ‘."L'ead.. 
‘us, 'He'aver-11y» Father ” and ‘-‘ Love-
Divine ”_. . ' _ j

 The bride, , given?‘ awayfby her .

father, made a ‘charming. pict_u1"e

. ‘in ‘a gown of figured 4whiters1i'p-

. jp_e.I'_ satin with he'r‘“Vei1' held in
place by a Coronet of otrange‘ blos-
‘ ' -He-r~ tri-ple necklace of"
, pearls was the __brid_eg'ro_orn"s gift

and tshecarried a bou'q.1'.1et of pink

and white c-arnatio‘n“s_. The bride.s- .

maids,"the' Misses" D. .Iox_1es.’,(”s'iS-.
ter), J.

frocks of blue cloque, with, feath-
ered headdresses and-short blue.

' fveils, and carried»bou_quets of
\' pink and white Carnations. 1
pearl necklets; were the b-rid-e4 ‘-
Mr. R. Gold-finch _.

Their

-gr00m"s gifts.
(cousin) was the best. man.

- After ‘the 'receptior1“a_t "the V11: ~

lage Hall, the cot_J.1o_1e' left for ha‘

 honeymoon in London, the. bride-
-‘ M in a tweed "costume" -‘
 M "with off-white coat and - brown ‘

travelling

-accessories. She gave her hus-

.;5' ‘band a- shaving. set in leather
3 j_ -case.

1.

‘The bridegroon"~ served in the
'6th Airborne! Division and. the

 bride has been on thestaff of M
W. Lefevre Ltd, A silver horse- '

‘shoe was presented by Miss E.

."C1ays01’1-rto the ‘bride as She left

the church.

'.-unru-u-- -Q--I--\-r-no-u--V -rnv-rw-r~-'-—-~ *'

_ Carpenter (bri-def'gr'oom’s 
' -sister), and E. -Bu-ckmaster, wore


 

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LAND ARMY
HONOUR BRIDE

Happy Event At Bridge

GIRLS of the Women's Land

Army, holding hoes, and the
Bridge Church choir, of both of
which the bride is a member,
formed a guard of honour at the
wedding of Cpl. John F. Beaumont,
Royal Corps of Signals; elder son
of Mr. and Mrs. F. Beaumont, of

Southfields, London, and Miss Edna
' O. W
Mrs

t, only daughter of Mr. and
. . West, of Canterbury, which
took place at‘ the Bridge Parish
Church on Saturday.

Given away by her father, Miss

West made a charming bride in a’

gown of white satin, her head-
dress of orange blossom holding in
place a veil lent by the bride-
groom’s mother. The brideearried
a bouquet of red roses.

The bridesmaids were Miss Anne
Wass, dressed in pink taffeta, and
carried pink roses, and Miss Violet
West (brides niece), who also wore
pink taffeta and carried a Vic-
torian posy.

The Rev. W. Gregory omciated.
and the best man was Mr. Norman
Sarrett, also of the R..C.S.

The service was fully choral, and
14-year-~old Miss ‘Margaret Lemarr
was at the organ. The hymns sung
were “ The Voice that breath’d o’er
Eden " and “ Lead us, Heavenly

(CONTINUED IN NEXT COLUMN)

. 71"’ ' , "1
MARGATE BREAKS
SAVINGS RECORDS

.MARGATE broke all records dur-
ing its “Wings for Victory”
Week, which ended, on Saturday.

‘The target was £125,000, but the

amount raised was £167,808-—<
£5,798 more than in Warship Week
last year.

The small saveiawas largely re-
sponsible for such a successful
result, reflectedin the larger sums

invested in savings certificates and

the Post Omce Savings Bank.
The sale of certificates realised

£23,800 compared with £15,176 in ,

Warship Week, net deposits in the
Post Office‘ rose from £'6.4=68 to
£11,556, and savings stamps bought
amounted to £3,305 against £1,019.
The elementary schools with
less than 1,500 children set a tar-
get of £100 and raised £1,492.
After the announcement of the
result in Cecil Square, on Satur-
day evening, a. service of thanks-

giving was conducted by the Vicar.
of Mai-gate (the Rev. K. Percival‘

Smith) .

(CONTINUED mom PREVIOUS
COLUMN)

Father.” Psalm 67 was also sung.

and the choir sang a hymn as a.
recessional. - ,

After the reception, at the home
of Mrs. Wass, for over 80 guests,
the happy couple left for a honey.
moon in Devon.—

    

V E|F|‘El TOWER

-.,._ I at


 3«12ir;nEG:R00Mle

J Wedtllng‘  .;'_1"_”l_1e"fT

l 3*R;A;F;  

_MR; ,1). Ic.IBLEE‘
L » AND ' 
_M_1;;ss» T. P. GRIFFITHS

Much interest was ‘taken in

the“ —;Wedding at . ‘st; -Nicholas

Church, Thanil1gton,V1a‘st Thurs-
day‘-ogf Mr. David‘ C. _B1ee,“sec0«n'd'
son of . the . .1atej‘ Po1ic.e~Sergea,nt
and :‘Mrs,.   Blee, of Luc-

»con[nbe,j Unian Rpsa_d,.B1_%ic_lg1a, and

Gfijfliths, only

 Ts€sn'» P J

  M'r;»» and Mrs.

    

daughter? '0
Grifliths, of

.  V_ica.r»‘. (Rev. A. ‘E’, '‘Blake)_
conducted. the choral service for
Whichg Mr. .,AL.;rV- ..,Wise:I.nan
“ iced» .the.Bri£181‘13{I84!‘°11 from
Loh ngrin,”'é.nd; ‘M"e ‘ -1§§,ohvn4’s
-_ym1_1s

  

   

' ' V _ 4 - :
were “ Immo1)ta1_ , Invisible ”
' and “ Love D‘ivine'.’,’,

V "Little cbttage, 1527
Ashfiord Road, ’, »ThanjngtEm;

      

.Given away by her _. father,
Miss Gfx-iffiths~ Was'_ a radiaht
bride in'a..goWn of whi1:'e‘1é;,ce,
with lsholuld-e‘r—1eng‘th veil. she,
,carried a. b«ouqu‘et,of pink roses
and lilies of . the-, Va_.‘11~ey. ;~< :

‘Her. bridesmaid“? Miss ‘Shéflaf

Fox,’ Vwore" a _fro~ck _of ,l_avenper
blue geolrgegtter with v m,a.t,éhi«n,-g‘,
flprzal headdresm »H‘e;v ne].ckJa.ce

arid‘ matching. bracelet we’;-e’ the *

bri_degrom_n"s" gift "8.2‘lf1'd.> ghee car-
ried a~ ‘si‘mi1ar:'bfouque_t try that
of 1 the bride‘. ‘Mr. Micha,_e15J.~, Blee
(brother) was ‘best, man._ f
i..ForlIp‘wing* ‘ a re'c‘ep't_iee-x1;_ ;at
Slattei-s ‘Hotel, the ‘ couple» ‘left

for a. ;’h04ne“ymoot‘17.i-n C‘crnwaI.l,~

the bride Wear-ing «ce_»a.t_.with
matching dress i1'n._._ye11ow, with‘

black ,accesso1'~ies;. M1‘; and Airs.

Blee, Who» /gave". each ‘other geld
‘Watches, will live in.  he-’T_n*

 

 

Ireland where ‘the bifdegrooul
sez$Vi‘n'g* with‘ _the R.A.F.‘
‘C‘o~ast;al;C‘ormmand., ~ »’ V


1 4 ‘Rentisli Gazette, ]anuar'y'25, ‘[957 5

~ Earm.

A BRIDGE BRIDE

MR. P. TALBOT AND
MISS D. L. REVELL

The wedding took place at St.

.Peter's Church Bridge, on Sat-

urday, of Mr. eter Talbot, only
child of Mr. and Mrs. Talbot, of
Gypsy Cottage. ‘C-oldharbour
Kingston, and Miss
Dorothy Revell-,' only-child 0
Mr. and Mrs.
Lodge, Bridge Place, Bridge.

The service was conducted by
the Rector (Rev. G.-.A. Church),

and Miss J. Richards was at_ the “

organ. The hymns were “Lowe
Divine” and “Praise, My Soul.”

_\Given.:away... by.;l1er.,:.fa:ti.3er_ -Miss ,5
Revell made a charming br‘ide‘1’n -

a white brocade dress,.with_ her
veil held by an orange blossom

headdress.
spray of lemon carnations and

‘ freesias.

 

Revell, -of“ 

She carried a hand-‘ _’

  

Mrs. Pat Ward (bridegroomfs
aunt) was matron of honour, and
Miss Carol Dixon (cousin) was

bridesmaid. They wore respec-
tively blue and pink taffeta
frocks, and carried posies of red,
white and blue flowers. The
bridegroom gave Mrs. Ward ear-
rings, and Miss Dixon a necklace.
Mr. W. Dixon was best man.

Following a reception at the
Plough and Harrow, .Bridge,‘the
couple left for their new home.
There were numerous gifts from
their many friends.


  

5 Mrs. Joan Ramsey, wife of, the Arehbi hop of Canterbury, presents Mrs, Clara Waite with
2; bed cape at The Close, Bridge, on Monday, Lefg tn fight: Sister M. Fittcn, Rev. R. A.
Penney, Mr. H. R. Jones (Superintendent), Mrs. Ramsey-, Mrs. E. Jones (Matron), Mrs.

Waite.

MRS. CLARA WAITE
100 TODAY *

Mrs. Clara Waite, a patient at

T '1‘_1‘1é_C1ose, Bridge, for the last 12

yga _ is 100 years old today
‘ day). *

 

 j'1‘lrie Matron of The Class (Mm.

 Juries), has organiséd La
speqisu birthdéiy tea fur her,
during which a congratulatory

L message train the Queen will be

raga.

:§r:; 1\ciohday,. ms. Jban Ram‘-,
%eg,_  6: th‘ Arelgbishgapt

mfg’  S

  

 

 

She’ is rather frail an rarely
V e“ -qt s" is
,,a1womi—’:r£u cm. L
. \ < ; :§.;it‘eL
I_ue~ angora‘ Wool bédi

VMrs. Waite was Vburn at 14
Grové Stréét, Pomar. For-_ 25
years, she afid her; husband——a
ténnis _é{'.m‘1‘t§ gtouhdsman—1ived
at Pumey.

Ojri his death in 1937 Mrs.
Waste came to nve in Canter-
bury-.

The Matran said ugf Mrs, Waite,
ieswes _h'1~ b“

by; a;

 
    

 11-,
tax :i1é:*_trx'étss‘isi “ ixiaifkfi‘  she
stm: knits. and reads} bafiéts.

 

:d;._i1y.”‘

"50’ fi3P?'f*</1:S|'r"‘ P'HYn(.‘.P"<(/J


CT

THE TIMES. THURSDAY, MA.

 

OLD FLORENCE IS GLAD THEY'RE GETTING DOWN TOGRASS ROOTS AT HIGHAM PARK

 

Echoes of a mad racer

WHEN Florence Turner,
85, read about the exploits
of madcap racer Count
Zabrowski in her Canter-
bury Times, it took her
back to her childhood.

For when Florence was grow-
ing up in Bridge, the rakish

aristocrat was busily squander-
ing his cash on fast cars and
high living at nearby Higham
Park.

The pensioner was only ten
when the Count killed himself
racing at Monza but she can
recall him roaring along the
Dover road, scattering villagers

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The Footsteps Of Riverdance..."

Dublin Worldwide Produdions Presents

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SLOWLY: The Count
would recognise this
picture of the ford
across the Nailbourne
at Brewery Lane,
Bridge.

BELOW: Meat hung
outside Francis

Edwards butchers shop
in N11: Hitch Ch-not

as he went. “He used to go
whizzing down the road in his fast
car. We were used to horses and
carts,” she said. “The children
were warned not go in the road
when he was coming, in case they
got knocked over.

“He used to have a high old time
at the house. He spent all his
money on cars and having a good
time.”

Florence remembers the Count
had a railway line in the grounds,
because she went to school with
Nellie Martin, daughter of the
chauffeur at the big house.

“People said at the time he used
to bury cars in the grounds. It
would be great if somebody like
the Time Team could come up
and solve the mystery."

Although she was only little
she can remember seeing a Zep-
pelin as it flew close to the village
dropping bombs at either end.

“We used to sit under the big
table in our kitchen if there was a
raid. I remember the Zeppelin
because it made a lot of noise. It
dropped one bomb at Canterbury
Hill and another at the other end
of the village.

“My father went to look at the
hole one of them made. He put his
six-foot horse whip into the hole
and it didn’t touch the bottom. If
we heard the Germans were
invading he would have loaded us
up in the wagon and taken us to
White Hill Wood. I dont know
what good that would have been."

Neighbours used to join the
family under the table

 

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LIFE AND SOLE: One of F|orence’s uncles kept the whole
village shod at his shoe repairers

during the alerts and they would
even bring food for an impromptu
tea party while they were shel-
tering.

“My mother would boil a kettle
and somebody would bring some
jam. another sugar and another

tea. Although I was

worn l-iffln 1" efiwlze in

many years but only visited the
house once ,even though she lived
in Bridge more than 60 years.

"I remember the gardens were
very beautiful with lovely foun-
tains. It would be nice to look at
them again,“ she said.

"I saw the gardens but the only

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MATES: Fiorence at Bridge School during the 1920s. She is fifth from

my mind."

She has been invited
to I-Iigham Park by
owners Pat Gibb and
Amanda Harris-Deans
to share her memories
of life in the village
during the 1920s.

Florence and her
late husband Leonard
ran the radio and tele-
vision repair business
in the village for

o «woo: ..

the left, third row from the front

when it was turned into a hospi-
tal and it looked a bit sorry for
itself.”

Meanwhile, keen gardeners and
viewers of Meridian TV’s Grass
Roots programme can meet pre-
senter Richard Jackson and
guest Nigel Colborn at Higham
Park next Thursday to solve
their gardening problems
between 2.30 and 4pm. And they
can see how Pat and Amanda
have transformed the gardens.

   


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sprays ()f.111ies of the var .‘ M:
*Ro’n_a1d ‘Deveson f(’cwin' ‘b1"ot~her

Fa1th’s» l1,.\New House Road,

t1‘1e\bric_i.e.’ “travail g in .a cherry
r,ed ens.emb1e‘, w. green acce§-
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Cantérbury, the. couple léft for‘ a 
honeymoon at H ‘gan; -Cor‘nWa11,..‘

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De_v,eso’n gave her husband _’d ‘
fit-ted. travelling cz_1sg  1}{uIr3‘erQus ‘

   

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Kent I ,
savings up
20 ,pet; cent.

Recent figures issued by the
National Savings‘ Movement for
the South East Region (Kent,
Surrey and Sussex) «show an in-
crease ot"-alrnjostv 20 per cent. in
savings over the past five years,
said Mr. Geoffrey G. Rogers,
deputy chairman of the Church

  
 

of England‘ Bclilding Society, at
jut-ncheon at Tun-
bridge Wells-.-yesterday (Thurs-
day).  _ , .
“Average savings in the Kent
area, per"; lije‘d.d’of*population is
now 14/"-.a ‘éveek,-" he sai_d. “It
will -c,ertai_Iilf§_. rise and the very
best andsa, gst place for the in-
creased savi:-figs. is in a building
society. , 
“People tlfrotighout this nation
trfus,ii'ed_’ their building
ties‘; ‘ th approximately
'_ of* their savings,
. s steadi1yj—~rising_ as
living sta 'ards"increase and
savings jab§.o,rb a,large,r propor-
tion of; th,‘-‘d;istribution of each

famil_y’,s i,-,,(‘:o!x_xie._ ,

~ .-'societies are one
orm‘s pf—__investment
 . /community.
rtuallys, gujaranteed

g{t_h~o_f societies.’s}lCh
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By Arnold Bosworth

ONE would be hard put to
it to dream up a more
uninspiring name for a village
than “Bridge.” The first time
I visited this obscure but easily
accessible hamlet, I was sur-
prised to see that no bridge was
visible, even from my vantage-
point at the top of the hill that

runs steeply down to its centre.

The church is there for all to
see. So are the tall and graceful
trees that surround it, but apart
from these, the first impression
of the village is quite as unin-
teresting as its name.

Luckily, first impressions are
not always reliable, and this old
adage is no less true when
applied to Bridge than it is to
anything else.

Long before this present age
of travel and rapid communica-
tion, people were obliged to
build their communities around
rivers, or near to the coast, and
the early inhabitants of this
area were no exceptions. Their
’first dwellings, in the place that
today is called Bridge, were
ideally situated, not only be-
cause of the Little Stour that
flows along the valley, but be-
cause of ,the shelter received
«fronislthe steep hills rising from
eith,_e,r end of the village. ‘

~Th‘ ‘A ’ '

 
   

es, ,_ _ _we_re“fiereel_y
ed to =~pre‘serve"thern at

~ of'thef—Roman in,v,asion_,

~;'g/‘orking, .

Kentish Gazette, April 22, 1966

a certain William le Belyetre.

An interesting feature of the
structure of the building is that
the walls are of polished black
flint—-or, at least, that is what
the books say. Not being of a
very practical turn of mind, I
was merely reminded of the
words of Emerson as he wrote
about the builder of St. Peter’s
in Rome:

“He builded better than he
' knew;

The conscious stone to beauty

grew.”

Vvondering about the weather
vane had brought on thoughts
of a village forge, and I strolled
back into the village in search
of evidence of its existence,

It was early ‘in the morning
and because of repeated com-
plaints by my family of my
“image.” I took time off to
drop into the local hairdresser’s
shop. Now the use of the word
“hairdresser” is for me la de-
parture from custom. Barber
is the world I normally use,
since barber, according to the
dictionary, is a person who cuts
hair-—and that, for many years,
is precisely what has happened
to mine. ’

" But this was a red letter day.
Not only was it dressed; it was
actually brushed again into the
way that I like it to be brushed,
and not into some weird shape
borne of lack of observation on
the part oi‘ the man with the
scissors. I shall remember the
hairdresser of Bridge; and not
only for -his skill} but for the

’remarkab‘l‘e_, coincidence that on

the spot; where‘ l“—.' stands while

   

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The uninspiring name of Bridge

of a village, I decided that since
there are three within a stone's
throw of each other, and I had
to drive home, I had better re-
turn the next day, My son drove
me down and left me to make a
proper appraisal of the thirst-
quenching potentialities of the
village, and I came away after
two very enjoyable hours with
a satisfaction with them that
was born not only of the excel-
lent quality of the brews, but
equally of the joviality of Mine
Hosts, that in each of the
houses was in full keeping with
the traditions of English coun-
try hospitality.

Yes, Bridge is a surprising‘
place, and judging by the small
collection of new and well-built
bungalows and houses that have
been built on the side of the

valley, more people are dis-
covering its attractions
Small w o n d e r that the

Romans coveted the place.

Forthcoming

Dlarriages

MR. J. F. INGRAM and
MISS B. J. MOUNT

The engagement is announced of

John Frederick Ingram, only
son of the late Mr_ F. S. Ingram,
M.B.E., and Mrs. Ingram, of 4.
Summer H i l l , Harbledown. and
Brenda Jean ‘Mo un t, youngest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W

Mount, 33, Marshall Road, Rainham
Mark. xh

MR. D. STANTON and
MISS C. SNELL

Mr, and Mrs. N. W, Snell, of 26,
Pufkle Lane, LC:ante-rbury, are _ha_pp_V


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they-'are,’the invaders eventually"

‘mingled’ W‘lth' the invaded, and

the -villagers," some probably
with l darker hair than '-their
antecedents, drifted back into
much the same kind of -life that
had alwayscbeen led in the vil-
lage. , .
Through reward

An added amenity, of course,
was the road built by the
Roman engineers as a through
road from Dover to London-a
road that exists to this day, and
is a part of the famous Watling
Street Road.

With the road, there must be
a bridge, at the point where
river flowed, and it was
probably at this time that the
first substantial bridge was
built. The present one is very
recent, having been‘ built only
120 years ago.

The superior civilisation
brought by the Romans trig-
gered many changes that have
taken place over the years, but
there is at least one thing in the
village that has remained funda-

imentally the ‘same as it was in

those far—off days‘.

-It is the actual place where
the Ancient Britons fought their
last battle, A depression in the
ground, it -is known as “Eng-
land's, Old Hole.” Col. ‘Graham
regretted ‘that it is now over-
grown with a tangle of vegeta-
tion, but I'did not really Want
to see it. I could picture the
scene quite easily, and although
as an‘ ex—infantryman I could
not agree with the strategy of
taking up a defensive position
in a depression, Bridge never-
theless took on a much more
interesting aspect following my
talk with the Colonel.

I walked back to the church,
and the first thing I noticed
was that the weather vane _at
the -,-pinnacle'- of its steeple is-in
the form of a I‘00l<--anrl a very
lifelike figure it is. I wondered,

I,sinee this is the first of its
kind I have seen,‘ whether its

shape was inspired by the fact

that in the trees close by, again

according to the Colonel, there
has been, since time immem-
orial, a rookery.

Theuir own land

Even as I looked up at the
steeple, the pairing rocks were
being blown about in the teeth
of a wild-wind, like pieces of
Charred paper, and it seemed
appropriate the direction of the
wind should be signalled by one
of their own kind.

Surrounded by the inevitable
yewfgtrees, the Parish Church-of

 , al'3ng§'id'e'fif§gl:ie':“t§li§eJh§:~f‘
"-‘that th y'.i*hade' their -'las,tl:'sta_ncl-,

' who -lives," a few

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_ ' 'rl‘ie- smith-4. ,.v_vas<_'_»_ .{1Ein'ey Gilbert,
_ _, ‘ indred yards
from”"th'e main street. I found

him sitting a1'one'in his tiny-

kitehenv. A_modest man, he could‘
at fflst think of nothing about
his life that might interest me,
but after-a while, the stories
began to come, so that at the
,end.of_ one of the most pleasur-

_able hours I can remember, I

had been back in time ‘to the
days when horses were tethered
to the wall outside this building
while awaiting their turn to be
shod. \

The pungent smell of scorch-
ing hooves seemed to‘ be all
around, and I could see the
splash of white-hot sparks as
the -sledgehammer beat out the
shapes of intricate pieces _of
ironwork,-some of which" Mr.
Gilbert still retains in hishouse.

In general, the “good old
days” were not very good, but
at the same time, we have lost
something. I shall never revel in
the smells of a garage.

Since I always make a point
of visiting the local" hostelries

nnillfilahn I


  hack

on half ‘a century *

FOR 78’-year-old J a c k ‘Car-

, penter, who has just retired

after 55 years as verger of
the 12th Century St Mary’s
Church, Patrixbourne, life
will never be the same again.

‘No longer will he tocll fhe
bell, climb once a week into
the tower to wind the clock

or keep the grass tidy in the

churchyard. \

And although, like the
church congregation, the
number of baptisms, wed-
dings and funerals has
dwindled year by year. his
quiet, unassuming presence
will be missed by the faith-
ful few- who still -pass
through the classic arch of
its Norman doorway. .

Apprenticed as a carpenter
to Lovell and Son, of Wing-
ham, Jack was a chlplpie in
the Royal Navy from 1914 to

1919 and it was‘ on leaving the.

service that he became verger

at St Mary’s at an annual_

salary of £5.

Fouryears later he was
married there. _

He recalls that in those
early days, before the landed
genztry _were hit by taxation
and death duties, the Penn
family, who lived at Bifrons,
the Gays, from Highland
Court, and the Ram-says,

from Howletts, attended. the -

church.- But they, like the
Bifrons mansion, have long
“since disappeared. He also

“recall-s when, as a chorister,

he ' went by horse-drawn
waaggonette to Sandwich Bay

on the choir’s annual
outing. \

A keen sportsman, he was
secretary of Bekesbourne

Cricket Club. for several
years and wielded a useful
bat for them when they
played at I-Iowletts. His wife,

_who died two years ago, out

sandwiches for the team. V

During Jack's vergershlp
William Harvey, then deputy
organist at the Cathedral.
played the organ at St
M-ary’s. . ‘ I

Like his father, who be-
longed to the old Bridge
Volunteer Fire Brigade, Jack
was once a part-time fireman
at Wlngham. ‘

Later, he joined Kent

 

C o u n _t y Council Highways
Department at the Ba-rham
depot and retired when he
was 65 ' '

An enthusiastic whist
player, he regularly attends
drives at Bekesbourne and
Kingston and for many years
was M0 at the weekly drives
still held in Bekesbourne
Village Hall.

Although little has changed
in the quiet hamlet of ‘Pat-‘
rixbourne during his lifetime,
he is grieved to see the
carve-up of part of Bifrons
parkland at the beginning of
the Bridge by-pass over Pat-
rixbourne Road. , .

He wasborn in the cottage
where he lives now, 3 The
Green, Patrixbourne, within
sight of St Mary's, a church
well documented by his-
torians be-‘cau~se of its Nor-
man doorway and Swiss
painted glass windows,

As he will continue ’-to.live
there, he will doubtless still
keep an eye on the place
which has‘ filled a large part '
of his life for over half a
century, .

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‘the team is headed by
senior editor Bob Bounds and
senior advertisement manag-
er Caroline Brinkman.

The Gazettes campaign to
clampdown on litter was
named runner-up in the cam-
paign of the year category
while our first-year student’s
pull-out Fresh Start was win-
ner of the best supplement
prize.

(‘anterbury-based reporter
Julia Walsh was second in the
trainee. of the year category.
Julia won acclaim for her arti-
eles filed direct from a
hosovan refugee camp in
M:u-etlonia in May.

The (.‘a.:ette also gained a
rniniers-up spot for the best
Ironl p:I,L:‘t,‘, following its cover-
:I;'_e of the eclipse.

The editorial awards were
.nulg'ed by Bob Satchwell, for-
mer editor of the Cambridge
Iv,'neI/int; News, now director of
the Hoeiely of l'ldll(n‘s

4‘n.~.Iunn-r rnre per.-um of the
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Wlllll‘ |ln~ <'l.I x.I|h‘:| .l1l\‘I-I'lI.'.i-
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up by Jo Proud. _
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IIIl|t'|n'llll1*Ill (‘IlllUI‘::('llll‘ll|§:.

“I .IIIl1|t'll1','l|l('ll l'ortl1elenn1
here at (innlerlmry and our
other nl'l'iee.x' in lllnst Kent to

have :u-lneved sin-Ii slim-,L:ss."

This is my life

TV commentator llrinn Moore
will talk about his anecdotal
autobiography The Final Score

when he appears in
Canterbury tonight
(Thursday) at 7pm in

Waterstone’s bookshop in St
Margaret’s Street.

Tickets cost £2 and can be
bought from the shop.

‘No manners’ employee drove off

1,‘u)\./L). 11V invin; ivieumers 01 The Countdowns during their set at the Westgate
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Hall

Westgate Hall, was a  for
Dave and £5,200 was raised for his
charity which sends children with

Hendrix Experience also played.
There was also a disco. All those
taking part played for free.

Nothing barred
in pub calendar

COVER MAN: Landlord Chris Maclean is
on the front of his calendar 21A/ 61 74E/99

REGULARS at the
Plough and Harrow,
Bridge, got more than a
full measure when land-

lord Chris Maclean
launched his
Millennium calendar
yesterday (Wednesday).

Subtitled Warts and All!
it is a surprising publica-
tion to say the least.

From its front cover
l~lll()Wlll|( Mr Mnelezin wllh
nolhlny, hnl :: .‘;Iil\’ hat and
.| rli.'niIp:u:in- bottle, to the

back showing the photog-

a mu rm-iont. It in n
hllllmrmm lrllmle lo the
elirlloiner.-. and l'riend.~; ml"
the \'I||.'ll:1' pub.

Mr M.'u'le;1n not l.he idea
lor ms Millennium contri-
bution from :1 similar pro-
ject by a Women's Institute
in the north of England.

And he did not have much
trouble getting the pub
staff and other supporters
to go along with the idea.

‘‘I needed the best photog-
raphers I could get, great
design and quality print-
ing,” he said. “This is our
Millennium gesture to the
people who support us --
nothing was going to com-
promise that.”

The stunning pho-
tographs were taken by
Alfie and Trish Jarvis at

by Sian Napier

their studio in Bridge. Mr

Jarvis said he was amazed
that everyone was so will-
ing to take part.

The Various months of
the year show the staff and
friends in poses connected
with pubs, including
September's offering of
regular Norman (loodmnn
pletnred wlth _lu.~4l 1: jar of
piekleul e;v,y,.«:.

Monumental A W

. an ‘ '1 nd
the idea in /\ll1',ll.‘%l and the
first ])ll()i.l)l.{l‘.'l|)|l.'~1 were
taken :1 few weeks later. We
all had such fun doing it. It
has been a monumental
project and I am still quite
stunned that it has actual-
ly happened.

‘All the photographs, in
black and white, are pleas-
ant enough, but it is the
odd ones that make you
laugh.

“I challenge anyone to
look at the one of Norman
with only a jar of pickled
eggs and not smile.”

The calendars cost £10
and are on sale from the
Plough and Harrow, in
Bridge High Street, in per-
son only. All profits from
the sales will go to charity.

A MAN who shot his apprentice
in the eye with an air pistol has
been bound over for _two years by

MR SEPTEMBER: Norman Goodman makes
the most of some pickled eggs 20A/6174E/99

Lark led


Gazette is
proud
evening

THE Kentish Gazette walked
away with a host of honours
at the first Kent Messenger
Group awards evening.

Staff received their prizes at
a special ceremony at the
Jarvis Great Danes Hotel,
Hollingbourne, on Friday,
attended by 360 people made
up from all the company’s
departments.

The publishing team of the
year award went to East Kent,
which is based at the
Canterbury office.

The team is headed by
senior editor Bob Bounds and
senior advertisement manag-
er Caroline Brinkman.

The Gazette’s campaign to
clampdown on litter was
named runner-up in the cam-
paign of the year category
while our first-year students
pull-out Fresh Start was win-
ner of the best supplement
prize.

Canterbury-based reporter
.lulia Walsh was second in the
trainee of the year category.
.Iulia won acclaim for her arti-
cles filed direct from a
Kosovan refugee camp in
Macedonia in May.

'l‘he Gazette also gained a

‘unners-up spot for the best
ront page, following its cover-
go of the eclipse.

The editorial awards were

udged by Bob Satchwell, for-

nor editor of the Cambridge
nening News, now director of
re Society of Editors.

(‘.ustomer care person of the

-:u‘ was Canterbury-based

Ivcrtising rep Bill Carey

rile the classified advertise-

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g barred
in pub calendar

REGULARS at the
Plough and Harrow,
Bridge, got more than a
full measure when land-

lord Chris Maclean
launched his
Millennium calendar
yesterday (Wednesday).

Subtitled Warts and All!
it is a surprising publica-
tion to say the least.

From its front cover
showing Mr Maclean with
nothing but a silly hat and
a champagne bottle, to ‘the

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he Westgate
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by Sian Napier

December 2, 1999 9

Psychedelic sell—out

THE clock was turned back 30
years when bands from the Sixties
re-formed to play in Canterbury for

-comic Dave Lee’s children’s

charity.
Dave, who is appearing in Peter

' Pan at the city’s Marlowe Theatre

later this month, said all those who
took part had never really grown
up.

“We had an absolutely brilliant
evening,” he said. “It was a sell-out
and just like turning the clock
back. I felt as though I was going
into a time warp.

“We are all Peter Pans really and it
was just like going back to our
misspent youth.”

But the Sixties night, at the
Westgate Hall, was a success for
Dave and £5,200 was raised for his
charity which sends children with

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their studio in Bridge. Mr
Jarvis said he was amazed
that everyone was so will-
ing to take part.

The various months of
the year show the staff and
friends in poses connected
with pubs, including
September’s offering of
regular Norman Goodman
pictured with just a jar of
pickled eggs.

disabilities and their families from
Kent on holidays.

Dave used to play drums in a band
called The Ways and Means and
got back behind the cymbals on
Friday for the gig.

His band released two records in
the late 1960s.

Other local groups from the era
which re-formed were The
Countdowns, with member Colin
Gow flying in from the USA at his
own expense to play.

Dave Harvey also paid his own air
fare to turn up from Australia to
play in The Rockabeats.

Tommy Savage and the Satans, and
Noel Redding from the J imi
Hendrix Experience also played.
There was also a disco. All those
taking part played for free.

 


  

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SATURDAY
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An excellent choice of six course

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of settings.‘Fu1ly inclusive at:
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SUNDAY LUNCH OUT
Traditional Roasts, 4 course

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: THE OLD POOR HOUSE RESTAURANT
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MUCH more of a
good thing is now on
offer at Pett Bot-
tom’s ever—popular
Duck Inn. The pub is
HOW open seven
days a week.

The picturesque coun-
try ale house and award-
winning restaurant is
under new management
and new owners Ron and
Mavis Brown, their
daughter Lorraine and her
fiance Tony Pack are
looking forward to wel-
coming customers old and
new.

The four come to The
Duck with experience in
the pub and catering
trade.

Ron completed a resi-
dential course with the

Brewers Society and
Mavis was formerly out-
side catering manager
with J. Lyons at such
locations as Wimbledon
and Windsor Castle.

For the past year the
couple have been running
a. sports and social club.

Lorraine has worked
behind bars and waited

on restaurant tables and

La%@%

H Top value at Duck

Tony has gained invalu-
able knowledge of the
grape in his father’s wine
business.

All four realise they
have their work cut out to
maintain the high reputa-
tion enjoyed by The Duck.

But they are confident
it can be done while, at
the same time, stamping
the place with their own
family personality.

“We are very proud to
be the new owners of The
Duck and we plan to
continue it as a traditional
country inn and top value
restaurant,” said Ron.

“We look forward to
meeting all The Ducks
regulars customers and
welcoming new ones.”

One of the main inno-
vations following the
change of ownership is
the decision to open the
inn’s bar on Sunday nights
and Mondays.

The restaurant will
remain closed but it does
mean The Duck’s wide
range of bar food will now
be available seven days a
week.

“As there are four of us
it was no problem to
arrange our duties so that
the pub stayed open every
day,” explained Ron.

The bar food menu is
one of the most extensive
of any pub in the area,
boasting salads, hot
dishes and puddings
galore.

In addition to the more
familiar choice of steak
and kidney pie and
ploug‘man’s, there is the
chance to sample hot
avocado with cauliflower,
crabmeat and cheese or
garlic mussels with

tomato topped with
stilton.

To wash it down try
one of the real ales. A new
policy is to have a differ-
ent real ale on offer each
week, in addition to the
regular brews.

Meanwhile, in the res-
taurant there is a new
menu which the family
plans to change every few
months.

At the moment starter

  

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A toast to their success at the Duck from, left to right: Ron and Mavis Brown,
Tony Pack and Lorraine Brown.

highlights Include the
special Duck Inn pate
with port and orange and
the fried mushrooms
stuffed with stilton and
bacon.

Fresh asparagus, when
available, and smoked
salmon is also included.

Main dishes include
Aberdeen Angus fillet

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steak served with mush-
rooms or a peppered
sauce and roast duck with
nectarines and apricot
brandy sauce.

Or try fresh wild Scot-
tish salmon with white
wine cream and fresh
tarragon sauce or strips of
veal served with
tagliatelle, mushrooms,
oregano and cream. All
main dishes are served
with a selection of fresh
vegetables.

To follow there is a
wide selection of mouth-
watering puddings, from
traditional tarts to exotic
fruit salads.

On Sundays, succulent
Scotch beef forms part of
the traditional main
course roast, with pud-
dings to follow.

Thanks to Tony, the
wine cellar is being ex-
tended and will soon in-
clude a large range of
Bordeaux, Burgtmdy and
Alsace wines.

While bar snacks are
available to allcomers it is
advisable to book in ad-
vance for a seat in the
restaurant, especially at
weekends.

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(Parish represented)

Back row

G.Buss. .Belsey W.Atkins. W.H.Wass J.Friend.Viscount Hawarden
(Littlebourne) Chartham) (Adisham) (Registrar) (Bridge) (Womenswold)

A.J.Ross P.W.Honney
(Barham) (Master)

Middle Row.

H.Francis A.D.Co11ard P.Champ1on Canon R.U.Pbtts Mai.W.H.Bradford
(Lower Hardres) (Pethem) (Ickham) (Kingston) (Bishopsbourne)

Capt.G.P.Hewett R.N.

_(wa1tham)

Seated.
TJ.Wa1ters. S.W.Mount D.Brice. L.J.W1l11ams

(W1 ckhanbreaux) (Patrixbourne) ( I-‘ordwi ch ) (Clark)
(Chairman) (Vice Chairman)


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With over 30 years
construction experience
and commitment to
quality, Knight Builders
have an established
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consciousness.

The company
undertakes all types of
building work - including
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Contracting, Metalwork

commercial. Each project
is tailored to meet the

client. '

Whatever your
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we guarantee the highest
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We never assume the
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Regarded as an
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service.

We will find you a suitable
site, design and then build
your project. From acc—
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estimators to practical skills
on site, at every stage of
the project, we receive
feedback from each depart-
ment to ensure you have
the building you really want.

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Development.

Bridge.

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Complete kitchen

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Listed
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Knight Builders maintain
an active interest in
building conservation and
keep in close Contact with
organisations such as
English Heritage and The
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alterations to Listed
Buildings, we understand

the exacting standards

required without impairing
the quality and character of

‘ the building. When a

project requires an original
skill, our directly employed
crattsmen‘ will have already
spent thetime developing
old techniques to ensure
we achieve the best results.

Adscene Plc Argyll Group

Benetton Group Burton
Group Dean & Chapter

Eastbridge Hospital

Friends of Canterbury
Cathedral, Halifax Building
Society Hornby Plc KCQ
& Local Authorities King’s
School Lord Hawarden
Estate Lord Sondes Estate

Marley Plc Marquis of
Conyngham Oriel College
Oxford Orbit Housing
Association Otterden Estate

Pizza Hut PIC Samuel
Lewis Housing Association

Sir Frank Mount Sir Robin
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St Augustine's Foundation

University of Kent. «
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Otterden Estate
Otterden

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The Company’s building
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own directly employed
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we can keep the costs
down and control the speed
and quality of the work.

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the full backing and
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overseen by the Chief
Executive who takes great
personal pride in
maintaining our reputation
for quality.

Joinery &
Metalwork

Every piece of Joinery is a
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wood carving for a private
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ment for a national retailer.
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same attention to detail
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fabrication. ductwork and
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Extension to
N O rt n b o u r n e
Hr _c Nursing

Home.

Shot) f"c--wt.

Ornamental

oak carving.

New extension,

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University of
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Canterbury.

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Front cover photographs from top to bottom: The Plough, Stalisfield Green; Extension to Darwin College,
University of Kent; New Public Conveniences. Swale Borough Council; Speculative Development, Canterbury.