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It's #NationalCheeseAndWineDay! We're taking notes from Jeffery Amherst of Gray's Inn, London, who in 1691 leased for 7 years a messuage in Warwick Lane to Richard Farshall. The rent per annum? £30 — oh, and a 20 lb Cheshire cheese! 🧀 ☟ See U1350/T83: bit.ly/U1350T83
We're delighted that our readers report such productive and enjoyable experiences of using our Search Room. Our thanks to @ARAUK_IE for coordinating the Archive Search Room Survey and all those who took part. Have some feedback to share? 📧 [email protected] ☎️ 03000 420 673
Shown below, courtesy of @Kentishtrivia, is Detective Inspector Edmund Reid who lived at Hampton-on-Sea from 1903 until coastal erosion forced him to move in 1916. He was head of the Criminal Investigation Department in the @metpoliceuk at the time of the Whitechapel murders.
No idea where he was married, but I believe he ran a pub in Herne for a year or so, before opening the Hampton-on-Sea Hotel selling postcards and refreshments.
We’ll see your impressively early charters, @UKNatArchives and @essexarchive, and raise you… a document dated 275 years earlier 📜👀 Charter issued by King Wihtred granting freedom from taxation to the churches & monasteries of Kent, AD 699 See U140/T1: kentarchives.org.uk/collections/ge…
🗞️ Summer 2025 newsletter: kentarchives.org.uk/archive-newsle… Discover our recent outreach activities, upcoming lunchtime talks and newly catalogued collections. Also, enjoy a guest article from CHASE doctoral researcher @Harry_J_Gilbert about his spring work placement at Kent Archives.
Newly acquired & available to read in our Search Room: 'Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman's House' by Gilbert McCarragher, with foreword by Frances Borzello, 2024 🔎 To view, request ref. BK/C335047697 📚 For blurb, click ALT ☟ #DerekJarman #Dungeness #Kent #LocalHistory
What's better than one digital microfilm scanner? Two! We've recently installed a second SL 1000 device in our Search Room and both now have touchscreens. Enjoy sharper images, more user controls and crisper printouts. Consider reserving a device for your next visit… 🖥️🖨️
On Tuesday, Kent Archives attended the 11th Annual Kent and Medway #ArmedForces Covenant Conference at Mid Kent College, #Maidstone. Between networking and sharing military-themed records from our collections, we enjoyed attending several of the speakers' presentations. #KMAFC25
Thomas Fletcher Waghorn was the #Chatham-born owner of this rather large Austrian passport and happened to be at the forefront of documents that travel - but of a slightly different kind… To learn more, click ALT ☟ #EYATravel 📃 See U1823/8/O1: kentarchives.org.uk/collections/ge…
Yesterday, Dr Mark Bateson brought a slice of #Kent's heritage to @MidKentCollege's Cultural Week, a student-led celebration of world culture. Our table display explored everything from the county's dialect and folk music to unusual customs and even school dinner recipes 🗣️🎼🍽️
Newly acquired & available to read in our Search Room: 'Sevenoaks 1790-1914: Risk and Choice in West Kent' by Iain Taylor and David Killingray, 2022 🔎 To view, request ref. BK/C334850563 📚 For blurb, click ALT ☟ #Sevenoaks #WestKent #LocalHistory
