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Issue 3 October 2010 The Gazette of Despatches Issue 3 October 2010 Inside this issue: The Centre 1 The Heritage Centre. February 4th, 1941 2 THE UPS AND DOWNS OF RUNNING A Edward Day 1940 3 HERITAGE CENTRE Deadly Duel 5 So we will now have been open for 2 years in use after all. The number of people that browse November and how has it been for us? our exhibitions & then volunteer that they have a Franz von Werra 6 Well – for the volunteer coming in to open up few old photos is amazing. It‘s frustrating when From the pump 10 or close down, they never know what not all of them appear, but many do and it‘s a information the diary may hold or who will good feeling for the donors/lenders that their Odd Spot 11 enter our space in the library. It may be a history is worthwhile to someone else. quiet session when you can get on with Exhibition 11 research and the ordinary tasks which need So a visitor may arrive with an object, photo or doing. OR you might be overwhelmed with piece of information; either as a donation or a Meet the MHG 11 visitors from anywhere in the world. Certainly loan. The first thing that happens is that item the summer brings a lot of these (good news acquires a ―pink passport‖. This travels with it Book review/offer 12 for The Unicorn serving lunches). This is and records the necessary stages it has to go Hog Roast 12 usually tremendously rewarding for us and through. Next stage is being catalogued by one of hopefully a really pleasant surprise for them Chris Gosling‘s team, then Lucy Cross scans it to too. Some visitors come knowing exactly what our computer or Ian Newton may take a Archive content: they are looking for – and often with ―goodies‖ photograph. Lastly the item may be returned to 4111 photos & documents etc to add to our archives. Others are fairly new its owner or filed in our cabinets, which are fast Censuses 1841 – 1901 to their research, so this is a challenge for the filling up. Any original donations will need to be Baptisms 1559 – 1903 (14852 records) inc person on duty to think of all the appropriate protected in acid free materials. Independent 1707 – 1738 resources – regular training is given. I know Marriages 1561 – 1950 that my poor old brain keeps getting its dusty As you can see from this a great deal of (3787 records) corners examined regularly. organisation and constant refinement of methods Burials 1561 – 1892 (9957 records) is necessary – not easy with a bunch of very Electoral registers 1939 & 1981 So much data about Marden is available that it willing volunteers but all with varying skills and (3253 records) is a mammoth task to record it all – and this experiences. Above all they all have their own Cemetery 1932 – 2005 hasn‘t lessened with time. We are very good busy lives to run along side their voluntary work. (1490 records) Poor Law 1654 – 1836 with helping with house clearances and spring (1264 records) cleans and more people are realising that the To be continued Trade Directories 21 box of old papers in the cupboard might have a (2384 records) Wills 133 medieval, 372 others (many transcribed) Tithe data ( 425 records only) New: More electoral registers More Trade Directories Coming: Maidstone Journal extracts – 1831 to 1846 In time – database of Parish Chest documents 1911 census Page 2 Despatches February 4th, 1941: Maidstone Road, Marden Sheila Wright, who has lived in Marden most of her Killed at 4 Maidstone Road, Marden life, never knew her grandmother, Annie Mayes, or her aunt Ivy. Ivy had recently become engaged when Annie Matilda MAYES one very cold evening in February 1941 the two Age 55. Widow of Edward Stanley Mayes, killed in the women settled down in their house in Maidstone Great War, commemorated on the memorial plaque Road for a game of cards with two soldiers and some in Marden Church friends. One was Mrs Driscoll, Sheila‘s godmother‘s mother. She lived at The Thorn - and was visiting the Ivy D MAYES Mayes household to play cards while her husband Age 25. Daughter of Annie Matilda and the late had a drink elsewhere. Edward Stanley Mayes. The night crew of the local ARP (Air Raid Precautions) were enjoying a quiet glass of beer in the Alice Dorothy DRISCOLL Unicorn when two terrific explosions shook the Age 44. Wife of George Henry Driscoll of Meldreth, building. There had been two bomb blasts in the Stanley Road, Marden. Maidstone Road. Two bombs from a German aircraft which it is thought was experiencing trouble in flying Killed at 3 Maidstone Road, Marden on to London. It had jettisoned the bombs, lightening the aircraft before returning to France. The bombs Christopher Harral HOAD had landed on the road directly outside Mrs Mayes‘s Age 58. house. The house was completely demolished along with that next door, where Mr Hoad was also killed, although his wife and daughter survived. By good fortune Ted Mayes had married the girl next door just a few weeks before and they no longer lived at the Evidence of this tragedy can This picture shows 250kg bombs being "decorated" by Luftwaffe be seen today: the new personnel, giving some clue at to the size. The bomb is 64.5 inches properties which were built tall and its filling is either 60/40 on the site are set back from Amatol/TNT, or TNT with a the road and include the variety of additives including wax, Hong Kong Kitchen. destroyed houses, probably saving both of their lives. woodmeal, aluminum powder, Annie Mayes therefore has the sad distinction of being naphthalene and ammonium the only person in the village who had lost her nitrate. The weight of the filling is husband in World War 1, when he was killed in 287lbs, making up 52 percent of November 1917, and then herself being killed by the the total weight of 548lbs. same enemy some 24 years later. She had brought up German bombers of 1940 would her children single handed with the aid of her father, carry from two to ten of these Sheila‘s great grandfather. bombs each. Issue 3 Page 3 A Life (at Work and Play) by Edward Day MBE. (extract) I went to Charterhouse at the beginning of the 1939/45 war. me off the bridge into the River Wey. At the school we had We were all issued with gas masks housed in small spent many days with spades digging tank traps across the cardboard boxes. valley of the Wey which is adjacent to the school property. We were asked in the event of an air raid whether we I took charge of the school‘s war communications and we would like to take cover in the basement of the school had field telephones, which we reeled out to and from field buildings or to go out to the small trenches in the grounds exchanges, we also had signalling lamps. I became very when the air raid siren sounded. I opted for the trenches so proficient in Morse code (20 words per minute) and we I could watch the fun! used to practice also with the daylight lamps signalling from I hadn't been there very long before the air raid sirens one hill to another - from the school 8 miles away to the sounded in the night and I made my way across the cricket Hogs Back being a favourite. This was 1942/3 and at that field to my allocated trench and on the way was challenged time we did not have any radios, just field telephones. Using by the school Home Guard in the shape of one of the the telephones I used to organise a running commentary prefects, ―Halt!‖ he yelled. ―Halt, who goes there?‖ (I think around the course at the annual cross country race. he was expecting German parachutists) and on hearing the When I got home in the holidays I joined the local ‗Dad's sound of aero engines miles away we sat there on the side of Army‘ Home Guard and we had to guard the local Collier our trench with our gas masks on sucking and blowing. Street railway bridge at night against German paratroopers. Trouble was no one told us when to take them off. Just what we were supposed to do with them as we were Later we did indeed have an air raid during evening prep. A not armed was never made clear. We had one chap on the stick of bombs started a mile away and clumped ever closer railway bridge with a whistle and the rest I spent teaching across the grounds until the last one fell just outside the Morse during the night watch in the guard room. Yes ‗Dad's building where we were working at prep, blowing one of the Army‘ indeed. windows out. Someone went outside and came back in with Father had increased the size of the farming enterprise at a piece of shrapnel which was still warm. Happily the school the beginning of the 2nd War (WW2) which now comprised suffered no casualties. Spitzbrook, at Collier Street and 2 1/2 miles away round the I joined the Charterhouse and Godalming Home Guards and West side of Marden Village, Pattenden, Turkey, Gravel Pit the Cadet Corps and we had good fun rushing round in our and Parsonage Farms. battle fatigues firing blank rounds and setting off Father was deeply involved under the direction of the thunderflashes and wading up the flooded Godalming tank Minister of Food, Lord Woolton, with efforts to persuade traps across the marshes.
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