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Our Beautiful Town, a musical presentation by Geoff Sandiford, will be performed at the Fleur hall at 7.30pm on 14, 15, and 16 January See page 2

Chairman’s column have contributed knowledge and ideas over HAROLD GOODWIN the past 18 months. We have presented our final evidence to Every year we hold a reception to thank the examination of the planned Cleve Hill the Open Houses and Open Gardens teams power station. The more we have learnt for their work for the society, these are our about it, the more those of us who have flagship educational events, and they raise worked on the proposal have become money to enable us to maintain the Fleur concerned. and contribute to the maintenance of our See page 7 and a link to our final heritage, in the Fleur and in the town. evidence which is published on the This year marked the peak of our annual Faversham Society’s website. Open Houses programme (see page 2). After The inspectorate’s decision will become 50 years we are going refresh the idea and known at the end of the month, and the evolve Open Houses into Open Faversham, board will then need to decide how we inspired by Open House London. Take a respond to it. We may find ourselves with a look (see page 3) and get in touch if you’d major campaign to mount as the decision like to be part of this. rests with a secretary of state. The final We have been actively working on decision is a political one. traffic, pollution and housing all year. With I would like to thank David Melville and a Swale Local Plan due to be delivered in Matthew Hatchwell who worked with me two years and continuing pressure from to draft our evidence and all those who central government for us to take more

Faversham Society Newsletter | December 2019 1 housing, the society’s board will be spending a great deal of time on these DIARY issues in the next few years. The town 22 November-9 December Nick council has decided to develop a Stewart, Mudlark Furniture, Fleur Neighbourhood Plan and several board and gallery other members are already actively 27 November Talk by Dr Pat Reid engaged with it through the Faversham on Faversham’s Saxon finds, Future Forum. The society will be Market Inn, 7.30pm stretched next year. If you are concerned 14-22 December Christmas about these issues and have time to engage bazaar, Fleur gallery, 10.30am- please get in touch. 3.30pm The change in leadership in KCC has 28 December Christmas Walking resulted in cabinet posts changing and with History tour, 10.30am. Michael Whiting is no longer KCC cabinet See page 7 member for planning, highways, transport 14, 15, 16 January Our Beautiful and waste. We are working with his office Town, Fleur hall, 7.30pm. Tickets to organise something in early 2020. £5 from the Fleur. See this page May I take this opportunity to thank all 21 March One-day Historic Swale our volunteers for their work throughout conference on the Swale, Swale the year and to wish you all season’s and our Identity. Plus heritage greetings. fair, Appleyard, Sittingbourne [email protected] Several months later the musical The society in music presentation is finished and ready to GEOFF SANDIFORD perform. It comprises 15 songs and many The inspiration for the musical Our images, which celebrate the achievements Beautiful Town came directly from Christine of the early days of the Faversham Society Rayner’s book 50 Years of the Faversham which saved our beautiful town. Society 1962-2012. Our Beautiful Town will be performed at It tells of the epic struggle to protect this the Fleur hall at 7.30pm on 14, 15 and 16 medieval gem of a town against the January. Tickets are £5 and are available ruthless planners of the 1960s. It features from the Fleur. some great stories about the individuals who founded the Faversham Society. 50th year of Open Houses I thought this would be a great idea for a HAROLD GOODWIN musical presentation. I approached the The Faversham Society ran its first Open society, which agreed to help with the Houses programme 50 years ago with research and had fun poring over old three properties. From this small beginning photographs and videos with Chris it grew until this year, when we sold 650 Wootton. I met Dorothy Percival, who tickets for entry to 51 properties. organised meetings with some of the Over the three weekends, we estimate founder members to get the inside story of that there were 6,300 visits. We have those exciting days. checked nationally and, so far as we can

2 Faversham Society Newsletter | December 2019 Open House volunteers (from left): Moyra Harding, Sylvie Jones, Chris Brooke-Taylor, Annette Brooke- Taylor, Sheila Gibbins, and Helen Albery

ascertain, Faversham ran the first Open current committee wishes to retire and that Houses programme in the UK. There is this 50th anniversary year would be their now, of course, a large national last. They have done brilliantly to grow the programme, Heritage Open Days, which programme. Its success is a result of their run in September each year. considerable effort over many months each Heritage Open Days have just celebrated year. It is increasingly difficult to persuade their 25th anniversary and have grown into people to open their houses, and there a vibrant celebration of histories and were none, for example, open in Abbey cultures, with more than 5,500 events Street this year. More and more people and taking place in 2018 across . The members are commenting that there are London Open Houses programme now few new properties to visit. comprises 800-plus buildings, walks, talks Open Faversham: Jonathan Carey and I and tours. have been meeting Moyra Harding and The current Open Houses Committee, Helen Albery and their committee for a Moyra Harding and Helen Albery, assisted while, and it is clear that it is time for by Chris and Annette Brooke-Taylor, Sheila change. They will continue to assist with Gibbins and Linda Hird, created a great advice, but the work needs to be taken up success this year. Open Houses and Open by others. The Faversham Museums Gardens, the latter run by a different group, Together Group and the mapping project are remarkable for their combination of continue to develop and what has emerged educational work and fundraising. The from our working group within the society society is justly proud of this achievement is Open Faversham. and extremely grateful to all those who Our thinking has been stimulated by have built it into such a great success. how Open House London has grown to I have known for some months that the encompass streets, streetscapes, buildings,

Faversham Society Newsletter | December 2019 3 open spaces, talks and cultural activities. In London, there is something of a mini- Masterful sailing study festival across the city. Faversham is good at CHARLES TRAILL festivals. Sailing Coasters of Faversham is the third So Open Faversham will each year invite volume of Hugh Perks’s study of the residents and visitors to share in a vessels associated with the port of celebration of aspects of our heritage Faversham, a trilogy started in 2010. through guided walks, visits, music, drama, Having covered smacks and barges in his talks, displays and exhibitions. The themes two previous Faversham Papers, this new will change from year to year and may one covers the cargo ships that were repeat perhaps every four or five years. We based at or visited the port. are planning two weekends each year in Its 16 chapters encompass not only the mid-July. We hope to attract people from extent of the Port of Faversham but also further afield and to create opportunities the trades it supported and the talented for evening talks and performances. individuals employed in and who, in For 2020 we are planning two weekends many cases, also operated the ships. The with opening events, talks or performances, author investigates the wide variety of on Friday evening. sail-powered cargo ships utilised, such as 11 July The coming of the railway to the brigs, schooners and hoys, as well as Faversham for train buffs and historians the large ketch-barges. Each have a 12 July Victorian Faversham – houses, distinctive rig and redeeming features for streets, public buildings and the recreation relevant trades; all are readily explained ground in the extensive glossary. 18 July Gunpowder in the town – the This is no rose-tinted account of times industrial archaeology, the housing for the gone by. The harsh reality of life at sea is workers, the owners and the managers stressed from the outset: ships sank and 19 July The Gunpowder works on the crews drowned. “Too many Faversham marsh and the great explosion coasters ended their days on sands and If you would like to be involved with rocks or were posted as missing believed one or more of these days, or know of foundered,” he says. Even so, the East others who might, or have contacts with Swale had for decades been considered whom we should be in touch, within or the only safe refuge between the Downs beyond, Faversham please email harold@ and Harwich, much more so than the haroldgoodwin.info or call 01795 532737 Medway. To aid his researches Hugh has Walking with podcasts explored a variety of official documents ANTONY MILLETT including ship registers, newspaper Mike Adams from Creek FM and I met one reports, family history archives and fine Sunday morning for a walk around the personal interviews recorded over many centre of Faversham. Along the way, Mike years. He sets the scene by explaining was introduced to parts of the town that he Faversham’s unique position at the heart of the Swale which in medieval times To page 7444

4 Faversham Society Newsletter | December 2019 adjoined the sheltered route between the enlightening; for example we learn of the English Channel and London, an direct labour force employed: not only advantage it sought to consolidate in their identities but also the cost of their subsequent centuries. Early on, this equipment, even their beer allowance. involved a wide variety of commodities The sections on the salvaging of stricken from foodstuffs and Kentish wool to vessels and the decoy ships of the Great cereals; later in the 19th century coal and War also fascinate, bringing information timber, gunpowder and cement not often available to the casual reader. increasingly featured as associated The same goes for the phrase “rope shore-based industries became walk” which initially puzzled your substantiated. reviewer until he looked into the matter: One of the most interesting and evidently it is a long straight narrow lane, intricate sections of this book involves the or a covered pathway, where long strands evolution and instigation of the of material are laid, before being twisted Faversham Navigation. The creek had into rope. The rope “walkers” probably long been a convoluted waterway and travelled 10 miles a day. When you schemes were explored as far back as the consider a single vessel needed at least 18th century to make it easier for two miles of cordage, such additional commercial shipping to reach the town’s information only goes to emphasise how wharves. Discussions went back and forth involved this vital commodity was for on various schemes, notably one by sailing coasters. Thomas Telford, the eminent Scottish The attention to detail also goes for the civil engineer, which was questioned on author’s choice of photographic material. the basis of cost. Any reservations your reviewer might Compromises ensued and the amended have had about picture reproduction in scheme went under way but not until two previous papers have largely been acts of parliament has been required. addressed. To keep production costs Facsimiles of original documents provide down, there have inevitably been some real substance to the intricacies of the restrictions but these have been minimised project, and a fascinating insight into the and the pictures definitely enhance the machinations of events. Despite bad text. It is fortunate the author can draw on planning and inexperience, the the Crosoer collection in the Faversham Navigation’s commissioners correctly Society’s archive for many of the foresaw the need for sailing vessels to be illustrations that all go to provide assisted up the creek to the town’s fascinating evidence of the times. wharves. Merchants also realised that Faversham could not compete with Sailing Coasters of Faversham by Richard Whitstable and increasingly turned more Hugh Perks. 164 pp A4 softback. ISBN to the coming of the railway. 978-1-9200214-89-6. Published in 2019 as As with so much of Hugh’s work it is Faversham Paper No 132 by the Faversham his attention to detail that proves so Society @ £10.50 (plus p&p)

Faversham Society Newsletter | December 2019 5 Volunteering opportunities Volunteering opportunities Help in any of the following areas would be much appreciated: Help in any of the following areas would be much appreciated: Customer service People to staff our Visitor Information Centre Customer service People to staff our Visitor Information Centre and shop, second-hand bookshop, museum reception and gallery and shop, second-hand bookshop, museum reception and gallery stewards. Previous experience is not essential. stewards. Previous experience is not essential. Stewards Our museum and the Chart Mills Gunpowder Stewards Our museum and the Chart Mills Gunpowder Works both need stewards to assist members of the public. Works both need stewards to assist members of the public. Familiarisation and training is not onerous and will be provided. Familiarisation and training is not onerous and will be provided. Town guides There is no script to learn; enthusiasm for our town Town guides There is no script to learn; enthusiasm for our town is sufficient. Training proceeds at your own pace and you are is sufficient. Training proceeds at your own pace and you are encouraged to include your own anecdotes and personality. If you encouraged to include your own anecdotes and personality. If you don’t enjoy it, our customers won’t either. don’t enjoy it, our customers won’t either. Curators, archivists, historians, librarians, and Curators, archivists, historians, librarians, and archaeologists Enthusiasm and an interest will get you started; archaeologists Enthusiasm and an interest will get you started; any training necessary will help you, and us, to proceed. Any skills any training necessary will help you, and us, to proceed. Any skills and experience will be gratefully accepted. and experience will be gratefully accepted. Media communication skills Experience and contacts with all Media communication skills Experience and contacts with all media areas, whether in print, broadcast or online are especially media areas, whether in print, broadcast or online are especially welcome. welcome. Admin and IT support Come and hide around the back and Admin and IT support Come and hide around the back and make the front appear most efficient. We are always grateful for make the front appear most efficient. We are always grateful for assistance with minute taking. Committees meet monthly during assistance with minute taking. Committees meet monthly during daytime and evenings. Giving up two hours a month will make daytime and evenings. Giving up two hours a month will make these meetings run so much better. these meetings run so much better. Social media skills (Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and website Social media skills (Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and website update/design) will enable us to interact better with customers update/design) will enable us to interact better with customers and potential visitors. and potential visitors. Open Faversham and Open Gardens The success of these Open Faversham and Open Gardens The success of these events is ensured by planning and communication during the events is ensured by planning and communication during the year and stewards on the days. year and stewards on the days.

Interested? Contact Harold Goodwin: [email protected] Interested? Contact Harold Goodwin: [email protected]

6 Faversham Society Newsletter | December 2019 444 From page 4 and security risk, the environmental and traffic impacts and about whether Swale had previously ignored and heard stories of will have the time and capacity to oversee people and events that have provided us and enforce the development consent with the rich heritage that we now enjoy. order. The two-hour walk has been edited into You can read our final submission to the five 20-minute podcasts and cover the area Inspectorate here favershamsociety.org/ bounded by Market Street, Market Place, cleve-hill-deadline-7-submission Middle Row, Court Street, Abbey Street, The examination is now over, and the Abbey Place, Church Path, Church Road decision will be published at the end of and East Street. November. If the application is approved, it The walk took Mike and I about two then goes to the secretary of state for hours and follows the route usually taken department for business, energy and on the “walking with history” tours. The industrial strategy. Of course, ministerial timing for the regular tours is between 90 responsibilities may change after the minutes and two hours but depends on the general election on 12 December. speed of the slowest guest. As such, these The board will need to decide what the podcasts contain material that is often society does once we have the omitted from the walking with history inspectorate’s decision, but it is likely that tours because of time constraint. we would campaign against it. Some would For the podcasts, go to the link below. accuse us of Nimbyism and that’s an ugly favershamsociety.org/guided-walks/ word. The Faversham Society is committed in our charitable objects to “secure the Cleve Hill power station preservation, protection, development and HAROLD GOODWIN improvement of features of historic or The Faversham Society supports solar public interest in Faversham and the power, along with wind power and other surrounding area.” We seek to cherish the forms of renewable energy. We are past, adorn the present, create for the accordingly dismayed that hundreds of future. new houses are being built around Faversham without any sustainable energy Boxing Day walk provision. LINDA IRELAND & PAT ROSS The society supports clean solar. What do you usually do on Boxing Day? However, the Cleve Hill proposal is for Are you bored/tired/miserable/stressed dirty solar: we have significant concerns out? Are you worried about your credit about the batteries, safety and security and card bill for the presents and the food decommissioning. These concerns have not leading up to Christmas Day itself ? Have been allayed by anything presented at you got a headache? Never fear – your Deadline 6 or subsequently. society is here to help! We remain unconvinced by the Why not join us for an invigorating developer’s case for the need, and we are walk? Come with us and get out in the deeply concerned about the scale and flood fresh air and clear your mind ready for risk, about the batteries that pose a safety whatever challenges 2020 brings.

Faversham Society Newsletter | December 2019 7 We will be leaving from the Guildhall in Market Place at 10.30am on Boxing Day Meet the new boss morning, Thursday, 26 December. HAROLD GOODWIN You do not have to book. The walk is Is it a roundabout? No. Is it a traffic free. The only money you will need is if island? No. So what is it? It’s there at you decide to have a drink or some food the bottom of Preston Street. after the walk itself. In 2017 the hexagon-shaped traffic We will be walking along part of the island/roundabout “thing” at the Swale Heritage Trail, through allotments, bottom of Preston Street looked a over fields and the railway line to the mess. No one that Tim Stonor spoke 12th-century St Bartholomew’s Church at to knew what it was for or even when Goodnestone, a designated Grade I listed it had been built. Where it had once building, under the care of the Churches been home to bollards and Conservation Trust. Its east window is by signposts, these had since been Thomas Willement. removed and patched up with dabs We will then be walking on to Nagden, of tarmac. and back along the side of Faversham What was left was a sorry sight of Creek. The walk is about 5½ miles, but you granite blocks, blue bricks and can turn back earlier. blacktop. Please wear appropriate outer clothing There was, quite reasonably, some and footwear, as it may be icy and/or talk about getting rid of the hexagon: muddy on the day. You also need to bear in either bricking it over or replacing mind that you are going on the walk at the remaining granite blocks with your own risk and will not be covered by Faversham Society insurance. It all, of course, depends on what the Residents in the Mall and the Abbey weather is like on the day. But as you do Neighbourhood Association have written not have to book, you can leave it until to the society, and the board discussed the Boxing Day morning to decide. issue at length at the October meeting. Family and friends who are not Members are aware that on-street members of the society are also welcome parking and passing places are issues to join us, but also need to be aware the throughout the town including, for walk would be at their own risk and of the example, St Mary’s, St John’s, insurance position, as mentioned above. Road, St Ann’s, Abbey Street, Broomfield Road and Reedland Crescent. Passing and parking With increased housing demanded by HAROLD GOODWIN the government, traffic pressure will With increasing amounts of housing increase, and parking will become imposed on Swale by central government, increasingly difficult. The society hopes parking is becoming a problem in many that the proposed Neighbourhood Plan parts of town and with it the challenge of will address some of these issues, and cars being able to pass in streets already produce guidelines for how residents can narrowed by parked vehicles. engage to develop solutions and have them

8 Faversham Society Newsletter | December 2019 obvious –thing to do would be to restore the island. But given that there was no need for a central lamppost or bollards, the question remained as to what should go in the middle of the hexagon. Tim settled on the idea of a stone or, borrowing from the terminology of the cathedral-builders, a “boss”. Whereas bosses are typically seen high up in medieval vaulting, at the intersection of ribs, Preston Street’s boss would sit at ground level, at the meeting of the three brick arms. tarmac. But it struck Tim that the island What should go on the stone? It was there, that it was unusual, that it seemed the best, most appropriate seemed to make some drivers pause device would be the crest of the and think about how they should town. negotiate it – and that it might perhaps The Faversham Society agreed to stay. pay for the stone, and for Clive So it then seemed that the Sherwood to make it and Faversham appropriate – and perhaps even Town Council had KCC install it.

implemented. The society broadly supports examines the influence of Sir Nigel Gresley all community initiatives to develop on locomotive design and his legacy that solutions: residents are generally those lives on in the form of the preserved Flying most knowledgeable about the issues and Scotsman. most likely to be affected by changes. The Great Western Railway,Tim Bryan, £7.99. The GWR story, from the Full steam ahead foundations laid by I. K. Brunel to its glory CHRISTINE SMITH days before the First World War and from Here’s a selection of books at the Fleur that the years after the war when the Great will appeal to the railways enthusiast. All Western was the only large railway to are from the excellent Shire range. maintain its identity after the grouping of The Flying Scotsman, Bob Gwynne, £7.99. 1923; to its decline during the Second Gwynne outlines the history of this most World War years and its nationalisation in famous train and its namesake locomotive, 1948. from the instigation of the “special Scotch Industrial Steam Locomotives, Geoffrey express” in 1862 through to the 1930s, to Hayes, £4.99. An insight into the origins the introduction of diesel and electric and working lives of the little-known services that slashed journey times. He also locomotives that spent their working days

Faversham Society Newsletter | December 2019 9 behind the walls of factories, docks and 23 September Big air battle overhead. Four shipyards and were rarely seen by the parachutists down, two in Faversham public. – one of our own landed in the Creek. Railways in Wartime, Tim Bryan. £7.95. 28 September Dog fights overhead – The heroic role of railways in warfare was machinegun bullets spattering down in firmly established in the months before and East Street. after the D-Day landings in 1944 when 4 October 9.15pm, two explosions, thousands of trains were run to support sounded near. We made for the cellar the Allied invasion, cementing their and when we came up, every window in position as the “fourth service” during the shop and house were blown in. Hilda Second World War. [Mrs Austin] wanted to ask Woods at 1 Newton Road to put us up but debris in Wartime Faversham road so she couldn’t get across. Later, PETER STEVENS alas, we found that the bomb had Here are some extracts from 1940 wartime demolished their house and Mr & Mrs diary of Harold Austin, who served as a Wood, their daughter Pearl and their special constable in Faversham. He kept maid, Nellie Cox, had all been killed. two shops, one in East Street (above which 8 October Three bombs between Canning he and his family lived) and the other in Factory and Heaters on the creekside. Court Street. His daughter, Eve, was a 11 October Town was dive-bombed. One Faversham Society stalwart. fell in Union Street, another on Black’s 21 July Man injured by bomb at Oare died Garage and a third in Forbes Road. The in hospital. latter smashed many houses, and the 23 July Bombs dropped at and glass at 14 The Mall was all blown out. A Syndale. Saw 8 or 9 bomb craters either number of people were injured. side of Coastal Road. Further details can be found in About 27 July 4 bombs dropped at . Faversham No 68 – Wartime Faversham, 12 August 2 bombs at Boughton. 1940-44, The Diary Of Harold Austin 13 August 5 bombs at Beacon Hill 15 August Bombs at Sharsted, and Christmas books and gifts . WENDY CLARKE 16 August 8 bombs dropped at Uplees. We will be opening a small second-hand 3 September Incendiary on Dr Porter’s gift shop in the Fleur gallery, Preston house in East Street. Street, from 14-22 December, 10.30am to 9 September No trains from London – 3.30pm. Do come and have a look. There damage on line. will be bargain gifts and curio items of all 18 September Bombs fell in Newton, St kinds, and stocking fillers. Mary’s and St John’s roads. A time bomb All donations are gratefully accepted – if buried itself in garden at St Mary’s. you have any unwanted presents, bric-a- Police turned people out of their houses brac, toys, artwork or vintage items please from the Royal William to the top of the bring them into the second-hand bookshop road. Another bomb in middle of St in Gatefield Lane or we can collect if heavy. John’s Road, breaking many windows. All proceeds to go to the society.

10 Faversham Society Newsletter | December 2019 The Fleur bookshop in Gatefield Lane is started a conversation with a couple who now open from 11am to 2pm on Sundays. asked: “What, who, where?” Conversation continued and they had visited Faversham Warden remembered over one Christmas and had lunch in The PETER STEVENS Anchor pub. The recent death of Frank Coppins at the Next through the Kiel Canal and first age of 97 brings to mind this extract from port, Wismar, Germany. Rønne on the my 2004 book on The Brents: Island of Bornholm, Denmark, Visby on “Frank Coppins, the son of Frederick the Island of Gotland off Sweden. Riga in James and Minnie Eleanor Coppins, whom Latvia was the jewel in the crown, then many will remember was our local traffic Klaipeda in Lithuania which I had not warden for many years, lived as a boy at 25 heard of before. Finally we came to Gdansk in Court’s Opening on The Brents. Before in Poland where the old town was the 1914-18 war his father was a beautiful, a most attractive place to wander costermonger/fishmonger trading from a around and drink in the architecture. donkey or pony cart and was later a A couple of days at sea relaxing and back fish-frier in a West Street shop next door to through the Kiel Canal and home safely to the North public house. During the Tilbury. Whether I travel again, and write a 1914-18 war he worked at the Cotton little piece, remains to be seen. Powder Company and was off duty on the day of the big explosion in Apil, 1916.” Frank recalled The Brents as a close-knit community where families and neighbours stuck together and tended to remain in the area throughout their lives. His aunt was the wife of Thomas George Seager, the landlord of the Brents Tavern from 1922-25, and another aunt was Mrs Lew Wood at 116 Upper Brents. Traveller’s tales PAULINE MILES Many people have said to me over the past year: “We miss your Traveller’s Tales, Pauline.” But I haven’t really been travelling since my Amazon trip in January 2018 ... until now. On 1 October I set sail on the Marco Polo from Tilbury to six places I had not been before so I needed to tick them off. Initially sailing along by Whitstable and the forts and I couldn’t help exclaiming “Oh, the Maunsell Forts”, which then

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