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Clock Tower Index (Nicholas) May 15 75Th Anniversary of Dunkirk Aug 15 News from the University of Kent The Clock Tower 2019 1911 Project (Ashbee) May 16 11–May 11 1953 Floods Report to the FOMA AGM, 17 April 2012 May 12 Members' Memories of the 1953 Floods (Cox, Rochester City Archives Project: Ongoing Furminger, Evans, Lambourne, Gardner and Conservation Work 2015 Nov 15 Buchanan) Feb 13 Archives Update (Cable and Rouland) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: The Medway Quarterly Report for the Archives of Great Towns and the East Coast Floods Of 1953 (Joyce) Expectations Aug 11, Nov 11 Feb 13 Update on MALSC Collections catalogued during Water Everywhere: The 1953 Floods in NW Kent 2011 Nov 11 (Crowe) Feb 13 Archives Update (Crowe), Local Studies and Archives report for 2013–14 May 14 Adams’ Garage (Hold that Tiger) (King) Nov 20 Archives Update (Dixon) Apr 06–May 08 Advertisement: Dr Thomas Plume, 1630-1704: His life Diaries of Marjorie Gunn (1910–1923) Aug 12 and legacies in Essex, Kent and Cambridge Nov 20 Archives Update (Lambourne) Aug 08, Nov 08 Albert Edward Godfrey Howes, (Sept. 1897 – Oct. An Artist's View of Rochester's Great Legacy (Ellwood, 1917) (Gardner) May 19 GAvA; Short Brothers) Aug 06 The All Saints' Players, Chatham (Cole) May 14 Aspects of Huguenot Society. A talk by Amy Adams, Amateur Dramatics in Medway Huguenot Museum, Rochester (Thomas) Nov 15 Part 1 Feb 14 Asquith Camile Xavier: His struggle for Racial Equality Part 2 May 14 (Clement) Nov 20 Am Dram Footnotes (Thomas) Feb 14 The Astonishing Discovery at St. John’s Church, An Alternative Coronation, Gillingham 1953 Aug 13 Chatham (Gardner) Nov 19, Feb 20 An Appeal to FOMA Members for Further Information! Attention Will Adams Descendants! May 19 (Cole ) Nov 19 Aubry's Long Life (Joyce) Aug 16 Andrew Ashbee Book Signing Aug 16 Aviation in Kent (Smith) June 06 An Appeal for the Missing Families of the Gillingham Park Tragedy of 1929 (Nutton) May 11 Back Cover An Astonishing Discovery at St. John’s Church, Advertisement for The Lambeth Cholera Outbreak Chatham (Gardner) Aug 19 of 1848–1849 (Thomas) Aug 09 Archaeological Dig at Cliffe Aug 16 Archaeological Dig at Cliffe Aug 16 Archives of Great Expectations Exhibition (Thomas) From the Archives … Apr 06–Aug 06, Nov 07–Feb Feb 12 08, May 09 Archives Update (Cable) Feb 09–Aug 09, Feb 13–May The Balfour Honours Boards and Balfour Schools – 13, Feb 14, Feb 15, Aug 15, Feb 16, Aug 16, May 17, A Mystery Aug 20 Nov 17 Bible Mystery Solved! Nov 16 An annual review Nov 13 The Bob Ratcliffe Memorial Bench Feb 20 Archives Services 2013 May 14 Charles Roach Smith on Thomas Fletcher Waghorn Archivist's Report May 16 Nov 12 Archivist’s Report to FOMA AGM, 10 April 2018. Children’s History Trail at the Medway Archives CityArk. May 18 Centre Aug 19 Back to the Workhouse Aug 13 Christmas card from William Aikman Nov 12 Medway School Admission registers published on The Covid-19 Community Archive Nov 20 Findmypast Nov 14 Dutch Raid Commemorations Aug 17 New Medway History Centre - Spring 2017 Feb 17 Eastgate House Refurbishment May 15 Newly Catalogued Archive Collections Aug-Sep Famous Medway People … May 07, Aug 07 2015 Nov 15 Farewell, Bob Feb 19 Outreach Working; New Archive Collections Nov 12 A FOMA Celebration Feb 17 Quarterly Report for the Archives of Great FOMA Quiz Night (Rochester) May 10 Expectations May 10–Aug 10, Nov 10, Feb FOMA's New Patron The Very Revd. Dr. Mark Beach 1 The Clock Tower 2019 May 13 Henk van der Linden Receives the British Empire Guildhall Museum Stores Tour Feb 16 Medal May 17 Happy Birthday Medway Archives! Aug 18 London Labyrinth, MALSC’s First Project with Henk van der Linden Receives the British Empire Ancestry Nov 16 Medal May 17 The MAC Christmas Event Feb 20 Holocaust Memorial Day Feb 21 Medway In Lockdown May 20 Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre from Poster for the FOMA World War One 1915 Rochester Nov 15 exhibition at MALSC Aug 15 Medway Archives Centre Christmas Event Nov 17 Rochester's New Huguenot Museum May 15 Medway Archives Centre, Reminiscence Sessions Textus Roffensis at the British Library! Aug 18 poster May 19 Treasures Of Rochester Cathedral May 16 Medway In Lockdown May 20 Slab to Major James Thomas Byford McCudden, VC Napoleonic Wars May 15 DSO* MC* MM CdeG (FR) RAF May 18 The Restoration of the Fresco at St. Nicholas Shorts Brothers in Rochester poster May 19 Church, Strood May 16 Soldiers’ Stories on Our Streets Nov 18 Rochester's Huguenot Museum Opens! Aug 15 Travels of a Tin Trunk; ‘When you go home, tell The Unveiling of the WWI Commemorative Paving them of us and say … ’ Nov 20 Slab to Major James Thomas Byford McCudden, VC The Unveiling of the WWI Commemorative Paving DSO* MC* MM CdeG (FR) RAF May 18 War Memorials Nov 17 Soldiers’ Stories on Our Streets Nov 18 Voices from the Dockyard, The Halfpenny Trams Strood’s Broomhill Triumphs in the RHS South East Aug 19 in Bloom Awards! Nov 19 When East Met West Again! May 14 Textus Roffensis at the British Library! Aug 18 World War One Commemorations Begin! Aug 14 The Uscan Digital Reader Feb 18 World's End (Jenkin's Dale, Chatham) Feb 13 When East Met West Again! May 14 The bad winter of 1962–3, including memories Who’s Reading The Clock Tower Feb 18 received from members May 13 Witheridge's Witterings … May 08, Aug 08–Feb 09 The Balfour Honours Boards and Balfour Schools – A World War One Commemorations Begin! Aug 14 Mystery (Crowe) Aug 20 Back Cover (Inside) Barkers Litho Printers (Thomas) Feb 18 Albert Edward Godfrey Howes,(Sept. 1897 – Oct. Battle of the Falklands (Ratcliffe) Feb 15 1917) May 19 The Battle Of Yantlet Creek, 1860 (Joyce) Aug 13 Andrew Ashbee Book Signing Aug 16 Before The National Trust (Lear) Aug 19 The Christmas Event at MAC Feb 18 A Belated Christmas Present! Nov 14 Cliffe's Anglo Saxon Heritage Aug 16 Betty's Postcards (Cole) Command of the Heights, a panoramic view of In Arcady Feb 11 Chatham and area (Heritage Lottery Fund project) Charles Dickens Nov 09 Nov 15 A comic postcard Aug 11 Dickens' Post Box: The recently reinstated letter box Good bye Old Man (WWI horses) Nov 11 at Gad's Hill, Higham Feb 15 Happy Birthday Charles Dickens! Charles Dickens' Dreaming of Freedom … Feb 21 birthplace in Portsmouth Feb 12 Dutch Raid Commemorations Aug 17 Leslie Howard Nov 10 EBay Purchases for MAC Nov 19 Literary homes and a quiz on the same May 11 Events at the Medway Archives Centre May 19 Mr. Micawber Aug 10 Friends of Chatham Traction May 16 The Royal Family Feb 10 Gaining Traction Feb 19 Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School May Goodbye Old Strong Room; Hello New Strong 10 Room! Feb 17 The Bob Ratcliffe Collection (Gardner) Aug 20 Guildhall Museum Stores Tour Feb 16 Happy Birthday Medway Archives! Aug 18 The Bob Ratcliffe Memorial Bench (Flood) Feb 20 2 The Clock Tower 2019 Books for Christmas (Cross) Nov 15, No 19 Coming up Next Issue … (Baker) May 16 Beyond the Basics, by Tana L. Pedersen Nov 14 Command of the Heights (Moy) Nov 15 A Tree Without Roots, by Paul Crooks Nov 14 Commemorating an Amazing Engineering Feat: The Borstal's Wartime Umbrella (Burstow) Feb 08 story of the Thames and Medway Canal (Buchanan) Broom Hill in World War One (Schwieso) Nov 17 Aug 12 Broomhill – Strood's Hidden Gem by Odette Buchanan Commemorating the Outbreak of World War One: (Book review) Feb 14 1914–2014 Building the Basins (Portway) Aug 18 A Belated Christmas Present! Nov 14 HMS Bulwark (Ratcliffe) Nov 14 HMS Bulwark (Ratcliffe) Nov 14 Chatham's Naval Losses in 1914 – A talk by Alex Cap Badge (McDonald) Nov 13 Patterson to FOMA (Joyce) Nov 14 Cemetery Epitaphs (Butler) Aug 14 An Extraordinary World War One Story (Ashbee) Chairman's Letter Nov 17–present Nov 14 Charles Larkin 1775 – 1833 (Salter) Home Front (Clement) Nov 14 Part 1: Introduction Nov 16 Live Bait Squadron Commemorations: The Road to Part 2 Feb 17 Chatham (Thomas) Nov 14 Part 3: May 17 HMS Pathfinder (Magee) Nov 14 Part 4: Aug 17 Step Short Centenary Arch (Haydock) Nov 14 Part 5: Feb 18 Commemorating the Short Brothers (Crowe) June 06 Part 6: May 18 Common Sense or Just Plain Lune–y? (Buchanan) May Chatham Dockyard and its Defences (Cable), Future 11 World Heritage Site May 11, Feb 13 The Coronation Chatham Pals, Michael de Caville (1946–2010) Nov 11 An Alternative Coronation, Gillingham 1953 Aug 13 Chatham's Naval Losses in 1914 – A talk by Alex Cindy's Little Gems Aug 13 Patterson to FOMA (Joyce) Nov 14 Memories of The Coronation Aug 13 A Christmas Appeal: MALSC Frequently Asked Coronaverses (Buchanan) May 20 Questions (Lambourne) Nov 06 Covid and Me – A Trial Online Reminiscences Session Christmas at The Medway Archives (Thomas) Feb 19 (A. Thomas) Feb 21 The Christmas Event at MAC (Thomas) Feb 18 The Crispin and Crispianus Public House, Strood Cindy's Little Gems (O'Halloran) Feb 13, Aug 13 (Buchanan) May 11 Anyone for Football? Lionel Messi and the Higham The Crown & Thistle Public House, 188, High Street, Connection May 12 Chatham (Murrant) Aug 09 Gillingham Freemans' Roll Feb 12 The Good Companions Club Feb 14 The Darnley Archive: Preservation and Promotion Grant of Dukedom to James Duke of Lennox, 1641 (Lambourne) Aug 06 (U0565_F052) Aug 11 A Day in May; The story of the Princess Irene The Old Age Pensions Act 1908 Nov 10 (Ratcliffe) May 15 The Old Spytall Nov 13 A Day in the Life of St.
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