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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
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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
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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. Bart's (produced 1930): The Remembering Sgt R. F. Arnold of the Royal Air Force Medway On Screen project (Lambourne) Feb 11 Volunteer Reserve May 11 The Deborah Collins Workhouse Index May 18 Ticker's Torch Medway's Stuart "Ticker" Fry and the (Thomas) 1948 Olympic Games Aug 12 Delce Mill and the Glover Family (Weeds) May 13, Aug William Aitken Nov 12 13 Winget Life and M Swinget Feb 11 The Delce, Rochester (Weeds) Aug 11 City of Rochester Society (Moss) Nov 06 Deliver this poor City from the Qua(kers)': Rochester Cliffe's Anglo Saxon Heritage Aug 16 Quakerism and its Struggle for Existence 1655–1750 Clock Tower Special Feature: The Dutch Raid 1667 (Clement) May 10 Aug 17 Delivered by Hand (poem) (Cornish) Feb 16 The Clock Tower's 40th Issue Feb 16 Dickens at Higham, 1870 (Poem) (Buchanan) May 12
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A Dickens of a Night Out! (Haydock) May 12 The potential destruction of the Aveling and Porter Dickens' Post Box (Haydock) Feb 15 building, Strood May 09 Dickensian Anecdotes (Buchanan) May 12 A review of the past 40 issues of The Clock Tower Dickensian Days (Slater) Feb 08–Aug 08 Feb 16 Did You Know …? (Evans) Feb 11 Rochester's Huguenot Museum Feb 15 Do You Know …? A photograph for identification Aug Thankful Villages of World War One Nov 18 11 The Rosher Family: From Gravesend to Hollywood Dutch Raid 1667 Feb 08 The 350th Commemorations – From the Viewpoint Saving Our Heritage Nov 15 of Medway Council’s Heritage Team (Found) Aug Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School, 17 Rochester May 10 Battle Of Medway or When The Dutch Gave Us A Strange Historical Coincidences: A Tale for Bloody Nose Aug 17 Christmas Nov 06 The Commemorations from the Public Perspective Technology and research May 08 Aug 17 Ten years of FOMA May 16 Medway Raid or De Tocht naar Chatham Nov 17 Who Do You Think You Are? Aug 13 Medway Raid or De Tocht naar Chatham (Clement) Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2014 May 14 Aug 17 The Women Doctors who looked after Ivy Wellard Aug 16 Early Town Books of Faversham (Harrington and Women in Wartime Nov 08 Hyde) May 08 Edwin Harris – Recollections of Rochester (Knight) Nov The Eastgate House Heritage Lottery Fund Bid 07–Feb 10, Aug 10 (Gardner) Feb 13 Edwin Harris – Recollections of Rochester (Thomas) Eddie Lane (Crowe) Nov 19 Feb 12 Editor's Footnotes (Thomas) Apr 06, May 07, Aug 08, The Crown Hotel and its Famous Patrons Nov 10 Nov 17 Recollections of Rochester: no. 63 The City Coffee AGM Report Aug 11 House Aug 11 The ANZAC Sacrifice Nov 11 Richard Watts and his Famous Charity Feb 11, May Barbados and Who Do You Think You Are? Aug 06 11 The Battle of Britain Aug 10 Edwin Harris (Worthy), Nooks and Corners of By–Gone Christmas at Cobtree Manor or Dingley Dell Nov 13 Rochester no. 64 Feb 15 Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat … Enlistment of Pauper Children for the Army (Clement) Nov 20 Aug 13, Nov 13 Events before Lockdown Dunmalls, Brenchleys and Cliffe Nov 07 The Picture Medway Project; Women Power (Crowe) E–books Nov 09 May 20 Eastgate House, Orford Ness and Cliffe June 06 An Extraordinary World War One Story (Ashbee) Nov Family History: from Kent to Australia – and back! 14 Feb 12 The Flying Archaeologist May 13 Fate of a Girl’s Father, The (Cross) Nov 20 History and the National Curriculum Aug 07 Flying the Team GB Flag for Medway! (Haydock) Aug The Invisible Enemy May 20 12 The Lambeth Cholera Outbreak of 1848–1849 Aug FOMA AGM Aug 11, May 13, May 14, May 16, May 09 19, May 20 Malaria and yellow fever in Medway Aug 12 FOMA Books for Christmas Nov 09 The Medway Cholera Outbreak of 1849 Nov 10 FOMA Celebration, The (Thomas) May 17 Medway Evacuees Feb 10 FOMA Collection More family history coincidences Feb 11 Dickens School, Chatham May 13 The Osmotherlys, Lambeth and Cholera Feb 07 Latest news Aug 11
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Launch of the new FOMA website May 10 FOMA Talks, London Labyrinth, From Borsholders to The newly purchased lease regarding The Brook, Bobbies (Thomas) Nov 16 Chatham Nov 13 Friary Place, Strood, and St Mary's Hospital (Cox) Nov The FOMA eBay Project (Flood) Aug 20 13 FOMA Members Aug 10 Friends of Chatham Traction May 16 Amanda Thomas to give a talk in London: Cholera Friends of Eastgate House Feb 12 on the Lambeth Waterfront: the outbreak of the Friends of the Medway Archives and Local Studies 1840s and how cholera could return today Nov 11 Centre Constitution – Draft 2 (21st November 2005) Congratulations Catharina! Catharina Clement Apr 06 completes her PhD Aug 13 Friends Overseas Aug 06 FOMA Members at Work – and at Wrest! (Thomas) Medway Memories (Guthrie) May 07 Aug 11 From Gipsy Tent to Pulpit: Rodney Smith in Chatham FOMA’s New Venue May 19 1879–80 (Joyce) May 11 Highs and Lows of Family History Research (Walter) From Kent To Montana – The Medway Roots Of Gary May 10 Cooper (Joyce) Feb 14 Jean Slater; Pat Salter Nov 07 From the Archives … JL Keys (166 City of Rochester HAA Battery R.A.); The burial record of Pocahontas Feb 07 Jean Slater Aug 08 The Ghost of Restoration House Nov 09 'Kent in WW1 – People, Places and Events' From the Chairman (Towner) Feb 15–Aug 17 (Gardner) Feb 15 Commemorating World War One. Nov 14 'Life Begins at 40?' (Walter) Feb 15 World War One and the Launch of the WWI De Mr Freddie Cooper ; Mrs Mary Paterson Feb 08 Caville Index Aug 14 My Fifteen Seconds of Fame! May 14 Front Cover New Clock Tower Index (Nicholas) May 15 75th anniversary of Dunkirk Aug 15 News from the University of Kent. FOMA Vice 1914–2014 Commemorations Come to a Close Feb President Professor Sir Robert Worcester KBE DL 15 completes term as Chancellor Aug 13 2012 Olympic Torch Arrives in the Medway Towns! To Oz and Back (Shadrach Edward Jones) by Brian Aug 12 Butler published in A Viking in the Family and All Saints, Wouldham Feb 11 other Family Tree Tales by Keith Gregson Nov 11 Amateur Dramatics in Medway Feb 14 Publication of The Gossamer Thread (Manktelow) Asquith Xavier Nov 20 May 14 Bienvenue Valerie! Archivist Valerie Rouland joins Pubs of Old Brompton; a talk by the Brompton the FOMA team Feb 10 History Research Group, Rosie and Michael Big Freeze of 1963 (Clement) May 13 Jennings Aug 13 Bob Ratcliffe, 1936-2018 Feb 19 Rochester Aug 09 In celebration of Charles Dickens May 12 The Three Sisters. Caroline Baker's pottery The Day the Lamps Went Out Aug 14 exhibition. Aug 13 A Donation to FOMA Feb 18 Tina Bean May 08 Doris Herlihy with Simon Lace, Medway Heritage The unveiling of the Value of Touch bronze tactile Services Manager May 15 (Daws) Nov 13 Dreaming of Freedom … Feb 21 Which Mr Baker? or By Nine Votes to Eight (Baker) An evening with Sir Robert Worcester: Nov 08 commemorating the 400th anniversary of the FOMA Members Feb 18 voyage to Jamestown, USA Aug 07 A FOMA Retrospective (Cable, Dixon, O'Halloran, Farewell Alison! May 18 Buchanan, Dunster and Thomas) Feb 12 Farewell from Janet Knight! Janet Knight Retires The FOMA Spring Quiz (Buchanan) May 16 Nov 09 A FOMA Talk: Medway, Lambeth and Cholera The first FOMA AGM, 6th April 2006 June 06 (Gardner) Nov 10 FOMA at the London Marathon! May 08
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The FOMA Collection (Gardner and A. Thomas) Nov World War One Armistice Nov 08 18 Summer in Chatham Aug 18 The FOMA De Caville Index – An Extraordinary Ten Years Supporting the Medway Archives May 17 Discovery! Aug 19 Thanks, Odette! May 19 FOMA Members Honoured! Aug 11 Thank You, Jean! May 14 FOMA visit to Restoration House Aug 09 The Unveiling and Presentation of the City of Frindsbury Cricketers Aug 08 Rochester Society's Gift to the MALSC Feb 08 Goodbye Old Medway Archives! Feb 17 Uscan Digital Reader Nov 17 Henk’s Medway Visit Feb 20 Volunteer Birthday Celebrations! May 15 Heritage Lottery Fund Grant Launch Feb 09 We Celebrate Twenty Years of MALSC! Aug 13 Heritage Open Days; The Bridge Chapel at Welcome, Elspeth! Nov 19 Rochester Nov 10 We Remember (memorial to some of the men of High Street and church, Snodland, Kent, from one of the Live Bait Squadron) Nov 14 Hambrook's Kent Series (c.1905) Feb 07 What's in the Trunk? Aug 16 John Thomas Hawes, Mayor of Chatham, dressed Who Was Waghorn's Father? Nov 12 as Father Christmas distributing Christmas gifts to Front Cover (Inside) children outside the National Theatre cinema, Autumn 2015 programme of talks for the Chatham, circa 1938 to 1939 Nov 07 anniversaries of the Magna Carta and Siege of Launch of the new FOMA website May 10 Rochester castle ... Aug 15 Lest We Forget: Nov 11 The Christmas Event at MAC Feb 18 Lockdown Special May 20 Christmas Shopping At Mac!; Lockdown Christmas Luton's Big Game Hunter Revealed; World War Two Nov 20 and Battle of Britain Special Aug 10 Command of the Heights, a panoramic view of MALSC is Archive of the Year! May 11 Chatham and area (Heritage Lottery Fund project) MALSC’s First Project with Ancestry Nov 16 Nov 15 Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre from Congratulations Wendy! May 18 Rochester Nov 15 Dreaming of Freedom … Feb 21 Medway Commemorates Aug 15 FOMA at the Rochester Hub May 19 Medway Queen paddle steamer Aug 15 The FOMA Celebration May 17 Medway World War II Evacuation Special Feb 10 The FOMA Committee and Archivist Alison Cable Medway's Restoration Projects May 16 visit the Archives storeroom Feb 15 Men of the Medway Towns: The Ultimate Sacrifice, FOMA’s New Venue Aug 19 1918-1919 Nov 18 Happy Birthday Medway Archives! Aug 18 The new committee, elected at the FOMA AGM Lest We Forget: Nov 14 May 09 The MAC Christmas Event Feb 20 The New Medway Archives Centre Opens! Aug 17 The MALSC Volunteer Morning and the FOMA AGM Pocahontas May 07 May 15 Pride of Rochester; Short Sunderland III Aug 06 MALSC’s First Project with Ancestry, Heritage Open Rochester Castle in the snow Nov 06 Days Nov 16 A Rocking Medway Christmas! Nov 13 The Medway Hulks Aug 16 Sixty Years Ago; Brian Joyce looks back at the 1953 Medway In Lockdown; Women Power May 20 floods Feb 13 More Bob Ratcliffe Feb 19 Social (History) Distancing! Aug 20 New Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre Speaker Linda Parker ('Army Chaplains in World (MALSC). Feb 16 War One') with FOMA Chairman Tessa Towner The New Medway Archives Centre Opens! Aug 17 and Vice Chairman Elaine Gardner Feb 16 Remembering the French Dead; the invitation to Special Celebratory 25th issue – A new look for The Henk van der Linden’s award ceremony. Feb 17 Clock Tower; Au revoir Valerie! Feb 12 Reminiscence Sessions at the Medway Archives Special issue to mark the 90th Anniversary of the Centre Nov 19
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Strood's Industrial Past and the FOMA AGM; The Heritage News Restoration of Rochester's Guildhall Museum May Charles Roach Smith – Acclaimed Archaeologist and 16 Strood Resident (Haydock) Nov 12 Supporting the Medway Archives Centre (MAC) 'Dickens' Post Box' (Haydock) Feb 15 during Lockdown; The Bob Ratcliffe Collection Aug A Donation to FOMA (Haydock) Feb 18 20 Eastchurch Museum (Cox) May 15 Travels of a Tin Trunk Aug 16 Eastgate House (Haydock) May 15 Unveiling at the Guildhall, Rochester Nov 14 The Little Ships (Haydock) Aug 15 Uscan fiche/film Reader Nov 17 Magna Carta (Haydock) Aug 15 World War One Items Reunited by The Clock Tower ‘Mayor Of Medway Remembers French Dead’ Feb Nov 18 17 The planting of a ginkgo biloba tree in The Vines, Gaining Traction (Bourne) Feb 19 Rochester (Haydock) Feb 13 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and Treasures Of Rochester Cathedral (Haydock) May FOMA Privacy Policy Aug 18 16 George Bond, Architect and Surveyor, 1853 to 1914 When East Met West The visit of the Deputy Mayor (Salter and Ratcliffe) May 08 of Yokosuka, one of Medway's twin cities, in 2012 George William Lyon MC – In Search of a Photograph (Haydock) May 13 Feb 21 The Will Adams Festival (Caleno) Nov 12 The Ghost of Restoration House Nov 09 Heritage News (Haydock), New Waterloo Dispatch! Gillingham's Will Adams Festival Nov 12 Nov 15 Go Techno! (Butler) Feb 12 Heritage Open Days: News from FOMA's Medway The Good Companions Club, Rochester (Walters) May Council Representative on the Heritage Open Days 14 and the Bodleian Library (Haydock) Nov 10 Good Sports Recreation in or by the River Medway Highs and Lows of Family Research (Gardner) Aug 10 News (Crowe) Aug 12 HMS Medway (Lane) Nov 19 Grandad's Memories (Bower) Aug 07 Home Front (Clement) Aug 14, Nov 14 The Great Evacuation Medway Blackout Precautions Aug 15 BBC's WW2 People's War Project (Lambourne) Feb The Children's War Efforts Nov 15 10 Conscientious Objection, Part 1: The Quakers Feb John and Betty Farrow's Evacuation Memories 16 (Gardner) Feb 10 Conscientious Objection, Part 2: Chatham Memories (Keys) Feb 10 Conscientiously Objects May 16 Great Expectations in Post–War Medway (Joyce) Nov Conscientious Objection, Part 3: Pressure Groups 12 Aug 16 Great Fires of Chatham (Witheridge) Conscientious Objection, Part 4: Media Reporting Part 1 Feb 08 of Conscientious Objection in the Medway Towns, Part 2: The 1820 Fire of Chatham (The Dreadful 1916-1918 Nov 16 Fire) May 08 VE Day 1945 May 15 Great Lines Heritage Park: From The Great Lines to a Zeppelins over Gillingham Feb 15 Great Park (Robinson) May 11 The Homes for Little Boys in Hextable, Swanley, Kent Guildhall Museum Stores Tour Feb 16 (Daxter) Aug 08 Hospital Admission 1916 (Cole) Aug 16 Harriet Dickens (Paternoster) May 12 How the Benefits System has Changed! (Keys) Aug 09 Henk van der Linden Receives the British Empire Huguenot Museum Update (Adams) May 15–May 16 Medal (Thomas) May 17 Huguenot Museum Update (Birkett) May 19, Aug 19 Henk’s Medway Visit (A. Thomas) Feb 20 Huguenot Museum Update (Dimmock) Aug 16–Feb 18 Henry Smetham – A Busy Life (Buchanan) May 09, Aug Huguenot Museum Update (Winch) May 18, Feb 19 09, Nov 09 The Huguenots
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A Brief History of the Huguenots (Buchanan) Feb 15 recognition of November's Remembrance Sunday England's first Huguenot museum (Adams) Feb 15 Nov 12 Hurstcot: a Child of Nature (Joyce) Nov 09 John Butler and HMS Cressy Nov 12 The Live Bait Squadron (Towner) Nov 12 I Was There! (Walter) Aug 12 The Mystery of the Cap Badge (Towner and Harris) In Ruhleben Camp (Joyce) Aug 14 Nov 13 In Search of Thomas Fletcher Waghorn (1800–1850) The V2 Rocket at the Royal Engineers Museum (Ashbee) May 07 (Thomas) Nov 12 In the Bleak Mid–Winter of 1963 (Clement) May 13 War–Time Memories: Just Another 'Incident The Inaugural Annual General Meeting (Thomas) June (Ratcliffe) Nov 12 06 Let’s all go down the Strand! (Bourne) Nov 17 The Nonconformist Revolution (A. Thomas) Aug 20 A Letter from World War Two (Baker) Nov 19 Introducing Elspeth Millar! (A. Thomas) Nov 19 Live Bait Squadron Commemorations: The Road to An Introduction to the Friends of MALSC June 06 Chatham (Thomas) Nov 14 Is this the hand of Dickens? (Ashbee) May 12 Live Bait Squadron (Towner) Nov 12, Nov 13, Feb 14 Lives of Rochester Cathedral Choristers (Ashbee) Jeremy Clark’s Talk on the History of Rochester’s Part 1: The Whiffin Family May 19 Guildhall (Buchanan) May 17 Part 2: Thomas Whiffin* [III] (1834-1897) Aug 19 Jewish Life in the Medway Towns (Shub) Aug 06 A footnote for Thomas Whiffen Nov 19 Jimi Hendrix (Flood) Nov 13 Part 3: The Pearce Brothers Feb 20 John Butler and HMS Cressy (Butler) Nov 12 The Lloyd Family of Rochester (Weeds) Jottings By Waghorn in 1849 (Ashbee) Nov 16 Part 1 May 20 Jottings in the Churchyard of All Saints Frindsbury Part 2 Aug 20 (Towner) Nov 07 Part 3 Nov 20 Just Another Visitor (Ratcliffe) Feb 12 Local Studies Photographic Collection Digitisation Project (Lambourne) Nov 06 Keeping up with the Victorians Local Studies Report (Crowe) May 16, Aug 18 Edwin Harris – Nooks and Corners of By–Gone Lost Manor of Ware (Kersey) Nov 07 Rochester no. 60 (Worthy) Feb 14 The Love Me Do Boys in Chatham, 1963 (Flood) Nov Local Businesses through the Advertising of the Day 13 Feb 16 Local Businesses through the Advertising of the Day MAC’s New Archive E-Catalogue (Farewell CityArk!) (Thomas) Nov 12–Feb 13, Nov 13, Aug 15 (Cable) Feb 18 Newspapers, Advertising and Local Businesses Magna Carta Commemoration Lectures (Buchanan) (Thomas) Aug 12 Dr. Jeremy Clarke: Building Rochester Castle Feb 16 Keeping up with the Victorians (Thomas) Aug 16 Dr. Marc Morris: 'King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta,' (15 October 2015) The Launch of FOMA Publications (Thomas) Feb 18 Nov 15 Launch of Medway Ancestors, December 2005 Apr 06 Mr. Richard Dunn (Director Royal Engineers Launch of the Medway Valley book by Dr Andrew Museum): Warfare By Design: Fortify, Hold, Siege Hann Nov 09 & Fight Feb 16 Launch of the new FOMA website Nov 08 Sir Robert Worcester: 'Bishops, Barons and Books' Launch of the new printed The Clock Tower (Maisey) (8 October 2015) Nov 15 Aug 08 A Magnificent Entrance to the Town of Chatham Launch to Announce The Heritage Lottery Fund Grant (Joyce) Aug 12 (Thomas) Feb 09 Magnum Opus (Book Reviews) Learning and Outreach Programme for The Archives of Aubry's Brief Lives by Bruce Aubry (Clement) Aug 11 Great Expectations (Gardner) Aug 10 The Birth of British Aviation – Prisoners of Hope, by Lest we Forget: A series of special articles in Helen Landau (Cross) May 15
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Black People in Medway 1655–1914 by Brian Joyce 14 (Clement) Feb 11 The Story of the Invicta Works … A History of Broomhill – Strood's Hidden Gem by Odette Aveling and Porter, Rochester by Michael R. Lane Buchanan (Cross) Feb 14 (O'Halloran) Aug 12 Chatham From Old Photographs, by Brian Joyce Two Gentlemen of Strood by Odette Buchanan and Sophie Miller (Thomas) Nov 14 (Clement) Aug 11 The Chatham Scandal by Brian Joyce (Clement) Feb Zeal Unabated: The Life of Thomas Fletcher 12 Waghorn by (Ashbee) Aug 16 Divorced, Beheaded, Sold, by Maria Nicolaou Major–General Charles George Gordon – His Local (Thomas) Nov 14 Connections (Buchanan) Feb 12 The Emergence Of Shepherd Neame From The Major James Thomas Byford McCudden, VC DSO* Earliest Days of Brewing in Faversham, Kent: MC* MM CdeG (FR) RAF (Gardner) 1100–1732, by John Owen (Thomas) Nov 14 Major John Blackburn Hart and the Church of All Football Grounds Frenzy: Kent, a brief guide to the Saints, Wouldham (Lloyd) Feb 11 Football Grounds of Kent and South East London Major Thomas Scott, Part 3: Major Thomas Scott On (Floate) Aug 15 His Grand Tour Feb 18 The Football Grounds of the Early 1900s (Floate) Major Thomas Scott (Lyons) Aug 15 ‘Introduction’ May 17 The French Hospital in England: Its Huguenot Part 1 Aug 17 History and Collections by Tessa Murdoch and Part 2: Coach Travel Nov 17 Randolph Vigne (Cross) Feb 15 MALSC in the Local Community: Medway Shoots the A Glossary of Past & Present Pubs: Chatham from Breeze (Shub) May 08 1746–2000 (A to M) by Roy Murrant and Adrian MALSC Volunteer Morning (Thomas) Feb 13 Griffiths (Cross) May 12 MALSC Volunteer Open Day (Thomas) Feb 12 A Glossary of Past & Present Pubs: Chatham from MALSC Volunteers Morning and Christmas at MALSC 1746–2000 (N to Z) by Roy Murrant and Adrian (Thomas) Feb 14 Griffiths (Cross) May 14 MALSC’s First Project with Ancestry (Cable) Nov 16 Haunted Rochester by Neil Arnold and Kevin Payne MALSC Volunteer Morning and the FOMA AGM (O'Halloran) Nov 11 (Thomas) May 15 Hingham in the Great War, Hingham History Centre Map of Rochester 1822 (DE1161); The Unveiling and (Thomas) Nov 14 Presentation of the City of Rochester Society's Gift to A History of Higham (Volume II) by Andrew Rootes MALSC Feb 08 (O'Halloran) Feb 13 May Day in Strood May 09 Lillechurch: a thousand years of a farm at Higham Medieval Hospitals and Almshouses, a talk by David in Kent by Ian Milton (O'Halloran) Nov 12 Carder (Thomas) May 15 The Live Bait Squadron by Henk van der Linden The Medway Archives Centre Christmas Event (A. (O'Halloran) May 13 Thomas) Feb 20 Lyminge – a History, Parts One to Six, Lyminge Medway Archives Centre News (Millar) Feb 20 to Historical Society (Thomas) Nov 14 present The Medway Prison Hulks by Keith R Gulvin The Lockdown Project May 20 (Clement) May 11 Medway Archives Centre Volunteers’ Day (A. Thomas) The Medway Towns: River, Docks and Urban Life May 20 (England's Past for Everyone) by Dr. Sandra Medway Archives Centre Volunteers’ Day May 20 Dunster (Cross) Nov 13 Medway Celebrates the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Meopham Changing Places (Cross) Aug 14 I Was There! (Walter) Aug 12 Shell Shocked Britain, by Suzie Grogan (Thomas) The lighting of beacons for Her Majesty the Queen's Nov 14 Diamond Jubilee on the night of 4 June 2012: Stairway to Heaven: The Functions of Medieval photographs of the beacon at Broomhill, Strood Upper Spaces, by Dr Toby Huitson (Thomas) Nov Aug 12
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The Register at Allhallows Church (Paternoster) Aug The Municipal Buildings, Gillingham (Keys) Nov 08, 12 Feb 09 Medway Council’s 1918-2018 WW1 Then & Now My Fifteen Seconds of Fame! (Watson) May 14 Project (Found) Feb 18 My First Memory (Watson) Nov 14 Medway Council’s 1918-2018 WW1 Then & Now My Little Dormouse (Marchant) Aug 13, Nov 13 Project (Gardner) Feb 18 Mysterious Medway or: A Ghost Story for Christmas Medway Images Online Database: Official Launch (Charon) Nov 07 (Lambourne) Feb 10 The Mystery of the Cap Badge (Towner and Harris) Medway Memories (Keys) Nov 09 Nov 13 Medway Memories of World War Two and the Battle Mystery Photos: A new series of unidentified of Britain photographs Part 1 Aug 10 Castle Cottage, Cooling (Skilling) Nov 12, Feb 13 Part 2 Nov 10 Looking for a Lost Family, Leslie, Jean and Brian Part 3 Feb 11 Holmes originally of Queenborough, Kent May 13 The Medway Queen Paddle Steamer: The latest news Looking for Chatham relations of: David George on her restoration Aug 11 Henry Wood b. 1897 and Louise (née Dawson) b. The Medway Valley Book (Hann) Nov 09 1901 of Kennington, London Aug 13 Medway's Restoration Projects May 16 Mystery Photos: A new series of unidentified Medway Welcomes the Russian Navy Feb 21 photographs, The birth and death of Bentley Hedge, Members' Memories of the 1953 Floods (Cox, 1904 Nov 13 Furminger, Evans, Lambourne, Gardner and My West End (King) Feb 19, May 19 Buchanan) Feb 13 Memories of Flanders (Thomas) Aug 14 Napoleonic Wars – The Home Front, Medway and Memories Of Prefabs (Buchanan) May 17 Victory at Last (Buchanan) May 15, Aug 15 Part 1 Nov 16 "Never Before in the History of Chatham More News Part 2 Feb 17 …," (Joyce) Feb 12 Memories of The Coronation (Cross, Cox, Herlihy and New Approaches to Community History: Buchanan) Aug 13 Anglo–French Experiences – A symposium by the "Merely Players …" Glimpses into the history of University of Greenwich (Kings Hill campus), May amateur dramatics in Chatham and Rochester 2006 (Hann) June 06 (Fridman) Feb 14 New Chatham Dockyard Historical Society WWI More Essential Christmas Reading (Thomas) Research Papers (Allen) Nov 18 Chatham From Old Photographs, by Brian Joyce The Newcombs and the Nelson Connection (Sykes) and Sophie Miller Nov 14 Part 1 Feb 20 Divorced, Beheaded, Sold, by Maria Nicolaou Nov Part 2 14 Part 3 Aug 20 The Emergence Of Shepherd Neame From The New FOMA Treasurer Feb 16 Earliest Days of Brewing in Faversham, Kent: New Members Feb 14, Aug 15, Nov 15 1100–1732, by John Owen Nov 14 New Shorts Brothers Statue Unveiled (Cox) Aug 13 Hingham in the Great War, Hingham History Centre Newcomb War Diary 1939–1945 (Erwin) Nov 06 Nov 14 The Newcombs and the Nelson Connection (Sykes) Shell Shocked Britain, by Suzie Grogan Nov 14 Part 1 Feb 20 Stairway to Heaven: The Functions of Medieval Part 2 May 20 Upper Spaces, by Dr Toby Huitson Nov 14 Part 3 Aug 20 More News … News and events, Zeal Unabated: The Life of Thomas Henry Smetham Feb 14 Fletcher Waghorn (Ashbee) May 16 'Lost' photos of Medway's 'Dickens Land' found at News and Events Feb 15–Feb 16 Kent Archaeological Society Feb 14 News and Events (Buchanan) Feb 14–May 14 Mud, Glorious Mud! (Haydock) May 11 Changes at MALSC Nov 14
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Gun Lane Mortuary May 07 The Outbreak of World War Two: 3 September 1939 Henry Smetham Nov 13 (A. Thomas) Nov 19 Including Shorts Brothers Commemorative Plaque The Outings and Excursions of the People of the (Lambourne) Nov 08 Medway Towns in the Nineteenth Century Kent's Stonehenge (news from the Kent Part 1: Feb 12 Archaeological Society and the scanned images of Part 2: Where They Went May 12 the 1910 dig which took place at Coldrum Part 3: How They Got There and What They Did Aug Longbarrow, Trottiscliffe) Aug 13 12 News from The Kent Archaeological Society: Preparing for Invasion at Allhallows and Grain HMS Pathfinder (Magee) Nov 14 (Tritton) Aug 14 Percy Fitzgerald and the study of Charles Dickens Welcome to the new Patron of FOMA, The Very (Crowe) Nov 07 Revd. Dr. Mark Beach May 13 Perfect Stocking Filler More News …, Broomhill – The Nore Orphanage (Cole) Feb 18 Strood's Hidden Gem by Odette Buchanan Nov 13 Not Forgotten (Shub) Nov 08 Plaque to Charles Roach Smith FSA Nov 12 Not Just The Workhouse – The Kent Poor Law Union Pocahontas Index (Collins) Nov 18 A Descendant of Pocahontas (with Stuart Cresswell) Notice of the Annual General Meeting 2012 Feb 12 May 07 Famous Medway People: Pocahontas Aug 07 Oak Apple Day (Cole) May 11 Introduction (Dixon) May 07 Obituaries The Other Rochester and the Other Pocahontas Daphne Argent Feb 14 (Rosenberg–Naparsteck) May 07 Robert Bruce Aubry 1936 - 2016 Aug 16 Pocahontas and Heacham, birthplace of John Rolfe Peter Burstow May 19 May 07 Mr Freddie Cooper Feb 09 Waghorn and Pocahontas May 07 Norma Crowe Aug 19 Pocock Family of Upnor (Joyce) Aug 07 Michael Edward de Caville, (1946–2010) Nov 10 Pocock Press – or Adventures in Local History Rosemary Ann Jennings Feb 21 Publishing (Aubry) June 06 Doris Herlihy Aug 19 Poet Laureate of Strood (Buchanan) May 14 Lewis Jones 1931–2014 Nov 14 Publication of The Gossamer Thread (Manktelow) Dulcie Jones 1932–2012 May 12 May 14 Ray Maisey May 20 Mr JL Keys May 13 Quaker Education and Schooling 1775–1840 Roy Arthur Murrant (Towner) Feb 13 (Clement) Bob Ratcliffe 1936–2018 (Flood, Crowe and Part 1 Aug 10 Bourne) Feb 19 Part 2 – William Rickman's Quaker School Vincent Keith Rogers 1938–2009 Nov 09 1786–1813 Nov 10 Pat Salter May 19 Part 3 – Rochester Quaker Schooling: Rickmans' Ken Walter Aug 18 Girls School 1811–1843 and Robert Styles' Boys Mai Zobel May 19 School 1813–1820 Feb 11 Old Strood Library May 18 (Thomas) Part 4 – Richard Weston's School 1820–1829 May On the Trail of Sheppey's Heritage (Cox) Nov 13 11 A 100-Year-Old Flea Market Find and the Wonders of Part 5 – Richard Weston's School 1775–1840: Boley Modern Technology (Flood) Aug 20 Hill School Aug 11 Opening of the New Medway Archive Centre The Quick and the Dead, a talk by Richard van Emden From MALSC to MAC (Cable) Aug 17 (Thomas) Aug 14 Proceedings of the Opening (Thomas and Gardner) Aug 17 Rainham Church of England Primary School (Skilling) Part 1 May 13
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Part 2 Aug 13 From the FOMA Facebook Page May 17 Part 3 Nov 13 Frederick Leach / Mapping Mr. Leach - St The Rainham Theatrical Society (Thomas) May 14 Margaret’s Rochester, St Peter’s Rochester and St Ralph Victor Bardoe of Gillingham: Commonwealth John’s Chatham Feb 18 War Graves Recognition (Worthy) Nov 15 Friends of Great Lines Heritage Park Nov 11 Readers' Letters Feb 16 Ms. Gardner and Mr. Flood, thank you for the 52 and 83 High Street, Rochester Feb 13–May 13 Helpful Educational World War One Information Aksel Wooremaa and Mikael Wooremaa May 15 May 18 Corporal Albert Howes (Gray) Aug 19 George Blaxland Feb 11–May 11 Ambrose Etherington Nov 13 George Hanson (Thorn) Feb 20 Ann Wood, née Beacham. Aug 11 George Hanson – Murray Wright; Jean Skilling; Anne Pratt May 12, Feb 14 Betty Cole May 20 An Appeal by Pat Sandford Feb 12 Gillingham photographs archive Nov 10 Ashby's Waggonette and the Halling Institute Nov H J Arthrell & Sons (Smith) Nov 16 12 Home-Made Christmas Pressies - Odette Buchanan Assisted Emigration Nov 11 Feb 21 Austin Budden May 14, May 15 Hospitals in the Great War (Crowe) Feb 15 Bancroft Hitchin 1770–1801 Feb 11, May 11 Interested in Palaeography? May 17 The Bearblock Family and the Medway Towns May James Osenton (Jordan) May 16 12 John Sims of Canterbury Aug 18 Before the National Trust/ Cobham Hall Nov 19 John Thomas Hawes Nov 18 Bob Dunford: Charles and Mabel May Thomas John Winckworth Bailey Nov 11 Sampson Feb 13 Kitchener Barracks at Chatham Nov 12 Budden Family (van de Bult) May 16 On Leaving the old Medway Archives Building Aug Carving on Esplanade Paving Slab Feb 14 17 The Cavell Van Feb 14 Lily Victoria Parker (née Laker) May 12 Charles and Mabel May Thomas Sampson Nov 12 Living Descendants, Winterflood Aug 13 Chatham Naval Dockyard 1914–1918 Aug 17 The Lloyd Family of Rochester - Deborah Collins Feb Chatham Workhouse May 13 21 Clock Tower Fan Mail May 11, Feb 13 Magnum Opus (Beyer) Feb 15 Cranbrook History May 13 Magnum Opus Update May 15 Davy Court Development - more information The marriage of Matthew Dyke/Dike/Dicks and required (Anderson) Aug 16 Mary?, Norstead Parish early 1800s May 11 The De Caville Index (Roscow) Feb 15 Masson Family of Medway Nov 14 Delce Road (Moss) Aug 16 Medway Evacuees to Nantyglo, South Wales Feb 18 Desperately Seeking Susan May 13 Mr Arkoll of Foley House, Maidstone, Quaker The Diaries of Marjorie Gunn - Muriel Lhermé Feb Schools Rochester Feb 11 21 The Mulberry Tree at Bakers Gate Walkway May 10 Documents Nov 18 Mystery Photograph (Williams) May 19 Do you know Dan Willis – Medway Theatre Group? The Nore May 18 - Dr Henrik Eger Aug 20 The Old Strood LibraryAug 18 - Irina Fridman Nov 20 Old Strood Photographs May 12, Aug 12 An Overseer on the Chatham Lines Aug 17 Dr. Ludford Cooper Nov 12 Philemon Ewer, David and Miriam Ewer Feb 17 Edwin Greig Burton Feb 12 Photographs Needed of Rochester and Strood Elizabeth Lewis May 15 (Measures) May 16 Exhibition: Pembroke (M. Smith) Feb 20 Princess Pocahontas Nov 11 Family Tree of Vincent Van Gogh (Butler) Feb 13 Queen's Diamond Jubilee Aug 12 FOMA Donation Feb 13 Query on the De Caville Index (Scully) Feb 15
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Research Opportunity (Coote) May 19 Strood (Buchanan) May 16 Restoration House and the Pilcher Family Feb 14 Reverend W.H. Waller: Rector Of Luton And Big Game Rochester Water Works Nov 13–Feb 14 Hunter (Joyce) Aug 10 Rosamund Spong (née WALTER) Feb 14 Rhubarb, Rhubarb! (Worthy) Aug 13 The Rosher Family of Gravesend Nov 11 Rinkomania – The Story of Chatham United Service St John's Church Roll of Honour Nov 19 Skating Rink (Worthy) Feb 17 St Margaret’s Parish Poor-House, Rochester May 17 The River Medway: Industry and Development (Talk at Saint Mary the Virgin, Chatham Aug 10 MALSC) (Thomas) May 11 Shadrach Edward Robert Jones Aug 11, Aug 12 Rochester & Chatham Volunteers - Napoleonic Wars Stephen Rayner Nov 20 (Beresford) Feb 20 Strood Extension – Richard Bourne Nov 20 Rochester Bridge Trust's Exhibition and Christmas at Strood Mystery Nov 12 MALSC Feb 14 A Strood Query Aug 17 Rochester Castle: a theoretical archaeological Subject: Orphanages in Medway Area May 10 perspective (Thomas) Swanley Homes for Little Boys Aug 11 Part 1 Aug 11 Textus Roffensis Nov 18 Part 2: Rochester Castle – a piece of material Thank You Aug 18 culture (Thomas) Nov 11 Tilghman Family May 12 Rochester High Street Through the Eyes of a Child in Tilghman Genealogy Information, Barbara the Early 1950s (Gay) Marchant and Anne Pratt Feb 12 Part I May 18 Tracing Ancestors in Rochester Feb 14 Part 2 High Street to Star Hill in the 1950s Aug 18 Transcription volunteers needed? Aug 10 Part 3 From Northgate Onwards Nov 18 HMS Victory (Wagner) Aug 19 Rochester Parliamentary Election of 1741 (Lyons) Feb Visit to Rochester/ Langley of Love Lane May 10 10 Wadup/Waddup Nov 10 The Rochester Pedestrian (Worthy) Aug 19 The Walter Surname – now on Ancestry! Rocking Medway! (Gallagher) Nov 17 Jimi Hendrix (Flood) Nov 13 War–Time Memories Feb 13 The Love Me Do Boys in Chatham, 1963 (Flood) Nov Watts Almshouses' Boundary Wall (Marchant) May 13 16 A Teenage Tornado: The Rolling Stones in the Will Adams Feb 13 Medway Towns 1963–65 (Joyce) Nov 13 William Alexander Feb 11–May 11 Role of the Cathedral 1640–1660 (Clement) Nov William Evenden and the Resolute Desk Feb 12 08–Feb 09 Winkworth Family May 12 Roll out the Red Carpet, Introduction; Twenty-First WWII Evacuation – Urgent Appeal, Austin Budden Century May 17 Feb 14 Roll out the Red Carpet (Salter), Introduction; World War Two Mystery Sylvia Swan Nov 20 Twentieth Century, Part 1 Nov 16 Recent Accessions etc (Dixon) June 06 Roll out the Red Carpet (Salter) The records of Cliffe Parish Council (1894–1999) Aug Introduction; Anglo Saxons May 15 12 Introduction; Hanover Aug 16 Register at Allhallows Church (Paternoster) Aug 12 Introduction; Normans Aug 15 Relocating the Archive: The trials and tribulations of Introduction; Plantagenets Nov 15 moving MALSC (Gardner) Nov 17 Introduction; Stuarts May 16 Remembrance Sunday (Haydock) Feb 19 Introduction; Tudors Feb 16 Reminiscence Sessions at the Medway Archives Centre Introduction; Twentieth Century, Part 2 Feb 17 (Worthy) Nov 19 Restoration of the 1822 Map of Rochester (Thomas) St Catherine’s Hospital (Moss) Aug 17 May 08 St Margaret’s Parish Poor-House, Rochester (Cole) Feb Restoration of the Fresco at St. Nicholas Church, 17, May 17
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St. Nicholas, Stroud – The Tale of the Missing World War One Aug 14 Churchwarden/Vestry Accounts (Joyce) Nov 19 The Outbreak of World War Two Nov 19 Secretary's Report Feb 15, Aug 15– The Step Short Centenary Arch (Haydock) Nov 14 present The Story of the Navy House, Chatham (King) Feb 21 Short Brothers' Commemoration Society and 100 The Strawberry and Pleasure Gardens in Rochester Years of Flight (Crowe) May 09 (Worthy) May 16 A Short History of the Muslim Community in Medway Street Theatre: the Funeral of Admiral Corry, 1907 (Shub) Feb 09–May 09 (Joyce) Feb 16 Shorts Brothers Remembered (Burstow) Nov 08 A Stroll through Strood (Marchant) Nov 06 Shorts Brothers Tunnels (Thomas) Nov 16 Strood Heritage Society (Crowe) Aug 06 Sir Cloudesley Shovell and the 1707 Loss of The Strood Memories of the Outbreak of World War Two – Association (Crowe) 3 September 1939 (Buchanan) Nov 19 Part 1: The Early life of Sir Cloudesley Shovell May Strood: The Land of Used-To-Be (Buchanan) Nov 11 08 Strood to Canterbury 150 (Ratcliffe) Nov 08–May 09 Part 2: The Navy and Foreign Policy in the 17th Strood's Famous Botanist - Anne Pratt (Marchant) Feb Century Aug 08 07 Part 3: The Final Years Nov 08 Supporting the Medway Archives Centre during The Skills of the Historian (Bradley) Feb 08 Lockdown (Gardner) Aug 20 A Snapshot: My Great Aunt Emma 1901 (Bowling) May 10 Tale of the Old Brown Bus (Ratcliffe) May 16 Snodland Viewed by its Historians (Ashbee) Feb 07 Tale of Two Spytalls (Ratcliffe) Feb 14 Soldiers’ Stories on Our Streets (Found) Aug 18, Nov The Tales of Two Gordons (Ratcliffe and Buchanan) 18, Feb 19 Feb 12 Some Old Roffensians (Shreeve) A Teenage Tornado: The Rolling Stones in the Medway Part 1 - Church and Education Aug 08 Towns 1963–65 (Joyce) Nov 13 Part 2 Nov 08 A Teenager in the War (Keys) Nov 10, Feb 11 Part 3 - Arts and Science Feb 09 The Telephone Arrives in Victorian Medway (Joyce) Special Features May 14 1953 Floods Feb 13 Textus Dickensis: An (almost) comprehensive analysis Amateur Dramatics in Medway, Part 1 Feb 14 of resources on Charles John Huffam Dickens Amateur Dramatics in Medway, Part 2 May 14 (1812–1870) at MALSC (Fridman) May 12 The bad winter of 1962-3, including memories The Textus Roffensis at the British Library! (Lace) Aug received from members May 13 18 In the Bleak Mid-Winter of 1963 (Clement) May 13 That Was The News More News … (Crowe) Aug 12 Charles Dickens (1812–1870) May 12 The Theatre Royal, Chatham - My Memories (Walters) Chatham Pals, Michael de Caville (1946–2010) Nov Aug 14 11 Things to Come: Television in Medway, 1930-1960 Commemorating the Outbreak of World War One: (Joyce) Aug 15 1914–2014 Nov 14 This is Mutiny Mr Couchman! The Story of Lieutenant The Coronation Aug 13 Samuel Couchman of Rochester (O'Halloran) May The Great Evacuation Medway Feb 10 09–Aug 09 The Huguenots Feb 15 Thomas Fletcher Waghorn Revealed! (Thomas and Lest we Forget: A series of special articles in Ashbee) Nov 12 recognition of November's Remembrance Sunday Thomas Plume (Doe) Aug 08 Nov 12 Part 2 May 10 Medway Memories of World War Two and the The Tobacconist’s Tale King) Aug 20 Battle of Britain Aug 10–Feb 11 A Token in Time (Clement) Pocahontas May 07 Part 1 - Strood Tradesmen's Tokens of the Rocking Medway! Nov 13 Seventeenth Century Feb 12
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Part 2 - Chatham Trade Tokens Nov 12 07, Nov 09, May 10, Nov 10–Feb 11, Feb 11 To Oz and Back: Shadrach Edward Robert Jones An Appearance on Who Do You Think You Are? Nov (Butler) 11 Part 1 Aug 09 The England's Past for Everyone (EPE) Website May Travels of a Tin Trunk, Part 6: England, 1887 to 1889 08 Feb 18 The latest news on The England's Past for Everyone Travels of a Tin Trunk (Baker) Website Aug 09 Part 1: Owletts Aug 16 Mary Lacy, The Female Shipwright May 11 Part 2: Tonbridge School and Gibraltar Nov 16 The Medway Towns project Nov 08 Part 3: Towards The Sudan, 1885 Feb 17 The publication of Medway towns: river docks and Part 4: ‘The Battle of Ginnis, December 1885’ May urban life May 13 17 Races on the Lines Aug 12 Part 5: Richard Weston's School 1775–1840: Boley Spa resorts in the Medway Towns Aug 11 Hill School Aug 17 'A very old and ugly Town' and 'A seafaring, Tarlike Part 6: England, 1887 to 1889 Nov 18 Town': An Eighteenth Century Woman's View of Part 7: Sport and Sketching: India, 1890–93 Feb 18 Rochester and Chatham Feb 08 Part 8: Sport and Sketching: India, 1890–93 Aug 18 Volunteers - The Making of the Medway Towns Part 9: Ireland and England, 1893–98 Nov 18 Project Aug 08 Part 10: Nigeria (i) Feb 19 Volunteers Work their Magic Feb 09, May 09 Part 11: Nigeria, 1898 (ii) May 19 A Young Girl's Week Before Christmas, Brompton Part 12: Nigeria, 1898 (iii) Aug 19 1860 Nov 12 Part 13: Nigeria, 1898 (iv) Nov 19 The Victoria County History at MALSC (Hann) Apr Part 14: Kishi Feb 20 06–Feb 07, Aug 07 Part 15: Jebba May 20 Burham and Halling cement works May 07 Part 16: Mentioned in Despatches Aug 20 The Victoria County History at MALSC (Thomas), The Part 17: Conclusion Launch of The Medway Towns: river, docks and Trouble at St Margaret's (Cole), A look at the Calendar urban life by Dr Sandra Dunster Aug 13 of Assize Records - Kent Indictments at the Kent Voices from the Dockyard (Cole and Crowe) May 20, History and Library Centre at Maidstone May 13 Aug 20 Tudor Garden at Restoration House (Gardner) May 12 Rats (of one sort and another) May 19 Turning the Clocks Back The Halfpenny Trains Aug 19 Gillingham's Will Adams Festival Nov 12 Tricks of the Trade Nov 19 The Live Bait Squadron Nov 12 Women’s Work Feb 20 The Plaque to Charles Roach Smith FSA Nov 12 The Volunteer Morning at MALSC (photographs) Feb Twenty Years of MALSC (Dixon) Aug 13 13 Volunteering … it's a whole new way of life! (Gardner) Unquiet Monuments, The Boer Statues – Royal Aug 08 Engineer Barracks (de Coulon Berthoud) Aug 20 Volunteers Day (A. Thomas) Untold Stories and Hidden Treasures: a FOMA talk by Simon Lace (Gardner) May 18 A Waghorn Discovery (Ashbee) Aug 09 The unveiling of the Value of Touch bronze tactile Nov War Memorials (Baker) Nov 17 13 Water Everywhere: The 1953 Floods in NW Kent Update to Education and Outreach report - April to (Crowe) Feb 13 November 2011 (Gardner) Nov 11 Watts' Alms Houses Reminiscences; The Rochester High Street Project (Crowe) Nov 07 V2 Rocket at the Royal Engineers Museum (Thomas) What a Phone Call can Lead to … (Smith) Nov 12 Part 1: Heir Hunters Nov 18 Vice-Chairman’s Ramblings (Jennings) Feb 21 Part Two: The Arthrell Family Feb 20 The Victoria County History at MALSC (Dunster) Nov What and Why?
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HMS Barfleur Monument (Cole) Aug 19 (Gardner) The Charnel House, Gun Lane, Strood (Buchanan) Feb 19 Adams, Amy, Huguenot Museum Update Feb 15, May Chatham Town Hall Gardens (Cole) Aug 18 15, Aug 15 The Driver Fountain at the Luton Arches, Allen, Colin Chatham (Joyce) Feb 21 New Chatham Dockyard Historical Society WWI Jackson’s Recreation Ground, Rochester Research Papers Nov 18 (Russell) Nov 19–May 20 Anderson, Paul, Readers' Letters Aug 16 Kidwell Memorial Clock Tower and Shelter Ashbee, Dr. Andrew (Russell) Nov 18 1911 Project May 16 The Will Adams Clock Tower in Gillingham An Extraordinary World War One Story Nov 14 (Haydock) May 19 Is this the hand of Dickens? May 12 The Workhouse, Magpie Hall Road (Cole) Jottings By Waghorn in 1849 Nov 16 Aug 20, Nov 20 News and events May 16 What’s in a Name? (Simkins) Aug 17 In Search of Thomas Fletcher Waghorn What's in the Trunk? (front cover) Aug 16 (1800–1850) May 07 When East Met West Again! (Haydock) May 14 Lives of Rochester Cathedral Choristers (Ashbee) When is an Oast not an Oast (Thorn) Part 1: The Whiffin Family May 19 Part 1 May 18 Part 2: Thomas Whiffin* [III] (1834-1897) Aug 19 Part 2 When it’s a Community Centre Aug 18 A footnote for Thomas Whiffen Nov 19 Part 3 When this Oast is a Jewel in the Part 3: The Pearce Brothers Feb 20 Community Nov 18 Snodland Viewed by its Historians Feb 07 Who was Waghorn's Father? (Ashbee) Aug 07 Thomas Fletcher Waghorn Revealed! (with Amanda Why Did the War Start? (Thomas) Aug 14 Thomas) Nov 12 William Bartholomew - A Man of Probity (Weeds) A Waghorn Discovery Aug 09 Part 1 Feb 12 Who was Waghorn's Father? Aug 07 Part 2: Political Life in Early Victorian Rochester Aubry, Bruce, Pocock Press – or Adventures in Local May 12 History Publishing June 06 Part 3: Liberal Success At Last Aug 12 Part 4: Bartholomew's Free Church Nov 12 Baker, Michael Coming up Next Issue … May 16 Will of Sarah Hillman, née Hemmington, of Gravesend A Letter from World War Two Nov 19 (Paternoster and O’Halloran) Nov 18 Travels of a Tin Trunk Aug 16, Nov 16, Feb 17, May Witheridge's Witterings … (Witheridge) May 08–Feb 17, Aug 17, Feb 18 to present 09 War Memorials Nov 17 World War One Which Mr Baker? or By Nine Votes to Eight Nov 08 Home Front (Clement) Aug 14 Berthoud, Chris de Coulon, Launch of the WWI De Caville Index (Towner) Aug Secretary’s Report Aug 19-present 14 Unquiet Monuments, The Boer Statues – Royal Memories of Flanders (Thomas) Aug 14 Engineer Barracks The Quick and the Dead, a talk by Richard van Beyer, M J., Magnum Opus (Letter) Feb 15 Emden (Thomas) Aug 14 Birkett, Hannah, Huguenot Museum Update May 19, In Ruhleben Camp (Joyce) Aug 14 Aug 19 Why Did the War Start? (Thomas) Aug 14 Bourne, Richard World War One and my Grandfather - I Wish I had Bob Ratcliffe, 1936-2018 Feb 19 Met Him (Herlihy) Aug 14 Gaining Traction Feb 19 World War One at Wainscott Primary School Let’s all go down the Strand! Nov 17 (Gardner) Feb 16 Bower, Di, Grandad's Memories Aug 07 World War One Items Reunited by The Clock Tower Bowling, Ann, A Snapshot: My Great Aunt Emma 1901
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May 10 09, May 10 Bradley, Dr. Kate, Skills of the Historian Feb 08 Buchanan, Odette Nov 15 Cable, Alison Broomhill and the Battle of Britain Nov 10, Feb 11 Archives Update May 09–Aug 09, Aug 10–Nov 11, Commemorating an Amazing Engineering Feat: The May 12–Nov 12, May 13–present story of the Thames and Medway Canal Aug 12 A FOMA Retrospective Feb 12 Common Sense or Just Plain Lune–y? May 11 MAC’s New Archive E-Catalogue (Farewell CityArk!) Coronaverses May 20 Feb 18 Crispin and Crispianus Public House, Strood May 11 From MALSC to MAC Aug 17 Dickens at Higham, 1870 (Poem) (Buchanan) May MALSC’s First Project with Ancestry Nov 16 12 Cable, Joanne, Chatham Dockyard and its Defences: a Dickensian Anecdotes May 12 future World Heritage Site May 11, Feb 13 A FOMA Retrospective Feb 12 Caleno, Lisa, Heritage News: The Will Adams Festival FOMA Spring Quiz May 16 Nov 12 Henry Smetham – A Busy Life May 09, Aug 09, Nov Clement, Dr. Catharina 09 Asquith Camile Xavier: His struggle for Racial The Huguenots Feb 15 Equality Nov 20 Jeremy Clark’s Talk on the History of Rochester’s Big Freeze of 1963 May 13 Guildhall May 17 In the Bleak Mid–Winter of 1963 May 13 Magna Carta Commemoration Lectures Nov Deliver this poor City from the Qua(kers)': Rochester 15–Feb16 Quakerism and its Struggle for Existence Major–General Charles George Gordon – His Local 1655–1750 May 10 Connections Feb 12 Enlistment of Pauper Children for the Army Aug 13, Members' Memories of the 1953 Floods Feb 13 Nov 13 Memories Of Prefabs Nov 16, Feb 17, May 17 Home Front Aug 14–present Memories of The Coronation Aug 13 Magnum Opus (Book reviews) Feb 11–Aug 11, Feb Napoleonic Wars – The Home Front, Medway and 12–May 12 Victory at Last May 15–Aug 15 Medway Raid or De Tocht naar Chatham Aug 17, News and Events Aug 13, Nov 13, Feb 14–May 14 Nov 17 Poet Laureate of Strood May 14 Quaker Education and Schooling 1775–1840 Aug Restoration of the Fresco at St. Nicholas Church, 10–Aug 11 Strood May 16 Role of the Cathedral 1640–1660 Nov 08–Feb 09 Secretary's Report Nov 08–present A Token in Time Feb 12, Nov 12 Strood Memories of the Outbreak of World War Cole, Betty Two – 3 September 1939 Nov 19 All Saints' Players, Chatham Feb 14, May 14 Strood: The Land of Used–To–Be Nov 11 Betty's Postcards Nov 09–Nov 10, Nov 11, Feb 12 The Tales of Two Gordons (with Bob Ratcliffe) Feb Hospital Admission 1916 Aug 16 12 An Appeal to FOMA Members for Further What and Why? The Charnel House, Gun Lane, Information!, Nov 19 Strood Feb 19 The Nore Orphanage Feb 18 Burstow, Peter Oak Apple Day May 11 Borstal's Wartime Umbrella Feb 08 St Margaret’s Parish Poor-House, Rochester Feb 17 Shorts Brothers Remembered Nov 08 May 17 Butler, Brian Voices from the Dockyard May 19–present Cemetery Epitaphs Aug 14 What and Why? Family Tree of Vincent Van Gogh Feb 13 Chatham Town Hall Gardens Aug 18 Go Techno! Feb 12 HMS Barfleur Monument Aug 19 John Butler and HMS Cressy Nov 12 The Workhouse, Magpie Hall Road Aug 20, Nov 20 To Oz and Back: Shadrach Edward Robert Jones Aug Collins, Deborah
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Not Just The Workhouse – The Kent Poor Law Union Water Everywhere: The 1953 Floods in NW Kent Index Nov 18 Feb 13 Coote, Claire, Readers’ Letters May 19 Watts' Alms Houses Reminiscences; The Rochester Cornish, Chris, Delivered by Hand (poem) Feb 16 High Street Project Nov 07 Cox, Barry Eastchurch Museum May 15 Daxter, Greg, The Homes for Little Boys in Hextable, Friary Place, Strood, and St Mary's Hospital Nov 13 Swanley, Kent Aug 08 Members' Memories of the 1953 Floods Feb 13 Dimmock, Amy, Huguenot Museum Update Nov Memories of The Coronation Aug 13 15–present New Shorts Brothers Statue Unveiled Aug 13 Dixon, Stephen May 08 On the Trail of Sheppey's Heritage Nov 13 Archives Update Apr 06–June 06, Nov 06–Feb 08 Cresswell, Stuart, A Descendant of Pocahontas (with FOMA Members Feb 18 Stuart Cresswell) May 07 A FOMA Retrospective Feb 12 Cross, Steve Pocahontas Introduction May 07 Books for Christmas Nov 14–Nov 15 Recent Accessions etc June 06 The Fate of a Girl’s Father (Cross) Nov 20 Twenty Years of MALSC Aug 13 The French Hospital in England: Its Huguenot Doe, Tony, Thomas, Plume Aug 08 History and Collections by Tessa Murdoch and Dunster, Dr. Sandra Randolph Vigne Feb 15 A FOMA Retrospective Feb 12 Magnum Opus (Book reviews) Nov 13–Aug 14, May The Victoria County History at MALSC Nov 07–Nov 15 09, May 10, Nov 10–Nov 11, Aug 12, Nov 12, May Memories of The Coronation Aug 13 13 Crowe, Ken, Hospitals in the Great War (Letter) Feb 15 Ellwood, David, An Artist's View of Rochester's Great Crowe, Norma Legacy Aug 06 The Balfour Honours Boards and Balfour Schools – Erwin, Sheila , The Newcomb War Diary 1939–1945 A Mystery Aug 20 Nov 06 Bob Ratcliffe, 1936-2018 Feb 19 Evans, Gillian, Members' Memories of the 1953 Floods Commemorating the Short Brothers June 06 Feb 13 Eddie Lane Nov 19 Evans, Philip, Did You Know …? : Ethel Alice Smith Good Sports Recreation in or by the River Medway (née Wraight), 1894–1975 Feb 11 News Aug 12 Local Studies and Archives report for 2013–14 May Floate, Mike, Magnum Opus (Book Reviews) Aug 15 14 Flood, Rob Local Studies Report May 16 A 100-Year-Old Flea Market Find and the Wonders Local Studies Report for the FOMA AGM, 10 April of Modern Technology Aug 20 2018 Bob Ratcliffe, 1936-2018 Feb 19 Obituary Aug 19 The Bob Ratcliffe Memorial Bench Feb 20 Percy Fitzgerald and the study of Charles Dickens The FOMA eBay Project Aug 20 Nov 07 FOMA Members Feb 18 The Picture Medway Project; Women Power May Jimi Hendrix Nov 13 20 The Love Me Do Boys in Chatham, 1963 Nov 13 Short Brothers' Commemoration Society and 100 Vice-Chairman’s Ramblings Feb 21 Years of Flight May 09 Found, Abby Sir Cloudesley Shovell and the 1707 Loss of The The 350th Commemorations – From the Viewpoint Association May 08, Aug 08, Nov 08 of Medway Council’s Heritage Team (Found) Aug Strood Heritage Society Aug 06 17 That Was The News … Aug 12 Medway Council’s 1918-2018 WW1 Then & Now Voices from the Dockyard May 19–present Project Feb 18
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Soldiers’ Stories on Our Streets Aug 18, Nov 18, Feb Volunteering … it's a whole new way of life! Aug 08 19 World War One at Wainscott Primary School Feb 16 Fridman, Irina see also Shub, Irina World War One Items Reunited by The Clock Tower "Merely Players …" Glimpses into the history of Nov 18 amateur dramatics in Chatham and Rochester Feb Gay, Julie 14 Rochester High Street Through the Eyes of a Child in Textus Dickensis: An (almost) comprehensive the Early 1950s analysis of resources on Charles John Huffam Part I May 18 Dickens (1812–1870) at MALSC (Fridman) May 12 Part 2 Aug 18 Furminger, Christine, Members' Memories of the Part 3 Nov 18 1953 Floods Feb 13 Gray, Tony, Corporal Albert Howes Aug 19 Guthrie, Daphne Gallagher, John, The Walter Surname – now on Friends Overseas: Medway Memories May 07 Ancestry! Nov 17 Gardner, Elaine Feb 18 Hann, Dr. Andrew Apr 06, Aug 06 Albert Edward Godfrey Howes, (Sept. 1897 – Oct. The Medway Valley Book Nov 09 1917) May 19 New Approaches to Community History: An Astonishing Discovery at St. John’s Church, Anglo–French Experiences – A symposium by the Chatham Nov 19, Feb 20 University of Greenwich (Kings Hill campus), May The Bob Ratcliffe Collection Aug 20 2006 June 06 8th FOMA AGM May 14 The Victoria County History at MALSC June 06, Nov Eastgate House Heritage Lottery Fund Bid Feb 13 06, Feb 07–Aug 07 The FOMA Collection Nov 18 Harrington, Duncan, Early Town Books of Faversham FOMA’s New Venue May 19 (with Patricia Hyde) May 08 George William Lyon MC – In Search of a Harris, Carol, The Mystery of the Cap Badge (with Photograph Feb 21 Tessa Towner) Nov 13 Great Evacuation Medway: Memories: John and Haydock, Sue Betty Farrow's Evacuation Memories Feb 10 Battle Of Medway or When The Dutch Gave Us A Highs and Lows of Family Research Aug 10 Bloody Nose Aug 17 'Kent in WW1 – People, Places and Events' Feb 15 A Dickens of a Night Out! May 12 Learning and Outreach Programme for The Archives Dickens' Post Box Feb 15 of Great Expectations Aug 10 Eastgate House May 15 Major James Thomas Byford McCudden, VC DSO* Flying the Team GB Flag for Medway! Aug 12 MC* MM CdeG (FR) RAF May 18 Heritage News Feb 18 Medway Council’s 1918-2018 WW1 Then & Now Heritage News Nov 12, Feb 13, May 13, Nov 15, Project Feb 18 May 16, Feb 17 Members' Memories of the 1953 Floods Feb 13 Heritage Open Day Nov 10 photo from 'Army Chaplains in World War One' Feb The Little Ships Aug 15 16 Magna Carta Aug 15 Proceedings of the Opening Aug 17 Mud, Glorious Mud! May 11 Relocating the Archive: The trials and tribulations of Remembrance Sunday Feb 19 moving MALSC Nov 17 The Step Short Centenary Arch Nov 14 Supporting the Medway Archives Centre during When East Met West Again! May 14 Lockdown Aug 20 The Will Adams Clock Tower in Gillingham May 19 Tudor Garden at Restoration House May 12 Herlihy, Doris Untold Stories and Hidden Treasures: a FOMA talk The Commemorations from the Public Perspective by Simon Lace May 18 Aug 17 Update to Education and Outreach report – April to Memories of The Coronation Aug 13 November 2011 Nov 11 Obituary Aug 19
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King, Janet World War One and my Grandfather – I Wish I had Adams’ Garage (Hold that Tiger) Nov 20 Met Him Aug 14 My West End Feb 19, May 19 Hyde, Patricia, Early Town Books of Faversham (with The Story of the Navy House, Chatham Feb21 Duncan Harrington) May 08 The Tobacconist’s Tale Aug 20 Knight, Janet Feb 09 Iles, Josie Edwin Harris – Recollections of Rochester Nov New FOMA Treasurer Feb 16 07–Nov 08, May 09–Aug 10 FOMA AGM Treasurer’s Report May 20 Lace, Simon Jordan, Nancy, Readers' Letters May 16 The Textus Roffensis at the British Library! Aug 18 Joyce, Brian Lambourne, April Aubry's Long Life Aug 16 Archives Update Aug 08, Nov 08 Battle Of Yantlet Creek, 1860 Aug 13 A Christmas Appeal: MALSC Frequently Asked Chatham's Naval Losses in 1914 – A talk by Alex Questions Nov 06 Patterson to FOMA Nov 14 Darnley Archive: Preservation and Promotion Aug The Driver Fountain at the Luton Arches, Chatham 06 Feb 21 The Great Evacuation Medway: The BBC's WW2 From Gipsy Tent to Pulpit: Rodney Smith in People's War Project Feb 10 Chatham 1879–80 May 11 Local Studies Photographic Collection Digitisation Great Expectations in Post-War Medway Nov 12 Project Nov 06 Hurstcot: a Child of Nature Nov 09 Medway Images Online Database: Official Launch From Kent To Montana – The Medway Roots Of Feb 10 Gary Cooper Feb 14 News and Events: Including Shorts Brothers A Magnificent Entrance to the Town of Chatham Commemorative Plaque Nov 08 Aug 12 Lambourne, Keith "Never Before in the History of Chatham …" Feb 12 A Day in the Life of St. Bart's (produced 1930) : The Pocock Family of Upnor Aug 07 Medway On Screen project Feb 11 Reverend W.H. Waller: Rector Of Luton And Big Members' Memories of the 1953 Floods Feb 13 Game Hunter Aug 10 Lane, Eddie, HMS Medway Nov 19 In Ruhleben Camp Aug 14 Lear, Jean, Before The National Trust Aug 19 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. The Medway Lloyd, John, Major John Blackburn Hart and the Towns and the East Coast Floods Of 1953 Feb 13 Church of All Saints, Wouldham Feb 11 Street Theatre: the Funeral of Admiral Corry, 1907 Lyons, Peter Feb 16 Major Thomas Scott May 17, Aug 17, Nov 17 A Teenage Tornado: The Rolling Stones in the Outings and Excursions of the People of the Medway Towns 1963–65 Nov 13 Medway Towns in the Nineteenth Century Feb 12, The Telephone Arrives in Victorian Medway May 14 May 12, Aug 12 Things to Come: Television in Medway, 1930–1960 Rochester Parliamentary Election of 1741 Feb 10 Aug 15 Joyce, Peter, St. Nicholas, Stroud – The Tale of the McDonald, Craig, Cap Badge Nov 13 Missing Churchwarden/Vestry Accounts MacDougall, Philip, Medway Welcomes the Russian Kersey, Kathryn, Lost Manor of Ware Nov 07 Navy Feb 21 Keys, J. L. Magee, John, HMS Pathfinder Nov 14 The Great Evacuation Medway: Memories Feb 10 Maisey, Ray, The launch of the new printed The Clock How the Benefits System has Changed! Aug 09 Tower Aug 08 Medway Memories Nov 09 Manktelow, Bettine, Publication of The Gossamer Municipal Buildings, Gillingham Nov 08, Feb 09 Thread May 14 A Teenager in the War Nov 10, Feb 11 Marchant, Barbara
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My Little Dormouse Aug 13, Nov 13 … Aug 10 A Stroll through Strood Nov 06 Battle of the Falklands Feb 15 Strood's Famous Botanist – Anne Pratt Feb 07 A Day in May; The story of the Princess Irene Aug Marchant, David, Readers' Letters May 16 13 Millar, Elspeth George Bond, Architect and Surveyor, 1853 to 1914 Medway Archives Centre News Feb 20 to present (with Pat Salter) May 08 The Lockdown Project May 20 HMS Bulwark Nov 14 Measures, Ken, Readers' Letters May 16 Just Another Visitor Feb 12 Moss, Alan Magnum Opus (Book Reviews) Aug 16 City of Rochester Society Nov 06 Strood to Canterbury 150 Nov 08–May 09 Readers' Letters Aug 16 Tale of the Old Brown Bus (Ratcliffe) May 16 St Catherine’s Hospital Aug 17 A Tale of Two Spytalls Feb 14 Moy, Nicola, Command of the Heights Nov 15 The Tales of Two Gordons (with Odette Buchanan) Murrant, Roy Feb 12 From the Chairman Apr 06–Feb 07 War–Time Memories: Just Another 'Incident' Nov The Crown & Thistle Public House, 188, High Street, 12 Chatham Aug 09 Robinson, Nina, Great Lines Heritage Park: From The Great Lines to a Great Park May 11 Nicholas, Nic, New Clock Tower Index May 15 Roscow, Anne, De Caville Index (Letter) Feb 15 Nutton, Elaine, An Appeal for the Missng Families of Rosenberg-Naparsteck, Ruth, Other Rochester and the Gillingham Park Tragedy of 1929 May 11 the Other Pocahontas May 07 Rouland, Valerie, Archives Update Aug 11–Nov 11, O'Halloran, Cindy Nov 11 Cindy's Little Gems Aug 10–Aug 11, Feb 12–Nov 12, Russell, Kevin Aug 13–Feb 14 What and Why? A FOMA Retrospective Feb 12 The Kidwell Memorial Clock Tower and Shelter Magnum Opus (Book reviews) Nov 11, Aug 12, Nov Nov 18 12, Feb 13, May 13 Jackson’s Recreation Ground, Rochester Mystery Photos: The birth and death of Bentley Nov 19–May 20 Hedge, 1904 Nov 13 Salter, P. J. Secretary's Report Feb 07–Aug 08 Charles Larkin 1775 – 1833 Nov 16, May 17, Aug This is Mutiny Mr Couchman! The Story of 17, Feb 18, May 18 Lieutenant Samuel Couchman of Rochester May Roll out the Red Carpet May 15–present 09–Aug 09 Salter, Pat, George Bond, Architect and Surveyor, Will of Sarah Hillman, née Hemmington, of 1853 to 1914 (with Bob Ratcliffe) May 08 Gravesend Nov 18 Schwieso, Josh, Broom Hill in World War One Nov 17 Scully, Paul, Query on the De Caville Index Feb 15 Parker, Linda, 'Army Chaplains in World War One' Shreeve, Simon, Some Old Roffensians Aug 08–Feb 09 (photo) Feb 16 Shub, Irina see also Fridman, Irina Paternoster, Brenda Jewish Life in the Medway Towns Aug 06 Harriet Dickens May 12 MALSC in the Local Community: Medway Shoots Register at Allhallows Church Aug 12 the Breeze May 08 Will of Sarah Hillman, née Hemmington, of Not Forgotten Nov 08 Gravesend Nov 18 A Short History of the Muslim Community in Portway Brian Medway Feb 09–May 09 Building the Basins Aug 18 Simkins, Vivienne Milton Aug 17 Skilling, Jean Ratcliffe, Bob Mystery Photos: Castle Cottage, Cooling Nov 12 1939 to 1945, A Little Lad Remembers More News Rainham Church of England Primary School May
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13–Nov 13 A FOMA Retrospective Feb 12 Slater, Jean, Dickensian Days Feb 08–Aug 08 Henk van der Linden Receives the British Empire Smith, Brian Kingsley, Aviation in Kent June 06 Medal May 17 Smith, Ian Henk’s Medway Visit Feb 20 Readers' Letters Nov 16 Introducing Elspeth Millar! Nov 19 What a Phone Call can Lead to … The Launch of FOMA Publications Feb 18 Part 1: Heir Hunters Nov 18 Launch to Announce The Heritage Lottery Fund Part 2: The Arthrell Family Feb 20 Grant Feb 09 Sykes, John Live Bait Squadron Commemorations: The Road to The Newcombs and the Nelson Connection Chatham Nov 14 Part 1 Feb 20 London Labyrinth, From Borsholders to Bobbies Part 2 May 20 Nov 16 Part 3 Frederick Newcomb at Chatham Magnum Opus (Book Reviews) Nov 14 Dockyard Aug 20 The Medway Archives Centre Christmas Event Feb 20 Thomas, Alexander MALSC Volunteer Morning Feb 13 Rochester Castle: a theoretical archaeological MALSC Volunteer Morning and the FOMA AGM perspective Aug 11–Nov 11 May 15 Why Did the War Start? Aug 14 MALSC Volunteer Open Day Feb 12 Thomas, Alison MALSC Volunteers Morning and Christmas at Edwin Harris - Recollections of Rochester Nov MALSC Feb 14 10–Feb 12 Medieval Hospitals and Almshouses, a talk by David Keeping up with the Victorians Aug 12–Nov 12, Nov Carder May 15 13, Aug 15–Aug 16 The Nonconformist Revolution Aug 20 Memories of Flanders Aug 14 The Old Strood Library May 18 Proceedings of the Opening Aug 17 The Outbreak of World War Two: 3 September 1939 Richard Watts and his Famous Charity Feb 11–May Nov 19 11 The Quick and the Dead, a talk by Richard van Thomas, Amanda Emden Aug 14 Advertisement for The Lambeth Cholera Outbreak Rainham Theatrical Society May 14 of 1848–1849 (Back Cover) Aug 09 Restoration of the 1822 Map of Rochester May 08 Am Dram Footnotes Feb 14 The River Medway: Industry and Development (Talk Archives of Great Expectations Exhibition Feb 12 at MALSC) May 11 Aspects of Huguenot Society. A talk by Amy Adams, Shorts Brothers Tunnels Nov 16 Huguenot Museum, Rochester Nov 15 Thomas Fletcher Waghorn Revealed! (with Dr. Barkers Litho Printers Feb 18 Andrew Ashbee) Nov 12 The Christmas Event at MAC Feb 18 V2 Rocket at the Royal Engineers Museum Nov 12 Christmas at The Medway Archives Feb 19 The Victoria County History at MALSC: The Launch The Clock Tower at 50 May 18 of The Medway Towns: river, docks and urban life The Deborah Collins Workhouse Index May 18 by Dr Sandra Dunster Aug 13 Covid and Me – A Trial Online Reminiscences Volunteers Day Session Feb 21 A Descendant of Pocahontas (with Stuart Cresswell) Thorn, Hazel May 07 When is an Oast not an Oast Editor's Footnotes Apr 06–present Part 1 May 18 FOMA AGM May 13, May 16, May 19 Part 2 When it’s a Community Centre Aug 18 FOMA Celebration, The May 17 Part 3 When this Oast is a Jewel in the The FOMA Collection Nov 18 Community Nov 18 FOMA Members at Work - and at Wrest! Aug 11 Towner, Tessa
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From the Chairman May 07–Aug 17 Rinkomania – The Story of Chatham United Service Jottings in the Churchyard of All Saints Frindsbury Skating Rink Feb 17 Nov 07 The Rochester Pedestrian Aug 19 Live Bait Squadron Nov 12, Nov 13–Feb 14 The Strawberry and Pleasure Gardens in Rochester Mystery of the Cap Badge (with Carol Harris) Nov May 16 13 Obituary: Roy Arthur Murrant Feb 13 photo from 'Army Chaplains in World War One' Feb 16 The seventh FOMA AGM May 13 When East Met West Again! (with Sue Haydock) May 14 Tritton, Paul, Preparing for Invasion at Allhallows and Grain Aug 14
Van de Bult, Cyp, Readers' Letters May 16
Wagner, Patti, HMS Victory Aug 19 Walter, Ken Highs and Lows of Family History Research May 10 I Was There! Aug 12 'Life Begins at 40?' Feb 15 Walters, Bettine The Good Companions Club, Rochester May 14 The Theatre Royal, Chatham - My Memories Aug 14 Watson, Angela My Fifteen Seconds of Fame! May 14 My First Memory Nov 14 Weeds, Pauline William Bartholomew - A Man of Probity Feb 12–Aug 12 Delce Mill and the Glover Family May 13–Aug 13 The Delce, Rochester Aug 11 The Lloyd Family of Rochester May 20, Aug 20, Nov 20 Williams, Sherrill, Readers’ Letters May 19 Winch, Dinah Huguenot Museum Update May 18, Feb 19 Witheridge, John Great Fires of Chatham Feb 08–May 08 Witheridge's Witterings … May 08–Feb 09 Worthy, Helen Edwin Harris - Nooks and Corners of By-Gone Rochester no. 64 Feb 15 Ralph Victor Bardoe of Gillingham: Commonwealth War Graves Recognition Nov 15 Reminiscence Sessions at the Medway Archives Centre Nov 19 Rhubarb, Rhubarb! Aug 13
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