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The Clock Tower 2019

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1911 Project (Ashbee) May 16 1953 Floods

Members' Memories of the 1953 Floods (Cox, Furminger, Evans, Lambourne, Gardner and Buchanan) Feb 13

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: The Medway Towns and the East Coast Floods Of 1953 (Joyce) Feb 13

Water Everywhere: The 1953 Floods in NW Kent (Crowe) Feb 13

Albert Edward Godfrey Howes, (Sept. 1897 – Oct.

1917) (Gardner) May 19 The All Saints' Players, Chatham (Cole) May 14 Amateur Dramatics in Medway

Part 1 Feb 14 Part 2 May 14

Am Dram Footnotes (Thomas) Feb 14 An Alternative Coronation, Gillingham 1953 Aug 13 An Appeal to FOMA Members for Further Information!

(Cole ) Nov 19 Andrew Ashbee Book Signing Aug 16 An Appeal for the Missing Families of the Gillingham

Park Tragedy of 1929 (Nutton) May 11 An Astonishing Discovery at St. John’s Church,

Chatham (Gardner) Aug 19 Archaeological Dig at Cliffe Aug 16 Archives of Great Expectations Exhibition (Thomas)

Feb 12 Archives Update (Cable) Feb 09–Aug 09, Feb 13–May

13, Feb 14, Feb 15, Aug 15, Feb 16, Aug 16, May 17, Nov 17

An annual review Nov 13 Archives Services 2013 May 14 Archivist's Report May 16

Archivist’s Report to FOMA AGM, 10 April 2018. CityArk. May 18

Back to the Workhouse Aug 13 Medway School Admission registers published on

Findmypast Nov 14 New Medway History Centre - Spring 2017 Feb 17 Newly Catalogued Archive Collections Aug-Sep

2015 Nov 15 Outreach Working; New Archive Collections Nov 12 Quarterly Report for the Archives of Great

Expectations May 10–Aug 10, Nov 10, Feb 11–May 11

Report to the FOMA AGM, 17 April 2012 May 12 Rochester City Archives Project: Ongoing

Conservation Work 2015 Nov 15 Archives Update (Cable and Rouland)

Quarterly Report for the Archives of Great Expectations Aug 11, Nov 11

Update on MALSC Collections catalogued during 2011 Nov 11

Archives Update (Crowe), Local Studies and Archives report for 2013–14 May 14

Archives Update (Dixon) Apr 06–May 08 Diaries of Marjorie Gunn (1910–1923) Aug 12

Archives Update (Lambourne) Aug 08, Nov 08 An Artist's View of Rochester's Great Legacy (Ellwood,

GAvA; Short Brothers) Aug 06 Aspects of Huguenot Society. A talk by Amy Adams,

Huguenot Museum, Rochester (Thomas) Nov 15 The Astonishing Discovery at St. John’s Church,

Chatham (Gardner) Nov 19, Feb 20 Attention Will Adams Descendants! May 19 Aubry's Long Life (Joyce) Aug 16 Aviation in Kent (Smith) June 06 Back Cover

Advertisement for The Lambeth Cholera Outbreak of 1848–1849 (Thomas) Aug 09

Archaeological Dig at Cliffe Aug 16 From the Archives … Apr 06–Aug 06, Nov 07–Feb

08, May 09 The Balfour Honours Boards and Balfour Schools –

A Mystery Aug 20 Bible Mystery Solved! Nov 16 The Bob Ratcliffe Memorial Bench Feb 20 Charles Roach Smith on Thomas Fletcher Waghorn

Nov 12 Children’s History Trail at the Medway Archives

Centre Aug 19 Christmas card from William Aikman Nov 12 Dutch Raid Commemorations Aug 17 Eastgate House Refurbishment May 15 Famous Medway People … May 07, Aug 07 Farewell, Bob Feb 19 A FOMA Celebration Feb 17 FOMA Quiz Night (Rochester) May 10 FOMA's New Patron The Very Revd. Dr. Mark Beach

May 13 Guildhall Museum Stores Tour Feb 16 Happy Birthday Medway Archives! Aug 18 Henk van der Linden Receives the British Empire

Medal May 17 Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre from


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Rochester Nov 15 Medway Archives Centre Christmas Event Nov 17 Medway Archives Centre, Reminiscence Sessions

poster May 19 Medway In Lockdown May 20 Napoleonic Wars May 15 The Restoration of the Fresco at St. Nicholas

Church, Strood May 16 Rochester's Huguenot Museum Opens! Aug 15 The Unveiling of the WWI Commemorative Paving Slab to Major James Thomas Byford McCudden, VC DSO* MC* MM CdeG (FR) RAF May 18 Soldiers’ Stories on Our Streets Nov 18 Strood’s Broomhill Triumphs in the RHS South East in Bloom Awards! Nov 19 Textus Roffensis at the British Library! Aug 18 The Uscan Digital Reader Feb 18 When East Met West Again! May 14 Who’s Reading The Clock Tower Feb 18 Witheridge's Witterings … May 08, Aug 08–Feb 09 World War One Commemorations Begin! Aug 14

Back Cover (Inside) Albert Edward Godfrey Howes,(Sept. 1897 – Oct. 1917) May 19

Andrew Ashbee Book Signing Aug 16 The Christmas Event at MAC Feb 18 Cliffe's Anglo Saxon Heritage Aug 16 Command of the Heights, a panoramic view of

Chatham and area (Heritage Lottery Fund project) Nov 15

Dickens' Post Box: The recently reinstated letter box at Gad's Hill, Higham Feb 15

Dutch Raid Commemorations Aug 17 EBay Purchases for MAC Nov 19 Events at the Medway Archives Centre May 19 Friends of Chatham Traction May 16 Gaining Traction Feb 19 Goodbye Old Strong Room; Hello New Strong

Room! Feb 17 Guildhall Museum Stores Tour Feb 16 Happy Birthday Medway Archives! Aug 18 Henk van der Linden Receives the British Empire

Medal May 17 London Labyrinth, MALSC’s First Project with

Ancestry Nov 16 The MAC Christmas Event Feb 20 Medway In Lockdown May 20 Poster for the FOMA World War One 1915

exhibition at MALSC Aug 15

Rochester's New Huguenot Museum May 15 Textus Roffensis at the British Library! Aug 18 Treasures Of Rochester Cathedral May 16 Slab to Major James Thomas Byford McCudden, VC DSO* MC* MM CdeG (FR) RAF May 18 Shorts Brothers in Rochester poster May 19 Soldiers’ Stories on Our Streets Nov 18 The Unveiling of the WWI Commemorative Paving War Memorials Nov 17 Voices from the Dockyard, The Halfpenny Trams

Aug 19 When East Met West Again! May 14 World War One Commemorations Begin! Aug 14 World's End (Jenkin's Dale, Chatham) Feb 13

The bad winter of 1962–3, including memories received from members May 13

The Balfour Honours Boards and Balfour Schools – A Mystery (Crowe) Aug 20

Barkers Litho Printers (Thomas) Feb 18 Battle of the Falklands (Ratcliffe) Feb 15 The Battle Of Yantlet Creek, 1860 (Joyce) Aug 13 Before The National Trust (Lear) Aug 19 A Belated Christmas Present! Nov 14 Betty's Postcards (Cole)

In Arcady Feb 11 Charles Dickens Nov 09 A comic postcard Aug 11 Good bye Old Man (WWI horses) Nov 11 Happy Birthday Charles Dickens! Charles Dickens'

birthplace in Portsmouth Feb 12 Leslie Howard Nov 10 Literary homes and a quiz on the same May 11 Mr. Micawber Aug 10 The Royal Family Feb 10 Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School May

10 The Bob Ratcliffe Collection (Gardner) The Bob Ratcliffe Memorial Bench (Flood) Feb 20 Books for Christmas (Cross) Nov 15, No 19

Beyond the Basics, by Tana L. Pedersen Nov 14 A Tree Without Roots, by Paul Crooks Nov 14

Borstal's Wartime Umbrella (Burstow) Feb 08 Broom Hill in World War One (Schwieso) Nov 17 Broomhill – Strood's Hidden Gem by Odette Buchanan

(Book review) Feb 14 Building the Basins (Portway) Aug 18 HMS Bulwark (Ratcliffe) Nov 14 Cap Badge (McDonald) Nov 13


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Cemetery Epitaphs (Butler) Aug 14 Chairman's Letter Nov 17–present Charles Larkin 1775 – 1833 (Salter)

Part 1: Introduction Nov 16 Part 2 Feb 17 Part 3: May 17 Part 4: Aug 17 Part 5: Feb 18 Part 6: May 18

Chatham Dockyard and its Defences (Cable), Future World Heritage Site May 11, Feb 13

Chatham Pals, Michael de Caville (1946–2010) Nov 11 Chatham's Naval Losses in 1914 – A talk by Alex

Patterson to FOMA (Joyce) Nov 14 A Christmas Appeal: MALSC Frequently Asked

Questions (Lambourne) Nov 06 Christmas at The Medway Archives (Thomas) Feb 19 The Christmas Event at MAC (Thomas) Feb 18 Cindy's Little Gems (O'Halloran) Feb 13, Aug 13

Anyone for Football? Lionel Messi and the Higham Connection May 12

Gillingham Freemans' Roll Feb 12 The Good Companions Club Feb 14 Grant of Dukedom to James Duke of Lennox, 1641

(U0565_F052) Aug 11 The Old Age Pensions Act 1908 Nov 10 The Old Spytall Nov 13 Remembering Sgt R. F. Arnold of the Royal Air Force

Volunteer Reserve May 11 Ticker's Torch Medway's Stuart "Ticker" Fry and the

1948 Olympic Games Aug 12 William Aitken Nov 12 Winget Life and M Swinget Feb 11

City of Rochester Society (Moss) Nov 06 Cliffe's Anglo Saxon Heritage Aug 16 Clock Tower Special Feature: The Dutch Raid 1667

Aug 17 The Clock Tower's 40th Issue Feb 16 Coming up Next Issue … (Baker) May 16 Command of the Heights (Moy) Nov 15 Commemorating an Amazing Engineering Feat: The

story of the Thames and Medway Canal (Buchanan) Aug 12

Commemorating the Outbreak of World War One: 1914–2014

A Belated Christmas Present! Nov 14 HMS Bulwark (Ratcliffe) Nov 14 Chatham's Naval Losses in 1914 – A talk by Alex

Patterson to FOMA (Joyce) Nov 14

An Extraordinary World War One Story (Ashbee) Nov 14

Home Front (Clement) Nov 14 Live Bait Squadron Commemorations: The Road to

Chatham (Thomas) Nov 14 HMS Pathfinder (Magee) Nov 14 Step Short Centenary Arch (Haydock) Nov 14

Commemorating the Short Brothers (Crowe) June 06 Common Sense or Just Plain Lune–y? (Buchanan) May

11 The Coronation

An Alternative Coronation, Gillingham 1953 Aug 13 Cindy's Little Gems Aug 13 Memories of The Coronation Aug 13

Coronaverses (Buchanan) May 20 The Crispin and Crispianus Public House, Strood

(Buchanan) May 11 The Crown & Thistle Public House, 188, High Street,

Chatham (Murrant) Aug 09 The Darnley Archive: Preservation and Promotion

(Lambourne) Aug 06 A Day in May; The story of the Princess Irene

(Ratcliffe) May 15 A Day in the Life of St. Bart's (produced 1930): The

Medway On Screen project (Lambourne) Feb 11 The Deborah Collins Workhouse Index May 18

(Thomas) Delce Mill and the Glover Family (Weeds) May 13, Aug

13 The Delce, Rochester (Weeds) Aug 11 Deliver this poor City from the Qua(kers)': Rochester

Quakerism and its Struggle for Existence 1655–1750 (Clement) May 10

Delivered by Hand (poem) (Cornish) Feb 16 Dickens at Higham, 1870 (Poem) (Buchanan) May 12 A Dickens of a Night Out! (Haydock) May 12 Dickens' Post Box (Haydock) Feb 15 Dickensian Anecdotes (Buchanan) May 12 Dickensian Days (Slater) Feb 08–Aug 08 Did You Know …? (Evans) Feb 11 Do You Know …? A photograph for identification Aug

11 Dutch Raid 1667

The 350th Commemorations – From the Viewpoint of Medway Council’s Heritage Team (Found) Aug 17

Battle Of Medway or When The Dutch Gave Us A Bloody Nose Aug 17


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The Commemorations from the Public Perspective Aug 17

Medway Raid or De Tocht naar Chatham Nov 17 Medway Raid or De Tocht naar Chatham (Clement)

Aug 17 Early Town Books of Faversham (Harrington and

Hyde) May 08 The Eastgate House Heritage Lottery Fund Bid

(Gardner) Feb 13 Eddie Lane (Crowe) Nov 19 Editor's Footnotes (Thomas) Apr 06, May 07, Aug 08,

Nov 17 AGM Report Aug 11 The ANZAC Sacrifice Nov 11 Barbados and Who Do You Think You Are? Aug 06 The Battle of Britain Aug 10 Christmas at Cobtree Manor or Dingley Dell Nov 13 Dunmalls, Brenchleys and Cliffe Nov 07 E–books Nov 09 Eastgate House, Orford Ness and Cliffe June 06 Family History: from Kent to Australia – and back!

Feb 12 The Flying Archaeologist May 13 History and the National Curriculum Aug 07 The Invisible Enemy May 20 The Lambeth Cholera Outbreak of 1848–1849 Aug

09 Malaria and yellow fever in Medway Aug 12 The Medway Cholera Outbreak of 1849 Nov 10 Medway Evacuees Feb 10 More family history coincidences Feb 11 The Osmotherlys, Lambeth and Cholera Feb 07 The potential destruction of the Aveling and Porter

building, Strood May 09 A review of the past 40 issues of The Clock Tower

Feb 16 Rochester's Huguenot Museum Feb 15 Thankful Villages of World War One Nov 18 The Rosher Family: From Gravesend to Hollywood

Feb 08 Saving Our Heritage Nov 15 Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School,

Rochester May 10 Strange Historical Coincidences: A Tale for

Christmas Nov 06 Technology and research May 08 Ten years of FOMA May 16 Who Do You Think You Are? Aug 13

Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2014 May 14 The Women Doctors who looked after Ivy Wellard

Aug 16 Women in Wartime Nov 08

Edwin Harris – Recollections of Rochester (Knight) Nov 07–Feb 10, Aug 10

Edwin Harris – Recollections of Rochester (Thomas) Feb 12

The Crown Hotel and its Famous Patrons Nov 10 Recollections of Rochester: no. 63 The City Coffee

House Aug 11 Richard Watts and his Famous Charity Feb 11, May

11 Edwin Harris (Worthy), Nooks and Corners of By–Gone

Rochester no. 64 Feb 15 Enlistment of Pauper Children for the Army (Clement)

Aug 13, Nov 13 Events before Lockdown

The Picture Medway Project; Women Power (Crowe) May 20

An Extraordinary World War One Story (Ashbee) Nov 14

Flying the Team GB Flag for Medway! (Haydock) Aug

12 FOMA AGM Aug 11, May 13, May 14, May 16, May

19, May 20 FOMA Books for Christmas Nov 09 FOMA Celebration, The (Thomas) May 17 FOMA Collection

Dickens School, Chatham May 13 Latest news Aug 11 Launch of the new FOMA website May 10 The newly purchased lease regarding The Brook,

Chatham Nov 13 The FOMA eBay Project (Flood) Aug 20 FOMA Members Aug 10

Amanda Thomas to give a talk in London: Cholera on the Lambeth Waterfront: the outbreak of the 1840s and how cholera could return today Nov 11

Congratulations Catharina! Catharina Clement completes her PhD Aug 13

FOMA Members at Work – and at Wrest! (Thomas) Aug 11

FOMA’s New Venue May 19 Highs and Lows of Family History Research (Walter)

May 10 Jean Slater; Pat Salter Nov 07 JL Keys (166 City of Rochester HAA Battery R.A.);


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Jean Slater Aug 08 'Kent in WW1 – People, Places and Events'

(Gardner) Feb 15 'Life Begins at 40?' (Walter) Feb 15 Mr Freddie Cooper ; Mrs Mary Paterson Feb 08 My Fifteen Seconds of Fame! May 14 New Clock Tower Index (Nicholas) May 15 News from the University of Kent. FOMA Vice

President Professor Sir Robert Worcester KBE DL completes term as Chancellor Aug 13

To Oz and Back (Shadrach Edward Jones) by Brian Butler published in A Viking in the Family and other Family Tree Tales by Keith Gregson Nov 11

Publication of The Gossamer Thread (Manktelow) May 14

Pubs of Old Brompton; a talk by the Brompton History Research Group, Rosie and Michael Jennings Aug 13

Rochester Aug 09 The Three Sisters. Caroline Baker's pottery

exhibition. Aug 13 Tina Bean May 08 The unveiling of the Value of Touch bronze tactile

(Daws) Nov 13 Which Mr Baker? or By Nine Votes to Eight (Baker)

Nov 08 FOMA Members Feb 18 A FOMA Retrospective (Cable, Dixon, O'Halloran,

Buchanan, Dunster and Thomas) Feb 12 The FOMA Spring Quiz (Buchanan) May 16 A FOMA Talk: Medway, Lambeth and Cholera

(Gardner) Nov 10 FOMA Talks, London Labyrinth, From Borsholders to

Bobbies (Thomas) Nov 16 Friary Place, Strood, and St Mary's Hospital (Cox) Nov

13 Friends of Chatham Traction May 16 Friends of Eastgate House Feb 12 Friends of the Medway Archives and Local Studies

Centre Constitution – Draft 2 (21st November 2005) Apr 06

Friends Overseas Aug 06 Medway Memories (Guthrie) May 07

From Gipsy Tent to Pulpit: Rodney Smith in Chatham 1879–80 (Joyce) May 11

From Kent To Montana – The Medway Roots Of Gary Cooper (Joyce) Feb 14

From the Archives … The burial record of Pocahontas Feb 07

The Ghost of Restoration House Nov 09 From the Chairman (Towner) Feb 15–Aug 17

Commemorating World War One. Nov 14 World War One and the Launch of the WWI De

Caville Index Aug 14 Front Cover

75th anniversary of Dunkirk Aug 15 1914–2014 Commemorations Come to a Close Feb

15 2012 Olympic Torch Arrives in the Medway Towns!

Aug 12 All Saints, Wouldham Feb 11 Amateur Dramatics in Medway Feb 14 Bienvenue Valerie! Archivist Valerie Rouland joins

the FOMA team Feb 10 Big Freeze of 1963 (Clement) May 13 Bob Ratcliffe, 1936-2018 Feb 19 In celebration of Charles Dickens May 12 The Day the Lamps Went Out Aug 14 A Donation to FOMA Feb 18 Doris Herlihy with Simon Lace, Medway Heritage

Services Manager May 15 An evening with Sir Robert Worcester:

commemorating the 400th anniversary of the voyage to Jamestown, USA Aug 07

Farewell Alison! May 18 Farewell from Janet Knight! Janet Knight Retires

Nov 09 The first FOMA AGM, 6th April 2006 June 06 FOMA at the London Marathon! May 08 The FOMA Collection (Gardner and A. Thomas) Nov

18 The FOMA De Caville Index – An Extraordinary Discovery! Aug 19

FOMA Members Honoured! Aug 11 FOMA visit to Restoration House Aug 09 Frindsbury Cricketers Aug 08 Goodbye Old Medway Archives! Feb 17 Henk’s Medway Visit Feb 20 Heritage Lottery Fund Grant Launch Feb 09 Heritage Open Days; The Bridge Chapel at

Rochester Nov 10 High Street and church, Snodland, Kent, from one of

Hambrook's Kent Series (c.1905) Feb 07 John Thomas Hawes, Mayor of Chatham, dressed

as Father Christmas distributing Christmas gifts to children outside the National Theatre cinema, Chatham, circa 1938 to 1939 Nov 07

Launch of the new FOMA website May 10


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Lest We Forget: Nov 11 Lockdown Special May 20 Luton's Big Game Hunter Revealed; World War Two

and Battle of Britain Special Aug 10 MALSC is Archive of the Year! May 11 MALSC’s First Project with Ancestry Nov 16 Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre from

Rochester Nov 15 Medway Commemorates Aug 15 Medway Queen paddle steamer Aug 15 Medway World War II Evacuation Special Feb 10 Medway's Restoration Projects May 16 Men of the Medway Towns: The Ultimate Sacrifice,

1918-1919 Nov 18 The new committee, elected at the FOMA AGM

May 09 The New Medway Archives Centre Opens! Aug 17 Pocahontas May 07 Pride of Rochester; Short Sunderland III Aug 06 Rochester Castle in the snow Nov 06 A Rocking Medway Christmas! Nov 13 Sixty Years Ago; Brian Joyce looks back at the 1953

floods Feb 13 Social (History) Distancing! Aug 20 Speaker Linda Parker ('Army Chaplains in World

War One') with FOMA Chairman Tessa Towner and Vice Chairman Elaine Gardner Feb 16

Special Celebratory 25th issue – A new look for The Clock Tower; Au revoir Valerie! Feb 12

Special issue to mark the 90th Anniversary of the World War One Armistice Nov 08

Summer in Chatham Aug 18 Ten Years Supporting the Medway Archives May 17

Thanks, Odette! May 19 Thank You, Jean! May 14 The Unveiling and Presentation of the City of

Rochester Society's Gift to the MALSC Feb 08 Uscan Digital Reader Nov 17 Volunteer Birthday Celebrations! May 15 We Celebrate Twenty Years of MALSC! Aug 13

Welcome, Elspeth! Nov 19 We Remember (memorial to some of the men of

the Live Bait Squadron) Nov 14 What's in the Trunk? Aug 16 Who Was Waghorn's Father? Nov 12

Front Cover (Inside) Autumn 2015 programme of talks for the

anniversaries of the Magna Carta and Siege of Rochester castle ... Aug 15

The Christmas Event at MAC Feb 18 Command of the Heights, a panoramic view of

Chatham and area (Heritage Lottery Fund project) Nov 15

Congratulations Wendy! May 18 FOMA at the Rochester Hub May 19

The FOMA Celebration May 17 The FOMA Committee and Archivist Alison Cable

visit the Archives storeroom Feb 15 FOMA’s New Venue Aug 19 Happy Birthday Medway Archives! Aug 18 Lest We Forget: Nov 14 The MAC Christmas Event Feb 20 The MALSC Volunteer Morning and the FOMA AGM

May 15 MALSC’s First Project with Ancestry, Heritage Open

Days Nov 16 The Medway Hulks Aug 16 Medway In Lockdown; Women Power May 20 More Bob Ratcliffe Feb 19 New Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre

(MALSC). Feb 16 The New Medway Archives Centre Opens! Aug 17 Remembering the French Dead; the invitation to

Henk van der Linden’s award ceremony. Feb 17 Reminiscence Sessions at the Medway Archives Centre Nov 19 Strood's Industrial Past and the FOMA AGM; The

Restoration of Rochester's Guildhall Museum May 16

Supporting the Medway Archives Centre (MAC) during Lockdown; The Bob Ratcliffe Collection Aug 20

Travels of a Tin Trunk Aug 16 Unveiling at the Guildhall, Rochester Nov 14 Uscan fiche/film Reader Nov 17 World War One Items Reunited by The Clock Tower

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Gaining Traction (Bourne) Feb 19 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and

FOMA Privacy Policy Aug 18 George Bond, Architect and Surveyor, 1853 to 1914

(Salter and Ratcliffe) May 08 The Ghost of Restoration House Nov 09 Gillingham's Will Adams Festival Nov 12 Go Techno! (Butler) Feb 12 The Good Companions Club, Rochester (Walters) May

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Good Sports Recreation in or by the River Medway News (Crowe) Aug 12

Grandad's Memories (Bower) Aug 07 The Great Evacuation Medway

BBC's WW2 People's War Project (Lambourne) Feb 10

John and Betty Farrow's Evacuation Memories (Gardner) Feb 10

Memories (Keys) Feb 10 Great Expectations in Post–War Medway (Joyce) Nov

12 Great Fires of Chatham (Witheridge)

Part 1 Feb 08 Part 2: The 1820 Fire of Chatham (The Dreadful

Fire) May 08 Great Lines Heritage Park: From The Great Lines to a

Great Park (Robinson) May 11 Guildhall Museum Stores Tour Feb 16 Harriet Dickens (Paternoster) May 12 Henk van der Linden Receives the British Empire

Medal (Thomas) May 17 Henk’s Medway Visit (A. Thomas) Feb 20 Henry Smetham – A Busy Life (Buchanan) May 09, Aug

09, Nov 09 Heritage News

Charles Roach Smith – Acclaimed Archaeologist and Strood Resident (Haydock) Nov 12

'Dickens' Post Box' (Haydock) Feb 15 A Donation to FOMA (Haydock) Feb 18 Eastchurch Museum (Cox) May 15 Eastgate House (Haydock) May 15 The Little Ships (Haydock) Aug 15 Magna Carta (Haydock) Aug 15 ‘Mayor Of Medway Remembers French Dead’ Feb

17 The planting of a ginkgo biloba tree in The Vines,

Rochester (Haydock) Feb 13 Treasures Of Rochester Cathedral (Haydock) May

16 When East Met West The visit of the Deputy Mayor

of Yokosuka, one of Medway's twin cities, in 2012 (Haydock) May 13

The Will Adams Festival (Caleno) Nov 12 Heritage News (Haydock), New Waterloo Dispatch!

Nov 15 Heritage Open Days: News from FOMA's Medway

Council Representative on the Heritage Open Days and the Bodleian Library (Haydock) Nov 10

Highs and Lows of Family Research (Gardner) Aug 10 HMS Medway (Lane) Nov 19 Home Front (Clement) Aug 14, Nov 14

Blackout Precautions Aug 15 The Children's War Efforts Nov 15 Conscientious Objection, Part 1: The Quakers Feb

16 Conscientious Objection, Part 2: Chatham

Conscientiously Objects May 16 Conscientious Objection, Part 3: Pressure Groups

Aug 16 Conscientious Objection, Part 4: Media Reporting

of Conscientious Objection in the Medway Towns, 1916-1918 Nov 16 VE Day 1945 May 15 Zeppelins over Gillingham Feb 15

The Homes for Little Boys in Hextable, Swanley, Kent (Daxter) Aug 08

Hospital Admission 1916 (Cole) Aug 16 How the Benefits System has Changed! (Keys) Aug 09 Huguenot Museum Update (Adams) May 15–May 16 Huguenot Museum Update (Birkett) May 19, Aug 19 Huguenot Museum Update (Dimmock) Aug 16–Feb 18 Huguenot Museum Update (Winch) May 18, Feb 19 The Huguenots

A Brief History of the Huguenots (Buchanan) Feb 15 England's first Huguenot museum (Adams) Feb 15

Hurstcot: a Child of Nature (Joyce) Nov 09 I Was There! (Walter) Aug 12 In Ruhleben Camp (Joyce) Aug 14 In Search of Thomas Fletcher Waghorn (1800–1850)

(Ashbee) May 07 In the Bleak Mid–Winter of 1963 (Clement) May 13 The Inaugural Annual General Meeting (Thomas) June

06 The Nonconformist Revolution (A. Thomas) Aug 20 Introducing Elspeth Millar! (A. Thomas) Nov 19 An Introduction to the Friends of MALSC June 06 Is this the hand of Dickens? (Ashbee) May 12 Jeremy Clark’s Talk on the History of Rochester’s

Guildhall (Buchanan) May 17 Jewish Life in the Medway Towns (Shub) Aug 06 Jimi Hendrix (Flood) Nov 13 John Butler and HMS Cressy (Butler) Nov 12 Jottings By Waghorn in 1849 (Ashbee) Nov 16 Jottings in the Churchyard of All Saints Frindsbury

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Just Another Visitor (Ratcliffe) Feb 12 Keeping up with the Victorians

Edwin Harris – Nooks and Corners of By–Gone Rochester no. 60 (Worthy) Feb 14

Local Businesses through the Advertising of the Day Feb 16

Local Businesses through the Advertising of the Day (Thomas) Nov 12–Feb 13, Nov 13, Aug 15

Newspapers, Advertising and Local Businesses (Thomas) Aug 12

Keeping up with the Victorians (Thomas) Aug 16 The Launch of FOMA Publications (Thomas) Feb 18 Launch of Medway Ancestors, December 2005 Apr 06 Launch of the Medway Valley book by Dr Andrew

Hann Nov 09 Launch of the new FOMA website Nov 08 Launch of the new printed The Clock Tower (Maisey)

Aug 08 Launch to Announce The Heritage Lottery Fund Grant

(Thomas) Feb 09 Learning and Outreach Programme for The Archives of

Great Expectations (Gardner) Aug 10 Lest we Forget: A series of special articles in

recognition of November's Remembrance Sunday Nov 12

John Butler and HMS Cressy Nov 12 The Live Bait Squadron (Towner) Nov 12 The Mystery of the Cap Badge (Towner and Harris)

Nov 13 The V2 Rocket at the Royal Engineers Museum

(Thomas) Nov 12 War–Time Memories: Just Another 'Incident

(Ratcliffe) Nov 12 Let’s all go down the Strand! (Bourne) Nov 17 A Letter from World War Two (Baker) Nov 19 Live Bait Squadron Commemorations: The Road to

Chatham (Thomas) Nov 14 Live Bait Squadron (Towner) Nov 12, Nov 13, Feb 14 Lives of Rochester Cathedral Choristers (Ashbee) Part 1: The Whiffin Family May 19 Part 2: Thomas Whiffin* [III] (1834-1897) Aug 19 A footnote for Thomas Whiffen Nov 19 Part 3: The Pearce Brothers Feb 20 The Lloyd Family of Rochester (Weeds)

Part 1 May 20 Part 2 Aug 20

Local Studies Photographic Collection Digitisation

Project (Lambourne) Nov 06 Local Studies Report (Crowe) May 16, Aug 18 Lost Manor of Ware (Kersey) Nov 07 The Love Me Do Boys in Chatham, 1963 (Flood) Nov

13 MAC’s New Archive E-Catalogue (Farewell CityArk!)

(Cable) Feb 18 Magna Carta Commemoration Lectures (Buchanan)

Dr. Jeremy Clarke: Building Rochester Castle Feb 16 Dr. Marc Morris: 'King John: Treachery, Tyranny

and the Road to Magna Carta,' (15 October 2015) Nov 15

Mr. Richard Dunn (Director Royal Engineers Museum): Warfare By Design: Fortify, Hold, Siege & Fight Feb 16

Sir Robert Worcester: 'Bishops, Barons and Books' (8 October 2015) Nov 15

A Magnificent Entrance to the Town of Chatham (Joyce) Aug 12

Magnum Opus (Book Reviews) Aubry's Brief Lives by Bruce Aubry (Clement) Aug 11 The Birth of British Aviation – Prisoners of Hope, by

Helen Landau (Cross) May 15 Black People in Medway 1655–1914 by Brian Joyce

(Clement) Feb 11 Broomhill – Strood's Hidden Gem by Odette

Buchanan (Cross) Feb 14 Chatham From Old Photographs, by Brian Joyce

and Sophie Miller (Thomas) Nov 14 The Chatham Scandal by Brian Joyce (Clement) Feb

12 Divorced, Beheaded, Sold, by Maria Nicolaou

(Thomas) Nov 14 The Emergence Of Shepherd Neame From The

Earliest Days of Brewing in Faversham, Kent: 1100–1732, by John Owen (Thomas) Nov 14

Football Grounds Frenzy: Kent, a brief guide to the Football Grounds of Kent and South East London (Floate) Aug 15

The Football Grounds of the Early 1900s (Floate) Aug 15

The French Hospital in England: Its Huguenot History and Collections by Tessa Murdoch and Randolph Vigne (Cross) Feb 15

A Glossary of Past & Present Pubs: Chatham from 1746–2000 (A to M) by Roy Murrant and Adrian Griffiths (Cross) May 12

A Glossary of Past & Present Pubs: Chatham from


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1746–2000 (N to Z) by Roy Murrant and Adrian Griffiths (Cross) May 14

Haunted Rochester by Neil Arnold and Kevin Payne (O'Halloran) Nov 11

Hingham in the Great War, Hingham History Centre (Thomas) Nov 14

A History of Higham (Volume II) by Andrew Rootes (O'Halloran) Feb 13

Lillechurch: a thousand years of a farm at Higham in Kent by Ian Milton (O'Halloran) Nov 12

The Live Bait Squadron by Henk van der Linden (O'Halloran) May 13

Lyminge – a History, Parts One to Six, Lyminge Historical Society (Thomas) Nov 14

The Medway Prison Hulks by Keith R Gulvin (Clement) May 11

The Medway Towns: River, Docks and Urban Life (England's Past for Everyone) by Dr. Sandra Dunster (Cross) Nov 13

Meopham Changing Places (Cross) Aug 14 Shell Shocked Britain, by Suzie Grogan (Thomas)

Nov 14 Stairway to Heaven: The Functions of Medieval

Upper Spaces, by Dr Toby Huitson (Thomas) Nov 14

The Story of the Invicta Works … A History of Aveling and Porter, Rochester by Michael R. Lane (O'Halloran) Aug 12

Two Gentlemen of Strood by Odette Buchanan (Clement) Aug 11

Zeal Unabated: The Life of Thomas Fletcher Waghorn by (Ashbee) Aug 16

Major–General Charles George Gordon – His Local Connections (Buchanan) Feb 12

Major James Thomas Byford McCudden, VC DSO* MC* MM CdeG (FR) RAF (Gardner)

Major John Blackburn Hart and the Church of All Saints, Wouldham (Lloyd) Feb 11

Major Thomas Scott, Part 3: Major Thomas Scott On His Grand Tour Feb 18

Major Thomas Scott (Lyons) ‘Introduction’ May 17 Part 1 Aug 17 Part 2: Coach Travel Nov 17

MALSC in the Local Community: Medway Shoots the Breeze (Shub) May 08

MALSC Volunteer Morning (Thomas) Feb 13 MALSC Volunteer Open Day (Thomas) Feb 12 MALSC Volunteers Morning and Christmas at MALSC

(Thomas) Feb 14 MALSC’s First Project with Ancestry (Cable) Nov 16 MALSC Volunteer Morning and the FOMA AGM

(Thomas) May 15 Map of Rochester 1822 (DE1161); The Unveiling and

Presentation of the City of Rochester Society's Gift to MALSC Feb 08

May Day in Strood May 09 Medieval Hospitals and Almshouses, a talk by David

Carder (Thomas) May 15 The Medway Archives Centre Christmas Event (A.

Thomas) Feb 20 Medway Archives Centre News (Millar) Feb 20, Aug 20 The Lockdown Project May 20 Medway Archives Centre Volunteers’ Day (A. Thomas)

May 20 Medway Archives Centre Volunteers’ Day May 20 Medway Celebrates the Queen's Diamond Jubilee

I Was There! (Walter) Aug 12 The lighting of beacons for Her Majesty the Queen's

Diamond Jubilee on the night of 4 June 2012: photographs of the beacon at Broomhill, Strood Aug 12

The Register at Allhallows Church (Paternoster) Aug 12

Medway Council’s 1918-2018 WW1 Then & Now Project (Found) Feb 18

Medway Council’s 1918-2018 WW1 Then & Now Project (Gardner) Feb 18

Medway Images Online Database: Official Launch (Lambourne) Feb 10

Medway Memories (Keys) Nov 09 Medway Memories of World War Two and the Battle

of Britain Part 1 Aug 10 Part 2 Nov 10 Part 3 Feb 11

The Medway Queen Paddle Steamer: The latest news on her restoration Aug 11

The Medway Valley Book (Hann) Nov 09 Medway's Restoration Projects May 16 Members' Memories of the 1953 Floods (Cox,

Furminger, Evans, Lambourne, Gardner and Buchanan) Feb 13

Memories of Flanders (Thomas) Aug 14 Memories Of Prefabs (Buchanan) May 17

Part 1 Nov 16 Part 2 Feb 17

Memories of The Coronation (Cross, Cox, Herlihy and


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Buchanan) Aug 13 "Merely Players …" Glimpses into the history of

amateur dramatics in Chatham and Rochester (Fridman) Feb 14

More Essential Christmas Reading (Thomas) Chatham From Old Photographs, by Brian Joyce

and Sophie Miller Nov 14 Divorced, Beheaded, Sold, by Maria Nicolaou Nov

14 The Emergence Of Shepherd Neame From The

Earliest Days of Brewing in Faversham, Kent: 1100–1732, by John Owen Nov 14

Hingham in the Great War, Hingham History Centre Nov 14

Shell Shocked Britain, by Suzie Grogan Nov 14 Stairway to Heaven: The Functions of Medieval

Upper Spaces, by Dr Toby Huitson Nov 14 More News …

Henry Smetham Feb 14 'Lost' photos of Medway's 'Dickens Land' found at

Kent Archaeological Society Feb 14 Mud, Glorious Mud! (Haydock) May 11 The Municipal Buildings, Gillingham (Keys) Nov 08,

Feb 09 My Fifteen Seconds of Fame! (Watson) May 14 My First Memory (Watson) Nov 14 My Little Dormouse (Marchant) Aug 13, Nov 13 Mysterious Medway or: A Ghost Story for Christmas

(Charon) Nov 07 The Mystery of the Cap Badge (Towner and Harris)

Nov 13 Mystery Photos: A new series of unidentified

photographs Castle Cottage, Cooling (Skilling) Nov 12, Feb 13 Looking for a Lost Family, Leslie, Jean and Brian

Holmes originally of Queenborough, Kent May 13 Looking for Chatham relations of: David George

Henry Wood b. 1897 and Louise (née Dawson) b. 1901 of Kennington, London Aug 13

Mystery Photos: A new series of unidentified photographs, The birth and death of Bentley Hedge, 1904 Nov 13

My West End (King) Feb 19, May 19 Napoleonic Wars – The Home Front, Medway and

Victory at Last (Buchanan) May 15, Aug 15 "Never Before in the History of Chatham More News

…," (Joyce) Feb 12 New Approaches to Community History:

Anglo–French Experiences – A symposium by the University of Greenwich (Kings Hill campus), May 2006 (Hann) June 06

New Chatham Dockyard Historical Society WWI Research Papers (Allen) Nov 18

The Newcombs and the Nelson Connection (Sykes) Part 1 Feb 20 Part 2

Part 3 Aug 20 New FOMA Treasurer Feb 16 New Members Feb 14, Aug 15, Nov 15 New Shorts Brothers Statue Unveiled (Cox) Aug 13 Newcomb War Diary 1939–1945 (Erwin) Nov 06 The Newcombs and the Nelson Connection (Sykes) Part 1 Feb 20

Part 2 May 20 Part 3 Aug 20

News and events, Zeal Unabated: The Life of Thomas Fletcher Waghorn (Ashbee) May 16

News and Events Feb 15–Feb 16 News and Events (Buchanan) Feb 14–May 14

Changes at MALSC Nov 14 Gun Lane Mortuary May 07 Henry Smetham Nov 13 Including Shorts Brothers Commemorative Plaque

(Lambourne) Nov 08 Kent's Stonehenge (news from the Kent

Archaeological Society and the scanned images of the 1910 dig which took place at Coldrum Longbarrow, Trottiscliffe) Aug 13

News from The Kent Archaeological Society: Preparing for Invasion at Allhallows and Grain (Tritton) Aug 14

Welcome to the new Patron of FOMA, The Very Revd. Dr. Mark Beach May 13

The Nore Orphanage (Cole) Feb 18 Not Forgotten (Shub) Nov 08 Not Just The Workhouse – The Kent Poor Law Union

Index (Collins) Nov 18 Notice of the Annual General Meeting 2012 Feb 12 Oak Apple Day (Cole) May 11 Obituaries

Daphne Argent Feb 14 Robert Bruce Aubry 1936 - 2016 Aug 16 Peter Burstow May 19 Mr Freddie Cooper Feb 09 Norma Crowe Aug 19 Michael Edward de Caville, (1946–2010) Nov 10


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Doris Herlihy Aug 19 Lewis Jones 1931–2014 Nov 14 Dulcie Jones 1932–2012 May 12 Ray Maisey May 20 Mr JL Keys May 13 Roy Arthur Murrant (Towner) Feb 13 Bob Ratcliffe 1936–2018 (Flood, Crowe and

Bourne) Feb 19 Vincent Keith Rogers 1938–2009 Nov 09 Pat Salter May 19 Ken Walter Aug 18 Mai Zobel May 19

Old Strood Library May 18 (Thomas) On the Trail of Sheppey's Heritage (Cox) Nov 13 A 100-Year-Old Flea Market Find and the Wonders of

Modern Technology (Flood) Aug 20 Opening of the New Medway Archive Centre

From MALSC to MAC (Cable) Aug 17 Proceedings of the Opening (Thomas and Gardner)

Aug 17 The Outbreak of World War Two: 3 September 1939 (A. Thomas) Nov 19 The Outings and Excursions of the People of the

Medway Towns in the Nineteenth Century Part 1: Feb 12 Part 2: Where They Went May 12 Part 3: How They Got There and What They Did Aug

12 HMS Pathfinder (Magee) Nov 14 Percy Fitzgerald and the study of Charles Dickens

(Crowe) Nov 07 Perfect Stocking Filler More News …, Broomhill –

Strood's Hidden Gem by Odette Buchanan Nov 13 Plaque to Charles Roach Smith FSA Nov 12 Pocahontas

A Descendant of Pocahontas (with Stuart Cresswell) May 07

Famous Medway People: Pocahontas Aug 07 Introduction (Dixon) May 07 The Other Rochester and the Other Pocahontas

(Rosenberg–Naparsteck) May 07 Pocahontas and Heacham, birthplace of John Rolfe

May 07 Waghorn and Pocahontas May 07

Pocock Family of Upnor (Joyce) Aug 07 Pocock Press – or Adventures in Local History

Publishing (Aubry) June 06 Poet Laureate of Strood (Buchanan) May 14

Publication of The Gossamer Thread (Manktelow) May 14

Quaker Education and Schooling 1775–1840

(Clement) Part 1 Aug 10 Part 2 – William Rickman's Quaker School

1786–1813 Nov 10 Part 3 – Rochester Quaker Schooling: Rickmans'

Girls School 1811–1843 and Robert Styles' Boys School 1813–1820 Feb 11

Part 4 – Richard Weston's School 1820–1829 May 11

Part 5 – Richard Weston's School 1775–1840: Boley Hill School Aug 11

The Quick and the Dead, a talk by Richard van Emden (Thomas) Aug 14

Rainham Church of England Primary School (Skilling)

Part 1 May 13 Part 2 Aug 13 Part 3 Nov 13

The Rainham Theatrical Society (Thomas) May 14 Ralph Victor Bardoe of Gillingham: Commonwealth

War Graves Recognition (Worthy) Nov 15 Readers' Letters Feb 16

52 and 83 High Street, Rochester Feb 13–May 13 Aksel Wooremaa and Mikael Wooremaa May 15 Corporal Albert Howes (Gray) Aug 19 Ambrose Etherington Nov 13 Ann Wood, née Beacham. Aug 11 Anne Pratt May 12, Feb 14 An Appeal by Pat Sandford Feb 12 Ashby's Waggonette and the Halling Institute Nov

12 Assisted Emigration Nov 11 Austin Budden May 14, May 15 Bancroft Hitchin 1770–1801 Feb 11, May 11 The Bearblock Family and the Medway Towns May

12 Before the National Trust/ Cobham Hall Nov 19 Bob Dunford: Charles and Mabel May Thomas

Sampson Feb 13 Budden Family (van de Bult) May 16 Carving on Esplanade Paving Slab Feb 14 The Cavell Van Feb 14 Charles and Mabel May Thomas Sampson Nov 12 Chatham Naval Dockyard 1914–1918 Aug 17 Chatham Workhouse May 13


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Clock Tower Fan Mail May 11, Feb 13 Cranbrook History May 13 Davy Court Development - more information

required (Anderson) Aug 16 The De Caville Index (Roscow) Feb 15 Delce Road (Moss) Aug 16 Desperately Seeking Susan May 13 Documents Nov 18 Do you know Dan Willis – Medway Theatre Group?

- Dr Henrik Eger Dr. Ludford Cooper Nov 12 Edwin Greig Burton Feb 12 Elizabeth Lewis May 15 Exhibition: Pembroke (M. Smith) Feb 20 Family Tree of Vincent Van Gogh (Butler) Feb 13 FOMA Donation Feb 13 From the FOMA Facebook Page May 17 Frederick Leach / Mapping Mr. Leach - St

Margaret’s Rochester, St Peter’s Rochester and St John’s Chatham Feb 18

Friends of Great Lines Heritage Park Nov 11 Ms. Gardner and Mr. Flood, thank you for the

Helpful Educational World War One Information May 18

George Blaxland Feb 11–May 11 George Hanson (Thorn) Feb 20 George Hanson – Murray Wright; Jean Skilling; Betty Cole May 20 Gillingham photographs archive Nov 10 H J Arthrell & Sons (Smith) Nov 16 Hospitals in the Great War (Crowe) Feb 15 Interested in Palaeography?, May 17 James Osenton (Jordan) May 16 John Sims of Canterbury Aug 18 John Thomas Hawes Nov 18 John Winckworth Bailey Nov 11 Kitchener Barracks at Chatham Nov 12 On Leaving the old Medway Archives Building Aug

17 Lily Victoria Parker (née Laker) May 12 Living Descendants, Winterflood Aug 13 Magnum Opus (Beyer) Feb 15 Magnum Opus Update May 15 The marriage of Matthew Dyke/Dike/Dicks and

Mary?, Norstead Parish early 1800s May 11 Masson Family of Medway Nov 14 Medway Evacuees to Nantyglo, South Wales Feb 18 Mr Arkoll of Foley House, Maidstone, Quaker

Schools Rochester Feb 11

The Mulberry Tree at Bakers Gate Walkway May 10 Mystery Photograph (Williams) May 19 The Nore May 18 The Old Strood LibraryAug 18 Old Strood Photographs May 12, Aug 12 An Overseer on the Chatham Lines Aug 17 Philemon Ewer, David and Miriam Ewer Feb 17 Photographs Needed of Rochester and Strood

(Measures) May 16 Princess Pocahontas Nov 11 Queen's Diamond Jubilee Aug 12 Query on the De Caville Index (Scully) Feb 15 Research Opportunity (Coote) May 19 Restoration House and the Pilcher Family Feb 14 Rochester Water Works Nov 13–Feb 14 Rosamund Spong (née WALTER) Feb 14 The Rosher Family of Gravesend Nov 11 St John's Church Roll of Honour Nov 19 St Margaret’s Parish Poor-House, Rochester May 17 Saint Mary the Virgin, Chatham Aug 10 Shadrach Edward Robert Jones Aug 11, Aug 12 Strood Mystery Nov 12 A Strood Query Aug 17 Subject: Orphanages in Medway Area May 10 Swanley Homes for Little Boys Aug 11 Textus Roffensis Nov 18 Thank You Aug 18 Tilghman Family May 12 Tilghman Genealogy Information, Barbara

Marchant and Anne Pratt Feb 12 Tracing Ancestors in Rochester Feb 14 Transcription volunteers needed? Aug 10 HMS Victory (Wagner) Aug 19 Visit to Rochester/ Langley of Love Lane May 10 Wadup/Waddup Nov 10 The Walter Surname – now on Ancestry!

(Gallagher) Nov 17 War–Time Memories Feb 13 Watts Almshouses' Boundary Wall (Marchant) May

16 Will Adams Feb 13 William Alexander Feb 11–May 11 William Evenden and the Resolute Desk Feb 12 Winkworth Family May 12 WWII Evacuation – Urgent Appeal, Austin Budden

Feb 14 Recent Accessions etc (Dixon) June 06 The records of Cliffe Parish Council (1894–1999) Aug

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Register at Allhallows Church (Paternoster) Aug 12 Relocating the Archive: The trials and tribulations of

moving MALSC (Gardner) Nov 17 Remembrance Sunday (Haydock) Feb 19 Reminiscence Sessions at the Medway Archives Centre

(Worthy) Nov 19 Restoration of the 1822 Map of Rochester (Thomas)

May 08 Restoration of the Fresco at St. Nicholas Church,

Strood (Buchanan) May 16 Reverend W.H. Waller: Rector Of Luton And Big Game

Hunter (Joyce) Aug 10 Rhubarb, Rhubarb! (Worthy) Aug 13 Rinkomania – The Story of Chatham United Service

Skating Rink (Worthy) Feb 17 The River Medway: Industry and Development (Talk at

MALSC) (Thomas) May 11 Rochester & Chatham Volunteers - Napoleonic Wars

(Beresford) Feb 20 Rochester Bridge Trust's Exhibition and Christmas at

MALSC Feb 14 Rochester Castle: a theoretical archaeological

perspective (Thomas) Part 1 Aug 11 Part 2: Rochester Castle – a piece of material

culture (Thomas) Nov 11

Rochester High Street Through the Eyes of a Child in the Early 1950s (Gay) Part I May 18

Part 2 High Street to Star Hill in the 1950s Aug 18 Part 3 From Northgate Onwards Nov 18 Rochester Parliamentary Election of 1741 (Lyons) Feb

10 The Rochester Pedestrian (Worthy) Aug 19 Rocking Medway!

Jimi Hendrix (Flood) Nov 13 The Love Me Do Boys in Chatham, 1963 (Flood) Nov

13 A Teenage Tornado: The Rolling Stones in the

Medway Towns 1963–65 (Joyce) Nov 13 Role of the Cathedral 1640–1660 (Clement) Nov

08–Feb 09 Roll out the Red Carpet, Introduction; Twenty-First

Century May 17 Roll out the Red Carpet (Salter), Introduction;

Twentieth Century, Part 1 Nov 16 Roll out the Red Carpet (Salter)

Introduction; Anglo Saxons May 15

Introduction; Hanover Aug 16 Introduction; Normans Aug 15 Introduction; Plantagenets Nov 15 Introduction; Stuarts May 16 Introduction; Tudors Feb 16 Introduction; Twentieth Century, Part 2 Feb 17

St Catherine’s Hospital (Moss) Aug 17 St Margaret’s Parish Poor-House, Rochester (Cole) Feb

17, May 17 St. Nicholas, Stroud – The Tale of the Missing

Churchwarden/Vestry Accounts (Joyce) Nov 19 Secretary's Report Feb 15, Aug 15– present Short Brothers' Commemoration Society and 100

Years of Flight (Crowe) May 09 A Short History of the Muslim Community in Medway

(Shub) Feb 09–May 09 Shorts Brothers Remembered (Burstow) Nov 08 Shorts Brothers Tunnels (Thomas) Nov 16 Sir Cloudesley Shovell and the 1707 Loss of The

Association (Crowe) Part 1: The Early life of Sir Cloudesley Shovell May

08 Part 2: The Navy and Foreign Policy in the 17th

Century Aug 08 Part 3: The Final Years Nov 08

The Skills of the Historian (Bradley) Feb 08 A Snapshot: My Great Aunt Emma 1901 (Bowling)

May 10 Snodland Viewed by its Historians (Ashbee) Feb 07 Soldiers’ Stories on Our Streets (Found) Aug 18, Nov

18, Feb 19 Some Old Roffensians (Shreeve)

Part 1 - Church and Education Aug 08 Part 2 Nov 08 Part 3 - Arts and Science Feb 09

Special Features 1953 Floods Feb 13 Amateur Dramatics in Medway, Part 1 Feb 14 Amateur Dramatics in Medway, Part 2 May 14 The bad winter of 1962-3, including memories

received from members May 13 In the Bleak Mid-Winter of 1963 (Clement) May 13 Charles Dickens (1812–1870) May 12 Chatham Pals, Michael de Caville (1946–2010) Nov

11 Commemorating the Outbreak of World War One:

1914–2014 Nov 14


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The Coronation Aug 13 The Great Evacuation Medway Feb 10 The Huguenots Feb 15 Lest we Forget: A series of special articles in

recognition of November's Remembrance Sunday Nov 12

Medway Memories of World War Two and the Battle of Britain Aug 10–Feb 11

Pocahontas May 07 Rocking Medway! Nov 13 World War One Aug 14 The Outbreak of World War Two Nov 19

The Step Short Centenary Arch (Haydock) Nov 14 The Strawberry and Pleasure Gardens in Rochester

(Worthy) May 16 Street Theatre: the Funeral of Admiral Corry, 1907

(Joyce) Feb 16 A Stroll through Strood (Marchant) Nov 06 Strood Heritage Society (Crowe) Aug 06 Strood Memories of the Outbreak of World War Two –

3 September 1939 (Buchanan) Nov 19 Strood: The Land of Used-To-Be (Buchanan) Nov 11 Strood to Canterbury 150 (Ratcliffe) Nov 08–May 09 Strood's Famous Botanist - Anne Pratt (Marchant) Feb

07 Supporting the Medway Archives Centre during

Lockdown (Gardner) Aug 20 Tale of the Old Brown Bus (Ratcliffe) May 16 Tale of Two Spytalls (Ratcliffe) Feb 14 The Tales of Two Gordons (Ratcliffe and Buchanan)

Feb 12 A Teenage Tornado: The Rolling Stones in the Medway

Towns 1963–65 (Joyce) Nov 13 A Teenager in the War (Keys) Nov 10, Feb 11 The Telephone Arrives in Victorian Medway (Joyce)

May 14 Textus Dickensis: An (almost) comprehensive analysis

of resources on Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812–1870) at MALSC (Fridman) May 12

The Textus Roffensis at the British Library! (Lace) Aug 18

That Was The News More News … (Crowe) Aug 12 The Theatre Royal, Chatham - My Memories (Walters)

Aug 14 Things to Come: Television in Medway, 1930-1960

(Joyce) Aug 15 This is Mutiny Mr Couchman! The Story of Lieutenant

Samuel Couchman of Rochester (O'Halloran) May

09–Aug 09 Thomas Fletcher Waghorn Revealed! (Thomas and

Ashbee) Nov 12 Thomas Plume (Doe) Aug 08

Part 2 May 10 The Tobacconist’s Tale King) Aug 20 A Token in Time (Clement)

Part 1 - Strood Tradesmen's Tokens of the Seventeenth Century Feb 12

Part 2 - Chatham Trade Tokens Nov 12 To Oz and Back: Shadrach Edward Robert Jones

(Butler) Part 1 Aug 09

Travels of a Tin Trunk, Part 6: England, 1887 to 1889 Feb 18

Travels of a Tin Trunk (Baker) Part 1: Owletts Aug 16 Part 2: Tonbridge School and Gibraltar Nov 16 Part 3: Towards The Sudan, 1885 Feb 17 Part 4: ‘The Battle of Ginnis, December 1885’ May

17 Part 5: Richard Weston's School 1775–1840: Boley

Hill School Aug 17 Part 6: England, 1887 to 1889 Nov 18 Part 7: Sport and Sketching: India, 1890–93 Feb 18 Part 8: Sport and Sketching: India, 1890–93 Aug 18 Part 9: Ireland and England, 1893–98 Nov 18 Part 10: Nigeria (i) Feb 19 Part 11: Nigeria, 1898 (ii) May 19 Part 12: Nigeria, 1898 (iii) Aug 19 Part 13: Nigeria, 1898 (iv) Nov 19 Part 14: Kishi Feb 20 Part 15: Jebba May 20 Part 16 Mentioned in Despatches Aug 20

Trouble at St Margaret's (Cole), A look at the Calendar of Assize Records - Kent Indictments at the Kent History and Library Centre at Maidstone May 13

Tudor Garden at Restoration House (Gardner) May 12 Turning the Clocks Back

Gillingham's Will Adams Festival Nov 12 The Live Bait Squadron Nov 12 The Plaque to Charles Roach Smith FSA Nov 12

Twenty Years of MALSC (Dixon) Aug 13 Unquiet Monuments, The Boer Statues – Royal

Engineer Barracks (de Coulon Berthoud) Aug 20 Untold Stories and Hidden Treasures: a FOMA talk by

Simon Lace (Gardner) May 18 The unveiling of the Value of Touch bronze tactile Nov


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13 Update to Education and Outreach report - April to

November 2011 (Gardner) Nov 11 V2 Rocket at the Royal Engineers Museum (Thomas)

Nov 12 The Victoria County History at MALSC (Dunster) Nov

07, Nov 09, May 10, Nov 10–Feb 11, Feb 11 An Appearance on Who Do You Think You Are? Nov

11 The England's Past for Everyone (EPE) Website May

08 The latest news on The England's Past for Everyone

Website Aug 09 Mary Lacy, The Female Shipwright May 11 The Medway Towns project Nov 08 The publication of Medway towns: river docks and

urban life May 13 Races on the Lines Aug 12 Spa resorts in the Medway Towns Aug 11 'A very old and ugly Town' and 'A seafaring, Tarlike

Town': An Eighteenth Century Woman's View of Rochester and Chatham Feb 08

Volunteers - The Making of the Medway Towns Project Aug 08

Volunteers Work their Magic Feb 09, May 09 A Young Girl's Week Before Christmas, Brompton

1860 Nov 12 The Victoria County History at MALSC (Hann) Apr

06–Feb 07, Aug 07 Burham and Halling cement works May 07

The Victoria County History at MALSC (Thomas), The Launch of The Medway Towns: river, docks and urban life by Dr Sandra Dunster Aug 13

Voices from the Dockyard (Cole and Crowe) May 20, Aug 20

Rats (of one sort and another) May 19 The Halfpenny Trains Aug 19 Tricks of the Trade Nov 19 Women’s Work Feb 20 The Volunteer Morning at MALSC (photographs) Feb

13 Volunteering … it's a whole new way of life! (Gardner)

Aug 08 Volunteers Day (A. Thomas) A Waghorn Discovery (Ashbee) Aug 09 War Memorials (Baker) Nov 17 Water Everywhere: The 1953 Floods in NW Kent

(Crowe) Feb 13 Watts' Alms Houses Reminiscences; The Rochester

High Street Project (Crowe) Nov 07 What a Phone Call can Lead to … (Smith) Part 1: Heir Hunters Nov 18 Part Two: The Arthrell Family Feb 20 What and Why? HMS Barfleur Monument (Cole) Aug 19

The Charnel House, Gun Lane, Strood (Buchanan) Feb 19

Chatham Town Hall Gardens (Cole) Aug 18 Jackson’s Recreation Ground, Rochester

(Russell) Nov 19–May 20 Kidwell Memorial Clock Tower and Shelter (Russell) Nov 18 The Will Adams Clock Tower in Gillingham (Haydock) May 19

The Workhouse, Magpie Hall Road (Cole) Aug 20 What’s in a Name?, (Simkins) Aug 17 What's in the Trunk? (front cover) Aug 16 When East Met West Again! (Haydock) May 14 When is an Oast not an Oast (Thorn)

Part 1 May 18 Part 2 When it’s a Community Centre Aug 18 Part 3 When this Oast is a Jewel in the Community Nov 18

Who was Waghorn's Father? (Ashbee) Aug 07 Why Did the War Start? (Thomas) Aug 14 William Bartholomew - A Man of Probity (Weeds)

Part 1 Feb 12 Part 2: Political Life in Early Victorian Rochester

May 12 Part 3: Liberal Success At Last Aug 12 Part 4: Bartholomew's Free Church Nov 12

Will of Sarah Hillman, née Hemmington, of Gravesend (Paternoster and O’Halloran) Nov 18

Witheridge's Witterings … (Witheridge) May 08–Feb 09

World War One Home Front (Clement) Aug 14 Launch of the WWI De Caville Index (Towner) Aug

14 Memories of Flanders (Thomas) Aug 14 The Quick and the Dead, a talk by Richard van

Emden (Thomas) Aug 14 In Ruhleben Camp (Joyce) Aug 14 Why Did the War Start? (Thomas) Aug 14


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World War One and my Grandfather - I Wish I had Met Him (Herlihy) Aug 14

World War One at Wainscott Primary School (Gardner) Feb 16

World War One Items Reunited by The Clock Tower (Gardner)

Adams, Amy, Huguenot Museum Update Feb 15, May

15, Aug 15 Allen, Colin New Chatham Dockyard Historical Society WWI Research Papers Nov 18 Anderson, Paul, Readers' Letters Aug 16 Ashbee, Dr. Andrew

1911 Project May 16 An Extraordinary World War One Story Nov 14 Is this the hand of Dickens? May 12 Jottings By Waghorn in 1849 Nov 16 News and events May 16 In Search of Thomas Fletcher Waghorn

(1800–1850) May 07 Lives of Rochester Cathedral Choristers (Ashbee) Part 1: The Whiffin Family May 19 Part 2: Thomas Whiffin* [III] (1834-1897) Aug 19 A footnote for Thomas Whiffen Nov 19 Part 3: The Pearce Brothers Feb 20 Snodland Viewed by its Historians Feb 07 Thomas Fletcher Waghorn Revealed! (with Amanda

Thomas) Nov 12 A Waghorn Discovery Aug 09 Who was Waghorn's Father? Aug 07

Aubry, Bruce, Pocock Press – or Adventures in Local History Publishing June 06

Baker, Michael

Coming up Next Issue … May 16 A Letter from World War Two Nov 19 Travels of a Tin Trunk Aug 16, Nov 16, Feb 17, May

17, Aug 17, Feb 18 to present War Memorials Nov 17 Which Mr Baker? or By Nine Votes to Eight Nov 08

Berthoud, Chris de Coulon, Secretary’s Report Aug 19-present

Unquiet Monuments, The Boer Statues – Royal Engineer Barracks

Beyer, M J., Magnum Opus (Letter) Feb 15 Birkett, Hannah, Huguenot Museum Update May 19, Aug 19 Bourne, Richard

Bob Ratcliffe, 1936-2018 Feb 19 Gaining Traction Feb 19 Let’s all go down the Strand! Nov 17 Bower, Di, Grandad's Memories Aug 07 Bowling, Ann, A Snapshot: My Great Aunt Emma 1901

May 10 Bradley, Dr. Kate, Skills of the Historian Feb 08 Buchanan, Odette Nov 15

Broomhill and the Battle of Britain Nov 10, Feb 11 Commemorating an Amazing Engineering Feat: The

story of the Thames and Medway Canal Aug 12 Common Sense or Just Plain Lune–y? May 11 Coronaverses May 20 Crispin and Crispianus Public House, Strood May 11 Dickens at Higham, 1870 (Poem) (Buchanan) May

12 Dickensian Anecdotes May 12 A FOMA Retrospective Feb 12 FOMA Spring Quiz May 16 Henry Smetham – A Busy Life May 09, Aug 09, Nov

09 The Huguenots Feb 15 Jeremy Clark’s Talk on the History of Rochester’s

Guildhall May 17 Magna Carta Commemoration Lectures Nov

15–Feb16 Major–General Charles George Gordon – His Local

Connections Feb 12 Members' Memories of the 1953 Floods Feb 13 Memories Of Prefabs Nov 16, Feb 17, May 17 Memories of The Coronation Aug 13 Napoleonic Wars – The Home Front, Medway and

Victory at Last May 15–Aug 15 News and Events Aug 13, Nov 13, Feb 14–May 14 Poet Laureate of Strood May 14 Restoration of the Fresco at St. Nicholas Church,

Strood May 16 Secretary's Report Nov 08–present Strood Memories of the Outbreak of World War

Two – 3 September 1939 Nov 19 Strood: The Land of Used–To–Be Nov 11 The Tales of Two Gordons (with Bob Ratcliffe) Feb

12 What and Why? The Charnel House, Gun Lane, Strood Feb 19 Burstow, Peter

Borstal's Wartime Umbrella Feb 08 Shorts Brothers Remembered Nov 08

Butler, Brian


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Cemetery Epitaphs Aug 14 Family Tree of Vincent Van Gogh Feb 13 Go Techno! Feb 12 John Butler and HMS Cressy Nov 12 To Oz and Back: Shadrach Edward Robert Jones Aug

09, May 10 Cable, Alison

Archives Update May 09–Aug 09, Aug 10–Nov 11, May 12–Nov 12, May 13–present

A FOMA Retrospective Feb 12 MAC’s New Archive E-Catalogue (Farewell CityArk!)

Feb 18 From MALSC to MAC Aug 17 MALSC’s First Project with Ancestry Nov 16

Cable, Joanne, Chatham Dockyard and its Defences: a future World Heritage Site May 11, Feb 13

Caleno, Lisa, Heritage News: The Will Adams Festival Nov 12

Clement, Dr. Catharina Big Freeze of 1963 May 13 In the Bleak Mid–Winter of 1963 May 13 Deliver this poor City from the Qua(kers)': Rochester

Quakerism and its Struggle for Existence 1655–1750 May 10

Enlistment of Pauper Children for the Army Aug 13, Nov 13

Home Front Aug 14–present Magnum Opus (Book reviews) Feb 11–Aug 11, Feb

12–May 12 Medway Raid or De Tocht naar Chatham Aug 17,

Nov 17 Quaker Education and Schooling 1775–1840 Aug

10–Aug 11 Role of the Cathedral 1640–1660 Nov 08–Feb 09 A Token in Time Feb 12, Nov 12

Cole, Betty All Saints' Players, Chatham Feb 14, May 14 Betty's Postcards Nov 09–Nov 10, Nov 11, Feb 12 Hospital Admission 1916 Aug 16 An Appeal to FOMA Members for Further

Information!, Nov 19 The Nore Orphanage Feb 18 Oak Apple Day May 11 St Margaret’s Parish Poor-House, Rochester Feb 17

May 17 Voices from the Dockyard May 19–present What and Why?

Chatham Town Hall Gardens Aug 18

HMS Barfleur Monument Aug 19 The Workhouse, Magpie Hall Road Aug 20

Collins, Deborah Not Just The Workhouse – The Kent Poor Law Union Index Nov 18

Coote, Claire, Readers’ Letters May 19 Cornish, Chris, Delivered by Hand (poem) Feb 16 Cox, Barry

Eastchurch Museum May 15 Friary Place, Strood, and St Mary's Hospital Nov 13 Members' Memories of the 1953 Floods Feb 13 Memories of The Coronation Aug 13 New Shorts Brothers Statue Unveiled Aug 13 On the Trail of Sheppey's Heritage Nov 13

Cresswell, Stuart, A Descendant of Pocahontas (with Stuart Cresswell) May 07

Cross, Steve Books for Christmas Nov 14–Nov 15 The French Hospital in England: Its Huguenot

History and Collections by Tessa Murdoch and Randolph Vigne Feb 15

Magnum Opus (Book reviews) Nov 13–Aug 14, May 15

Memories of The Coronation Aug 13 Crowe, Ken, Hospitals in the Great War (Letter) Feb

15 Crowe, Norma

The Balfour Honours Boards and Balfour Schools – A Mystery Aug 20

Bob Ratcliffe, 1936-2018 Feb 19 Commemorating the Short Brothers June 06 Eddie Lane Nov 19 Good Sports Recreation in or by the River Medway

News Aug 12 Local Studies and Archives report for 2013–14 May

14 Local Studies Report May 16 Local Studies Report for the FOMA AGM, 10 April

2018 Obituary Aug 19 Percy Fitzgerald and the study of Charles Dickens

Nov 07 The Picture Medway Project; Women Power May

20 Short Brothers' Commemoration Society and 100

Years of Flight May 09 Sir Cloudesley Shovell and the 1707 Loss of The

Association May 08, Aug 08, Nov 08 Strood Heritage Society Aug 06


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That Was The News … Aug 12 Voices from the Dockyard May 19–present Water Everywhere: The 1953 Floods in NW Kent

Feb 13 Watts' Alms Houses Reminiscences; The Rochester

High Street Project Nov 07 Daxter, Greg, The Homes for Little Boys in Hextable,

Swanley, Kent Aug 08 Dimmock, Amy, Huguenot Museum Update Nov

15–present Dixon, Stephen May 08

Archives Update Apr 06–June 06, Nov 06–Feb 08 FOMA Members Feb 18 A FOMA Retrospective Feb 12 Pocahontas Introduction May 07 Recent Accessions etc June 06 Twenty Years of MALSC Aug 13

Doe, Tony, Thomas, Plume Aug 08 Dunster, Dr. Sandra

A FOMA Retrospective Feb 12 The Victoria County History at MALSC Nov 07–Nov

09, May 10, Nov 10–Nov 11, Aug 12, Nov 12, May 13

Ellwood, David, An Artist's View of Rochester's Great

Legacy Aug 06 Erwin, Sheila, The Newcomb War Diary 1939–1945

Nov 06 Evans, Gillian, Members' Memories of the 1953 Floods

Feb 13 Evans, Philip, Did You Know …? : Ethel Alice Smith

(née Wraight), 1894–1975 Feb 11 Floate, Mike, Magnum Opus (Book Reviews) Aug 15 Flood, Rob

A 100-Year-Old Flea Market Find and the Wonders of Modern Technology Aug 20

Bob Ratcliffe, 1936-2018 Feb 19 The Bob Ratcliffe Memorial Bench Feb 20 The FOMA eBay Project Aug 20

FOMA Members Feb 18 Jimi Hendrix Nov 13 The Love Me Do Boys in Chatham, 1963 Nov 13

Found, Abby The 350th Commemorations – From the Viewpoint

of Medway Council’s Heritage Team (Found) Aug 17

Medway Council’s 1918-2018 WW1 Then & Now

Project Feb 18 Soldiers’ Stories on Our Streets Aug 18, Nov 18, Feb

19 Fridman, Irina see also Shub, Irina

"Merely Players …" Glimpses into the history of amateur dramatics in Chatham and Rochester Feb 14

Textus Dickensis: An (almost) comprehensive analysis of resources on Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812–1870) at MALSC (Fridman) May 12

Furminger, Christine, Members' Memories of the 1953 Floods Feb 13

Gallagher, John, The Walter Surname – now on

Ancestry! Nov 17 Gardner, Elaine Feb 18 Albert Edward Godfrey Howes, (Sept. 1897 – Oct. 1917) May 19 An Astonishing Discovery at St. John’s Church, Chatham Nov 19, Feb 20 The Bob Ratcliffe Collection Aug 20

8th FOMA AGM May 14 Eastgate House Heritage Lottery Fund Bid Feb 13 The FOMA Collection Nov 18 FOMA’s New Venue May 19 Great Evacuation Medway: Memories: John and

Betty Farrow's Evacuation Memories Feb 10 Highs and Lows of Family Research Aug 10 'Kent in WW1 – People, Places and Events' Feb 15 Learning and Outreach Programme for The Archives

of Great Expectations Aug 10 Major James Thomas Byford McCudden, VC DSO*

MC* MM CdeG (FR) RAF May 18 Medway Council’s 1918-2018 WW1 Then & Now

Project Feb 18 Members' Memories of the 1953 Floods Feb 13 photo from 'Army Chaplains in World War One' Feb

16 Proceedings of the Opening Aug 17 Relocating the Archive: The trials and tribulations of

moving MALSC Nov 17 Supporting the Medway Archives Centre during

Lockdown Aug 20 Tudor Garden at Restoration House May 12 Untold Stories and Hidden Treasures: a FOMA talk

by Simon Lace May 18 Update to Education and Outreach report – April to

November 2011 Nov 11 Volunteering … it's a whole new way of life! Aug 08


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World War One at Wainscott Primary School Feb 16 World War One Items Reunited by The Clock Tower

Nov 18 Gay, Julie

Rochester High Street Through the Eyes of a Child in the Early 1950s

Part I May 18 Part 2 Aug 18

Part 3 Nov 18 Gray, Tony, Corporal Albert Howes Aug 19 Guthrie, Daphne Friends Overseas: Medway Memories May 07 Hann, Dr. Andrew Apr 06, Aug 06

The Medway Valley Book Nov 09 New Approaches to Community History:

Anglo–French Experiences – A symposium by the University of Greenwich (Kings Hill campus), May 2006 June 06

The Victoria County History at MALSC June 06, Nov 06, Feb 07–Aug 07

Harrington, Duncan, Early Town Books of Faversham (with Patricia Hyde) May 08

Harris, Carol, The Mystery of the Cap Badge (with Tessa Towner) Nov 13

Haydock, Sue Battle Of Medway or When The Dutch Gave Us A

Bloody Nose Aug 17 A Dickens of a Night Out! May 12 Dickens' Post Box Feb 15 Eastgate House May 15 Flying the Team GB Flag for Medway! Aug 12 Heritage News Feb 18 Heritage News Nov 12, Feb 13, May 13, Nov 15,

May 16, Feb 17 Heritage Open Day Nov 10 The Little Ships Aug 15 Magna Carta Aug 15 Mud, Glorious Mud! May 11 Remembrance Sunday Feb 19 The Step Short Centenary Arch Nov 14 When East Met West Again! May 14 The Will Adams Clock Tower in Gillingham May 19

Herlihy, Doris The Commemorations from the Public Perspective

Aug 17 Memories of The Coronation Aug 13 Obituary Aug 19

World War One and my Grandfather – I Wish I had Met Him Aug 14

Hyde, Patricia, Early Town Books of Faversham (with Duncan Harrington) May 08

Iles, Josie

New FOMA Treasurer Feb 16 FOMA AGM Treasurer’s Report May 20

Jordan, Nancy, Readers' Letters May 16 Joyce, Brian

Aubry's Long Life Aug 16 Battle Of Yantlet Creek, 1860 Aug 13 Chatham's Naval Losses in 1914 – A talk by Alex

Patterson to FOMA Nov 14 From Gipsy Tent to Pulpit: Rodney Smith in

Chatham 1879–80 May 11 Great Expectations in Post-War Medway Nov 12 Hurstcot: a Child of Nature Nov 09 From Kent To Montana – The Medway Roots Of

Gary Cooper Feb 14 A Magnificent Entrance to the Town of Chatham

Aug 12 "Never Before in the History of Chatham …" Feb 12 Pocock Family of Upnor Aug 07 Reverend W.H. Waller: Rector Of Luton And Big

Game Hunter Aug 10 In Ruhleben Camp Aug 14 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. The Medway

Towns and the East Coast Floods Of 1953 Feb 13 Street Theatre: the Funeral of Admiral Corry, 1907

Feb 16 A Teenage Tornado: The Rolling Stones in the

Medway Towns 1963–65 Nov 13 The Telephone Arrives in Victorian Medway May 14 Things to Come: Television in Medway, 1930–1960

Aug 15 Joyce, Peter, St. Nicholas, Stroud – The Tale of the

Missing Churchwarden/Vestry Accounts Kersey, Kathryn, Lost Manor of Ware Nov 07 Keys, J. L.

The Great Evacuation Medway: Memories Feb 10 How the Benefits System has Changed! Aug 09 Medway Memories Nov 09 Municipal Buildings, Gillingham Nov 08, Feb 09 A Teenager in the War Nov 10, Feb 11

King, Janet My West End Feb 19, May 19 The Tobacconist’s Tale Aug 20


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Knight, Janet Feb 09 Edwin Harris – Recollections of Rochester Nov

07–Nov 08, May 09–Aug 10

Lace, Simon The Textus Roffensis at the British Library! Aug 18 Lambourne, April

Archives Update Aug 08, Nov 08 A Christmas Appeal: MALSC Frequently Asked

Questions Nov 06 Darnley Archive: Preservation and Promotion Aug

06 The Great Evacuation Medway: The BBC's WW2

People's War Project Feb 10 Local Studies Photographic Collection Digitisation

Project Nov 06 Medway Images Online Database: Official Launch

Feb 10 News and Events: Including Shorts Brothers

Commemorative Plaque Nov 08 Lambourne, Keith

A Day in the Life of St. Bart's (produced 1930) : The Medway On Screen project Feb 11

Members' Memories of the 1953 Floods Feb 13 Lane, Eddie, HMS Medway Nov 19 Lear, Jean, Before The National Trust Aug 19 Lloyd, John, Major John Blackburn Hart and the

Church of All Saints, Wouldham Feb 11 Lyons, Peter

Major Thomas Scott May 17, Aug 17, Nov 17 Outings and Excursions of the People of the

Medway Towns in the Nineteenth Century Feb 12, May 12, Aug 12

Rochester Parliamentary Election of 1741 Feb 10 McDonald, Craig, Cap Badge Nov 13 Magee, John, HMS Pathfinder Nov 14 Maisey, Ray, The launch of the new printed The Clock

Tower Aug 08 Manktelow, Bettine, Publication of The Gossamer

Thread May 14 Marchant, Barbara

My Little Dormouse Aug 13, Nov 13 A Stroll through Strood Nov 06 Strood's Famous Botanist – Anne Pratt Feb 07

Marchant, David, Readers' Letters May 16 Millar, Elspeth Medway Archives Centre News Feb 20, Aug 20 The Lockdown Project May 20

Measures, Ken, Readers' Letters May 16 Moss, Alan

City of Rochester Society Nov 06 Readers' Letters Aug 16 St Catherine’s Hospital Aug 17

Moy, Nicola, Command of the Heights Nov 15 Murrant, Roy

From the Chairman Apr 06–Feb 07 The Crown & Thistle Public House, 188, High Street,

Chatham Aug 09 Nicholas, Nic, New Clock Tower Index May 15 Nutton, Elaine, An Appeal for the Missng Families of

the Gillingham Park Tragedy of 1929 May 11 O'Halloran, Cindy

Cindy's Little Gems Aug 10–Aug 11, Feb 12–Nov 12, Aug 13–Feb 14

A FOMA Retrospective Feb 12 Magnum Opus (Book reviews) Nov 11, Aug 12, Nov

12, Feb 13, May 13 Mystery Photos: The birth and death of Bentley

Hedge, 1904 Nov 13 Secretary's Report Feb 07–Aug 08 This is Mutiny Mr Couchman! The Story of

Lieutenant Samuel Couchman of Rochester May 09–Aug 09

Will of Sarah Hillman, née Hemmington, of Gravesend Nov 18

Parker, Linda, 'Army Chaplains in World War One'

(photo) Feb 16 Paternoster, Brenda

Harriet Dickens May 12 Register at Allhallows Church Aug 12 Will of Sarah Hillman, née Hemmington, of

Gravesend Nov 18 Portway Brian Building the Basins Aug 18 Ratcliffe, Bob

1939 to 1945, A Little Lad Remembers More News … Aug 10

Battle of the Falklands Feb 15 A Day in May; The story of the Princess Irene Aug

13 George Bond, Architect and Surveyor, 1853 to 1914

(with Pat Salter) May 08 HMS Bulwark Nov 14


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Just Another Visitor Feb 12 Magnum Opus (Book Reviews) Aug 16 Strood to Canterbury 150 Nov 08–May 09 Tale of the Old Brown Bus (Ratcliffe) May 16 A Tale of Two Spytalls Feb 14 The Tales of Two Gordons (with Odette Buchanan)

Feb 12 War–Time Memories: Just Another 'Incident' Nov

12 Robinson, Nina, Great Lines Heritage Park: From The

Great Lines to a Great Park May 11 Roscow, Anne, De Caville Index (Letter) Feb 15 Rosenberg-Naparsteck, Ruth, Other Rochester and

the Other Pocahontas May 07 Rouland, Valerie, Archives Update Aug 11–Nov 11,

Nov 11 Russell, Kevin What and Why?

The Kidwell Memorial Clock Tower and Shelter Nov 18 Jackson’s Recreation Ground, Rochester Nov 19–May 20 Salter, P. J.

Charles Larkin 1775 – 1833 Nov 16, May 17, Aug 17, Feb 18, May 18

Roll out the Red Carpet May 15–present Salter, Pat, George Bond, Architect and Surveyor,

1853 to 1914 (with Bob Ratcliffe) May 08 Schwieso, Josh, Broom Hill in World War One Nov 17 Scully, Paul, Query on the De Caville Index Feb 15 Shreeve, Simon, Some Old Roffensians Aug 08–Feb 09 Shub, Irina see also Fridman, Irina

Jewish Life in the Medway Towns Aug 06 MALSC in the Local Community: Medway Shoots

the Breeze May 08 Not Forgotten Nov 08 A Short History of the Muslim Community in

Medway Feb 09–May 09 Simkins, Vivienne Milton Aug 17 Skilling, Jean

Mystery Photos: Castle Cottage, Cooling Nov 12 Rainham Church of England Primary School May

13–Nov 13 Slater, Jean, Dickensian Days Feb 08–Aug 08 Smith, Brian Kingsley, Aviation in Kent June 06 Smith, Ian Readers' Letters Nov 16 What a Phone Call can Lead to … Part 1: Heir Hunters Nov 18

Part 2: The Arthrell Family Feb 20 Sykes, John

The Newcombs and the Nelson Connection Part 1 Feb 20 Part 2 May 20

Part 3 Frederick Newcomb at Chatham Dockyard Aug 20

Thomas, Alexander

Rochester Castle: a theoretical archaeological perspective Aug 11–Nov 11

Why Did the War Start? Aug 14 Thomas, Alison

Edwin Harris - Recollections of Rochester Nov 10–Feb 12

Keeping up with the Victorians Aug 12–Nov 12, Nov 13, Aug 15–Aug 16

Memories of Flanders Aug 14 Proceedings of the Opening Aug 17 Richard Watts and his Famous Charity Feb 11–May

11 Thomas, Amanda

Advertisement for The Lambeth Cholera Outbreak of 1848–1849 (Back Cover) Aug 09

Am Dram Footnotes Feb 14 Archives of Great Expectations Exhibition Feb 12 Aspects of Huguenot Society. A talk by Amy Adams,

Huguenot Museum, Rochester Nov 15 Barkers Litho Printers Feb 18 The Christmas Event at MAC Feb 18

Christmas at The Medway Archives Feb 19 The Clock Tower at 50 May 18 The Deborah Collins Workhouse Index May 18 A Descendant of Pocahontas (with Stuart Cresswell)

May 07 Editor's Footnotes Apr 06–present FOMA AGM May 13, May 16, May 19 FOMA Celebration, The May 17 The FOMA Collection Nov 18 FOMA Members at Work - and at Wrest! Aug 11 A FOMA Retrospective Feb 12 Henk van der Linden Receives the British Empire

Medal May 17 Henk’s Medway Visit Feb 20 Introducing Elspeth Millar! Nov 19 The Launch of FOMA Publications Feb 18 Launch to Announce The Heritage Lottery Fund

Grant Feb 09 Live Bait Squadron Commemorations: The Road to


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Chatham Nov 14 London Labyrinth, From Borsholders to Bobbies

Nov 16 Magnum Opus (Book Reviews) Nov 14 The Medway Archives Centre Christmas Event Feb

20 MALSC Volunteer Morning Feb 13 MALSC Volunteer Morning and the FOMA AGM

May 15 MALSC Volunteer Open Day Feb 12 MALSC Volunteers Morning and Christmas at

MALSC Feb 14 Medieval Hospitals and Almshouses, a talk by David

Carder May 15 The Nonconformist Revolution Aug 20 The Old Strood Library May 18 The Outbreak of World War Two: 3 September 1939

Nov 19 The Quick and the Dead, a talk by Richard van

Emden Aug 14 Rainham Theatrical Society May 14 Restoration of the 1822 Map of Rochester May 08 The River Medway: Industry and Development (Talk

at MALSC) May 11 Shorts Brothers Tunnels Nov 16 Thomas Fletcher Waghorn Revealed! (with Dr.

Andrew Ashbee) Nov 12 V2 Rocket at the Royal Engineers Museum Nov 12 The Victoria County History at MALSC: The Launch

of The Medway Towns: river, docks and urban life by Dr Sandra Dunster Aug 13

Volunteers Day

Thorn, Hazel When is an Oast not an Oast Part 1 May 18 Part 2 When it’s a Community Centre Aug 18 Part 3 When this Oast is a Jewel in the Community Nov 18 Towner, Tessa

From the Chairman May 07–Aug 17 Jottings in the Churchyard of All Saints Frindsbury

Nov 07 Live Bait Squadron Nov 12, Nov 13–Feb 14 Mystery of the Cap Badge (with Carol Harris) Nov

13 Obituary: Roy Arthur Murrant Feb 13 photo from 'Army Chaplains in World War One' Feb

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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

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 Rinkomania – The Story of Chatham United Service

Skating Rink Feb 17 The Rochester Pedestrian Aug 19 The Strawberry and Pleasure Gardens in Rochester

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