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Upcoming Events - 2010

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1 May

Lynsted with Kingsdown Local History Morning
Location:  Lynsted Church
Time:  10:00 a.m. to 12 noon
Contact:  Lis Heriz-Smith, 01795 522842, parishrecords@lynsted.com

1 May to 3 May

Birling Flower Festival
Location:  Birling Church, Snodland road, Birling, Kent ME19 5 Kent ME19 5
Time:  11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Local historian Dr. Andrew Ashby of the Snodland Historical Society will hold an exhibition of the history of Birling and the surrounding area and will be in the church on Saturday and Monday, only, to answer any questions.

1 May to 3 May

Kent County Fair
Location:  Hop Farm, Paddock Wood, Kent
Time:  10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

8 May

A Year in the Life of Faversham
Location:  Creek Creative, 1 Abbey Street, Faversham, Kent ME13 7BE
Time:  11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Contact:  Nathalie Banaigs, 01795 538022

You can take part in this community project by submitting your photographs from the past decades, to be used in the free exhibition later this year and in a free book about Faversham and its history.  They must show Faversham (street scenes, events, shops etc) and must have been taken any time before the 1990s.  Please deliver your photographs to Creek Creative.  They will be scanned and returned to you.

12 May

The Cranbrook & District Local History Society
Location:  Cranbrook Primary School, Carriers Road, Cranbrook
Time:  7:30 p.m.

Annual General Meeting followed by a talk from the society's President – 19th Century Emigration from Cranbrook & the Weald.

14 May

'Keeping up Appearances'
Location:  Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN15 0RP
Time:  12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m.
Contact:  National Trust

The conservation team will be on hand in one of the showrooms to explain the housekeeping process at Knole and how they care for the unique and fragile collections. Booking Not Needed.

15 May

Lynsted with Kingsdown Society Local History Morning
Location:  Greenstreet Methodist Church, Lynsted Lane, Lynsted
Time:  10:00 a.m. to 12 noon
Contact:  Lis Heriz-Smith, 01795 522842, parishrecords@lynsted.com

22 May

An Afternoon in Cobham
Location:  St Mary Magdalene Church, the High Street, Cobham, Kent DA12 3DB
Time:  2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m..  Admission fee payable.
Contact:  Book at Towncentric: 01474 337600

Explore the 13th century Church,St Mary Magdalene and its world renowned monumental brasses and the Brooke Tomb.  The church will open its museum displaying artifacts for the first time.  You will then visit New College of Cobham where your guide will give you a tour and talk on the history of the building.  Finish with afternoon tea in the college.

23 May to 25 May

Guided Tour of Gravesend Cemetery
Location:  Inside the cemetery gates, Old Road West, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 0LS
Time:  Sun the 23rd 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  Mon the 24th 2:00 p.m..  Tues the 25th 2:00 p.m. & 6:00 p.m..  £2 per person.
Contact:  Booking essential at Towncentric - 01474 337600 Walking is involved - suitable clothing and footwear are require

Walking is involved - suitable clothing and footwear are required.  Listen to a local research group explaining the history of Gravesend and Milton Cemetery and its origin as the Victoria Gardens, a place of entertainment and prospective tourist attraction.  The venue is the Grade II listed chapel formerly the concert hall of the gardens.  Follow Tony Larkin, a local historian, on a walk round the grounds.

28 May

Tour of the Cold War Bunker
Location:  Woodlands Park, Wrotham Road, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 7LF
Time:  7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m..  £3.50 per person.
Contact:  Places are limited - Booking essential at Towncentric - 01474 337600.

No access for wheelchairs or pushchairs.  Leave 2010 behind and enter the doomsday world of the Cold War.  See a menacing atomic bomb and learn what might have happened had there been a nuclear war.  Would the team in the 13 rooms of this underground civil defence command post have been able to help the community outside?  Why not go on a tour and find out!

1 June to 3 June

Tours of Cobham Hall
Location:  Cobham Hall School, Cobham, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 3BL
Time:  Last guided tour of the Hall is at 4:00 p.m..  Self guided tour of the gardens until 6:00 p.m.  Admission fee is payable.
Contact:  To book call 01474823371 or 01474825925

Cobham Hall is an outstandingly beautiful red brick mansion which seamlessly reflects Elizabethan, Jacobean, Carolean and 18th-century styles.  The Hall grounds includes rolling park land and scenic pleasure gardens designed by Humphry Repton in the late 1700s, which have recently been restored by the Cobham Park Heritage Project.