Journal Items

Researching the past

Then and Now

Test your knowledge !

FAQs

Your Questions

Personal Histories

Kids Quiz !

Gallery

Share those memories with future generations - email us ! 

see "Your Questions"

New Road, Milton (Mill water tower behind)

LATEST:

22 May - AGM at Phoenix Centre Sittingbourne tea-towel for sale - see "SHOP" Borden Tombstone inscriptions- see "Your Questions" - Genealogy page Research group on "Inns and Pubs" see "members" Memories of Borden Grammar School - see "Personal Histories"

Museum Shop

Membership and calendar

Our Aims

Visitor's Enquiries

The Romans in Sittingbourne

Bronze Age Artifacts

Titanic passengers from Sittingbourne

The Bell Founders of Borden

Click here to find answers to some Frequently Asked Questions !

Class of Tunstall School, 1933

Opening Times

The museum will be open in 2008 every Saturday from 22 March until October, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and at other times by appointment. You are welcome to come and see our displays and have an opportunity to talk about Sittingbourne’s heritage. Admission is free, though donations are always welcome, however small.

If you live away from Sittingbourne, why not keep in contact by becoming a member? 

Sittingbourne Heritage Museum

67 East Street

Sittingbourne

Kent, ME10 4BQ

UK

Registered Charity No. 1070698

Digging pug (brickfields)

Part of our display in the museum cellar

Archaelogical finds show evidence of occupation from around 3000 B.C. to the 1500s. The finds from this major site have been placed with our museum. We exhibit a number of them against a background of an Iron Age village and including information about the finds and life in those times.

Troops marching in West Street during the Great War. (Looking West, the railings on the left are outside the "Volunteers" pub. The turning on the right is Cockleshell Walk")

Our Aims

We seek to promote interest in the history of Sittingbourne through our quarterly journal, free to members; by holding illustrated lectures as well as providing a service to schools and running our website.

We hope that you like our web site and find it useful. We will be improving it all the time and welcome your suggestions and comments. Please Contact Us  if there is anything you would like to see on the web-site, or if there is something which you have that may be of interest to the museum.

Click here for a page of YOUR questions and answers.

Copies are still available of our publication:

‘The Story of Gore Court House

and Estate, Tunstall’

written by

Helen Allinson.

This beautiful booklet is fully illustrated in colour and tells the story of the house and estate from the 14^th century to the purchase by the Council and its conversion into King George’s Playing Field.

Copies may be purchased from

The Museum, (on Saturdays when open), from 65 Park Road

and from The Central Library.

Cost £2.50 per copy.

Copies signed by the author are also available.

We have brought back something of our Roman history and made it available as part of our museum display. We have created a display of Roman artefacts - some of them original Sittingbourne finds - against a background of a Roman Villa, designed to give a flavour of life in our area all those centuries ago.

click here for more information about the roman period

Brickmaking

During the second half of the 19^th century the building of Victorian London created a vast demand for bricks. In the Sittingbourne area the materials were available to manufacture the yellow Kent Stock Brick more cheaply than the traditional red brick.

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Edward Bishop & Sons

The ledgers from this company which built the Sittingbourne and Kemsley paper mills have been donated to the museum. This will be a wonderful resource for research and we are most grateful.

The Crown Quay cache

Four sea chests full of old documents have been found in Crown Quay which we are in the process of documenting. see members page