Registered Charity No. 1070698
Last Updated 22/1/15
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Please explore the various links and we're sure you will enjoy the site.
Share those memories with future generations - email us ! see "Your Questions"
Now Available "The Inns, Taverns and Public Houses of Sittingbourne and District" (Third Edition)
Price £12.95
See the "Shop" page for list of items and publications available.
Our Local History Study Group meets each month to research such topics.
Whats on ? Events: 2015 Our 2015 program of talks is also open to non-members. held at Phoenix House unless marked * Admission is £1 to members and £3 to non-members. (HRGS members should bring proof of membership) *18th February at 7pm at The Aveunue Theatre "Medway Tales from the Dividing River" - Wilf Lower
26th February at 2pm Chatham Dockyard 1815-65 by Dr Philip McDougall
*18th March at 7pm at The Avenue Theatre - "The Hazards of the Journey - Pilgrimage and Travel in the Middle Ages" - by Imogen Corrigan
23rd April at 7pm The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 by Terry Matson
We really do need volunteers to help man the museum for three hours on a Saturday perhaps once or twice a year!
Please contact the secretary - training will be given (email is best!)
27 and 27a High Street, 1960s |
LATEST:
Find out what's happening, latest news and events open to members and non-members
A summary of what we hope to accomplish for the town's heritage.
Many many enquiries from visitors to this web site, with answers supplied by other readers, or by our members. Subjects such as genealogy, street & buildings, WWII, schools, industry, origins of the town etc.
See what we have for sale either in the museum shop or by mail
Titanic passengers from Sittingbourne 100 years ago !Two known town residents were on the ship. One survived, one didn't !
Anglo Saxon CSI in the Forum welcomes 10,000th visitor See also the project blog for latest news.
Click here to find answers to some Frequently Asked Questions !
Torry Hill, nr Milsted |
Opening Times The museum is now open every Saturday from 11am to 3pm, and the shop every Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 1.30pm until 4pm. For groups, you may have also access 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. call 07472 268388 for further information on opening times. If you live away from Sittingbourne, why not keep in contact by becoming a member? Overseas memberships are now available - see members page. Sittingbourne Heritage Museum 67 East Street Sittingbourne Kent, ME10 4BQ UK
Registered Charity No. 1070698
Anglo Saxon grave finds at The Meads
Digging pug (brickfields)
New Road, Milton |
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 Webb's, East Street |
The Iwade Settlement -
Bronze Age to
Mediaeval times... now on display in the museum.
Archaeological 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") |
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Our Aims We aim to preserve and display the heritage of Sittingbourne through artefacts, photographs and documents. 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.
the Foresters arms, Berry Street |
Copies are still available of our publication:
‘The Story of Gore Court Houseand 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 14th century to the purchase by the Council and its conversion into King George’s Playing Field.
Copies may be purchased fromThe Museum, (on Saturdays when open), and from The Central Library. Cost £2.50 per copy. Copies signed by the author are also available. |
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ROMAN DISPLAY They came in 55 BC and again in 43 AD. when the invasion force included a unit of The Praetorian Guard (some members pictured below from a relief in The Louvre), and stayed nearly 400 years.
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 |
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 picture: Staff at Sittingbourne West Boys County Secondary School - 1953 Our Members We rely for support on our members of whom we have over 500. They help with maintenance, act as guides, and assist with our archives as well as providing essential continuing finance. Click here to see details of the 2008 AGM. Visit our members page to see what is going on ! |
During the second half of the 19th 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. |
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.
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