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HERITAGE

The Quarterly Journal of Sittingbourne Heritage Museum

Click on the pictures below to see shortened versions of journals previously published on the following subjects:
Our Journal is distributed free to members and includes articles, pictures and comment on life in Sittingbourne across the centuries. We welcome contributions for publication. It can be some research you have done, a personal memory of life in Sittingbourne or simply an anecdote about our town. Do please contact us

We will be happy to discuss your contribution with you. From time to time we will publish extracts from our Journal on these website pages.

If you would like a copy of one of our journals, contact us and we will be happy to send you one. This is free for members.   Alternatively you can download a copy from this site as they become available in pdf format.  You will need a copy of a suitable reader program.

 


A Town at War

(journal Summer 2004)

 

Christmas 

(journal Autumn 2003)

 

Christmas 1914

 

The High Street - Journal37 - Spring 2007.pdf

 

Index of Journal Subjects

6 Crime & Punishment
7 Christmas 1914
8 Public Health & Water
9 Sittingbourne Fire Brigade
10 Politics
11 Music, Home Guard, Post War Council
12 Rail Crash 1878
13 Doctor at War , Roman Archaeology
14 Murston & Brick making
15 1900, Buses, Sheppey Crossing, 1940s rationing
16 Between the Wars
17 1920’s Growth of Sittingbourne
18 Coronation, 1952
19 St Michaels School, Holy Trinity School
20 Music of  Daisy Rumble, Mrs Parrett, The Red Lion
21 Coronation 1953, Ufton Court
22 1926, and memories of Milton (Lewry)
23 Christmas in the Workhouse 1926, M Lewry memories, The Grove
24 WW1, memories of WW2 (Morgan)
25 1930s
26 Fruit picking, Jam making
27 Stage Coaches
28 Chatham & Dover Railway
29 The Country Life, Tunstall
30 Hopping, Bennett Opie, The Oxinden letters
31 Christmas Celebrations, Workhouse, 1937
32 Sheppey, Brenchley House school, Gore Court, Cross channel air ferry
33 Tunstall
34 Edwardian Summer, Borden
35 1956
36 A fond farewell – Sittingbourne Mill
37 The High Street, Hasted
38 Post War, Friendly societies, Dr E. Ray, St Michaels Church
39 Origins of the Road. memories Borden Hall
40 Sanitation, Borden Hall, Adult School, Advertising
41 Forgotten years 1946 - 1950
42 Countyr Roads, Burial Clubs, Borden Churchyard, Sittingbourne Cemetery
43 regeneration, Tonge, Reports to Church Commissioners
44 Crash of 1929, Victorian Bredgar
45 Changing Countryside, 100 years ago, The Workhouse
46 The Lords Day, Wills and Inventories
47 Christmas Celebrations, Wraights, Anglo Saxons
48 Health Care & Hospitals, Tiles in Butchers, High Street 1925
49 Elections, The Co-op, Funerals, Trade in the Creek
50 Local Government, Early Flight, Ufton Lane School
51 Radfield, Working at the Co-op, W Brightman - A Sittingbourne Life
52 Radfield(2), 4 worthies - Payne, Smeed, Poore, The Highsted Skeletons
53 Wesley, Charles Jackson, Sittingbourne Library, 1937 Coronation
54 Burtons, Watercress, Borden memories

 

See also the list of books on local history.

The Romans in Sittingbourne

 

Brickmaking

 
 

Faraway Places - the Summer Holidays


A Royal Occasion 1953

(journal spring 2003)

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