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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.

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 1876
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

A Town at War

(journal Summer 2004)

The Romans in Sittingbourne

Brickmaking

Christmas

(journal Autumn 2003)

Christmas 1914

The High Street - Journal37 - Spring 2007.pdf

Faraway Places - the Summer Holidays

A Royal Occasion 1953

(journal spring 2003)