Welcome to the website of the Plaxtol Local History Group

COMING SOON
  • Tuesday 12th October 2010, 8pm - A CELEBRATION OF KENTISH ARCHITECTURE, a talk by Jonathan Fenner
  • Tuesday 9th November 2010, 8pm - TRADITIONAL KENTISH TRADES, CRAFTS AND INDUSTRIES, a talk by Richard Filmer
  • Tuesday 14th December 2010, 8pm - JANE AUSTEN'S KENTISH CONNECTIONS, a talk by Clare Graham

    To all members of the Plaxtol Local History Group                                                       6 August 2010

    Notice is hereby given that a Special General Meeting of the Plaxtol Local History Group will be held in Plaxtol Memorial Hall, at 8pm on Tuesday 14 September 2010, to be followed immediately afterwards by the Annual General Meeting of the Group.

    SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING: At the Special General Meeting, the following resolution will be proposed to alter the Group's constitution:

    "that, with immediate effect, the constitution of the Plaxtol Local History Group be amended as follows:
    • Paragraph 9 (Auditor) shall be replaced by the following paragraph:

     "9. Review of annual accounts: A person (whether or not a member of the Group) shall be appointed as Independent Examiner to review the annual accounts of the Group."

    •  In paragraph 10 (Elections), the word "Auditor" shall be replaced by the words "Independent Examiner".
    •  In paragraph 14.4 (Annual General Meeting):
    • the words "the audited accounts of the Group shall be presented" shall be replaced by the words "the annual accounts of the Group, as reviewed by the Independent Examiner, shall be presented" and
    •  the word "Auditor" shall be replaced by the words "Independent Examiner"."

    The changes to the constitution are designed merely to make it clear that the review of the Group's annual accounts is not technically an audit and that the person conducting the review is not acting as a Registered Auditor. Otherwise we would require an expensive audit by a professional firm of accountants.

    ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: The Agenda for the Annual General Meeting is as follows:

    • Apologies
    • Minutes of the 2009 AGM
    • Matters arising
    • Chairman's Report
    • Treasurer's Report
    • Election of Officers
    • Election of Committee
    • Election of Independent Examiner to review annual accounts
    • Any other business

    Vanessa Dussek, Secretary

    FIND YOUR PLAXTOL ANCESTORS, OR WHO LIVED IN YOUR PLAXTOL HOUSE - for only £10 each (post & packing extra), you can buy our searchable CDs with details of all the thousands of entries:

    • of baptisms, marriages and burials in PLAXTOL PARISH REGISTERS from 1648 to 1931 or

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    • in the 10-yearly PLAXTOL CENSUSES from 1841 to 1901.
    For more details, please     see Books etc.

    NOW AVAILABLE - our latest publications, by Haydn Puleston Jones - only £5.00 each (post & packing extra):

    • "CHURCH LIFE IN VICTORIAN PLAXTOL" and

    • "BEERHOUSES AND INNS OF VICTORIAN PLAXTOL" 
     For more details, please see Books etc.

    Plaxtol Parish Church by Pip Perry. This is one of only three churches in England built during the Interregnum, 1649-60 and bears no Saint's name. 
    Plaxtol Local History Group aims to help us all to understand and enjoy aspects of our village and parish history and that of the surrounding areas - from the houses and architecture to the people, their livelihoods and the landscape.  We do this through our lectures, special projects, publications and occasional exhibitions.

    Each year we have a programme of monthly lectures - when members and non-members are welcome (see our 2010 programme), plus visits each year to places of interest. Lectures naturally focus on the history of this area and examples of subjects recently covered include: 

    Roman Plaxtol, Kentish Place Names, Houses and People of Tudor Plaxtol, The Pilgrims Way, Iron Making in the Weald, The Kentish Parish, The American Connection with Ightham Mote

    Regular lectures are only one aspect of our commitment to local history. The Group is actively involved in projects: for example, a recent major undertaking has been the transcription/ compilation onto data bases and two CDs of the original Plaxtol census reports from 1841 to 1901 and of Plaxtol Parish Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials from 1648 to 1931. 

    From time to time, the Group researches various aspects of Plaxtol history, publishing the results of the rearch in books and booklets. We are currently working on a series of publications on various aspects of Plaxtol's history in Victorian times. For details of our publications and how to buy them, see Books etc. For our publications and exhibitions, we are able to use the significant resources of our archive of documents, photos and artefacts.

    The Plaxtol Local History Group embraces the past with enthusiasm.  Surrounded as we are by change and development, especially here in the South East, local history gives us all an understanding and enjoyment of what our part of the world used to be like and how and why it has come to be the place we live in today. 

    Do join us - you could find our activities as stimulating as we do.

    Rosemary Foster, Chairman                                             

    Plaxtol Local History Group is a registered charity (Registered Number 294317).                 #Top