Tuesday 9th December 2008, 8pm at Plaxtol Memorial Hall - THE DARENTH VALLEY - a talk by Jonathan Fenner
Tuesday 13th January 2009, 8pm - SEVENOAKS HISTORY THROUGH LITERATURE, a talk by Ian Walker
Our Programme for 2009 is now on the website.
NOW AVAILABLE - AN A4 REPRINT OF MOLLIE LEWIS'S BOOK "PLAXTOL IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY" - ONLY £8 - 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 programme for 2009), 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, Families of 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 a data base and CD of original census reports from 1841 to 1901. 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 #Top