Welcome to the website of the Plaxtol Local History Group
Tuesday 9th February 2010, 8pm - KENT IN THE 20TH CENTURY, a talk by Bob Ogley
Tuesday 9th March 2010, 8pm - The 6th Mollie Lewis Memorial Lecture - SANDWICH - "THE COMPLETEST MEDIEVAL TOWN IN ENGLAND", a talk by Sarah Pearson
For the rest of 2010, please see our 2010 programme.
NOW AVAILABLE - our latest publication, published December 2009: "CHURCH LIFE IN VICTORIAN PLAXTOL" by Haydn Puleston Jones - only £5.00 - 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 1930.
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 #Top