ELVINGTON AND EYTHORNE HERITAGE GROUP
Elvington and Eythorne Heritage Centre, St. Johns Road, Elvington, CT15 4DZ
eandehg@hotmail.com / elvingtoneythorneheritagegroup@hotmail.com phone - 07928835525
November 2014
Here is the second newsletter on behalf of the Elvington and Eythorne Heritage Group. This month will see
the fourth consecutive Elvington and Eythorne Heritage Exhibition take place at Elvington Community
Centre on Sunday 16th November 2014. Local residents are welcome to come and view the displays and
visit the heritage centre, which will be open from 10 am until 3pm. There will be teas, cake and
refreshments available. This year there will be a theme to commemorate and honour the men who were
killed and also involved during the First World War. Visitors are being asked if they would be kind enough
to help us start collating where their family originally came from before living in Elvington and Eythorne.
Any information will be added to a local heritage database to identify the spread of local families across the
country when their relatives came to Kent looking for work in the Kent Coalfield.
ON FILE from Eythorne Parish Community Magazine (November)
20 years ago – Eythorne Parish Council received another letter from the local St. John Ambulance Brigade
asking them to reconsider their refusal to alter the Lease, otherwise the St. John
Head Office might have to shut the local branch.
15 years ago – The games surface area was due to start and work would take about 6 weeks.
Unfortunately there was a problem with the football posts as the Parish Council could not
find anyone that could keep adding or removing the goal posts regularly.
10 years ago – Eythorne Parish Council asked for funders to consider not siting the proposed BMX track at
the skate park area, but to consider siting it on Elvington Playing Fields instead.
5 years ago – A special trip was being organised for local residents to travel by coach to London to be part
of a BBC Studio Live Audience for Alan Titchmarsh and his celebrity guests.
Did you know?
A public meeting was held at Eythorne School on Monday 17 th November 1919, with Dr. G Bellamy
presiding, to speak about deciding on plans to erect a Stone Wayside Cross that would be a lasting
War Memorial to remember those men who lived in Eythorne and were killed during the Great
War. A small area of land was given to site the War Memorial by Mr. Leonard Hampshire, who was
the owner of Eythorne Post Office. The memorial was erected at the cost of £100. 0s 0d. and
obtained by subscriptions. On Sunday 4th July 1920, the Eythorne War Memorial was officially
unveiled by Captain F. P. Barlow M.C. of Eythorne House.
What’s new?
Over the past few weeks Elvington and Eythorne Heritage Centre has been donated items that include local
maps of the region of the villages of Eythorne and Elvington, along with plans showing Tilmanstone Colliery
during the mid-1980s. Funding has paid for copies of the maps and plans to be scanned and then laminated
so that visitors to Elvington and Eythorne Heritage Centre can view and also handle them without the risk
of damaging them.
Elvington and Eythorne Heritage Centre is open to visitors on a Tuesday from 10am until 2pm and the
occasional Saturdays with the same visitor opening times, at Elvington Community Centre