STAPLEHURST ARCHIVE
Document Index
This is an index to many of the documents held in the Staplehurst Archive.
To find documents of interest to you, use your computer's pdf search facility to
search for key words. If there is a document or documents you wish to view,
make a note of the reference in the "Index" column.
The Archive is located in the Village Centre.
1
Index
ADM/BOOK/01
Category
Village Appraisal
ADM/BUIL/01
ADM/DOCS/02
Village Centre debate
Act amending the laws of
marriage (Harris
Collection)
Special Constable Duties
handbook, warrant and
regulations
ADM/HIST/01
History
2
3
ADM/DOCS/01
4
5
6
ADM/HIST/02
7
ADM/HIST/03
8
ADM/INFO/01
9
10
11
12
13
14
ADM/INFO/02
ADM/INFO/03
ADM/INFO/04
ADM/INFO/05
ADM/INFO/06
ADM/MISC/01
15
ADM/MISC/02
16
17
ADM/MISC/03
ADM/MISC/04
18
ADM/MISC/05
19
ADM/PLAN/01
20
ADM/PLAN/02
Description
The Village Appraisal 1993 ---- 2 copies
"The future of the Village Centre" from 1988
when it was bought by the village. Argument for
listing. LOOSE PAGES PLUS PHOTOS
An act for amending the Laws respecting the
Solemnization of Marriages in England 1823 (4
Geo IV)
Handbook of duties for Mr F R Oborne in Kent
Special Constabulary.
Warrant card and
regulations 1925.
Censuses
Notes on 1841, 1851, 1881 Censuses
Compilation of minutes from the Parish Council
Parish council deliberations 1905 -1979, compiled by Ron Hegarty.
over 100 years
Part of a "What's On?" listing for October 1994
Articles by N.D. Rider from Bygone Kent July
1994 and September 1994 Maidstone and District
Fire Brigade Parts 1 & 3 with remarks about
History of Fire Brigade
Staplehurst
"Presenting Staplehurst" a guide, packed with
information for both visitors and residents of
Staplehurst. 1989. Author not known.
Guide book to Staplehurst Map, photos, clubs, councils, MP, history, train
1989
times, lore, advertisements.
Criteria on traffic lights and Civic Trust documents discussing criteria for
traffic calming
traffic lights and traffic calming.
Byelaws of Staplehurst P.C. List of Byelaws, printed 1978
Parliamentary Register of voters in Staplehurst c
Voters list 1935
1934?
Parliamentary Register of voters in Staplehurst
Voters list 1945
Febuary 1945
Traffic speed in High Street Letter from House of Commons 03/06/2005 to
Staplehurst
WK Piper re speeding in the High Street
The Staplehurst Plan Comments on "The Staplehurst Plan"
comments 1970s
(Anonymous) Late 1970s
1. Response by Staplehurst Parish Council
2. Response by Staplehurst Society
Local Development Plan
Discusses needs of design housing,
(Borough) Review 2002
environment, retailing, etc
Questionnaire, Village
"We Need your Views": Questionnaire for the
Appraisal C1999
1999 Appraisal
Flyer: Towards a Cleaner ,"Flyer: Towards a Cleaner Greener Staplehurst,
Greener Staplehurst
1990
Details
Village research statistics
Names
Donor
Background information and debate including
photos.
Original legal document, printed in 1823
Found in cupboard at 1 Bly Court Cottages, Chapel
Lane.
F R Oborne was
first sworn in in 1919
Fred Harris
Oborne
Produced for WEA Class 1983
Alan Baum
Anita
Thompson
Some amusing and significant anecdotes and
historical points
many
Refers to 1991 Act
Signed by Secretary of State and by Jeanette Wyatt
& Bert Seth
Wyatt, Seth
On A5 both sides
Many!
On A4
Many!
Frank Page
W.Piper
Argues against the expansion of Staplehurst
Photocopy of typed page
2 stapled sets of A4 printouts
Mentions bypass, disabled access
Some isses have been dealt with, others not
Questions may be of interest.
Folder A4. Green Ink
Environment
1. To & from Ann Widdecombe M.P.
Correspondence about
Various Correspondence about Speeding in
2. Reasons for not having speed cameras
Speeding
Staplehurst
3. KCC policy and studies
3 sheets 90cm X 54cm in a cardboard tube.
The plan was dropped because the SPC committee
Blueprints: proposed village Blueprints for a village hall and community centre felt that future generations would be left with a big
hall (1970)
proposed in 1970.
mortgage to pay off.
Map of Staplehurst,
Village Planning map Shows future Limes Trees development
showing planning
3 copies A4 - date uncertain, but post 1983
and conservation area
Frank Page
Hotson
Roy Latham
(Frittenden)
Index
21
ADM/PLAN/03
22
ADM/PLAN/04
23
ADM/PLAN/05
24
ADM/PLAN/06
25
ADM/PLAN/07
26
ADM/PLAN/08
27
28
ADM/PLAN/09
ADM/PLAN/10
29
ADM/PLAN/11
30
ADM/PLAN/12
31
ADM/PLAN/13
32
ADM/PLAN/14
33
ADM/PLAN/15
34
35
ADM/PLAN/16
ADM/PLAN/17
36
ADM/POOR/01
37
38
ADM/POOR/02
ADM/PRIZ/01
Category
Description
Details
Names
1. Planning map Dec 1974 showing proposed
District plan and Map
bypass and connections
A4 photocopy
showing route of bypass
2. Staplehurst Interim District Plan - pamphlet to
and conecting roads
accompany public
2 pieces
Map - proposed Staplehurst Map showing proposed Staplehurst Conservation Scale 1:2500.
Conservation area
area - County Planning Office circa early 1970s. Two copies, one dated 1971
Transfer by Sale from Grace Nicholson of
Surrenden to Maidstone Rural District Council of
Sales Document:
land behind Surrenden now Surrenden Field.
Photocopies of original documents.
Surrenden Playing Field
Dated 1934.
Land for sale coloured red.
Nicholson
News: Rejection of
application for homeless
News clipping: Village No to homeless.
KM KCC planned a reception centre at Station Approach.
centre
(?) 12 July 1968
- SPC rejection criticized.
Priestley
1. Bell Lane Nature reserve management plan
Booklet, not dated, but approx 1980
Nature reserve
2. Lease from Maidstone Borough Council 15 July Survey of plants
Feltwell,, Ferry, Flegg,
management
1980
Proposals for development
Scott
Hatching Tan, Maidstone, opposite Clapper Lane,
was later known as Huntsman Stables. The Appeal
Planing appeal decision:
was refused.
(NB Hatchin'
Hatching Tan, Maidstone
Tan was later the name of another site in Grandshore
Lane)
Cooper
Road
Appeal decision on Hatching tan, April 2005
Staplehurst Planning Overview, a document
Planning overview
adopted by the Parish Council in October 2001
Kent Plan
Towards a Structured Plan for the County of Kent Kept in order to place the Staplehurst Plan in context.
A Householder's guide to Planning and Building
Control - Maidstone Borough Council by Trevor
Planning guidance notes
Gasson
Maidstone Borough Local Correspondence between Staplehurst P.C. &
Plan
Maidstone Borough Council Aug 1988
Refs to Primary School, & boundaries
Doyle, Sturdy, Powell
Planning application: (1) News clippings, and (2)
Vine Walk Planning
letters for and against proposals to build behind
Application
Vine House.
Planning application A history of rejected planning applications for two Includes maps
rejected
houses in Loddenden grounds 1999 - 2000
Not digitized
Marton
Planning application re land Application for change of use of land east of
east of Slaney Road and
Slaney Road estate from agricultural to gardens. One application for a wild-life haven.
Millfield - refused
Refused by MBC.
Maps included
Horricks Barwick Cheek
Village design document 2004 includes PPS 7
(sustainable development in rural areas.
Appendix 3 pp 61-72 Buildings in the conservation
area
Staplehurst issue and possible solutions.
The Staplehurst map, entire postal area, houses
Village design document
and road
2004
Wimpey planning 1986
Inspection report on Oliver Road extension 1986 Inspector upholds refusal
Rules and ordersfor the Staplehurst workhouse - Robert Parr Rector
16th July 1809
(44 rules)
Titus Spicer & Thomas Manwaring, Churchwardens
Workhouse rules
enlarged photocopy and typed sheet (original)
Charles Walter & Thomas Cheesman, Overseers
3 sheets of vouchers for coal and coke, dated
Ration vouchers
1926, 1927
Certificate: Best Kept
Certificate for Staplehurst: Best Kept Village
From the Committee for the Preservation of Rural
Village 1964
Competition 1964 - Commendation
Kent
25cm X 20cm
Donor
Frank Page
Frank Page
Frank Page
Frank Page
Joan Buller
SPC
unknown
Index
39
ADM/TRAD/01
Category
Staplehurst Business
Association
ADM/TRAD/02
Staplehurst token
ADM/WARF/01
Soldier's leave card
(The Harris Collection)
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
AGR/DOCS/01
AGR/DOCS/02
AGR/DOCS/03
AGR/HIST/02(Bk)
AGR/HIST/03(Bk)
AGR/HIST/Book1
48
AGR/NEWS/01
49
AGR/PRIZ/01
50
AGR/RELI/01
51
AGR/SALE/01
52
AGR/TRAD/01
53
BOOKS/INFO/01
54
BUI/DOCS/01
55
BUI/DOCS/02
56
BUI/HIST/01
57
BUI/HIST/02
Description
Papers: constitution and rules
28/4/1992 - 27/8/1993
Article in Bygone Kent January 1995 Page 13-15
only. Richard E Hardy " Some 18th Century
tokens of Kent". Description of Staplehurst - DH
40 - token
Special emergency card, soldier or sailor [for use
when on leave: accopmanying butter & meat
coupons used up.]
Issued 19/6/1918 - 10/7/1918 to Lieut J E Harris
Contract of sale -- Rawley's Wood, near Marden
1903
Agriculture deeds
Agriculture deeds - sale of
hops
Agreement for purchase of hops, 1903
Agriculture/Insurance
documents
Fire etc insurance --- 01/10/1959
Filmer, R., Hops and Hop Picking, Shire
Hop Picking
Publications, Ltd, 1982
Wright, P., Old Farm Implements, Alan Smith
Farm implements
1983
Streeter D & Richardson R, Discovering
Book: Hedgerows
Hedgerows, BBC, 1983 reprint
Two newspaper cuttings on Brattle Farm
1. News Review 4/8/1983
Brattle Farm Museum
2. KM 31.3/1989
Prize or reward for meritorious servants &
Agricultural Prize Certificate labourers
Photocopy of news report (n.d.; early 1970s);
Blessing of a plough atAll Saints Church by Rev
Report: Blessing a plough Trevor Vickery, with photo
Staplehurst Cattle market 1901
Sales brochure
Sale of Livestock
Advertising flyer for Kentish blue unpasteurised
blue cheese, produced by Steve and Karen
Advertisement for Kentish Reynolds, Kingcott cheese, Iden Manor Farm,
blue cheese
Staplehurst TN12 0ES
Books about Staplehurst - List of books pertaining to Staplehurst, mostly in
List
Kent libraries.
Agreement for sale
The Beslee Collection
Agreement between Edward Mason (Brewer,
Maidstone) and Thomas Beslee 6 Sept 1867
Details
Names
The Association did not succeed at that time.
Various officers
They were issued by local traders in 1794
John Simmons
How hops are administered and grown, as a
condition of sale
How hops are adminstered and grown
Large paper document - ORIGINAL
Brooker of Marden,
Tipples of Hartsheath
Brooker of Marden,
Tipples of Hartsheath
William Tipple of Iden
Grange
William Tipples Farms Limited
Donor
William
Tipples, jnr
AT
Martha Tolhurst
Brian Thompson, Wynne
Tremenheere, Michael
Eckley, Claude Kite,
George Day, Stuart
Tipples
Association with Winches Garth
Land in Frittenden: Bess Yorton & Knoxbridge Inn
Re letting the Knoxbridge Inn, Frittenden, and the
Tenency Agreement
Agreement 6 Sept 1867 Edward Mason (Brewer) exclusive sale of liquor Plus pieces of land in
The Beslee Collection
and Thomas Beslee
Frittenden ORIGINAL
Survey of Farm Buildings - Kent Historic Buildings Committee
Survey of
guide
farm buildings (Kent)
Booklet guide
Includes Roof shapes - barns
Staplehurst Society publication June 1986
A4
Sheet Drawings by R Howard
Calligraphy KC
Yates Smith
Plus
Village Trail Leaflet
documents and materials used in compiling it.
Historical buildings leaflet with research documents
In
Winch
Reynolds
Geoffrey Kite
ARimmer
Mason Beslee Coles
Tuffill Budden Brown
Prall
Anita
Thompson
Mason Beslee
Richard
McLauren
Index
58
BUI/HIST/03
59
BUI/HIST/04
60
BUI/HIST/05
61
BUI/HIST/06
62
BUI/HIST/07
63
BUI/HIST/08(Bk)
64
BUI/INFO/01
65
BUI/INFO/02
66
67
BUI/INFO/03
BUI/PLAN/01
Category
Details
Brattle Farm museum
The
Harrises
North and South Cottage
Article about Staplehurst
Article In Kent Life describing Staplehurst. Author Church
Loddenden
and its buildings
Oliver Matthews. Copy
Railway Tavern
Proposal concerning conversion of the old school
Creation of village Centre buildings in a village centre
Various papers and drawings
Report: Royal Commisssion on the Historical
Monuments of England "The King's Head, High
Building report: The King's Street, Staplehurst, Kent. Nov 1989 Crown
Description, part plan, glossary of terms, "Surviving
Head
Copyright Copy, A4
part of a mediaeval building".
Roads, churches, history, buildings, martyrs
Loddenden,, Spilsill Court, Iden Manor, Widhurst,
Article in book
Chapter on Staplehurst from A Saunter through Maplehurst, Exhurst, Newstead, Fuller House,
. - History
Kent by Charles Iggelesden (pub 1902 - 1928)
Lovehurst, Gread Wadd Farm Rectory Bell, King's
. - People
Vol 5(?) pp.54-73
Head, Chapel
Extract from William Coles Finch, Windmills and
History of Staplehurst
Watermills, 1933
The mill was
windmill
burnt down in 1911.
Typescript by Allan Rimmer
Macmanus, F & Partners, Tenterden Explored: An
Tenterden
architectural & Townscape analysis. KCC 1967
All Saints church / Primary School / Hill House (Post
Office) / Crown Cottages, Vine House / Loddenden
2 pages of unknown guide book pre 1940
Manor (Iden) estate cottages / Fuller House/
Describes some Staplehurst buildings and houses Husheath / Great Pagehurst/ Little Pagehurst
Guide Book pages
Sign on a card. One page typed.
Information sheet about the Description and explanation of the Conservation Written to accompany an exhibition May 1971
Conservation Area
Area
Staplehurst Society
T Allison, An Illiustrated Guide to the Parish
Cranbrook Church
Church of St Dunstan, Cranbrook, 2001
Plans and Costings for the Work needed for conversion of Old School into
village centre
village centre with costings. 1988
68
E/42
69
EDU/HIST/01
70
EDU/PRIZ/01
Newspaper article
Staplehurst School
Attendance certificates
(The Harris Collection)
EDU/REMI/01
Reminiscences of the
school
EDU/REMI/02
Report on Staplehurst
School
EDU/HIST/02
71
History of the School
Education
72
73
Description
Laying the foundation stone for the mother and
baby home behind the church (never built) n.d.
From Forster to 44 - The Story of Staplehurst
School between 1870 and 1944
i.e.
between the two education reform acts
Modern Pressures test the viability of rural life."
The Courier May 2002 about the decline of rural
life and its effect on the school.
Some info re history of schooling in Staplehurst
Twelve school and Sunday-school certificates for
attendance and good conduct for Harris boys.
Mr John Waghorn of Cranbrook, Memories of
Staplehurst School.
Born 1904 From The
Courier 21/01/1983
Report (c 1939) on Staplehurst School written by
teacher for his war-time successor by William
Gifford Hardy
Names
Donor
Harris / Thompson /
Dowswell
Harris, Poyntell,
Chamberlain, Hoare,
Oyler, Jull, Chapman,
Gibbons (Gybbons)
Reeves, Hardes, Orpen,
Corke, Sycamore, Searle
Rev Canon Walker,
Rector 1933-1951, Miss
Christine Knowles of
Spilshil
Fred Harris?
Researched by Eric Spear
Copyright 1993 - 2 COPIES
Various
2 photos
Mr Spear, Mrs Pope
n.k.
Card, elaborately embossed.
Harris
Harris
Giant Stride tragedy
Teachers
Balfour Day
Bible
In the style of a reminiscence
Stanley, Reeve, Thatcher, Janine
Jeffrey, Butcher
Burgess
Index
EDU/SCHL/01
Description
Description of Staplehurst Primary School from
September 1951 to November 1956 by Janine
Staplehurst School
Burgess (nee hardy) following that of her father
reminiscence
Gifford Hardy
Booklet, KCC Education Committee Booklet - school rules and Staplehurst Primary School 1983-4
information
Information and rules
- 2 copies
Lessons, PE, crafts, lunchtime
110th Anniversary Year 1983-4
A4 size, printed 1983
Includes names of staff
EDU/SCHL/02
Notes on Staplehurst
County Primary School
Staplehurst County Primary School notes by
headmaster K.C. Yates-Smith
History of school,curriculum, punishment, dinner
money, uniform,savings bank
Staplehurst school mag
Details of books about
Staplehurst
Indexes of Archaeologia
Cantiana (including
Staplehurst)
Staple diet Staplehurst school magazine (1973)
References to Staplehurst in books and guides
Handwritten Sheets
Research by members of History Group in the 1970s
into published references about Staplehurst
HIS/DICK/01
Monumental inscriptions
Extract from book on
Dickens
Staplehurst in Kent
The Staplehurst Disaster by Peter Ackroyd
June 1865
HIS/DICK/02
Extract from book
HIS/DICK/03
Report on 1865 Rail
accident
HIS/DICK/04
Report on 1865 Rail
accident
HIS/DICK/05
Article on rail crash
HIS/DICK/O6
HIS/EMIG/01
Rail crash 1865
Sponsored emigration
correspondence
Staplehurst News
Poor Law administration
HIS/EMIG/02
Vestry records:
Report on migrants;
Staplehurst factory
HIS/HOUS/01
Book: History of Staplehurst Gertrude Keech, Staplehurst & the Weald of Kent.
houses and buildings
(Research Pub Co, 1965)
Compiled from various literary sources
74
EDU/REMI/03
75
76
77
78
EDU/SCHL/03
HIS/BOOK/01
79
HIS/BOOK/02
Category
Archaeologia Cantiana Indexes 1 -28.
Staplehurst mentioned
80
HIS/BOOK/03
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
9
Details
Donor
Jenner, Catt, Butcher
Mr CE Spear, et al
Miss Maxted (infants) Mrs
Connolly (juniors in Old
School) Miss Spurgeon
(new infants school)
Cherry Fann
K.C.Yates-Smith
headmster
Not digitized. The info is available on disc re County
Archives. Kent Archeological Society
Compiled by the Staplehurst Society History Group
2009. survey of memorials in Staplehurst Church.
Survey of Staplehurst churchyard. Survey of URC,
Grave Lane and Staplehurst Railway Station
Booking Hall
Peter Ackroyd, Dickens, Harper Collins, New York,
1990
Printout 3 pages
Dickens writing to Baroness Burdett-Coutts 11 Lady Unknown, the Life of Angela Burdett-Coutts,
June 1865
Sidgewick & Jackson 1978 Page number 139
Article on 1865 train crash - telling the technical
details.
Printout from internet.
No author.
Dickens mentioned only in passing.
Dickens mentioned only in passing. Injured people
named.
People helped in Staplehurst
Illustrated London News 17 June 1865; includes houses.
Original
report on 1865 Rail Accident
document
Article on Dickens in the 1865 Rail Crash: "100
Years Ago".
Unidentified photocopy (1965)
Cutting from magazine 1865. Rail crash featuring
Charles Dickens
No date no identification
Extracts from
Kentish sources IV The Poor 1964
Correspo
1. Report on emigration of Hickmott family, plus
accounts.
2.Appointment of
John Nash as superintendant of Staplehurst
factory. Ref to salary and machinery.
Names
Anita
Thompson
unknown
Staplehust
Historical
Society
Ron Heggarty
Sir H Hoare, Henry Benge
Typescript by Allan Rimmer
Hickmott Hornbuckle
Typescript
Hornbuckle, Hickmott,
Nash
Mr Michael
Davies, (Mar
1998)
Index
90
HIS/INFO/01
91
HIS/MISC/01
92
HIS/MISC/02
93
HIS/MISC/03
94
95
96
97
98
HIS/MISC/04(Bk)
HIS/MISC/05(Bk)
HIS/MISC/06(Bk)
HIS/MISC/07
HIS/PICT/01
99
HIS/PICT/Book4
100
101
HOU//HIST/14
HOU/DOCS/01/02
102
HOU/DOCS/03
103
HOU/DOCS/04
104
HOU/DOCS/05
105
HOU/DOCS/06
Category
Description
Details
Names
Donor
Information messages on various postcards of
Staplehurst typed lists. See postcard album.
There is another typed sheet with similar
information but some of the numbering is
Postcard information
incorrect
Focus on Staplehurst" pp11-12 of Maidstone
Article about Staplehurst & Focus June 2002
Looks at Staplehurst
Iden Croft
Society's photographic collection and Iden Croft
1. Bridging the years - reusing the girders from the
1. Railway infrastructure
Buelt bridge on the Rother Valley Railway.
and history
2.
--cutting KM 17/6/1994
Ternan Agar Pearce
Dickens incident
2. The Dickens incident in some detail
Peter Ackroyd quoted
Tester
Ron Hegarty
Mentions Martyrs, Independent Chapel, Train Crash,
List of Staplehurst Historical events
The Balfour Thanksgiving Trust (Bibles), Playing
List of Historical events
Typed, then handwritten; On A6 lined paper, 2
fields opened, Silver Jubilee of King George V,
(The Harris Collection)
sides.
Staplehurst Operatic Society, etc.
Rodger, J, Cranbrook, a pictorial history,
Cranbrook history
Meresborough Books, 1983
Winbolt, S.E., Kent. (Bells Pocket Guildes to
Kent
English Counties) G Bell & Sons, Ltd., 1930
Jessup, F.W., A History of Kent with maps and
Kent History
pictures. Darwen Finlayson 1958
A4comb-bound booklet by Tony Norfolk
Street names
History and names of Staplehurst Streets
updated 23 Oct 2009
Many
Tony Norfolk
Postcard set - 12 Familiar images produced for
Post card set
the church
Thompson A, Fann C, Weller D,Staplehurst, A
pictorial history in old postcards and photographs,
Postcards, pictures
DAC publication 1990
Christine Knowles, F J
Photocopy of booklet "Spilsill Court" by Christine
Martin, Walter Maianie,
Knowles.
Illustrated by F. J. Martin
John Sharpie, Mr Webb,
Spilsill Court
(The Favil Press Ltd) London W8. n.d.
Mr Sneyd-Kinnersley
Mrs Marshall
Phantom
Wadd Farm (Alias Wode) Includes field names
Beslee Hinds Stevens
Deeds
Mortgage 1856 Thomas Beslee & William Hinds Frittenden and Staplehurst Bess Yorton - parcel of Harrison Bridgeland
Richard
(The Beslee Collection)
folded parchment
land
Barden Mann
McLauren
Samuel Beslee and Thomas Beslee Two pieces of
Deeds Land at Knoxbridge Deed of Partition 1 Feb 1856 and Conveyance land in Frittenden --- Bess Yorton Knoxbridge
3 Beslee Wickham Waters Richard
(The Beslee Collection)
17 July 1859
Folded parchments
folded sheets
Foreman Crampton
McLauren
Thomas Beslee to William Hinds -- Land in
Beslee Wickham Waters
Mortgage Deeds
Further charge on Mortgage Indenture 24 Oct
Frittenden / Staplehurst -- Little Tatling Bess
Foreman Crampton Latter Richard
(The Beslee Collection)
1859 Folded parchment
Hortons 11 acres
Hinds Butler Stevens
McLauren
Samuel Beslee & Thomas Beslee
Wadd Farm Beslee Wickham Waters
Staplehurst & Frittenden Folded - blue outer sheet Foreman Crampton Latter
Deeds of Partition with map
map and list of field names Names on map: Corke Hinds Butler Stevens
Historical map
Deed of partition (manuscript copy) 18 July
Clayton Cornwallis Beslee (GM Stevens and R
Harrison Bridgeland
Richard
(The Beslee Collection)
1859
Oakden, clerks to George Hinds, Solicitor)
Burden Mann
McLauren
Index
Category
106
Description
HOU/DOCS/07
Title Deeds
(The Beslee Collection)
HOU/DOCS/08
Mortgage Deeds
(The Beslee Collection)
Covenant to produce title deeds 14 Oct 1859
Parchment
Land & Hereditaments in
Frittenden & Staplehurst
Mortgage of several pieces of land & messuages
at Frittenden - Knoxbridge Inn --- Parchment
1864
HOU/DOCS/09
Deed
(The Beslee Collection)
Memorandum by way of charge ---- 28 June
1867
foolscap folded and
embossed
HOU/DOCS/10
Agreement
(The Beslee Collection)
HOU/DOCS/11
Conveyancing Deed
(The Beslee Collection)
107
108
109
110
HOU/DOCS/13
Mortgage
(The Beslee Collection)
Mortgage
(The Beslee Collection)
HOU/DOCS/14
Deed of Reconveyance
(The Beslee Collection)
111
HOU/DOCS/12
112
113
114
HOU/DOCS/15
115
HOU/DOCS/16
116
HOU/DOCS/17
117
HOU/DOCS/18
Agreement of right to buy --- 6 Sept 1867
Conveyance 6 Sept 1867
Frittenden Knoxbridge
Thomas Beslee & his
mortgagees to Edward Mason
Folded parchments - 3 sheets
Mortgage indenture for land & hereditaments in
Frittenden
7 Sept 1867 Large folded
parchment
Transfer of Mortgage 29 June 1867
Parchment
Deed of Reconveyance 22 October 1886
Indenture between Edward Usborne & William
Usborne brothers, yoeman of Staplehurst, giving
£460.
PLUS item from Courier (1985) find in
House & land transfer Lincolnshire attic
Loddenden
Lease 15 Nov 1815 for one year Ivy Cottage [?]
5 shillings rent
to be paid by Mrs Mary
Deed of lease release Boorman
Tenant Iden Walter's
Little Loddenden High
son John; occupied by Iden walter & William
Street
Tuffey
Release and conveyance -- part of Little
Loddenden (Loddington) 16 Nov 1813
Mr Iden
Conveyance:
Walten (Snr) to Mrs Mary Boorman £220
. Sycamore Cottage?
Parchment
Deeds and documents relating to Clinton House
(Photocopied), providing a history 1880 to 1976
Photos aerial (2)
Deeds & documents about Summary and transcription of contents
Clinton House
(HOU/DOCS/18M
Details
James Albert Joy to William Hinds -- included the
schedule 1509 - 1859 Joyof Brenchley, farmer,
Hinds of Smarden
Thomas Beslee of Staplehurst Farmer to James
Budden of Chatham, Porter merchant
Thomas Beslee to Mr E Mason
Land in Frittenden called Bess Hortens & Little
Tatlings
James Budden of Chatham,
decd
between Edward Mason of Maidstone and Thomas
Beslee of Staplehurst Land called Bess Yorton in
Frittenden abd Beer House Knoxbridge Inn
Agreement as to right to repurchase heredity at
Frittenden witin 3 years
Names
Beslee Latter Stevens
Larkin Cave Woolgar
Wildes Barr Wickham
Bourne Drawbridge
Butler Waters Foreman
Crampton Harrison
Richard
McLauren
Beslee Budden Henry
Prall
Richard
McLauren
Beslee Mason Budden
Richard
McLauren
Edward Mason to Edward Coles et al
Transfer of Mortgage 15 Aug 1883
William Hinds to Edward Coles et al
Re Bess Yorton, Friitenden
William Tuffill to Edward Mason
Bess Yorton (late in the occupation of Thomas
Beslee) and Bess Hortons and Little Tattlings
Mason Beslee Coles
Tuffill Budden Browne
Mason Prall
Coles Tuffill Budden
Browne Beslee Mason
Prall Stevens Harrison
Hinds Latter
Coles Tuffill Budden
Browne Beslee Mason
Prall Kennette
Hinds Coles Tuffill
Budden Browne Beslee
Tuffill Mason Budden
Coles Browne Beslee
Coles
Field names 10 fields
See cover sheet for details of fields.
Amhurst Chambers
Usborne Baker Webb
Earle Wyborrow Gosling
Part of Little Loddenden
from Edward Ward, Esq
Iden Walter the elder,
gent, to Mary Boorman of
Cranbrook, spinster
Land at Knoxbridge
Iden Walter bought if
William Tuffee, Edward
Ward, Elizabeth
Couchman (widow)
Clinton House now demolished, was sited south of
the railway, west of the station and near the George
Street crossing
N.B. Indexed 18A -18M
Palmer, Belcher,
Pankhurst, Kemp-Gee,
Ginn, Watts,Moat
Donor
Richard
McLauren
Richard
McLauren
Richard
McLauren
Richard
McLauren
Richard
McLauren
Index
Category
HOU/DOCS/19
Collection of documents
relating to properties at
Little Aydhurst and
Chickenden
HOU/DOCS/20
Collection of documents
bought from ebay
HOU/DOCS/21
Collection of documents
from ebay
HOU/DOCS/22
Collection of documents
from Ebay
HOU/DOCS/23
Collection of documents
bought from Ebay
HOU/DOCS/24
Documents bought from
Ebay
HOU/DOCS/25
Collection of documents
bought from Ebay
HOU/DOCS/26
Documents bought from
Ebay
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
Description
Details
Names
Documents & Abstracts (1829) whereby
Humphrey Wickham of Strood married Rebecca Notes also on The Forge (Bell Lane) Thomas
Bromley of Staplehurst and thus acquired
Bewley's house (near church) Gipp Farm (Marden,
property at Little Aydhurst (Corner Farm)
probably near Overbridge). See set of rents of these
Chickenden (Milking Pail) Gramner Barn (near
properties 1881-1892 (except 1890) includes homes
Chickenden)
of tenants (Ebay 2 6-16)
Abstract of title of Cuckolds Corner Farm [Corner
Farm] 1829 citing 1663, 1697, 1731, 1735, 1739,
Thomas Lambe to John
1741, 1759, 1761, 1781, 1813
Thomas Bromley
Piper of Marden
Lease for a year dated 13th January 1745/6 of
[Granner Barn] from James Love of Staplehurst
Gent to Mr Robert Wooden of Staplehurst Gent
and Francis Brooke of West Malling Gent. Rent 1
peppercorn. 2 Barns 12 fields and 60 acres. He is
underage so is mother Sarah is his guardian.
Possibly now part of Milking Pail farm
Lease of 1 year dated 16th October 1750. Mr
Francis Brooke of West Malling gent and Mr
Robert Wooden of Staplehurst yeoman to William
Addison of West Malling tanner of [Granner Barn]
Staplehurst. Rent 1 peppercorn of 2 barns, 60
acres arable meadow and pasture formerly
Samuel Bailey and James Love, since of Robert
Wooden, now Thomas Burren
Release absolute dated 17th October 1750.
Francis Brooke to William Adderson. William
Adderson gives £710.00 to Francis Gearry and
Mary his wife. (complicated)
Various rent lists 1892, 2 in Staplehurst = Corner
Farm and Granner Barn [Corner Farm?]
properties of George Wickham of Strood also
1847. Sale poster for the Milking Pail Farm and
neighbouring properties late occupied by Mr
Samuel Brook now Mr Edward Meades
Rents received by Wickham, Strood including
Corner Farm and Granner Barn 2/12 1886 has
printed map of Milking Pail Farm 1847. Also some
letters and inn bills to New Inn and Railway Hotel
Maidstone. 1881 -1892
The will of William Bromley dated 17th December
1781 to son Thomas Bromley. Messuage, barn,
building and 12 acres at Cuckolds Corner in
Staplehurst administration in 1802. Also the will of
Thomas Bromley dated 1st November 1813 to
wife Charlotte for life £55.00 per annum out of
property in Staplehurst. Trustees Edward Clarke In trust for children for tenants in common not joint
of Staplehurst, farmer, James Cornwell of
tenants at 21
2/17 Statement by John Butcher
Staplehurst, farmer and Rebecca Hawkesley
of Staplehurst 24/07/1837 that he knew William
niece,
Bromley and Thomas Bromley
Donor
Purchase
Ebay Nov 2011
Ebay
Ebay
Ebay
Ebay
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Ebay
ebay
Index
126
HOU/DOCS/27
127
HOU/DOCS/28
128
HOU/DOCS/29
129
HOU/DOCS/30
130
HOU/DOCS/31a
131
HOU/DOCS/31b
132
HOU/HIST/01
133
HOU/HIST/02
134
HOU/HIST/03
135
HOU/HIST/04
Category
Description
Details
Names
Donor
2/19 Extract from will of George Taylor late of
Wrotham innholder dated 19th April 1794, quarter
share including Corner Farm and Granner
Barn/Milking Pail willed to James Whiffen and
William Taylor.
2/21 Whiffen and Taylor 2/22 Will of John Norman of West Malling gent dated
selling to John Norman Rush Reeds Staplehurst 21st September 1797 Aylesford and Staplehurst
on the den of Spilshill = 12 acres formerly
farms to nephews Thomas Godden and Edward
Collection of documents
tenanted Richard Farmer, Henry Bates, Thomas Godden as tenants in common proved 3rd October
from Ebay
Burrell now blank.
1799.
2/23 same as 2/19
Ebay
Copy of roll 74 Easter term 1802. Thomas Sutton
plaintiff Thomas Godden and wife Mary and
Edward Godden defendants.1 messuage, 3
barns, 3 stables, 2 gardens, 2 orchard 70 acres of
arable land, 20 acres of meadow, 20 acres of
pasture, 10 acres of wood and common pasture in
Collection of documents
Staplehurst and Frittenden [probably Granner
from ebay
Barn?]
ebay
List of papers including in the documents from
Ebay 2/1-25 concerning Corner Farm , Milking
Pail Farm and Rush Reeds. Also The Forge in
Staplehurst in Bell Lane. Thomas Bewley of
Cottage near the Church in Staplehurst Gipp
Collection of documents
Farm, Bunches Lake Marden and other properties
bought from Ebay
in Aylesford and West Malling
Ebay
Last will and testament of Thomas Plummer the
Elder of Cranbrook to son John dated 29th August
1660 all messuage tenant and lands Staplehurst
Documents bought from
Abstract of deeds to Clapper Farm 1660-1730
occupied James Crump.December 1694 John
Ends up Arthur Stronghill
ebay
includes original document and transcript
Plummer senior to John Plummer junior of Ashford sold to Mr Paul Ash
Ebay
Includes details of T.S. Usborne's will of 10/01/1898
Abstract of title to Cold Harbour Farm. Exchange (dies 5 Jan 1903); Will of Elizabeth Sarah Usborne
Henry Hoare to Thomas Starling Usborne in 1880 his widow (dated 22/09/1906) proved April 1906.
of Sayden for Cold Harbour + £139 15-0-6 arp
Legatee to her niece Emma Harriet Shaw 11 Oct
Abstract of title to Cold
acres. In 1907 Mirs Emma Harriet Shaw conveys 1907, Cold Harbour Farm conveyed to Mr Samson
Mrs Audrey
Harbour Farm 1880-1952 to Mr S.J. Sorrell
Joseph Sorrell
Server
Cold Harbour Farm
Conveyance dated 11 October 1907. Mrs E.H.
conveyance dated 11
Shaw to Mr S.J. Sorrell Cold Harbour Farm,
October 1907, Mrs
Staplehurst for £800. Includes small map, also
Mrs Audrey
E.H.Shaw to Mr S.J. Sorrett tithe map description of 15-0-6 acres
Server
Bowman, Reeves
Wickings, Pain,
Concentrates on sources (Church records, Poor Law, Schoobridge, Barton,
Bly or Ble Court, Chapel Lane
etc)
Mentions Willow Pond, Sissinghurst Beagham, Rev Nicholas
Typescript
Estate, Loddenden
Knight, et al
A History of Bly Court
The History of Victoria
A description and history of Victoria Cottage,
Cottage
Chapel Lane
For Staplehurst Society House Visit
Harris family
Roy Laming
Detailed history for Staplehurst Society House Visit
The History of Husheath Manor by Anita
censuses and other sources
Weller Downer Burt
Thompson printout
would -- -- -- 11 A4 Names: Hershert Herrynden Boden Lomhurst Brise Vousden Davey Saunders Anita
History of Husheath Manor sheets
Donyngbury William Borden Atkyn Robert Witherde Waghorn Penfold Grant Thompson
Curteis Tolhurst Tray
For Staplehurst Society House Visit
Collison Barnes Bourne
The History of Exhurst (and Little Exhurst)by Anita Detailed history includes census and other sources Farmer Marshall
Anita
History of Exhurst
Thomson
1210 -->
Includes Maplehurst details
Chambers
Thompson
Index
Category
136
HOU/HIST/05
137
HOU/HIST/06
138
HOU/HIST/07
139
HOU/HIST/08
140
HOU/HIST/08b
141
HOU/HIST/08C
142
Details
Catharine Goodwin, Fuller House, A 16th Century
Wealden Timber Framed House in Staplehurst, Blue, card cover. Index, Bibliography
History of Fuller House
2004. A5 Booklet
Genealogical charts*, Census, Plans, pictures
The History of Oak Lodge, Marden Road, (or
Weston Oak Lodge); notes by Anita Thompson for
a house visit by Staplehurst Society on 17 July
History of Oak Lodge
2008. The house also possibly called Little
Includes Census and other sources.
(or Weston Oak Lodge)
Aydhurst
A6
Includes pedigree, 2 plans and 5 photos. Also
includes Court Rolls of Loddenden Manor, 1368 1375
"Presented
Loddenden Manor --Loddenden and the Usbornes of Loddenden by H by P H Kinslow of Loddenden Manor - June 1976"
history
S Cowper, Ashford 1914
Not digitized. In hanging file.
Typed copy of Loddenden & the Usbornes of
Loddenden & the Usbornes Loddenden: The story of a Kentish Homdestead,
of Loddenden.
by H S Cowper, (Ashford 1714). Printed at the
Typescript of book
Kentish Express office.
It seems to be very accurate.
1 "The home where Peter Rabbit lived"
2 page cutting from weekend, 2/11/1996 on
Loddenden Manor for sale
2 Letter from Maidstone Borough Council dated
23/12/1997 on planning permission for Loddenden
Loddenden Manor
HOU/HIST/15
HOU/HIST/16
Brattle Farm in Staplehurst by Anita Thompson
1990
Letter re Green Court & Dr James H Bennett
dated 29/10/2006, from Dr Bennett's
Groom called Gower
granddaughter Barbara Jefferies
to Mrs Sally First steam car in village
Letter re Green Court
Cornelius
Photo (now missing - possibly in photo collection)
Kent County Library, Your House and How to
Trace its History: A guide to sources of
Tracing House History
information. KCC n.d.
Dawber E.G. & Davie W.G., Old Cottages and
Old Cottages Kent &
Farmhouses in Kent & Sussex. Orig. pub.
Sussex
Batsford; reprint Rochester Press 1981
Mason R.T., Framed Buildings of the Weald,
Coach Publishing House, Ltd, Horsham. 2nd Ed.
Framed Wealden Buildings 1969
Typescript of "Spilsill Court, the history of a local
manor house", written as a school project byone
of Mrs Marshall's sons. (First part is mostly a copy
of Christine Knowles booklet HOU/HIST/14
Spilsill Court
At the end are photographs, 1969History of Maplehurst
Leaflet on History of Maplehurst 850 AD - 1902 Staplehurst Society House Visit
HOU/HIST/17
History of North Cottage
HOU/HIST/18
Lindridge, Marden Road
HOU/HIST/09
143
HOU/HIST/10
144
HOU/HIST/11(Bk)
145
HOU/HIST/12(Bk)
146
HOU/HIST/13(Bk)
147
148
History of Gt Newstead
Description
History of Great Newstead and Newstead Chapel
- notes by present owners to accompany
Staplehurst Society house visit 2007
A4 printout
History of Brattle Farm
149
150
Leaflet on History of North Cottage, 1520 - 1891 Staplehurst Society house visit
Royal Commission on the HIstorical Monunments
of England. Lindridge,Staplehurst
Names
Wotton Stanhope Daye
Oliver Hale Stone Rugg
Smith
*Buckland (c1530),
*Simmons (c1690),
Hoare, Ecklyn, Herbert,
Brooker, Hope, et al
Donor
Sarah & Mark
Watts
Usborne, Harolde, Barton,
Lamb or Lambe, Hoare, Anita
Watson, Spratt
Thompson
P H Kinslow
Usborne
Stephen Brattle,
Christopher Jemmett,
Usborne, Charles
Denman
Anita
Thompson
Bennett Gower
Doonie Lorna Marshall
Barnes, Hoare
Usborne, Terry,
Couchman, Groves, Gurr,
Pearson
C Fann
151
Index
HOU/HIST/19
152
HOU/HIST/20
153
HOU/INFO/01
154
HOU/INFO/02
155
156
157
158
159
160
HOU/PICT/01
HOU/PICT/02
HOU/PICT/03
HOU/PICT/04
HOU/PICT/05
HOU/PICT/06
161
HOU/PICT/07
162
HOU/PLAN/01
163
HOU/PLAN/02
164
HOU/PLAN/03
165
HOU/SALE/01
166
HOU/SALE/01
Category
Copp William
Description
Tree ring dating 1370/1
Booklet on Staplehurst
Manor
House information
(Census)
- Hill
House
The history of Staplehurst Manor, by John
Mackinder, September 2011
Details
The Hoare family, Seligman family, Mr Arthur
Walmsley, Nuns of the Order of the Good Shepherd
(English branch)
Names
Donor
Alan Golding
John
Mackinder
using Marden Manor rolls, Tithe Map, Census 1841, Wooden, Simmons,
Notes on Hill House 1734? - 1899
1851, and Kelly's directory 1899
Watson, Bayly, Reeves A Thompson
Letters from Esme Kirk re Little Aydhurst and the
Thomas Reeves, Joane
Little Aydhurst information Reeves family + photo + negative
Little Aydhurst was Corner Farm or Crooked House Berry
2 Christmas Cards from Christine Knowles
Pictures of Spilsill Court
showing interior views of Spilsill Court. (1951 and
(The Harris Collection)
n.d.)
Fred Harris
Picture of Hurst Close 1996 Photo of Hurst Close 1996 Street scene
Picture of Chickhurst Oast Photo of Chickhurst Oast, Pinnock Lane
Postcard -- Snow scene
Norman Wallis
West side, inc Bell;
Fullers;
Pagehurst
Pictures of buildings
Three sketches of Staplehurst buildings
chimney)
Cotton's Farm, Chickenden
Road
Colour photograph of Cottons Farm C 2010
Neil Butler
Fire damage at Milestone Scaffolding surrounding Milestone Buildings and
Buildings and Green Court Green Court after a serious fire in July 2010
Bill Piper
2 Pen and ink drawings by AE Waterman, framed
in passe-partout, 1932 1 Loddenden Manor
Ivy Standen of Reeves
Staplehurst
Close (widow of Bill
Pictures
2 Staplehurst Quarter and shop
Standen the builder
Miscellaneous planning applications: tracings of
initial plans for
(1) Great Wadd,
Hawkenbury Farm, 1 Weaver Close
Tracings of sketch plans
(2) Shepherd's House
Not digitized
unknown
Planning application
sketches . Tracing paper copy of planning application for 2
Bletchingley
Bletchingley Farm Cottages MA94/0022
Not digitized
Folder of correspondence between Staplehurst
Society (& its founders), the Staplehurst Parish
The campaign about Surrenden led to the foundation
Preservation of Surrenden, Council, and other government and conservation of The Staplehurst Society.
Sorrento & Crampton
bodies regarding conservation of Surrenden,
Includes contents list for proposed sale of Sorrento
Staplehurst
House - correspondence. Sorrento & Crampton House, dated 1974-1976. plus application to get it listed
Secretary: Jeanette Wyatt Society
List of freehold properties for sale by the Hoare
Family following bankruptcy. Connection with
Staplehurst Place and Iden Park Estate. Lots 1 - Auctioneers Debenham, Tewson & Farmer,18th Aug
List of properties for sale
23. A large number of well-known Staplehurst
1879
Photocopies in large bundle
Sheet 1 1879
properties offered for sale
Details on following sheets
Hoare
Continuation sheet
Lot 1
Fuller's barn and timber yard
Fuller House
Staplehurst Place
Iden &
Martin's Hill Cottages
Little
Knoxbridge Farms
Knoxbridge Cottage
List of properties for sale
two entrants lodges,
Little
The Knoxbridge Cottages (4)
The
Sheet 2
Knoxbridge Farm
Laundry Cottages (2)
Hoare
Index
Category
167
HOU/SALE/01
List of properties for sale
Sheet 3
168
HOU/SALE/01
List of properties for sale
Sheet 4
169
HOU/SALE/01
170
HOU/SALE/01
171
HOU/SALE/02
172
HOU/SALE/03
173
HOU/SALE/04
174
HOU/SALE/05
175
HOU/SALE/06
176
HOUS/DOCS/31c
List of properties for sale
Sheet 5
Description
Continuation sheet
Lot 2
Snoad, Birch, Strachna, Bletchingley and Cockle
woods
Little Horden and Hartshheath Farms
Mathurst Farm
Chapman's Farm
Bletchingley Farm
Brattle and Brickkiln Farms
Continuation sheet
Lot 5
Hen and Duckhurst's farm
Baldwin's Farm, 2 cottages
a brick field and 2 cottages
Lot 6 Rabbit's Cross Farm & 2 Cottages
Lot 7
Continuation sheet
Lot 19 (ALL
FRITTENDEN)
Frittenden House and Parsonage Farm and 2
cottages
Cherry Tree Farm
Street Farm, Frittenden
Sandhurst Bridge Farm
Little Wadd
Frittenden Wood
Cook's Barn
Iv
Details
Names
Donor
Little Saint Denis farm 2 cottages, Snapgate
The Hog Pound
Lot 3
Henhurst and part
Brattle Farms
Lot 4
Great Pagehurst, 5 cottages
Mountai
Hoare
Lot 9 Newstead Farm
Lot 15,
16 Pasture
Lot 10 Little Spillshill Farm
Lot 17
Arable
Lot 11 Bailey's Farm
Lot 18
The South Eastern
Lot 12 The Bower
Hoare
2 village cottages + 1cottage
Brick Wall
cottages, =6
The Laundry
Rose Cottages
Tanyard
cottages
Rat's Castle = 2
The Lodge Cottages White
House
Brook House Cottages
Folly Cottages
Hoare
Lot 22
part Camden Wood
Rock Cottage
Camden
Cottages (2)
Continuation sheet Lot 20 (ALL FRITTENDEN)
The New Inn, Frittenden and blacksmith's shop
Lot 23
List of properties for sale
and cottage
Advowsen of Frittenden Rectory + 22 acres glebe
Sheet 6
Keeper's Lodge
Auctioneer: Winch. Seller includes Hoare
Properties: Cheney Court, Rabbits Cross, Little Spills
List of Freehold properties for sale 1908, with
Hill, Robinson Land, Cottages, Dwelling houses,
List & details of properties some details including descriptions, rents, names nursery gardens, builder's premises, bakery,
for sale 1908
of tenants, map, pictures
meadows
More names: Hardes
Hoare Estate
Pencilled notes may reveal buyer and price
Mu
Sale Brochure - The
Sales brochure for The Homestead, Clapper
Homestead
Lane, Thurs 15 Nov 1951 Price £3500
Auctioneer Geering & Colyer
Sale catalogue - Freehold Properties of the late Auction at Star Hotel Maidstone by Winch & Sons,
Mr George Pope 21/6/1906 Bell Lane Cottages, Cranbrook
8 Page booklet - deteriotated
Sale Catalogue - Pope
Copwilliams or Baldwins, Powell House, Cardinal condition
Includes
property 1906
Villas, Lot 849 Headcorn Road
descriptions, lists, rental and tenants
Sales brochures for various prorperties around
Property sales brochures Staplehurst
mostly undated Listed
Parchment dated 19th January 1872 (original
documents). Exchange of lands/ land and house
between Alfred Wigan and Robert Golding, in
Deed of sale order Order of Chart Sutton and Staplehurst.
Exchange Cross at Hand Includes map
Deed Thomas S. Usborne
Esq to Mr James T. Hicks Deed Thomas S. Usborne esq. to mr James T.
11/10/1902 to rent Cold
Hicks dated 17/10/1902 to rent Cold Harbour
Harbour Farm
Farm from 11/10/1902. Purple type
Includes details sof restrictions
Hoare
Bircham Drake Burt
Graves Quilter James
Standen Offen Wickings
Reeves
to be digitised
Orpin George Levett
Forrester Hutchinson
Brown Pope
K Pope
Mrs Audrey
Server
Index
177
IND/HIST/02(Bk)
Description
News clipping 18th June 1892 sale of land
Cuckolds Corner
Pope & Haywards, Past & Present 1887 Historical article on Pope & makers of Mineral water in Crown Works, High
Hayward - mineral waters Street, Staplehurst
Haselfoot, A.J., The Batsford Guide to the
Industrial Archeology of South East England,
Kent, Surrey, East Sussex, West Sussex. B.T.
Industrial Archeology
Batsford, 1978
IND/INFO/01
Business directory
HOW/NEWS/01
178
IND/HIST/01
179
180
181
IND/INFO/02
Category
News item sale of
Cuckholds Corner
Business directory
Staplehurst Business Directory 1993
Local business directory 1997/1995
Cranbrook / Staplehurst
IND/INFO/03
Directeory 1922 - page
IND/INFO/04
Advertisement for builder
IND/INFO/05
Directory 1884-5
IND/MISC/01
Artefact
IND/NEWS/01
IND/PLAN/01
Glass workshop info
Planning re Homeleigh
Timber
IND/PLAN/02
News clipping: Petrol
pumps
IND/REMI/01
Letters re Graham Farish
building at Station
Many names and businesses. (Possibly all the homeand land-owners of the parish.)
Gives a description of the village of the time.
Many
INF/HIST/01
Pictures
Gas pipeline
INF/MISC/01
Telephone instructions
INF/NEWS/02
INF/NEWS/O1
News cutting gasometer
Allotments news item
The Courier 14th Sept 1979. Picture and text
about demolition of Staplehurst gasometer
News cutting from KM
189
190
IND/TRAD/01
191
192
193
194
195
many
Marden /
IND/TRAD/02
188
Donor
Mr & Mrs
Combes
Kent Messenger. 2 columns, copies Visit by YC 22 Pope (Henry, George,
July 1965
Vincent) Horsnell
Ledgers, George & Martin
Dec 1910
Tesco consultation
document
186
187
Names
Reeves, Norris, Pope,
Roberts,Small, Bexley
Page from Kelly's 1922 Directory on Staplehurst
Advertisement in Cranbrook Almanac 1915 for
F.H. Unicume Brooks, builder and undertaker
W.T. Pike's district blue book Weald of Kent and
Romney Marsh Directory 1884,1885. (Photocopy
of Staplehurst information, bound)
Small metal button inscribed "J. Nunn
(J.Nunn was a tailor in South Cottage) date unknown
Staplehurst"
but died in 1907
J. Nunn
Rolf Art Pair are Glass Act" - News cuttiong from
KM 30 May 2003 p.1. Keith & Judy Hill, stained Window designed by Rolf Harris, for Goldsmid Hall,
glass workshop, Staplehurst
Tudely.
Workshp now in Rochester?
Parish no to Firm
News cutting Maidstone Extra 2/2/1990
Why refuse my petrol pumps? garage owner ...."
KM 3 July 1964; discusses why one planning
application was refused while another (pumps for
Homeleigh) was approved.
News clip
1. Letters re Graham Farish building
2. List of stationmasters at Staplehurst, 1920 1961
3.
Graham Farish, Dennis
Photocopy of "Goods warehouses" Ch 1
Items presented for a public display
Crane
1. Day book, Dec 1910 - Srpt 1922 Vellum,
needs mending
2. ditto May 1922 - Details of workforce, wages
May 1931 Handbound cloth
Details of clients & addresses
3. ditto April 1930 - Dec 1935
"
"
Not digitized
Staplehurst: meeting peoples needs Network Rail:
Tesco (2003)
Pictures: Laying of the Transco Gas pipeline
Staplehurst 2001
Original artwork and 2
Produced by Clifford Bayley RA for the 2001
copies
Staplehurst Society Local History Annual
Dialling instructions & telephone charges 1970
and 1971
2 booklets from the
GPO
Staplehurst and Yeoman's Grange
184
185
Names and prices shown
Printed by Staplehurst Business Association
Booklet
182
183
Details
Lee McCarthy
Anita
Thompson
Mr Martin, via
Brattle Farm
Dave Weller
Cliff Bayly
Anita
Thompson
Judith &
Maurice
Coombs
Norman Wallis
Index
196
INF/PLAN/01
197
INF/RAIL/01
198
INF/RAIL/02
199
INF/TRAN/01
200
INF/TRAN/02
201
INF/WARF/01
202
INF/WARF/02
203
204
MAG/INFO
MAP/CHYD/01
205
MAP/HIST/01
206
207
MAP/HOUS/01
MAP/INFO/01
208
MAP/MISC/01
209
MAP/MISC/02
210
MAP/MISC/04
211
MAP/MISC/05
212
MAP/MISC/06
Category
Description
Details
Names
Staplehurst consultation draft 1982
42
Local Plan consultation
pages and map
Staplehurst Local Maidstone Borough Council
documents
Plan 1983
45 pages and map
development ideas
Staplehurst Stations plans for booking office 1985
Plans for booking office -- & 87
Marden Station plans for
Copies four sheets
Railway
booking office 1985 & 87
British Railways Board
The Staplehurst material for the Parliamentary
Project "Making Tracks" 2011 (with Kent Archives
and Marden Historical Society).
All
encapsulated.
Exhibition material
Subject - The 1842 building of the railway
Collection of correspondence and many news
3. Various correspondence between Stap Society &
Correspondence & news re items about the future Channel Tunnel, rail link
SKAR
4. Rail Link Through
Railways and Channel
and railways infrastructure.(Abandoned 1975)
the Parishes of Yalding, Marden, Staplehurst &
Tunnel Rail Link
Includes:
1. PL Willmore: Headcorn (environmental assessment and mention of
(abandoned in 1975)
The Channel Tunnel Fixed Link - A case for train compensation.
5. News
1. Report on consultation between British Rail and
Maidstone B.C.
2. Response by Ann
Widdecombe M.P. November 1988
3. Report summaries of meetings held at Marden
Channel Tunnel Rail Link and Ditton, with ref to Staplehurst
NOT DIGITIZED
Graham Sturdy
Pluto pipeline passing through Marden (and
PLUTO - wartime
Booklet about Marden and PLUTO by Chris and Staplehurst)
NOT
infrastructure
Mari Gosling. Marden history group.
DIGITIZED = marginal relevance to Staplehurst
Obituary of Frank Stone, leadburner on the Pluto
pipeline.
Daily Telegraph
Obituary: Re Pluto Pipeline 26/3/2004
Some history of the Pluto project
Frank Stone
Parish magazines 1894-7, May 1916,1921-1996
Parish magazine
are stored at Kent archives in Maidstone
Plan of churchyard with
Plan of churchyard - proposed terracing, All Saints Map (not to scale) originally with grave memorial
proposed terracing
Church May 1992
inscriptions made by Anita Thompson
Hundreds and Boroughs in Staplehurst
Map: Ancient administrative Manors of Staplehurst
units in Staplehurst
The Lathes and their Wealden Common
NOT DIGITIZED
Map: Older houses in
Footpath map marked with older houses in the
parish
Parish, not including the conservation area.
NOT DIGITIZED
Map of village identifying
Map (1982) showing location of streets and
"by a local postman";(D. Roberts) hand-drawn &
streets and houses
houses
reproduced
Prepared for Year 2000 Celebrations
Many maps are held at Brattle Farm
List of maps
Inventory of maps concerning Staplehurst,
Two sheets of yellow A4
Map showing Staplehurst
ponds
Staplehurst pond map 1974 -- Tracing
NOT DIGITIZED
Kent map sheets index - 10 sheets
Dated Landmark Edition 4 (1929 - 1952)
Map: Index Kent
Reference to "His Majesty's Prison
NOT DIGITIZED
Staplehurst Parish map sheets.
None referenced, but dated as Landmark Ed 1
(1871 - 1890) from KLIS
25"
Map: Staplehurst Parish
(large scale)
to Mile - cloth backed.
NOT DIGITIZED
Hand drawn maps of Staplehurst streets and
Produced by Dave
Map of Staplehurst 1987
postal area 1987.
Not to scale
Includes grid and index pre Lime Tree Estate
Roberts
Donor
Marden
Historical
Society
StapSoc
Frank Page
Marden History
Group
Anita
Thompson
A. Thompson
Frank Page
T H Vickery
Index
213
214
MAP/MONU/01
MAP/PLAN/01
215
MAP/PLAN/02
216
MAP/PLAN/03
217
MAP/PLAN/04
218
MAP/PLAN/05
219
MAP/S&L/01
220
MAP/S&L/02
221
MAP/S&L/03
222
MAP/S&L/04
223
MAP/SALE/01
224
MAP/SALE/02
225
MED/DOCS/01
226
MED/HIST/01
227
MED/NEWS/01
228
MIL/AIRF/01
229
MIL/EULO/01
230
MIL/HIST/01
231
MIL/HIST/02
Category
Description
Details
Names
Booklet, Staplehurst Parish Boundary Stones,
Booklet A4
Boundary stones
Ivan Walton and Vic Holdaway, June 2009
Photographs and locations
Street map of Staplehurst (central)
Street map of Staplehurst Pre Lime Trees estate
copy
5 Aerial survey maps of Staplehurst: 1946 / 1959 /
Map: Aerial survey
1961 / 1968 / 1979
English Heritage Natiional
Staplehurst
Monument records 1999
(36 pages)
Xerox copies (fading, no date except "revised
Map: footpaths and street November 1968") containing footpaths and
lights
streetlights.
Staplehurst Conservation area 1983
Map: Conservation area
Hand drawn
Maps of Staplehurst (part) (1:2500) showing
Maps showing location of location of trees under Tree Preservations Orders.
trees under TPO
1977
NOT DIGITIZED
Map: Staplehurst footpaths on Stap / Frittenden
boundary at Maplehurst O.S. TQ84 1/12/1952
Map of Footpaths
printed 1958
NOT DIGITIZED
14 maps, O.S. 6" to mile, West Kent Footpaths
Map: West Kent footpaths 1961
7 maps 2,3, & 7 are duplicates (Frittenden mainly); 4,
5 & 6 are dulicates, Chart Sutton mainly. 1 is mainly
Definitive map of public rights of way for
Staplehurst. Scale 1:10:000
Map: Rights of Way
Staplehurst - County of Kent. 1 Apr 1987
Staplehurst Parish (part) Public Rights of Way Map: Rights of Way
Footpaths
2 copies A3 undated
Plan of part of Iden Manor estate, c. 1904, for sale
by auction.
South of Staplehurst &
Map: Iden Estate
Frittenden
Plan of freehold properties in Staplehurst, Chart
Sutton & Boughton Monchelsea for sale by Mssrs
Map: Properties for sale
Winch & Sons
30
1908
July 1908 (Iden Estate)
K Pope
Many inc. Whitter,
Overseer of the Poor Accounts 1647 - 1836
Printout A4
Tolhurst, Goore, Young,
Smallpox records
relating to smallpox
Transcripts
Research by Anita Thompson
Pankhurst
A4 printout - 2 COPIES
"Doctors in Staplehurst", a talk to Staplehurst
Kent Vinery Knightly
Society 18/05/07 by Anita Thompson. A history Lacks the images to accompany the talk
More names: John Wilkins, Alfred Wood, Love,
Diamond Dobell Watson
Script for talk on Doctors in of medical practice in Staplehurst 1558 - 2007
IS THERE A CD?
Kirkman,
Winkles Joy Penkivil
Staplehurst
"Addiction unit forced to close": Closure of Drugs
Drugs rehab centre closure, rehabilitation centre at Iden manor -- News
Sister Rosemary, Good
Iden Manor News cutting cutting from KM 8/3/2002
Shepherd Sisters
Booklet
Letter 21/7/2005
Hard disc
Reminiscences of
Letter from Alfred Cole with his memories of
AVAILABLE
Copies of doodlebug
Railway
Staplehurst Airfield WW2 Chickenden Farm
May - Sept 1944
Tavern
2 "In memoriam" cards for Charles Edward Harris
Harris family
died 30/05/1918
Harris
Includes photographs and plans. Comb-bound A4
Air Raid Shelter at gasworks in Marden Road
pamphlet, and letter from Victor Smith.
Staplehurst
Historic building
This was at the time of the demolition of the old
Survey of Air Raid Shelter survey by Victor Smith July 2006
gas-holder and ensuing hou
Ministry of Information information sheet: "If the
Wartime instructions
invader comes". June 1940
instructions in case of invasion
Donor
I Walton & V
Holdaway
Anita
Thompson
AT
Anita
Thompson
Alfred Cole
Fred Harris
Victor Smith
232
233
234
Index
MIL/HIST/03
MIL/HIST/Book2
MIL/HIST/Book3
235
MIL/MONU/01
236
MIL/MONU/02
237
MIL/NEWS/01
238
239
MIL/ORDS/01
MIL/ORDS/02
240
MIL/REMI/01
241
MIL/S&L/01
242
MIL/WARF/01
243
MIL/WARF/02
244
245
246
NEW/GENE/01
NEW/MISC/01
NEW/MISC/02
247
NEW/MISC/03
Category
Description
Battlefield news 1918
Details
Names
Sergeant Thatcher
Donor
A study of defence of Kent 1400 - the Cold War
Victor Smith, Front Line Kent, KCC, 2001
Signed copy
Sue Rimmer
Bob Ogley, Doodlebugs and Rockets, Froglets
The battle of the flying bombs
Wartime, Doodlebugs
Publications 1992
Signed copy
Bob Ogley
1. Notes on Pilot Officer John K G ("Curly") Clifton
2. Covering letter from Ted Sergison
3. Re-dedication of the monument 1 Sept 2009 in Curly Clifton, KIA 1 Sept 1940.
Monument to Pilot Officer Grave Lane. Newspaper clippings from Courier
253 (Hurricane) squadron, RAF Kenley, Surrey
JKG Clifton - notes
11/9/09 and KM 4/9/09
Monument in Grave Lane, made by Martin Franklin Bill Collins, Clapper Lane Ted Sergison
Ted Sergison raised funds for the memorial stone at
Staplehurst Airfield
1. "Invitation to unveiling
2. Order of Service Chickenden Farm for the U.S. and Canadian airmen
(Advanced landing ground) 3. News cutting from Downs Mail
4. Plan who flew from there. Unveiling and service held on
unveiling of memorial. 2010 of plaque
6th June 2010
Ted Sergison
News cutting: Jean
Jean Liddicat worked for eight years to get a
Liddicoat works for
Newspaper cutting: "Villager wins a name for
Staplehurst grave recognized as that of Flt Lt
recognition of Spitfire pilot unknown pilot. Gravestone marks end of eight
Frederick Rushmer whose Spitfire crashed at Marden Jean Liddicoat, Frederick Anita
Rushmer
year battle." Daily Telegraph 9/5/1998
5/9/1940.
"Rusty" Rushmer
Thompson
Order of Service - RBL
Order of service 1/10/2006 75th Anniversary of
Royal British
Parade & Church Service Staplehurst branch of the Royal Bristish Legion.
Legion
Order of Service for Remembrance and biography Service 23rd March 2013 missing in action 13th
Order of Service for airman of Sgt Reg Fitzgerald RAF
October 1944
Ted Sergison
1. "The Wilcox Connection" by Brian Donald, in
Battle of Britian Remembered magazine (?) 2pp
photocopy
2,.Additional notes on F/O John Edgar Wilcox.
Battle of Britain article
2pp typescript
3. Letter from Vic B
Wilcox crashed on ChIckenden Farm, buiried with full Roger Munn, Wilcox
4 items
4. Poem, High Flight
miltary honours All Saints Staplehurst.
(RAF)
Vic Baker
1. Letter 24 Dec 1937 re school boundary.
2. Lease dated 1/6/1939 JS Watkins to British
Legion
3. Letter 12/2/1943 from
British Legion BL HQ re Lease
4.
Documentation for the
Map of site, no date, signed G O George
Staplehurst Hut
5. RBL Survey of Premises July 1997
Pages from "Doodlebugs and Rockets" by Bob
Ogley, Froglet Publications pp 203 & 132,133,4,5
& 27
V1 Rocket hits in Kent June p.203, picture of stained glass panel in
Sept 1944
Staplehurst church
pp132"When the Luftwaffe landed in Kent" by R J
Brooks ; Article from Kent Life Sept 1979,
pp64-65;
Luftwaffe landings / crashes re crash of Focke-Wulf FW190. The pilot Kurt
Includes handwritten notes (Jean Liddicoat?) on
Jean
in Kent
Kahn, crashed at Staplehurst, b
Henhurst Farm Crash
Fred Day, Kurt Kahn
Liddicoat??
Letter from Stanley J.A. McInery about the
Arthur Young, Lucie
Letter
Staplehurst Bok and his family, the Youngs.
55 Bell Lane. Not dated
Wickham, Winifred Young Cherry Fann
REPLACED IN STAP/SOC
Staplehurst
NEWS
Society
REPLACED IN
Anita
STAPSOC/NEWS
Thompson
News cutting, The Courier, 17/4/1992: Car firm
News cutting: Arson attack burnt out in Arson attack. Drivers in Staplehurst
Anita
in Staplehurst
High Street
Thompson
Defence 1400-Cold War
Index
248
NEW/MISC/04
249
NEW/MISC/05
250
NEW/MISC/06
251
NEW/PLAN/01
252
NEW/PLAN/02
Category
Description
Details
News cuttings: Courier 20/9/1996
1. Train rips up track. Derailment and damage at
News cuttings:
Staplehurst station
2. Good shot at
. Railway
Success. Jody Clark, aged 18, with 14
. Schoolboy marksman
Markmanshiop me
"Simply the Best" - Staplehurst voted Kent's
News item: Staplehurst
Village of the Year 2003
news cutting - Kent
village of the Year
Messenger 18/7/2003
Photo Wendy Brooker, Sue Bassett, Margaret Arger
" Crime begins to paralyse village."
News item: crime and
Call for more police following criminal acts.
Specific crimes mentioned.
policing in Staplehurst 1991 KM 19/7/1991
Mentions teenagers and drugs.
Gypsy fears and mobile homes, Marden and
Staplehurst,
Daily Telegraph
Mobile Homes
Autumn 1990
News item photocopy 1975: Lawnic Investments
Closing of land selling
Ltd, selling plots in Marden Road without planning
company
permission. A petition to wind up the company. from Kent & Sussex Courier 19 September 1975
253
NEW/PRIZ/01
News Cutting
NEW/PRIZ/02
News Cutting
School Centenary - news
cutting
(The Harris Collection)
254
255
NEW/SCHL/01
256
NEW/TRAD/01
257
NOTE
258
PEO/CHAR/01
259
PEO/DOCS/01
260
PEO/DOCS/02
261
PEO/DOCS/03
262
PEO/DOCS/04
Winner Best kept Village prize
Courier dated 09/09/1977. Staplehurst where big is
beautiful.
Courier 09/09/1977. 1 Staplehurst autumn
horticultural show and Mr Maybourne 6 prizes. 2
United Reformed Church, new minister Mr Brian
Eyles (Byles) to be inducted 17/09/1977
News from Staplehurst
Staplehurst Primary School centenery - service
at Parish Church
The Gazette
n.d.
Set-up of market, 15-1-1993, by Galaxy.
4 Newspaper cuttings and planning letter re
setting up of the Staplehurst Market.
Move to BR car park from Goods Yard (unpaved)
Cuttings (4) re Market,
Kent Today 1-3-93 |
opposite.
1993-4
Consider changing MAP/MISC/01 to match
MAP/S&L
Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes -- Member
F Oborne
1920 - 1923 Member of King
Membership documents of George V Staplehurst - Died 1925
Mrs 4 documents found in cupboard at 1 Bly Court
Buffaloes Lodge
Oborne continued payment
Cottages, Chapel Lane
Probate of the Will & Coldicils of William Beslee Not strictly relevant to Staplehurst but kept with other
Probate
(copy)
Will dated 10 July 1820,
documents of the Beslee Collection
The Beslee Collection
proved 6 May 1829
William Besley of Fletching, Sussex, gentleman
Churchwardens: Thomas Tindall & Abraham Keete
Apprenticehip Indenture 1687 for Thomas
Witnesses: Ja Besleeik ( Beslee ?) & James Sharpe
Snoode, a poor child of Staplehurst, to be placed Is the child of John Snoath, late of Faversham, and
with James Poyle of Cranbrook, to serve and
his uncle, Henry Snoath, of Staplehurst was his
Apprenticeship Indenture dwell with him until age 24
guardian NB:
Miscellaneous letters and documents of W
Tipples, 1938 - 1971:
Documents & letters
National Service Registralion Card
(Tipples Collection)
Invitation to Church restoration
Will of Mary Bewman of Staplehurst, widow dated
02/09/1808 buried 23/10/1808 aged 69. Executor
Will of Mary Bewman of
Henry Waterman, witnesses George Gransbury In documents bought from Ebay; -2, no 5. Rest in
Staplehurst
and D.Webb
Hou/Docs/20-31
Names
Donor
Anita
Thompson
Richard Lusty
Anita
Thompson
Bert Seth, John Cramp
Cherry Fann, Peter Hill
(Marden), John Banks
(Marden) Trevor Gasson
Mrs Joan Slade, Mr & Mrs
Bert Seth, Mrs Janet
Dowswell
Cherry Fann
Sid Maybourne, Rev Brian
Eyles(Byles)
Cherry Fann
Vickery, Pettican Pert,
Whickham, Maxted
Colin Roach-Bowler,
Joyce Dunk -Easter
Oborne
Alan Baum
Beslee Barr Cave
Richard
McLauren
Snoode, Snoath, Poyle,
Kite
John &
Margaret
Cramp
FHU Brooks, Rev J
Walker, TG Thatcher
Tipples
Ebay
Index
263
PEO/EMIG/01
264
PEO/EMIG/02
PEO/EULO/01
PEO/EULO/02
Funeral of Allan Rimmer
PEO/GENE/01
Family Tree
Pedigree of Family of
Beslee
Genealogy
The Beslee Collection
PEO/GENE/02
Photos of Farmer family
PEO/GENE/03
Query letter and census
1901 print
PEO/GENE/04
Genealogical chart -Usborne
PEO/EMIG/03
266
268
269
270
271
272
PEO/GENE/05
273
PEO/GENE/06
274
PEO/GENE/07
275
PEO/GENE/08
276
Description
Details
Letter dated 29 Sept 1842 from James Nash in
Wellington NZ to William Barnes in Staplehurst. He was one of 6 pauper families with assisted
Description of trip to NZ in ship Bolton 1839-1840 passages to NZ, arriving 1840
Letter from emigrant in NZ and news of emigrants Hunt and Avery.
1. Website copy
3 letters from Staplehurst to America 1853
Letters to emigrants from Charles Selves to William Selves -- brother
Staplehurst
Sophie Selves to William Selves-- mother
Vestry minutes re pauper
emigration
Commemoration of Harry
Cornforth
-- news
cutting with photo
265
267
Category
PEO/GENE/09
Extracts from vestry minutes 1820 - 1840 re
emigration of paupers.
CKS holds originals
Names: Allen Watts Oyler
Newspaper article: tree planting commemorating Mrs D Cornforth Rev Trevor Vickery
Mr Harry Cornforth. Includes picture.
John Priestley Mrs M. Howard
1. Order of Service - Allan Rimmer 1/11/2007
2. Eulogy by Bill Piper - 1 page, notes
Declarations 1856 as to Pedigree - Certificates
etc of the family of Beslee as connections with
Wadd Farm, Staplehurst & Frittenden
Farmer family of Staplehurst - photographs
Email from Linda King
Letter seeking links to Mary Anne Hansford, b.
Dorne Farm, Staplehurst 1841. Married name
Miller.
Letter from Highgate Cemetery
Names
Mrs Hunt Farmer
Avery Nash
Donor
Anita
Thompson
Oyler Waterman Broad David Selves,
Ballard Thomas
June 2001
Edward Hickmott
Hornbuckle Charles
Allchin Hannah Salomon
Bill Tipples
Rimmer
Beslee Beesely Elliot
Knoxbridge with references to Lympne (Kent)
Giles Barr Auckland
Fletching (Sussex)
Names: Ottaway Blaker
Dyneley Iggulden Gosling
Ormerod Varenne Coysgarne Fullagar Brown
Cramp Bourne Reeves
Chamberlayne Burnet Tattersall Hope Bentley Mence Wilson Cave Chambers
Downes Hill Andrews Dickenson Woodward Wilde
Exell Hornbuckle Argles
Gabbatas Gaunt
and more
Genealogical data included. One man is in a WW1
Australian uniform
Seeking information
Pedigree - Genealogical chart Usbornes of
Photocopy of page from book The Usbornes of
Loddenden
Loddenden
Various enquiries of genealogical nature and
Names: Batholomew Butcher England Wise
responses from Allan Rimmer and Anita
Pammit Bassock Thomas Pullen Link Wiles
Thompson
Barnes
Enquiry by Ross England re Joseph Wise, b.
From Stap Society books.
Genealogical enquiries
1821
18
"Iden Manor in Staplehurst; The Story of the
Hoare family." A series of pictures and computer
printouts to accompany a talk on the Hoare family
by Anita Thompson to the AGM of the Staplehurst Portraits, genealogical information. Group photo of
Society in 2006.
Bound into a
servants at Iden Manor. References to Hoare's
Story of the Hoare family booklet.
Bank
(Transcription of) Monumental Inscriptions in
Staplehurst Churchyard 1984 Comb-bound
MIs in Staplehurst
booklet plus microfiche
PLUS
Churchyard
Unbound copy in Oversize drawer
Staplehurst Society History Group
Article from the website of John Blythe Dobson
1999, revised 2002, discussing the Exhurst /
Exherst name
URL:
Genealogy & History of the http://cybrary.uwinnipeg.ca/people/Dobson/geneal Extensive bibliography
ogy/ff/Exherst.cfm valid 2
3 printouts
Exhurst Family
Notes on Exhurst
Notes on Exhurst genealogy & property from 1200
genealogy & property
1 page A4
Bill Piper
Richard
McLauren
Linda King
14/6/2002
Mary Anne Miller,
Hansford
Usborne Toke Chambers
Chapman Poyle Cole
Fowle
Shoobridge Boorman
Huckstead Forman
Austin Waterman
Anita
Thompson /
Allan Rimmer
Mary Ann Stammers,
Hannah Stammers;
Lennard, Lockyer,
Marsham
Hoare's Bank
Many
Staplehurst
Society
Exhurst Exherst
Anita
Exhurst Exherst Hodges Thompson
Index
PEO/HIST/01
Category
Description
Family tree: Henry William Genealogical chart of Henry William Taylor (1884
Taylor with explanatory - 1942) with introductory letter from Mrs Anne
letter
Parr, his granddaugter.
Abstracts of Wills and Administrations, together
Abstracts of Wills &
with details of inventries, accounts and enquiries
Administrations
for the Parish of Staplehurst 1600 - 1700
Churchyard Inscriptions - Working sheets for Churchyard Inscriptions (MIs)
. working sheets
project 1982
Family tree Young family of Henry Young (1777-1858) son Erastus
Staplehurst
Greenwood Young (1809 - 1890) + 4 generations
John Butcher of Staplehurst, sworn statement
24/7/1837 William Bromley died intestate,
Collection of documents
unmarried,1801, leaving only brother Thomas.
bought from Ebay Nov
Thomas Bromley died 1817, widow Charlotte and
2011
3 daughters. Charlotte died 1834.
Handwritten Family
Staplehurst News - Victoria Gazette April 1918
newspaper
(The A handwritten newspaper containing real news,
Harris Collection)
personal anecdote and amusement.
PEO/HIST/02
George Emery, biography
277
PEO/GENE/10
278
PEO/GENE/11(Bk)
279
280
PEO/GENE/12
PEO/GENE/13
281
PEO/GENE/14
282
283
Mrs Lavender and post
from Cranbrook
Information on Bournes
cycle shop
Biographical notes on George Emery (b. 1891)
Information given by Mrs Charles Lavender about
her husband/father who brought the post from
Cranbrook
Greetings card with information on Bournes cycle
shop
PEO/MISC/01
The scrap book of Fred
Harris.
Sheet 1
(The Harris Collection)
Scrap book containing numerous cuttings and
memorabilia
Some pasted in, some
loose
1. Historical pageant at Staplehurst
-- news
cutting.
2. Hym
PEO/MISC/01
The scrap book of Fred
Harris.
Sheet 2
(The Harris Collection)
PEO/MISC/01
The scrap book of Fred
Harris.
Sheet 3
(The Harris Collection)
PEO/MISC/01
The scrap book of Fred
Harris.
Sheet 4
(The Harris Collection)
284
PEO/HIST/03
285
PEO/INFO/01
286
287
288
289
Details
Handwritten, total 3 sides A4
Includes Mrs Parr's research
Chart descends from William Taylor, b.c1750
Names
Taylor, Beslee, (Reeve,
Shoobridge)
Researched and written by Anita Thompson.
Bound as a book.
Thousands
Book -- (2 archfiles in Bookcase)
"Vol 1 missing
Vol 2 Rows 31 - 67
Young
Donor
Mrs A Parr,
Grimsby
Anita
Thompson
June Moore
1/ Ann married John Cole of Marden, now deceased
Married Samuel Brook of Staplehurst farmer
2 / Rebecca married Humphrey Wickham the
Younger of Strood gent
3/ Sarah married
Charles Marten of Rainham schoolmaster
Original work by Frank & Fred Harris
Email response by Anita Thompson in 2003 to Julian
Lisinski
Dean, Alice Chapman
Harris family
Mrs Lavender, Mrs Renee
Maxted
Valerie Kidd
Bourne, Neville Bowers
4. Church service plan -- scrap.
5. Card: By appointment Frederick Harris Esq.
6. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother visiting Fenn
Place, Sussex. -- news cutting.
7. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother visiting Fenn
Place, Sussex. -- news cutting.
Many
11. Woman falls in well. Fred Harris saved a
London woman after she fell in one.
-- news
(Continuation sheet)
cutting.
8. Kent effort for our men in the Far East.
12. Wedding in Goudhurst. Mr Reader
One-day sale in Canterbury introduced by Miss
(Horsmonden) & Miss Paget (Headcorn).
-- news
Christine Knowles of Staplehurst. -- news cutting. cutting.
9. Death
13. "The French paid tribute." Mr William Har
17. Trophy winners at Congregational church: Frank
Williams Memorial shield. -- news cutting with photo.
(Continuation sheet)
18. Photo of Staplehurst Congregational church
14. Funeral of Muriel Thatcher, 12 Marden Road. marking tercentenary. -- news cutting.
Mr F. G. Harris was organist. -- news cutting. 19. Ticket from the West Kent Federation of
15. Menu in French -- 1934.
Women's Instit
(Continuation sheet) 20. Organ recital at
26. Card with photos of Black Forest cuckoo clocks.
Congregational church. 1948.
27. Staplehurst & Marden branch NFU annual dinner
21. Company of 1000. "Kentish Cavalcade". -1937. Staplehurst Village Hall. -- news
news cutting.
22. WI in Linton Park. -cutting.
news cutting.
28. Off to sea. Tableau at Spillsill Court. -- news
23. Birthday card.
24. Card with photo in cutting with photo.
from "N
29. Off to
Allan Rimmer
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Index
Category
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PEO/MISC/01
The scrap book of Fred
Harris.
Sheet 5
(The Harris Collection)
PEO/MISC/01
The scrap book of Fred
Harris.
Sheet 6
(The Harris Collection)
PEO/MISC/01
The scrap book of Fred
Harris.
Sheet 7
(The Harris Collection)
PEO/MISC/01
The scrap book of Fred
Harris.
Sheet 8
(The Harris Collection)
PEO/MISC/01
The scrap book of Fred
Harris.
Sheet 9
(The Harris Collection)
PEO/MISC/01
The scrap book of Fred
Harris.
Sheet 10
(The Harris Collection)
PEO/MISC/01
The scrap book of Fred
Harris.
Sheet 11
(The Harris Collection)
PEO/MISC/01
The scrap book of Fred
Harris.
Sheet 12
(The Harris Collection)
291
292
293
294
295
296
297
Description
(Continuation sheet)
31. Valentine
card from Ada.
32. All Saints youth club Valentine social: Fred
Harris.
33. Beloved Kent Rector passes. Death of Rev
Alfred James Walker, Rector of Staplehurst. -news cutting.
34. New minister
Details
35. Staplehurst WI. Funeral of H. S. Stockbridge;
funeral of Mr A. G. Chambers; death of C. R. Jeffrey;
funeral of H. D. Worsley; Coronation fund. -- news
cut.
36. Christmas card from the "Rectory Folk".
37. Old scholar. Boy from Chart Sutton met Q
43. Duchess of Kent tours British Legion, Preston
Hall. -- news cutting.
(Continuation sheet)
44. Photo of Kent Cavalcade. 1950. -- news cutting.
39. Engagement between Rodney Sims &
45. Stap Dramatic Society fancy dress dance 1953.
Barbara Truman. -- news cut. 40. A Cavalcade -- news & photo.
of Kent history. WI bring to life scenes from Kent 46. Fancy Dress Ball. -- news cutting.
history. -- news cu
47. Photo:
(Continuation sheet)
49. Golden
Thoughts. Booklet.
55. Short letter (serious?) In French. February 1955.
50. Service at All Saints Ch week of prayer and 56. Christmas card from Green Court Cottage, from
teaching. 1949. F.G.H.
Mr and Mrs Martin. 1954.
51. Ticket for Billy Graham at Wembley 1955.
57. Collected news items: William Sowery fined; WI
52. Crusade poster for Billy Graham, June 1955. games; Congregational church songs by Miss
53. Order of
Petticar; piano, F. G.
(Continuation sheet)
64. Induction of service at Congregational church of
59. Order of service, marriage, Evelyn -- Derek.
Rev F. J. Paul, 1st January 1953.
20th August 1955.
65. Disabled Kent folk off to Oberammergau.
60. Birthday card -- age of 10.
-- news cutting.
61. Order of service, chart Sutton, Wilfred June, 66. Collected signatures.
195
67. The Queen at Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone.
72. Great day at Cranbrook for Congregationalists.
(Continuation sheet)
68. Ancient craft.
-- news cutting.
Article on John Harris and sons, Victoria Cottage. 73. Cranbrook Congregational church 246th
-- news cutting.
69. Ticket -anniversary. -- news cut.
Theatre Royal, Brighton.
74. Palm Sunday service at All Saints. -- news
70. Prayer for Road Safety. Trevor Vickery by
cutting.
road
75. Passion Play at Parish Church. -- news cutt
82. Marriage of Mr Pavey of Maidstone and Miss C.
(Continuation sheet)
Wood of Marden. -- news cutting.
78. Passion Play at all Saints.
-- news cutting 83. Acknowledgement of sympathy from Harris
and photo.
Brothers. -- news cut.
79. Invitation, Earl & Countess of Enniskillen for 84. Photo of Rev T. Vickery, Palm Sunday
marriage.
procession. -- news cutting.
80. Patronal Festival at a
85. Funeral service
(Continuation sheet)
90. Photo: Tall Trees Nursery School children's
87. Memorial to Harry Cornforth at The Parade. Christmas concert.
-- news cutting.
10th Dec 1967.
91. Postcard:Staplehurst high Street looking south.
88. Staplehurst double wedding: Charlotte and
92. How a corner of the Weald went west. All Saints
Jane Yonge to Charles Brewster and Neil
Church, article by Mr Mayell. -- news cut. with ph
96. Marriage of Anthony Fortescue Thomas,
(Continuation sheet)
Hawkenbury and Gillian Stevens of Headcorn. -94. Marriage of Christine Wood of Marden and
news cutting.
Jack Pavey, Maidstone. -- news cutting.
95. Marriage of Dawn Cox of Marden and Edward 97. Donald Smith and his wife Pauline of The Royal
Collinson, Marden. -Oak [Pride of Kent]. -- news cutting with photo.
Names
Donor
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Index
PEO/ORDS/01
Description
Details
Octogenarian Teetotalers with 113 portraits (The
National Temperance League)" mentions Robert
Barling (85) of Staplehurst.
Article mentions Robert
Article in Family Tree Magazine July 2002, pp.
Barling
24-26. Two pages torn out.
Miscellaneous items of Harris family memorabilia: 4. Certificate of Merit to Mr J Harris, 1889, from
1. Letter describing Grannie's funeral and death at Staplehurst & Frittenden Cottage Gardeners' Mutual
Harris Family Memoirs
Victoria Cottage (note address: Commercial
Improvement Society: Table Plants
(The Harris Collection)
Road, Staplehurst.) Also formal notice thereof. 5. Pi
1. "Memoirs of Charles Edward Harris" Scrapbook of photos and items about his life.
Papers relating to Charles Compiled as a memorial. A little on Staplehurst;
4. Pre-printed postcard home April 1918
Harris, (died in action 1918) some army life.
5. Letter from Jack Jull, telling of his search for
(Harris Collection)
2. Two letter
Charles after his injury.
1. Driving licence up to 1971 in folder
2. Photo in news item (n.d.)
Driving licence & photo
....... both of William Tipples of Ide
Notebook containing
trademarks (The Harris Private notebook compiled by John Harris
Collection)
containing trademarks
Bank Book
Bank Book belonging to John Harris 1915 - 1919
(The Harris Collection)
London County & Westminsted Bank
Hop Picker's account book The Hop Picker's account book of Mrs Harris
(The Harris Collection)
(n.d.)
Shows her daily tally
News Clippings:
Photo of Harris Boys;
Page for Kentish Express 10 Sept 1965:
Profile of a Village,
Photo of Frank & Fred Harris outside Victoria
Staplehurst (The Harris Works, Chapel Lane
"Profile of a Village":
ex Londoners looking for peace - estates have
Collection)
Staplehurst as a commuter village blossomed!
Christmas Card showing snow scene and a
Christmas Card
postman delivering in Staplehurst on Church Hill Received by Mike and Cherry Fann
Newspaper article: "Wedding at Staplehurst".
Miss M. F. Chamberlain and Mr H. E. Hutchinson
description and list of presents with names.
News of a wedding
[d/
Compilation of many newspaper cuttings about
Staplehurst 1892 - 1930s "Memories of Old
Staplehurst".
Compilation of News
Two bundles (Vol1 & Vol2) produced by Pat
A4 sheets in a manila envelope/folder
cuttings
1892 - Weekes of Benenden in 1994. From a series of Huge number of names mentioned, unindexed
1930s
su
Indexing desirable
News cutting: British
"The Legion's 10 million voices; call for united
Legion Dinner; speech
front on pensions."
KM 3/10/1951 and
about pensions, with photo photo
(The Harris Collection)
Staplehurst Branch Dinner 1951
More names: Cornforth, Bracher, Cutbush, Bailey
Obituary Bessie
News clipping October 18th 1937 funeral and
On staff at Sutton Valance elementary school. Some
Shoobridge
obituary Bessie Shoobridge
genealogical information is included
Order of service - funeral of Order of service for funeral of Bert Seth, 30 Aug
Bert Seth
2000
See reference: PEO/REMI/06
PEO/PICT/01
Pictures of Staplehurst
(The Harris Collection)
298
PEO/MISC/02
299
PEO/MISC/03
300
PEO/MISC/04
301
PEO/MISC/05
302
PEO/MISC/06
303
304
PEO/MISC/07
PEO/MISC/09
305
PEO/MISC/10
306
PEO/MISC/11
307
PEO/NEWS/01
308
PEO/NEWS/02
309
PEO/NEWS/03
310
311
PEO/OBIT/01
312
Category
Page from Kentish Express of 10 Sept 1965
showing pictures of Staplehurst
Names
Donor
Harris, Thatcher, et al
William Tipples
Harris Herbie Smith
Cherry Fann
many
Too many to list
many, inc.: Vickery, Col.
Larking, Bird, Simkins,
Wastall, Rootes,
Rutherford
Conducted by Rev Brian
Barnes
Tipples, Spicer, Barker,
Jack Smith, Herbie Smith,
[PEO/MISC/10 is from the same issue of this paper/] Lavender
Mr & Mrs
Coombs
Index
313
314
PEO/PICT/02
PEO/PICT/03
315
PEO/RELI/01
316
317
318
PEO/RELI/02
PEO/REMI/0
PEO/REMI/01
Category
320
321
PEO/REMI/04
322
PEO/REMI/05
323
PEO/REMI/06
324
PEO/REMI/07
325
PEO/REMI/08
326
PEO/REMI/09
327
PEO/REMI/10
328
PEO/REMI/11
329
PEO/REMI/12(Bk)
330
PEO/REMI/13
Details
Names
Portrait passport photos
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED WITHOUT PERMISSION
Photograph album, Harris
family
Harris family photograph album, c 1920's octavo
Harris, Webb
Letter from J Edwin Harris
1. Letter from Edwin Harris to his mother
March 1918
plus military Christmas card recounting his confirmation in the CofE during the
1917
war.
(The Harris Collection)
2. Christmas card 1917
NB Edwin had been a non-conformist.
Edwin Harris
Certificate of Character
Certificate of Character from Sabbath School at
(The Harris Collection)
Biddenden for John Harris
30 Nov 1856 to 13 April1862
Poem - Reminiscence
319
PEO/REMI/02
PEO/REMI/03
Description
File of negatives, copies from Frank Page,
photographer
Reminsicences of life in
Staplehurst in C19th
Donor
Frank Page
Fred Harris
Poem by Bert Thirkell: "The Good Old Days in
Staplehurst"
Handwritten on A4
Thirkle Thirkell
Staplehurst 1819 - 1825 by Arthur Robert Barling The quotation "Change is the diet ..." (p3) is
(born 1811)
Dated 1895
Anecdotes fromYardley Oak by William Cowper (1731-1800).
Usborne Biggs Bromley
about the village and its people
Typescript.
The quotation "Be it a weakness...." (p2) is from
Dobell, Shoobridge. Lists
An enhanced and flowery interpretation
Tirocinium also by Cowper.
Barling's text is quoted of farmers and
3 copies, with variati
at length in an on-line genealogical biography of a
shopkeepers
Bessie Burgess
Bert Thirkell's memories of early 1900s: "Just a
Village where Everybody knew Everyone"
Includes Cricket team members and tennis club
Marianne Stammers
Reminiscences of
rules; hop picking, village activites, school
Kathleen Pope
Staplehurst in early 1900s 3 autographed copies
A Staplehurst Childhood", a personal history of
Reminiscence of
Henry William Taylor, born Staplehurst 1884.
Contains images of life in Staplehurst and anecdotes. Burnham Oliver Crothel
Staplehurst late C19th &
Written in 1938.
Cottage in Chapel Lane
Pope Shoobridge Oakley
early C20th
Typescript
Letter of authorization
Norris Mrs Fitch Bexley
Reminiscences from Bert
Seth
(Millennium
Interview with Bert Seth on 20 April 2000 by Ron Green Court Staplehursts Church World War 2
Project)
Hegartry
Millennium Project
Profession: Book binder
Reminiscences of Dr
Interview with Dr Richard Skinner on 21st April
Richard Skinner
2000 by Ron Hegarty
Millennium Project
(Millennium Project)
Typescript. see also Audio Tape
Medicine
Churches
Extracts from Parish Magazine, n.d. but c1995;
pp.19-22
A Staplehurst Family
at War by Mrs Win Crouch
Reminiscences of
Past Times: Staplehurst and the Second World
Staplehurst in WW2
War, compiled by Ron Hegarty
What happened in Staplehurst during the war
Mrs Win Crouch
Reminiscences of life in
Letter from Lina Smith to Allan Rimmer dated
Staplehurst in 1920s
2/2/07
Brief rerminiscences
Sleeper Alley (aka Surrenden Cottages)
Arnold Hill Roy Milner
Autobiographical account of life, people &
buildings of Staplehurst in the 1950s by John
Cramp.
Harris Brothers, Arthur
Reminiscences of life in
Typescript of talk given by John to Staplehurst
Names: George & Martin, Les Pierce, Nicholson,
Vousden Archie Merrie,
Staplehurst 1950s
Society
Lou Mitchell, Miss Middleton,
Major Rutherford
Two autograph books
Two Autograph Books from John Harris, early
The Harris Collection
20th C
Contains entries from Staplehurst People
Reminiscences of Old Cranbrook by Joe
Woodcock
pub.
No Staplehurst connection.
Book about Cranbrook
Meresborough Books
Pictures, reminiscences.
Diaries
Private pocket diaries of Frederick G Harris 1983,
(The Harris Collection)
1985, 1986,1987
Bert Thirkell
Mrs Anne Parr
(g-niece of HT)
Ron Hegarrty
Ron Hegarty
Linda Smith
John Cramp
Index
Category
331
PEO/REMI/14(Bk)
332
333
PEO/TRAD/01
Cranbrook Local History
Business Card
(The Harris Collection)
PEO/TRAD/02
Bills from Butcher
PEO/TRAD/03
Milk delivery books
PEO/TRAD/04
Bread order book
Bills for trade
(Tipples collection)
News cuttings (Harris
Collection)
334
335
336
337
PEO/TRAD/05
PEO/WARF/01
338
PEO/WARF/02
339
REL/BOOK/01
340
341
REL/BOOK/02
REL/BOOK/03
342
REL/BUIL/01
343
REL/BUIL/02
344
345
REL/BUIL/03
REL/BUIL/04
346
REL/BUIL/05
347
REL/BUIL/06
348
REL/BUIL/07
349
REL/CLER/01
Description
Cranbrook & District Local History Society,
Cranbrook Voices from the 20th Century,
Cranbrook & District Local History Society, 2000
Business card for John Harris - Victoria Carriage
Works
Bills from George Ballard, famly butcher, West
End, Marden 1928 -1929 to Oborne
Milk books from C C Worsley & Sons, The Firs
Dairy, Staplehurst 1929 - 1933 in the name of
Oborne
Record deliveries and payments
Bread order book from F Javens, The Quarter &
High Street, Staplehurst to Mrs Oborne 25 Jan
1930 - May 1932
Collected bills for trading in Staplehurst,
addressed to W Tipples, Esq. 1969 - 1970
Details
Missing?
15 documents found in cupboard at 1 Bly Court
Cottages, Chapel Lane
Names
Oborne, Ballard
Donor
Alan Baum
5 books found in cupboard at 1 Bly Court Cottages,
Chapel Lane
Oborne
Alan Baum
Found in cupboard at 1 Bly Court Cottages, Chapel
Lane
Oborne, Javens
Alan Baum
Tipples, Dixon
Tipples
Includes pre- & post-decimalization
News clipping News paper map of Ypres Letter
Items concerning death of Charles Harris in WW1 from hospital (French). 1918
"Staplehurst's forgotten hero" Reginald Charles
Fitzgerald 9th March 1925 - 13/14 October 1944
War memorial addition
article by Edmund T Sergison
Fegans home for boys Slaney Farm
Staplehurst Parish Magazines
Vol 59 No 8, Aug 1952
Parish magazine
Vol 60 No 7, July 1953 Vol 62 no 6 June 1955
(Harris Collection)
(from Win Crouch)
Church Year Book
Year Book and Blotter 1956 - 1957 Cranbrook & services schedule, calendar, history of
(Harris Collection)
Staplehurst Congregational Churches
Congregational Church
Frittenden Parish Magazine Frittenden Parish Magazine October 1897
Photocopy
from Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol 9 1874 pages
189-203
Photocopy
Author: W.A.S.R.
Info (1874) re All Saints
History & description of Church of All Saints,
Mentions the South Door, the bells, the registers,
Church
Staplehurst
starts 1245
Booklet: Staplehurst
Staplehurst Church by Rev A J Walker
Booklet - paper cover some photos
Church
(Harris
(Cranbrook 1938)
some notes A description 2 copies, different sizes
Collection)
of the building
In hanging file
Jones, LG, The Beauty of English Churches,
English Churches
Constable, 1978
Newspaper cutting on All Richard Talbot looks at All Saints Church (History
Saints Church
of Church) No date
Norman font, Norman door
Eight centuries in stone, the treasures of your
Gift day leaflet in church
church
Also expenditures 1957
history
-1963
B.C. Worssam: Eight centuries in stone: an
account of the building of All Saints Church,
Including details of the various stones used in the
Pamphlet
Staplehurst
building and churchyard
2 copies of "The Parish Church of All Saints
Parish church guide
Staplehurst dated 01-07-1983 and 30-10-1978
Nicholas Wright was rector of Staplehurst in 1474 Article on Vicars, Masters, etc of Church of ss
1499
John Goodhewe likewise in
Gregory & Martin, Wye, in Archaeologia Cantiana 1500 - 1518.
Biographies of clergy with vol 28, 1909.
Each "held" Staplehurst with the provostship of
reference to Staplehurst
Photocopy
Merton College
Harris
Mr Bateup, Slaney
Cottages
Ted Sergison
Fred Harris/
Win Crouch
Fred Harris
Hallward Hickmott
Mayney, Pearman
(curate) Besely
Fred Harris
Mr Vickery, Rev. A.J.
Walker
Wright Goodhewe
Index
REL/HIST/01
Description
Staplehurst Kent Congregational Chapel book of
transcripts of registers of BMDs. 1716 - 1912 with
a short history of the chapel. Baptisms 1746
Transcription from
-1793, 1797 -1837 Plus a few births 1716 -1791;
Staplehurst Congregational marriages 1788 -1792, Deaths 1787 -1793,
Chapel
Burials 1842 -1912
Article Staplehurst Register by J.S.Ff
Article: The Staplehurst
Chamberlain, M.A. in Archaeologia Cantiana Vol
Register (1538-1596)
28, 1909, pages 283-299
REL/HIST/02
History of Staplehurst
Rectory (CofE)
Notes typescript for a talk to SS by Anita
Thompson on the history of the (Old) Rectory
from C1350 to 1953
Records inhabitants of the Rectory from C1350;
includeds census transcriptions.
More names: Crick, Reyner, Buss, Vickery, et al
REL/HIST/03
History of the
Congregational Church in
Staplehurst 1647 -1947
Booklet 1947: Tercentenary Commemoration
and Thanksgiving Staplehurst Congregational
church, by Rev. E. Harland Brine
Written history with photo of Pastor and deacons in
1947 and of church and manse.
REL/HIST/04
History of Staplehurst
Congregational Church
1662 - 1902
350
REL/GENE/01
351
352
353
354
355
REL/HIST/05
356
REL/HIST/06
357
REL/HIST/07
358
REL/HIST/08
359
REL/HIST/09
360
REL/HIST/10
361
REL/HIST/10(Bk)
362
REL/HIST/11
Category
Details
Names
Donor
Paperback 1999. The original baptism registers
1797-1837 are at the National Archives at Kew; the
others are at the Centre for Kentish studies,
Maidstone
2 photocopies - includes a few images.
Explains the use and appearance of the register.
Booklet 1903: A brief history of Staplehurst
2 copies, 1 morocco/1 paper
Congregational church, by Rev. T Thatcher (the Mentions marian martyrs
pastor)
one photo
many names
Two newspaper articles:
1. Distraint on the Mustard Pot -- Kent & Sussex
Courier 31/7/1992
2. Church fought a very
Article: Opposition to
ominous combination - cutting, ditto, 10/7/1992
May relate to Poll Tax protests in 1990s.
Not
Church rates by NonConc
about Staplehurst
conformists
"Staplehurst and Marden: Where Dissenters were
Descrption of Staplehurst burned at the Stake" by Jenni Balow. KM 3/6/1977
- Church history
Wide ranging intro to Staplehurst
Mentions 1977 attitude to spread of housing in
-Martyrs
Planning
Staplehurst
pages 30 -52 from Noble Martyrs of Kent
41 Martyrs of Canterbury
Info: Marian Martyrs of Kent 4 photos of Canterbury martyrs' memorial
photos and photocopies in envelope
1. Copy of 1940 letter concerning Kentish Marian
Letters:
martyrs. Not on Staplehurst, except for inclusion
1. Martyrs
of names below.
2.
2. a little genealogy:
Covering letter 1999 from Lesley Watson-Walker
Tolhurst et al
of Canterbury to Allan Rimmer referring to a fa
An article about the history of All Saints Church
Overseers' registers
1646 - 1826, drawn from the Overseers'
(article)
Church
Registers. Set against national and ecclesiastical
History
history. Parish Magazine October 1942. No
Twelve volumes were "recently" discovered in the
(The Harris Collection)
author.
S rectory hayloft.
Anniversary Committee, The United Reformed
History of United Reformed Church, Staplehurst, July 1997: 350 years of
Church
worship & witness, URC, Staplehurst 1997
Anniversary Committee, The United Reformed
History of United Reformed Church Staplehusrt July 1997: 350 Years of
Church
Worship and Witness. URC Staplehurst 1997
Book: History of Baptists in Hoskins, Norman L., The Baptists of Smarden
Smarden, etc.
and the Weald of Kent 1640 - 2000. (Self
(includes Staplehurst)
published)
includes Kingsnorth family
Many, including Beseley,
Henden.
Many including Besesly,
Chamberlain, Sowton,
Grove, Crowther,
Hornbuckle.
Jull, Shoobridge,
Chapman, Balley, Spicer,
Grigsby, Thatcher, Brine,
et al
Barling, Shoobridge,
Thatcher, Brooks, Jull,
Chapman, Kingsnorth, et
al
Anita
Thompson,
2007
Harris
F Harris
not Staplehurst
L W Walker
Martyrs: Fishcock, White,
Pardue, Final, Mrs
Bradbridge, Wilson,
Benden
AR
Walker, Varenne,
Crowther, Bowtell,
Blackwood, Kent,
Poyntell, Sowton
Property of
Staplehurst
Society
Index
REL/HIST/12
Category
Seating plan for Parish
Church Jubilee Service
1935
REL/INFO/01
Flyer for united churches'
celebration
REL/MISC/01
Scrapbook -- The Harris
Collection
Sheet 1
REL/MISC/01
Scrapbook -- The Harris
Collection
Sheet 2
REL/MISC/01
Scrapbook -- The Harris
Collection
Sheet 3
REL/MISC/01
Scrapbook -- The Harris
Collection
Sheet 4
REL/MISC/01
Scrapbook -- The Harris
Collection
Sheet 5
REL/MISC/01
Scrapbook -- The Harris
Collection
Sheet 6
REL/MISC/01
Scrapbook -- The Harris
Collection
Sheet 7
REL/MISC/01
Scrapbook -- The Harris
Collection
Sheet 8
363
364
365
366
367
368
369
370
371
372
Description
Seating plan for Parish Church Jubilee Service 5
May 1935
Celebration of life 12 to 25th June [2007], an
event sponsored by the united churches of
Staplehurst, at Surrenden Road Playing field.
The Sunday School Teacher's Scrapbook
Includes newpaper cuttings & religious musings.
Most loose, now numbered and slipped into
scrapbook
Details
A6 Flyer
1. "Jerusalem" picture stuck in.
2. "Faithful unto death" -- newsp cuttings; the picture
of Jack Cornwell; n.d.
3a.
Triniculum; or Jewish feast
8. Playground fatality at Staplehurst; giant stride
collapses; news 8/7/1922
9. Parsons/Lane or Wright/Maskell marriage; news;
Continuation sheet
n.d.; unknown Staplehurst reference.
5a. What a boy could do; newspaper cutting. n.d. 10. A rock-hewn tomb; with rolling stone; newspaper;
5b. The first Sunday School; newspaper cutting; n.d.
n.d.
6. The galla
11. The origin and progres
16. News photo Scotch Fisher lanses at
Continuation sheet
Scarborough. n.d.
12. The Hemsted oak; newspaper cutting; no
17. Buelt Sunday School Union; ann. mtg
date.
Staplehurst; 1/4/1918; Easter Mon.
13. Easter; acrostic by F.G. Harris.
18. Unveiling of Protestant Martyr's memorial at
14. Peace; acrostic by F.G. Harris; loose.
Staplehurst; April 1905; newspaper cutting.
15. Obituary fro
19. Wedding; M. T. Acot
23. Wedding; H. R. Peters (Faversham) and Miss W.
M. Marsh (Dunkirk) n.d. (Miss Marsh sang in our
Continuation sheet
choir; says John Cramp.)
21. (Loose hand-painted card) "One of the B'hoys 24. Evangelists: Mr J. H. Whyte (2); Sir Edward
from Staplehurst" by
I. M. L. 1918
Sharp (2); Rev Newton Jones.
Made of rhubarb; banana; pear; plum
25. Evangelists? Unknown Rev; unknown woman;
2
Rev
30. Lewisham "Pastor's snowball". (Rev Philip Hall);
Continuation sheet
newspaper cutting; n.d.
26. Four memorial stones laid at Marden
31. The Rev and Mrs W. H. Lax. Thank you!
Methodist church; news cut; n.d.
(Poplar Wesleyan Mission)
27. Methodists advance at Marden (Sunday
32. Obituary of Mr the W. Turley; florist and fruiterer;
School memorial stones); Rev P. We
Upper Norwood. (Wreaths include "Charlie and
Continuation sheet
34. The Rechabites order; high chief ruler at
33a. The Cure (missionary in India) Newspaper Staplehurst. Newsp cutting; n.d.
Cutting; n.d.
35. Prominent Methodists at Dover; Mr and Mrs
b. The Cathedral of Methodism -- Wesley's
Stephen Lewis. Newspaper article; n.d.
Chapel. Newspaper pic; n.d.
36. Funeral of Mr Frederick Jeffery of Ore. "With
c. A new m
deep sympathy from friends at Stap
Continuation sheet
38. Resurrection acrostic; F. G. Harris; marked 42a;b.c. Rev and Mrs E Omar Pearson: Jack Hobbs
"Mrs Jeffery" on back.
and Herbert Sutcliffe: Romany and Raq; newspaper
39. Verse with drawings signed J. H. Burgess.
cuttings; n.d.
43. A
Postcard; ink.
GLB girl's bravery; newspaper cutting; n.d.
40. Death of S
44. Congregational church of Staplehurst; i
Continuation sheet
45. Rechabites at Tonbridge. Newspaper cutting 49a. Staplehurst Congregational Church; new pastor;
and group photo; n.d.
Rev Hugh McKay; cutting December 1926.
46. Obituary; the late Mr P. W. Turley. See 22a; 49b. Lantern show; Young People's Fellowship; held
32 47. Rechabites Jubilee at
at Mr Hocken's oasthouse at Hawkenbury;
Names
Donor
F.Harris
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Index
373
REL/MISC/01
374
REL/MISC/01
375
REL/MISC/01
376
REL/MISC/01
377
REL/MISC/01
378
REL/MISC/02
379
REL/MISC/03
380
REL/MISC/04
381
REL/MONU/01
382
REL/MONU/02
383
REL/NEWS/01
Category
Description
Details
Names
55. Cricket; Hollington St John Team; 1929;
Continuation sheet
newspaper cutting.
56. "Twelve things I
51. Two mottos for the new year; L. V. Heasman have to thank God for" on 8 postcards; by E.
21/12/1919.
Eastwood; Henry Pearson; Percy Bridgeland; J. H.
Scrapbook -- The Harris 52. Rev F. J. Williams; newspaper photo; n.d.
Burgess (marked Mrs Jeffery); G. W. Groombridge;
Collection
Sheet 9
53
L. Heasman;
61. Church Rates are a law of the land; W. G[rigsby]
Continuation sheet
& W. J[ull]. Dated 1840. Photocopy.
57. The Role of the Law; newspaper picture; n.d. 62. 110th anniversary of the Primary School. Rev T.
58. Children's lesson pictures dated
Vickery; Mrs Florence Catt; 92; Mr Fred Harris; 83;
Scrapbook -- The Harris 5/4/1914-26/6/1914 & 4/9/1939 in env.
Mr Eric Spear; headmaster. 1983. Newspaper
Collection
Sheet 10
59. 1927 Happy Greetin
cutting. 5
Continuation sheet
63. Where the answer lies in the toil (Plough
65a. Printed photos of the Rev and Mrs Thatcher of
Sunday) K. M. 6/1/1984
Staplehurst; golden wedding on July 15th
Scrapbook -- The Harris 64a. Autograph letter to Mr and Mrs C. Jeffery
65b. Forty-four year ministry at Staplehurst; farewell
Collection
Sheet 11
from Thomas G. Thatcher dated 17/7
gifts to Mr and Mrs Thatcher.
5. One photo of three users in fancy dress (Fred
Continuation sheet
and two of his brothers?)
67. Fred Harris's photos in envelope.
6. One photo of man in army uniform (one of his
1. Two negatives of Victoria Cottage, Chapel
brothers?)
Lane
7. One photo of roll of honour; Staplehurst
Scrapbook -- The Harris
2. One photo; very faded; his father with birds in Congregational church;
Collection
Sheet 12
avia
8. One photo of memorial to Wilfred Thatche
68. Photo of circa 1953? Taken at Chapmans Farm:
Continuation sheet
hop bin with label "Korea; Malaya"; with people
Fred Harris's Photos in envelope (cont.)
picking Fuggle hops into it:
9. Exposures of holiday at Brique; Simplon
L-R: unknown woman; 2 New Zealander girls;
Scrapbook -- The Harris Pass; etc; dated 18/6/1924
Carolyn Day, aged about 8; Fred Harris; unknown
Collection
Sheet 13
(? When his brother died in
woman; 2 unknown children
Psalm 130 called "Staplehurst" from David's Harp,
a series of original tunes composed expressly for Transcribed by Helen Mitcham March 2000 2
copies A4
Music Score of Psalm 130 the psalter by Thomas Clark 1843
Invitation to dedication
An invitation from the Parish Church of All Saints Printed card
service for bells
30 Mar 1997 to a service of dedication
Bells increased from 8 to 10
News cuttings: from Parish
Magazine: Bells and War Cuttings from the Parish Magazine:
Damage
1. The Rector's letter Sept 1944 reporting bomb
Walker, Wightwick,
(The Harris Collection)
damage and dedication of banners..
Tipples, Parrington
Issue of The Reformer magazine Sep/Oct 1978
Article about Martyrs'
p.1
"Staplehurst Martyrs' Memorial
Brenda Mount, Sec of
Memorial
cleaned and repaired."
Staplehurst Society
Article about the erection of the Martyrs' Memorial
1905 and about Passive Resisters by Mrs J D
Whitford (formerly Wyatt) of Staplehurst.
Names of various Marian Martyrs. Fate of Alice
Thatcher Jull Harris
Marian Martyrs
Accompanied by covering letter dated Feb 1998 Benden (betrayed by her husband). Imprisonment of Hardes Offen Knight
The Passive Resisters
from author to Anita Thompson.
Passive Resisters in 1904.
Conceived by Fishcock Pardue
Miscellaneous information Misc. infomatio
Mr E Bailey; designed by Mr W Brooks
Bradbridge Final
Dr Robert Runcie,
Archbishop of Canterbury Runcie confirms
Melaanie Braganza; mid
Confirmation at All Saints candidates in Staplehurst
- News cutting
row 3rd from right:
- news photo
and photo 17/7/1983
Trevor Vickery was not there!
Suzanne Knapps
Donor
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Fred Harris
Cherry Fann
Index
Category
384
REL/NEWS/02
385
REL/ORDS/01
386
REL/ORDS/02
387
REL/ORDS/03
388
REL/PROG/01
389
390
REL/PROG/02
S&L/CARN/01
391
S&L/CARN/02
392
S&L/CARN/03
S&L/DRAM/01
S&L/DRAM/02
Spillshill Court Pageant
(The Harris Collection)
394
S&L/HIST/01
Staplehurst Passion Play
(The Harris Collection)
Drama productions:
1929-1933
programmes and news
cuttings
(The Harris Collection)
Poster for Staplehurst
Mutual Improvement
Society
S&L/INFO/01
Footpaths
S&L/MISC/01
Events in Staplehurst
and miscellaneous items
395
S&L/DRAM/03
396
S&L/DRAM/04
397
398
Order of service, dedication
of War Memorial Chapel at Patronal festival and Dedication of War Memorial
All Saints
Chapel 1 Nov 1921
2 copies of single sheet
1. Valedictory Service for Rev Trevor Vickery
29/9/1991
2. A service to
celebrate 25 years of service 14/12/1976
Various items in tribute to 3. An invitation to share in 40 years of drama in
Rev Trevor Vickery
tribute to Rev T Vickery. nd
Order of service - Dedication of new peal of ten
Order of service bells, Staplehurst Parish church by Rev Brian
dedication of new bells
Barnes, Easter Day 1997
"A Festval of Flowers", The Friends of All Saints
Programme: Flower
Parish Church 13 -15 Sep (2002)
Festival 2002
Recital by Phyllis Shilling / Songs of Praise
All saints Festival of Flowers 1st,2nd and 3rd July
Programme
1983 for improvements to Rector's vestry
Staplehurst Society competitions for Carnival &
Competitions
Fete
Staplehurst Carnival & Fete programme 2006,
2000
6th
July 1968
Carnival programme
2nd July 1977 (Silver Jubilee)
British Legion ladies' float in Staplehurst Carnival
1986 (Wizard of Oz)
News cutting, no note of
British Legion ladies
source
News cuttings: Plays
performed in Staplehurst
(The Harris Collection)
393
399
Description
Page from Parish Magazine n.d. but post 1996 1.
Annual Parochial Church meeting. 2. Bell
restoration project
Details
Names
Donor
Anita
Thompson
Booklet - includes some detail of the bells
Flower arrangers and sponsors' names
Phyllis Shilling
Pictures of houses.
Includes the 1998 comp.
Anita
Thompson
Stap Soc
Queen's 80th. 2 copies 1 -Caribbean Carnival and
name the village centre 969/1987/1988
Vic Holdaway
Ashdown, Ginn, Vickery
4. Two other cuttings about the above plays, not cited Marshall, Usborne,
5. Cutting re Staplehurst Passiion Play, written by
Lavender, Marsh,
Bert Seth (first performed in 1956). n.d.
Wernham, Offen
Miscellaneous Newspaper cuttings:
1. The Mikado by Staplehurst Dramatic Soc;
Kentish Express 3 May 1930
1. Spillshill Court Pageant - cutting from KM 12
Aug 1933
including glimpse of future
Loyse May Convalescent Home for Mothers and
Babies, (never built)
Includes picture of Fred Harris and Miss Knowles
1. Reports on Staplehurst Passion Play in early
1970s
2. Also piece about
Rev Trevor Vickery, 31 Dec 1981
The Rising Generation 1832
Programmes and cuttings from various dramatics. Pirates of Penzance(4)
Staplehurst Choral and Dramatic Society
Tilly of Bloomsbury (5) June 1933
Poster for Staplehurst Mutual Improvement
Society 1864
Staplehurst Footpath Group. 5 walks around
Staplehurst, South Maidstone 1980
Events calendar 1994 -- carnival & fete quiz no
date 3 pages ----- Welcome to new members ---Description of society ----- Captions --- Quiz
1983
Mole, Tester, Rabson,
Harris, Cartwright, Smith,
Veall, Dixon, Batho,
Bourne, George, Pascall,
Lavender, Vane
Fred Harris
Tarbutt (Cranbrook)
Barnes
Lucy Toms,
nee Mayell
Index
400
S&L/MISC/02
401
S&L/MISC/03
402
S&L/MISC/04
403
S&L/MISC/05
404
S&L/MISC/06
405
S&L/MISC/07
406
S&L/MISC/08
407
S&L/MISC/09
408
409
410
411
412
413
414
S&L/MISC/10(Bk)
S&L/MISC/11
S&L/MISC/12
S&L/MISC/13
S&L/MISC/14
S&L/NEWS/01
S&L/NEWS/02
415
S&L/PROG/01
S&L/PROG/02
S&L/PROG/03
Programme for SDS production Spring 1952:
Bonaventure by Charlotte Hastings Includes
Play programme
advertisements
Garden safari programmes Garden Safari Programme 2006 & 2007
S&L/NEWS/04
417
S&L/NEWS/05
418
419
420
Description
Details
Staplehurst Lad's Social Club ("The Rising Sun")
Membership booklet
Date unknown
Promoting games, sport & lectures
Staplehurst Society competitions (2) for children:
(May 1991)
Wordsearch on
Competition
Houses; "The Staplehurst Hoard"
Library input?
Staplehurst Cricket & Tennis Club Membership
Membership Cards
& Fixtures Cards
1932 / 1935 / 1939
Pictures Programmes
Prints by Clifford Bayly 2000 X 2
Music
West Gallery Psalm 130 "Staplehurst" (words & music)
Quire
Thomas Clark Quire West Gallery programmes Image of Norman Wallis
Staplehurst Society competitions for family
Various in package: Trails, buildings, wildlife
Competitions
1987 -1992
Pictorial quizzes
Staplehurst Society Family Quiz 1990
Book containing answers (photo album)
Competitions
Photographs of houses and Nature Reserve
File of items about Dog
Show
Dog show at Brattle Farm - bits & pieces
Posters & leaflets re
Miscellaneous posters and leaflets for events Staplehurst Society
mostly with no year date
See list in reverse of
meetings and events
sheet (oldposters.rtf)
White, J.T., The Parklands of Kent, Arthur J
Kent Parkland
Cassell, 1967(?)
Quiz sheet - junior 1992
Quiz sheet - junior
Includes map
The Weald Gazette tourist map and guide to
Tourist Map - Leaflet
Cranbrook, Staplehurst and Hawkhurst.
No date
1993 Staplehurst marching band newsletter No 1
Newsletter, marching band and 3
List of numbers
Club
The Wednesday Club founded in 1972.....
Handwritten A5 sheet of yellow paper
Staplehurst Village Quarterly Chronicle 1967
News of clubs and societies
Village Chronicle
1968
2. A5 Booklet
Booklet for Scouts & guides Centre - a magazine for Staplehurst Scouts and
1976
Guides
Autumn 1976, No 4
Dates, news items, advertisements
2nd Annual Pancake Day race. No date. 3
cuttings
News clipping - Staplehurst Football Club teams Football club triumphs 1955 celebrate league promotion with dinner
News cutting dated 18/02/1892 Cricket meeting,
followed by water supply to cottages of Mr Henry
News cutting
Hoare
Programmes:
Thomas Clark Quire - The Stap Soc at Spillshill
Court 20/05/2000-2/6/2001
Programme booklets (6)
Mother Goose
S&L/NEWS/03
416
Category
Pancake race
2 Reports and report KM 27th may 1955
Presently on orange poster
Names
G Hogben,Pannell,
Gumbrill, Bonarjee
GP Dawkins
Fred Harris
(probably)
C Fann
Dave Weller
Knowlden, Swainbank, et Anita
al
Thompson
Rev Trevor Vickery, Mrs
jean Waterman, Mrs
Sandra Britta, Anne
Brenchley
C Hobbs, Paine, Swain,
Hodge
June Moore
Hoare,Mr W. Bright,
Hamilton, Shoobridge
(cont.)
Son et Lumiere - Parish Church
Model Railway Exhibition Stap Soc 1993
Actors and production crew: Fleming Offen Phipps
Light Vickery Verrall Pettican Brett Ashton Day Taylor
Weston Cole Tomlin Martin Knight McLennan Tipples
Brett Ashdown Wood 1969/1987/Beermat
2 copies includes map
Donor
Index
Category
421
S&L/PROG/04
422
423
S&L/PROG/05
S&L/PROG/06
S&L/PROG/11
Celebration programme
year 2000
Programme for The
Staplehurst Passion Play
Programme for Murder in
the Cathedral
Programme: Horticultural
Society show 1976
Programme for concert,
June 2006
S&L/PROG/12
Concert programme
424
S&L/PROG/07
425
426
427
428
429
S&L/PROG/08
S&L/PROG/09
S&L/PROG/10
430
S&L/PROG/13
431
S&L/PROG/14
432
433
S&L/PROG/15
S&L/PROG/16
434
S&L/PROG/17
435
S&L/PROG/18
436
S&L/REMI/01
437
438
439
440
441
Theatrical programme
Programme for music
concert
Programme for music
concert
S&L/REMI/02
S&L/TEAM/01
S&L/TEAM/02
S&L/TEAM/03
S&L/TRAD/01
Page from programme for
Anything to Declare
(The Harris Collection)
Programme for Fete &
pageant
Programme: Dramatic
Society 1999 The Lost
Spirit of St Applehurst
Prog peace celebrations
Description
Details
Programme (part of) of a pageant presented at
Spilsill approximately 1935. various local people Programme includes names of past owners of
took part.
Spilsill.
West Gallery music concert at All Saints Church
Sept 2006
The Marsh Warblers
Concert at Staplehurst Music Centre
for Creative Staplehurst 2006
Leaflets: Staplehurst a village celebration 2000 An
ecumenical meeting Sunday 11 June on primary
school playing field
Staplehurst Fellowship of Churches
Programme: Passion Play presented in All Saints
Church 1-4 April 1980
A4 folded
Programme: Play presented in All Saints Church
17-19 June 1987
A4 folded
Programme: Staplehurst Horticultultural Society
fruit flower and vegetable show 4 Sept 1976
Officers, programme, advertisements
Programme for Innominata, June 2006
at Spilshill Court in aid of Sobell Lodge
Concert given by The Old Barn Orchestra at
Spilsill Court
1 July 2006
Page from programme for farce Anything to
Declare
Late 1930s
Also part of news item on Newlyn Trust
Fete & Pageant at Spilshill Courtr, Staplehurst, Bank Holiday Monday
7 Aug 1933
Programme for Dramatic Society: Richard
Branston Pickle and the Lost Spirit of St
Applehurst. Millennium Pantomime Dec 1999
Written by Murray Motley & Stuart Clark
Staplehurst July 19th 1919
Held at Iden Manor Park
British Legion (Staplehurst Programme and menu for British Legion
Branch)reunion dinner
(Staplehurst Branch), Staplehurst Village Hall,
8/10/1947
Wednesday October 8th 1947
Staplehurst celebrates The Diamond Jubilee of
2012 Jubilee programme Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11" 1952-2012
Edited by graham Sivyer (2 copies)
Leaflet: By Loch Rannoch I will Go by Brian Eyles
1985
Sold for the Staplehurst
Booklet
URC renovation fund
A5
As available to the team members
Team photographs
Cricket team photos 1935 & 1936
MISSING AS AT 6/10/08
Handwritten list, Bert Thirkell, teams & rules 1929
Cricket Club fixtures
and 2 photocopies
Names and addresses, rules, team information
Cricket & Tennis club
Handwritten list, Bert Thickell
groundsman and photocopies
Farmers v tradesmen
Farmers v tradesmen annual match at Staplehurst William Tipples (farmer) captain
Handwritten information on pubs 1847-1922.
Kelly's Directory - Various Extracts (missing 25 02
Pubs info and names
Names of publicans
2013)
Names
Several
Donor
Fred Harris
(probably)
AT
several
Sec: Mrs J Keen, Mr G
McConnell
AT
Anita
Thompson
Batho, Bourne, Harris,
Ladd, Veall, Dixon,
Cutbush, Lavender,
Usborne, Stacy, Tully,
Vane
Several in cast and crew
D. Seligman
R.Westcott, Col.G.A.Roe,
Maj A.J. Simpkins, Maj
W.Rutherford,
H.Cornforth
Vic Holdaway
Brian Eyles
Anita
Thompson
listed
Harry Brake
A.W. Wamsley, owner of
ground and president
Bert Thickell
Bert Thickell
Cherry Fann
Index
442
Category
STS/MISC/01
Staplehurst Society
Constitution
STS/NEWS/01
Staplehurst Society
Newsletter
STS/NEWS/02
Staplehurst Society
Newsletter
STS/NEWS/03
Staplehurst Society
Newsletter
443
444
445
Description
Staplehurst Society Constitution plus
amendement 1980. Typescript and Booklet plus
amendement 1980, plus Constitution revised
1992.
Newsletter of The Staplehurst Society
Incomplete collection
1. Sept 1983 - Oct 1990
Newsletter of The Staplehurst Society
Incomplete collection
2. Winter 1991- Winter 1999
Newsletter of The Staplehurst Society
Incomplete collection
3. 2000 -
Details
446
STS/NEWS/04
STS/PLAN/01
News paper cutting
Planning correspondence
between Staplehurst
Society and Parish Council
& other bodies
1974 - 1980
STS/REMI/01
Notes for talkEstablishment of
Staplehurst Society
447
448
449
TRA/DOCS/01
450
TRA/DOCS/02
451
TRA/MISC/01
452
TRA/MISC/02
453
TRA/MISC/03
454
TRA/NEWS/01
455
TRA/PICT/01
Kent and Sussex Courier 2/2/1979
Poetry
wins prizes: poetry and limerick competition
A folder of correspondence between The
Staplehurst Society and planning bodies including
The Parish Council and Maidstone Borough
Includes:
Council mostly about planning. 1974 - 1980
Leisure Centre survey
Tree planting at
includes some news
Jubilee Field, et al Parking problems 1974
Public meeting 19 June 1977 objecting to planning
proposals. This led to the foundation of The
Notes for talk by Mrs J Wyatt re concerns about Staplehurst Society.
planning - proposing a local protection society.
Typescript
Act for Amending the roads from Tunbridge Wells
to Swiftsden and from Frant to Passingworth
Nothing on Staplehurst, but it gives Tolls, etc., for a
Great Wood - George III 1808
turnpike road.
Original printed document
Act of Parliament: Roads
Correspondence re
Staplehurst Railway Station Staplehurst Railway Station tree planting project
tree planting project by
1980 -1983
Plan and set of letters
Stap Society
about this.
The Society organized and planted the trees
1. Letters from the Hon Sec of the Staplehurst
Society to Secretary of State for Transport about
heavy lorries on the A229 (1977)
2. Booklet on Lorries and the Environment
Heavy lorries on the A229 Committee (1977)
Map and newspaper article (KM 24/9/1995) about
Channel Tunnel Rail Link - proposed Channel Tunnel freight rail link by
abandonned
Central Railways via Staplehurst
1/ 3year. 2/ 5 year Stilebridge to Knoxbridge and
Crash Statistics A229
KCC Crash query GIS. A229
letter 19/08/2005
"In Line for big railway Tesco". KM 27/6/2003 re
News cutting: Tesco
planning application for Station Approach and
George Street as commuter car park
development at the station small map
Disabled access
Newpaper cuttings and
Set of photos of Staplehurst Station & Sunday
photos about Staplehurst market 1996
Cutting about freight train
Station
derailment at Staplehurst Station 16/9/96
Names
Donor
Joan Buller
Bert Seth, Matthew Ralph,
Alison Hegarty, Meg
Fann,Mrs N.P.Stoll, Heidi
Gain, Mr Len Pettit, Jason
Cannings
Cherry Fann
Staplehurst
Society
Jeanette Wyatt
Eric Hotson, Vicky
Chittenden
A Thompson
Index
Category
456
TRA/TRAN/01
Collected items about
railways
Fuel vouchers
(The Harris Collection)
TRA/TRAN/02
Bus
TRA/RAIL/01
457
458
459
460
MIL/CHAR/01
British Legion
S&L/PRIZ/01
Poems about Staplehurst
461
Description
Details
Names
Photo: American Car Train at full speed (n.d.)
The Iron Roads Dictionary and Travellerts' Route "They fought a fire" - article on fire at Staplehurst yard
Chart
Timetables Oct 1848 (Front & photo. 1960.
Celebration of 150 years of
sheet)
The Railway at Staplehurst (Stap Soc)
Picture: Stoakes Willcox
South Eastern Railway Info
1865
Braithwaite Bolland
Used Fuel vouchers (used) for 4 units.
Not valid after 31/7/1959 (?Suez Crisis?)
1/2"Commuter mini-bus straight to Staplehurst
Station from Hawkurst/Cranbrook/Sissinghurst dated
16th March 1987. 2/ Hail and stop bus starting Sept
Commuter mini-bus
6. 3/ Hail and stop bus pocket table'
William Offen (tradesman) captain Description of
Alf Boorman, Joe
cider and cricket tea
Chapman
1/ Certificate of Branch registration 1931. 2/
Registration of charity 1951. 3/ Certificate of
recognition 50 years Womens section
Some decayed
Pettit, Stoll, Ralph,
Poems - The Staplehurst Society Poetry and
Bunting, Cannings, Fann,
Limerick competition 1979. Winning entries
Gain, Hegarty
Donor
Anita
Thompson
William Offen
Lake Farm
Vic Holdaway
Unknown