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Wateringbury Local History Society

The History Society has been established since the early nineteen seventies and has some 70-80 members per year on average. It meets the third Wednesday in every month at the Village Hall commencing at 7.45pm (not July or August) When selecting our speakers and subjects we endeavour to encompass as wide a range as possible to include the humorous, serious and entertaining whilst remembering that we are a ‘History Society’ We also organise an annual outing to places of interest, this year we are visiting Godington House near Ashford and Charing Church and village.

The Society has published several booklets, the most recent in 2005 was called ‘About Wateringbury’ These booklets contain articles about people both famous within the village and outside, places of interest past and present, and contain snippets of information that would be forever forgotten. The Society also has a good library of documents and books relating to the district, which can be loaned to members.

Our year runs from September to July with our AGM in June when the new programme is presented. New members are very welcome and details are available from committee members or just turn up at the next meeting and join then. The subscription for the past 2 years has been £6 (£1 per meeting for visitors) which is very good value for 9 interesting talks and a Wine & Cheese Evening held in May at a house of local interest. (A short resume of the previous meeting is always published in Rostrum together with details of the next meeting)

Chairman – Pat Worrall – 01622 814610
Secretary – Janet Hall – 01622 817833
Treasurer – Janet Coltham

Programme June 2006 – July 2007 All meetings at 7.40pm in the Village Hall unless shown otherwise.

21st June AGM followed by KENT SCANDALS – Chris McCooey
19th July visit to Godington House & Charing Village

August – no meeting
20th September POSTAL STORIES OF VILLAGES BETWEEN MAIDSTONE AND TONBRIDGE – John Dann
18th October ‘GREY OWL’ - THE HASTINGS INDIAN – Geof Hutchinson
15th November ‘YESTERDAY’S PAPERS’ – Monty Parkin
20th December OUR CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS – Paul Clark

2007
17th January ENGLISH PLACE NAMES – Phillip Lawrence
21st February KENT IN THE 19th CENTURY – Bob Ogley
21st March ‘SEEN FROM MY BICYCLE’ - Martin Lloyd
18th April THE GREEN MAN OF BRITAIN –Geoff Doel
16th May WINE & CHEESE – venue to be arranged
20th June AGM followed by TRINITY HOUSE & LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE –Len Stoneham
18th July VISIT – venue to be arranged