Local Publications

History of Brook by Dr Ian Michie

The History of Brook 1900-1928 by Mr Jack Richardson of Watersmeet, Brook.

Pictures of the Past, about 150 old pictures of Bilting, Crundale, Godmersham, Waltham and Wye. £5 plus p. & p.

History in the Houses Part 1: detailed house histories (owners and occupiers) of Longneck in Waltham and Well Cottage in Crundale, 48 pages illustrated, index, £4.95 plus p. & p.

History in the Houses Part 2: Pheasant Hall in Chartham and Sole Street Farm in Crundale, 60 pages, illustrated (b/w & colour), index, £4.95 plus p. & p.

A Guide to Crundale Church, 26 pages, illustrated (b/w & colour), £2.95 plus p. & p.

The History of A Downland Church - St.Mary the Blessed Virgin Crundale, hardbound with dust jacket, 221 pages illustrated (b/w & colour), £17.95 plus p. & p.

 A Countryman's Year on the North Downs of Kent, Jim White's Diary. NB: Jim White owned Cakes Yoke, Hunt Street, Crundale and farmed it for fifty years until his death in 1983. A very good read about the farming year giving an interesting insight of how farming changed in his life, and a little bit of local history. Printed and published by Don Fraser Print, 10 Station Road, Sudbury, Suffolk. First published 1983, 3^rd Edition 1998. ISBN 0 9510573 0 8.

Time to Remember by Arthur Marsh, Smeed Farm, Hastingleigh

A Kentish Village: Hastingleigh by Mary W Harwood, 1952, printed by Cross & Jackman Ltd, Canterbury

Forthcoming HASTINGLEIGH AND ITS PEOPLE, 1000-2000AD, by Brian Berry. He expects to have completed this book very soon and plans to get to press later this year. This means a 2003 publication date,

PETHAM

The House on the Hill - A Petham Record 1086-1986 by the late Col. J. Thomson of Tapley Petham. Well illustrated, 154 pages.