Hythe Civic Society

 

Schedule of  Events 2009/2010. (updated 28th May, 2010).

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The 2009 - 2010 Winter/Spring talks programme has concluded.  Click here for a list of the talks we had.  Talks will resume in October 2010 (except there will be 2 special talks during Hythe Festival - see below).
 

For your Diary.

 

Summer Outing: Doug Amans has arranged an evening outing on Wednesday 30th June. We will be visiting Amanda Cottrell's garden Laurenden in Challock, Some of you will remember she spoke to us at an Autumn Lunch about her year as High Sheriff of Kent. Afterwards we will have a finger buffet at the Wheel Inn, Westwell.

Details: Leave Red Lion Square at 5.30 pm. The cost to include coach, gratuity, garden and supper will be £20 per head. Please make cheques payable to D.H.Amans. Contact details in membership card, or contact Doug at an Evening Talk.
 

The Town Walks programme will resume with guided walks around Hythe every Thursday from the beginning of June. Guided walks can be arranged for pre-booked groups.  For information Tel: 01303 266118.
 

HYTHE FESTIVAL WEEK – 2nd to 11th July 2010
Hythe Civic Society will organise (or sponsor) the following events during the Festival:

  • Library Exhibition ‘A Lifetime of Service’ Personalities who have served Hythe remembered. Saturday 3rd July. Continues throughout July. Library Foyer Oaklands.

  • Every day (Monday July 5th to Saturday 10th July): Town Walk (free event) A fascinating Guided Walk round old Hythe – you are guaranteed to hear something you did not know about our town (includes the Crypt of St L Church). Meet at the Town Hall 10.30 am.

  • Poetry Prom: Monday 5th July. Ken Colley & Friends read verse and poetry – a Festival Favourite. Stay on for the traditional  Afternoon Tea £3

  • Festival Talk:  Monday 5th July. Hythe’s Ossuary – latest research. A Report on recent scientific work on the Bones in the Crypt of St L Church – discoveries in medieval health and diet By forensic experts Mark Farmer and Deborah  Gulliver (late of Bournemouth University)  Hythe Town Hall. Entry £1. Doors open 7.00 pm

  • Festival Talk:  Thursday 8th July. Gone for a Soldier: The British Tommy in Victorian Times through the verse of Rudyard Kipling - a talk by. Peter Ewart.  Hythe Town Hall. Entry £1  Doors open 7.00 pm

 

ANNUAL AUTUMN LUNCH - HYTHE BAY SCHOOL  - Saturday, 2nd October 2010

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2009/2010 Talks programme:

 

Talks were held in the School Hall, Hythe Bay C of E Primary School, Cinque Ports Avenue, Hythe, CT21 6HS.  on Tuesday evenings. The 2009/2010 programme has now concluded.

Talks were:

2009
October   13      The Maunsell Sea Forts in the Thames Estuary                                       Frank Turner
October   27      The Red Dean of Canterbury, Hewlett Johnson’s Russian Connection   Emeritus Prof. Dr John Butler
November  10   Bedclothes and Bloomers                                                                        Dennis Pearson
November  24   Around the World in 45 Minutes                                                             Bob Brisley

There was an Christmas Open evening on 8th December 2009 at our former venue, the UNITED REFORMED CHURCH. 
 For photos from this event, click here.

2010
January  12      History & Conservation of Westenhanger Castle & Medieval Barns        Terry Whitling
January  26      The Huguenots in Kent                                                                            Norman Hopkins
February 9       The History & Work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission     Ian Small
February 23     The Story of Photography                                                                        Dr John Woodward
March  9         The Life of a Japanese Woman                                                                 Leslie Gould
March  23       They Dare to be Doctors                                                                           Toni Mount
April  13         The History of Watercolours                                                                     Gerry Harris
April  27         Murder, Sex & Mayhem in English Churches                                            John Vigar MA, FSAScot, FRSA

 

 

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Hythe Civic Society Social Evening - 8th December 2009

About 100 members attended the Christmas Social Evening on Tuesday 8th December at the United Reform Church. It was a very social event.  Committee members June Orell and Mary Hunter and other helpers served warm mince pies and coffee.  Vice Chairman and Editor of the Newsletter Christopher Melchers welcomed members, gave the Chairman's apologies, thanked the ladies for organising the refreshments and thanked John Keeffe for arranging the display of photographs that Michael Jack had donated to the Society's archives. (click here to read about this collection in NL151 - Social History).  These proved to be of great interest to members during the evening.  Michael Jack was present at the event.  Alan Joyce updated members on an analysis he had made of the transport implications of the Sainsbury's proposal.  Doug Amans described the arrangements for the members lunch in October 2010.

Below, some pictures from the evening.


Chri Melchers welcomes members to the evening.
June offers additional mince pies.

Alan discusses the traffic implications of the Sainsbury's proposal.
Doug updates members on the arrangements for the 2010 October members lunch.



Michael Jacks with John Keeffe the Society's archivist.

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