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Birchington Kaleidoscope 1
by Jennie Burgess
Items from Birchington's history
Contains 10 chapters on:- All Saints Church; Buried Treasure (in the Churchyard); Farms & Barns; Quex; Windmills in Birchington; Birchington Hall; Law & Order; The Fire Brigade;
Medieval & Tudor buildings; The Railway & the Seaside
17 cm x 24 cm; 140 pages. £8 + P&P
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Birchington Kaleidoscope 2
by Jennie Burgess
More items from Birchington's history
Eleven further topics:- Birchington Square; Education in Birchington; The First Bungalows; The Seventeenth Century; The Catholic Church; The Curate and the Queen; Smuggling; The First World War; The Three Village Centres; Thanet Earth and the Archaeological Dig; Birchington Heritage Trust
17 cm x 24 cm; 114pages. £8 + P&P
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Ashton's War - Birchington and the Russian Revolution
By Ashton Pemble
Ashton was born in Birchington in 1881 and having left the Church of England School in Park Lane at the age of 14, he was apprenticed as a carpenter in 1895. By 1912, he and two friends in the building trade, "Stump" Tumber and Bentley Osmotherly, had set up a small firm called "The Operative Builders and Decorators", known locally as simply "O.B.D.",
When Ashton was called up in 1914 or 15, he was sent to Farnborough Airfield in Hampshire, where his carpentry skills proved invaluable. There he learnt to assemble aircraft built by Sopwith, Bristol and Avro among others
Ashton Pemble was posted to Russia in April 1917 and his daily entries covered much of what the history books tell us about the Russian Revolution. He simply stated the facts as he experienced them. He was based in Moscow and Petrograd much of the time and made no political comments on the events he recorded.
By the time the Bolsheviks had secured their position by November 1917, they negotiated a truce with Germany, and the British troops were speedily withdrawn.
He was then sent to Vendome in France, arriving in April 1918, still assembling and repairing aircraft. By now he was under the command of the newly-formed Royal Air Force, inaugurated on the 1st of April that year. His descriptions of his day-to-day work — and leisure — make fascinating reading and his account of the Armistice celebrations is a joy to read. Ashton was not given to displaying his emotions, but you can occasionally feel his frustration and excitement.
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Dangerous Coastline 1939-1945
by Derek Hart - Edited by Jennie Burgess
The story is unusual because most of Birchington's children were evacuated during the War. None of the other 40-45 children who remained, nor any of the adults, have written of their experiences so far, and the local press gives very little information about this end of Thanet. Derek, aged 5 in 1939 and his brother of ten, were in the midst of a war-zone without realizing it. The story is both amazing and sometimes very funny. It is well illustrated with black and white photos and drawings and four useful maps of the area.
The book has a coloured wrap-around picture specially commissioned for the occasion from a talented local artist, Charlie Smart, which illustrates an incident in Derek's story.
A4 x 56 pages. £7 + P&P
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The Curate and the Queen
by Jennie Burgess
Sophia of Prussia, granddaughter of Queen Victoria and sister of Kaiser Willhelm, married Prince Constantine who was King of Greece for two short periodsin 1913-17 and 1920-22, during a very turbulent era in the history of the Balkans. After 1922 she was exiled and lived in Germany. She was unpopular here as the Kaiser's sister, but was eventually allowed to visit Britain .She had a daughter at school in Broadstairs, and often stayed at the Beresford Hotel while visiting her. While here she attended services at All Saints, and was impressed by and made a friendship with Royston Cole, the curate. They went on to exchange letters regularly until her death in 1932.
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Birchington Record of War Work 1914-1918
by Major G F Holland
The book of which this is a copy was compiled by Major George E Holland and presented to All Saints Church.
It records the names of Birchington people who were involved in the Great War, together with those who lost their lives.
A5 x 50 colour pages. £5 + P&P
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Margaret & John Crispe
by Jennie Burgess
Margaret & John Crispe lived at Quex from 1525. This book describes their lives, and events in and around Quex while they were there
A4 x 24 colour pages. £4.50 + P&P
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The Making of Minnis Bay
by Colin Bridge
This book is based on an exhibition which Colin produced for the 135th anniversary of the United Reform Church in Minnis Bay. It contains 9 chapters describing different aspects of the development of Minnis Bay.
A4 x 24 colour pages. £10 + P&P
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John Jarvis 1602 to 1692
by Jennie Burgess
John Jarvis was born in 1602, and it is believed that he moved to Birchington while quite young. He was here during the turmoil of the Civil War, and was later Overseer of the Poor, and a Churchwarden of All Saints. He died in 1692, and his gravestone is the oldest in the churchyard.
A4 x 24 colour pages. £2.50 + P&P
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The Crispe Charity School
by A T Walker & Jennie Burgess
The Crispe Charity was founded by Anna Gertruy Crispe of Quex Park, in her will of 1707. In it she left Crispe Farm to the Churchwardens & Overseers of the village, who were to become its Trustees.The trust, which is still active in Birchington, opened our first school in 1708. This book is about the trust, and the school in particular.
A4 x 8 colour pages. £3.50 + P&P
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All Saints Church
by Jennie Burgess
The history of All Saints, Birchington's ancient church, from Saxon beginnings in 961, to 13th and 14th century rebuildings and Victorian 'restoration'.
A5 booklet x 4 colour pages. £2 + P&P
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Geoffrey Dearmer
by Pat Orpwood
Geoffery Dearmer was a soldier in WW1, a poet,editor of BBC radio's Chilkdrens Hour 1939-59 and also involved with the theatre. He moved to a flat in Homebirch House in his nineties, and died there at age 103. The Poetry Society annually award the Geoffrey Dearmer Poetry Prize
A5 booklet x 4 B&W pages. £2 + P&P
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Christina Rossetti and her Birchington Links
By Jennie Burgess
Christina was a poet and sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.This is the story of her few weeks spent in Birchington with her ailing brother, and her poem 'Birchington Churchyard'.
A5 booklet x 8 pages. £2.75 + P&P
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The Shoreline
by Janet Denyer
Sea defences, the bays, Grenham Stacks, sealife, beached whales, birds & wrecks
A5 booklet x 8 B&W/col pages. £2.50 + P&P
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Birchington and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
By Janet Denyer
Artist and Poet, buried in All Saints Churchyard
A5 booklet x 8 colour pages. £2.75 + P&P
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Benchmarks of Birchington
by Luke Warburton
Bench marks (BMs) are survey marks made by the Ordnance Survey to record height above sea level. There are a number of these in Birchington, the booklet shows all their locations, and pictures of those that still exist.
A5 booklet x 12 colour pages.£2.50 + P&P
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The 1840 Tithe Survey of Birchington
The Trust holds a copy of the local Tithe Map, produced in 1840. This showed the ownership of all the land, and was used fo calculating the tihes; taxes paid by landowners to the church. The book describes the survey, how tithes were collected, and some of the Birchington landowners.
A5 booklet x 14 pages. £2 + P&P
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Solomon J Solomon RA
by Janet Denyer
He was an Artist, who had a house and cifftop studio in Spencer Road. A number of his pictures are in public collections, including the Tate and National Portrait Galleries. This book shows a number of his paintings.
A5 booklet x 12 colour pages. £2.50 + P&P
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Sir George Frampton RA
By Janet Denyer
Frampton was a renowned sculptor - his work includes the Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens. Early in his career he was commissioned to design the 'Sgraffito' sculpted panels on the Tower Bungalows annexes in Spencer Road. This book shows many examples of his work
A5 booklet x 8 colour pages. £2.50 + P&P
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David Burley
by Janet Denyer
Graphic artist for Southern Railways and local resident
A5 booklet x 8 colour pages. £2.50 + P&P
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Birchington's Fire Brigade
By Janet Denyer
Well-illustrated brief history, and some of the incidents and competition successes,of the volunteer fire brigade in Birchington from 1890s to 1926
A5 booklet x 8 B&W pages. £2.50 + P&P
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Birchington and the Railway
by Janet Denyer
Brief history and picures of the main line and Birchington Station from 1863, and of the short-lived Manston Branch Line.
A5 booklet x 8 B&W pages. £2.50 + P&P
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Smuggling
By Janet Denyer
Smuggling was a very profitable occupation in the 18th and eartly 19th centuries. This book describes some Birchington smuggling stories from 1777.
A5 booklet x 8 pages. £2.50 + P&P
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Farming
by Janet Denyer
Short sketches ot the various farms and related items in Birchington and the Villages from the 1800s
A4 x 14 B&W pages. £3 + P&P
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Spurgeon's Home
By Janet Denyer
The story of the extensive residential children's home funded by the Spurgeon's Trust between 1923 and 1953
A4 x 24 B&W pages. £3 + P&P
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Birchington & Acol - The Great War
by Jennie Burgess and Janet Denyer
Produced to mark the Centenary of the end of the warin 2018
A5 booklet x 20 colour and B&W pages. 3 + P&P
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Who Came to Birchington-on-Sea? Book I
By Janet Denyer
Notable people who lived in or had a connection with Birchington - authors, stage stars & royalty
A5 booklet x 8 pages. £2.50 + P&P
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Who Came to Birchington-on-Sea? Book II
by Janet Denyer
Notable people who lived in or had a connection with Birchington -lawyers, artists & entertainers
A5 booklet x 8 B&W pages, £2.50 + P&P
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The Story of the 1847 Sampler
By Jennie Burgess
The story and a description of the Sampler worked by Ann Hogbin, a 12 year old who lived at Acol. This is now held by the trust.
A5 booklet x 6 pages. £2.50 + P&P
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Buildings and Areas; Lost, Listed and Interest
by Janet Denyer
Pictures and short descriptions of buildings and Areas which are, or should be, protected within the village
A5 booklet x 8 colour and B&W pages. £2.50 + P&P
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Now,Then and Gone Forever II
by Stuart Horner
Now and Then pictures of Birchington
Note: This book is published by Birchington Roundabout, not by us
A5 (landscape) book x 162 B&W pages. £5 + P&P
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