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.
by Jennie Burgess
Volume 2 contains sections on
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
17 x 24 cm, 114 pages
'Now' and 'Then' pictures of Birchington.
This book is published by Birchington Roundabout, not by the Trust
by Derek Hart, edited by Jennie Burgess
War-time Childhood in Birchington
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.
A4, 56 pages
by Colin Bridge
The development of Minnis Bay as a place to live and to visit, with illustrations
A4 ringback,
by Ashton Pemble, edited by Jennie Burgess.
The diary of a Birchington Man during the First World War, including time in France, and in Russia during the revolution.
A4, 65 pages
by Alf Bedwell
Memories of Birchington and Beyond. Alf worked on local farms, and also served during WW2, and has some fascinating stories to tell.
A5 x 78 B&W pages.
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.
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.
A4
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.
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.
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
by Janet Denyer
Artist and Poet, buried in All Saints Churchyard
A5 booklet x 8 colour pages
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.
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.
