This year is both the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and the Faversham Society’s 60th. The platinum jubilee will be celebrated in the heart of the town and on the Rec.

A printable PDF version of this newsletter can be downloaded from HERE Chairman's Column HAROLD GOODWIN I have been away working in South Africa for three weeks and missed the arrival of spring; everywhere is much greener than it was when I left on 24 March. Time away always reminds me that Faversham is a […]

A printable PDF version of this newsletter can be downloaded from HERE Letter from the Chair HAROLD GOODWIN For the first time in the Society’s history, there will not be a Faversham Society Newsletter this month. Our Honorary Editor is indisposed. Our VIC and shop has opened in its new location at 12 Market Place. […]

A printable PDF version of this newsletter can be downloaded from HERE Chairman's Column HAROLD GOODWIN The new Faversham Society visitor information centre and shop will be formally opened by the town’s mayor at 10am on Saturday, 26 February. Christine Smith and her team, with help from Abbey Removals, will be moving that week, hoping […]

A printable PDF version of this newsletter can be downloaded from HERE Chairman's Column HAROLD GOODWIN The wooden roller shutters have now been fitted to the new Visitor Information Centre at 12 Market Place and I hope you will agree that they are attractive. There is just a little painting and joinery needed to complete […]

A printable PDF version of this newsletter can be downloaded from HERE Arthur’s Archive goes online CHRIS WOOTTON Since Arthur Percival died in 2014, a small group of volunteers has been working on his archive at the Fleur de Lis museum. Arthur, a founder and director of the Faversham Society, had an extensive archive, comprising […]

A printable PDF version of this newsletter can be downloaded from HERE Dinosaurs gather around the Christmas tree on the pillar box outside Faversham post office – the latest creation by the town’s guerrilla knitters. Last month, they paid tribute to the fallen on Remembrance Day Christmas at the museum The Fleur Museum is reopening […]

A printable PDF version of this newsletter can be downloaded from HERE Chairman's Column HAROLD GOODWIN We now have an events page, favershamsociety.org/society-events/ which lists upcoming talks and enables you to register to receive a link for our virtual talks on Zoom. Subjects are Swale’s garden from the Kent Gardens Trust and a tree walk […]

A printable PDF version of this newsletter can be downloaded from HERE Chairman's Column HAROLD GOODWIN The Faversham Society has written to all four developers looking to build houses in southeast Faversham. So far, only the Duchy of Cornwall has responded and taken up our invitation to make a presentation at St Mary of Charity […]

A printable PDF version of this newsletter can be downloaded from HERE Chairman's Column HAROLD GOODWIN The prosecution of Southern Water has been covered widely in the national and local media. Southern Water, which runs Faversham Sewage Works, was recently ordered to pay £90 million in fines for widespread pollution after pleading guilty to 6,971 […]