North West Kent FHS Latest Newsletter

Want to know what is happening in the Kent and South East London area, its on the latest Newsletter.

See http://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/nwk-newsletter-jun-2016.pdf  link.

 

Enjoy the events and happenings.

Where is North West Kent FHS area?

The Federation of Family History Societies seminar 'Executive Committee Roles and Succession' Planning' in Liverpool on the 31st October I was asked which part of Kent our Society covered.

Our web site www.nwkfhs.org.uk has a map but Kent can be confusing as there are five Societies covering the ancient County.

North West Kent is the area of Kent that did extend westward to the Surrey boundary at Deptford. Its East boundary is approx. a line running  south from Gravesend to the Sussex boundary at Frant.

In modern terms it covers the South East London area which includes the London Boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley. It also includes the Kent area that surrounds the M25 motorway. You can see all the Parishes in these areas on the web site with their research source details.

The other family history societies that  are in Kent are:-
Kent FHS that covers the area of Kent East of our boundary.
Folkestone and District FHS that covers the area around Folkestone on the SE coastline of the County.
Tunbridge Wells FHS that also covers part of our Kent area and extends across the Sussex border.
Woolwich and District FHs that also covers our Kent area on the Thames river front and specialises in Woolwich and the Woolwich Arsenal area.
All these Societies have web sites with maps showing the areas they cover.

The best map reference to the parishes is 'Phillimore's Atlas' published by Phillimore & Co, Chichester, Sussex.

Kent History Centre Archives User Group: New User Group is formed for Archives Centre in Maidstone. Art and Exhibitions: Music Hall in London. 11 January - 27 February 2014.

Kent History Centre Archives User Group: New User Group is formed for Archives Centre in Maidstone.

Amid concern that figures show a drop of more than 16% in the number of customers rating the service of the new archives as 'good' or 'very good' compared to the service in the previous archives at the Centre for Kentish Studies (CKS) the new Kent History Centre Archives User Group hope to be able hope to be able to work with management at KHLC to improve access to and understanding of the archives for all users.

Among issues that have been highlighted are "The focus of the new building is that of a library rather than of an active archive; the facilities are poor and there are staff with little or no knowledge of the documents.  The centre currently fails to provide an appropriate environment for the public to access the records and worse, a number of important documents cannot now be located since the move from the archive at CKS".

The new building was to provide easy access to the information held in the archives and the concern being expressed is that this is not happening.

The first meeting with KCC representatives will take place on Thursday 16th January at 2pm at KHLC. For more details see the KHCA User Group

Art and Exhibitions: Music Hall in London.

Music Halls played an important part in many of our ancestors lives. A free exhibition, at Barbican Music Library, explores the history of the halls and their performers through photographs, prints and documents.

The exhibition runs from 11 January - 27 February 2014 at the Barbican Music Library. Free during opening normal hours. More details can be found at Barbican Music Hall in London