Bygone Kent, edited by P Driscoll

Bygone Kent, A monthly journal on all aspects of local history
editors Pat Driscoll, Hamish Mackay Miller

Staped paperback magazine issued monthly. B&W illustrations.
247 mm x 210 mm (5.75 in x 8.25 in)
Published by Meresborough Books, Kent

Vol 2, No. 10, October 1981 (Nautical issue)
Faded spine but in very good condition. 64 pages numbered 577–641.
Barging memories, Transport by Hoy, Woolwich Dockyard, Riots in Ramsgate, the Blow-boat, Medway River police, Richborough train ferries, Smack boys, Two lifeboat tragedies.

Vol 3, No. 10, October 1982 (Nautical issue)
Faded spine but very good condition. 64 pages numbered 577–641.
Dover pilots, Paddlesteamers on the Medway, Restoration work in Ramsgate, Deal’s maritime churches, a North Kent canal, some Kent shipwrecks, Thanet Hoys, an Eccentric clergyman.

Vol 6, No. 11, November 1985
Lightly rubbed along spine but good condition. 64 pages numbered 633–697.
Milling in Ashford, Sittingbourne’s forts, Treasures in Margate’s Sand, the Hearth tax, Herne Bay memories, Prizes for Kent conservation projects, a Sevenoaks mansion, a lost Chantry, Huguenots, Oldbury Hill, Short Brothers in the 1930s

Vol 7, No 6, June 1986
Spine faded. Top of front cover inscribed ‘Sidders’. 64 pages numbered 313–377.
Dover police, an Ashford solicitor, the Austen family, Sixteenth century Cranbrook, Canterbury’s mounds, Memories of Little Chart, Edwardian Brasted, a wreck on the Margate Sands, Sharps of Maidstone, Baptists in Faversham.

Vol 8, No 2, February 1987
Sellotape along the length of the spine. Good condition.  64 pages, numbered 57–120.
Erith’s tramways, Allington, a coaster in trouble off Margate, Whitstable’s oyster dredgers, Bromley’s first railways, Ickham, Orpington poultry, Landslide election of 1906, Ebbsfleet, how the gates of Boulogne ended up in a Kentish village.

Vol 8, No 7, July 1987
Good condition.  64 pages, numbered 377–440.
Kent’s first motor show, Steam trawlers at Ramsgate, Whitstable divers, Light railways in Dartford, Early aircraft pioneers, Parliamentary corruption in Canterbury, a Margate brewery, Brasted and the Snodland fire.

Vol 8, No 8, August 1987
Top of spine faded, but in very good condition.  64 pages, numbered 441–504
Medway parish workhouses, Pioneer aircraft builders, A Lamberhurst suire, Refuge beacons on the Goodwin Sands, Francis Crawshay, a Pageant at Deal, James II’s visit to Faversham, East Langdon, Two Rochester houses, Early Norman churches, the Sheppey ferryman, Gillingham’s first general election

Vol 8, No 11, November 1987
Remains of label on front page and bottom of back cover inscribed ‘Longridge’.  Good condition. 64 pages, numbered 633-696.
Detling School, A lost canal, The grey squirrel in Kent, Round barrows, West Kent motor services, Sturry, When gas came to Sheppey, a wreck on Long Sand, New Cross Gate, Dan Sherrin – a Whitstable personality

Vol 9, No 12, December 1988
Sellotape along the length.of the spine but otherwise in very good condition.  64 pages, numbered 697–760.
High Halstow, Sheppey’s water supply, a Medway River Inspector, the Labour church in Kent, an ARP wardens war diary, Grottoes on Margate Sands, Smugglers and Dickens, Coronation celebrations in Faversham, Filming in Chilham

Vol 10, No 9, September 1989
Top of spine faded, but in very good condition.  64 pages, numbered 569-632.
Birchington memories, Flying at Lympne, Murder in Chatham, Elmley in Sheppey, a wreck off Dungeness, a spy in Broadstairs, Tourists, Herrlingen School, the sea fencibles, Northdown in Thanet.

Vol 10, No 11, November 1989
Sellotape along length of a faded spine, but in good condition.  64 pages, numbered 569–632.
Kent College, a Deptford Garden, a Chatham church, Folkestone’s Air Cadets, lost port of West Hythe, a Ramsgate mansion, Pre-War Tenterden, William Wood a smuggler from Herne Bay, Faversham’s 1910 election, Buckland in Dover.

Vol 12, No 12, December 1991
Top of spine faded small marks on cover but in good condition.  64 pages, numbered 697–760.
Starving to death in Canterbury, Old Deptford, and 18th century seafarer, W H Smith as Lord Warden, Queenborough, an Aylesford hermit, an Oxford gentleman,Kentish Christmas carols.

Vol 13, No 4, April 1992
Top of spine faded, but in very good condition.  64 pages, numbered 185–248.
Lady Hester Stanhope, Arden of Faversham, Blockading the Channel in 1741, a Dartford Poor Law Guardian, A Cranbrook headmaster, the Whitstable Copperas industry, Rochester’s May Day tradition, a Greenwich Hotel

Vol 21, No 2, February 2000
As new condition.  64 pages, numbered 58–120.
Laying a gas main to Downham, A Hythe schoolmaster, Floods on Sheppey, Canterbury in the 1950s, Sir Adrian Boult, Dockyard proposals, Secret tunnels, Divers’ Arms in Herne Bay.

Vol 21, No 3, March 2000
As new condition.  64 pages, numbered 122–184.
a Medway childhood, Sheppey Hospital, Herne Bay Divers, Carmo’s Circus, Lovell’s Wharf, Faversham bazaars, Gravesend in 1863, Cobham’s mausoleum and Palmer family of Hythe.