Queenborough (see also under say Potteries,Glass works etc

Queenborough (see also under say Potteries,Glass works etc

Old Queenborough by a 100 year old Mrs Edwards 1909 Oct 9^th

Notes on Queenborough Town Hall 1896 Aug 1^st

Queenborough’s own Guardian newspaper nos.353 and 359 1909June 12^th/July 24^th

Queenborough “ fairies “1804 toll gate ,press gang 1909 Sept 18^th

Cement Works Court Case 1909 Dec 11^th

A staple for wool 1371 1910 May 28^th

Copperas Factory

History of by a 100 year old person 1911 Jan 25^th

Births, Deaths, number of houses 1911 May 20^th

Cement Works to close 1912 Jan27th/March 16^th

List of officials and Tradesmen 1912 July 27^th

M.P.s for 1819 1913 May 24^th

Baron Queenborough just elected , full details 1918 Jan 12^th

Should Queenborough have gas laid on 1862 Nov 8^th

Court hall, market place, and goal painted ,clock slow 1863 Nov 14^th

Queenborough Benefit Society of 1750 1864 July 16^th

Gas supplied 1864 Nov 5^th

Town Hall –cage to hold Elephant sent by the Queen 1875 June 19th/1890 Feb 8^th

Commemorating Charter Day 1889 Oct 5^th

Charter Day never die out 1892 Oct 1^st

Notes on the Town Hall 1896 Aug 1^st

List of pupils 1900 Jan 27^th

Isolation hospital 1900 Aug 4^th

New copper wire factory 1904 Oct 15^th

Queenborough Guardian and Eastchurch Advertiser No.275 1907 Feb 23^rd

Queenborough stocks and ducking pond 1907 July 13^th

Queenborough Wharf Company prospectus 1907 July 20^th

Copper Works 1907 Sept 7^th, Oct 5^TH,

Copper Works for sale7 ½ acres 1907 June 27^th, July 18^th

Queenborough incident 1832 Charter mentioned 1908 July 4^th

Free dredgers

Principal people in Queenborough in1861 V.G. 1909 April 17^th

Queenborough elections 1790 lasting 9 days 1876 Dec 16th

Queenborough Castle

Re oldest drawing of 1484 1875 Jan 30^th

Castle and 24 houses built together 1875 June 12^th

Description from old painting 4 ½ ft. by 2 ½ ft (Brit. Museum) 1876 Nov 30^th

Copy of agreement to sell castle 1876 Dec 9^th

Chimney pot of the Castle found in the creek 1877 June 23^rd

Building of Church Castle V.G. 1907 April 27^th /May 11^th

Castle from 1828 book built on site of Saxon Castle 1909 June 26^th

Stone used cell? 1912 Jan 20^th

Size of Castle –new data 1912 Mar 9^th

Castle 1912 May 19^th/26?

Races

Leysdown and back, 22 miles, 2hrs-35 mins 1909 June 12^th

Walking race ,S/ness, Halfway Q/boro,,B/town &back 51mins 1912Mar 19^th

Regatta

Good description of, also side shows , 1880 Aug 14^th

Short description of since 1860 1912 Aug 31^st

Reservoirs

Halfway Hill 1882 Oct 21^st

Royal Hotel

Horse races in the grounds 1866 April 4^th

Plans for a new Royal Hotel 1903 Jan 10^th

Now called the Royal Hotel , was called “ Kent Hotel “ 1910 Sept 30^th

Royal Visit

Prince of Wales visit 1865 May 27^th

Rugby

Rugby Football in Sheppey, description of the rules 1893Mar 4^th

Salvation Army

Is illegal but a petition 1880 Nov 27^th Dec 4^th

3 paragraphs on the Blue Ribbon Army 1882 July 29^th

General Booths visit plus lot of Captains in 1880 1912 Aug 31^st

General booths visit June 26^th 1917 June 2^nd

Scouts

To/from Trinity Church 1809 July 31^st

Schools

New R.C school( + 1869 Jan 9^th) 1868 July 11^th

Schools wanted for Sheerness 1868 Dec 19^th

New school for Minster 1869 Jan 8^th

1870 Oct “British School”Nov closed down 1870 Nov 26^th

School Board for Queenborough required 1871 Oct 28^th

Sheerness to be ordered to have a School Board 1874 Dec 5^th

Names of above -23 1875 Jan 2^nd

School to be built at Bluetown 1875 Mar 13^th

Cost of new schools 1875 April 24^th

Parents are now summoned for pupils non-attendance 1875 June 26^th

Minster school foundation stone laid 1876 Aug 26^th

School Board election plus names 1877 Dec22nd, 1878 Jan 12^th

1881 Jan 1^st

Why not open school facilities to the public 1881 June 4^th

Private School Sheerness, boys under 9-one Gin/quarter 1882 Mar 25^th

31 Private Schools 712 children, 2344 others 1882 Sept 16^th

Report on Sheppey School standard 1890 Aug 16^th

Cookery to be taught in Sheppey Schools 1892 April 2nd

Salaries 1892 Oct 15^th

The cost of the School Board to be on the Rates 1893 Sept 30^th

3100 children at school 1896 Mar 7^th

Salaries 1896 Oct 24^th

The Broadway School will be ready Nov 5^th 1900 Sept 22^nd

1902 Education Act 1903 Mar 7^th

3736 Children at school 1903 Aug 1^st

4891 Children at school 1904 May 28^th

Shooting guns is not to be taught in K.E.C.elementary schools 1907 July 20^th

Suggested school for Halfway 1907 Oct 5^th

Halfway school to be built 1907 June 20^th

Technical School to be built 1893 Sept 23rd

First speech day 1911 Feb 4th

Technical School opened ( and the class list) 1910 Oct 15^th

Sheerness East Infant School opened 1911 Jan 14^th

Proposed school at Westminster 1911 May 27^th

National School boys department to close 1911 July 8^th

Tech Institute results 1911 Sept 8^th

Prize day at Tech school 1914 Jan 24^th

Sheerness East new school opened 1917 April 17^th

1903 June 29^th was the last meeting of the School Board 1917 June 2nd

Rose Street school to be built 1914 June 6^th/1915 July 31^st

Ragged Schools

Back street of Bluetown-charity - 1866 Jan 27^th/Feb 3^rd

Anniversary of 1869 Jan 16^th

1870 Feb 12^th , 1871 Jan 21^st , 1869 Nov 6^th

Now ceased to exist ,re the new School Board 1875 April 3rd

Seashore

Long list of,and , saltings now lost 1881 Jan 29^th

Sheerness Times Newspaper,Yearly Summaries

Paper averages 1140 copies 1877 Jan 6^th

Summary of events for 1878 1879 Jan 4^th

Summary 1882 Jan 17^th

Summary 1891 1892 Jan 2^nd

Coloured photo (1^st ever ) of Union Jack, Relief of Ladysmith 1900 Mar 3^rd

Summary 1909 1910 Jan 1^st

Summary 1910 1910 Dec 3^rd

Summary 1911 1911 Dec 30^th

Summary 1913 1913 Dec 27^th

Summary 1914 1915 Jan 2^nd

Sheppey Legends

The cow that went to church 1882 Nov 18^th

The four travellers 1882 Oct 7^th

Infested with mice 1871 Mar 18^th

Legends of Elmley and Kings Hill 1904 May 21^st

The ghost of Bluetown 1906 Oct 20^th

Witches Elm at the corner of the Storehouse in the Dockyard 1900 Feb 13^th

Old Queenborough Tales by Copland/Vicar V.G. 1909 Oct 9^th

Ancient Queenborough play,3 paragraphs 1910 July2^nd/9^th Oct 2^nd Aug 6^th

Sheppey Tales one paragraph 1912 Aug 31st

Sheerness smugglers of long ago, Sam Wilmott 1914 Aug 29^th

Banks,Paramour, Smuggling, loopholes at Nutts for guns, James 2^nd at Kings Hill

Douglas Jerrod born Sheerness-1^st editor of Punch, Eastchurch No1 lost <1790, no2 1876

EXCELLENT four paragraphs 1911 Dec 22^nd

Sheppey Light Railway

To be started 1900 Jan 13^th

Description of route 1900 May 19^th

Rules and regulations 1903 Dec 12^th

To go via Scrapsgate and Wards Hill 1905 June 13^th

Minster extension 1908 Aug 1^st

Minster extension refused, estimated 300,000people per year 1908 Aug 1^st

Sheerness East only one set of gates instead of each side 1908 Oct 3^rd

Sheppey Railway Station

New –in the centre of town( 1871 Aug 15^th) 1866 Jan 27^th

Fares to and from Sheerness 1869 June 19^th

New station 1874 Sept 19^th

New Railway Sation Company formed 1876 Nov 18^th

New Hoo line 1880 Oct 9^th

New station for the New Year ( Bridge Road) 1880 Nov 27^th

Now before Parliament 1880 Dec 18^th

June 26^th 1883 Mile Town opened 1917 June 2^nd

Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway line opened 1860 July 18^th 1917 July 24^th

Shoeburyness

Gun experiments at 1862 April 12th

Shops

Shops named 1865 Dec 25^th

Shops and Churches named 1869 Jan 9^th

Shops to close early at 8pm but not Fridays or Saturdays 1870 Aug 6^th

Half day movement 1871 June 24^th

A shop to close early ( at 7 pm ) 1871 Dec 2^nd

Shops to close early 1875 Dec 25^th

Trade register and places of worship 1877 July 14^th

List of shopkeepers 1892 June 11^th

Shops at Christmas 1909 Dec 18^th

Queenborough at Christmas in 1866 1912 July 27th

Shingle

Chancery Court case 1882 April 1^st

Ship –on-shore

Called the “ Shanty “ by the locals 1868 Sept 26^th

In 1850 the original one was in a different position 1909 Feb 13^th

The true history of the Grotto and the cement barrels 1916 Feb 5th

SHIPS , BOATS AND BARGES.

Princess Alice lost, 350 died, long list of survivors 1878 Sept. 7^th

Ditto 1916 May 27^th

Princess Irene Blown up 1915 May 27^th

H.M.S.Bulwark Blown up November 26^th 1914 Nov 28^th

Ditto 1917 Nov 3^rd

Cutter race Shipwrights vers. Engineers 1911 Sept 16th

Barges

Rockford,Expedition,Trial(lost at sea) 1869 Dec 18^th

William Baker,Sir Edward Banks(lost at sea) 1870 Mar 19^th/26^th

Barge built for Chas.Payne of Warden Court 1870 July 30^th

4^th annual barge race 1876July 8^th/15^th

5^th annual barge race 1877 June 2^nd

Factor of Singler Shrubsole sunk 1879 May 31^st

3 top sail barges for sale 1879 June 7^th

Sailing race 1879 July 19^th

Race between two champions £200 a side 1879 Sept 13^th

Edward sunk 1879 Nov 1^st

19^th annual barge race 1881 June 25^th

Queen Emma lost at sea 1881 Oct 29^th

“Welcome” founders off Sheerness 1892 Mar 26^th

“Othello” founders off Sheerness 1892 June 4^th

“Minnie” founders off Sheerness 1892 May 25^th

17^th annual barge race 1893 July 11^th

Sailing race 1900 July 28^th

Barge hit by 6” shot-foundered 1900 Oct 27^th

Barge Medway match 1906 June 23^rd

Ditto 1911 June 10^th/24^th

Sheppey Barge Company 1917 Aug 25^th

Thistle explosion fund 1869 Dec 4^th,11th,18^th, 1874 Nov 28^th Dec 26^th Oct 3^RD

Paddle Steamer battle versus screw ship 1912 Sept 14^th

H.M.S.Temeraire John Alexander Blow and his son are both in the Workhouse

His father was the Captain 1877 July 28^th

Titanic Disaster 1912 April 20^th

Thistle gunboat boiler manhole covers blown off 1862 Nov 8^th

Sunk on November 3^rd Thistle 1869 Nov 6^th/ 1917 Nov 3^rd

Sailing barge match Tuesday June 13^th 1871 June 10^th

Erith to Nore and back barge race , Saucy Kent won 1878 June 29^th

Annual barge race ,Erith to Nore and back 13 barges named 1874 July 4^th

Owner not satisfied with the result challenged all other owners £200 1874 Aug 15^th

Report of race long list of barges given 1871 June 17^th

New submarine to be built in England 1882 Sept 2^nd

The history of H.M.S. Cornwallis 1919 Feb 8th

Wooden Ships

Cornwallis to be sunk in the Dockyard 1865 July 15^th

Royal escape (Prince Charles escape boat from Eng. ) broken up 1877 Jan 20^th

Cost of “ Forte “ 74 guns at Sheerness 1906 June 23^rd

Sinking of the “Fortes” off Port Victoria and burning 1906 Sept 29^th

Obsolete ships sold ( steel ??) 7 are named 1907 May 18^th

Ditto 5 are named 1908 May 16^th

Death of ship breaker and list of old ships 1910 Sept 3^rd

History of and namesakes V.G. 1913 Oct 4^th

Hermes “3^rd rate hulk late the Minatour broken up 1869 Jan 16th

Devonshire 3^rd rate 56 guns ,built 1823 ,used as a prison ship 1869 Jan23rd

Nymph next to be broken up ,Ajax 80 late Vanguard ,Dianna 42, Latona 42

Eurydice 26, Leonides 42 + others 1869 Feb 20^th

Breaking up of the Aigle after used for torpedo practice 1870 Dec 24^th

Tenders are required to break up Paddle Ship Dee 704 tons 1871 Oct 5^th

Dee to be broken up by H.M.Dockyard 1871 Oct 28th

Shrubsole

Built houses in Bluetown 1909 April 17^th

1908 Nov

Charles B 1917 Aug 25^th

Shurland Hall

Struck by lightning 1868 July 18^th

Names of the servants and a Christmas of long ago 1876 Dec 23^rd

Fire in the barn 1906 July 28^th/Aug 4^th

History of very long V.V.G 1906 Aug 11^th

History V.V.G. 2 Paragraphs 1911 Nov 25^th/Dec 2^nd

October 7th 1532 King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn paid a visit

S.J.A.B.

Is to start here 1882 May 6^th

History of from 1882 V.G. 1917 Dec 20^th

Smallpox

at Sittingbourne 1893 May 6^th

Smoking

Yard of clay test smoking 1 ½ hours-2 mins 1909 Feb 20^th

Smugglers

Used Nutts Farm 1904 April 9^th

St.Davids Day

1903 Mar 7^th

Welsh dinner 1904 Mar 26^th

St. Patricks Day

Celebrations 1893 Mar 21^st/1903 Mar 21^st

Streets

Sun Street renamed Russell Street (he died 1859 ) 1904 April 30^th

First time name plates used ? 1862 Feb 22^nd

Names of streets and “ towns “ 1863 Jan 24th/1866 May 5^th

Berridge Road was Green Street 1874 Dec 5^th

Bull Lane/School Lane ,Short Street/West Street ,Ram Alley/High Street Passage

North Street Union Street,South Street /South Street,

Charles Street/Richmond Street, 1876 May 20^th

Marine Parade to be called such 1880 April 17^th

Bluetown High Street to be re numbered (and how ) 1880 Oct 9^th

Shrimp Terrace ? to be built 1890 Aug 23^rd

Roads in Sheerness cost £200 per mile 1893 Jan 21^st

Albert Street now Invicta Road (2) 1908 July 18^th

Edward Street to go 1910 Oct 18^th

St.Georges , Broadway 1913 April 26^th

Alma Road to be called Fair View Road, (Crimean Street) 1917 Sept 22^nd

Prince Albert Street now Invicta Road 1917 Nov 3^rd

SeagerRoad called after Mr.Seager the builder fro Borden 1916 Aug 5^th

Invicta Road has one Dozen houses.other roads were smaller 1869

Strike

Great National Strike – shoot to kill 1911 Aug 19^th

Suffragettes

Should women have the Vote? 1868 Sept 26^th

At Warden 1916 Aug 1^st

Swimming

Boy aged 16 swims from Sheerness to Grain in 34 mins 1^st time done 1875 Sept 11^th

Swimming club results 1880 Sept 20^th

Sheerness to have mixed bathing 1904 July 30^TH

Swimming pool for Sheppey 1871 Sept 9^th

The cost is £1,000 if open and £2,500 if covered over 1871 Oct 14^th

Swimming Club to be formed 1874 May 30^th

Tams Cottage

To be sold 1907 Sept 21^st

Theatre

Was opposite the Guardian Office in Bluetown prior to Yard ext. 1915 Dec 18^th

Also the corner of Victory Street where the Jewellers shop is

Toll Gate

Entry to Sheerness by toll-gate at “Old House at Home “ 1908 Aug 22^nd

Town Clock

Summary of its history 1870 May 14^th

Site of 1870 June 4^th

New town clock 1870 Oct 22^ND/29^th , 1871 July 8^th

To be moved 1888 May 12^th

Plaque for the clock 1903 Jan 10^th

The bell is sold 1903 Sept 19^th

Town Hall

£6,000 to £20,000 1911 April 22^nd/May 13^th

Trams

Tramlines to be taken up ? a nuisance to the horses 1864 Aug 23^rd

Trams for Sheppey 1900 June 23^rd/30^th

Report on last years Trams 1911 Jan 25^th

Tramway to close down 1917 June 23^rd/July 7^th

Treasure Trove

£900 in sovereigns found at Littlebrooks ,Leysdown 1863 May 16^th

Victoria Club

Now opened , holds 1,500 , costs £4,000 1868 Nov 14^th

Opening of the club 1871 Jan 20^th

37^th Anniversary 1909 Jan 16^th

New hall 1910 Feb 5^th

Wards Town

Also called Unity Street built by Jimmy Ward of 50 houses sometimes called

“ The Fifties “,Tenants became owners after paying rent for 13 years 1919 Jan 4th

Watermain/supply

1059 or half of the houses in the town has water mains 1864 Aug 27^th

The hours the water is on 1864 Sept 3^rd

Drainage is fitted to 722 houses 1864 Oct 8^th

Firms to have water meters 1865 Jan 21^st/April 15^th

Buckets were used until 6 years ago- report 1871 Mar 25^th

Taps suggested for indoors 1871 April 1^st

Queenborough to be supplied with water cost= £1,000 1892 Mar 5^th/Sept 10^th

Water for Minster 1900(8?) Dec 1^st

The history of the towns water supply 1912 June 8^th

Sheerness water supply 8 paragraphs 1913 Mar 8^th

Southdown reservoirs made 1913 Oct 4^th

Watermen

List of fares to/from ships 1869 Jan 9^th

Old inquests and watermen Sheppey 1850 1916 April 6^th

Weather

Whirlwind at Parsonage Farm 1871 July8th

Northern lights give glorious sunsets 1872 Feb 10^th

Sheppey flooded 1875 Nov 20^th

An old fashioned Winter 1875 Dec 11^th

Severe gales 1881 Feb 12^th/Jan 29^th

Waterspout off Sheerness 1888 Aug 4^th

Data on Sheppey 1893 Dec 23^rd

Waterspout off Sheerness just missed the Dockyard 1904 July 30^th

Waterspout off Southend 1906 Oct 13^th

1703 Great Gale a short account 1910 Feb 20^th

Great storm similar to 1881 1915 Jan 2^nd

1776 Ferry frozen over Jan 19^th 1915 Jan `12^th

Very bad Winter of 1770, 1789 ,1684 etc etc V.G. 1917 J an 20^th

1883 Sheerness flooded Jan 18^th 1916 Jan 1^st/1918 Jan 5^th

1776 Ferry frozen Jan 29^th 1916 Jan 1^st/1918 Jan 5^th

Wells

Westminster well 302 ft.water rose to 18ft.from top 1863 Oct 3^rd

Council report ;-should get on with sinking the well 1862 Mar 29^th

Lords of the Admiralty inspect well being sunk by T.Tilley 1862 Aug 9^th

Chalks well where Sheppey Court is 1862 Aug 23^rd

Edward Street was where the well at Mr.Chalks was 1862 Sept 6^th

Size of the pumps 1862 Nov 29^th

Pumps started on the new wells200 ft below ground 1864 May 7^th

Tenders for pumps etc 1863 Mar 28^th

New well Board of Health 340ft.295 galls/hour 1863 Dec 26^th/1864 Jan 9^th

Dockyard Well to sink down 1864 Dec 24^th

Old well in Queenborough Church Yard 1912 Nov 2^nd

Well at Danley site to be bored 1912 Nov 30^th

Wells at Scocles Farm ad Holm Place 1913 Mar 28^TH

Details of new well, test runs etc 1864 May 7^th

New well 100yards rear of present well at the “Crown “ 1875 June 12^th

New well 502 feet 1877 June 2^nd

New well 650 ft to go to 800 ft. 1877 Aug 25^th

New well 800 ft. ( Feb 9^th –working ) 1877 Jan 12^th

Well in Ordnance Marsh ,Bluetown,Dockyard 1879 Jan 18^th

Re well sunk in 1805 1881 Feb 19^th

25 years ago no water supply, Dockyard well +2 others only 1882 Dec 25^th

Queenborough Swale Road to be rebored to 280 ft. 1888 July 7^th

Workhouse well machine broken, so the Abbey well is used 1890 Mar 8^th

Edward Street well is unsafe –to be bricked over 1890 June 21^st

6 ft.diam well 160-273 deep ,25 ft diam 1890 July 5^th

Edward Street well sand and salt water no good 1890 Aug 30^th

New well to be sunk next to well at Edward Street 1880 Sept 20^th

Workhouse well collapses 1893May 6^th/July 8^th

Wells to be connected by a tunnel 1900 June 10^th

New borehole for Sheppey 1910 July 2^nd

Court Hall well at Queenborough 1912 June 6^th

Queenborough old well closure 1912 Jan 27^th

Suggested workhouse well (or steam) 1904 Nov 12th

Re wells and wells on Sheppey 1866 Feb 3^rd

1782 Sir H.T.Page &Corps of Eng sunk well 328 ft water rose to 60ft 1869 Mar 13^th

re Queenborough Castle well,supplied 1,000 people, 200ft deep1870 Aug 13th

West minster

Road to West Minster to be built 1875 May 1^st

Windmills

Report on fire “ Little Mill “ Mile Town 1862 Feb 22^nd

Damage done 1862 March 8^th

For sale 1869 Oct 16^th

Advert for mill at Minster 1880 Feb 28^th

Sea View Mill pulled down a few years ago 1893 July 22^nd

Hundred Acre Mill at Sea View 1917 Aug 25th

Workhouse

Act of 1865 1866 Mar 31^st

3.8% of population are on the books 1870 May 28^th

Mistress drunk- Inspector to call 1871 April 15^th

Work experience is suggested for the children 1872 Jan 6^th

Long list of Applicants for the post of Master and Matron 1874 Sept 12^th

New school 1875 July 17^th

Tenders required for the above 1876 Aug 26^th/1877 May 26^th

Prices for the food contracts 1879 Mar 8^th

Christmas Day in the Workhouse 1879 Dec 27^th

Maintenance for men is 8s-4d per week 1882 Aug 5^th

Workhouse diet , very detailed 1889 Feb 23^rd

Females complain of the coal- skuttle hats 1893 May 13^th

Maximum number is 200 for any winter 1903 Aug 1^st

Workhouse to be called “ Cliff House “ other names mentioned 1904 Nov 5^th

Queenborough workhouse 1731- 1784 1907 June 29^th

171 inmates ( i.e. 79 years ago ) 1911 Feb 18^th

Underworld of Sheerness 17 under nourished children 1912 Jan 27^th

25 years work among the poor 1913 June 21^st

Cost of and the number of inmates 1868 April 18^th

Work experience scheme suggested, subject adjurned 1868 Sept 26^th

Doctor is accused of “ not caring “ 1868 Nov 7^th

New hospital to be built 1870 Dec 24th

Worth – the Gunner

Restoration of his tomb 1913 June 21^st

Y.M.C.A.

Site of etc etc 1893 Jan 14th