Marden History Archives

They're enough to make your mouth water!

Press cutting dated October 1964. Agriculture/farming. Commerce. Organisations. People. Photograph of young girl eating apple "And all that consumer appeal was just too much for this small visitor". Text includes Marden and District Commercial Fruit Show, Garagnani, Capt James Day, Raymond Wickham, R N Munn and Sons, Lord Cornwallis, C A Winch, Robert N Anderson, J W S Mount, S T Tipples and Sons Ltd, F D Savage Ltd, W R Larkin Ltd, D H J Britcher, S W H Noakes, J Foster Clark, Norman Hunt and Sons Ltd, W R Larkin Ltd, C S Crundwell. Laminated.

Judd family - Southons - 1884

B/W photo, family group of nine. Laminated. People. Judd. Victorian. 1884.

Twenty-four 60mm square B/W photos laminated onto 2 x A4. Caption "Farming at H E Hall. Roughlands Lane". Agriculture/farming. Buildings. Hopping. People. Photos show hop garden, oast, ladders, stilts, three people - George Lawrence William Gaskin, his son on stilts is John Walter Gaskin & Mr Tweedy from Sandhurst - equipment. 1955.

Ma Standen outside her shop

B/W photo, laminated. Buildings. Commerce. People. Roads. Ma Standen. Maidstone Road. High Street. Signs: Confectioner and tobacconist, Nut Brown tobacco, Cigarettes, Lyons Cakes, Park Drive, Lyons Tea. Street lamp, gas. Period seems to be 1930s-1940s but uncertain.

The staff of Harry Potter's Nursery

B/W photo, laminated: group of six on lorry in field (Registration number ?CD 2??). Agriculture/farming. People. Transport. Harry Potter?

Press cutting. Dated November 1922. Headlines: Weald Farmers' Day - Ploughing Match and Produce Show - Mr Foster Clark and the Hop Position. Text includes Marden, Collier Street and Staplehurst Agricultural Association; Brook Farm; C M Fox Ltd.
Agriculture/farming. Commerce. Hopping. Organisations.

Press small-ad offering reward for return of strayed beasts: John Fansett of Marden. Overwritten in contemporary manuscript "Fansett - 5 - Paid - 13". Period unknown but straight-Ss used in type. Agriculture/farming. Communication. People.

Marden Kent - to be sold by auction

Press small-ad. Auction at Unicorn on 27 September 1839. Dwelling house etc near church, late residence of Louis Bourillion, now of James Gladish; also share of two dwellings near church, occupied by Peter Austen, John Wallis Maynard and Boys Simons. To be auctioned by Wm Winch, particulars from John Osborne and Stephen Hayes. Buildings. Commerce. Communication. People. Pubs.

B/W group photo, outside Howlands? Buildings. Leisure. People. Sport. Cricket. Caption: Mr J Seymour's XI v. Marden and District XI on May 2nd 1925. L Ames, C Wright, G Fenner, W Ashdown, J Hubble, G Basley, G C Collins, J Seymour (Capt), F E Woolley, W S Cornwallis, J C Hubble, A P Freeman.

Kent CCC v Marden Russetts CC

Kent CCC v Marden Russetts CC charity match 1976 (D Underwood benefit). B/W photo. Laminated. Sport. Cricket. People. Leisure. Caption includes: Peter Tipples, David Neave, Derek Ufton, Mick Sunnucks, Alan Ealham*, Graham Johnson, Basil, David Nichols, Derek Underwood, John Sunnucks, Bob Woolmer. *Kent CCC captain.
Also identified Robert Wickham, Hooker.

B/W photo, laminated. Organisations. People. Guides. Group photo, names include Mary Brett, Bessy Baker, Jenny Jones, Janet Davis (or Irene Davis), Margaret Othen, Ann Baker, Jenny Creaton, Margaret Brett (guide lieutenant), Mrs Barbara Day (nee Merrick, is district commissioner), Freda Tomlin (guide captain), Margaret Jones, Rosalyne Hoad, Nora Brett (Mrs Ford), Ann Saison, Lavinia Gilham, Christine Smith, Ann Robinson, Rowan James, Heather Bailey, Glynis McAuliffe.

Marden, Kent - To Let

Press small-ad. Farm at Gravel Hole to let. Apply to Mr Barnes (Staplehurst), Mr Hammond (Marden) or Mr Hickmott (on the premises). Agriculture/farming. Buildings. Commerce. Communication. Hopping. People.

Winner from new type oast drier

Press cutting, laminated A4. Headline "Winner from new type oast drier". Dated October 1964. Includes photo of interior of oast with Tommy Butchers, hops and (?)drier. Text includes Little Sheephurst, H H Tompsett and Sons, Weald of Kent Ploughing Match, Patrick Tompsett; also description of process. Agriculture/farming. Buildings. Hopping. People.

Press cutting laminated two-thirds A4: report of Marden Cottage Gardeners' Society Show. Dated July 1936. Text includes Church Green Meadow, H S Cranham. List of judges and prizewinners. Horticulture. Gardening. Leisure. Organisations. People.

Orig: 770mm x 560mm. Copy: 1 x A4

Marden Railway Station

Painting in oil on canvas of Marden Railway Station (downside building) looking towards Staplehurst; shows Railway Cottages. Thought to be by railway employee, dated approx 1885. Buildings. People. Transport. 770mm x 560mm, framed black wood.

Orig: Marden Library. Copy: HC drawer #1

Marden Council Schools

Apparent enlargement to A4 of B/W postcard (Caption: 37152. Marden Council Schools). Buildings. Education. Roads. Goudhurst Road. Gas street lamp indicates pre-1971.

Some Marden Cricketing Greats

Collage of three head-and-shoulders portrait photos (from newspapers) of J Seymour, F S Tipples, Mr Underdown. Laminated. Leisure. People. Sport. Cricket.

All its glory returns

Press cartoon: All its glory returns - victory over Hampshire. Jim Seymour, Wooley, Kennedy, Tennyson, Warner. J Seymour's benefit (at Canterbury). Dated August 1920. Leisure. People. Sport. Cricket. Laminated. Plus match report.

Bearsted CC Match Reports

Typed transcription of article in the Maidstone Journal 11 August 1789, annotated in manuscript "This is the first ever full report" and "Played on the Green". Bearsted v Marden Saturday 8 August 1789. Full score sheet. Details of players. Leisure. People. Sport. Cricket. Laminated A4.

List of Matches 1908

Colour copy (or may be original). List of Matches 1908, apparently Marden Cricket Club. Staplehurst, Horsmonden, Hunton, Paddock Wood, S Manwaring, E C Steven. Practice times. Laminated A4. Leisure, Sport.