{"id":1665,"date":"2011-01-05T20:20:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T20:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.onclick.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=1665"},"modified":"2011-11-03T16:37:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T16:37:25","slug":"our-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/?page_id=1665","title":{"rendered":"Our work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/projectpic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-973\" style=\"border: 12px solid #d8e9da; margin: 5px; padding: 5px;\" title=\"projectpic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/projectpic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Marden Ancestors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Much of the work we are doing concerns documenting the lives of the past  inhabitants of the village.<\/p>\n<p>Completed projects are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Transcription of the Poor Law records (Eunice Doswell),  Transcriptions of the Parish Registers (Cathy Goodwin &amp; Eunice  Doswell with support from the Kent Family History Society).<\/li>\n<li>Memorials Inscriptions (Gill Tarry &amp; Eunice Doswell) aided by the\u00a0 <a href=\"?page_id=1584\">&#8220;The Marden Scrubbers&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Censuses ( Alistair &amp; Janet McIntosh)<\/li>\n<li>Parish Chest documents \u2013 ongoing (Patricia Foskett)<\/li>\n<li>Wills (Deirdre Cook, Janet McIntosh, Eunice Doswell)<\/li>\n<li>Cemetery records (Chris &amp; Mari Gosling), Electoral Registers (Jane Tipples).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These projects have been led by the people named in the brackets but  all of these projects have been supported by other volunteers too  numerous to mention. The oral histories have turned into a very popular  book (Those were the Days).<\/p>\n<p>Continuing work is cataloguing led by Chris Turner, Sian Burr with  input from Chris Gosling and others. Images are constantly uploaded to  the web catalogue by Alan Baum and Colin Coomber. Topography. The  layered map by Kevin White is nearly finished.<br \/>\nMost exciting is the prospect of a new DVD, which involves some young film-makers.<br \/>\nTithe information from 1841 needs to be revisited as Martin Roberts had  to stop this to build an extension and the Trades Directories are nearly  complete (Sue Turner &amp; Penny Day)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Village topography<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Work is taking place on a layered map which will outline the growth   of the village over time. We are conducting a photographic survey of the   village to record the way the village looks today. In conjunction with   the survey, a major objective of the group is to identify potential   destruction of sites and artefacts of historical interest, and to   prevent their loss.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Preserving the heritage of the village<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An important role for the History Group is to preserve village   documents from both the past and the present so that they will be   available for future generations. All the Maidstone Journal extracts  have been copied by Catherine Alderson, referenced by various helpers  and are being uploaded by Patricia Maynard.\u00a0 Next we hope to give the  other local newspaper extracts the same treatment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Marden Heritage Centre<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"?page_id=1250\" target=\"_self\">Marden  Heritage Centre<\/a> opened in November 2007 having completed a  refurbishment of a quarter  of Marden Library within the budget granted  by Awards for All.   We gave  ourselves a four month learning curve  period before our official  opening in April 2008.<\/p>\n<p>We are open seventeen hours a week, the same hours as the library,   with volunteers running the centre ideally two people per two hour   shift.   We have various life skills which we use for the benefit of the   Centre and its visitors.   Our visitors number 80\/90 people a month.     Some come:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To look at our exhibitions which we change every three months<\/li>\n<li>To use our resources to help them with their own family trees<\/li>\n<li>To offer us photographs and documents from their own private collections<\/li>\n<li>To purchase photographs or booklets which we have researched and published.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Working in the Community<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Marden is a three generation village with many people who have lived   here their entire lives.   Others go and then return.   It is a rural   community based on fruit and hopping and has witnessed many changes in   agriculture.   An active supporting population lived long lives and our   records show grocers, butchers, bakers, a fire service and a medical   service which has supported the farmers and their labourers as well as   the  visiting hoppers and apple pickers during the season.   An   industrial estate, newer housing and an influx of commuters has helped the village to remain   vibrant and the Heritage Centre has provided a sense of community and   belonging which we did not anticipate.<\/p>\n<p>Our archive, cataloguing and research teams are extra volunteers  working  from the Heritage Centre and home.   We have done presentations to many history groups  to  encourage them with their records and research and each year the  Year 6  class from the Marden Primary School have come to spend a  morning to  work on a project with us using our resources.<\/p>\n<p>Our special event when we held a Descendants Day demonstrated the common heritage that the community in Marden share.<\/p>\n<p>Several new books have been published this year. Please refer to the <a href=\"?page_id=35\" target=\"_self\">Publications <\/a>page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marden Ancestors Much of the work we are doing concerns documenting the lives of the past inhabitants of the village. Completed projects are: Transcription of the Poor Law records (Eunice Doswell), Transcriptions of the Parish Registers (Cathy Goodwin &amp; Eunice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/?page_id=1665\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1665","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1665\/revisions\/1955"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}