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Author Archives: Ruiha Smalley
A Cobham gentleman of the 1700s: Mr Hayes Diary
One of our volunteers, Don Blackburn, has transcribed the diary entries of Mr Hayes, of Cobham, Kent. As a boy Richard Hayes (1725-1790), lived with his uncle, Richard Hayes senior, at Owletts (now owned by the National Trust) in the … Continue reading
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Cobham, Kent
Cobham Landscape Detectives was a three year discovery project covering the Cobham landscape. Various techniques were used to study the village and the woods, including LiDAR, geophysics, fieldwalking, metal detecting, research, oral history, small scale trenching and test pitting. Kent County … Continue reading
Manorial Documents Register online
The Manorial Documents Register (MDR) is the official index to English and Welsh manorial records and provides brief descriptions of documents and details of their locations in public and private hands. The National Archives at Kew now provide online access to this resource. Manorial … Continue reading
Betty Bicker-Robinson: memories of WW2
At the beginning of the war I was in my early teens, and each year we used to go hop picking on My Pye’s farm for about seven weeks. Whenever the air raid siren went off, and the German planes … Continue reading