Research Of Lydden

• Guest 649

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  16 August 2011     22:45121171
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  At this time I am doing a research into Lydden,and I am finding out lot about the parish and its history. Did you know that in 1908 that Lydden had its own Hospital, and that is very true,how it came about was In July of 1908 the Dover area had a particularly severe outbreak of Scarlet fever.
  And when a family of Mr V. W, Owen of Stonehall succumbed to the malady,it was found that the Fever Hospital was too full to take them.
  
  To overcome this difficulty the council hired Mr Owen,s cottage as a temporary hospital under Section 131 of the Public Health Act of 1875, and it paid him a rent of £6 aweek for the period the disease lasted.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  16 August 2011     22:59121189
  #2      
  our banjo playing mr newsam will no doubt have an appropriate response vic.
  
  we can only hope that he has not watched "deliverance".
• Guest 649

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  16 August 2011     23:06121191
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  I will be doing the same to the other councils I sit on,I would like to find out all the History I can about them the Dover Library are very good even that they are short of staff last Saturday morning they were giving me alot of help.
• Guest 700

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  17 August 2011     10:03121218
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  HERE ARE A FEW LYDDEN REFS if of use.
  
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  (1740 Wingham Division Ale Licences:
  (Kent Co.Archives ref:  KAO - QRLV 3/1)
  (There will be many other years of licences which can be consulted), 
  these are renewals of Ale Licences in 1740, for Wingham Licensing Division, with a few "N" meaning a New Licence (ie not a renewal):  Renewals written down as 8s;  new ones 16s.
  Note:     Some of these inns/pubs are likely to have changed their name since 1740,
  Alehouse Keeper's Name/   The Sign /   Parish
  Sarah WESTON / Bell / Lydden
  
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  John TOWN, Chief Boatman, Lydden Spout Coastguard Station, awarded Silver Medal, and thanks given to the crew of 7
  (report on Dover Humane Society and Shipwreck, in Dover Telegraph 19 June 1847 p.8 col.2)
  
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  Alkham/Lydden - Lye Oak Farm for sale or let (Dover Chronicle Jan 5 1884 p.4 col.1)
  
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  Auction of Lydden Court Farm, Bell Farm, Cocklescomb Farm, Warren Farm, Upper Farm, Cannons Land, and cottages (Dover Telegraph 19 Sep 1846 p.1 col.3)
  
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  1859 20 Sept Coal found excavating Lydden Tunnel
  
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  Stonehall Colliery, Lydden:
  
  

  

  
  
  Stonehall:
  
  

  
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• Guest 708

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  17 August 2011     10:19121222
  #5      
  Hi Vic - I was brought up in Lydden, parents & grandparents also. It's very over grown with properties now, especially along Stonehall.
• Guest 710

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  17 August 2011     10:55121225
  #6      
  This could help...
  
  http://www.lyddenvalley.org.uk/book.php
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• Guest 651

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  17 August 2011     11:07121227
  #7      
  Wrong Lydden - the Valley is the low area between Worth and Deal (ish)
  Been nice knowing you :)
• Guest 651

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  17 August 2011     11:10121228
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  Kath- is that colliery building that one that is still there as I was looking on the map last night after I went past it on the train yesterday ?
  Been nice knowing you :)
• Guest 703

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  17 August 2011     11:23121229
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  Paul, yes, that's the only colliery building still standing, I'm looking at it out of the window of my ex-miner's cottage as I type! The houses on the lower side of Stonehall that look 1930ish were all built at the same time as the colliery to house the miners.
  
  Dover Transport Museum used it for storage for a while, they may still do, and there are some modern cottages behind the screen of Leylandii. You can also just make out a mound behind it that was the water reservoir.
  
  Next year is the centenary of the completion of the colliery, we're trying to arrange some sort of celebration in the village and GaryC introduced to some of his friends at Aylesham who have lots of Kent coalfield information that will help.
  
  Kath, your pictures are both of Canterbury Road, one looking down on what is now (or was!) The Hope, and the other looking at it from the Dover end - I haven't seen either before. The thatched cottage is still there.
• Guest 710

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  17 August 2011     11:45121230
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  Alas and alack..I have Lydden astray.
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• Guest 700

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  17 August 2011     12:15121231
  #11      
  Ray - let us know nearer the time if you want any snippets or pics for the village colliery centenary.
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• Guest 649

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  17 August 2011     14:52121243
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  Thank you all for that ,it is the pond I need to know more about ,I have gone back as far as 1882 so before that please.
• Sarah P

  • Location: Dover
  17 August 2011     17:59121258
  #13      
  The practice of paying to declare a dwelling a Hospital wasn't that uncommon. Scarlet Fever sand other such illnesses where notifiable diseases. And anyone suffering from them had to by law be removed to a fever hospital. When a really bad outbreak occured the hospitals where overwhelmed but the legal requirement to be removed still existed. So a simple and clever solution if all the family where affected was to declare the dwelling a hospital and provide monitoring and isolation in situ
  I can't remember which act covered this I seem to recall it was a public health act but as usual the name escapes me
• Guest 649

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  17 August 2011     18:45121262
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  It was the Section 131 of the public health act of 1875.thank you for your remarks.
• Sarah P

  • Location: Dover
  17 August 2011     19:02121264
  #15      
  Thats it ! i do get the names of them mixed up