Minster-In-Thanet
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The Mud Flood
Date Unconfirmed. After torrential rain, the topsoil off the fields at the top of Prospect Road slid down the hill to Monkton Road. Any houses which were not slightly above road level were flooded. Our house being a good foot above it, remained untouched but our neighbours in the farmhouse Eden Hall had mud under the doors and lost their carpets. It took a long time for the remains to be cleared. It was really quite a sight to behold.
Contributed by Susie Southall
The Youth Club
There was a youth club held in a building across the carpark from Minster Primary School. I think this building was called the Leisure Centre, it also hosted Brownies and Guides. For a few pee we would spend hours playing Adam and the Ants records on a tiny ancient record player and jump around on the torn worn fake leather furniture and spend the rest of our money on shandy bass or crisps. Living on Monkton Road, we took the short cut to the youth club up the "bumpy way" skirting Spanton's fields to Molineux Road and the school.
I was really jealous of my older brother who went to cubs in an old stone building down near the ...read more here
Contributed by Susie Southall
Kent memories
The Mud Flood
Date Unconfirmed. After torrential rain, the topsoil off the fields at the top of Prospect Road slid down the hill to Monkton Road. Any houses which were not slightly above road level were flooded. Our house being a good foot above it, remained untouched but our neighbours in the farmhouse Eden Hall had mud under the doors and lost their carpets. It took a long time for the remains to be cleared. It was really quite a sight to behold.
A memory of Minster-In-Thanet contributed by Susie Southall
The Youth Club
There was a youth club held in a building across the carpark from Minster Primary School. I think this building was called the Leisure Centre, it also hosted Brownies and Guides. For a few pee we would spend hours playing Adam and the Ants records on a tiny ancient record player and jump around on the torn worn fake leather furniture and spend the rest of our money on shandy bass or crisps. Living on Monkton Road, we took the short cut to the youth club up the "bumpy way" skirting Spanton's fields to Molineux Road and the school.
I was really jealous of my older brother who went to cubs in an old stone building down near the ...read more here
A memory of Minster-In-Thanet contributed by Susie Southall
Extracts From Minster-In-Thanet & Kent books
The original monastic settlement at Minster was founded in AD670,
overlooking Minster Marshes, then the open Wantsum Channel. This
late Victorian view shows the present buildings; they are of Norman age,
built as a grange of St Augustine’s Abbey in Canterbury.The buildings
have been used as a nunnery since 1930.
An extract from from"Thanet Pocket Album".
Here we see the Square, remarkably free of traffic,
in summer sunshine. The famous church is just
visible on the extreme left.
An extract from from"Kent Photographic Memories".
The abbey stands on the site of a Saxon nunnery set up by Domneva, and run by St Augustine’s
monks from Canterbury; it was destroyed in the ninth century by the invading Danes. Rebuilding
started in the 11th century. The year 1538 saw the Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry
VIII, and the land reverted to the Crown. Later, ownership of the grounds went to the Conyngham
family and various tenant farmers until 1937, when a community of German Benedictine nuns
bought the monastery and 10 acres of land.
An extract from from"Ramsgate Old and New Photographic Memories".
Minster was once the ancient capital of Thanet. It was a small quiet village, and used to govern the hamlets of St Laurence,
St Peter and St John. Because the church was one of the most important buildings in the community, the nave may have
served as a storehouse, a courthouse and even as a place of refuge in earlier times.
An extract from from"Ramsgate Old and New Photographic Memories".
Every village throughout England in the 1950s found an increase in population, and council estates were built on the green
countryside. Minster was no exception, as we can see in this photograph. This estate was built after 1951; it was formerly
the site of a mixed orchard, whose produce was sold through a greengrocer in Minster High Street.
An extract from from"Ramsgate Old and New Photographic Memories".