Minster-In-Thanet
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Minster-In-Thanet books (12 available)
- 10 photos on Minster-In-Thanet appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of 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 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".
This view shows R E Attwell’s to the right, which was the village newsagent’s and tobacconist’s; the proprietor was Chairman
of Minster Parish Council. Two doors away at 55 High Street, previously known as Victoria Villas, was T H Webb the grocer’s,
which used these premises from 1928 until 1970.
An extract from from"Ramsgate Old and New Photographic Memories".
A good strong 'Maid of Kent' carries her shopping home, right, while the pedestrians, left, look as if they would rather wait for the bus! They may, of course, be waiting for the New Inn (centre) to open its doors and provide them with the chance to discuss how the coastal area was rapidly turning into a prime tourist spot.
An extract from from"Kent Revisited Photographic Memories".