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Minster
My father, Reginald Miller, took me to Minster where my grandfather and great grandfather came from. I now live in Sydney, Australia but am coming over to England in September 08. Can anyone tell me about the Miller family in Minster? (I believe my father and his brother Bernard were billetted with their grandparents in the First World War). Please reply to bette02002@yahoo.com.au.
Contributed by Bette Schoots
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Minster
My father, Reginald Miller, took me to Minster where my grandfather and great grandfather came from. I now live in Sydney, Australia but am coming over to England in September 08. Can anyone tell me about the Miller family in Minster? (I believe my father and his brother Bernard were billetted with their grandparents in the First World War). Please reply to bette02002@yahoo.com.au.
A memory of Minster contributed by Bette Schoots
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 & Kent books
The abbey was founded
in AD670 as a nunnery
by Sexburga, widow of
Ercombert, King of Kent; the
original building was burnt
by the Danes. Around 1130
the Archbishop of Canterbury
restored the abbey and the
church. In 1539, Henry VIII
dissolved the abbey; all that
remains today are the church
of St Mary and St Sexburga,
and the abbey gatehouse. The
clock above the church door is
inscribed with the words ‘My
times are in thy hand’.
An extract from from"Around the Kent Coast".
In the distance in the centre of this photograph is The King’s Arms public house; at this
time it was one of the houses of the Maidstone brewers Style & Winch Ltd. The pub gets its
name from a time when owners liked to show loyalty to the crown. On the corner is Uneeda
hairdressing salon (centre), and above that an advertisement reads ‘George Ramuz & Co for
houses and land’.
An extract from from"Around the Kent Coast".
Minster on the Isle
of Sheppey has two
public houses in its
High Street, as we can
see here: The King’s
Arms is on the left,
and The Highlander
in the centre. On
the right-hand side
is Robertson’s the
tobacconist and
newsagent, advertising
The Daily Mail. The
word Sheppey is Saxon
for ‘sheep island’.
An extract from from"Around the Kent Coast".
This family seem
determined to make
the most of their time
at the seaside and
contemplate the sea.
The children seem less
happy, one lying down
and the other trying
to keep the wind out.
Note the beach huts
on the right-hand side.
An extract from from"Around the Kent Coast".
On the right is the old Belle Vue Tavern
dating back to the 1760s, which was an
earlier haunt for smugglers. In 1831,
the landlord Mr John Cramp received
a visit from the Duchess of Kent and
her daughter Princess Victoria; they
dined on potted shrimp paste. Later,
Mr Cramp received the Royal
Appointment of Purveyor of Essence
of Shrimps in Ordinary to Her Majesty
the Queen. On the left are the Floral
Tea Gardens followed by the Pear Tree
Inn, later Samuel Banger’s potted
shrimp paste factory. His small paste
pots had highly decorated lids
depicting scenes of Pegwell; today
they are valuable antiques.
An extract from from"Ramsgate Old and New Photographic Memories".