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INDEX TO ‘LOOSE THREADS’ (‘LT’) AND ‘LOOSE ENDS’ (‘LE’)

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A gardener’s boy at Linton Park Ken Kimber LT9 4-5 A Link with the Natal Nightingale LT6 48 A Trustworthy Pony Boy: William Earl Earl, A W LT8 32 A Village remembered LT2 7, 8 A Walk through Boughton’s Quarries Creasey, Anne LT2 6 Abbey Gate Farm LT5 8 Air raid LE1 3 Air raid precautions LT2

LT7 13 10

Alabaster Passmore LT10 LT12

32 3

Albion pub LT11 6 Alchin (aka Allchin), William LT11 39 All Aboard: the origins of some Maidstone area bus services

Cheeseman, Clive LT4 19

All Saints’ Church – alterations & revelations Lambert, Peter & Thornburgh, Roger

LT9 27-43

All Saints’ Church & its people Jenner, Pat LT10 5 All Saints’ Church, Loose LT1

LT2 LT3 LT8 LT11

15 13, 26 Front, 3, 17 4 10

Allchin, Susannah LT11 48 Allfrey, Col. Hubert LT3 26 Allnutt, Henry LT11 48 Allnutt’s Mill LT3

LT7 35, 39 38

Almhouses LT8 16 Almshouses in East Farleigh Tritton, Paul LT8 16 Along the Turnpike Road – Loose and Linton Tritton, Paul LT9 6 Ambleside, Boughton Lane LT10 11 Amey Roadstone LT2 10 Amies family LT7

LT12 33 41-43

Amsbury cottages LT7 19

2

An interview with J.B. Green (1885-1982) Thornburgh, Roger LT3 33 Anabaptists LT11 30 Anchorites LT4 28 Andrew, Rev. James LT3 17 Anna Winterflood of Filmer’s Farm Thornburgh, Roger LT2 34 Antrum family- LT2

LT5 LT6

39 ]8 15

Antrum’s Mill LT2 LT3 LT6

39 38 25

Apps family LT10 LT5

12 8

Ashby, John LT4 17 Aspects of Papermaking in 19th and 20th Century Tovil

Noel Gibbons LT7 38

Austen family LT10 LT11

21 10

Austen, Jane LT11 10 Avard, Thomas LT8 48 B Bagent’s Cottage LT3

LT10 6 36

Bagent’s Cottages Cording, Brenda LT3 6 Baigent’s Cottage (see Bagent’s Cottage) Baker, R., thatcher LT5 8 Baker’s Stores LT3 40 Barcham Green (see Green family) Barker family LT1

LT2 LT5 LT6 LT11

7 11 8, 21, 26 7, 15 12, 31

Barker’s brewery LT6 30 Bass, Mrs, grocer LT2 33 Bates family- LT11 31 Beale, Richard LT1

LT5 14 33

Beard family- LT11 27, 28 Bedford family LT2

LT5 37 36

Beeching, family LT5 LT11

20, 21 32

Bennett family LE3 LT12

4 31

3

Beresford’s House LT2 7 Beresford’s Quarry LT2 6 Bincham, Glad LT10 13 Birch, Mr LT4 34 Bird in Hand, Coxheath LT4 11, 38 Bird, John Jackson LT3 30 Bishenden family LT10 10 Blake family LT10 10 Blinkhorn family- LT11 13 Bluetops LT6

LE4 21 8

Blunn, Brenda Jean (née Wallis) LT8 3 Bockingford Arms LT6

LT8 LT11 LT12

10, 15 48 11 7

Bockingford Farm Gibbons, Noel J LT6 9 Bockingford Farm LT6

LT11 LT12

9 24 7

Bockingford Mill LT4 LT8 LT12

26 48 7

Bonner, Florence Alexandra Gertrude and family LT11 5 Bonny family LT2

LT5 38 22

Bonny’s Cottages LT11 7 Boon family LE1 2 Boorman family LT1 14 Boughton Lane to Downing Street: Audrey Callaghan

Tritton, Paul LT8 6

Boughton Manor LT4 27 Boughton Monchelsea LT11 5 Boughton Monchelsea Place LT4 12 Boughton Monchelsea School LT11

LT12 21 6

Boughton Monchelsea Working Men’s Club LT11 6 Boughton Monchelsea, my favourite village Sue Black LT11 5 Boughton Monchelsea’s War Memorials Harrison, Jenny LT10 20 Boughton Mount Cottage LT2 7 Boughton Mount Estate LT2

LT5 LT6 LT8

6 19 6 31

Boughton Park LT9 20

4

Boughton Quarries LT1 LT2 LT8

3, 4 6 47

Boundaries, parish LT12 22-23 Bourbon Conman of Woodlawn LT11 44 Bowles family LT4 34 Boys will be boys Malcolm Whyatt LT11 23 Boys, Rev. Richard LT10

LE3 LT11

6, 15 6 44

Braddick family LT6 6 Braddick, John – Words of Wisdom Tritton, Paul LT8 31 Bray family LT7 17 Bredmore, George H. LT5 36 Brett, Joyce LT11 7, 48 Brewery Cottages LT11 12 Bridge Mill LT3

LT7 39 38

Bridge Row LT2 8 Bridge Row Cottages LT11 5 Bridge Street LT11 40 Bridge Tavern LT11 6 Bridge Tavern, Boughton Monchelsea LT2 8 Briggs, Henry LT5 33 Brishing Court LT2

LT3 LT7 LT9

7, 10 29 6 20

Brishing Quarry LT2 8, 10 Brook House LT3

LT4 LT10 LT11

17 31, 33 43 17

Brooklyn LT6 LT11

7 40

Brooks Field LT1 LT7 LT11

18 44 40

Brooks Field Survey Report Moon, Nick LT7 44 Brooks, the LT11 17 Brown, Victoria (nee Esland) LT12 7 Brunger, Mr LT2 8 Bryant, John LT6 5 Buffkin family LT1

LT3 14 10

5

LT4 LT6 LT7 LT10 LT12

7 4 36 5 19

Bufkin (see Buffkin) Bull pub, East Farleigh LT10 8 Bull pub, Linton LT11 11, 38 Burgess Family of Linton Tritton, Paul LT8 34 Burseide, Thomas, overseer LT5 18 Bury, Rev. A. Maxwell LT7 8 Bus services LT2

LT4 19-22

Bus Services of Maidstone Cheeseman, Clive LT4 19 Busbridge family LT2

LT3 LT6 LT10 LT11

13 7, 40 1, 14 44 34, 48

Busbridge Road LT8 3 Busbridge, Mary LE2 8 Busbridges of Pympe’s Court & Grove Cottage Evans, Lorna LT10 44 Butcher’s Shop at Loose Green Heath, Brenda LT1 17 Butterfield, William LT10 16 Buttle, Florence P. LT2 12 Button, Albert LT11 6 By Cart, stagecoach and wagon Cheeseman, Clive LT2 14 Bydews LT3

LT11 33 30

Byways LT5 27 Calver, Joseph and family LT11 5 Campfield Farm Cottages LT4 26 Canam House LE4 8 Cannon balls LT1 4 Cape Cottages LT4 31 Carpenter, George LT8 16 Carriers LT2

LE1 14 et seq 4

Castreat family LT1 14 Census, 1911 LT11 31 Change, The LT10 38 Chareda LT3 31 Charlton family LT1

LT2 14 21

6

LT3 LT4 LT10

27 17 6

Charlton, Ann LT11 10 Chart Sutton overseers LE3 4, 5 Chequers, The LT2

LT3 LT4 LT7 LT8 LT9 LE1 LT11

17 10, 24 8, 15, 24 4 17 12 2 5, 11, 17, 48

Cherry Grounds Farm Tillett, Michael LT9 16 Cherry Kearton, 1870-1940: Early Wildlife Photographer

Corben, Richard LT7 3

Cherry, Rev Thomas LT1 24 Childs family LT10 38 Childs’ play on High Banks Margaret Shorter LT12 31-32 Church House, Loose LT3

LT5 LT7 LT10 LT11

17 15, 19 16 28 17

Clark family LT1 LT2 LT6 LT8 LT11 LT12

6 6 9 31 9, 24, 45, 46 35

Clarke & Epps, builders LT1 23 Clarke, James LT8 16 Clave School LT5 20 Cliff Cottage, Boughton Monchelsea LT2 9, 10 Clock House (aka Clockhouse) farm LT11 18 Clockhouse , Coxheath LT3

LT4 26 12, 26

Clyffe, John, mason LT5 18 Cock Inn, The LT4

LT11 11 6

Cole family LT4 LT6

39 6, 7

Coles family- LT1 LT4

4 17

Coles, J.R. LT6 15, 16, 20 Collier’s Pit LT3 9

7

Commander Aubrey Moore and his Royal and religious ancestors

LT10 29

Congregational Chapel LT4 10 Cook, Miss, headmistress LT2 49 Coombe Bank LT2 7, 10 Coomber, Fred LT5 37 Copper Tree Court LT10 31 Cording, Brenda Dorothy LE1 7 Cornwallis family- LE1

LE2 LT8 LT11 LT12

1 2 32 20 12-13

Cornwallis School (aka Cornwallis Academy) LT12 9,10 Coronation celebrations, 1911 LT11 32, 33 Couchman family LT11 7 Coulter family- LT7

LT10 LT11 LT12

15 40 42 et seq 17, 36

Country Players LT10 38 Coveney, Mr LT6 15, 20 Coxheath Camp LT1

LT2 LT4 LT11

4

Coxheath Camp – Part 2 1778 Page, Julia LT2 20 Coxheath Camp 1756-1757 Page, Julia LT1 25 Coxheath, smuggling at LT5 5 Cranwell, Isley LT6 5 Creed family- LT2 38 Creed, Butcher LT11 32, 42 Creed, Lacey, butcher LT1

LT2 LT7

17, 18 32 1, 23

Cricket LT3 24 Crime & Punishment in 17c Loose Newton Taylor, Paul LT6 3 Crisbrook LT5

LT9 7 44

Crisbrook Cottages LT3 36 Crispe, Thomas LT1

LE4 4 6

Crust family- LT10 37 Dadson family- LT1 22

8

Dairy House, The LT2 LT3 LT7 LT11

31 17 24 40

Davies family- LT2 6 Davison’s Wine Shop LT2 33 Day, Alfred Coppin LT11 28 Day, Geoffrey LT2 3 Day’s Cottage, Well Street LT11 28 D-Day LT5 27 De Fremingham family LT2 26 De Pympe family- LT1 15 Derwent House LT2

LT6 LT7

12 15 23

Deverson, Dorothy LT6 5 Dip Wells in the Loose Valley Heath, Brenda LT2 31 Dipwells LT2 31 Discovering Cousins Obern, Clara LT6 36 Domesday Book LT1 8-11 Domesday Loose Thornburgh, Roger LT1 8 Doodlebug (see also Flying Bomb) LT2

LT8 13 15

Dowle, George, quarry man LT2 10 Down, Charles LT11 17 Drake, Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt LT2

LT8 4 47

Draper, Robert, goldsmith LT5 18 Duncanson family- LT4

LT7 LT8

37 21 3

Duties of Land Values LT11 17 Earl, William John LT8

LT9 32 4

East Farleigh LT12 3 East Farleigh and Loose remembered Beryl Holdsworth LT11 27 et seq East Farleigh House LT7 47 East Farleigh manor LT1 11 East Farleigh pumping station LT10 8 East Farleigh School LT11 27 Eastup family- LT10 37 Eaton, Maureen LT5 22 Edna Mary Cole, 1892-1973 Proctor, Molly LT6 6 Edward, Derek LT2 10

9

Edwards, Rev. LT5 37 Ellis, Alice Mabel Lilian LT5 20 Ellis, Jesse LE4 3 Ellis, Thomas LT6 5 Elm House LT2 10 Ernest Mercer: Memories of Loose Around 1900 Thornburgh, Roger LT6 23 Evacuees LT4

LE1 9, 10 3

Evenden, G., charcoal burner LT5 8 Evenden, J, saddler LT5 8 Fairfax family- LT3

LT5 17 48

Families of Wartime Loose Chapman, Margaret LT7 12 Families of Wartime Loose: Flight Lt. Alfred Charles Culver, DFM

Chapman, Margaret LT8 22

Family’s matters of Life and Death Judith Evans LT12 29 Farewell to the Vicar’s Hall Page, Julia LT7 7 Farming Searle, Ken LT1 24 Fernbank LT3 17 Ffinch, Michael LT12 5 Filmer’s Farm LT1

LT2 6 34, 36

Fire Service LT12 15 Firefighters remembered on new estate Jill Smith LT11 22 Florence House and Florence Cottage LT1

LT2 LT3 LT8 LT10

17 32, 37 17 19 4

Flying Bomb (see also Doodlebug) LT4 LT5

10 27

Forde, William LT5 18 Forge Cottage, Linton Road LT2

LT3 29, 38 17

Forge Cottage, Randalls Row LT7 15 Forge House, Busbridge Road LT3 26 Forstal Farm LT2

LT7 21 18

Foster Clark family (see Clark family) Foster family- LT4

LT11 6 20

Foster, John, miller LE3 8 Fowle, John LT8 16 Fox, C.M. LT1 6

10

Fox’s Quarry LT1 LT2

6 6

Franklyn, John LT8 16 Fremingham family (see de Fremingham) French, butcher LT2 32 French, shopkeeper LT1 17 From Classrooms to Zoned Learning Plazas Jill Smith LT12 9, 10 Froud family- LT2

LT10 LT11 LT12

7 10 13, 20 21

Fryer, W.H. wheelwright LT5 8 Fulkes, John Greville LT9 44 Fun and Games in Coxheath Camp, 1804 Page, Julia LT4 11 Funnell family- LT1

LT2 LT7 LT7

18 37 Front 1

Furfield Quarry LT2 10 Gable Cottages LT4 17 Gables, The LT9 17 Garden Cottage LT4

LE1 37 3

Gardner-Waterman, Rev. W. LT7 LT11

7 42

Garland family- LT11 20 Gates family- LT3 31 Gates, John LT11 21 George Marsham (1849-1927) Gallavin, Helen LT3 24 George Marsham House LT3

LT7 26 18

Gibbons, Edward (Teddy) LT3 LT6

25 16

Gibson, Wing Commander Guy LT10 14 Gigger, John LT10 10 Gilbert, Mrs Bessie LT7 18 Giles, Frank LT10 47 Gladstones LT2 8, 10 Glimpses of a Childhood in Loose Blunn, Brenda LT8 3 Godden family- LT1

LT3 4 27, 28

Godlands, The LT1 LT3 LT4

5 33 26

11

LT7 LT8 LT9 LT10 LT1

25 3 2, 3 12 1

Godlands, The, Tovil Bradburn, Clive LT7 25 Golden family LT7

LT11 13-14 12

Golding, Harry Thomas LE4 5 Goodbye Leonard Gould LT10 46 Gordon Court LT1

LT2 23 13

Gordon House LT10 Front Gordon, Miss, matron LT1 23 Gorman family- LT3 31 Gould, Leonard LT4

LT10 LT11 LT12

34, 37 28, 46-48 47 14-16

Graham, G.H. LT1 7 Great Ivy Mill LT1

LT3 LT4 LT6 LT7

15 35 26 30 3, 23

Great Storm, October 1987 LT2 30 Green Doors LT3 34 Green family- LT1

LT3 LT6 LT7 LT8 LT10

5 33 36-38 25 41 13

Green, John (Jack) Barcham LT3 LT9 LT12

33 et seq 2 35, 36

Greengates, Well Street LT11 28 Gregory, Rev. Francis Thomas. LT4

LT11 17 17

Grigsby family LT11 7 Grove Cottage LT5

LT6 LT10 LE2 LT11

14 15 44 8 48

Growing up in Salts Avenue Mills, Colin LT10 26

12

Gurney family- LT10 LT11

17-18 13 et seq

Gurney’s Cottage LT10 LT12

17 11

Gurney’s Mill LT11 15 Gurr family- LT10

LT11 36 6

Haire, Rev Archibald Matthew LT11 7, 8, 9 Hampton Court, ragstone LT1 4 Hanson family- LT10

LE1 27 4,5

Harding, grocer LT2 33 Hare, Rev. A. Neville LT2

LT7 LT11

13 9, 16 8, 21, 34

Harris family- LT11 LT12

21 28-29

Harris, George, wheelwright LT5 8 Harris, John, blacksmith LT5 8 Hartridge family- LT5

LT6 LT7

8 42-44 47

Harts House LT2 6 Harvey’s garage, Loose Road LT2 32 Hastie, Clarissa Helen Victoria LT10 28 Hawthorn (aka Hawthorne) Cottage, Loose LT4

LT7 LT11

17 13-14 12

Hawthorn(e) Stores LT2 LT4 LT6 LT8

32 17 27 21

Hayle Cottage LT3 LT4 LT6

24 3, 5 13, 15

Hayle Mill LT1 LT3 LT4 LT7 LT10 LT11 LT12

5, 12 22, 33, 35 26 25, 28 31 1, 21 47-48

Hayle Place LT3 LT4 LT5

24 Front, 3, 5, 27 33

13

LT6 LT7 LT11 LT12

9, 12, 15, 17 8 43 7

Hayle Place Estate LT11 24 Headcorn & Maidstone junction light railway LT3 18 Heath House, Heath Road LT4 38 Heath View LT10 31 Heathside LT7 20 Herbert Busbridge: Memories of Loose, 1881-1976

Creasey, Anne LT6 14

Hercules, William LT5 14, 18 Hermits LT4 28 Heron Pond LT4

LT9 27 21, 23

Herts Farm LT4 LT10

11, 15 27

Herts House LT2 37 Herunden family- LT5 15, 18 Hickmott, M., saddler LT5 8 High Banks LT2

LT3 31 17

High Banks Cottage LT11 17 Hill House, Loose LT2

LT3 LT4 LT6 LT10

11 40 17 15 27, 38

Hillside LT2 29 Historical jigsaw puzzles: The Swan public house, Loose Road

Page, Julia LT8 39

Hoar, Thomas and family LT11 5 Hobday, C.H. LT12 18 Hodges, Charles William Rowlatt LT3 40 Hodsoll family- LT4

LT5 LT6 LE4

17 7, 10, 12 15, 18 6

Hollingsworth family- LT4 LT10 LT11

3 10, 44 48

Holly Lodge LT2 39 Homestead, The LT5 14 Homewood family LT11 32 Hood family- LT2 19

14

LT4 LT7 LT10 LT12

34 10, 16 4 17, 34

Hook, Samuel LT7 38 Hop farming LT1

LT3 LT5 LT7 LT11

14 30 7, 9 19 10

Hop pickers’ strike LT5 13 Hope Cottage, Church Street LT3

LT6 LT7

25 17 7

Hope Cottages, Walnut Tree Lane LT3 LT4

31, 40 36

Horton, Derek LT10 47 Hospital fields LT1 22 Hubbard, Mr LT2 36 Hudson’s Quarry LT2 10 Hughes, Graham LT6

LE4 21 8

Hunton parish records LT5 38 Hunton School LT7 19 Hunton’s Lost Records Butcher, John LT5 38 Hurricane (see also Great storm) Iddenden, Nicholas LT8 17 Illingworth, Nancy LT6 38 Illingworth, Nancy and James Susan Watts LT11 1-3 Inwood, Well Street LT11 28 Iron Age hill fort LT4 24 Iron Room, The LT1

LT7 LT12

7 8 32

Isherwood, Capt. LT6 15, 19 Island Meadow LT11 17 Isolation Hospital LT1

LT2 19 11

Ivy Cottage(s) LT4 5, 6 Ivy Glen LT5 10 Ivy Mill LT3 35 Ivy Mill House LT4 26 Jam factory LT2 3

15

James Ellis & Co. Ltd LT2 7 Jane Austen’s Loose cousins Margaret Chapman LT11 10 Jeffery, Velma LT2 11 Jenner family- LT7 17 Jenner, Pat LT10 49 John Franklyn’s almshouses LT8 16 John Quested, surveyor and mapmaker Hughes, Ann LT9 25 John Taylor, Freemason Creasey, Anne LT3 8 Johnson, John LT5 18 Jones, Admiral Theophilus LT4

LT6 3 13

Jones, Dr Isaac Stephenson LT1 LT2 LT6 LT7 LT11

22 12, 35 15, 20 20, 23 43

Jones, Gertrude LT10 32 Jones, Lt.Col. Walter LT3

LT4 24 3

Jones, Norma Eileen LE4 8 Jones, Thomas LT5 33 Just passing through: Thomas Foster (1820-1891) Taylor, Paul Newton LT4 6 Kearton, Ada Cherry LT5

LT6 LT7 LT11

29 48 3 43

Kennard, Gabriel LT8 17 Kennedy, Norman LE1 2 Kent Fire & Rescue Service LT11 22 Kent Fire Service Museum LT11 1 Khanspur, Salts Avenue LT10 28 Kiln Cottage LT3

LT10 LT12

28 28, 46 14

King George V playing field LT10 LT11

11, 31 34, 35

King’s Arms pub LT2 LT10 LE2 LT11

29, 38 Back cover 4 11

Kingdon, Rev. J.D. LT6 15, 16, 19 Kirkdale LT6

LE4 LT11

15 5 11

16

Kirkdale Cottages LT6 LT7 LT10 LE4 LT11

25 4 10 5 31 et seq

Kirkdale Cottages in 1911, Coronation Year Hilary Hunt LT11 31 et seq Kitchenham family- LT2 35 Knight family- LE1 7 Lakelands LT5 20 Lamb, Mary Louisa LT9 4 Lamb, Phoebe and family LT11 5 Langley LT10 20 Langley Lock LT9 22 Langley, Alfred Vernon LT9 44-48 Langridge, Frank LT5 37 Larking family- LT1

LT2 LT11

2 32 31

Larking, Sir Gordon LT1 23 Larkins family LT6

LT8 28 15

Lawrence, Jack LT10 27 Le Grove, Dorothy LT10 28 Leeds Abbey LT9 20 Leg o’ Mutton Pond LT1

LT4 12 27

Leonard Gould Limited: the early years Gibbons, Noel LT8

9

Lime Tree House LT11 2 Limekilns LT1

LT2 5 8

Limes, The LT11 1 Link family LT11 6 Linton as Was Lucy Tucker LT11 36 Linton Hospital LT7

LT12 20 24-27

Linton Park LT4 LT8 LT9

11 32, 34 4

Linton Park – A gardener’s Boy Kimber, Ken LT9 4 Linton Park Cricket Club LT12 18 Linton Place LT2 5 Linton Post Office LT11 38 Linton Road garage LT10 27

17

Linton, and smugglers LT5 5 Little Ivy LT3

LT4 LT5 LT6 LT12

35 26 7, 8, 33 26 28-29

Lobster Hall LT1 6 Lodge Farm LT11 36 Loe, Linda LT8 19 Long, Jean M LT11 34 Loose (roads to) Page, Julia LT10

LT11 34 4

Loose Allotments LT3 LT6 LT8 LT10

24 16 4 45

Loose and Langley’s troublesome priests Jenner, Pat LT10 15 Loose Area History Society LE4 1 Loose Baptist Church LT1

LT10 7 12

Loose Bowls Club LT3 LT12

24 31

Loose Boys’ School LT5 36 Loose Brownies LT7

LT8 LT11

9 4 39

Loose Cemetery LT11 17 Loose choirmaster’s life, love and legacy Michael Whitehead LT11 13 et seq Loose Church Heritage Group (spire appeal) LT11 1 Loose churchwardens LT3 27 Loose Cottage Gardeners’ Society LT3

LT6 LE1 LE3

24 16, 18 6 3

Loose Court LT3 LT4 LT5 LT6 LT10 LE1 LE4

34 17 Front, 7, 9, 10, 12 15, 18 12 2 6

Loose Court Estate LT11 32 Loose Court Lodge, Loose Road LT11 31 Loose Cricket Club LT11 34 Loose Farm LT5 7, 9 Loose Fire Brigade LE1 4

18

Loose Football Club 1905-1906 LT6 Front, 27 Loose Footpaths Group LE1 8 Loose Girl Guides LT7

LT8 LT11

8 4 39

Loose Green LT1 LT2 LT4 LT7 LE2 LT11

17 32 17 Front 4 42

Loose Green tram terminus LT8 48 Loose History Circle LT1 2 Loose Institute Football Club LE1 1 Loose Isolation Hospital, part 2 Allchurch, Frank &

Kitty LT2 11

Loose Manor LE3 7 Loose Mill (see also Loose Village Mill) LT5 7, 8 Loose Mothers’ Union LT7 8 Loose National School LT3

LT5 LT11

26 35 32

Loose National School: The Boys’ School, as recorded in the Log Book 1863-1865

Gallavin, Helen LT5 35

Loose Parish boundary LT4 23 Loose Parish Council LT1

LT3 LT4 LT10 LT11

19 24 23 45 1, 35

Loose Parish Room LT3 25 Loose Post Office LT2

LT7 LT8 LT11

32, 37 Front 19 42

Loose Road LT11 8, 12 Loose School LT2

LT4 LT6 LT7 LT8 LT10 LE1 LE4 LT11 LT12

38, 40 9, 18 8 18, 28 3, 45 12 3 3 7, 21 37-40

19

Loose School in Wartime – Memories of Kath Tillett

Gallavin, Helen LT8 45

Loose Scouts’ memorial at Crisbrook LT9 44 Loose Swiss Scouts LT3

LT7 LT9

33 25 2, 44

Loose Telephone Exchange LT4 17, 18 Loose Tithe Map LT1

LT2 4 4

Loose Valley LT12 2-5 Loose Valley and its Swallow Holes Bennett, F.J (and

Paul Tritton) LT9 20-24

Loose Valley Nursing Home LT6 LT7

15 7

Loose Viaduct LT1 LT3 LT5 LT9 LE2

4 20 47 6-13 3

Loose Vicarage, new LT7 7 Loose Village Mill LT11 40 Loose Village Mill revealed LT11 40 Loose Village Overseers LT1

LT7 13 8

Loose War Memorial LT11 LT6

48 31-35

Loose Women’s Institute LT12 31, 32 Loose Women’s Institute LT6 7 Loose Working Men’s Club LT2

LT3 LT6 LT7 LT10

37 24 6, 27 Front 45

Loose Young People’s Fellowship LT7 LE3 LT11

9 6 21

Lord Rootes had Loose roots: William Geoffrey Rootes 1917-1992

LT8 42

Lording, Freda LT11 6 Lost Images of Loose Valley come into the light Tritton, Paul LT8 47 Lost Weight? Chapman, Margaret

and Froud, Dot LT3 32

Loveless, Henry, grocer, beerseller and lime dealer LT2 8 Lower Crisbrook LT3

LT4 22, 35 26

Lower Tovil Mill LT3 35

20

Loyal Invicta Lodge of Oddfellows LT11 12 Luckhurst family- LT8 13 Lyncroft LT3 6 Lyndale Cottage LT8 34 MacKinnon family- LT3 35 Maidment, Mr LT2 4 Maidstone & Loose Valley railway LT3 18 Maidstone Fire Station LT11 22 Maidstone Rural District Infectious Diseases Hospital (see also Isolation Hospital)

LT11 32

Maidstone Union Workhouse (aka Coxheath Workhouse

LT11 LT12

21 24-27

Maidstone Union Workhouse and Infirmary, Coxheath (see also Linton Hospital)

LT2 LE3

11 5

Maitland family LT11 20, 36 et seq Malthouse Hill LT7

LT9 LT11

8, 18 3 9, 32

Mannering, Miss LT1 23 Manning, Norman William Elliott LE3 2 Mansfield family- LT10 37 Marsh family- LT2

LT12 13 34

Marsham family- LT3 LT4 LT6

24 3 12

Marsham, George LT3 LT4 LT6 LT7 LT10 LT11

24 3 15, 16 8 45 42

Martin family LT12 19 Martin, Edward, overseer LT5 18 Martin, Frances Sibilla and Anna Susanna LE4 1 Martin, Rev. Denny LT3

LT5 LT10

12, 15 48 5

Martin’s Farm LT4 34 Masters, Hazel LT5 22 Masters, Mr LT6 15 Mather family- LT10 10 Maxwell, Donald LT12 2-5 Maytum Farm LT11 39

21

McAlpine family- LT6 LT7 LT10 LT11 LT12

15, 16, 19, 20, 28 8 45 20, 42 44-46

McKenzie, Margaret LT8 33 McKenzie, Mr LT9 4 McMahon, Fanny Miriam LE2 2 Medway Corrugated Paper Company LT7 39, 40 Memories of Linton Road Harris, Dorothy LT2 29 Memories of Linton Road Harris, Dorothy LT2 29 Memories of Wartime School Days at Shernold High School

Page, Julia LT5 20

Mercer family- LT6 LT10 LT11 LT12

23 10 31 10,11

Merriehills LT2 LT4 LT9

6, 34 37 18

Mexican House LT2 LT6 LT3

29, 39 15, 30 3

Mexican Villa LT2 39 Middle Quarry LT2 10 Middleton, Charles LE2 5 Mildred Ratcliffe – artist at Loose LT10 2 Mill House LT6 15 Miller, Annie Maria LT2 11 Miller, carrier of Coxheath LT3 40 Miller, Miss, draper LT2 32 Miller, William Horton LE1 4 Milliner, Ernest and Alice (nee Leech) LT8 13 Mills family- LT3

LT11 31 32

Mills, C.E. LT2 10 Mills, Colin LT10 26 Monumental Inscriptions LT10 6 Moon family- LT11 12, 29, 31 Moore family LT6

LT12 20 44

Moore, Commander Aubrey Edward Duncombe and relations

LT10 LE4

29 5

More about the Hartridge Family Wimhurst, Elizabeth LT7 47 Morfil, A.F. LT10 38

22

Morris family- LT3 31 Moulton family- LT8 6 Mount Ararat LT3

LT4 34 27

Mrs Bessie Gilbert, 1889-1984: Memories of Hunton & Loose

Thornburgh, Roger LT7 18

Mucklowe, John, scriptor LT5 18 Muddle family LT11 10 Muddle of Loose Jenner, Pat LT5 34 Muddle, William LT5 33 Mudge, Rev. Leonard William LT8

LE3 4 6

My father, Leonard Gould Valerie Boyd LT12 14-16 My Victorian namesake lead me to a mill in Loose Whiteley, Sue LT10 17 Myring, Ruth A, matron LT1

LT2 22 11

Nash, George LT8 17 Neale, Daniel Vernon LT9 4 New Inn, East Farleigh LT11 12, 27 Newman, Charles and Betty LT4

LT12 34 14

Newman, Thomas LT6 6 Nicholls family- LT10 46-47 Noakes, Jill LT5 22 Nook, The LT10 37 Norton Court Farm LT4 8 Notes on the natural history f the Loose Valley Searle, Betty LT2 19 Oddfellows’ Lodge LT6 30 Of Anchorites and hermits Jenner, Pat LT4 28 Old Lakenham LT1

LT9 6, 23 2

Old Lakenham Cording, B.Dee LT1 23 Old Loose Court LT3

LT5 LT6 LE4 LT11

34 7 15 6 9, 32

Old Loose Hill LT9 LT12

6-9 17

Old Mill House LT3 LT10

17 18, 37

Old Orchard Bungalow LT10 37 Old Orchard house and bungalow LT11 48

23

Old Vicarage (now Loose Valley Nursing Home) LT4 LT6 LT7 LT8

24 15 7 4

Old Vicarage, Church Street LT2 LT3 LT5 LT7

31 17 33 23

Oldborough Manor LT4 27 Olive Farm LT10

LT11 LT12

28 48 14

Olive Farm (poultry and cherries) LT11 34 Olive House LT3

LT5 LT6

29, 30 8, 14 15

Olive House, Cottages and Villas LT11 34 One Day in 1327 Jenner, Pat LT3 3 One hundred years of Scouting in Loose Gallavin, Trevor LT9 2 Orchard House LT5 21 Orgar family- LT5 15, 17, 18 Osborne, Alexander LT1 4 Our Silent Witnesses Chapman, Margaret LT6 31 Owen, Lawrence LT5 18 Page, Julia LT11 2 Palm Cottage LT7 18, 20 Palmer, H.R. LT9 11 Palmer, Thomas LT6 5 Pantony family- LT11 18 Pantry, The LT8 20 Papermakers’ Arms, The LT6

LT8 LT10 LT11

30 15 1 11, 12

Papermaking LT3 LT7

33 38

Parsonage, The LT3 17 Peale estate LT3

LT10 6 22

Peale family- LT4 LT11

17 17

Peale House Creasey, Anne LT4 17 Peale House LT4

LT5 17, 18 16

24

LT6 LT10

15, 20 11

Peale, William LT4 17 Peale’s oasts LT5 9 Pear Patch LT1 23 Pear Tree Cottage(s) LT3

LT4 LT5 LT10 LE3

27, 32 34 14, 19 28 6

Pear Tree Cottage: some documentary evidence Chapman, Margaret and Froud, Dot

LT3 27

Pear Tree Farm LT3 LT4 LT10 LT12

31 34 28 14

Pear Tree Farm: memories of Charles and Betty Newman

Froud, Robin & Dot LT4

34

Pearce, Miss, schoolteacher LT2 40 Peene family- LT10

LT11 43 17

Peirce, Richard and family LT11 17 Penfold family- LT1

LE4 4 6

Perriman family- LT10 LT11

10 31

Petlands LT2 10 Pett, John LT4 17 Pickering Cottage LT2

LT5 LT6

3 14 15

Pickering Cottage Cording, B.D. LT2 3 Pickering family and garage LT11

LT12 45 18

Pine family- LT11 30 Pink, Dennis LT10 47 Piper family- LT2 37 Pitt, Colonel T.H. LT6 15, 17 Portrait of my village: shops in Loose Loe, Linda LT8 19 Poulter, Charles and Jean LT7 22 Proctor, Molly LT10 45 Prospect Place LT8 13 Prospect Row LT7

LE3 33 4

Prospect Row: Twelve Georgian Cottages? Taylor, Paul & LT7 33

25

Emma Newton Pruce family LT12 35 Pusey, Rev. William Bouverie LT10 16 Pyknam in Pykenstrett, 1534-1544 Chapman, Margaret LT5 14 Pympe’s Court LT1

LT3 LT4 LT7 LT8 LT10 LT11

15 14 37 21 3, 16 44 48

Quarries and quarrying LT1

LT2 LT3

3-6 6, 37 9, 16

Quarry House LT2 9 Quarry Wood LT1

LT2 6 6

Quested, John LT9 25 Quinnell family- LT10

LE1 38 2

Quinnells LT10 LT11

38 43

Ragstone Quarries Creasey, Anne LT1

LT2 3 6

Ragstone Quarries Creasey, Anne LT 3 Railways LT3 18 et seq, 37 Randall, John LT11 17 Randall’s Row LT3 17 Ranelagh Orchestra LT11 6 Ranmer, John LT11 11 Ratcliffe, Mildred Mary LT10 2 Reakes, Daniel, schoolmaster LT5 36 Reason Hill Farm LE1

LT11 7 36

Reed, Albert E LT7 LT8

38 47

Reed, butcher LT1 LT8

17, 18 20

Reed’s Mill LT3 39 Reeves, William LT11

LT12 44 35

Relf family LT11 36 Rhodesia Cottages LE1 1

26

Richards, T, schoolmaster LT2 LT6

40 16, 21, 24

Ring, Elsie LT11 21 Rising Sun, The LT7 24 Rock House LT2 7 Rogers, John, freemason LT1 4 Rook, G.W. LT5 36 Rooke, Miss LT8 13 Rootes family LT8 42 Rose Cottage LT6

LT7 7 17

Rose Cottage, Boughton Monchelsea LT2 8 Rose Cottages, Loose LT11 20 Rose Court was Linton’s model dairy farm Lorna Evabs LT11 39 Rose Court, Linton LT11 39 Rose pub, Boughton Monchelsea LT11 6 Rose pub, Loose LT11 11 Rose, The, Kirkdale LT11 31 Rosemount LT1

LT2 LT6 LT10 LT11 LT12

4 40 15, 19, 28 45 42 44-46

Ross, Alan and brothers LT11 7 Roughs at Loose Court Thornburgh, Roger LT5 12 Rouse family LT6 10 Rudstone, Sir William LT5 18 Runswick, Boughton Lane LT8 6 Russell, Richard, butcher LT3 28 Salts (aka Salts Place) LT11 46 Salts Avenue LT11 7 Salts Farm LT2

LT12 37 11

Salts House LT2 37 Salts Place LT1

LT2 LT3 LT4 LT5 LT6 LT7 LT12

17 30, 37 3, 9, 10, 14 1, 7,26 26 6, 15 36, 37 19-21

Salts Place: Some voices from the past Page, Julia LT3 9

27

Salts Pond LT4 27 Sankey family LT6

LT11 LT12

9 24 36, 39, 40

Saunders, grocer LT2 32 School Days at Loose, 1939-1945 Gallavin, Helen LT4 9 Seager family- LT2 9 Secrets of The Wool House Chapman, Margaret LT10 21 Selby Cottage LT4

LT6 17 15

Sendell’s Cottages LT11 48 Sermons on the Mount: John Braddick’s words of wisdom

Tritton, Paul LT8 31

Shadgate, Mr LT6 15 Shadgett family- LT1

LT2 4 39

Shernold brewery LT5 8 Shernold Cottage LT5

LT11 LT12

21 12 14

Shernold Farm LT3 LT6 LT8

8 39 41

Shernold High School LT5 LT6

20 46

Shernold House LT6 LT10

15 38

Shernold Pond LT6 15, 39 Shoebridge, George LT2 8 Shoebridge, Ivy LT11 6 Shops and daily life in Loose during the Second World War

Gallavin, Helen LT2 32

Shovell, Sir Cloudesley LT6 12 Shurnal Farm (see Shernold Farm) Sid Coulter’s memories of Old Loose Thornburgh, Roger LT10 40-43 Sid Coulter’s memories of old Loose Roger Thornburgh LT11 42 Simpson, Rev George LT11 13 Sir Hardy Amies’ great grandparents lived here Margaret Chapman LT12 41-42 Skalonde, Rycharde LT5 18 Skinner family- LT2

LT3 LT5 LT6

7 29, 30 8, 14 15

Skinner’s Cottage LT3 LT5

31 14

28

Slade House LT3 LT4 LT5 LT6 LT10 LT11

30 37 14 15 28 34

Slaughter house LT11 20 Smith, Ellen LT6 15 Smuggling LT5 3-6 Smuggling In & Around Maidstone Wilson, Sheila LT5 3 Smythe, Clement Taylor LT2 10 Snashall, George LT11 11 South Mullion, Linton LT11 8 Southgate Barn LT2 31 Special Constabulary LT6 7 Spot Lane quarry LT2 10 Spring Cottage LT7 22 Springhead LT4

LT5 27 26

Springhead pond LT9 23, 24 Spurgeon family- LT10 37 Spurgeon, Henry, blacksmith LT5 8 St Mary’s church, East Farleigh LT10 8 St Mary’s church, Langley LT10 16 St Nicholas Church, Linton LT11

LT12 7 12-13

St Stephen’s church, Tovil LT1 5 Stace family- LT11 31 Stace, Fred, postmaster LT2

LT6 37 6

Stace, John, (Will) LT3 LT5

27 14

Stagecoaches LT2 14 et seq Stannett family LT11 34, 35 Stannett, Frank, nurseryman LT1

LT2 LT10 LT12

23 32 31 14

Stanthorpe, James LT6 7 Star Cottages LT10 27 Star Inn, Linton Hill LT4 26 Star pub LT11 11, 12 Star, The, Linton Road LT4

LT5 10 8

Startup family- LT2 37

29

LT6 LT11

15 14

Statham, Col. J.C.B. LT10 21 Stone Cottage LT7 22 Stone House, Boughton Monchelsea LT2 9 Storr, Gerard LE3

LT11 3 42

Straw Mill LT3 LT7

39 38

Styance family- LT7 LE3

12 4

Styance, George and Eliza LT11 7,8 Style & Winch LT2

LT8 4, 8 39

Sugar Loaves LT2 LT7 LT11

31 24 11

Sutton, John, stone mason and quarry owner LT1 LT2

5 9

Sutton, Terry LT10 47 Swallow holes LT9 20-24 Swan, The LT3

LT6 LT8

9 15, 39 15, 39

Swiss Cottage LT9 2 Sycamores, The LT8 42 Tanneries and tanning LT3

LT4 LT5 LT10

16 31 34 43

Tanning LT11 10 Taylor family- LT3

LT10 8, 9 10

Taylor, Dr Paul Newton LE4 8 Telford, Thomas LE2

LT9 3 7

Tettenhall LT2 LT3

29 40

The Admirals Pat Jenner LT6 12 The Baptist Church Page, Julia and

Thornburgh, Roger LT1 7

The Battle of Bottlescrew Hill Searle, Ken LT2 4 The Building of Bluetops, Walnut Tree Lane Hughes, Graham LT6 21 The De Fremingham Family of Loose Jenner, Pat LT2 26

30

The de Pympe Family of Loose Jenner, Pat LT1 15 The Dell, High Banks LT12 31 The Hartridges of Kent Hartridge, Ian LT6 42-44 The Hodsoll Family in Capel, Surrey Day, Mary LT5 10 The Hodsoll Family in Loose Creasey, Anne LT5 7 The Inhabitants of Hayle Place Wilson, Sheila LT4 3 The Last of the Line: Ralph Buffkin, 1627-1710 Pat Jenner LT7 36 The Limes LT6 38 The Loose Isolation Hospital Allchurch, Frank &

Kitty LT1 19

The Loose Scouts’ memorial at Crisbrook (John Greville Fulks & Alfred Vernon Langley)

Chapman, Margaret LT9 44

The Martins of Salts Place & Leeds Castle Margaret Chapman LT12 19-21 The Mills of The Loose Valley Warner, Jonathan LT1 12 The Natal Nightingale Cording, B.Dee LT5 29 The Parish boundary Thornburgh, Roger LT4 23 The Parish Poor Collins, Margaret LT1 13 The Rev. Denny Martin: a Loose connection with the Isle of Wight

Watson, John LT3 15

The Road to Loose Page, Julia LT10 34 The Tanyards of Loose Allchurch, Frank LT4 31 The Train now Passing Cheeseman, Clive LT3 18 Thomas, Major Frederick Dunbar. LT3

LT6 LT7 LT10 LE1 LT11

34 16, 18 22 11 2 42

Thomsett family- LE1 1 Thornburgh, Roger LT10

LT11 49 2

Thorny Croft LT2 10 Thornycroft family- LT2 10, 13 Tilbury Dredging Co. LT2 10 Tillett, George William LT9 19 Tillett, Kath (nee Pankhurst) LT8 45 Tinham family LT12 21 Tithe map clues to Times Past Pat Tritton LT11 16 Tithe maps LT11 16 Tithes LT1 24 Tom Sankey’s schooldays Tom Sankey LT12 39 Tomkin, grocer LT7 23 Tomlinson, Olive Mary LT8 22 Tompson, Thomas, builder LT4 17 Tovil (wartime memories of) LT11 23 et seq.

31

Tovil Burial Ground LT11 30 Tovil Court LT8 47 Tovil House LT3

LT7 35 38

Tovil Mill LT7 38, 39 Tovil railways LT3

LT10 21 39

Tovil Scouts LT10 LT11

13 24

Tovil Treacle Mines LE4 3 Tovil Wharf LT2 10 Tovil Working Men’s Club LT3

LT8 LT10

35 47 33

Towner, John Frank LT10 LT12

26, 28 11

Trams LT2 LT10 LE2

29 Front cover 4

Travels with Aunt Alice – holidays in Loose in the 1930s

Eames, Jack LT8 13

Trolley buses LT8 LT11

48 18

Tudor cottages LT7 22 Tuppeny, Joseph LT5 33 Turkey Mill LT10

LT11 44 48

Turner, John LT5 18 Turnpike road LT1

LT2 LE2

4 20 3

Two Gentlemen of Loose Jenner, Pat LT5 32 Tye, Dennis LT2 7 Tyler family LT11 46 Tylers LT3

LT5 LT11

17 15 40

Underhill, Joyce LT5 22 Union Workhouse, Coxheath (see also Linton Hospital)

LT1 LT2 LT7 LT8

14 11 20 16

Up in Arms over almshouses – Scandal in East Farleigh

Tritton, Paul LT8 16

32

Upper Crisbrook Mill LT3 LT9 LT11

22, 35 3 24

Upper Mill LT1 LT4

12 8, 27

Upper Mill Cottage LT1 13 Usher, Mrs LT5 22 Vale Cottage LT7 16 Vale House LT4

LT6 LT7 LT10

24, 31 15, 20 16 30

Vicar’s Hall, Loose LT4 LT7 LT8

10 7 4

Vicarage, Loose LT11 17 Victory pub, East Farleigh or Tovil LT11 19 Village life at Kirkdale Cottages since 1868 Hunt, Hilary LT10 10 Village Mill Village Mill, Loose LT1

LT11 10 40

Vinson, Mr LT6 15 Waggon - Transport Cheeseman, Clive LT2 14 Wakefield family LT9 16-17 Walder family- LE1 2 Waldron, R.I. LT4

LT6 LT8

9 8 45

Walnut Tree pub LT11 11 Walnut Tree Stores LT2

LT8 32 21

Walnut Tree, East Farleigh LT11 27 Walnut Tree, The LT2

LT3 LT4 LT7

32 31 36 23

Walter, Henry LT4 LT11

17 10

Wanstall, Leonard Harold LE3 3 Water supplies LT11 18 Watermill Grange LT11 22 Watermill House LT2 39 Watermills LT1 10, 12-13

33

Webb family LT10 LT12

13 36

Weeks family- LE1 7 Weeks, J., charcoal burner LT5 8 Well Street LT11 28 Well Street quarries LT1 4 Wells, Nancy LT1 23 Westbrook LT10 2 Westerhill Farm LE1 7 Westlawn LT6 15 Westminster Abbey, ragstone LT1 4 Whatman, James, papermaker LT1

LT10 LT11

13 43 48

Wheatsheaf pub LT8 LT11

12 15

Wheelwrights LT11 17 Where Dissenters rest in peace in Tovil Pat Tritton LT11 30 Whibley, William and Rose LT7 12 White Lion, East Farleigh LT11 28 Whyatt, Malcolm and friends LT11 23 et seq. Wilberforce, William LE2 5 et seq Wilberforce, William and son LT11 12 Wilkins, E, builder LT5 8 William Wilberforce Pub LT12 17 Williamson family LT10 10 Wilson family- LT4 8 Wilson, Dennis (‘Ken’) LT10 46 Wilson, Mr LT6 15 Wilson’s Mill LT2

LT7 39 23

Wintour, Mrs LT2 3 Withinbrook, Robert LT11 10 Women’s Institute LT11 9 Women’s Land Army LT11 20 Wood & Son, builders LT1 7 Wood, J, builder LT2

LT5 8 8

Wood, James, of Springhead LT1 6 Woodcock, Andrew, grocer LT5 18 Woodlawn LT2

LT3 LT4 LT5 LT6

19, 34 22 26 7 15, 19

34

LT11 44 Woodville family- LT1 15 Wool House LT3

LT4 LT5 LT10 LE1 LT11

17 17, 26, 31 15 21 7 10, 48

Wool House Cottage LT4 LT10

31 21

Woollett family LT10LT11

48 37

Woolsack, The, Linton LT3 10 Workhouse burial ground LT1

LT12 22 24-27

Working and Shopping in Tovil in Days gone By Noel Gibbons LT12 33 Wright, Joseph, pastor LT11 30 Writing on the wall Smith, Jill LT10 19 Wynsdale LT3 6 Yew Tree LT10 6

05 February 2013