By Brian Pain A locked harbour basin at the head of a tidal creek in the centre of a mediaeval town, whose past wealth, commercial...

By Matthew Hatchwell The character, landscape and history of Faversham have been influenced more by water and the town’s location at the...

The discharge of sewage into our rivers and seas has at long last become a national scandal. Increasing pressure is being put on the...

By Brian Pain Occupying Creekside houses in Faversham comes with the inevitable risk of experiencing flooding. This occurs when the...

Cllr Mike Baldock (Swale Independent Alliance) has succeeded Cllr Roger Truelove (Labour) as leader of Swale Borough Council and the...

By Nathalie Banaigs Lalo Borja is a Colombian photographer. He currently resides in Whitstable and taught photography in Canterbury...

On a recent visit to the Magna Carta exhibition in the newly refurbished old shoe shop now reborn as our Town Hall, we were impressed by...

By Katie Begg, Faversham Society Trustee Anyone who has spent even five minutes chatting with Harold Goodwin, Chair of the Faversham...

By Matthew Hatchwell The combined area of the 19,000+ churchyards owned by the Church of England is larger than Exmoor National Park....

By Stephen Atkins and Harold Goodwin, Faversham Community Land Trust HIDDEN HOMELESS We have many hidden homeless in Faversham - very few...

By Eldon Hinchliffe, Affinis Design for Faversham Creek Trust A preliminary drawing showing the proposal for reed beds acting as an...

By Laurie McMahon and Andrew Holden HOW WELL IS THE NHS Having both worked in and around the NHS for ages, we are lost in admiration for...

By Nathalie Banaigs, Kent Creative Simon Jewell lives in Faversham where he makes unique decorative boxes using hand cut marquetry and...

By Claudia Heywood In late March, weeks after the broadcast of Steven Frank’s emotive plea to Boris Johnson to allow fleeing Ukrainians...

Born 1/9/1939, died 6/6/2022 Simon was born in Calcutta, educated at Shrewsbury and Cambridge where he represented the University in the...

By Harold Goodwin, writing in a personal capacity In the past few weeks our chaotic Government has said that it intends to scrap the...

Photos by Seamus Masters Back in 1972, a few keen traditional boat sailors from north Kent organised a race for Essex smacks and Thames...

By Claudia Heywood In 2007, the date coinciding exactly with the birth of the owner’s first child, a new Indian restaurant opened on...

Photos of Simon and his workshop by Peter Smith. The original Mayhi was a wooden estuary sailing boat, with a characteristic shallow...

By Alan Thorne FAVERSHAM SKIFFIE FEST 2022 This three-day event powerfully demonstrated the pleasure and thrill of racing boats in...

By Mike Palmer: Chair NPBCA 2015 - 22 There is no doubt that in its short life the NPBCA has helped to change the face of Faversham....

By John Wellard In the last issue of the Faversham Eye, we reported on the continuing attempt to divert the existing footpath going...

The temporary planning permission granted to EE for the telecom tower that has graced our central carpark for the past couple of years...

A Faversham Italian Wine bar owner, who wishes to remain anonymous, was recently fined £150 for dropping a cigarette butt down a drain...

FEATURES Faversham Fringe Tuesday, October 25th – Sunday, October 30th, 2022 Faversham Fringe is a festival featuring all genres of the...

Letter from Oz Dear Editor, G'day. Some years back before the Pandie buggered everything, I made a pilgrimage to the hub of Anglicanism -...

The Town Council recently commissioned Dr Barry Blackburn a criminologist to analyse crime in Faversham and make recommendations for what...

COMPILED BY R. GREGORY ACROSS 1&4. Plant a border as an alternative (6,5) 4. See 1a 8. Author maybe runs in two directions (5) 9. It's...