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Faversham Eye
Nov 10, 20228 min read
FAVERSHAM CREEK - BRIDGE AND BASIN
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...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 10, 20229 min read
WATER THE LIFE BLOOD OF FAVERSHAM
By Matthew Hatchwell The character, landscape and history of Faversham have been influenced more by water and the town’s location at the...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 10, 20225 min read
CREEK POLLUTION
The discharge of sewage into our rivers and seas has at long last become a national scandal. Increasing pressure is being put on the...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 10, 20221 min read
FLOODING IN FAVERSHAM
By Brian Pain Occupying Creekside houses in Faversham comes with the inevitable risk of experiencing flooding. This occurs when the...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 10, 20222 min read
CHANGES AT SWALE
Cllr Mike Baldock (Swale Independent Alliance) has succeeded Cllr Roger Truelove (Labour) as leader of Swale Borough Council and the...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 10, 20221 min read
FOCUS ON PHOTOGRAPHY - LALO BORJA
By Nathalie Banaigs Lalo Borja is a Colombian photographer. He currently resides in Whitstable and taught photography in Canterbury...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 10, 20221 min read
MAGNA CARTA REVISITED
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...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 9, 20228 min read
CELEBRATING 60 YEARS OF THE FAVERSHAM SOCIETY
By Katie Begg, Faversham Society Trustee Anyone who has spent even five minutes chatting with Harold Goodwin, Chair of the Faversham...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 9, 20222 min read
ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD
By Matthew Hatchwell The combined area of the 19,000+ churchyards owned by the Church of England is larger than Exmoor National Park....
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Faversham Eye
Nov 8, 20225 min read
FAVERSHAM HAS HIDDEN HOMELESS
By Stephen Atkins and Harold Goodwin, Faversham Community Land Trust HIDDEN HOMELESS We have many hidden homeless in Faversham - very few...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 8, 20222 min read
COULD REED BEDS REDUCE SEWAGE POLLUTION IN FAVERSHAM CREEK?
By Eldon Hinchliffe, Affinis Design for Faversham Creek Trust A preliminary drawing showing the proposal for reed beds acting as an...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 8, 20228 min read
IF OUR NHS IS SICK - WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?
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...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 8, 20222 min read
FOCUS ON CRAFTSMANSHIP - SIMON JEWELL
By Nathalie Banaigs, Kent Creative Simon Jewell lives in Faversham where he makes unique decorative boxes using hand cut marquetry and...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 8, 20225 min read
UKRANIAN REFUGEES - FAVERSHAM RESPONDS
By Claudia Heywood In late March, weeks after the broadcast of Steven Frank’s emotive plea to Boris Johnson to allow fleeing Ukrainians...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 8, 20225 min read
OBITUARY - SIMON FOSTER
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...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 8, 20228 min read
PLANNING
By Harold Goodwin, writing in a personal capacity In the past few weeks our chaotic Government has said that it intends to scrap the...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 8, 20223 min read
A GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY FOR THE SWALE SMACK AND THAMES BARGE MATCH
Photos by Seamus Masters Back in 1972, a few keen traditional boat sailors from north Kent organised a race for Essex smacks and Thames...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 8, 20225 min read
TASTES OF FAVERSHAM - SPICE LOUNGE
By Claudia Heywood In 2007, the date coinciding exactly with the birth of the owner’s first child, a new Indian restaurant opened on...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 8, 20222 min read
MAYHI - A PHOENIX RISES
Photos of Simon and his workshop by Peter Smith. The original Mayhi was a wooden estuary sailing boat, with a characteristic shallow...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 7, 20223 min read
FAVERSHAM’S SKIFFS
By Alan Thorne FAVERSHAM SKIFFIE FEST 2022 This three-day event powerfully demonstrated the pleasure and thrill of racing boats in...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 7, 20225 min read
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE NORTH PRESTON & BRENTS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (NPBCA)
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....
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Faversham Eye
Nov 7, 20226 min read
CREEK FOOTPATH - UPDATED UPDATE
By John Wellard In the last issue of the Faversham Eye, we reported on the continuing attempt to divert the existing footpath going...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 7, 20221 min read
TELECOM MAST - A POSSIBLE SOLUTION?
The temporary planning permission granted to EE for the telecom tower that has graced our central carpark for the past couple of years...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 7, 20221 min read
LITTER - WE ASK AQUESTION
A Faversham Italian Wine bar owner, who wishes to remain anonymous, was recently fined £150 for dropping a cigarette butt down a drain...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 7, 20224 min read
UPCOMING EVENTS IN AND AROUND FAVERSHAM - Issue 15
FEATURES Faversham Fringe Tuesday, October 25th – Sunday, October 30th, 2022 Faversham Fringe is a festival featuring all genres of the...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 7, 20222 min read
INCOMING MAIL
Letter from Oz Dear Editor, G'day. Some years back before the Pandie buggered everything, I made a pilgrimage to the hub of Anglicanism -...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 7, 20221 min read
CRIME IN FAVERSHAM
The Town Council recently commissioned Dr Barry Blackburn a criminologist to analyse crime in Faversham and make recommendations for what...
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Faversham Eye
Nov 7, 20221 min read
CROSSWORD
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...
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