Description

Chapter 1 – Memories of Shops and Businesses in Lyminge during the 1930s and 1940s

The chapter consists of edited transcripts of interviews between the author, Alistair Bailey, and some of the residents; all of whom lived in Lyminge for much of their lives. As it unfolds the reader is taken on a tour of Lyminge, highlighting the many businesses that supported the local community. The chapter is fully illustrated with contemporary photographs. The first edition left many questions about the businesses and the people who ran them unanswered. The new edition incorporates substantial new research by the editor to provide a comprehensive study of the entrepreneurs who ran the multitude of businesses servicing the needs of the village between the two World Wars.

Chapter 2 – The Geology and Landscape of Lyminge

Written by Andrew Coleman a retired professional geologist and long-term resident of Lyminge, this chapter combines new research with a reappraisal of some old ideas that together rewrite our understanding of how the Elham Valley and the surrounding area was formed, and the important impact of the tundra conditions prevcailing during the Ice Ages.

Chapter 3 – A Review of Published Works about Lyminge and the surrounding area by Rosemary Piddock.

Rosemary has produced a synopsis of the major printed works in which Lyminge looms large. The list of publications is expanded in the new edition to include the many works covering the extensive archaeological excavations over the past century and a half.

Chapter 4 – The Price Family, Lyminge Parish Church incumbents 1757-1853; by Duncan Harrington.

Covering three generations of the priests who were incumbents of the parish church St Mary & St Ethelburga. Forget Trollope, here is the real thing albeit writ small within the confines of a single parish, but none the less the reader is given a spotlight into the world of eighteenth and nineteenth century clergy.