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25th June 2020 Mill Farm, Appledore Heath During lockdown we have seen an increase in the number of enquiries from people with family links to Appledore looking to connect with their past. Most recently...

26th March 2020           Appledore Station Talk We would like to express our gratitude to Stuart Searle for the fascinating talk he gave on 12th March on the history of Appledore...

26th March 2020 On Thursday, 12th March 2020, at the Methodist Hall, Stuart Searle presented a very interesting talk on Appledore Station. Stuart supported his talk with a slideshow of photographs from his...

6th March 2020 Quiz Night We would like to thank everyone who came along to the Village Hall in February to support our Quiz Night.  It was a great evening, and we raised over £300, which is absolutely...

27th January 2020 Bygone Appledore: We are always grateful to receive donations of items to add to our archives. This month our thanks go to Mrs Helen Whiting, who contacted us from Australia with the...

5th December 2019 Battalion of Pals Talk At our November meeting the Rev. Keith Fazzani gave a fascinating and moving account of the role played by Cory’s Pals Battalion in the First World War. Rev....

15th October 2019 Archives Review At our September meeting we took the opportunity to look through our extensive collection of old Parish Magazines, some of which date back to the 1960’s.  Each edition is...

16th August 2019 The History Society had a most enjoyable August meeting during which we reviewed a selection of artefacts from our archives, including original Appledore halfpenny tokens dating back to...

30th July 2019 The First of our New Format Meetings was held on Thursday, 11th July 2019, with the Focus on a Review of Extracts from Our Archives. We also Discussed and Provisionally Planned Future...

9th July 2019 Graveyard clear up Firstly thanks to those who helped with the second graveyard clear up, including Tom who provided teas and coffees throughout the morning!   Only 10 people volunteered...