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Heather Knight
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Archaeologist with a penchant for 16th and 17th century playhouses of all shapes and sizes, FSA and Faversham Society Trustee 🎭🏺
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Thanks @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for “Pub Crawling Through Playhouses” - an excellent romp through playhouses and their drinking culture and cheers to @roseplayhouse.bsky.social for hosting! 🍻
Detail from of wood cut from a ballad “ Man in the Moon Drinks Claret”. A man standing on a half moon with a jug in one hand and a wine glass in the other.
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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King Stephen died on 25th October 1154 at Dover. He was buried in the choir at Faversham Abbey alongside Queen Matilda and their son, Eustace. The exact location of his remains is unknown but after the dissolution of the Abbey he may have been reburied in the church of St Mary of Charity, Faversham.
Image of King Stephen from Matthew Paris’s Historia Anglorum.
October 25, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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On Wednesday 17th October 1962, at 7.30pm, the inaugural meeting of the Faversham society was held at the Guildhall, chaired by the Mayor of Faversham, Cllr. Peter Lee-Roberts. James Doak was elected chairman and Arthur Percival, secretary. favershamsociety.org
A newspaper advert inviting people to attend the inaugural meeting of the Faversham Society that was to be held in the Guildhall. The top line reads “Cherish the Past: Adorn the Present: Create for the Future”
October 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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A 13th-century oak door in Wells Cathedral for #ADoorableThursday
Oak door in Wells Cathedral with decorative iron hinges and scroll work. Detail of the iron scroll work. View of the open door with a second door beyond.
September 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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I do too. One of the side chapels at Wells Cathedral has a window entirely made from salvaged glass.
A jumble of stained glass fragments forming abstract patterns in a window in a side chapel at Wells Cathedral. The window made from a jumble of salvaged stained glass fragments above the altar in a side chapel.
September 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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The 14th century Jesse Window at Wells Cathedral and small fragments of broken glass salvaged and reused. #StainedGlassSunday
The Jesse window with vivid green, yellow, red and blue glass depicts a family tree, Jesse being the father of King David. Four small fragments of orange glass reset in a plain glass diamond. The window looks out on to a lawn and the cathedral buildings.
September 21, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Back from a week staying at Gurney Manor in Somerset celebrating my husband’s birthday. The house belongs to Landmark Trust and it’s been on the wish list to stay there for a long time.
Gurney Manor, cream coloured render stone and timber building with a tiled roof. Gurney Manor and its reflection in the mill stream. My husband leaning over the gallery in one of the bedrooms. The dining room with a long oak table and chairs, a sideboard along the back wall with two lamps, balloons and a happy birthday banner.
September 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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The hops are up for the #Faversham Hop Festival.

Archeaeobotanical evidence of hops was found in the Graveney Boat, a sea going cargo boat dated c AD 900, uncovered in the estuary mud not far from Faversham in 1970.

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Hop bines decorating the front of a timber framed house in Faversham. The cover of the Hop Festival programme A black and white photo of the excavated remains of a sea going cargo boat.
August 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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The Faversham Fleur de Lis Museum garden is open today. At first sight it might not be the most picturesque of all the gardens open today but it’s the only one with a reconstructed shop front and a plant scheme from the 1770s.
One of the flower beds in the Faversham Fleur de Lis Museum garden with masonry window tracery behind. The cornfield section of the museum garden with species such as wheat, ladies bedstraw, corn marigold and common vetch. John Dawson’s shop front from the 1820, which stood at 4 Market Place, was reconstructed in the museum garden in 2008. The information sheet from this afternoon’s Open Garden event explaining how the Museum is replanting the garden with species listed in Edward Jacob’s 1777 book “Plantae Favershamienses - A catalogue of the more perfect plants growing spontaneously about Faversham in the County of Kent”.
June 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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It’s a hot but busy day at the garden market in Faversham today.
People looking at the plants for sale in the Market Place, Faversham. The green and white building behind is the Guildhall. A stall selling plants in the Market Place, Faversham. The red 19th century town water pump surrounded by plants for sale with the Guildhall building in the background.
June 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Pics, or it didn’t happen - @lostplayhouse.bsky.social it so did happen! Brilliant lunch time lecture at @antiquaries.bsky.social so many ins and outs!!
Laurie’s second slide explaining that in medieval plays playwrights asked actors to go in to exit the stage and to go out to exit , but later, players are asked to go out to leave and go in to enter.
June 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Had a trip out to Folkestone this afternoon and Antony Gormley’s cast iron statue “Another Time XVIII 2013” on one of the old loading docks under the Harbour Arm was looking out onto a very calm sea.
Nearly 2m tall cast iron figure of a man standing on a concrete loading bay between two metal and timber pillars. The concrete is covered in algae and seaweed. The figure looks out to sea and chalk cliffs. The nearly 2m high statue of man standing on the old loading bay with a walkway above. Beyond the figure is the English Channel and the coastline.
June 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Spent some time this morning in the tranquility of Greyfriars Canterbury. The above ground remains of the friary is this beautiful 13th century building constructed over a branch of the Stour.
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The 13th century masonry building which may have been a dormitory or guest house. A branch of the River Stour flowing under the building. A sign that reads “The first mission of the Grey Friars to England arrived in Canterbury on September 10th 1224 and were settled here. This house was built AD1267 and held in honourable trust for them by the Mayor and Corporation until the dissolution. The river with walls either side and the 13th century friary building constructed over it, with tree branches in the foreground
June 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Some of the newer glass in Canterbury Cathedral. #stainedglassSunday
The four panels by Ervin Bossanyi installed in the southeastern transept in 1960.
June 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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A busy morning for the team from @kentarchsoc.bsky.social , the Faversham Society and MOLA’s Coasts in Mind at the community excavation at the Front Brent, Faversham.
Archaeologists digging the remains of 19th century houses. Grace, of the Coasts in Mind team, standing behind a table with finds from the beach at Whitstable. Archaeologists digging the remains of 19th century houses. Trays of some of the finds from the week long excavation at Front Brent, Faversham.
June 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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The Tree of Life stained glass window in St Peter’s church, Oare, Kent. The window is dedicated to Allen Beckett, a civil engineer whose design for the 'Whale' floating roadway was crucial to the success of the Mulberry harbour that was used in the Normandy Landings. #StainedGlassSunday
A stained glass window depicting the Tree of Life. Either side of stone window sill are vases of daffodils. Detail from the lower central panel of the Tree of Life stained glass window which reads “The leaves of the trees are for the healing of the Nations.” Dedication to Allan Harry Becket 1914 - 2005 in the right lower panel of the Tree of Life stained glass window. A section of Mulberry B harbour depicted in the lower left panel of the Tree of Life window.
May 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Cassie loves a jigsaw puzzle (well the box anyway) too.
A fluffy tortoiseshell cat asleep in a jigsaw puzzle box on a table with a partly completed jigsaw behind her.
May 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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@archaeobears.bsky.social - I was thinking of you and the rest of the #BoxOfficeBears team while on a visit to Dover Museum.
A stuffed polar bear in a glass case at the top of the stairs at Dover Museum. The bear was bought back to Dover by the Medical Officer of the 1894-7 Jackson-Harmsworth Arctic Expedition. A Staffordshire stoneware jug c 1740 in a museum display case with a tin glazed plate in the background. The jug is in the shape of a bear holding a dog in its paws. The bear’s head is detachable. A small 19th century brass bear money box in a museum display case. A small plush teddy bear in a dark blue knitted RAF uniform on an acrylic stand in a museum display case.
April 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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My thanks and gratitude are beyond words for the care, skill and dedication of the #NHS staff of the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford who made it possible for me to walk out of the doors into glorious spring sunshine this afternoon- an event that was far from certain on Friday morning.
Bronze copy of Albert Bruce Joy’s statue of William Harvey on a stone plinth outside the Emergency Dept at the William Harvey Hospital, Ashford Kent.
April 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Back from a trip to Sandwich which isn’t complete without a stroll down Holy Ghost Alley.
Timber archway at the entrance to Holy Ghost Alley. Looking down Holy Ghost Alley between two houses with the metal sign above the timber arch.
March 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Han Li (Senior Building Material Specialist with @molarchaeology.bsky.social ) was a very happy new Fellow at @antiquaries.bsky.social tonight.
Han Li standing in the Society of Antiquaries’ meeting room holding a glass of sherry. The Society of Antiquaries front door.
March 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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A sunny morning spent having a wander around Faversham market. Good to have a laugh with Andy Capon in the week he’s been accused of being a “leftie trouble maker” for his satirical take on local life - I can’t wait for the next edition of The Spire.
A bollard with the Faversham coat of arms surrounded by flowers on the plant stall under the Guildhall with the red town pump in the background. Market stall with bottles or fruit juice and vegetables under the 16th century Guildhall. Andy Capon standing next to his market stall. Some of the editions of The Spire which take a satirical look at life in Faversham.
March 8, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Join the MOLA team for another Pint of Archaeology on 10th March from 5.30pm to 8pm at The Roebuck, Great Dover Street, SE1

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MOLA’s Pint of Archaeology flyer with a glass wine bottle and bartmann jug with the address of The Roebuck, 50 Great Dover Street SE1 4YH
March 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Watching egrets catching their breakfast in the Gulf of Papagayo, Costa Rica this morning as the sun came up was magical.
A white egret standing on the edge of a very calm sea. The sand is a very dark brown and the sun is just coming up and the sky is a pale blue with pink clouds. There are small boats anchored in the bay. An egret standing in the shallow water looking for fish as the tide goes out.
February 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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The King’s School, Canterbury. #ADoorableThursday
Oak double doors with glass panel above. The door surround is limestone, the wall is a mix of flint and limestone and brick. The buildings opposite are reflected in the glass.
February 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM