Monthly Archives: October 2023

Annual General Meeting 2023 – Minutes

Held at the CFBL – The French School – 26 October 2023 1. Attendance: Ryland: Trisha, Christine, Martin, Sophie, Susan. Brinsmead: Jeff Willes: Gary, Don, David T, Arabella, Mike S, David P, Rosemary, Michael, Stephen, Dee, John T, Greta, Belinda, Suzanne, Vivienne. Sarah M Grafton: Chris. Holmes: Andrew, Judith, Sue Cathcart: Terry, Kate, Ishay Inkerman: Dougal, Rafe, Courtenay, Raglan: Robert, Paul,… Read more »

Chairs Report for the Annual General Meeting 2023

This is on Thursday 26 October 2023. 7.00 pm at the CFBL– The French School Entrance in Holmes Rd Below: Agenda and Chair’s Report Financial statement to be tabled at the meeting Agenda Chair’s Report: It’s less than a year since our last AGM, but we have brought this meeting forward so that we can… Read more »

Our Local History Group

INKERMAN AREA HISTORY GROUP We feel we are lucky to live in a historically very interesting area – which has already been quite well researched but which give opportunities for a lot more research. The Inkerman Area History Group has met on an occasional basis over the last few years and had lectures from Gillian… Read more »

A short history of the area – rough draft

Please note that almost nothing here is original research and is drawn from the resources in the other page on this website of Local History Resources. Some of those need buying at Owl – by phone now – or via Abebooks for second hand copies. So this is a very compressed version to get you… Read more »

History of the area through maps: Introduction

You can browse through a collection of maps on this website which give a guide to the development of our area and may provide a framework for future research. Please have a look at the other posts in the history section.

History of the area through maps: 1. The Fields Beneath

This map is a hand drawn copy of the sketch map from Gillian Tindall’s book, The Fields Beneath. It is not a historic map. It shows the original site of Kentish Town which was quite a long way South of the present location. It was by Old St Pancras Church which is at the back… Read more »