Oystertown » Divers http://www.oystertown.net Whitstable and its people Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:22:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Another Whitstable Trade – by John Bevan pt.1 http://www.oystertown.net/oystertown-news/another-whitstable-trade-by-john-bevan-pt-1/ http://www.oystertown.net/oystertown-news/another-whitstable-trade-by-john-bevan-pt-1/#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:28:39 +0000 admin http://www.oystertown.net/?p=561 Another Whitstable Trade by John Bevan

Today I had the great pleasure of meeting up once again with Dr. John Bevan of the Historical Diving Society. The occasion was the Whitstable launch, at Whitstable Museum, of his new illustrated book of helmet diving history, very appropriately named “Another Whitstable Trade” – the title Charles Dickens

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]]> http://www.oystertown.net/oystertown-news/another-whitstable-trade-by-john-bevan-pt-1/feed/ 0 1860 – Another Whitstable Trade http://www.oystertown.net/1850-1874/1860-another-whitstable-trade-the-divers/ http://www.oystertown.net/1850-1874/1860-another-whitstable-trade-the-divers/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:38:33 +0000 admin http://www.oystertown.net/?page_id=92 This article, by John Hollingsworth, appeared in many books and journals in the 1860′s to 1870′s. Hollingsworth worked for while with Charles Dickens and might also be credited with the article, commonly associated with Dickens, about the Whitstable Oyster dredgers in 1850.

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If it had not fallen to the lot of Whitstable to be

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]]> http://www.oystertown.net/1850-1874/1860-another-whitstable-trade-the-divers/feed/ 0 Make do and mend http://www.oystertown.net/1925-1949/ww2/make-do-and-mend/ http://www.oystertown.net/1925-1949/ww2/make-do-and-mend/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:25:55 +0000 admin http://www.oystertown.net/?page_id=84 Contributed by:              embroidery People in story:              Diana Muriel Walker (now Symons) and (Mother) Gladys Walker Location of story:          Golden Hill, Whitstable, Kent Background to story:   Civilian Article ID:                         A3086732 Contributed on:              04 October 2004

It was a fine clear morning in May 1942 and Mother and I were in the kitchen baking, in our

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