Sandwich Archive provided photographs of the Royal Engineers at Port Richborough. Photographs were taken of the event to put into the Archive.
Sandwich Guildhall Archive has collections of books, documents, photographs, postcards, maps and objects with relevance to the history of the Ancient Town & Cinque Port of Sandwich.
Appointments can be made to view documents on Monday and Wednesday afternoons
between 2.30pm and 4.00pm.
Contact : The Town Clerk Phone 01304 617197 : Hon.Curator 07966177587 or e-mail the Archive.
Temporary web-pages :
Click on the picture to go to the RE Exhibition page.
If you can't visit the Archive a temporary web page might be the solution.
Sandwich Uncovered
New thinking on the development and early history of the Ancient Town & Cinque Port of Sandwich has been taking shape. An on-going series of talks given by leading researchers will lift the varnish of time from the history of Sandwich.
Click on the Poster to go to the Sandwich Uncovered page for details of the next meeting.
Collections focus on Sandwich and its surrounding area.
Postcards
Books
Photographs
Pictures
Documents
Objects
Maps
Audio
Video
Did you know that the Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers used to man the local coastal gun batteries? In our collection we have the jacket worn by Sergeant Stokes CPAV.
Click on the photo for more information.
A large boat shaped object has been kept in the roof of the Guildhall for many years. The reason it has never been moved is that it was too wide to go through the doors. So how did it get there? Mystery. Current thinking is that it is a torpedo of the Napeleonic War period intended to be packed with gunpowder and flints and deployed against hostile warships. It was devised for the Admirality by US citizen Roberet Fulton in 1805.
Black Horse Regulars
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Sandwich guildhall has a collection of oil paintings which were resently photographed by The Public Catalogue Foundation. Click on the Picture for details of the book they published.
Sandwich Library
Some photos and documents relating to the opening of the Library in Market Street.
Click on the photo for more details.
The current display of photographs in the Museum features the sailing barges and other sailing vessels that used to link Sandwich with London, Newcastle and the Baltic. Click on the picture to see more.
Museum Shop
A database of Sandwich Freemen between 1174 and 1991 has been compiled by Charles Wanostrocht (formerly Mayor of Sandwich). This comprises a booklet plus a CD-Rom. This is on sale in the Museum at £15. It is available by post too (P&P £1.00)
The Market at Sandwich gave the name to Cattle Market in the centre of the town. It has been many years since there were any cattle for sale there so you may wonder what it used to look like. Fortunately many photographs were taken from the 1880's so you can see how things were arranged by clicking on the picture on the left.
Kitchener Camp Review wins a place in the BBC2 The People's Museum.
On June 7th the Guildhall Museum was one of four museums featured in the BBC2 series The People's Museum. The item chosen by reporter Ian Blanford was a bound copy of the 1939 Kitchener Camp Reviews. At the end of the programme viewers are asked to vote for the item they would like to be placed in the virtual museum which is part of the BBC website. The Kitchener Camp Review was chosen to go into the Virtual Museum.
