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  • A poster for the Samuel Plimsoll talk. The poster is in the Society's brand colours - white and yellow text on a dark blue background. It features a photograph of speaker Nicolette Jones in front of a painting of Samuel Plimsoll by Shane Record

    Samuel Plimsoll

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    The Cornerstone Centre 60 Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom

    A talk by Nicolette Jones.   ABOUT THE TALK In the second half of the nineteenth century, a remarkable campaign stirred a nation to save the lives of the hundreds of British sailors a year who drowned for preventable reasons. Overloaded and poorly maintained ships set sail, their doomed crews sacrificed while greedy shipowners profited […]

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  • A poster for the talk 'The Rebuilding of Folkestone Harbour' by Tony Hill. The poster is in the society's brand colours - dark blue background with white and yellow text. It features an image of the harbour being rebuilt

    The Rebuilding of Folkestone Harbour Pier

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    The Cornerstone Centre 60 Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom

    A talk by Tony Hill.   ABOUT THE TALK As a popular Victorian port for travel to the Continent, Folkestone harbour needed to adapt to accommodate modern cross-channel ships.  The harbour pier was extended between 1897 and 1905.   This talk looks at the work through rare period photographs.   ABOUT THE SPEAKER Tony Hill is […]

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